Relegator Ritchie
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34 minutes ago, mic_17_uk said:
From the man himself putting the Tidser debate to bed. He was told by M&M he would get his chance but would have to wait (see Connolly for the exact same chat) He immediately asked to leave. Seems to be his MO, but if he wants to play then fair enough. Laters.
He also says he's very fit but has had his fitness questioned throughout his career.
The last 20 mins of so are about falkirk. Actually quite enjoyed listening to the whole thing, albeit over a couple of days.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5q5eyVi3xse6mukrgeoAyr?si=Jk7WwVEpRBqgEQdEUiUE_QI enjoyed the interview too, thought it was a good listen. Tidser comes across as a very decent, honest lad.
M&M told him he’d get his chance. Anyone who honestly believes he was given that chance is kidding themselves on. He was brought in away to Montrose and did very well in a 2-3 win yet was back out the team again the following week. He never kicked a ball for us again.
I’m with Tidser on this. FAR too good a player to be sitting on his arse warming our bench in League 1 whilst dross like Robbie Leitch, McShane, Telfer and De Vita got game time ahead of him. No wonder he fu*ked off!
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45 minutes ago, roman_bairn said:
It’s actually championship winning form, but let’s not let that get in the way of a good story.....Any more of your p*sh and I’ll start red dotting again...
7 from 13 in League 1 isn’t anything to shout about in my opinion.
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1 hour ago, Proudtobeabairn said:
1 league defeat since taking over with the utter pish McKinnon left them with is as good as 99% of those applying for the job could do.
Overall - I think anyone claiming they don't deserve a full summer if they get us up is being deliberately stupid.
Depends which way you look at it. 1 league defeat sounds good when you’re trying to justify their record. The reality is that they’ve won only 7 league games from 13. Against the dross in this league, even with McKinnon’s team, that’s bang average.
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3 hours ago, roman_bairn said:
And what’s your solution to the problem?
We don’t have any alternative interested parties to my knowledge and given the last one I’d be concerned how much we can trust anyone now.
We don’t have the BtB option and there not going to raise 800k on the basis that much of the existing board remains in place and we stay in League One.
I’d say our best shot just now is to back the team we have just now (jeez I can’t stand some of the players we currently have), but spouting constant negativity isn’t going to change things for the better. It’s probably only going to continue to stifle our ability to progress from the ashes we are currently in...
Ps. I’m returning your red dot..
Well I think we’ve all established that the problem is the cancerous MSG, they need to sell up and leave before the Club can even think about making progress.
There are fans who point blank refuse to return whilst the MSG are still involved at the Club. For these fans, that relationship is broken beyond repair. If the MSG we’re prepared to sell their shares and allow new ownership, I genuinely believe there would be investment opportunities. Others can likely back that up. But the MSG are being stubborn bast*rds as usual, thinking they know best. If verbal and online abuse isn’t enough to shift them, then the only way I can see is through empty stands. Clearly 3,500+ home gates isn’t helping that cause though. If more fans boycotting affects this summer’s playing budget then so be it. I can live with that because the long term gain will far outweigh the short term pain. Fans need to think about the bigger picture rather than just the next season. Personally, I don’t think we’re ready for promotion to the Championship anyway. Another massive rebuilding job is required if we do get promoted, so I’d gladly accept another year in League 1 if it meant new owners, new management, and everyone pulling in the same direction again.
Spouting constant negativity as you put it might not be everyone’s cup of tea. I get that. But for me personally, it’s my way of dealing with it and letting those in charge know that their actions will never be forgotten, or forgiven.
Ps. Nae mare red dots.
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2 hours ago, roman_bairn said:
PS. Looking forward to Relegator Ritchies usual red dot as soon as we say anything positive about the club. Real supporter? Aye right....
Aye, nice try!
There was a time when a comment like that would’ve given me high blood pressure. Thankfully nowadays, I don’t feel the need to justify myself to people of your ilk. Anyone who knows a thing about me will vouch for how much Falkirk means to me. That’s the reason I won’t accept it being ran into the ground any longer!
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3 hours ago, ebobsboy said:
If we don't go up I can't see M&M being tasked with it.
And nor fu*king should they be tasked with it, but nothing this Club does surprises me.
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7 hours ago, roman_bairn said:
RR in most predictable post of the day shocker.
