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An interesting perspective bc, thanks for sharing it. To me, since being appointed the management team have been tasked with two things: Keeping us in League 1 last season. Building a squad and then getting us promoted to the Championship this season. They achieved the first surprisingly comfortably last season. The second is “work in progress” but, largely, so far so good. We know from the Fans’ Meeting a few months ago that the club has options in place to extend the contracts of a number of players (with a wage increase) should we achieve promotion. We don’t know which players are in that position but hopefully those seen as having the ability to step up. We’ve also seen Adam MacKinnon sign a contract extension and, in my opinion, he can do a good job at Championship level. If we do get promoted, I’m sure that the Management Team will remain in place and be given the opportunity to show what they can do in the Championship. Alan Savage has made funding available to build a squad capable of getting us promoted, and I’m sure will do the same with a view to enabling us to establish ourselves as a Championship side again. That will then be the third task given to the Management Team.

That was poor but probably should have been 0-0. Pretty obvious we need a goalie if/when we go up. I’ve always felt that Gary Naysmith is the best manager in the league and Kel might struggle in the Championship. Kudos to Stenny for keeping the league alive - if we’d got our just desserts, I.e. a win at home and a draw today, we’d be 12 points ahead with a game in hand.

We dominated possession from start to finish but couldn’t create clear chances, lacked sharpness and soon ran out of ideas. We could’ve played all night and wouldn't have scored. Even in the last 10 minutes against 10 men we had little to offer in the final third except the same predictable stuff we’d been doing all match. Stenny were organised but did nothing special and all they had to do was do the basics well to keep us at bay. So we didn’t do enough to win but shouldn’t have lost either. The soft goal we conceded was a rare foray from them into our box, and I think the defending and goalkeeping should have been better as they fired the ball through the keeper from a tight angle. Today was so disappointing after our recent good form and attacking prowess.

Not after what I saw yesterday. Worst county team for a long time. When Robbo got us promoted to the top league his game plan was miss out the midfield and knock long balls for bingham and Wilson , 2 pacey players, to chase. After going down 1-0 yesterday that was what he did except they have no pacey guys on the end of the punt. Hale was put through 1 on 1 with keeper first half and hit it at keeper who saved with his feet. That was only chance they created. I would have bet your house IBM on him scoring. They got caught for the second, as has been happening all season when the Arbroath forward easily out paced Gallagher on the counter, turned him at corner of box, and curled a beauty into top bin, cracking goal. Too many players who are on their last legs, lacovitti, Gallagher, docherty, Mackay-Steven, jay henderson, Jordan white. Best plan for them is go down this season, reset, new manager, give their young boys a game in league 1 along with new signings. Worked out well (so far) for another local team.

The ref was far more rotten to Stennie. We were poor yesterday. We move on...

3 shots, 3 on target. That's efficient, we however, were totally wasteful.

Sounds like it just wasn’t our day, whilst Stenny are becoming a bit of a bogey side for us. There were always going to be set backs this season and the key now is how we bounce back at Montrose next Saturday. The Management Team and players have got us into a good position, one we’d all have been delighted with before the season started, and I’m sure we will come back strongly again.

Well that was a boring first half

Thanks for the great information about Ochilview and about Stenhousemuir. But my wife, most of whose family come from Stenny, reckons you've been using AI There are no canals anywhere near Stenhousemuir. The Union Canal starts at the Falkirk Wheel - west of Falkirk, south of Stenny - and runs round the south of Falkirk to Edinburgh, hence the tunnel to hide it from Callendar House. The Laughin' and Greetin' Bridge is SE of one end of the tunnel, in Glen Village. https://unioncanalunlocked.org.uk/laughin-greetin-bridge.php - "On the Falkirk side the face is greetin because the section of canal involved blasting a tunnel through a hillside and building a flight of eleven locks to join up with the Forth & Clyde canal. The contractor went bankrupt! While the laughin face smiles towards the east which was far easier in comparison and the contractor made a tidy sum." My wife does remember the Stenhouse tower house, which was demolished in 1967 - https://falkirklocalhistory.club/around-the-area/houses-and-estates/stenhouse-2-2/ Even I remember the toffee factory, next door to Ochilview. The smell outside was great, especially if they were making something like banana or raspberry toffee. If you don't read non-ICT threads, you won't have seen that when we were in Stenny a week ago, one of my wife's relatives was moaning about us having an advantage that no other club has - we don't owe anyone any money. Of course I made sure he knew what we'd had to go through to get to that situation, but he kept on moaning. So I will settle for nothing less than another 0-9 today!