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1 hour ago, ShaggerG said:
I said a few weeks back that they should have organised an open meeting at the stadium before next week's match. A chance to tell us exactly what the 'mess' is before opening BTG for folk to see the game. Clear the air and the club makes money at the same time. It would probably be breaking some sort of Fair Play rules though as it would be stopping hordes of Falkirk fans from going to Firhill.
Would you get many folk turning up if you're forced to watch the match ?
It's a while yet before season tickets etc go on sale. Lots of time to get something organised once the season is over and a new manager is in place to organise something plus it was only a few weeks ago they had the meet the board members pub events where anyone could ask anything.
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17 minutes ago, cooshedder said:
Hello still moaning about everything. Its about to get a whole lot worse for you
Any team with Josh Todd as it's captain should fit in pretty well at this level.
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Jesus wept . The bod will be judged by what happens on the park this season just like any other board. However, we have to give them the chance to get things organised both on and off the park. These guys stepped into their roles having never ran a football team in their lives before and are obviously having to learn on the job extremely quickly. It's not been helped by the goings on of the previous bod whose actions run from simple incompetence to downright illegal. It's a difficult time to.be a Falkirk fan . The team have been a disgrace all season and the appointment of Rennie was the wrong move and the bod fully accept that . There's absolutely no guarantee that rice would've done much better mind you considering the players at his disposal. The next appointment has to be right though . I'm confident it isn't going to be Kenny miller though no matter how much his media chums are trying to bum him up. It's the end of the season and people leave clubs. Has anyone actually asked the lady in catering why she is moving on for instance before deciding it's the new board that's pissed her off ?
The bad eggs are slowly being weeded out the club thankfully and I'm not talking about the lady in catering or other people who have given up their time to help the club in good ways over the years before anyone. However, some are still hanging clinging on when they should be banned from going anywhere near the place. The damage they have caused both on and off the park cannot be under estimated and I'm sure the current guys are desperate to air what's been going on at the right time and without getting these individuals any chance to attack the club legally. They're currently having to work 7 days a week to fix these problems whilst uncovering new issues all the time. The season finishes this weekend and hopefully after that things will start coming together with a new manager announcement a reasonable clear out of the squad and some new players we can actually be proud of in the navy blue. This bod like any others though won't have a free pass for ever. We need to see improvement on the park this season and for me that means at least a playoff spot . I am though confident that at least the guys in charge are Falkirk through and through and not just people seeking blazers and an addition to their CVS. Thankfully this season is nearly over let's get behind the club give these guys a proper chance to get things right and then if they fail sure criticise they shouldn't get treated differently from any other bod we've had . I'm sure a chairman will be appointed in due course but at the moment it's the least of our worries . I'd rather wait for the right appointment then be left with a Gary deans, Margaret Lang or Doug Henderson in charge.
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10 hours ago, TheScarf said:
Why do you call your board the ‘BOD’? I know it stands for Board of Directors but what happened to calling them ‘The Board’. You don’t see any other club call it the BOD.
Is it not bloody obvious ? It's easy to fecking type.
. If someone put tb would anyone know what they were meaning FFS 
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11 hours ago, Redwedge77 said:
Yeah, The dross Falkirk
I rest my case.
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3 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
To what end? We have got rid of the old board, we have the fan ownership model which needs backing now. We need the current board to get things right this summer but we cant protest that into happening
Exactly. We need to at least give the new bod a bit of time to sort things out both on and off the field. They need a full season to judge them on.
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Rice didn't get the job simple as that. So far at alloa the teams he's beaten are the teams you'd expect alloa to beat. The dross in other words.
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4 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
This needs to be done, from a supporter POV so that we are no longer being drip fed unspecific "aye but the mess we were left in....." patter.
Thats not a criticism of the new guys.... Yet. It will be if it keeps happening though. Wer all grown ups. If its a mess, let's hear it. Otherwise, my expectations remain that promotion should be within the reach of a FT club at this level.I think the plan is to set up some kind of meeting although whether it would be a full public one or an egm I've no idea. I think they are spending all they're time currently trying to fix the mess and have feck all time for anything else at the moment. Hopefully they will get the club back to a situation where they can start concentrating wholly on the future and not mainly on the bloody past.
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6 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
The previous incompetents are gone never to return, get used to it.
Unfortunately it's the previous incompetents that have created the utter chaos. I just hope some of the stuff that's been going on becomes public knowledge at some point to show up these utter charlatans that were wrecking our club.
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Well mcgivern leaving had zero to do with the new board. It depends on who these people are. Could be all sorts of reasons why they are moving on. The whole club needs a complete shake up from top to bottom.
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1 hour ago, Donathan said:
The thing I don’t get with Hartley, there were two things that went wrong for him at Falkirk. One was his absolutely batshit mental summer recruitment when he got rid of a decent squad that had a good second half of the 2017/18 season and replaced them with English non-league level dross. That he can learn from and with a good budget at Cove, he evidently has.
However, the other is that the players reportedly downed tools because he was borderline emotionally abusing them on a day to day basis at training. That suggests an issue with his man management skills and yet it’s surprising this issue hasn’t shown up in his other management stints.
Probably says more about the players than Hartley. We seem to have had squads of complete shitebags for seasons now lead by nicey nice managers who love them because they're great in training. Footballs a tough game and too many modern day players want an easy life. You look at the players Hartley has now like vigurs and Reynolds they'll not crumble under their manager giving them a complete roasting I can assure you of that.