Had nothing positive to say about M&M whilst there’s been a clear improvement, and whilst there’s some valid concern over some of the decisions taken yesterday, apparently they are now a complete waste of a wage but Tidser wasn’t?
Even more baffling......Predictable in that I’m not part of this “BSLM” love in? I’ve had nothing positive to say about them because there is fu*k all positive to say. They should never have been appointed in the first place. It was a desperate last throw of the dice by a collective group of failures in an attempt to get the fans off their back. Unfortunately plenty have lapped it up.
Also, I never said anywhere that M&M were a complete waste of a wage. I was questioning those who thought Tidser was, especially when you compare him to the dross we’ve been left with. The January transfer window was fu*king dreadful, and that’s on M&M.
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1 hour ago, bairn88 said:
If we don’t go up that January window needs looked at. It was crucial we added a few really decent quality signings - Hartley managed it in his first season ffs, it is doable. Instead we added de vita (genuinely hopeless), hall (I think a worse defender than Durnan), Todd (injury prone and not as good as longridge or Connolly, but an okay squad player) and lost a few, including tidser who never got a fair shot. A laughable shitshow. M and M need questioned over it
M&M more concerned with trying to be fu*king banter merchants and a hit with the Falkirk maws. Dumbarton did them a massive favour today, Tuesday was almost shit or bust for them. With the exception of one or two performances (Raith and Hearts), they’ve done nothing that you or I couldn’t do. The January window was a joke. And there’s folk who thought Tidser was a waste of a wage? As clueless as the 2 clowns in the dugout.
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26 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
Well you get f**k off with that. I was taken to Brockville on my Dads shoulders in the 60’s and I won’t be supporting any other team soon. So take your lecture and shove it right up your arse.Well said. What an arsehole!
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27 minutes ago, FalkirkLad said:
so basically either washed up journeyman or managers doing absolutely bang average in the league we are in. NOICE.
Wouldn’t call any of them journeymen, other than possibly Coyle who’s still managed at a far higher level than we’re currently at. The only managers in League 1 doing “absolutely bang average” are our own. But hey, if draws with East Fife, Stranraer, Airdrie, Arbroath and last minute winners at Montrose is your thing, don’t let me rain on your parade. Thanks for your valuable contribution, “NOICE”.
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25 minutes ago, roman_bairn said:
Just what the club needs. Another journeyman manager to lead a bunch of journeymen.
No way would we be better off with your suggestions....
Only in your opinion obviously...
I answered your question fully. Didn’t expect you to agree with it so we’ll just leave it at that.
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22 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
Not if paying him off cost a lot less than it would have to retain him for the remainder of his contract. A contract that he'd made it clear he didn't want to honour if he wasn't starting every week. The money saved could then go towards the priorities for the January window, which M&M told us in an FFCV interview was to keep the players we could have lost. And who'd already made far more of a contribution to the team than Tidser.
Speaking hypothetically of course....
Fair point, but I’d be very surprised if Tidser willingly walked away with buttons. Would also say it was difficult for him to make a contribution to the team when he was being frozen out for what would appear to have been non-footballing reasons. I‘ll take some convincing that he wasn’t the most talented player in the League let alone at Falkirk.
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1 hour ago, roman_bairn said:
I’ve asked you this before but so far you haven’t had the bottle to respond.
Who would have come in and done a better job than M and M currently are? ....I don’t recall you ever asking me that question - if you did then I’ve unknowingly missed it. It’s certainly got nothing to do with lacking bottle so wind your neck in.
How long a list would you like as to who I think would’ve done a better job thus far? I’ll always maintain that I think Latapy would be a very good appointment for Falkirk but that ship has probably sailed given his location. Other names I’d have offered the job to before M&M include (in no particular order) Darren Young, Danny Lennon, James McDonaugh, Jim McIntyre, Ian Murray, Owen Coyle, Joe McLaughlin...that’s just off the top of my head.
Admittedly, very few names in that list that I’d call spectacular but that is an indication of how low we’ve sunk. That’s also without considering any candidates from down South or even abroad who might have shown an interest , but as you know fine well, I’ve no way of knowing who applied so can’t answer fully.
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17 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said:
Quite. If it’s down to anything it’s down to the fans who turned up and made their feelings known with chants, banners and demonstrations.
Why not do that every home game then, but without 3,500 paying to get into the Stadium? I’d be up for attending all home matches and repeating what happened on the last day of last season. I’d like to think they’d soon get the message and fu*k off!
