"We're miles ahead. The board reckoned, if we could get there in five years, to the Premiership, that would be an achievement. We managed to do it quicker. A lot of hard work. Some good recruitment. Some good personalities in the dressing room. Some togetherness. Punching above our weight most of the time."
"We'll never have the biggest budget. We're fan-owned. There's no big money getting put in. It's what is coming in. It takes a whole football club to come together and the fans. So it's been very much a collective, everyone together. Because if the fans didn't support us and back us then the finance wouldn't be there."
"It was a rebuild. Make no mistake about it. That was how the board of directors put it to me. We got close the first year and then got the invincible record the second year. And, very quickly, one year in the Championship and here we are sitting sixth in the Premiership."
John McGlynn became Falkirk manager in 2022 when the club was in Scotland's third tier with inadequate infrastructure. The board initially targeted Premiership promotion within five years, but McGlynn accelerated this timeline significantly. Falkirk won the League 1 and Championship titles, now sitting sixth in the Premiership. McGlynn credits the achievement to hard work, effective recruitment, strong personalities, team togetherness, and punching above their weight. As a fan-owned club without substantial external investment, success relied on collective effort from the board, staff, and supporters. McGlynn describes the project as a complete rebuild, emphasizing that financial sustainability depends on fan support and internal resources rather than external funding.
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