Old Bob Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Telfer has good ability but he goes missing for months at a time. His stats are decent from last season, but almost all of that was accumulated against East Fife and Dumbarton. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 42 minutes ago, ebobsboy said: With the competitive stuff coming up It'll be interesting to see if McGlynn brings in one or two this week, and hopefully lets a few go out. One thing I will say if it is Ugwu that is signed and deployed as a lone striker he's going to need a helluva lot of others chipping in with goals and assists. That sadly is glaringly lacking in this side unless it's addressed before the league season starts. We're going to have to get goals from across the midfield and attack unless we strike gold in the loan market. Can we potentially get 40 league goals between eg Ugwu, Oliver, McGuffie, Morrison and Nesbitt? Potentially but I think that's what would be required at a bare minimum. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 I don’t really get the Ugwu one. A player who’s record is decent and Morton fans on the whole wanted to keep him, but supposedly wanted to go down south. Why would he have to have a trial with us? He’s played for Mcglynn before as well? Genuinely feels like a mistaken identity case 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: We're going to have to get goals from across the midfield and attack unless we strike gold in the loan market. Can we potentially get 40 league goals between eg Ugwu, Oliver, McGuffie, Morrison and Nesbitt? Potentially but I think that's what would be required at a bare minimum. Still think we’ll be getting a loan striker such as Henderson or the big lad from Kilmarnock. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 I don’t really get the Ugwu one. A player who’s record is decent and Morton fans on the whole wanted to keep him, but supposedly wanted to go down south. Why would he have to have a trial with us? He’s played for Mcglynn before as well? Genuinely feels like a mistaken identity case [emoji848] Maybe it's Ethan Ross 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC55 FFC Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Well that Morton ticket site is a car crash to use. PATG on Sat then… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyBlueArmy1876 Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 TBF to Morton it's nice we are still getting our usual big team treatment of the WDE rather than getting punted in to the far end of the cow shed where the diddy teams get put 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Is Morton a decent day out on the train etc. Iv only ever went straight in and out in the car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC55 FFC Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Is Morton a decent day out on the train etc. Iv only ever went straight in and out in the car. Yes. We usually have a few in the town and then head over to Cappielow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Yes. We usually have a few in the town and then head over to Cappielow. Cheers. Dint think my child will be fussed for an hour in the car each way so might just take the chance to go on my own and have a wee day out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Ugwu would be an excellent signing for this level. I was a little miffed we didn't keep him last season and with hindsight we should've kept him as his replacement, Ethon Varian, was severely lacking in the goal department. Ugwu's key limitation is that he is slow. He has very good technique and control, and is an absolute unit of a man. Very difficult for CBs to deal with as he is stronger than them. Unfortunately this does mean he is liable to concede an annoying number of fouls, although often I felt the fouls given against him were unfair, and that he'd merely outmuscled the defender and hadn't done anything wrong. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegrass Bairn Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 57 minutes ago, Michael W said: Ugwu would be an excellent signing for this level. I was a little miffed we didn't keep him last season and with hindsight we should've kept him as his replacement, Ethon Varian, was severely lacking in the goal department. Ugwu's key limitation is that he is slow. He has very good technique and control, and is an absolute unit of a man. Very difficult for CBs to deal with as he is stronger than them. Unfortunately this does mean he is liable to concede an annoying number of fouls, although often I felt the fouls given against him were unfair, and that he'd merely outmuscled the defender and hadn't done anything wrong. Falkirk lacked a whole host of things last season, and one of them - in every single area of the pitch - was presence. Right through the spine of the team, we were far too lightweight, no dig, no energy, no effing heart. Sounds like Ugwu would at least be competitive, and that would be a welcome - and long overdue - change. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Bluegrass Bairn said: Falkirk lacked a whole host of things last season, and one of them - in every single area of the pitch - was presence. Right through the spine of the team, we were far too lightweight, no dig, no energy, no effing heart. Sounds like Ugwu would at least be competitive, and that would be a welcome - and long overdue - change. One thing McGlynn has going for him in that respect is that he will seldom end up signing a shitebag. Whilst his approach to the game has changed from 'industrial' to 'actually decent to watch', he still has a preference for grafters. Players that don't dig in will generally find themselves benched. Edited July 4, 2022 by Michael W 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syd Puddefoot Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 20 hours ago, Back Post Misses said: Telfer is a typical ex-OF kid who has got contract after contract on the back of “he was at Rangers/Celtic so he must be decent”. Falkirk have missed out the L1 playoffs the last two seasons. He was part of that - enough said. Be good at 5 a sides. Good on the ball, awful trying to chase back, gets pushed about and outpaced by bigger stronger part time players. Still has 'potential ' at 27. ' Will do well with better players around him ' tattooed on his chest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blame Me Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I can't be certain but is that Harry Burgoyne playing as trialist for Peterhead in their defeat to Dundee at the weekend 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believe The Hype Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, Blame Me said: I can't be certain but is that Harry Burgoyne playing as trialist for Peterhead in their defeat to Dundee at the weekend No. Looks nothing like him. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gav-ffc Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 59 minutes ago, Bluegrass Bairn said: Falkirk lacked a whole host of things last season, and one of them - in every single area of the pitch - was presence. Right through the spine of the team, we were far too lightweight, no dig, no energy, no effing heart. Sounds like Ugwu would at least be competitive, and that would be a welcome - and long overdue - change. Mcglynn has definitely seen how weak we were with his additions of Donaldson, Henderson, Mackie and McGinn who add some much needed physicality. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin James Left Knee Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Everyone is in the same situation it seems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62030282 Final sentence reads: 'Meanwhile, others were holding out for bigger clubs or higher wages as "they see the start of the season as the last week in July when the league starts".' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Myles Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 11 minutes ago, Kevin James Left Knee said: Everyone is in the same situation it seems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62030282 Final sentence reads: 'Meanwhile, others were holding out for bigger clubs or higher wages as "they see the start of the season as the last week in July when the league starts".' These issues could easily be solved to some extent by allowing a limited number of trialists in the group stages of the league cup. It's absolute madness that this hasn't been changed yet. The group stages were brought in to provide a competitive replacement for friendlies and yet you can't play players you're looking at signing. Typical of the clowns that run our game. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Kevin James Left Knee said: Everyone is in the same situation it seems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62030282 Final sentence reads: 'Meanwhile, others were holding out for bigger clubs or higher wages as "they see the start of the season as the last week in July when the league starts".' Got more than a feeling the end of the month will come down to a players auction. If there’s a time for the managers to show their worth, next three weeks is going to be interesting…… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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