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| 1. Author: RossDAFC Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 01:01 Football fans always want more players in the transfer window and I think our activity in January/February has shown that you need more than just numbers. 7 of the 8 signings made under Park Bench featured in yesterday`s game, with only Owen Hampson remaining on the bench (Bray not included). The new signings have combined for over 2,000 minutes in total and not one player has a single goal or assist yet. This could of course be down to Tidser`s setup not creating enough goalscoring opportunities but is still a worrying statistic. JCM has been good at the back but our defence overall has not improved and his points per game in the league is worse than Fogarty who he has replaced. With Hamilton, Chalmers and Wotherspoon all ignored for minutes on Saturday, it will be interesting to see if Tidser does the same with Todd, KRH and Cooper when they are all back seeing as they have contributed to nearly half of the team`s league goals between them so far. Reply |
| 2. Author: Andrew283 Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 07:40 RossDAFC, Mon 10 Mar 01:01 I too could probably pull a random player out my ass if I was minted. Not a clue what `data` told us about some of these guys but jesus... Reply |
| 3. Author: Ahoy!Ahoy! Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 07:57 I’m guessing the data says ‘they are youth players for English Championship sides so must be good’ or something along they lines. Reply |
| 4. Author: Berkey Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 09:00 Feels like with the under 23 league in England, players who were previously deemed not good enough and moved on to lower level clubs are being kept on to fill those squads. I mean we’ve been working with a large pool of young loans each season for some time and it’s proven quite unsuccessful at championship level over the last 3 years. There was no evidence to suggest the influx of young player in Jan would make the difference and it hasn’t. Boothe the only one who’s a bit older and he’s plays like he’s not really interested in being here. We were crying out for 2-3 decent experienced players. We still are. The post below replying to me is by one of .nets finest champions of mediocrity! Reply |
| 5. Author: TAFKA_Super_Petrie Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 09:14 Lifted this from an article about Alan Stubbs` time at St Mirren. Club realised it was a disaster and pulled then plug within three months of him being there.
---------------------------------------------------------------  [b]"People always talk about Ronaldinho and magic, but I didn't see him today. I saw Henrik Larsson; that's where the magic was."[/b] Reply |
| 6. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 09:54 Where exactly are these experienced players who are likely to be available in the January transfer window? If such players are fit and on form they aren`t likely to be made available by their owner clubs. You might find the odd player who has fallen out of favour with a new manager (Raymond for example) but that`s an exception. If you look at the players recruited by Championship clubs this January/February you`ll be pushed to find an experienced one amongst them. Scott Arfield is a notable exception but he was unlikely to move anywhere other than Falkirk once they expressed an interest. Post Edited (Mon 10 Mar 09:57) Reply |
| 7. Author: Andrew283 Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 10:02 Literally recruited Hardie and Rustybitz in January. Reply |
| 8. Author: da_no_1 Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 10:05 Andrew283, Mon 10 Mar 10:02 14 years ago. Clubs are far more likely to hang on to experienced players with the increased match day squad sizes. "Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark" Reply |
| 9. Author: Ahoy!Ahoy! Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 10:18 Perhaps we never looked at what experienced players were available, were always told the data figures out suitable players and they are purely focused on young players given who we’ve brought in. Just look at last January we brought in Chris Kane for example. Who again got the goals to get us points, experience certainly helps in the situation we are in. Even Welch-Hayes came in to replace Comrie and filled in fine he was 26/27 at the time. Post Edited (Mon 10 Mar 10:22) Reply |
| 10. Author: Never10yairds Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 10:36 Was speaking to a guy at work about this this morning when he was asking about why we are in such a mess. We were crying out for a couple of experienced signings in Jan to steady the ship. A Martin Hardin type and someone with a bit of experience to play left mid. You need to think that killie, Motherwell, Dundee, Dundee united, hearts, hibs, Aberdeen etc would have someone on the books in the fringe of their squad who could have given us a wee dig out in those positions for a wee loan fee to sweeten the deal. Reply |
| 11. Author: parathletic Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 10:46 Generally if you need to be busy in the January window then you are either having a poor season or having an injury crisis. In the League One January window I was quite happy at not bringing too many in to upset the apple cart.Some folk were still crying out for us to bring in more players. Continuity of team selection can`t be under estimated to get the best out of what you have. At some point you need to have a settled X1 and try and stick with it? Falkirk have used the fewest players in the league this season(25). The 3 teams who have used most are Airdrie, ourselves and Queens Park(3 of the bottom 4). That could be purely coincidental and it`s obviously easier to stick with a winning team but if you have teams with roughly equal ability it comes down to how well organised and how you perform as a team-not individuals. It must become harder if you are playing with strangers every week? Guardiola went into Man City spent a few hundred million and wasn`t close to winning anything in his first season at City. Liverpool came 8th in Klopp`s first season.Even with all the resources in the world you need to build a team. I hope we see this season out and get some decent early recruitment in the summer so that we are ready to go come the start of pre-season friendlies and sharp by the time the League Cup starts. We have missed out on decent opportunities by treating those games as friendlies. Reply |
| 12. Author: GG Riva Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 11:32 Good post, parathletic.  Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 13. Author: RossDAFC Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 12:00 Think we can all agree Mcpake was hung out to dry in terms of the summer window and for a second year in a row we`re playing catch up. Really makes you wonder how we`ve managed to post £2m in losses in producing so little on the pitch. Tidser has since come in, got an influx of players who don`t seem to fit any particular style, and has on top of that applied some very questionable tactics. Let`s hope it gels a bit more over the coming weeks... Reply |
| 14. Author: CitizenPar Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 12:40 I believe the likes of Hamilton, Wotherspoon and MOH are all still more than capable of helping us out of this situation. Hypothetical, I know, but I also wonder where we would be if J. McP had been awarded the same transfer opportunities as MT. Perhaps not winning the league, but maybe mid-table? Reply |
| 15. Author: Ahoy!Ahoy! Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 13:13 I think we’d be in a better position if we’d kept McPake and backed him. Reply |
| 16. Author: kelty_par Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 13:25 I know folk are saying that there aren`t many experienced players out there from Premiership clubs, but Ayr brought in Curtis Main, Falkirk brought in Eamonn Brophy, Hamilton brought in Scott Robinson (from Partick, but still) and Ricki Lamie, etc. So there were players out there we could have picked up. Reply |
| 17. Author: Ahoy!Ahoy! Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 13:36 Can add Scott Martin to that list aswell, more than capable midfielder in the Championship. Reply |
| 18. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 14:00 Scott Martin to PT/Scott Robinson to Hamilton was a swap. not sure what the rationale for that was. maybe offering Robinson a longer deal? Brophy and Lamie have hardly played for Falkirk/Hamilton which makes you wonder if they have some long-term injury issues. Curtis Main would have been a good signing but I suspect he`d be expensive and Ayr would be a much more attractive proposition than us. Reply |
| 19. Author: Higgys Mohawk Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 15:02 Ahoy!Ahoy!, Mon 10 Mar 13:13 I also think this. Feel like we strengthened better last January under McPake. I just hope that next season we get a few decent experienced players in to compliment the youngsters. Look at how well Curtis Main and Scott Arfield are doing, for example. Reply |
| 20. Author: Raymie the Legend Date: Mon 10th Mar 2025. 15:08 CitizenPar, Mon 10 Mar 12:40 I agree that we should be playing these guys. The young lads we have signed, other than JCM and to a lesser extent, Stevens, are no better than what was already here.  It`s bloody tough being a legend Ron Atkinson - 1983 Reply |
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