Numbers_One_To_Eleven Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 6 hours ago, Long Suffering Bairn said: While we will have the occasional honour, have a great season every now and again (more likely again than now), win a league every 15-20 years, win a cup every 70 years or so, the harsh truth is that we are never going to be as good a team as any of us would like. In the scheme of things we are a relatively small club with a relatively small stadium in an average town with extremely modest finances. It has always been this way and it probably always will. Yes, in an ideal world we should be in the lower reaches of the Premier league along side the likes of Motherwell, Dundee, Kilmarnock, etc. We have been before, we probably will be again sometime. In the meantime, there's no point feeling aggrieved and angry (not saying you are, but many of our fans are right now). Life is too short for all that. I blame my dad for lifting me over the turnstiles at Brockville decades ago. Little did I know what I was letting myself in for all these years later. COYB. Without knowing you obviously, I’m going to guess this mindset wasn’t as strong going into the game last night. We’ve been on a very good run going into a massive six-pointer so confidence and motivation was high, to perform at a decent level and maybe pick up a result anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Duck Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 23 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said: Your back on the Donaldson bandwagon I see. It was Henderson who was picking up Breen. There’s no escaping the fact that Donaldson was absolutely garbage last night. It was the worst performance I’ve seen from him. His distribution, which is normally a strength, was shite and he kept giving the ball away. Thats not a “bandwagon”. He’s been our strongest CB all season. Just not last night. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latapythelegend Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 28 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said: Your back on the Donaldson bandwagon I see. It was Henderson who was picking up Breen. The set piece was a result of Donaldson backing off and letting their winger get a ridiculously easy attempt at goal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just a bairn Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 48 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Tough not to feel down after a game like that, but I dont feel the need to rant and rave or pick anyone out aside from chucking the second goal in. That was a really cut and dried case of the better team winning the game. Dunfermlines points total indicates that they are the best in the league, but we doubted that due to their performances v us. We finally seen it in that second half lastnight, why they are the ones who will go up automatically. Agree with all of this and posted similar on the match thread. McGlynn in his interview clearly hurting but trying not to put too much emphasis on individual mistakes and/or blaming individuals. I think he’s totally right to do this. Our season cannot end after a pumping by our biggest rivals when there is still so much at stake, and the final goal of promotion is still the same. Personally, I’m not overly bothered about getting to the semi at that shitehole of a stadium. What I am interested in is us keeping up our momentum for the rest of the season’s league campaign. A one-off cup game at home is probably one of the best chances we could have to lift the spirits of the team and fans. We’re not suddenly a terrible league 1 team overnight, and we’ve done more than enough since the turn of the year to suggest we could take care of any of the teams below us over two legs. The resilience the team has been much more evident, with us coming back from losing positions on multiple occasions. Some folk have mentioned on social media that we don’t have bottle - I completely disagree with that to be honest. We might not be the best team in the league but this team still has something about them that shouldn’t be ignored. We just need to try and back them as well as we can to get them over the line. Bit of a tangent - apologies! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 McPake got his team spot on, took the width away and although a relatively even first forty five, we produced a very below par second forty five. So many players playing wrong passes, so many mistakes to mention made it an easy three points. Disappointing result, and can’t see our neighbours loosing it now. We’ve made good progress this season and if truth be told we’re maybe still two/three players off being the top table team. It would be harsh making to many judgments after a fine run of results, so we park this result and get the preparations in place for Mondays cup game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 (edited) Thought the two full backs were poor all night. Morrison & Kennedy we’re out too wide, hugging the touch line, leaving Oliver isolated & the 3 in the middle never managed to impose themselves on the game. Losing the 1st goal, whether it crosses the line, or not, made it doubly tough. But where to start on the 2nd, it was a complete gift from the moment Morrison chose to pass it back, with forwards close by in the box! In the end, they