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For balance: Stokes was a great player but by all accounts since is a questionable character ... and he did play for Livingston!

The working practices here are mind boggling . Genuinely making no judgement as this might be standard practice everywhere but an observation I'd have is the match day seems to be the bulk of intensive, time-sensitive work and theoretically where the most ROI is - stream, audio and replays - so why wouldn't you A) pay commensurate to recognise that B) put the most time and expertise into that "product".

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate that there is a rush to get the highlights out asap but wonder if there is a compromise - just put out the goals in the evening - and then publish the full highlights Sunday morning. I think we'd all agree that quality over speed is what we really want as the outcome.

Cannot wait for the crystal clear highlights . Sorry @LeodhasXD!

Unfortunately not The main clock tower remains albeit in a parlous state. There is a display within the base of the Carronade cannon which CIW was famous for. I think it's 'maintained' by a local group but even the newer buildings that were built where the original Carron works frontage was demolished have fallen into disrepair. The CIW site is used by various businesses so is privately held.

Not to mention when King George IV visited too. Not that I'm a monarchist but this was at a time when the royals didn't need to justify their status by opening libraries.

The '88 video captures a point in time when much of Scottish society was changing and as we see now, many towns and cities even now have seen much, much steeper decline than Falkirk. However, bear in mind that prior to the 80's Falkirk could be considered an industrial powerhouse with lots of heavy industry - some of the remnants appear in the video - but globalisation and government put paid to much of it. Thinking of Falkirk now it's actually been quite robust for much of my lifetime and we should look proudly on the heritage we have sadly lost.

Indeed. Cash is always the root of whatever the club wants to improve but what skillset and experience/expertise is required and what goals outwith the obvious aim of promotions do posters think the club should be focussed on. Open question to all just out of interest

@Dave McInally we can probably all agree there is a player there, he just doesn't work in this team. A player like Ola will divide opinion everywhere - I've been a cheerleader for Nesbitt from day dot and you know how others feel and felt about him until fairly recently. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

Much of this for me. Oliver, Allan; Ageyman and even McGinn to an extent afforded minutes when their previous outings hadn't been stellar or were playing through pain and yet we couldn't find minutes for a player who needed development as we all saw. Regardless he's gone, we move on.

Hopefully not. Definitely a player in there and sad to see him go as he's different to what we have but not consistent enough to start every week.

Think I may have called Allan's move last week I am available for lottery numbers this week too! YMMV

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Shown like that it's actually cover for Donaldson where we're weakest as there isn't a natural right-sided CB as cover. Henderson/Mackie could cover both McCann or Lang.

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A prime example of ignoratio elenchi

Wish you lot would make your mind up! One week Rankin is out of his depth and couldn't pick his nose and the next it's players with bad attitudes - who might disagree with said managers opinion - downing tools

That's all well and good but I don't think anyone could have foreseen how bad Bonnyriggs was and where would we have gotten a playable grass pitch with the weather as it had been, in advance. I don't think playing on grass is necessarily an issue and I would expect Forthbank to be night-and-day, even at this stage, in comparison to Bonnyrigg's.

Simple fact now is any mistake against Alloa and the knives really will be out. Going away is the real, mental test for these guys and at the moment we need a result - and preferably a clean sheet - this coming Saturday to steady the horses.

Wonder how they feel about Sam Long then, considering he's kept a clean sheet once in 4 and we've now conceded 4 in 2 and ended our run Alloa's match analyst doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to work out he's a weak link and make him a target if he plays next week.

You're basing this on one game - which we won - over the evidence of Longs last 4 outings . Wild as I can only point to two errors Hogarth made which led to goals. Others were poor team goals that any 'keeper would lose.

Do you mean that the team who started against EC were pencilled in for starting against BR until they played themselves out of contention?

Aye it was JS who said it didn't pan out once policing costs were factored in for the other semi. However, we should have had enough to win that game yesterday. You can't absolve yesterdays howlers just because it's not economical!

I've got no qualms with the pitch yesterday to be honest. At Brockville we'd use that to our advantage back in the day. What irks me about yesterday was that Bonnyrigg didn't really master it either. The difference in the end was the "quality" from set-pieces which we didn't manage to get Lang, Hendo, MacIver or Donaldson onto at all. They were over-hit or under cooked. Chuck in Longs performance and without that in previous cup games it's a replay when they happened.

Long ran to the linesman but everyone looked pretty resigned to the outcome at that stage.