Numbers_One_To_Eleven

Big Craw needs to be mentioned too. Played a variety of positions but he was very good at centre half.

This is not true, I can assure you. 91/92 was his big centre half season, the following 3 seasons were a mixed bag of centre half, midfield, injury and suspension.

Let’s not forget, as great as he was, he did spend a lot of time in midfield for us (and of course, a bit upfront). This added to his long injury lay-offs means I can’t quite put him in the Falkirk great category for central halves. I would guess in the 5 years he was there, in all Falkirk games played, he was used approximately 25% as centre half (whether through injury, suspension or tactics).

It’s a bit of a shame we can’t add a defender to the big 3 (Stainrod, McAllister and Latapy) of greats to play for us over the last 30 odd years. Davie Weir maybe? A few with a bit more luck/better management could’ve got in there.

Didn’t think I’d say this on here but that QOTS page is something else just now. Also, Willie Gibson, dearie me!

I honestly feel this classic win/match was absolute peak Bairns, in modern times anyway. On a long unbeaten run (things got a bit sticky for a few matches after this match before the fantastic run-in), fluent team with Stainrod pulling the strings, under the floodlights, packed Brockville (still in not bad knock) and on the telly. 93/94 and 94-95 were great but this was the pinnacle for me.

Unfair on Big Joe. First season he was injury prone but next two and a half seasons he was a regular. Yogi was the injury prone one after and was also stuck in the middle of the park a fair bit too. Joe McLaughlin gets in my centre back pairing post 1990, considering he was in a 1st Division winning side and then a regular in a successful Premier League season. The Ivo Den Biemans, Peter Grants were great but lacking top flight games and Darren Barr, David Weir were too often played at right back.

I’m going for Champions League Final 1999.

Falkirk 4-3 Partick Thistle Scottish Cup 1991

I dont think it’s that’s strange about Edinburgh. They’ll be okay by the end of the season.

I think he would be too erratic for a start in The Championship, but for L1, he starts for me.

We’re playing the next top 4 teams in the next 4 games, crucial part of the season, when we eventually get round to it.

Yep, it sure will be. A whole 17 days until our next league game now, which is frustrating. I’m not going down the lazy, not bothered about cups this season road but I don’t understand the scheduling of fixtures.

And thankfully that’s the case. I thought Edinburgh were stuffy, resolute and put in some good blocks etc. Not an end-to-end game of football of course but it wasn’t a walk in the park either, that would make for a long season too.

I think Edinburgh were dugshite, now I think they’ll be stuffy and more competitive. I think we saw that today under the new management, they were not dugshite..

What about Ageymann? He’s a greedy so an so but I think allowances should be made for him as he could make an impact.

Nesbitt over Lang as MotM was an injustice. Nesbitt was his usual mixture of good and ordinary, Lang was streets ahead in terms of performance.

Quite amusing when a character like McIndoe comes into the game. Adds a bit of spice to the game.

What a losers mentality you have. Miminum you should be coming out with is something like - hopefully we’ll try to be stuffy, hard to beat etc. Beating your team down like that, what is I the point?

What is it about boays from Edinburgh and there big, bold ways?? You have Presley and his thumping of the table, “we’ll not be relegated”. Hughes and his infamous rant at St Mirren, Ian Murray’s opening words at Edinburgh City and now this guy. Must be something in the water over there.

My fondest memories of him is his 91-93 period, just after we won the league and then a local hero signs up. I was only 9 but it was very exciting. I just wish Stainrod could’ve been used slightly better that season by JJ (maybe rested for a period) so we could’ve potentially got one full season out of him, finished stronger and, along with Crunchie, had a really great 91/92 season rather feeling it fell a bit short.

Just watch another interview, post Annan, where he says, “the days where teams come to the capital and take points off us are gone, Dave”. They got trounced the next game at home 1-5. He’s definitely going to be worth a watch every week (though I have a sneaky he might just get them up the table, if the players are on board with his methods).

No made up rivalry for me, just another 3 points will do for me!

It could be to do with both sets of fans having an understanding, even empathy, at having to endure some amount of dross over a number of years.

It’s called negative bias, which is generally a human trait. I think when it comes to being positive about a team/player/manager it’s perhaps more a case of being concise and to the point (What a game Morrison had to today or Spencer, cracking player, and that covers it) whereas picking the bones out of being negative tends to be much more nuanced and prolonged, especially to the depths we went too, and length of time. I reckon if we had a lengthy period of success, on and off the pitch, the number of posts on “The Falkirk Thread” would reduce a fair bit.