Bairney The Dinosaur

Once things start to become a bit more stable in terms of finances what would be the first 'off the field' project he would like to see at the club.

Week 1: Falkirk

A few weeks back at the Fan Engagement Day Kenny Jamieson did a presentation and a good chunk of it was related to the 400k shortfall. Previously just about everything the board has said regarding the shortfall has been around the number of FSS subscribers needed to fill it, but it was a bit different this time. He started talking about FSS and the subscriptions increasing, however instead of just focusing on this being used to plug the gap, he seemed to suggest that if FSS began to significantly increase he expected other shareholders (I took it to mean PG and old MSG) would consider investing more too. Therefore we would see all 3 'legs of the stool' providing continual investment. Seemed to me a much more realistic and desirable way to operate.

I seem to remember U18s estimated to be around 1/5th of total sales. Purely assuming that the breakdown of ages will be roughly the same I think an educated guess of 330ish U12s seems fair. Wouldn't think it would be more than that.

It's not really been touched on much by the board, other than a brief mention of 'soft loans' last seasons, but I wonder hope much scope there is for continual investment from the Patrons Group. One of the benefits of the '3 legged stool' is having these slightly more flush fans active in the club, but we haven't really heard much from them since that initial investment. I expect they have been providing in some way and keeping it behind closed doors, but I'd quite like to find out what they've been doing.

That would have been about a month ago. I expect with the usual steady build it's closer to 715.

FFS now bringing in over 100k a year in fan donations https://twitter.com/FalkirkfcSS/status/1680613524467482625?t=8vmKbtIewobalU0xrJQACw&s=19

I'm happy with how the opening round of the league cup group stage went mind.

Could do with BPM back even if it was just for some faux positivity.

I think all these ideas for FSS are brilliant and exactly what they should be moving forward. Still feel like priority now has got to be continuing funding of the budget gap. A significant increase in membership and all these ideas become feasible.

Not a fan of the drums myself but I would say that is fair. At this point with the group just starting up there should be no discouragement from the wider support.

Great! Really hope they can get a good group sorted. Please no drum.

Not what I took from their answer. It was a diplomatic 'if we got to the point that we were struggling it would assessed'. They then caveated that by saying the assessment hypothetical could show that McGlynn was still the best option.

Personal highlight was asking the board to outline their plans which ensure that every player we sign is also a fan of the club

I will forever applaud the patience of the board at these Q&As. Some of the questions they get asked are mad.

Yeah more could be created but got to make sure that neither FSS or Patrons start to dwarf the other shareholders. 3rd leg of the stool is still important. Personally I wouldn't want to see either group move past a 33% holding. 26% remains to me the magic number for either group and would be happy at both holding that.

Was just going to mention this too. Felt really professional.

The latter. It was an interesting first half midfield where all 3 seemed to move quite fluidly. Nobody seemed entirely fixed as a 6/8/10. Seemed to work though.

Yep. Falkirk fan though.

Really pleased with the guy taking over FalkirkTV comms. I reckon he will smash it

Not mine...yet. The in-laws have the boots that scored our only european goal.

I'd expect McGlynn to keep the front 3 and I'd imagine he would want to be able for that 3 to be fairly interchangeable (2 wide and 1 central/a 10 and 2 central) like he did last season. So I count 6 players in the squad who will play across that front 3 in whatever permutation. Unlikely to see another in unless a big player becomes available.

Technical player who can produce something magic but doesn't give you it anyway near enough to make up for the lack of pace/power/endeavour. He's like a luxury player...but not actually that good.

You won't see me paying it but would not surprise me at all if there were 100 folk who hold value in something like this. Could be a simple 5k.

Trying to decide if I'd prefer to watch a Lewis Connolly 'strip video' or whatever CC produce.