Big Stall

It will also be good practice for our pitch in the next couple of months.

I don't know with any authority the effects heavy machinary has on a football pitch, but can't imagine that it wouldn't do damage. What I do know is that golf courses don't allow buggies in periods of heavy rain fall, and many ban buggies and even electric caddy cars during the winter as the weight and wheel traction can damage the surfaces. Given that our pitch is brand spanking new and delicate, I would have thought best practice would be to keep any heavy duty gear off it. *Happy for my opinion to be put right by someone with real knowledge/experience on the subject.

Easy enough to say when your sitting at your keyboard 5000 miles away. Its a bit different when you are wrapped up in the atmosphere, the guy makes the same mistakes over and over again and then starts gesticulating at the crowd as though its their fault.

The people that pay his wages?? Never saw Fitzy sink to that level.

Smith was a good shot stopper, and that's about the limit of his abilities. He was/is still, shite at dealing with cross balls and can't kick! He was a liability whenever a corner or freekick was swung into the box and it's nice to see that we can now take advantage of his deficiencies. Maybe we have been spoiled with Ruddy and Randy, but in comparison, Smith was and blatantly still is, a bombscare! PS- I still haven't seen Ruddy or Randolph give blatant shut up/fuck off gestures to the home fans the way I saw Smith do on more than one occasion. Smith took his 'big move' to Brighton to get in the Scotland squad. I see thats worked out well for him. In fairness, its actually been the best thing (goal keeper wise) that could have happened to us.

Hutchy, right from the first minute he dominated everything that came near him. Saunders did well, as did Hammill and the new boy.

Except when Hutchy crunched someone in the first ten minutes and managed to excavate a sizeable trench.

This thread has went mental with porridge, dribbles, wet pants etc, add as appropriate. Theres only one thing for it........ Yes, Im bored. But Jesus Christ. We missed out on a boy that can't get in the squad of a championship team. Its not exactly the second coming of administration!

I don't think we would lose a final to Aberdeen. Those bastards have had too much over us recently, McGhee, Brown, Blackman etc. Its about time something went for us, and given how much their fans live in a fantasy world about their place in football, it would be poetic justice for us to turn them over in a cup final. Plus, as Humphrey said in an interview when Brown left......... "I hope we give them a doo'in!"

A guy sitting across from me has just read out something on 'Rangers rumours' or something along those lines saying they are after John Sutton and have been told we value him at £200k! As much as I think Sutton does a great job for us, I think it's a sad indightment of the state of Scottish football if the old firm are in for him. Porter, the Juke, yes, but Sutton?? Hopefully its not true and we can get him signed back up.

And he still managed to score our only goal that day! The boy has got real potential.

Lets just hope in the light of the Sun branding Goodwillie a rapist, that Rangers don't change targets to another Scotland under 21 striker.

I want him to play Hutchy soon. I want to know if he really is as good as we all remember/wished he was, or if the grass is always greener. I thought back in Gannons time that he really was a star in the making. I know he's been injured and he's had crags and reynolds infront of him. But i am starting to think that if he was as good as we thought, he would have been able to shove his way into the reckoning. Lets see what the boy can do. If we can't fit him in at the back, send him upfront with Sutton.

Radio Scotland said before the game he is on the same money but a longer deal.

Radio just announced same money but longer deal. Fair play to him. Job security and all that, not many of us in the real world can argue with that.

Or maybe its not about money. Maybe its about a fresh start. He has been here 7 years after all and is often on the sidelines, never mind the abuse he gets from the east stand (I'm guilty of it myself)

Eremenco is on loan, and his parent club pay his wages.

Ahem.....Mr Malcolm.

If he's good enough then fair enough, but I haven't seen enough of him to judge. Saying that, I don't want to see everyone get games 'just because' they came through our youth set up. I think I've saw every senior game Boab 'shags the birds' has been involved in, and while Im happy to say he might be a prospect eventually, I haven't seen anything (yet) to suggest he is going to be what we need upfront. Infact, I would rather see what Cassagoldust can offer us.

I dont see a problem in signing an out an out left winger. Yes, there will be certain games that we can't afford the luxury of two wingers, but there will also be plenty of games that Lasley and Jennings can more than cope in the centre allowing us to exploit down either flank. A left winger would be a very valuable addition to our squad. IMO.

To be honest, I think there both shite. The main difference is that if the team plays the correct balls, i.e knock it past the defender for Humphrey to run, then he will thrive and destroy teams. Gow on the other hand, I have no idea what the team have to do to get anything out of him. Maybe he's one of these mythical creatures you read about on here (aka forbes) that he's too gifted for the rough and tumble of the SPL.

Does he have a canoe??

When McCall turns into the managerial legend we all hope, with his Rangers history its not Aberdeen we are going to have to worry about when McCoist fucks up in the next few years!

As much as I like it, in reality the OF probably deserve a bigger whack than the rest of us due to the fact the 4 old firm games are what the TV companies are paying for. Do sky really want to be showing Motherwell v St Mirren? Do they fuck, they pay the money for Rangers v Celtic * 4! :wheres the tinhat smilie:

PS - If he does end up at Aberdeen then its pretty apparant he's going because of Brown, and we can take it as read that had Brown not been a 'sleekit wee c**t' we would have retained Blackman for the season. PPS- Hopefully he tells the old bastard to take a hike and he comes back to hit 20 goals in the season for us!