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.

The last three home games of that season saw 3158 at a 3-0 loss to Montrose, 3113 at a 3-0 loss to Cove and 3366 at a 2-1 loss to Alloa, so your numbers are a little low. For league games we tend to fluctuate between three and five thousand depending on how the team are doing. I can vaguely recall conversations with George Craig in the top flight maybe 15 years ago when his aim was to get our home support at around five thousand. Our support has held up remarkably well considering the performance of the team in recent years.

Hopefully the rest of their lives, given that they're the supporters of the future who'll spend 40+ years watching the team, just as us oldies have done. The buzz of being with your mates, in a gang, and being allowed to make a racket and behave in a way you can't do at school is a draw just now. Some of them have been pulled from the ugly sisters because of the ultra culture. Watching a winning team is certainly a draw for them, but it's not the only one. And I recognise many of them from previous seasons so they haven't just appeared out of nowhere, even if their numbers have swelled now that it's an organised group. A fair number of them are longterm fans who're not schoolkids but adult men in their twenties.

Whenever we played Inverness in the past the boy Oakley always looked a handful. I see he's now at Cappielow, and given that we can take anything Morten value any time we feel like it.....

Donaldson & Henderson were signed by McGlynn.

Yes he is. The is the second year of his two year deal.

You're thinking solely in monetary terms and forgetting the most important factor of all - what the player wants. I think it's safe to say that if money were the sole priority, he would either have joined Linfield or waited until the summer before deciding his future. As there will be other clubs who can pay him far more than we do. He completely threw that idea out the window by committing to Falkirk. He wants to stay here for a while longer. He's already spoken publicly about his admiration for McGlynn. He comes from the area and has a young family who're settled here. He's adored by our fanbase. He's now signed three deals with Falkirk, each of which would undoubtedly see his salary rise to the point where he's probably out top earner. All that combined may be more than enough for him to want to stay with us for the full length of his contract, regardless of who comes knocking and what they offer. Sometimes, job satisfaction and a happy working environment are more important than money.

Nothing against you Ned as you're a sensible poster, but there's a pattern here. the team gets announced it has some rotation in it someone (usually multiple someones on different forums) complain about the selection and occasionally slag the manager the team win anyway and prove the doubters wrong. Given what he inherited, McGlynn is shaping up to be one of the best managers we've had in my 44 years of supporting the club. What does he have to do for people to trust him to make the right call without the benefit of hindsight?

Probably more than the article suggests. We know there are two other contract offers on the table. For the sake of numbers, let's speculate those are Yeats and Shanley, as it was reported the latter has an option. (though we don't know whether that lies with the club or player) So for the out door you likely have six players. Hogarth, McKay, McGinn, Mackie, L:awal and maybe Allan if we wants to leave. We currently have four loanees in Ross, Tait Bisland and Long, That suggests there could be up to ten gaps in the squad. Though my guess is we'll spend more cash on better quality so the overall numbers will reduce slightly. Particularly as the modern apprentices will be in their second year and some of them might be considered ready to challenge for a place.

When Putin says the West has no democracy, he’s not correcting us. He stating an opinion which is then ridiculed by his audience. The same applies to you. You’ve corrected no-one. You’ve made claims which you refuse to substantiate. You’ve attacked posters, board members, fans and the club. You’ve gone out of your way to be insulting to people who tried to engage with you. You’re free to do all of that, and I’ve no doubt you’ll continue. But when you posted about the U18, U16s and recreational teams you showed a knowledge of Foundation activities which no-one would have without being involved. The details of your claims were spurious because the youth teams were created before the dev team folded and at least one of the rec teams was created by players, not Foundation staff, but you still knew the basics. In the eyes of people who read this page, that knowledge marks you as someone connected to the Foundation. And no amount of denials will change that. It’s ironic that you posted in support of the Foundation. Because all you’ve achieved is to piss people off, at least judging by the reaction to your posts. You’ve stirred up hostility against the very organisation that you’re trying to help. Good job mate.

I believe the hope is for the club to have a full academy up and running again for season 25/26. This presumably means that next season we'll still have only U6s and U18s teams with nothing below them. Whether we can afford to recruit enough current U18 player on modern apprenticeships to make up a development or reserve team next season remains to be seen. Only the BOD will know the answer to that, and ATM they've made no comment on the subject. Which is fair enough as there are other things to be secured first. I expect we'll hear more about the youth /reserve setup in the close season.