just didn’t look like coming close to scoring. Not enough invention or movement. Edited March 8, 2023 by kiddy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers_One_To_Eleven Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 I wasn’t at the game but the shape looked all wrong with Hendo dropping to the bench (for whatever reason). The back four with McGinn and Hendo winning the midfield scraps has surely been the nucleus for our success and that wasn’t a factor last night. Just as a side note, there’s a lot of acceptance on here that it’s the play-offs. That’s probably going to be the case but there is still 27 points to play for with a home game against Dunfermline to come too. It’s not completely all over if we can go back to what we were doing before with the 4-2-3-1. Who knows, we could take it to the last game and you never know on the day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 15 minutes ago, Just a bairn said: Agree with all of this and posted similar on the match thread. McGlynn in his interview clearly hurting but trying not to put too much emphasis on individual mistakes and/or blaming individuals. I think he’s totally right to do this. Our season cannot end after a pumping by our biggest rivals when there is still so much at stake, and the final goal of promotion is still the same. Personally, I’m not overly bothered about getting to the semi at that shitehole of a stadium. What I am interested in is us keeping up our momentum for the rest of the season’s league campaign. A one-off cup game at home is probably one of the best chances we could have to lift the spirits of the team and fans. We’re not suddenly a terrible league 1 team overnight, and we’ve done more than enough since the turn of the year to suggest we could take care of any of the teams below us over two legs. The resilience the team has been much more evident, with us coming back from losing positions on multiple occasions. Some folk have mentioned on social media that we don’t have bottle - I completely disagree with that to be honest. We might not be the best team in the league but this team still has something about them that shouldn’t be ignored. We just need to try and back them as well as we can to get them over the line. Bit of a tangent - apologies! My thoughts as well. I think I posted back after the game in November that we had lost the opportunity to win the league. I haven't really thought any differently since then. Dunfermline have only lost one game to our 4 and the points difference was always going to be difficult to overcome. We have been improved hugely by our dealings in the January transfer window and aside from a last-minite penalty at Alloa would have beaten all of the teams directly below us since then. Still optimistic we can finish second and make a fist of it in the playoffs. A decent performance in the cup would be good too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 23 minutes ago, Numbers_One_To_Eleven said: I wasn’t at the game but the shape looked all wrong with Hendo dropping to the bench (for whatever reason). The back four with McGinn and Hendo winning the midfield scraps has surely been the nucleus for our success and that wasn’t a factor last night. Just as a side note, there’s a lot of acceptance on here that it’s the play-offs. That’s probably going to be the case but there is still 27 points to play for with a home game against Dunfermline to come too. It’s not completely all over if we can go back to what we were doing before with the 4-2-3-1. Who knows, we could take it to the last game and you never know on the day. There was a couple of supporters arguing this exact point. (line up)on the bus home. However it’s easy to aim blame after getting beat by our bitter rivals. McGlynn was asked in the post match interview why the changes, he said that you play you best players, arguably should we have stuck with last weeks starting line up or was it the changes that cost us the game ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 There's no sound on yer highlights....happy to give FalkirkTV the benefit of the doubt that this is a mistake but someone should let them know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 35 minutes ago, Numbers_One_To_Eleven said: I wasn’t at the game but the shape looked all wrong with Hendo dropping to the bench (for whatever reason). The back four with McGinn and Hendo winning the midfield scraps has surely been the nucleus for our success and that wasn’t a factor last night. Just as a side note, there’s a lot of acceptance on here that it’s the play-offs. That’s probably going to be the case but there is still 27 points to play for with a home game against Dunfermline to come too. It’s not completely all over if we can go back to what we were doing before with the 4-2-3-1. Who knows, we could take it to the last game and you never know on the day. The issue I have with paragraph 2 is you would need Dunfermline to lose 3 from 9 games when they have lost 1 all season and require us to win 9 on the spin. Last night was the opportunity to put down a marker if we wanted to challenge for the title and all over the park we weren’t good enough. