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  1. Is Lee Connelly out of contract in the summer by chance? Just wondering.
  2. Goals flying in in a highly entertaining "big big game" at Kilmarnock but no-one there to report on them as "Kheredine has gone to do the TV". Amateurish does not even begin to describe it. Laughable stuff. The ever-brutal Amy Canavan talking about Queen's Park's Tom Dhomas provided a modicum of entertainment I suppose.
  3. No. This certainty, this absolute conviction, that the mere fact of Rankin not being in your dugout would have had you up challenging a team still unbeaten in the league in mid-March is pure and utter hypothesis. Because there is no guarantee whatsoever that any theoretical replacement for Rankin, whether last summer, January, whenever, would have automatically prevented you from dropping "stupid points". Who's to say "Gerry" would not have appointed an even bigger numpty, an even bigger incompetent, and you'd instead be staring at a 30-point gap, never mind 17. That scenario is never entertained by any of your fans it seems. No Rankin = guaranteed and significant improvement seems to be the simple and unequivocal calculation. that has been made. It's utter nonsense. Best stick to the facts. You've had the misfortune to come up against a far bigger club and a far better team on a quite ridiculous run of form. Rankin or no Rankin, you were not getting close to winning the league this season. Good luck in the play-offs, especially if you come up against the Pars and that utter cretin McPake.
  4. 25% I believe, so 9. He'd made four substitute appearances prior to starting yesterday. I'd really like to think sentiment played no part whatsoever in his selection. Until or unless the league is won, there is simply no way he should be starting games, irrespective of the opposition.
  5. Shared nothing. We've put up with years and years and years of obsessed opposition diddies stinking up this thread, crawling over it and revelling in every single defeat and f**k-up, far, far in excess of any other club in Scotland. They're conspicuous by their absence this season though, eh? No doubt they'll come running back the minute we finally we lose a game of football. Hamilton have more than shown their colours this season - plenty of mouth and talk in the early part of the season, then "Gerry" and his ludicrous mind games and even now a few of the uber-fantasists in their ever-dwindling support refusing to accept that we've absolutely steamrollered them. Small-minded, tinpot wee outfit. F**k them.
  6. Have you seen their squad? Dundee United have some very good individual players but nothing like the strength in depth that Raith have. In the game last Friday they were bringing the likes of Brown, Connolly, Hamilton and Easton off the bench, absolutely ridiculous. Their three loan signings in January/February - Ashcroft, Rudden, Turner - are not exactly screaming "consolidation" to me. Rather, they have recognised that DU are not a great team, and are managed by an absolute clown - and they're chucking a shitload at it in an attempt to get up this season. And it may just pay off for them. Their squad is very, very good for that level, but it won't be coming cheap.
  7. But Gerry told the wee Accies fans in December that we had bad, bad, bad news coming to us....Morrison was for the off imminently, precipitating our total collapse and them strolling uncontested to the title. What happened??!!
  8. Sorry, what exactly is it you're suggesting Hamilton have "chucked away"? A league championship your squad are patently, blatantly nowhere close to being good enough to win. That's your definition of "chucking it away"? Aye, no bother
  9. I would not be remotely surprised if he has been quietly added to somewhere near the top of our list of transfer targets for the summer window.
  10. Fortunately "decent" still proved more than sufficient to absolutely murder your pitiful wee mob in that first half. More than enough. We've played better, and no doubt could have upped it had it been required. It wasn't. Your whole season has really been one long "reality check" for the biggest and best squad in the league fantasists. Any comments from Gerry since full-time? We know how much he loves talking about us but seems to have gone a wee bit quiet recently. Strange. Hope he's ok.
  11. None of us give a toss about Rankin, stay or go, it won't be impacting us in any way between now and May. None of our business. But you better believe we'll continue challenging this myth that a team who have still not lost a league game in mid-February, dropping 10 points from an available 66 in the process, have somehow been "handed the league" due to the perceived incompetence of the manager of another football club. We'll continue destroying that complete, total and utter garbage until you start facing up to reality.
  12. Slightly annoying that we have still not completely shaken off Hamilton, with the run we are on, a double-digit lead would, in many other seasons, have been very much within expectation. Should have been going into a home game against Montrose today absolutely flying on the back of last week's result and performance, this three week break from league games is incredibly inconvenient. Hamilton will be seeing the game in two weeks times as last chance saloon, we just have to make sure we put them away and shut them up once and for all.
  13. No he couldn't. He's only eligible to play for them for the remainder of the season and won't, therefore, ever be seen in a Falkirk shirt again.
  14. The original post stated that he fancied "we would absolutely tank" Airdrie. Note - tank. I can take account of our progression, whilst at the same time holding the belief that we absolutely would not be tanking them in any hypothetical final. Anyone who does not consider them a significant step up from what we are facing on a regular basis clearly has not been paying much attention. They are a proper team in the true sense of the word. That does not mean I believe we would be incapable of beating them. Recognising (a) how far we have come and (b) the incredibly poor standard of the league really are not mutually exclusive.
  15. We absolutely wouldn't. I mean, it would not be anything approaching the apocalypse of last May, but they are a very, very decent football team - particular emphasis on the word team. What McCabe has done at Airdrie, on pretty minimal resources, is highly impressive. They lost Smith to Raith Rovers, brought in Todorov, and in terms of experienced players, that's about it in terms of changes, it's largely the same team as last season. But good use of the loan market - Hancock, Megwa - and they are more than holding their own in the Championship. Raith haven't been able to lay a glove on them, they disposed of St Johnstone in the SC with minimal fuss and I fancy them to give Hearts a hell of a game next week, by far the most interesting tie of the round. An Airdrie win would not be a massive shock. For as enjoyable as this season has been, let's not lose sight of the fact that a lot of what we are facing on a week-to-week basis is, frankly, dross. Very poor standard. Airdrie would be a step up from that. A big step.