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9 hours ago, bejazz1 said:
Pot turning the Kettle black me thinksTongue in cheek but I just recall all the clamour back in the 90s was about us doing that and yet noone criticises Arbroath for not spending all their cash doing up their ground.
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8 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
Calm yourself he's still been ganting with them, god knows where that goal came from. Even more baffled that he got man of the match.
He's started 26 games this season and virtually every one since McInnes turned them around so he can't be doing that bad.
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3 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
Fucking Blair Alston with the winner for the filthy Killie. I feel sick.
Just shows you what you can do when your not playing alongside Gary miller every week.
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Good to see Arbroath getting their just desserts. Should've been spending money on their stadium instead of players.
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9 minutes ago, Andy Dufresne said:
Saw that was well,but on the bonus side Brad McKay is out.
Think we're telling the players it's east Fife.
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41 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said:
Watching Arbroath tonight they are everything we aren’t. A team that fights like f**k for the jersey, full of players who burst a gut for their side.
Standard in the championship looks the worst ever if that's the top two sides. Arbroath giving everything as you say but look very limited Haven't been out their half for most of the second half. Killie the better quality but haven't created any where near enough clearcut chances. Refs had an absolute stinker too.
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1 hour ago, PedroMoutinho said:
I believe the structure proposed by the group/groups who offered to step in to fund the academy in 2018 was to operate a structure without an under 20s team.
Given that many of the same individuals are now involved at the club, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was the plan.
I believe the argument back then was that the academy itself only cost £90k a year to run, which was the sum they were willing to provide. Instead of funding a reserve team, I think their proposal was to send the players who would be playing in it out on loan instead.
The 90k though was alongside sizeable grants from the SFA back then . As far as I'm aware you can only move up an academy level every 3 years too and we have to decide that just now and we just aren't in a financial position to do so so I'd expect it to be another 3 years before we look at expanding into under 11s etc. Hopefully by then we'll be back in the championship at least. At the moment though the b team seems like a far more realistic idea.
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1 hour ago, Duncan Freemason said:
There are indeed promising U18s now being jettisoned (one for the second time in his young life). It really is reputationally damaging. We do it right or not at all. The current set up is an escalator that ends nowhere other than out the door unless you are a real prodigy.
It really does not feel right.
Unfortunately youth development has to be at the very back of the bods priority's at the moment simply due to the amount of work required to get the club on an even keel. The bod are working 7 days a week to sort out the financial mismanagement left by the previous incumbents so I wouldn't expect them to just say to folk just now I here's 90k for this or that. At the moment we have a 16s and 18s. No idea how good they are as they are playing against shite most weeks at this level unfortunately. I've no idea what the previous boards plans were for the player pathway but I don't see how adding an under 11s side into the mix who can't play anyone was going to make things any better. The clubs finances need cleared up first before money can start going to things like more youth teams. New screw ups and dodgy deals by deans band of merry men are being uncovered by the day so its not going to happen overnight. Add to that the fact we need a new manager and new first 11 and I'm sure we can see that there isn't much time for much else at the moment. I'm sure the idea of the b team will be taken further at some stage but at the moment there's a lot bigger fish to fry than youth development at the moment.
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3 minutes ago, Nearly Sane said:
There is absolutely no plan to put an U20s in the SPFL Lowland Development League. In fact I'd go as far to say some people within the club, who should know, don't even know such a thing exists. There is absolutely no plan or commitment to youth development and the only reason the U16/18 teams continue is because it would be another PR disaster were they to go - which there's a distinct possibility they will.
That's not true the bod are definitely looking at the possibility of having a b team in the lowland leagues.
Otherwise the 16s and 18s are all we need just now. No need for under 11s etc . Once we are out of league one we can then look at expanding but it's not something we should be jumping into at the moment and spending more cash on. Fergus's idea of bringing in an under 11s side was sheer stupidity for a side languishing in the third division.
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5 minutes ago, Nearly Sane said:
Go on then - assure me. Because there definitely isn't. A decision on an U20/B Team will be left in the hands of the new first team manager.
Obviously. If he says he doesn't want one then they won't have one but the plan is being considered if the manager agrees with it.
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3 hours ago, Nearly Sane said:
No there isn't
Yes there is. I can assure you.
It's no going to be Kenny bloody miller.
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30 minutes ago, Nearly Sane said:
And you always have to worry about posters who dismiss others version of the "truth" to prop up their own.
I'm not advocating on behalf of previous employees or suggesting an academy be financed (but we could easily establish an U20 at minimal cost to add to the U16 & U18 teams) . My point was that the management of the club was a mess pre new Board and is still a mess under the new Board. The current Boards line of "the big bad boy did it and ran away" is factually incorrect and they are as much to blame as anyone related to the treatment of young players at our club.
As far as I know there are plans to have a b team which would play in one of the lowland leagues .
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Even when dowds came back he still had a number of honking games. He was limited but certainly better than Wilson or ompreon that's for sure. Will be interesting to see how he does at thistle but he's certainly no Zak rudden.
When it was decided to introduce some sort of youth program it was supposed to be a cut down version to start with which would hopefully be expanded at some point in the future. Why then did Fergus suddenly start expanding the whole set up before we were in a position to actually afford it properly. We have a setup at the same level as Raith and they have had a good degree of success bringing in players. To start under 11s etc you need to go back up to the same level of academy we had previously and there is no way we can afford that in our current state. Bringing in u11s was a crazy idea and thankfully the new bod put the kybosh on it quickly. They are all guys who know the value of having a good youth academy but also realise that the club just can't afford it just now.
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