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Well, I spent less on tickets today than I normally would and see the draw as being a donation to the Academy. It'll be interesting to see if overall takings decrease.

While not an expecting us to reproduce the scintillating football of last season, that was a drab affair. Of course, there are multiple factors at play including the European exploits, injuries and being 2 or 3 quality forward thinking players short of where we want to be. However, I am disappointed that many of the principles that allowed us to play such entertaining and successful football, principles that were apparent almost immediately under Jens, are not so evident now. This seemingly more pragmatic approach and lower tempo may return a similar points tally to last season, particularly if we sign a couple of top players, but i don’t think we’ll be on the edge of our seats quite so much.

I would go further and say that I feel that we were worth a win. We created 4 decent chances and played some great stuff at times (albeit fairly infrequently). The football to get JK away for his chance was top drawer, as was the work to get JT the chance that he lashed over from 6 yards out. Falkirk offered nothing to the game and were happy to foul throughout, knowing early on that the ref was useless. They were happy to break up play and wait for us to run out of gas in the final 20mins. No way did they deserve anything from the match. To comment on Motherwell today, I feel that we were generally slow and ponderous in the build up, and our movement in front of the ball is minimal, so making chances is going to be difficult against any well organised team. We need to improve our fitness, to last more than an hour. We need more movement and intelligent movement in midfield and, especially up top. We also really need the few runs that are made to be seen and used. We are very guilty of ignoring forward movement and turning back when forward options are available. I'm hoping that we'll improve with games and familiarity, but I don't think we have the players in place to emulate last season's performances. We need some more quality in the mid and front areas.

Likewise. Given the circumstances, I was hoping for a draw at 3pm and we achieved that. A better result than either of our 2 home games against them last season. Credit to Falkirk their good fortune didn't desert them.

As I said previously on here, we need to cut the players some slack as it’s very often the case that teams that have played an away game in Europe suffer in their first game afterwards but at least we didn’t lose the game. I thought Falkirk went away with exactly what they came for - a draw. The only negative for me is that we don’t have a forward that can lead the line and bag some goals - same as last year. It’s probably going to be magnified this year though because Maswanhise got 19 goals last season and at present he doesn’t look the same player. We need to find those 19 goals from somewhere. Does anybody know if Bjorgolfsson is injured or whether the manager doesn’t rate him.

We need to find nicknames for knight-lebel and girdwood-reich as takes ages to type! 🤣🤣, I thought KL done really well today

Good to see the fans seem to have stayed with us, 7018 crowd is pretty decent considering Falkirks travelling support was half of last years for the same fixture.

Of course it's stupid to look at league tables at this stage, but we've already moved into 3rd place on our own.

Lot of factors to take in. 1) 2 games a week so some looking tired plus some coming back from injury. 2) falkirk so anti-football and dramatics embarrassing 3) knight-lebel looked the part and with moorman plus girdwood-reich we are well covered in that area. 4) oh johnny k!!! Huge chance But....still unbeaten and sitting 3rd in table. Thursday night HUGE!!!!, Lets all get right behind AJ and lads

Spot on, Well said.

we weren't lucky to get a draw. Falkirk created absolutely fuck all. We hit the woodwork twice and both Maswanhise and Koutrombis skyed efforts that should have been goals. We didnt deserve to win but by no stretch of the imagination were Falkirk unlucky not to win.

I think we contributed quite a bit to it too. Second half was dreadful on chances we should have taken the 3 points but it would have been a steal. We looked comfortable at the back to middle but absolutely no link up middle to front. Maswanhise should have buried the ball in from lonlgello but sent it skywards. However on the plus we remain undefeated and move up to 3rd and its a point more than we got at home to Falkirk last season. Big Big improvement needed for the Helsinki and Aberdeen games. Really wish I could see Eythor Bjørgolfsson getting near or is he another long term waste of money like McGhee .

tough game - there's a few areas we're struggling and it's taken it's toll Not having a full squad, several players not having a full pre-season, accumulation injuries and struggling to keep people fit. Thought the managers comments were pretty spot on.

I think players are physically fit enough to play Sunday - Thursday - Sunday, but I think the disruption in training, the days spent travelling and not being able to discuss tactics for (what is to Alfred) a new opponent, took its toll today. In particular, neither Said nor JT up top look likely to score. Still unbeaten though and not conceded a goal at home, and Moorman is a big part of that - so he gets the nod from me.

To be fair, can't really argue with any of Alfred's post-match

Moorman for me,think hes class,the loan signing impressive too,centre of defence good,the rest needs workked on.

Moorman. An excellent signing.

Definitely a poor game overall but at least we didn’t lose. By my count we had Said hitting the bar and 3 decent chances to score, JT, Lowery & Johnny K, all wasted their efforts. Hopefully we do better on Thursday.

Probably the worst performance I’ve seen at Fir Park in over a year, both from us and the ref. We look completely knackered, ponderous and with absolutely nothing up top. Maswanhise looks to be not only playing himself out of a big move but also onto the bench. We desperately need to sign a striker and a Slattery/Just replacement.

We have lost 3 of the best footballers in the league last year allied to playing in Europe. It's no surprise we didn't look great, think there'll be a few games like that, that's where you're hoping for a scrappy win or not get beaten..JK got to do better with that chance , even if he sclaffed it, ut mightve gone in

After 30 mins the team was showing effects of all those games and travelling for the last three weeks. When Falkirk started to press high we failed to pass it past or thru them , when we did we get it thru them we stopped and passed it backwards . TJ is awful .

4 points from our first 2 league games in between europe is a decent return but we are woefully short in key areas,we need a slattery replacement,a winger and a striker and all 3 need to be brought in as first choice players.we have lost a lot of quality and brought in millions,we now need some investment in the playing squad and ideally soon.

90 mins of dross from both teams, shocking referreeing as usual, Falkirk trying to break up and stop the play at every opportunity. Our squad is down to the bare bones we effectively had no midfield 2nd half, TJ is brutal, never looked interested and we had zero threat, Said hitting the bar the only bright spot, Jonny K probably had the best chance of the game and fecked it up. For all the posesstion Falkirk had they were grim , Paulsen never had a hard save to make,that said we are 2 points better off than the same point last season so onwards and upwards, bring on HJK.

Martin Moorman, a Rolls Royce of a footballer.

Poor game and two poor teams,some players look a bit off the pace,said looked knackered near end but put the most effort in,cookie came on but looked lethargic,booth is not ready,willie needs to do more,his tactical awareness and positoning is piss poor,seen lowry telling him where to go,sat too deep 2nd half,ran out of steam and ideas,draw fair result. The 2 games a week seems to be catching up with us,desperately need a natural no9,tj better out wide,need to up our game thursday.