Bainsfordbairn

There are plans to record more than normally happens. The young student who does "story of the matchday" runs her own company and some of her people will be there on the day to record additional footage. She's very good, as to be fair Luke was before her. In addition to her input, the club were testing / trialing a new remote video camera at the weekend. They intend to capture as much as they can of what will be a historic day.

They all got two years deals last summer, as did Pearse Carroll the year before them. I imagine the gaffer will look at their performances during preseason before deciding to either put them out on loan or retain them for part of his matchday squad.

He and Liam Carmichael are the two centre-halves for that team and are both young enough to still play for the team next season. He's a big lad (I think he's taller than Logan Sinclair) so he'll have a chance of making it. As I said earlier, I'm really curious to see who gets apprenticeships this summer.

Yes. He's a centre half with the U18s.

There are some really good players in both those teams. I'm going to be interested to see who McGlynn decides to give apprenticeships too.

Yep, Luke is a very good player in my eyes. He scored goals for fun in the couple of years I saw him and was probably unlucky that his birth date meant that when he was too old to play another season at U18 level there was nothing else for him at FFC. Nowadays we have modern apprenticeships but the money for those only became available after he had to leave. I think he's at Alloa now and on loan to the Shire.

When the academy was relaunched, there were a fair number of online doubters on here who went out of their way to criticise. The worst ones were doing it just because they opposed everything the old board did, but they weren't the only ones. There were all sorts of allegations about recruitment and the standards of players being no better than Sunday league. I disagreed, because I was watching the boys most weeks and saw some really good footballers. One of them was this lad, whom I've heard nothing but good things about since we loaned him out to the Shire. He scored the first Falkirk goal in the first new academy game and is the only one left of that team who's still involved at the club. As a winger, he's got a hell of a job to dislodge Morrison, Miller, Agyeman & maybe Ross next season, but at least he's doing well at the level he's currently at.

AFAIK, no-one invests anything in the womens team. All the staff are volunteers, the girls do it for the love of the game and the money to pay for things like GPS vests comes from external sponsorship. The team bus we had today was paid for by everyone chipping in as the Foundation wouldn't supply anything. The coaches deserve enormous credit for the work they've done. A wee side story about today. Someone associated with Forfar claimed that our girls are shite. In the last two games against them we've scored nine and conceded none. I'll take that level of shite every week.

Thirteen years ago.

Dyl getting some practice in before the game next week. Banter aside - Accies fans - the boy is an absolute quality baller who looks perfectly at home in our team.

He didn't count it so I guess we don't either.

Yes, it's the player that won the penalty. Unless the player fouled is the scorer, as Morrison was at Palmerston a few weeks back. In which case I give it to his teammate that set him up to be fouled, which on that day was MacIver.

It depends on how you define an assist. I keep my own notes and my definition is the last Falkirk player to touch the ball before the scorer puts it in the net. By my reckoning:- 14 Miller 12 Nesbitt 11 Spencer 8 Morrison, MacIver 6 Agyeman 5 Mackie, Oliver 4 Henderson 3 Yeats 2 McCann, Donaldson, Shanley 1 Lawal, Lang, McGinn, Walker 8 goals had no assists as they were set up by a defender clearing to a Falkirk player.

As I've never held a flare and likely never will I have no idea if your fingers can get chunks blown out them or not. In the interests of public safety though, I'm sure our fans would appreciate some clarification. Can we see these images which traumatised you so much?

For me flares are fine, with one caveat. Hold them in your hand, above your head, and they add to the spectacle. They make for good pictures and do no damage. Just don't throw them. They burn very hot and can do serious damage to anyone unlucky enough to have one land on them or the pitch.