  16. Errm, no. Your "downfall" is to be up against a far bigger club and far better team on an excellent run of form. Rankin has the square route of f**k all to do with anything. Still a long way to go, and of course, you've got Agyeman/Miller/Morrison to add to what we are constantly told is the "biggest and best squad in the division". How's that transfer progressing by the way, all seems to have gone a bit quite recently? Any update from Gerry?
  17. Just saying what? Sorry, but that's utterly wild. I have never been McGlynn's biggest fan - and even now, on the back of last season's finish and some of what has occured over the past week, there are still one or two lingering doubts - but there is not the slightest chance on earth that he won't be in charge for the remainder of this season, and every possibility of beyond. If that is what you are suggesting? McGinn has been a very, very decent player but injuries have seemingly caught up with him. To have one of your highest earners basically contributing nothing where it ultimately counts - on the pitch - in such a crucial season is not a great situation at all and he's one I'd quite like to now see moving on if feasible.
  18. I'd say the manager "holding his nerve", getting his head on and back in the game - and very, very quickly - is of far, far, far more importance and significance than anything fans are or are not doing. The team selection at Edinburgh, thrashing about chucking on four and five substitues at a time - it's certainly not been his finest week. I also imagine there's a few amongst the squad less than happy with what's gone, and with reason, so there's going to be a bit of man-management required there. All just feels a bit reckless, a bit needless, a bit self-inflicted to me. Alloa away next weeks looks a pretty significant game, all the more so given that's it probably the last league game we'll play prior to Hamilton at home. I've no desire to give that vile wee mob any more encouragement.
  19. So let me get this right. This utter clown who runs the football side of things at your mob has a strategy? And said strategy involves feeding the gullible, pliant local media fantasy stories about making offers for players he knows have not the slightest interest in setting back their careers by taking the step down to Hamilton in the vein hope that it may flush out other suitors who might have more of a chance of tempting both Falkirk and the player(s)in this transfer window and weakening us in the process? Is that what you're suggesting your club has been reduced to? God, I hope so. Desperation would not even begin to describe this particular "theory".
  20. Yes, this clown of a Director of Football must surely be a complete embarrassment to all Hamilton fans. It just shows what utter contempt he holds your support in that he believes fans would swallow such garbage. Mortifying for you.
  21. You can safely add on the other 0.01% .Why the hell would they take a step down to a far lesser club? Desperate tactics from a desperate wee mob. Laughable.
  22. I would not bet on it. In fact, I'd bet against it. Because If either us or Cove - who are playing Brora Rangers - get through next weekend the game up there on 10/2 is off, as that's the next round of the Scottish Cup. So there's a real possibility that by the time the Hamilton game comes around on 17/2, they will have played a further four league games to our one, which will be absolutely no cake walk at Alloa. Hamilton being out of all cups means they can now just go Saturday to Saturday in the league. Who knows how beneficial that may prove to be for them? As enjoyable as the performances and results against QP and especially DU were, this Trust Trophy or whatever it's called this year is a pain at this stage, and one we could well do without. Binning scheduled Saturday league games in favour of it is just ludicrous. If I am well aware of the vagaries of the fixture list over the course of the next month, then I'll assume that McGlynn is as well, making yesterday's act of self-sabotage and offering of some hope to our main rivals when there was absolutely no need to all the more mind-blowing. Complete and utter lunacy. It all adds up to the fact that, for as good as this season has been, we're still a million miles away from achieving anything. We've still got a massive challenge over the next the three and a half months.
  23. And guess what? He's up against (a) a manager who has also been very well backed across every transfer window for which he has been in charge and (b) a team who are on an exceptional run of good form. That's the context which you singularly fail to mention in any of your myriad diatribes against Rankin, so I've done it for you. Coming off second best to a far bigger club having an excellent season is nothing like the massive underachievement that you and a few other Hamilton fantasists believe it to be.
  24. That's it really. I had Five Live on in the car on Monday afternoon and the contrast could not have been greater. No 3 p.m. English Premier League kick-offs, but an OAM style show with full coverage of the lower leagues, a presenter who genuinely knew his subject, knowledgeable pundits, varied discussions on players/teams/managers/systems going right the way through from the Championship to the National League. A genuine eye-opener. There are loads of interesting things going on in the lower leagues in Scotland as well. You'd never know it because there is neither the knowledge nor willingness amongst McIntyre and his awful gang to have a look and perhaps try to produce something even a tenth as good as the English equivalent. So basically, they'll just pay lip service for the next couple of weeks, get through it as best they can until the "real stuff" returns. With luck, there'll be some meaningless friendly involving one of the bigots next Saturday for them to get their teeth into. OTB is no better, the pair of them droning incessantly on and on about this pathetic nonsense from a week ago. Ok, there is the argument that they are at least coming at it from the point-of-view of supporters of every other club outside of the bigoted twins i.e. who gives a f**k ?,but they'd have been far better served simply not mentioning it all and devoting some coverage to teams who were actually playing this afternoon. It's all just lowest common denominator stuff. Truly pathetic from start to finish. I was never a particular fan of Richard Gordon but, by God, the phrase about never missing something until it is gone has never been more appropriate.
  25. Yep. But just think what we would be doing if we had the best squad in the division....
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