PB1994

The Falcons really are something else

If any of the other Highland League teams fancied a crack at promotion they should have won the league. It’s shite that this has happened but nobody else deserves a shot at the playoffs.

That says Brechin are at Entry level not bronze. Plus what do Brechin have to do with this? They didn’t win the league so what status they have is irrelevant.

I've always liked the look of him when he was on the park but you could tell he hasn't played a lot of first team football. I think he has been quite a big miss while he was out injured. No chance we will have him next season but I would have thought he would be a very important player for us if he could get 10 or so games under his belt.

Mckay has been doing that all season. I'd say he is actually being played in a deeper role ever since Wotherspoon left. Which then means when we do get into decent positions we don't have anybody in the box as he is still trying to catch back up with the play. There has been a fair amount of criticism of him recently, on twitter, which I think is extremely harsh. I'm still fairly confident he would score a fair share of goals in a team where he was a normal striker and they created a couple of decent chances per game. Friday was actually the most "direct" we have been in a long time, if you want to call it that, Samuel and McAllister both driving from deep with the ball and it was incredibly effective. Would like to see much more of that rather than the slow build up play which allows teams to get everyone behind the ball and set up in defensive positions. Our defence is far from perfect, as the goal we conceded proved, but it is more than good enough for the Championship. The issue is that when we do concede the odds of us scoring 2 goals are incredibly long.

At least we actually created chances on Friday. The majority of our games this season you would struggle to pick out one clear cut chance that we had. Even the goals we score are, generally, out of nothing.

This is ridiculous.

Can we please take off a centre back for Roddy MacGregor.

He loves to rise again. Just like his idol.

I don’t think he was that far wrong with what he said as I’ve got Queen’s Park getting an easy 3 points against Arbroath already chalked up on the board. You could argue that he didn’t need to say it but on the other hand the reaction is exactly what he was after. If Arbroath go on to get a couple of results, especially against Queens Park, then he’s done exactly what he wanted to happen and if they lose all 3 games he’s been proven right. He doesn’t really come out of this looking bad apart from the bit where it is everyone else’s fault that we are in this position.

Will be extremely disappointed if Barca don’t have a full heads gone in the last 20 mins.

If we had wingers at the club then I think he would use them. I mean he could have signed some in January I suppose.

Win here and Dunfermline also win then QP would be 5 points behind and at least 15 goals behind on GD. I’d say that would be job done.

Pepple was good against Dundee Utd a few weeks ago. Though he does sometimes look like he has never seen a football in his life before. Would say Samuels is quicker and agree that he should get some game time. Even for 20 mins off the bench.

If he has been fit for the majority of the time since Ferguson came back I’m amazed he hasn’t been given a chance. Think he would be great playing in an attacking midfield position and something we are sorely lacking.

Roddy might have absolutely no interest in signing a new deal in all fairness.

Abi

I don’t really disagree with what you say about the signings, maybe apart from Carragher, He’s fine but not good however the whole point of signing players is to make the team better. How many of them are better than what we had before? None of the centre backs are better, Mullen could well have been if he didn’t get injured and got settled in but we will never know. Midfield is arguably weaker, as we are now playing a right back in centre mid. Up front? Up for debate. Samuel is a good player for this level but I’d argue if we had managed to replace Wotherspoon we would be better off playing a “number 10” with McKay up top. I would like to see what Ferguson could do in the summer where he can pretty much rip it up and start again but there would be doubts about his signing strategy based on what he did in January, mainly signing defenders when the major issues were further up the field.

I was more pissed off that we didn’t replace him rather than actually letting him go.

Not due to the finances of the club just due to the finances of the championship in general. I think he’s had quite a shock at the lack of money that is around at this level. Apparently he couldn’t believe there wasn’t enough money for us to stay over night before away games. I get the feeling from his interviews that he isn’t enjoying the job at all and can’t wait for it to be over. I could be totally wrong.

@Sonam I presume you’ll be calling out this vile abuse of Alex Samuels religion?

Agreed that 3 hours for 11 hours is ridiculous but I don’t mind the lads at the top of the leaderboard taking a little bit of extra time when it’s the final day of a major. Obviously as long as they aren’t taking the piss with it.

Also let people play through if you are going to do all that carry on.

I was just thinking this. I quite enjoy listening to him as he clearly knows his stuff when he is talking about the course etc but he’s the sort of bloke I’d despise if we were both in the pub having a pint at the same time.

That first putt from Homa was ridiculous, barely touched the ball and it races well past the hole.