Toshney for Dillon in that line up for me, and Fraser in for Toshney in midfield.

Dislike going to this Grangemouth ground, a soulless remote structure lacking in excitement or emotion. Falkirk folk generally are a dour lot who seem to be permanently aggrieved.
 
And a plastic pitch: you should be allowed in paying plastic coins.
 

Not a chance in hell Fraser will be dropped

If Willo comes straight back in Ray will need to either move Toshney to CH or drop someone else and Murray might be the unlucky one if Ray wants to play it tight.

Personally I'd go to win this and willo in for Edge and Toshney at CH.

Don't we make too much of plastic being bad for you?
I'd rather every club played on good turf but this preconception that artificial is catastrophic to those prone to/coming back from injury is overblown I think.

Would have Toshney at Centre Back and Fraser in the middle. That's his best position, having him out wide is pointless.

Toshney's done well in midfield ....if he is staying in the team i'd keep him there.He's an unknown quantity at Centre Half.

Fraser is better in the middle....but isn't the goal threat Tony is.

Murray to supply pace on the left.

Spittal to shore things up on the right.(as Pat pointed out we don't lose as many goals when he plays..he helps protect VDS inparticular).

Tek wrote:

Toshney's done well in midfield ....if he is staying in the team i'd keep him there.He's an unknown quantity at Centre Half.

Fraser is better in the middle....but isn't the goal threat Tony is.

Murray to supply pace on the left.

Spittal to shore things up on the right.(as Pat pointed out we don't lose as many goals when he plays..he helps protect VDS inparticular).

 
From recollection, Falkirk right winger, the boy hippo is rapid. He tore robson a new hole last time through there and created their second goal with robson ball watching. He came on as sub at tannadice and had a positive impact again. Falkirks only one of the day I thought as Houston had came for the 0-0.
Murray looked good 2nd half when he moved to the left but is he ready for a challenge that will rely on him fulfilling more defensive duties?
I would maybe put spittal in front of Dixon for the reasons you stated and have either Murray or probably fraser on the right

Hippolyte played wide left and put both crosses in from that side after Toshney went off injured and Dillon came on. VDS played ch that night.

Please not 3 at the back.....😳

lifesanocean wrote:

Hippolyte played wide left and put both crosses in from that side after Toshney went off injured and Dillon came on. VDS played ch that night.

 
Just re-watched the highlights there, first 2 goals came from the right, second goal was the one I was thinking of where edge cleared poorly but robson was ball watching, hippolyte was in the middle for that goal trying to claim it but it was an og.
You're right though, hippolyte played on the left and whipped in the third cross from the left.
Whatever wing he is on, I'd have spittal sitting in front of the fullback providing cover.

BigAndtFTD, I doubt Falkirk are putting a team out worrying too much about us, they've already beaten us this season, and have a very good record against teams with the bigger reputation over the past few years.

And the goals we lost last meeting at their bit were all (three) from crosses which probably should have been prevented, and then which weren't well defended by the central pair, nether of whom are going to be in the centre on Saturday. In fact, probably our back four will be completely different, in terms of position for two, and personnel for two.

Houstie normally has his teams go for it in the last 10 minutes if tight, but lately he's been using wide players more, so we can't allow our full backs to get isolated.

At the same time, in the 3-1 defeat, we lost three players to injury, and when Charlie Telfer was crocked with around 25 minutes to go, we had no subs left: Falkirk took advantage of this with our defence exposed (brought on an extra winger) and grabbed with win with two goals in the last few minutes.

Andy, I'm an optimist too, but living near Grangemouth, it's all too much for me if Falkirk beat us. And if we win, they'll criticise the size of our support, which is a constant fixation of Falkirk fans.

I hope we dominate them from the outset too.

In the grand scheme of things each succeeding league game is taking on more importance than the previous one. Like Raith last week was vital cos if we'd screwed up it could have been Arabgeddon. Now Falkirk on Saturday has heaps of importance cos will it be a 1st half or a 2nd half performance (from the Raith game) against a side who are chasing us & beat us there last time. So a lot of fans who were saying the Raith game was the most important of the season so far will now be saying the same thing about the Falkirk game. If it's like this til the end of the season I'm going to combust. Thankful there's a league break next week but why oh why do we keep getting away ties in cup competitions?