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13 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:
Great to see. With the Alloa game hopefully being a historic occasion would it be too much to hope for that Falkirk TV have multiple cameras at the game so that we can see the crowd in all its glory? Cameras behind the goals even? I'm sure I watched highlights of one of our recent league games and the other club (can't remember who it was, sorry had )at least 2 cameras in use.
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.
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1 hour ago, Shodwall cat said:
What's the situation with the current apprentices? They will return from their loans this summer but how long does the apprenticeship last for? I presume there is a time when a final decision has to be made regarding signing them for going forward.
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.
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20 minutes ago, Gaz said:
I used to teach him. He's a good lad. He was on the bench for a game against Edinburgh (I think?) a few months ago. I've been trying to keep an eye out for him.
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.
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9 hours ago, Gaz said:
Was a lad called Cameron McNab playing in either game?
Yes. He's a centre half with the U18s.
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51 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
U16's beat Stirling 3-0 and the U18's followed suit winning 3-1.
Dominated the ball and had plenty of chances to win more convincingly in each of the games.
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.
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37 minutes ago, 60`s bairn said:
I believe his former team mate Luke Rankine scored 4 in the same match v Celtic "B".
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.
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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.
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43 minutes ago, Bairney The Dinosaur said:
It's great news!
I'm still hopeful we will see a bit more investment towards the women's team (and wider pathway) - success like this only increases the chance!
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.
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4 hours ago, Bula Bairn said:
The only other banners I can remember at TFS or Brockville was calling for a board or manager to be sacked!
Thirteen years ago.
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32 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
Even allowing for the fact you have the best squad in the league it was a supremely stupid decision to let Dylan Tait go.
The boy is far too good for this division.
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.
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2 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
So has everyone just decided to award the Kelty OG to Morrison now?
As we discussed before, he wasn't even counting it himself when he got to 50!
This sort of thing messes with my ch'i @Bainsfordbairn
He didn't count it so I guess we don't either.
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1 minute ago, bridge of allan bairn said:
Like this and thanks for sharing @Bainsfordbairn
Out of interest, how do you define the assist on a penalty? Is it the player that won the penalty?
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.
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7 hours ago, RC55 FFC said:
I think the SPFL may have it wrong tbh. Our (podcast) stats man has Morrison on 23 goals & 11 assists, granted that’s across all comps.
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.
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2 minutes ago, LeodhasXD said:
I must say I'm traumatised from seeing the images of folks fingers getting chunks blown out them though so you can feel free to hold on to it. I'll not be doing that.
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?
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41 minutes ago, ChrispPancake said:
I'm all for the Ultras but they really really need to drop the flares before someone is hurt with a life changing injury.
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.
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14 minutes ago, Jimmy1876 said:
and our attendances at our lowest ever performance were at 2,500 towards the end of the season we finished 6th.
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.
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21 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:
Realistically, though, given they have really appeared very quickly out of nowhere, how long do you expect them to hang around in their current form when you aren't winning every week?
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.
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2 hours ago, Shodwall cat said:
The big issue with getting in another striker is finding one that can do everything MacIver can do and also score 20 goals a season and manage to entice them to play in the championship. There aren't many players that can do all that at our level unfortunately.
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.....
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18 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Was just thinking. Out of our squad only Donaldson, Henderson McCann, Nesbitt and Morrison were Falkirk players before McGlynn took over. What a difference he has made to all of them. Some feat when a lot of them were considered dross before he arrived.
Donaldson & Henderson were signed by McGlynn.
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46 minutes ago, Raybowski89 said:
Is Mackie out of contract?
Yes he is. The is the second year of his two year deal.
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8 minutes ago, Long Suffering Bairn said:
Respectfully, it's a bit of wishfull thinking to think the best goal scorer in scotland is staying with us.
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.
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9 hours ago, Ned Nederlander said:
No Hendo - Mackie & Bisland start
*shudder*
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?
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47 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
How much is not a lot of room?
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.
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3 hours ago, SPLwankwankwank said:Shodwell has absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Happy to correct both of you
Have a great day.
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.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Yep. FSS Player of the Year, Junior Bairns POTY, Players POTY, Fans POTY & goal of the season. (Montrose I think).
On the womens side, Iona Bridges won POTY, Ella Stewart breakthrough POTY (now a first teamer while still a schoolgirl and a cracking wee 'baller) and Outstanding Achievement went to Rachel Pirie. The women will have their own private awards night for players and staff after the season is over, hence why the categories are a little different from the men.
On the recognition side of things, Jean Sneddon got a Lifetime Achievement, Joe Wallace (retiring groundsman) an Outstanding Contribution and Robert Cox (longstanding volunteer and current boardroom attendant) Special Recognition.
The Foundation did similar awards for some of their people.
Club staff are likely all off today but I'd assume there will be announcements, stories and pics uploaded tomorrow.