Source: Team_Talk
Bullen: Bairns can stay up
John Hughes' outfit know a win against Kilmarnock ton Saturday would lift them off the foot of the table for the first time since they slumped into the relegation spot at the beginning of March.
They had the same opportunity four weeks ago but went down to a deeply disappointing 3-0 defeat when former Scotland striker Kevin Kyle struck a hat-trick.
However, after sealing their spot in this month's Homecoming Scottish Cup final against Rangers with a victory over bitter rivals Dunfermline, the Westfield men have given their chances of staying in the SPL a massive boost with their 2-1 win over Motherwell last weekend.
And defender Bullen, who is returning this weekend from a one-match suspension, is hoping the semi-final win could prove to be the turning point in what promises to be a tense run-in.
The 38-year-old said: "We keep giving ourselves opportunities to sneak off the bottom of the league and in the past we have fallen short.
"It wasn't that long ago that we went down to Kilmarnock and had the opportunity to move off the foot of the table - and we blew it.
"But it has been a while since we went into a game on the back of two wins.
"Losing is a habit but so is winning and we took a lot of confidence from the semi-final win.
"It was a professional performance against our rivals considering the nerves that go along with it on a day like that and the fact we were favourites.
"It was a potential banana skin but the lads performed tremendously well and justly got the victory.
"We took that into the Motherwell game and we started really well. We were cruising at 2-0 and we should have gone 3-0 up.
"Then they go up the other end and get a penalty and a red card and we were hanging on for the last 10 minutes.
"A lot of people are looking at Motherwell and thinking they are playing dead rubbers.
"But that is certainly not where we are. They are all cup finals."
Bullen was one of a handful of experienced players drafted in last summer that were expected to push Falkirk towards challenging for the top six.
However, after a massively disappointing campaign, the former Dunfermline and Sheffield Wednesday player has confessed his side can have no complaints over their current predicament.
He added: "We never signed up to be bottom of the league going into the last four games of the season. We felt we had enough in our ranks to be a lot higher up the league.
"But the league doesn't lie, we are where we are and we have got to deal with it.
"Saturday's game will be our biggest of the season - until our following game. That's the way it has been for the last six or seven weeks."
