The Falkirk FC Thread

[Harry Kinnear]

Ayr getting papped 6 zilch now on aggregate , imagine getting your arse handed to you that bad in a play off game, what a brasser

Edited May 26, 2023 by Harry Kinnear

[Andy Dufresne]

9 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said:

Ayr getting papped 6 zilch now on aggregate , imagine getting your arse handed to you that bad in a play off game, what a brasser

Now 4-0 on the night,Muirhead is a cheating bugger.

[Harry Kinnear]

2 minutes ago, Andy Dufresne said:

Now 4-0 on the night,Muirhead is a cheating bugger.

I’ve gave up with watching it, too one sided. Just like when I left our play off at TFS as soon as Airdrie scored.

[glasgow_bairn]

5 hours ago, Ecosse83 said:

Alegria is 3 or 4 years younger and had played 60/70 games less than Maciver as well so more room for improvement. Not sure what improvements folk are expecting a 24 year old to make

I don't know if this statement is a wind up? So players just plateau at the age of 24? What a wild thing to say.

[Guest Ecosse83]

23 minutes ago, glasgow_bairn said:

I don't know if this statement is a wind up? So players just plateau at the age of 24? What a wild thing to say.

wild thing to say, my goodness

 

Most of the ability is there by 24, I don’t think he will now improve enough to be good enough! Not that hard to understand! 
 

Edited May 26, 2023 by Ecosse83

[JulioBairn]

10 minutes ago, Ecosse83 said:

wild thing to say, my goodness

 

Most of the ability is there by 24, I don’t think he will now improve enough to be good enough! Not that hard to understand! 
 

You don’t think a 24 year old will improve enough to be a Scottish 3rd tier player? Wow

[Grangemouth Bairn]

2 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said:

Ayr getting papped 6 zilch now on aggregate , imagine getting your arse handed to you that bad in a play off game, what a brasser

If they stick with Bullen I’ll feel a wee bit better Tbf.

[Monkey Tennis]

10 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said:

Ayr getting papped 6 zilch now on aggregate , imagine getting your arse handed to you that bad in a play off game, what a brasser

It would have been worse for Ayr if it was already pretty disgraceful for a club of their stature to be in their division at all.

[Springfield]

Tie was lost in the first leg. They’ve got a guy at the helm who will learn lessons and no doubt will further invest……

[RC55 FFC]

Signing day today? Would be nice. 

[Bairnardo]

1 hour ago, Monkey Tennis said:

It would have been worse for Ayr if it was already pretty disgraceful for a club of their stature to be in their division at all.

Hang on there now.... We don't get to say shit like that, so we certainly can't be getting beaten with it. 

[Bainsfordbairn]

8 hours ago, Ecosse83 said:

wild thing to say, my goodness

Most of the ability is there by 24, I don’t think he will now improve enough to be good enough! Not that hard to understand! 
 

Do you remember when we were relegated to League One? One of the pivotal moments that sent us down came at Palmerston. We were winning the game and had we done so we'd have climbed out of the relegation zone and gone above QOTS for the first time all season. 

We ending up drawing, because of what I thought was a blatant dive by Lyndon Dykes. 

Lyndon Dykes, who scored 10 goals in 86 appearances for QOTS. Roughly one goal in 9 games

A far worse record than MacIver scoring 6 goals in 30 for Alloa, or one goal every 5 games. 

I think you'ld agree that Dykes has done pretty well for himself since then.

Would you care to guess how old he was when scored that goal? Six months short of 24. 

Dykes managed to improve to be more than good enough. I'm willing to give MacIver the chance to do the same. Maybe you should too. 

 

[Harry Kinnear]

1 hour ago, Monkey Tennis said:

It would have been worse for Ayr if it was already pretty disgraceful for a club of their stature to be in their division at all.

put the fishing rod away

[Monkey Tennis]

21 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Hang on there now.... We don't get to say shit like that, so we certainly can't be getting beaten with it. 

I'm always happy for you to say shit like that, because it's abundantly true.

[LatapyBairn.]

1 hour ago, Monkey Tennis said:

It would have been worse for Ayr if it was already pretty disgraceful for a club of their stature to be in their division at all.

Some posters on here get slaughtered if we dare call ourselves a big club in this division but it’s now ok for you to use the fact we are a big club in relative terms so you can shove our recent failures down our throats ? I give up man!

Edited May 27, 2023 by LatapyBairn.

[Shooter McGavin]

10 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:

Some posters on here get slaughtered if we dare call ourselves a big club in this division but it’s now ok for you to use the fact we are a big club in relative terms so you can shove our recent failures down our throats ? I give up man!

Yep it's a conundrum isn't it?

[cb_diamond]

41 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Hang on there now.... We don't get to say shit like that, so we certainly can't be getting beaten with it. 

Who ever said the world was fair?

[Springfield]

29 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:

Do you remember when we were relegated to League One? One of the pivotal moments that sent us down came at Palmerston. We were winning the game and had we done so we'd have climbed out of the relegation zone and gone above QOTS for the first time all season. 

We ending up drawing, because of what I thought was a blatant dive by Lyndon Dykes. 

Lyndon Dykes, who scored 10 goals in 86 appearances for QOTS. Roughly one goal in 9 games

A far worse record than MacIver scoring 6 goals in 30 for Alloa, or one goal every 5 games. 

I think you'ld agree that Dykes has done pretty well for himself since then.

Would you care to guess how old he was when scored that goal? Six months short of 24. 

Dykes managed to improve to be more than good enough. I'm willing to give MacIver the chance to do the same. Maybe you should too. 

 

Don’t think there’s any supporter not wishing the guy good and we all hope he hits the ground running and scores bagfuls of goals.
Have we got time to develop and improve a guy in this critical season? 
The statement from the BOD more or less spells it out very clear that anything other than promotion will see our club facing the abyss of either hybrid or PT football next season.
I’m hoping that there’s still others to come in, that are better than someone with a very average career so far, but hey ho if he’s got the main gig, we just need to hope he comes good.

 

[Guest Ecosse83]

44 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:

Do you remember when we were relegated to League One? One of the pivotal moments that sent us down came at Palmerston. We were winning the game and had we done so we'd have climbed out of the relegation zone and gone above QOTS for the first time all season. 

We ending up drawing, because of what I thought was a blatant dive by Lyndon Dykes. 

Lyndon Dykes, who scored 10 goals in 86 appearances for QOTS. Roughly one goal in 9 games

A far worse record than MacIver scoring 6 goals in 30 for Alloa, or one goal every 5 games. 

I think you'ld agree that Dykes has done pretty well for himself since then.

Would you care to guess how old he was when scored that goal? Six months short of 24. 

Dykes managed to improve to be more than good enough. I'm willing to give MacIver the chance to do the same. Maybe you should too. 

 

Fair enough, it’s a rare occurrence to improve at that age the way Dykes did but it does happen, hopefully for our sakes Maciver does the same

[Bairnardo]

9 minutes ago, Ecosse83 said:

Fair enough, it’s a rare occurrence to improve at that age the way Dykes did but it does happen, hopefully for our sakes Maciver does the same

I don't have anything to back up what I'm about to say, but thankfully there's no way you have anything to contradict it.....

 

Here goes then. 

 

Is it f**k, a rare occurrence that football players improve their game at the age of 24.