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19 minutes ago, Bula Bairn said:
This customer patter really is chronic. Most of the board are gone, manager's been sacked and we've got a new chairman so there has been change and none of it's down to anyone staying away.
Most of the Board were never the main problem and the new Chairman will be as much of a puppet as that the last one was. Perhaps Thomson no longer being on the Board is the party line the Club are toeing, but the word is he’s still lingering around the Boardroom like a rotten fart and looking into a football strategy. God fuc*ing help us!
McKinnon had to go but I’d question the ambition shown given who they replaced him with. I’m far from convinced.
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14 minutes ago, Bantabairn said:
Thought as much, LM interview last week was a bit concerning, if the post is true, would imagine that we’re going with the squad, with the possibility of one still to come in. Fck knows how much we’ve squandered with Tidser Bell etc
It makes you wonder what the value was in getting rid of Tidser. Surely it would’ve made much more sense having him as part of the squad if we’re not replacing him.
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2 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:
Equally, there has to be a clear objective. What is it? We wanted Houston out, we got it. We wanted Hartley out, we got it. We wanted McKinnon out, we got it. We wanted Campbell out, we got it. We wanted Lang out, we got it. Who do we want out next? What will be the mark of a boycott's success?
The MSG. The are, and have always been, the root problem. The rest are merely puppets.
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2 hours ago, AGPar said:
You're right. And that's the issue. Because there are countless posters on here who profess to be desperate, absolutely choking to see the back of the MSG and their lackeys on the board. And then, in the very next sentence, go on to criticize those supporters who have taken the one course of action which might, if enough others had the balls to do it, result in some kind of tangible change they claim to desire so much. Park all this "real fan" bollocks. They are customers of a business whose owners openly, nakedly despise them. And they've exercised their right as a customer to stop funding that business. It's really not a difficult concept. And yet they are the ones whose credentials as a "real fan" are being called into question? If only there were more like them.
The ‘like’ button does this post absolutely no justice.
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Dear God...some people truly deserve the Club we have right now.
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6 minutes ago, champions said:
The only person you're showing contempt to is RR by telling him that you'll "let" him respond.
You want a team to support, praise, criticise etc but you're not willing to help fund it,, can't have it both ways.
Can’t argue with stupid...
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2 hours ago, champions said:
So you'd rather attend away games only, and therefore strengthening our competitors and weakening the club you support?
You're fully entitled to do what you want, I just find the regurgitation of self justification on why people dont attend all rather tedious.
Absolutely. If starving the Club of cash gets rid of the cancer that is the MSG then 100%. We are going nowhere under that shower of incompetent failures. For Falkirk to get back to where it belongs, with the fans, Board, owners and playing staff all singing together from the same hymn sheet, then change is an absolute must. Relationships are well and truly broken beyond repair.
Talking of tedious. What I find more tedious than anything is circa 4,000 fans toddling along to home games and handing over their money to those responsible for our demise. The longer that continues, the longer our club will remain fu*ked!
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6 minutes ago, champions said:
Cry me a river ffs with all this non attendance talk.
Aye your right. Let’s just pay our money and clap.
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10 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
Righto.
A club I'm also a member of.
My lad is trying to get me to take him on Saturday night, so I'm actively looking for an excuse not to go. It's totally grim.
You’re in exactly the same boat as me mate but keep fighting the good fight. I’ve got a son who’s too young to understand the politics behind why we’re no longer stepping foot in TFS or buying any merchandise from the shop. He keeps asking to go on Saturday so he can see us “play a big team for a change” and it’s an extremely sad state of affairs that I feel I have say no. I can be every bit as stubborn as p***ks like Alexander and Ritchie though and I won’t give in. It’s just unfortunate we’re making these sacrifices whilst so many others continue to cough up and let the MSG away with what they’ve done. Its also likely to be an unpopular opinion, but if you offered me League 1 football again next season but under new ownership and with a complete clear out from top to bottom, I’d snap your hand off right now. Perhaps that is what it will take for fans to finally see the bigger picture and take action.
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2 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
Would you have gone had it been at Tynecastle?Absolutely. Just like I went to Arbroath in the last round. I know the point you’re going to make, that gate money from cup ties are split 50/50, but my stance is that I won’t be back at TFS whilst these cancerous bast*rds are still at the Club. I’m content at withholding my ST money for the league campaign. Away games only.
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Bricking it incase the h*n rats die twice in his lifetime.