Goal efficiency
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Falkirk · World Cup - Qualification Asia · Defender · #22 · Australia · 28 yrs
R. Strain plays as a defender for Falkirk. R. Strain is a represents Australia, 28 years old, defender, currently at Falkirk. R. Strain wears shirt number 22 for Falkirk. R. Strain was born in Coventry, England on 1997-04-02. R. Strain is 181 cm tall and weighs 76 kg. R. Strain's Sportra profile tracks season statistics across World Cup - Qualification Asia, FA Cup, UEFA Europa Conference League, Friendlies, and other leagues. R. Strain's page brings together career clubs, trophies, injury history, multi-competition stats, and related news headlines. On Sportra you can explore R. Strain season statistics, transfer history, trophies, injury updates, and related news across every competition tracked in the profile.
| Date | Type | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-19 | - |  Dundee Utd DUN |  Falkirk FAL |
| 2026-06-29 | Free agent | Dundee Utd DUN | — |
| 2026-06-29 | - | Dundee Utd DUN | Falkirk FAL |
Season intelligence
Profile as Defender: creator. Archetype: Wide creator. Season rating 7.5.
Scaled 0–99 from season output — map to fantasy, comparisons, or scouting cards.
Per-90 rates, efficiency ratios, and Sportra indices from season totals.
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Playmaking output: assists, key passes, and custom chance-creation signals.
How often they draw fouls and stay out of trouble with cards.
Tackles, duels, and off-ball defensive contribution.
Shot-stopping, goals conceded, and penalty saves.
Minutes, availability, and how central they were to the team.
Every tracked category for this league and season, grouped by Sportra.
Football appeared a sideshow for much of the last afternoon of a tournament nurtured to indulge the cult of the individualIt ended almost as Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump had planned. Earlier on a seemingly endless World Cup final day, the trophy had, in a scene perfectly of a piece with the event’s excess, been let out of a Louis Vuitton trunk. Now they shuffled up to the podium together and presented it to a beaming Rodri, fumbling the moment slightly when Trump lingered for Spain’s team photo. After shrugging off anything resembling embarrassment they had made their exit, golden glitter sparkling on a bobbly pitch and the reverberations from a football event of unprecedented scale pulsing far beyond this concreted mini-state in New Jersey.How to make sense of a heady, intoxicating, often deeply strange tournament that at once appeared totally welcoming and chillingly distant? It concluded with a disorientating fever dream beneath a bright blue American sky, football appearing a sideshow for much of the afternoon even if the game did not exactly help itself. Anyone straining for a parable could, if they wanted, take pleasure in Spain’s success. This was ultimately the triumph of a collective idea in a World Cup nurtured to indulge the cult of the individual. Continue reading...
Falkirk manager John McGlynn says Ryan Strain fits a specific need at right-back after the former Dundee United man joined the Bairns on a free transfer. Strain, 29, is a familiar figure in the Scottish Premiership having played for St Mirren before joining United in 2024. Falkirk will be without Keelan Adams for approximately nine more weeks after he had an operation earlier this summer, while summer signing Jack McMillan is also injured.
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