Harry Kinnear Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 26 minutes ago, Ecosse83 said: Hope it’s not paradise park your at mate, not sure it could handle 2 pished Falkirk fans Bahia Principe pal, one pished Falkirk fan is enough 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank von Hell Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 7 hours ago, Barga Bairn said: I think it's also worth remembering that arguably our best players were academy graduates for a number of years, whether they were sold or not. Alston, Sibbald, Kingsley, McGrandles, Wallace, Fulton were all standouts for us, and players like Duffy and Murdoch were better than their replacements. Our last big sale, Gallagher, showed plenty of skill and potential. Liverpool are no mugs Despite many problems the team was worth following for the young guys alone...they were our guys, not some players who had already failed elsewhere, or even worse, were other clubs players getting some experience. In skill and pace many of our youngsters were miles ahead of the garbage which came after them. Can we get our coach's back? It takes years to form a decent academy, we did it and it was thrown away, with many of the fans in agreement that we should get rid of it and concentrate all our resources on procurement. Look where that got us. Get an academy or youth set up started again, like a proper bloody fitba club, and I'll come back. I was so proud to watch that team full of our academy players swashbuckling to Scottish Cup semis and a final. Fast forward and I'm ashamed of our recent rag tag bunch of jobbers stinking the place out and serving up some of the worst football in our history with one of our lowest league position ever.. Wonder what happened? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank von Hell Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 11 hours ago, LatapyBairn. said: Agree with the sentiment however depending on overheads an academy does bring pressure to make that big sale each year to pay for itself, it’s something we need to bare in mind as our new youth programme grows and develops. In the years where the academy does not produce the club need to make sure its overheads are at a level the club can sustain without the need for player sales, being reliant on the sale of players for big fees will always potentially give somebody the convenient excuse they need to pull the rug as happened previously. The academy at it's height was sustaining the whole club, not just itself. Transfer fees, add ons - the money was rolling in, we've obviously lost all that now and there is zero return on any of the players we've recruited in recent years , some of them would/will have to be paid to go. Agree that the divestment from our own academy and joining the FV one was probably the death knell but it required to be scaled down in the slightly barren years (not shut down) and the BOD at the time must have thought this was the best option. It's a long , long road back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back Post Misses Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 3 hours ago, Hank von Hell said: The academy at it's height was sustaining the whole club, not just itself. Transfer fees, add ons - the money was rolling in, we've obviously lost all that now and there is zero return on any of the players we've recruited in recent years , some of them would/will have to be paid to go. Agree that the divestment from our own academy and joining the FV one was probably the death knell but it required to be scaled down in the slightly barren years (not shut down) and the BOD at the time must have thought this was the best option. It's a long , long road back. It wasn’t the death knell. If you speak to anyone involved it did take a jolt when FV was formed and they lost some good players. However it was rebuilding and the 13/14 year old group for example was exceptional. Sadly that is just about the group we could have been relying on now. People also forget is you get kids into the team and they are on much less money that a brought in jobber. That decision stop funding it, not just in hindsight, was a ruinous one, a disgrace. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Happy Wagner-versary. https://fb.watch/cRZYf0QfNL/ -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxi for De Massis Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Some game, Airdrie against Montrose 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back Post Misses Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Welcome to hell Scum 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDust Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Agent Hughes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyBlueArmy1876 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Down you come ya manky Fife c***s 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Suffering Bairn Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Dunfermline going down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Dunfermline dropping down with barely a whimper. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18BAIRN76 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Destroying Fife football - Mission 2: Complete 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back Post Misses Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Hopefully QP and their budget can get to f**k into the Championship now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 7 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said: Hopefully QP and their budget can get to f**k into the Championship now Either way, 2 teams who effortlessly bodied us are going to be out of the league. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 What is happnin Bairns?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFC 1876 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Remember all the folk on here championing the Yogi return as our manager? Dinosaur. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairney The Dinosaur Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Just now, FFC 1876 said: Remember all the folk on here championing the Yogi return as our manager? Dinosaur. You called? Nothing Yogi does at any other club will stop me wanting him back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxi for De Massis Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 And Montrose staying put 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Just now, Taxi for De Massis said: And Montrose staying put Some performance/comeback from Airdrie tbf. QP's budget might not be the same threat as Airdrie keeping that team together..... That said, if Airdrie stay down theres a good chance Murray moves on. Then we would need to hope, same for Montrose, that they cant sustain the same level. Theres enough potential for tough competition flying about as it is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Dunfermline and QOS down, one of Edinburgh city or Annan up, Kelty up. Much tougher league but oh baby those away days 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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