Tea and Busquets

Totally agree. The defender puts his hands on Donaldson’s waist in the box. Is it soft? Absolutely. Is it a penalty? By the letter of the law , Yes. The uproar from Hamilton fans and Dunfermline fans () on twitter is laughable.

One thing I realised tonight that makes it even more madness to change to a formation we aren’t used to is that we had little time to actually train to adapt to it. We played on Tuesday, were off Wednesday so only could practice it Thursday and Friday which is no time really to learn a totally alien formation. Would prefer we did the changing of the team next week in what’s sure to be an interesting game on a cow field.

Let’s never see your 3-4-1-2 again John. Clearly all to suit Jordan Allan.

I don’t buy the “this shows the subs aren’t good enough”. They were on a hiding to nothing either btw and it was actually detrimental to them. 6 changes to any team usually results in that team playing poorly. If we had made maybe 2 or 3 I don’t think we would have been as poor. The change of formation was frankly ludicrous. The only thing it confirmed to me, that I’ve been saying for months, Allan isn’t the answer. He cannot play up front himself and only works in a two. MacIver was a massive miss too.

Don’t give a flying hoot. That’s 2 points dropped to me.

Another thing he’s potentially fucked right up is the feel good factor that’s been built around this team and the club. If we lose this, you know what it’s going to be like. Everyone will be up in arms losing to team full of loan players and rightly so. There was no need to potentially unwrap all the hard work that’s been done.

If we had started with Bisland we could have kept him on and brought Morrison on instead of Yeats. Edinburgh have been scoring even when they were losing. I just can’t understand McGlynn today. He should rightly be questioned.

Absolutely disgraceful from McGlynn. Just what the f**k did he think the was doing? We’ve worked fucking hard to get 11 points clear and then he fucks about with the team? He could have done it next week. Words cannot express how angry I am, as should the board be. We need to get as many points as possible and quickly and he does this. Get this “we need everyone to get game time”. No , the fucking earn their place in the 11 and until then they’ll have to wait. Fuming.

2-0 Accies

Please win on Saturday though boys

It’s only taken us 6 years but we’ve finally been given a performance from Hartley that we’ve all wanted.

Two games in a row

That was utter domination from the start. I know from the minute I saw him up front himself that’s the performance we’d see from Burrell. Another team coming with negative tactics, despite Hartley saying in the press it was only 1 loss in 17, to hit us on the counter. Michael Doyle is a pathetic football too, diving to try and buy free kicks. That second half we were a total pleasure. Hartley was his usual self who cannot handle defeat. No shake of hands with our players or the referee just straight up the tunnel. A pathetic rat of man.

MacIver has been excellent. His movement as it’s been said has been top drawer. Was only a matter of time before we scored I felt. More please as Cove will get a chance from a set piece or counter.

With Hamilton looking to further strengthen this month I’m hoping we get the points on board to create a lead that no matter who they sign it won’t matter!

Don’t think it matters too much. I think this week is fairly pivotal until the mid Feb. We ‘could’ be 11 points clear by tomorrow. Then you’d imagine we’ll be too strong for Edinburgh and you’re hoping Cove may get a draw or so on Saturday at Hamilton. That could potentially open up a 13/14 point gap. All ifs buts and maybes.

As long as you guys don’t sign anyone before Tuesday evening . In all seriousness how are you guys set up for Tuesday? A lot of injuries? Confident of getting something or fearing the worst?

Entirely down to poor leadership of the club who hire people who clearly aren’t good enough (Paul Sheerin, Martin Rennie both who we said were ‘refreshing’ similarly to what some of your supporters said about Bartley). We finally appointed someone with experience and know how rather than someone who may or may not work out. Seems like your board and now doing the same. First Willie Gibson and then Marvin Bartley.

Don’t think it’s fair on Nicky tbf. Yes he’s had his moments but so has long (Partick away, DU home etc). Both are good keepers but Nicky had the gloves. I prefer Nicky’s height if I’m honest too. Not a great approach to be changing keepers frequently either.

Just checking our results from the 3rd quarter last year and didn’t realise we had won 8 from 9 games with our only loss coming against Dunfermline. Something similar this quarter and we’ll be well on our way.

It was Callum Erskine who coaches in the academy. I believe, Alex our normal GK coach was ill.

Don’t want to sound patronising either but I also echo the comments by fellow Bairns, Queens fans deserve so much better especially considering the distance you have to travel for away games. That is one of the most negative performances I’ve seen from a team at TFS. You even had a full half to come back at us and never really did. I heard a Falkirk fan on Clyde SSB hammering Bartley for his tactics, and thankfully we don’t need to watch that every week.

Much better second half. That’s the best I’ve seen Nesbitt in a Falkirk top, simply immense. Defensively we were excellent too, just a shame we didn’t get the second or third goal we deserved. Miller unplayable too again. Win on Tuesday and it’s an 11 point gap with Cove going to Hamilton on Saturday and us playing Edinburgh.

Morrison having an awful game. Maybe we could learn after 3 games that crossing it constantly won’t work? Just food for thought.

The main thing today is 3 points. Every game against QOS under Bartley hasn’t been pretty. Hopefully we do whatever it takes to get the points and put pressure on Hamilton.