Shadwell Dog

Jesus wept.We're holding a friendly to celebrate crunchie FFS . He was one of the mainstays behind our run to the final that season. It's more celebrating him and the cup run itself than just the final. Kilmarnock will bring a decent crowd too at least and as the guys from the crunchie initiative said it's not been easy to get clubs to commit. Friendlies are less and less numerous these days due to the league cup.

Strange that because neilson was getting a really hard time of it due to the style of football and some really turgid results. Many wanted him punted even though they went up and it was only really this season that hearts fans have began to back him.

It's amazing what people can find money for if they really want it. I'm sure the club will offer staged payments too. I reckon we'll be at a similar level to last season ticket wise.

Never really impressed in the league despite being able to spunk cash on the likes of Charlie Adam, Osman sow and Jason Cummings. 12 points behind hearts and never really challenged them even though they weren't that great if you ask any hearts fan. Only a point ahead of Raith despite a huge budget advantage. Season before ended up 18 points behind united and behind ICT.

Looking forward to the club website announcing that season tickets will go on sale maybe this week or maybe the next and will cost something between nothing and £1000 each.

McKnight McIntyre Mackay Sharp Marr Stewart Scrimgeour McVeigh Hill Ashwood Stewart

Nor fellner who scored 4 goals in his 4 starts and 3 sub apps. He was decent for the first division. Lecsinel was top drawer when he played . Just not very reliable at turning up.

Strange team all together. Not starting the likes of Chalmers who has been brilliant for them. St Johnstone's bottle didn't half crash in that second half though.

Marshall Weir McQueen Gillespie Hughes Latapy Crunchie Baptie Stainrod Johnston McWilliams.

Yes I think he was a god awful fullback for them too.

Poor show losing to a side they ended up 21 points ahead of in the league. Best chance they've had of going up . Might not get another one that good.

I've no idea why when we had the majority shate of the original group that the council were allowed to design the bloody stadium unless it was to reduce costs or something. We could've had a full ground on a smaller scale for that sort of money instead of a grandiose main stand which is being well underused. The club at least had the idea of using it for hospitality events and parties when George Craig put the marquee up and money started to flow in for the fcsl. However, the council pressured the fcsl management into dismantling all that to allow a company called Oran to take over the area. They did this and then Oran pulled out leaving no event facilities and no new Tennant. It's been a complete shambles by the council from start to finish.

If he's fit enough he'd be a decent shout. Played 46 times for Aberdeen and Scotland the season before last but obviously missed a lot of last season with an injury. Cove sounds a more realistic location for him though.

It's actually a 175 year lease. The problem has been that the clubs deal in all this has progressively got worse as time goes on. At the start the stadium company that was created to build and run the stadium had Falkirk FC as it's majority owner. It was supposed to fund expanding the stadium by developing the land around it. The council though having said verbally originally that the ground included in the deal was right up to the railway went back on their word and it only included land up to the grangemouth road junction. The council managed to prevent any development going through too as it wanted to develope the land over at the fire station first. This then meant fcsl was no longer viable in its setup back then and the assets were to be split between the club and the council. However, due to the council having put up the 2 million quid for the north stand and loans to keep the fcsl going it meant they now had the upper hand and why we no longer own but lease the land the stadium is built on. Funnily enough accountancy advice at this time was through KPMG and Gary deans.

I'm sure he'll have seen him play or had someone watching him.

Nearly 9million quid. 3 million of that was the council's that they put back in. ,The rest the club had but 2.2 million was owed to the stadium city group in loans to Eddie Healey and others and legal fees. We therefor put in approx 3m and the council put in approx 3m.

The 3 million quid was the money they got from the sale of Brockville as they owned a third of the land. It was ploughed back into the new stadium. It wasn't just cash the council had lying about and wouldn't have been available without selling Brockville and moving elsewhere.

If the board was leaky we'd have known about mcglynn a good while before it happened.

And breathe.

You would reasonably expect Holt to be on peanuts but then there was a good chance his dad agreed his deal so he's probably the highest paid player at the club.

Do we really count Holt as a goalie though?

It was thistle that dumped him just before we picked him up was it no and now he's going back. Funny old game right enough.

Giving him any longer than to the end of the season was nuts.

Yeah. If we're going for an older player I'd much rather it was in the McCracken , Dodds mould . We'll have Watson coming back at some point too and he's no spring chicken. We don't want dad's army at the back.