fizoxy

Fair enough on increasing the prices, but this annoys me: ...but we'll charge more anyway? If it was "essential" that the ground was full, then they wouldn't risk this by hiking the prices.

Unless it was right in front of his face.

Yep. Jim Gannon is an utter cock.

List of Norwegians on Wikipedia, you took a hell of a (cut and) pasting tonight!

It wont be sold out if they've just opened up the south stand.

Does hearing the away fans make a difference? If hearing the fans was so important in determining the outcomes of games we'd have been relegated years ago!!

I'm already worrying about how we're going to replace Casagolda when he leaves.

It would be interesting to know who actually knows who the sponsor is, and who was just joining in with the hints like me. If it is Sport Relief I would think that it would be in the form of some sort of partnership or project specific to the local area. I don't think our shirts would be the best form of advertisement for a national charity.

Aw theese hints are a mille oot.

It would be pretty funny if these hints were true.

Maybe Craig Brown could just "go" the manager of Rangers and buy Fraser fo £5m

The problem with "getting rid" of Fraser is that he has a contract with us, so someone needs to take that on or he needs to agree to a termination, which is unlikely since very few people are going to voluntarily give up their job so that their employer can get someone else. Hopefully a club will come in for him soon, but if they don't we're stuck with him.

Just because no one has arrived yet doesn't mean we aren't doing anything. In fact did CB not pretty much say that he and Archie were doing lots of stuff? I don't know what the fussing over O'Brien is all about either, we've lost far better than him, replaced them with "nobodies", and somehow haven't been relegated yet.

If we weren't in the early rounds of the Europa we wouldn't be worrying about this as much. There's still plenty of time, and I'd rather we held on to see if the extra money is coming in and then signing some good players, than signing some shite ones in a hurry. CB seems to be well organised in that he knows who he's going for if the money comes in. It was exactly the same last year, and we have the benefit of hindsight when we praise Gannon's signings, but I can't recall much excitement when Coke, Jennings, Hateley and even the Duke were signed, I seem to remember plenty of moaning about how unknown they were/lower league rejects etc. The rule of thumb with MFC signings is that if we know who they are, Motherwell probably won't be signing them!

But surely if you're going to pick out best left back of the last ten years, the guy who was our best left back for 8 of those years should be an automatic choice? Lappin barely even played at left back. Vadocz and Kemble were shite.

Ruddy Hammell (8 years) Craigan (7 years) Corrigan (8 years) Quinn (6 years) Hughes Lasley Leitch McFadden McDonald McCormack Picked most of the team cos they played in that position for the majority of the decade. Ruddy stands out as the best keeper, and the strikers pick themselves.

I think it's unlikely, unless the game's being broadcast in Iceland. Myp2p.eu tends to be good for these things but they have nothing listed.

It has been alluded to for years that we fiddle the numbers when reporting attendances in the way of a tax dodge, but if it was this obvious I'm sure the tax man may have had a wee check by now. My theory is that people just aren't good at counting crowds of a few thousand people in a football stadium.

I don't know. There's absolutely nothing on the internet about him. I think he's pretend.

I mind worrying about how shite our squad was this time last season.

It was on a hibs forum. The list doesn't have any Aberdeen of hibs players though, so they probably got it off the aberdeen forum. I'm not too keen on most of that list, as the ones who stand out such as Kyle and Dorman, are out of our price range.

Don't know how up to date this list is: Celtic - Lee Naylor, Zhi Zheng Falkirk - Pedro Moutinho, Marc Twaddle, Vitor Lima Hamilton - Simon Mensing, Martin Canning, Marco Paixao, Trent McClenahan, James Wesolowski, David Van Zanten, Mark McClaughlin Hearts - Michael Stewart, Jose Goncalves, Marius Zaliukas, Laryea Kingston, Christian Nade, Ryan Stevenson Kilmarnock - Kevin Kyle, Gavin Skelton, Simon Ford, Frazer Wright, Allan Russell, Mark Burchill, Cammy Bell Rangers- Kris Boyd, Nacho Novo, Kirk Broadfoot, DaMarcus Beasley, John Fleck, Andrew Little St Johnstone - Collin Samuel, Kenny Deuchar, Filip Morais, Gavin Swankie St Mirren - Andy Dorman, Jack Ross, Chris Innes, Tom Brighton, Stephen Robb

I'm sure someone said earlier in this thread that a plastic pitch is a non-starter due to the pitch not being flat. I'd imagine it would cost a ridiculous amount of money to flatten it out so I really don't see this ever happening at FP. Undersoil heating buggered the pitch up, then the groundsman seemed to make a mess of a perfectly good pitch at the turn of the year by covering it for a month with the USH on. Had the latter not happened I'm sure the pitch would have been OK, by SPL standards anyway.

Teams were spending outwith their means before the current financial climate downcrunch, and now we're seeing a lot of teams cut down their 1st team squads, including our own. The TV money was also cut during this period, and wads of our cash has been absorbed into the pitch. So I'm not surprised that we may struggle to hold onto the likes of Coke and Hately, but as fatcalf has said, they'll move on and we'll get someone else. They're hardly "once in a lifetime" talents, and our first choice midfield pairing of Lasley nad Jennings are already signed up.

When we played at your place we were entertained by a couple of gangs beating the shit out of eachother with sticks. It was weird to have a westquarter game where the fighting wasn't on the pitch!