Ya Bezzer!

At least we don't have to worry about this anymore!

You might all like to know Hearts haven't won a game in any competition away from home since the 28th Feb - a run of 12 games. They come to Fir Park on Saturday. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I wasn't at the game last night but I think a lot of people are confusing Gannon's very professional image in the media and our reasonably good start to the season in terms of not being beat too often with actually being a good football team. We're not a good football team. I've been to 8 matches this season and we've played 180 minutes of good football - a half each against Kilmarnock and Steaua and the game against Flamurtari. Basically we are an OK team with a small squad and inexperienced players. As for our players being better than St. Mirren's.....put it this way, if St. Mirren signed our first team how many of them would start on Saturday? Craigan, Reynolds, O'Brien, that's about it. There is no gulf in class between the teams, so don't believe it for a second. If anything on paper they are stronger than us, which is how it played out last night. Gannon deserves praise for taking a limited squad and eeking out results (you can't say its been anything more than that) but our squad just isn't good enough or experienced enough to be used as some sort of tactical experiment in formations. I think Gannon sometimes over thinks about the game. Perhaps you can give Gannon the first quarter to try things out but teams play best to a set system, constantly swapping things around, in the long run is the wrong way to go.

I'd rather United went through because they have more chance of beating the OF. Let's face it St. Johnstone and St. Mirren aren't going to.

Losing 6 goals in a week at St. Mirren just isn't good enough. Gannon on the radio now....

3 goals a quarter is decent enough. If he can keep that up the quality of his performances won't matter too much because I'm of the firm belief (not very fashionable at the moment) that you judge a striker on goals scored.

I don't think Gannon is the type of guy who is going to leave mid-season. Next close season, maybe, but not worried about him going in the near future.

Hamburg are no Hamburg, they are Hamburger SV. And we are no Hamburger SV but we are similar in some ways in keeping clean sheets at Celtic Park and being undefeated against the OF this season.

Aye, once you'd got past all the flying bricks and Hearts casuals on the walk up from Leith Links.... That was a wild night. I saw one mental case, not sure if it was one of ours or one of there's squaring up to a Edinburgh bus in the middle of the road throwing punches at the windscreen.

Oh man, I remember that one. I skipped work (evening shift) by telling my boss I had to go and see my granny in hospital during visiting hours cos she was on her last legs. Of course she wasn't really, she was probably watching Coronation Street in her living room or something. A young Stephen Craigan made one of his first performances and played a blinder that night.

Are you thinking of Derek McWilliams? Yeah, he was a prick as well!

1. Willie Miller (Hibs one) 2. Ian Ferguson (Rangers one) 3. Neil Lennon 4. Kenny Black 5. Graeme Souness 6. Lee Richardson 7. Peter Grant 8. Scott Wilson 9. Charlie Nicholas 10. Any other Hearts player from the '80s

Was singled out for some of the worst verbal abuse I've ever heard by Rangers fans. Scored a few times against them and wasn't shy about going over to the Rangers fans to celebrate!

It's not an either/or but I'd take the semi-final spot. With the old firm both looking pretty shaky there might not be a better time to make a bid for silverware.

My first choice would be..... Craigan - Reynolds. Saunders has done really well at centre half but I think Hutchinson gives you a bit more, his game is more rounded. EDIT: Just noticed I've given one MoM to each of the four centre halves this season.

He might be keen to stay but I think Motherwell FC will be less keen to pay a transfer fee. If the £250,000 figure is true it would be one of the biggest transfer fee's we''ve ever paid and in this financial climate there is no chance of us spending that much. Frankly, in the post Bosman age, when a contract hardly protects a clubs investment it'd be daft for a club like us to pay that sort of money even if we did have it.

As for the nationality debate I'd rather have guys that had grown up in the country playing for the national team than people like Matt Elliott who "had the blood line" but virtually no connect to the country other than a grandfather. You can't have a decent society that excludes people on the basis that they don't have a blood line. It's so arcane it's embarrassing. When someone lives here, is schooled here, works here, pays taxes here just the same as you or I, its indecent, no not indecent, actually monstrous, to exclude them from representing the country, it smacks of apartheid or the racism of the Southern states of America where you have two class of citizens, one of whom is lesser than the other. This 'Braveheart' idea of Scottish nationality needs to go in the bin where it belongs. Maybe if Scots actually achieved political independence in the modern day they could stop fighting Bannockburn in their heads over and over again and actually do something positive instead of resenting everything that doesn't quite fit in to their parochial world.

I'd like to see us get the white shorts back of course but to also re-introduce black socks like back in the good old days when quite possibly Motherwell were the best club team in the world! Even if it was only for a season it would be a nice change and you know what they say - black goes with anything.

'54 Hungry? '82-'86 Brazil? '86 France? Could be a big argument!

Dwight Yorke and Savo Milosevic ripped us a new one in a highly embarrassing friendly match a few years back. As well as Mattias Sammer, the Borussia Dortmund team that played at Fir Park featured Julio Cesar, Stefan Reuter, Andy Moller, Karl Heinz Reidle and Stephane Chapuisat!

They said that a couple of years ago when the U19's were running up cricket scores on a regular basis and then we released virtually the entire squad!

Celtic's record this season is P15 W7 D2 L6. Not very good. Anyway, good point away from home but I'm still concerned a little about the lack of goal threat. 3 goals in 6 matches, 1 of them a penalty isn't great but it was never likely that would be free scoring today. Hopefully we'll get a couple next week.

I once saw Paul Lambert just in front of me at the cashline queue. Not the best place to start a conversation, folks are a bit jumpy at the cashline!

Tom Boyd won 4 caps while at Motherwell.

This game might just what we've been needing. We've been lacking energy recently and if the players, especially the newer players, can't get motivated for this one then we might have a few problems this season! The big mistake teams make especially away from home against the OF is they change their game instead of having confidence in their own ability. Play two wingers, play positively, play Forbes. This trying to sneak a draw by keeping it tight rarely works, all it usually results in is a jammy injury time winner for Celtic! Let them worry about us because we've stood toe to toe with better Celtic teams than this current one and beaten them and if you lose well the chances are that was going to happen anyway.