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There’s one on the bench apparently. No idea who. Pars 1-0 up, Taylor Sutherland. Very very strong Livi team, so will be a good test for the younger guys out there. Livi starting 11 is Jack Hamilton, Philip Cancar, Jackson Longridge, Morgan Boyes, Jack Fitzwater, Jamie Brandon, James Penrice, Andrew Shinnie, Bruce Anderson, Stephen Kelly and Esma Goncalves.

Todays reserve team is: Little Comrie, Fisher, Young, Fenton Sutherland, Hamilton, Chalmers, Tod McCann, Wighton That’s according to Craig Cairns (courier reporter) on Twitter. Mental that we have guys that played 90 mins on Saturday making up the numbers for the reserves. We definitely need more bodies in the squad.

MacDonald I think, who had tried to chase down the number 19. Think he was about 6 yards from the bye line. At the time, I certainly thought he had kept Morrison onside. Even when the ball’s played, it looks like Morrison might be in line with Mochrie - hard to tell from camera angle though. Mochrie’s moving away from the goal as Morrison is moving towards the goal.

This is about as deluded as it gets. If we’d scored, of course it wouldn’t be brought back for a penalty. The referee would obviously have considered that an advantage. Are you seriously this stupid that you even asked that question? Probably sums up how stupid/deluded your entire argument is. Man sliding through an opponent after the ball has gone is a foul all day long. It’s quite baffling that anyone claiming to be a football fan can’t understand that. Yes, we got lucky. But the lucky part was that your defender is so stupid to slide in there. Not lucky that the referee gave an obvious penalty.

He did. Benedictus should have been off, I’ve acknowledged that. But the referee let a lot of yellow card offences go for both teams. Benedictus got lucky though, there is absolutely no doubt about that. I thought he was about to go a few minutes before that very late challenge. Never mind at that one.

Let me get this straight. Falkirk fans want Benedictus to get a second booking for sliding through a Falkirk player well after the ball had gone (which he did, and should have got a second booking for). But you think it’s ‘soft’ that we got a penalty for your defender sliding through Todorov with a challenge that was just as late? Todorov plays it across the goal and gets wiped out after playing the ball. The ball’s still in play. It’s a clear foul and should be a yellow card. If someone slides in like that and goes through the man after the ball has gone, I really don’t understand anyone trying to argue that’s not a foul.

Very needless. Todorov was near the bye line and cut it back across the box. The defender seemed to slide through him ridiculously late. Was sheer stupidity from him. A professional footballer shouldn’t even be thinking about diving in there. He seemed to have Todorov right where he wanted him, then just went through him anyway once the ball had gone.

Out of interest, where was the inconsistency today? He consistently missed a lot and let players away with ‘taking one for the team’ and going in hard and late - Falkirk did on several occasions and didn’t get a booking for it. Benedictus foul was just as late/rash as the challenge for the penalty, which didn’t result in a yellow card. Can’t disagree with the blind, stupid and incompetent. But for me, they seem to be consistently blind, stupid and incompetent. Should Benedictus have been shown a second yellow? Absolutely. But that would have been inconsistent with his decisions and lack of bookings for similar challenges up to that point.

To be fair, I’m sure they do want to be better and progress. I don’t think they’re deliberately being incompetent/useless. Surely it’s more down to their training/guidance than them not wanting to do well.

First half was one of our poorer performances. But thought we were the better team second half. We’ve certainly played much worse over 90 minutes than we did today. Given the chances created, I don’t think either team will be happy with the draw. Both managers will certainly be saying their team should have won. I certainly feel like it’s a chance missed. But it’s probably a fair result, on the balance of play.

That was a proper game of football. Two teams having a go, plenty chances at both ends. Falkirk dominated first half, but we were in control second half. We hit both posts and Falkirk had near misses too. Referee was awful. Can understand Falkirk’s complaints about Benedictus at the end, but the referee had let several Falkirk players away with similar challenges without a yellow. He was just incompetent.

Mochrie’s cup tied anyway. Played for United B in the first round.

