Marshmallo Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Just now, badgerthewitness said: I Lewis & Dallison, for me, seem to have the most potential. Even Petrvicius should be able to a job, considering his pace. You're absolutely mwi? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Just now, Marshmallo said: You're absolutely mwi? I'm trying to be optimistic! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Back Post Misses Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'm trying to be optimistic!Dallison and Sammutt have the best pedigrees but have not shown much to back that up yet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Whilst bored at work today I was thinking about where we are as a club.You look at how well our support has held up in the Championship, the money we have brought in from player sales, concerts at the stadium, all things that should be bringing in revenue and wonder why as a club we seem to being going backwards at the moment.You then look at teams at the bottom end of the Premier who would love our support but seem to be progressing and wonder where we are going wrong.Does the blame rest with our board over the years. The stadium has been a disaster. We built a monstrosity of a main stand when we should have set out to build a much smaller complete stadium plus we have to pay a fortune every season in rent.I hope and pray that in another month or so we have clicked as a team and have started climbing the league and this post looks stupid but at the moment promotion looks a long way off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkirk_Bairn_1983 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 19 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said: Whilst bored at work today I was thinking about where we are as a club. You look at how well our support has held up in the Championship, the money we have brought in from player sales, concerts at the stadium, all things that should be bringing in revenue and wonder why as a club we seem to being going backwards at the moment. You then look at teams at the bottom end of the Premier who would love our support but seem to be progressing and wonder where we are going wrong. Does the blame rest with our board over the years. The stadium has been a disaster. We built a monstrosity of a main stand when we should have set out to build a much smaller complete stadium plus we have to pay a fortune every season in rent.I hope and pray that in another month or so we have clicked as a team and have started climbing the league and this post looks stupid but at the moment promotion looks a long way off. Unfortunately I've already started thinking about Hartley's replacement. Hopefully I look incredibly stupid in a month's time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Back Post Misses Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Whilst bored at work today I was thinking about where we are as a club.You look at how well our support has held up in the Championship, the money we have brought in from player sales, concerts at the stadium, all things that should be bringing in revenue and wonder why as a club we seem to being going backwards at the moment.You then look at teams at the bottom end of the Premier who would love our support but seem to be progressing and wonder where we are going wrong.Does the blame rest with our board over the years. The stadium has been a disaster. We built a monstrosity of a main stand when we should have set out to build a much smaller complete stadium plus we have to pay a fortune every season in rent.I hope and pray that in another month or so we have clicked as a team and have started climbing the league and this post looks stupid but at the moment promotion looks a long way off.Outside the undoubted good job the commercial dept seem to do the club is owned and still run by unambitious old men who don’t care enough any more. Until the ownership changes very else will IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Outside the undoubted good job the commercial dept seem to do the club is owned and still run by unambitious old men who don’t care enough any more. Until the ownership changes very else will IMO. Agree the commercial dept are doing a fantastic job, just a shame those that run the club aren't doing likewise. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Back Post Misses Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Agree the commercial dept are doing a fantastic job, just a shame those that run the club aren't doing likewise.[emoji106] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilostmyself Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I've thought of this a few times over the past few seasons. Are we really that hamstrung by the stadium? Is there anything that can be done about it? A smaller stadium like St Mirrens but with the same building quality as ours would have been ideal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairn Necessities Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 2 hours ago, badgerthewitness said: Indeed. I'm trying to get over my knee-jerk knickerwetting after the 1st half at Firhill & convince myself that, football being football, there are bound to be a couple of diamonds in that squad. Lewis & Dallison, for me, seem to have the most potential. Even Petrvicius should be able to a job, considering his pace. Will be interesting to see how we're doing after the first round of fixtures. I've got the absolute fear about this season. Even at this point. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roman_bairn Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I've thought of this a few times over the past few seasons. Are we really that hamstrung by the stadium? Is there anything that can be done about it? A smaller stadium like St Mirrens but with the same building quality as ours would have been ideal.Genuine question....and trying to be devils advocate here.Does the size of our stadium on that land determine the rental charges? Also would we have had the capacity for the small businesses that are renting the stadium to still do so?Finally, was the issue at the time when we were building not that the SPL wanted 10k capacity stadiums? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bejazz1 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'm sure it was 10k when we starting to build the main stand but it dropped to 6k the year after allowing to join the big boys in 2005/06What's happened to all the optimism on here, this thread is getting worse than OneF and COYB Facebook sites combined.Only 2 league games played and 36 to go!!Keep taking the pills [emoji381] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDust Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 4 hours ago, Bainsfordbairn said: TBH I would describe the reserve pool as seven ex FVFA graduates, two first teamers who may or may not be with us after the window closes and one other. Over the course of the season they'll presumably be supplemented by first team squad players who don't get a run out on a Saturday. Aka mess They'd be as well leaving players not playing hanging about looking for a game with pitch hires 1 hour ago, roman_bairn said: Finally, was the issue at the time when we were building not that the SPL wanted 10k capacity stadiums? It was lowered by the time we went up, we don't have 10k now with three stands, we went up with two stands and a tent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeBairn Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 8 hours ago, Falkirk_Bairn_1983 said: Unfortunately I've already started thinking about Hartley's replacement. Hopefully I look incredibly stupid in a month's time Can we replace the council with one daft enough to not charge us rent? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BendtnerBairn Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 I'm sure it was 10k when we starting to build the main stand but it dropped to 6k the year after allowing to join the big boys in 2005/06What's happened to all the optimism on here, this thread is getting worse than OneF and COYB Facebook sites combined.Only 2 league games played and 36 to go!!Keep taking the pills [emoji381]We only play 36 games a season. 9 x 4, son. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeBairn Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 7 minutes ago, BendtnerBairn said: We only play 36 games a season. 9 x 4, son. Even better, 34 league games left until the fun part of the season starts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stainrod Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 On 18/08/2018 at 10:31, Bairnardo said: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stainrod Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 If we lose to Queens on Sat I would like our man from falkirk TV to ask Hartley the question "do you think the squad you have assembled can win this league!" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairn Necessities Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 9 hours ago, bejazz1 said: What's happened to all the optimism on here It became silly when it emerged that we had been delivered a squad of utter w**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stainrod Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Undoubtably we are being held back by inept leadership. Appointing a committee might work in a bowling club but a football club needs a devoted leader with more money than sense. MR has lots of sense and will only put in money if its a loan but to be fair to him would you do any different. He and his cohorts quite rightly enjoy their Saturday club days out & if there is no white knight on the horizon then we had all better get used to championship mediocrity. Countless poor decisions including the stadium design were the responsibility of the current leadership. And whilst I don't doubt the current chairperson is a devoted fan I'm afraid that's not enough to bring to an end the pent up frustration at the lack of relative success when measured against results achieved by clubs who are not any bigger but have a stronger leader.(with a financial interest) Sacking a few more managers won't solve the problem but instead just paper over the rather obvious crack! We have had ten years of mediocrity for a very obvious reason and only when there's change at the top will there be hope below. In the meantime we should all be genuinely thankful for the frugality of our current leaders as at least they keep the club solvent and put in a power of unpaid work to achieve this. Having their own Saturday club is probably fair recompense for their efforts but don't expect the expected should be our mantra for now! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.