Goggles & Flippers

Steelboy, you appear to have a young pretender, have a word with your padawan

Well you're only 14 posts into your career so feel free to bugger off and leave the lunatics to play in the asylum. I think Louis Moult is more intelligent, has a higher work ethic, is more assured and confident in his position and is therefore more attractive and sellable.

No need to concede to any superiority mate, just said you're talking pish by suggesting Marvin is our best player. Even if he goes for more than Moult does not not make him a better player. The fact Randolph left Fir Park for nothing proves that. All it takes is a bit of hype and hyperbole in the right ear and the cheque book gets opened.

You lost any credibility with that statement

Shite post Weeyin ... have a word with yersel

Tait

Not taking our chances in the first half was a mixture of poor decision making, awful finishing and chronic crossing. In the second we stood off them, gave them too much respect and didn't harry them enough. They would have made plenty mistakes with players closing them down, they aren't that good. As someone I spoke to succinctly put it ..... we played the club rather than the team. Teams like ICT go to Glasgow and get results because their mindset is the latter opposed to the former. I did wonder what McGhee's mindset is at present. I saw one interview where he said that everything was geared up to the 6th of August, I thought it strange as we had competitive games coming up. Then I watched him being interviewed at Dalziel Park by Betfred where he said, "Lets be honest, we're not going to win the league, but both cups are up for grabs." Answer me this you arse, why contradict yourself with respect to today's game and why gave that shower as much respect?

Read all of this, scrolled up just to check it was ins and outs, rolled eyes, liked siebs comment.

Erm, no .... as pointed out by others. I'd also add St Johnstone to the list of clubs smaller than us. Not by much, but you'd struggle to justify how they are bigger.

One thing I expected from his previous repertoire was a lean, fit team emerging from the summer. While its far too early to say, there have been a number of concerns raised by many who have attended the games thus far.

Is that right Widow Twanky?

White shorts, black socks and claret hooped socks for a change, with white fold down. If you get a chance of course UBH

Badge looks wank. Plenty of discussion on here in the past, annoyed it's not been dealt with. Major oversight. Don't get the 1991 fawning. It was a great year in our history but it now serves to remind me how long its been especially when a number of smaller teams have secured silverware in the intervening years. Shame motorpoint couldn't be convinced to alter their colours the way cash convertors did. However it is their prerogative. Not a fan of the all amber strip, as been mentioned not enough claret. I recall Craig Brown liked all one colour strips as it has a visual effect of making the players look taller. Don't know about that. Maybe you don't know how the agreement with Provan works, essentially they get run the shop but have to provide xx,000 worth of clothing at list prices to the club every year. Provan keeps all profits up to another figure agreed with the club. If sales exceed this then the club gets a cut, but it generally needs something like a cup final to exceed this. It has been decided that the club prefers to outsource the hassle of running the shop and dealing with Macron on a day to day basis. I'd be surprised based on this agreement if sponsor free shirt sales result in extra income from a lower sponsorship deal. Agree with this Andy, with the shops twitter announcement it makes me think its maybe a lesser deal than we've been used to in the past. A sponsor must see some sort of benefit of having their logo on x thousand strips worn in the local community and further afield per year. I'm sure someone at Motorola must have been happy with the Tom Green exposure. If this is the case, then its not ideal as we now have a head of Commercial and Sponsorship tasked with increasing revenues. A lesser deal with that resource in place would be far from ideal. However without the specifics of the deal and unlikely they will ever be shared then it's all conjecture and second guessing.

By all intents and purposes, Cowdenbeath had a number of guys too that were untried and they were testing out, however they managed to turn over the Premier league team that finished 5th in the country. The only good thing about the last two games is it'll give McGhee an excuse to light a fire under a few behinds.

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Yeah Hibs is worry. Safe to say any targets from America or Europe have just increased 30% in price putting Messi just out of reach sadly.

All young, all promising, all secured astutely (the Chester article makes it clear we were cunning/clever) and all on manageable deals so potential of onward selling is there. Good day at the office. Now just McGhee to thrash them in pre-season to make them sexy footballing panthers.

They're as delusional as their favourite song at the moment ...... Nobody likes us and we don't care ..... evidently you do #wineylittlebitches

Would have more weight if McGhee had an impeccable record of being a courteous gentleman. Some of us have short memories.

So if Hearts or Killie support us they have to do a press release, for all we know there's been objections raised in private, then again, they could be doing as you said and looking the other way sheepishly while whistling. Ann Budge at Hearts seems to be fair minded and we have a good working relationship due to the fan ownership models at both clubs, I'd be surprised if she didn't say anything but then again, they pretty much fill Tynecastle every week with their own fans, away support is mostly inconsequential, so who knows. The only thing we do know is Partick Thistle's displeasure along with our own has been voiced publicly. Accies are also affected and probably a few more teams with the midweek fixtures. If the club said nothing they'd be getting maligned on here for ignoring the fans. Damned if they do, damned if they don't, shown above by how the vote went. I think the issue here is you feel things should be documented and I suggest all that needed to be employed here was common sense. As I've said before, it was either missed or sanctioned by x people at Hampden before publishing, why it got to that stage is beyond me. It's the clubs responsibility primarily to look out for MFC, it's employees and it's support, second tier is the premier league, third the lower leagues and the national team probably crowbars itself in there somewhere too. It's just as a support we seem to be so quick to jump on the day to day management of the club to find holes when by and large they are approachable, reasonably open and looked upon favourably by the press/peers.

You can't change the debate to league structure when it's purely about the fixture list published last week. The fair fixture list I mentioned was working within the current 12 team, split format.

"Suggested"? I think rubbing joob joob beans together under a full moon with druids flashing their boabys would have moved it into a "Hopeful" at best.

Don't think there is any cocksucking being here, blue or green. It's that everyone should face them a total of 3 times pre-split at home. Allowing for 1 home and 1 away post split. The current 50-50 ish split among our own fans could have been avoided with common sense. If there was a fair fixture list then there would be no debate at all. People would switch to working out if they were going to praise or blame McGhee for when he started pre-season, the intensity, the nature of our -pre-seasons, footgolf or lack of/inspired signings and other bullshit.

Can't Mio, he got a homer off the back of it, now he's booked out