Steve Clarke

Spot on Hamish.... academy binned with costs the excuse but they got very good money for their young players who went down south and are becoming first team regulars there so more money may follow- it was a short term, short sighted decision

Big egos always fcck up, and blame everyone else for it.

I would rather Stevie Clarke became Celtic manager than take the Scotland job.

You walk through the corridor to the tunnel at the Falkirk stadium and the wall is covered in pictures of guys like Arfield, Stevie Kingsley - even guys like Mark Kerr and Lee Miller etc.

It sets a culture for the club. It was a club where local kids had a route to the professional game. It was a massive part of the community because of that.

Now because one or two individuals who don’t really know the game and think they are smarter than they are have made some bonkers decisions they have killed it stone dead.

Falkirk don’t have an identity any more. And they are looking at relegation rather than promotion.

‘Project Premier’ as it was called within the club has been an unmitigated disaster. And the board need to take the blame for it but they won’t.

comment by Hot Shot Hamish (U21959)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 14 hours, 22 minutes ago
Wtf has happened to Falkirk?
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Margaret Laing has to take a lot of the blame for that situation . Well Martin Ritchie the former chairman is still hanging about behind the scenes which isn’t really helping. But Margaret Laing is utterly clueless about football.

And unfortunately she is wanting to make a wee name for herself in the game so she has taken a couple of bold decisions which have gone spectacularly wrong. But she is still there somehow..

They should never have sacked Peter Houston in the first place. He had good results in the league cup group but started the league badly last season. He had done more than enough to get given a chance and a bit of time to sort it out though.

Instead the board (which is an utter shambles) decided to punt Houston and brought in the wee nyaff Hartley.

It’s been downhill from there. They tried to copy the Brentford model and binned their very successful youth academy. They employed an agent down south to recruit players through and brought in about 15 guys who were well off the required standard. And the club gave a lot of them 2 year deals😩

Hartley didn’t last long and was followed by the Ray McKinnon fiasco.

It’s been one disaster after another and been driven from the board room which is populated by misplaced egos and hangers on. The closing of the academy was utterly ridiculous and completely unnecessary no matter what keech Margaret Laing comes out with. That was a massive part of the clubs identity and lost them a huge amount of goodwill from the fans.

She also appointed a chief exec on £60k pa who adds no value whatsoever. Pointless

Fan groups have been trying to get in on the running of the club all season. And the first thing they want to do is start the academy back up.

The board has got it so badly wrong and decided to fixate on the short term prize of trying to get to the premier. In doing so they ignored and discarded everything that was good about the club.

And now they are going down rather than up.

Pretty shameful stuff.

Well you did ask.....😂😂😂
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Most of that is probably spot on, but calling The Beard a wee nyaff is worthy of a call out. In fact, can I watch when you stroll up to Paul and call him that.

comment by theresgonnaebeashow (U5686)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Hot Shot Hamish (U21959)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 14 hours, 22 minutes ago
Wtf has happened to Falkirk?
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Margaret Laing has to take a lot of the blame for that situation . Well Martin Ritchie the former chairman is still hanging about behind the scenes which isn’t really helping. But Margaret Laing is utterly clueless about football.

And unfortunately she is wanting to make a wee name for herself in the game so she has taken a couple of bold decisions which have gone spectacularly wrong. But she is still there somehow..

They should never have sacked Peter Houston in the first place. He had good results in the league cup group but started the league badly last season. He had done more than enough to get given a chance and a bit of time to sort it out though.

Instead the board (which is an utter shambles) decided to punt Houston and brought in the wee nyaff Hartley.

It’s been downhill from there. They tried to copy the Brentford model and binned their very successful youth academy. They employed an agent down south to recruit players through and brought in about 15 guys who were well off the required standard. And the club gave a lot of them 2 year deals😩

Hartley didn’t last long and was followed by the Ray McKinnon fiasco.

It’s been one disaster after another and been driven from the board room which is populated by misplaced egos and hangers on. The closing of the academy was utterly ridiculous and completely unnecessary no matter what keech Margaret Laing comes out with. That was a massive part of the clubs identity and lost them a huge amount of goodwill from the fans.

She also appointed a chief exec on £60k pa who adds no value whatsoever. Pointless

Fan groups have been trying to get in on the running of the club all season. And the first thing they want to do is start the academy back up.

The board has got it so badly wrong and decided to fixate on the short term prize of trying to get to the premier. In doing so they ignored and discarded everything that was good about the club.

And now they are going down rather than up.

Pretty shameful stuff.

Well you did ask.....😂😂😂
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Most of that is probably spot on, but calling The Beard a wee nyaff is worthy of a call out. In fact, can I watch when you stroll up to Paul and call him that.

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He is a wee nyaff. And I have met him on more than one occasion and every one of those occasions wa too long.

He has all the social skills of a badly vandalised bus stop.

Last years Falkirk POTY do he didn’t say a word. Just sat at his table scowling. Then he bolted before the end and didn’t speak to a single fan.

Hartley is an embarrassing wee ned in my experience 👍

Hamish

You are entitled to your opinion but the suggestion was you walk up to him and call him a nyaff.

By your own admission. You had the opportunity but bottled it. QED.

Feartie. 😱

comment by theresgonnaebeashow (U5686)
posted 4 hours, 34 minutes ago
Hamish

You are entitled to your opinion but the suggestion was you walk up to him and call him a nyaff.

By your own admission. You had the opportunity but bottled it. QED.

Feartie. 😱

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It was in a professional capacity I met him.

Not really the done thing to call him a nyaff.

He’s a wee dwarfy puddin face nyaff as well - not sure anyone would be fearful of him tbh😂

Professional capacity

Feartie

comment by theresgonnaebeashow (U5686)
posted 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Professional capacity

Feartie

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You don’t believe I have a job? 😳