El Grew

Artificial playing surfaces have no place in professional football and the clubs who have them are lower league part-time semi-professional. I think the Scottish League and the SFA need to have a complete re-think on their use in cup competitions. If a team with such a pitch is drawn at home they should have two options: 1. Find an alternative venue with a grass pitch; or 2. Forfeit home advantage. If the latter, they could be compensated financially by the home team, say based upon their average home gate.

AJ has to take a lot of the blame for this. It wasn’t just that we lost but as much in the manner of our play. He made far too many changes and needs to be reminded that for a club like ours, European football is jam but the league and both cups are our bread and butter. He has surely found out now that guys like Ross, Wilson, Booth and Vogt are not good enough to be in his 1st team squad and in all honesty need to be let go. He also has a decision to make as far as Maswanhise is concerned because wherever his head is just now it’s certainly not at FP. On top of that he really needs to try and get a couple of fit strikers in asap.

Another superb night at FP and congratulations to all of the players and the manager and his staff. A great result for the club and it takes our club’s profile up yet another notch. Games under the FP lights have always been special for us and this was a fantastic experience especially for our younger fans. I know Freiburg will be a big step up for us but you want to test yourself against big sides. It’s the only way to improve.

Said being played much deeper than normal - maybe to accommodate Lowry? I’d like to see him pushed a bit further forward.

Said being played much deeper than normal - maybe to accommodate Lowry? I’d like to see him pushed a bit further forward.

Sounds like Stuart Cosgrave!

Is there any news or rumours about us trying to get a striker in?

Makes the case, not that it needs to, for the club to hurry up and decide whether they intend to stay at FP or move. If it’s the former (and that seems to be most folks preference) then get a plan made for the upgrade of FP asap.

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.

It was a very good result and hopefully we can finish the job next week. To get that result, the guys managed to overcome a few obstacles: • The pitch was a disgrace; • We were without Williams and Said; • Had to play Regan-Cook out of position - he tired late on but had covered a lot of ground and won the penalty; • Had to use 3 academy players from the bench - who all did very well. After a slightly nervous start I thought we settled into the game and were the better team in the 2nd half. Thats twice I’ve seen young Olly Whyte and been very impressed. I think he has what it takes to become a regular in the team. The only thing I’d say (and it echoes what many others have said) we really need to try and get an out-and-out centre-forward who can get goals. We have a lot of great build-up play but we lack an end-product threat.

Aye and the other 50% is shredded rubber car tyres! One of the early generation pitches and identical to the first one Livingston had. They should be banned from top level competition.

That’s disgraceful. It’s stopping us from playing our strongest side. The same thing happened to two of Havnar’s players - both black. Is this something that is only applicable to black players? The club should make a protest to UEFA asap.

As others have said a wee bit of a mixed bag. Some very good, some good and some bad but on balance a great result at a place where others will struggle. I think it’s worth bearing in mind that with us playing our European ties on Thursdays, especially the away legs, that fatigue will be a big factor in the league games we play afterwards, particularly this early in the season. You see this a lot with teams more used to this than us so I think the players need to be cut some slack if this happens.

I’d really like to see us sign a defensive/enforcer type of midfield player who could handle the knuckle draggers in the league who will go out of their way to intimidate our creative midfielders. Fight fire with fire.

Brilliant and thanks for the illustration. 😂😂😂