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12 minutes ago, Springfield said:

Hopeful that the injuries suffered at weekend are not to serious, losing our No 1 GK, and dare I say it, one of the most improved players so far, would be a significant setback. 

Agreed. We potentially go into the weekend with our number 1 goalie out and 3 centre half’s, McKay, Henderson and Watson crocked. Might be forced into playing Mackie in the centre with Donaldson and McCann at left back.

Peterhead have conceded 17 goals in 6 games so far this season so if we don’t take goals off them I’ll be really concerned.

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In the aftermath of Saturday I was keen to bin Nesbitt but now I'd be inclined to throw him out to the right wing for Saturday.

I'd persist with playing McGuffie instead of Morrison and dispense with the inverted wingers we saw. 

Hetherington is still a lost cause.

I'll get my email into the club with that suggestion as soon as I get my tactics sheet sorted 😉

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10 hours ago, Proudtobeabairn said:

Someone earlier mentioned we've had the biggest budget in the league (or at least one of them) almost every year in League 1.  

Every year we've wasted that advantage.  This season recruitment started well but we're now frantically hoping Burrell, Lawal and Kennedy exceed expectation otherwise our season could be over before its begun.  Other teams supporters have already told us not to expect much from Kennedy.  Who will take the blame if they don't make an impact?  2 of them are inexperienced and all are massive gambles. 

Kennedy & Henderson are crocked, Donaldson, McGinn, Yeats and Mackie look decent enough and jury out on PJ Morrison.  Oliver and Alegria look like poor signings.  The 3 who haven't really played take McGlynns signings to 12.   No manager would get them all right but from an experienced manager you'd be looking for at least 9 or 10 out of 12 to be consistent starters.  We shouldn't need to be playing all the sh*te from last season with 12 new faces in once all fit as long as the new guys are better.  

Its frustrating watching guys like Mochrie score for the Fifers on Saturday while we're left to hope that untried, untested young guys will rescue our season in the first week of August. 

I don't blame anyone for believing in McGlynn (god knows we need to hope!) but personally I'm not convinced he's as good as we'd like to believe.  Hope I'm wrong.  

Yeah bit surprising considering Falkirk had first dibs on him apparently, United only wanted 50% of his wages ( no loan fee) i heard so it wasn't a money issue.

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23 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:

We had not lost a goal from open play in 5 competitive games till yesterday. That shows we have improved. We lost goals yesterday which were a mixture of bad luck and poor defending.  Donaldson, Henderson and Mackie would play in every other side in the league. 
Get your crowing in early. Long season. We were awful 2nd half yesterday. I genuinely think Airdrie I saw yesterday were better last season. I am sure you can play better. 


So we were humped 4-0 by an Airdrie side, who are by your own admission, not as good as the Airdrie side of last season (who finished close to 30 points above us) and you’re still trying to put a positive spin on it? The defending on Saturday was up there with the worst of last season. 

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7 hours ago, Bairn in Exile said:

Wonder who this is - a new-ish account who joined in January to praise the current board? No agenda here, I guess.

NO - I am happy to tell you who I am if you wish, if you look at my posts I have mostly put up information about FSS with the odd personal view about the football thrown in. If the new Board get it wrong then I will happily criticise them.

And it is obvious who most people on here are - I could identify at least 7 people I know personally here just from their obsessions. If I had my way I would stop all anonymity on the internet - it only causes toxicity when people don't have to be identified with the things they write.

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17 minutes ago, AdamAnt said:


... The defending on Saturday was up there with the worst of last season. 

Not sure we should expect any less to be honest. We've had and continue to have zero consistency in defensive selections from week-to-week and that must have an effect.

Yeats was in on Saturday instead of Williamson and we have shuffled for various reasons already this season CB pairings. It was the same last season and season before. 

It seems the only nailed on positions are in our ineffectual midfield and it's killing us.

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24 minutes ago, Blame Me said:

Not sure we should expect any less to be honest. We've had and continue to have zero consistency in defensive selections from week-to-week and that must have an effect.

Yeats was in on Saturday instead of Williamson and we have shuffled for various reasons already this season CB pairings. It was the same last season and season before. 

It seems the only nailed on positions are in our ineffectual midfield and it's killing us.

I still question if keeping on Kennedy is the right thing to do considering the amount of time he's out for unless of course we aren't paying anything towards having him which is doubtful. We could always bring him back in January once he'd proven his fitness. Given our current injury list it seems strange to lengthen it further with a player we could simply send back and replace.

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7 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:

I still question if keeping on Kennedy is the right thing to do considering the amount of time he's out for unless of course we aren't paying anything towards having him which is doubtful. We could always bring him back in January once he'd proven his fitness. Given our current injury list it seems strange to lengthen it further with a player we could simply send back and replace.

To the best of my knowledge he is back at Rangers just now and will return to us once the injury has healed. 

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3 minutes ago, Kevin James Left Knee said:

To the best of my knowledge he is back at Rangers just now and will return to us once the injury has healed. 

I was going to say, I don't have any knowledge of this particular situation, but I'd be flabbergasted if he was with us being treated considering the physio and rehab resources Rangers will have compared to us.

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16 minutes ago, Kevin James Left Knee said:

To the best of my knowledge he is back at Rangers just now and will return to us once the injury has healed. 

 I'm not saying we are treating him what I'm saying is we are obviously keeping him as a loan though and the money involved for that. Not sure whether we are paying it just now but it will be set aside in the budget and preventing us bringing someone else in to replace him whilst he gets fit at some point.  Couple of weeks is one thing but 8 weeks is a virtually a couple of months and then he has to get up to speed and his injury record ain't great as it is. Meanwhile mochrie is scoring for Dunfermline and Jameson is playing well for Airdrie. At the end of the day it's one of the reasons why we're having to start the 4 players of the apocalypse.