Yeah, it’s bad when we’re clutching at straws, with the likes of Chalmers, Todorov and Mehmet - who all had very brief spells at Falkirk. Can only have about 10 games for Falkirk between them. Obviously O’Hara has some colourful history in Pars v Falkirk games, but things have changed a lot since then. Even looking at Falkirk’s squad, I can’t imagine Pars fans getting too worked up about Williamson, Kennedy, Watson (does he play?) or Donaldson. We’ve got Hamilton and Todd, who are both local boys/big Pars fans. Got Benedictus who loves to go flying into challenges in derby games - Hamilton does that every week too, to be fair. I wouldn’t be too surprised if we got a man sent off on Saturday. We don’t really have a Higginbotham/Cardle type player that I could see chipping in with a few goals against you this season though. Although, I guess O’Hara might suddenly remember how to score. Think he averaged a goal every 60 mins or something against McGlynn’s Raith last season. Needs reminded of the offside rule before he’ll get a goal though!

Todorov as well, I think? Had no idea Chalmers had played for Falkirk until you said this. edit - according to Wikipedia, Mehmet once played a couple of games for you as well?

Minutes silence before kickoff and any players that want to, to wear black armbands. That’s enough. Any attention seeking arseholes that disrespect the silence can gtf. Not a fan of the monarchy at all. But going out of your way to actively disrespect the dead is scummy behaviour. You don’t have to stand for the silence if you don’t want to. But if people want to pay their respects, let them do that. Before the teams come out and once the silence is done, the atmosphere will be everything you’d expect of a Pars v Falkirk match. Just be respectful of those who want to pay their respects for 60 seconds, that shouldn’t be too much to ask of anyone.

SPFL have confirmed games are on this weekend.

Probably not any real need for that. Would imagine total crowd will be below 1,000 and there’s not any real need for segregation. Could easily just have the last 2 sections of the main stand, or something like that, for away fans. Bought my ticket anyway. Like the way that Clyde, like Edinburgh and Kelty, give you the option of adding the ticket to your phone’s wallet. Wish we did the same.

Listened to this earlier. Excellent again, keep up the good work. Genuinely really enjoyed both episodes so far, It’s great to have some decent Pars content out there!

Sounds about right. As I say, I wasn’t there so can’t comment on yesterday. This was the first game I’ve missed and all of the referees at this level have been shocking so far. Full of inconsistencies, missing clear fouls/bookings and giving free kicks/cards for nothing. So I can’t say I’m surprised that you’re saying the same about the ref yesterday. That seems to be the standard at this level. I’d have been very surprised if people were praising his overall performance.

He got the decision right certainly - after awarding the initial FK for nothing... But I'm not sure it was entirely his own doing and more because the Dunfermline players got in his face. As I say, I genuinely haven’t seen any other decisions. I also don’t really care how they got to the right decision. After last week, I’m just glad that they did eventually make the right decision for the goal. Officials at this level seem to be a lot worse than they were, even at championship level.

Just seen the goals on Twitter. Todorov took his goal really well, another cracking ball from MacDonald too. Decent free kick from Chalmers for the second and good to see Breen (finally) get a goal. He’s been excellent this season and keeps getting on the end of set pieces. Referee deserves a lot of credit for that one too. Obviously saw that the flick on came from the QoS player, so checked with the linesman that Breen wasn’t offside when the free kick was taken. It’s only fair to give referees credit when they deserve it. Obviously didn’t see the rest of the game, so can’t comment on any other decisions.

Doesn’t sound like there’s anything in the pipeline. Made an offer to one club, who decided the offer wasn’t good enough. Had a bid for another player accepted, but they didn’t want to come. It’s hardly sounding like they’ve been desperate to boost the squad. edit - misread and somehow missed the paragraph about several players in England. Nevertheless, surely we need backup options/alternatives? If clubs at a certain level want their players playing at a higher level, we shouldn’t be making all of our alternate targets players from clubs at the same/similar level. We don’t want to fill the squad with garbage. But we do also need some form of cover.

Just seen that myself. Strange move if we don’t have loan signing(s) ready to be announced. A 17 man first team squad, with 3/4 out injured is far from ideal!

In all seriousness, you must have noticed teams have been making more than 3 subs during games? Away to Arbroath last season, we made 4 subs at once. Basically, you’re allowed a 9 man bench and can bring on up to 5 players now. But it can only be done across 3 stoppages in play. So can’t stop for 5 separate substitutions, have to make multiple changes at a time to make the most of it.

If it was an option, I’d be happy with that. Decent utility player that could provide cover for a number of positions. Also, given the transfer window is shut, I wouldn’t imagine there should be a long wait for loan players - despite the domestic loan window being open until the end of the month. These clubs higher up the ladder now know what their squads look like and who is maybe unlikely to feature. So it doesn’t benefit anyone to delay loan moves until later in the month.