HopeStreetWalker

Lets see how they cut it in a higher league over a season and I hope they are good enough. Have seen it far too often over the decades a winning team with top performers just don't cut it then its a scramble to put it right. There will be 5 new outfield players making a regular start plus a goalie.

There is a core of 4 - 6 that will cut it in a higher league and a major rebuild in the closed season will take place. Few surprise departures and arrivals. What a nice problem - but it depends on getting up. So go canny until it happens.

Best option is to modify Plan A to mix things up a bit more in particular the last 1/3rd of the park. Maybe not this season but if we go up, teams will have already sussed us out we will have to have these options available.

We ain't won nothing and the support should reflect on the old bairns mantra 'Expect the unexpected' We have no divine right to win, let's leave that arrogance and self right to the old firm. Turning up expecting to win and talking about going a season unbeaten just motivates the opposition. The team are in a good place and if the situation we are in was offered to us at the start of the season we would have grabbed it. Big March for us, either near all over bar the shouting, or squeaky bum time.

You could call it the 'Houstie Hardcore Memorial Stand'

It's finding a business model that would use it 7 days a week. Pub a no-go it's to far out the road and wet sales are in decline and not survivable on home games alone. Funeral tea market as St Johnstone have done? Try for a % of the Kelpies visitors for food and watering? If there isn't one then the only option to complete the stadium is the cheaper option.

Keep it simple and basic. Hardcore base with concrete top with mixed terracing and seats approx 15 deep 3 - 4 turnstiles, toilets, roof. Stadium completed Far more atmospheric and would soon be the first stand filled every week.

Bomb scares were a common occurrence at the Falkirk College at Friday lunchtimes in the early 70's

Go Retro Brockvllle covered terracing and have corrugated roofing to entertain other fans when the ball hits the roof resulting in the rust raining down. Falkirk fans well-used to it had a right laugh at away fans experiencing it for the first time

No need to mirror the existing designs therefore some innovative cost effective construction hopefully brings costs down. Mixed standing / seating no more them 15 rows deep. Do we need steel framing? Is it cheaper to use hardcore and concrete the appropriate platform on top? Whatever it is, that's well into the future. lets get out the league and establish ourselves at a higher level.

Many a good Thursday night 'Upstairs in the Chari' to hear Brian Findlay play the new releases before they went on sale on Friday in his record shop. Clever marketing by Mr F

Shows the last time I was in it. Was where I did my under age drinking hence the soft spot for the Star Inn. It struggled ever since Cockburn Foundry and Grahamston Iron Works closed. Was famous for the night shift moulders have pre shift pints - so much for health and safety.

Empire was a pub I was never in. Wullie Turnbull will be birling that his Star Inn is now a Celtic pub.

It's a surreal thing to experience, so much going on you watch it in slow motion. Only other one like it was a wedding reception at the community hall in Plean - but that is a different story - miners feud going back decades

Was that the Bar across the road from Wullie Turnbull's Star Inn?

Corner of Davids Loan

Was a strange place not helped by the Masonic Hall being on the second floor.

Was there when the famous Big Bar 1970 odd John Waynesk bar room brawl took place ending with a shotgun being fired into the ceiing and mass arrests. One of the funniest and bizarre things I ever saw it had everything. Hay baling punches, chairs over peoples backs, folk getting thrown over tables of drinks, pool cues used a javelins and pool balls used as ballistics. Understandably, was put off ever going back. Anybody else on the forum remember that?

Isn't the TV money pooled for distribution to all the leagues teams?

The club was originally called Falkirk Football and Athletic Club' It would be no bad thing to have a long term aim to return to that ethos and be a club encompassing sports in the Falkirk district. The wider reach the club has in the community the better whatever the sport. No better focal point to go in that direction than having womans football in house.

Remember that lot - were not liked in particular when they started the sectarian nonsense and got well telt for it. Used to hang about the Big Bar in Bainsford.

Hope so.

It's looking good. Unbeaten in the league, 17 points ahead, 15 goals lost, 11 games to go but we ain't over the line. Would take a collapse that would put the support on therapy for years for us not to go up. But as the old Falkirk Motto through bitter experience says 'Expect the unexpected, follow the Falkirk Bairns' So lets get championship won by staying lean and mean.

The McArthur and McCarthy transfers and add-ons kept them going for years

6 more wins if Hamilton don't lose before then