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers_One_To_Eleven Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said: The issue I have with paragraph 2 is you would need Dunfermline to lose 3 from 9 games when they have lost 1 all season and require us to win 9 on the spin. Last night was the opportunity to put down a marker if we wanted to challenge for the title and all over the park we weren’t good enough. Take the last game out of it (Peterhead away incidentally). All I’m saying is we could still take it to the last day, with a points swing that isn’t that massive. Are Dunfermline really only going to lose one game all season? Possibly. Could they draw a few games? Im just counter-balancing the acceptance from folk on here that are saying it’s over. I’d say it’s a bit premature to throw in the towel. Edited March 8, 2023 by Numbers_One_To_Eleven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers_One_To_Eleven Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 13 minutes ago, Springfield said: There was a couple of supporters arguing this exact point. (line up)on the bus home. However it’s easy to aim blame after getting beat by our bitter rivals. McGlynn was asked in the post match interview why the changes, he said that you play you best players, arguably should we have stuck with last weeks starting line up or was it the changes that cost us the game ? I think it’s pretty obvious that those two midfielders have been the foundation for recent success, so not really easy to blame. I like that formation, gives a good balance to the team between attack and defence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balde Bairn Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 It’s a bit McKinnon-esque by McGlyn to suggest we were good in the first half. We created absolutely nothing. God knows how he can say we should score when we’re on top, you need to have chances to actually get a goal. This is majorly concerning going into playoffs with the same problems. We haven’t won one must win match in around 5-years now so why would it be any different once we need to win the playoffs? These players should appreciate playing in front of a crowd like that yesterday because they certainly wouldn’t be good enough for Falkirk in pretty much any other era in our history. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, Numbers_One_To_Eleven said: Take the last game out of it (Peterhead away incidentally). All I’m saying is we could still take it to the last day, with a points swing that isn’t that massive. Are Dunfermline really only going to lose one game all season? Possibly. Could they draw a few games? Im just counter-balancing the acceptance from folk on here that are saying it’s over. I’d say it’s a bit premature to throw in the towel. I fully expect them to be 11 points clear by Saturday teatime. Psychologically that’s massive at this point in the season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFC 1876 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 24 minutes ago, Stoo61 said: There's no sound on yer highlights....happy to give FalkirkTV the benefit of the doubt that this is a mistake but someone should let them know. They weren't able to stream due to connection issues so I assume they didn't bother commentating and just watched the match instead. Instead we had the joys of watching the Pars TV stream and listening to the older sounding commentator get every second players name wrong. Also described Chris Hamilton at one point as 'using all his experience there' when he's 21 years of age. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Maybe the crowd spooked a few. Anyway, it's not over. Quarter of a season left. Draws can be killers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FK1Bairn Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 13 minutes ago, Numbers_One_To_Eleven said: Take the last game out of it (Peterhead away incidentally). All I’m saying is we could still take it to the last day, with a points swing that isn’t that massive. Are Dunfermline really only going to lose one game all season? Possibly. Could they draw a few games? Im just counter-balancing the acceptance from folk on here that are saying it’s over. I’d say it’s a bit premature to throw in the towel. It is all but over and they could officially win it at our place on 8th April. As Grangemouth Bairn says, we need Dunfermline to lose 3 of their final 9 games when they've lost 1 of 27 so far. Realistically they'll beat Peterhead, Clyde and Kelty so that's 3 from 6 they need to lose. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers_One_To_Eleven Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 It would be quite satisfying to do what Dunfermline did last night and play very cagey 1st half, suck the opponent in and then pounce in the second half. Throughout all my time of being a fan, we are usually the ones who try and make the running and then, quite often, get caught out in the end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers_One_To_Eleven Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, FK1Bairn said: It is all but over and they could officially win it at our place on 8th April. As Grangemouth Bairn says, we need Dunfermline to lose 3 of their final 9 games when they've lost 1 of 27 so far. Realistically they'll beat Peterhead, Clyde and Kelty so that's 3 from 6 they need to lose. As @Paranoid said, draws can be killers too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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