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Discussing Saturdays game in general about where the club is heading, over a couple pints last night.
It’s a given we’re still haemorrhaging wages on absolute shite, which has/continues to impact us greatly, we’ve obviously found no takers for these charlatans.

M&S have brought in decent defenders, albeit injuries are adding up. What the agreed concern was that apart from McGlynn from Hibs, there’s a lot of uncertainty with the forward players brought in. 
Do players that sign with our competitors simply afraid to sign for us? Or are we not interested? 
Following McGlynns  pre match interview and unless Im wrong, it looks like that we’re at the numbers now.

As said critical few weeks that May shape our next few years….maybe our existence?

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1 hour ago, Kevin James Left Knee said:

NO - I am happy to tell you who I am if you wish, if you look at my posts I have mostly put up information about FSS with the odd personal view about the football thrown in. If the new Board get it wrong then I will happily criticise them.

And it is obvious who most people on here are - I could identify at least 7 people I know personally here just from their obsessions. If I had my way I would stop all anonymity on the internet - it only causes toxicity when people don't have to be identified with the things they write.

Couldn't care less who you are bud but I look forward with bated breath to your future posts criticising the board. 

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On 05/08/2022 at 20:28, Grangemouth Bairn said:

Is it likely he’ll sign ? He’s only 30 so I’m guessing there’s something far wrong if that’s the offers he’s getting. I’m guessing the heart condition has really impacted his fitness. It’s a real shame as the boy was a very talented footballer.

No idea how likely he is to join. Just know he was in there Tuesday and Thursday last week training, he was in conversation with Andy Bannerman who is normally in charge of contracts when it comes to new players with them although that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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Before I say more, I am not in the camp that sees McGlynn as a brilliant manager, but I certainly don’t think he is down there with the likes of Sheerin and Rennie. I am fully on board that right now, he is the type of manager we need.

I do not buy into him being a turnaround specialist for clubs in trouble. There is simply no track record to support that. He has won L1 once, and he been awarded L1 once. He has improved RR, and he has also taken RR backwards.

As to how he has spent our budget, then I fully agree with the approach of fixing that defence first. That’s where the money has gone, and we haven’t seen enough of his first picks to be certain, but I think it should work out. Midfield should be better as we reduce the sand dancer content, and have a defensive mid worthy of the name in place.

The attack has received little attention, and we are functioning on a wing and a prayer, but come on, we certainly weren’t going to get everything on our wish list.

Saturday was a bit of a kick in the nuts because we all bought into “we won’t score many, we won’t concede many” To have that turned into “we won’t score any, and we will concede many” was a deja vu shit pie no-one wanted a slice of.

As the man said, it’s the hope that kills you, and for now that’s all we have to cling to (again).

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Looking at what's potentially available on loan from the scottish premiership I think if we can only make one more signing we'd be better off signing ourselves a centre midfielder on loan.

Archie Meekison's not really had a sniff at Dundee United, Dylan Tait's the same at Hibernian, Charlie Gilmour or Cammy Ballantyne from St Johnstone,    Dylan Reid at St Mirren.

At right back your options are a lot more limited and although Williamson's torture I think the middle of the park is where we lose most of our games.

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13 hours ago, Shodwall cat said:

Recruitment looks slightly better in that not all of our signings are shit but we're still missing out on players that should've been getting picked up . Ballantyne for a start. Feck me we should know all about him and yet he signs for a league one club with a smaller budget than we have.  The best youngsters seem to always end up elsewhere like the Jameson's and mochries and every other side in the league seems to have a player that can stick the ball in the net save us despite us again having a sizeable budget.  Have we ever put in bids for any of the strikers in this league and offered them a decent wage rise to come to us or are we just hoping to get lucky on a loan deal or unknown from down south as it would seem. It's frustrating that we are constantly getting outdone in the recruitment department by the likes of Airdrie and Montrose.

A factor could be the player churning over the last few seasons. Potential signings will be influenced by what has gone on in the past and in this financial climate job security is a premium consideration.

Talk about getting rid of contracted players and writing off new signings being good examples.

The club desperately needs a stable squad but our reputation hinders that from being achieved.

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2 hours ago, Shodwall cat said:

 I'm not saying we are treating him what I'm saying is we are obviously keeping him as a loan though and the money involved for that. Not sure whether we are paying it just now but it will be set aside in the budget and preventing us bringing someone else in to replace him whilst he gets fit at some point.  Couple of weeks is one thing but 8 weeks is a virtually a couple of months and then he has to get up to speed and his injury record ain't great as it is. Meanwhile mochrie is scoring for Dunfermline and Jameson is playing well for Airdrie. At the end of the day it's one of the reasons why we're having to start the 4 players of the apocalypse.

Don't know the ins and outs but I assume that as Kennedy was injured with us we don't have the option to return him and pay nothing.  I expect we have to pay whatever fee we've agreed with Rangers until the end of the agreement regardless of whether he's injured or not.  

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12 minutes ago, Proudtobeabairn said:

Don't know the ins and outs but I assume that as Kennedy was injured with us we don't have the option to return him and pay nothing.  I expect we have to pay whatever fee we've agreed with Rangers until the end of the agreement regardless of whether he's injured or not.  

Rangers are paying his wages whilst he is unavailable. Info came indirectly via Kenny Jamieson.

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