steelboy

with scottish teams lower league teams playing at the weekend i would guess it would be difficult to get an english team to agree to come up for a fixture that would probably have been against our u19s if we hadn't recorded the worst result in our 128 year history. if the club have managed to get tranmere to come up at short notice they have done well. closed door or not the players should know exactly what is expected of them.

good idea with the closed door game but why play it at the palace grounds when the miners is available?

he wasn't let go for financial reasons.

st johnstone have hammered us on our last three visits to perth so i don't think we can claim to have their number any more.

lasley was our player of the season last year by an absolute mile, i suspect he had other offers on the table which is why we had to offer him a two year deal. the midfield 4 mccall favours is unbalanced but it's not lasley who should be dropping out, law will put pressure on ainsworth and vigurs to up their work rate or lose their place.

the scotsman quotes mccall thus we didn't stand a chance.....

we've seen competitive friendly matches such as the leeds and everton games where our players were up for mixing it with better known players or even the very violent carlisle match years ago. there is no reason why players can't give their all in a friendly fixture.

we can't afford not to sign a keeper. pause the youtube highlights of the match the other night at 18:21 and it looks like an u15 keeper in goals.

it's declined in the past 10 months?

after watching the highlights a goalkeeper and a centrehalf have to be the priority.

a very poor ross county team were pushing for a european place two seasons ago. Hearts and hibs as well as aberdeen were bottom six.

two seasons ago we had the second best squad in the country by a mile, finishing second wasn't a great achievement. We should have been further clear than we were.

mccall can't get a team to raise their game. We've done well over 38 games because we've had better players and less problems than our rivals. There is no standard set for the players. They can go boozing in dublin the week before a cup tie, players contunually don't bother tracking runs or marking and there is no consequences. We have a tiny goalie and frazer kerr on the wing because mccall can't be bothered looking for competent players. The manager gives the impression that it's not about always striving to be the best we can be (we basically threw a game at perth). You can't ask the players to raise their game if they look at you and don't think you're giving 100%.

are you suggesting we should have signed a keeper taller than 5 eight?

if mccall has any self respect he'll offer his resignation. The two aberdeen cup defeats, the ibrox game, the albion rovers game and tonight must have cost us well over a million pounds.

pathetic. the manager and the team are a disgrace.

come on the fucking well. 500 games one european goal. please let us win

if we had one of the three or four early chances we had i think we could have ran away with. despite losing it was one of the better matches and atmospheres at fir park over the last few years. i'm seeing plenty of links for the lech poznan game at 6 and the aberdeen game at half 6 but nothing for us?

what did he contribute? the games where he played well we won at a canter.

hibs are playing at home to dundee united this saturday so there must be some police left in edinburgh. firhill is a daft idea admittedly.

there are roof top snipers in bridgeton and there were two helicopters over the strathy for a good chunk of the afternoon despite nothing happening there. there were also four engines parked down the watersports centre last week presumably in case the park spontaneously burst into flames. it's fair to say the police and the scottish government have lost all sense of perspective about these games. if the poles tell us they don't want to swap then we should go for tynecastle or firhill as an alternative venue.

ojamaa isn't in the 18 man squad for legia warsaw in ireland. partick is a good option for mcfadden. if he signs for them hopefully he keeps them up for the away days.

considering that there are no articles saying that they actually went through this then i doubt that is the case. stephen house has turned the police in scotland into one massive traffic unit to make money. it's not a surprise that he would be trying to get more money from football clubs.

the club only has to pay the police for inside the stadium and i don't recall seeing many coppers in the ground. There might be 50-60 stewards working, i can't see that costing more than 4 grand.

i don't see how you get that figure. the game last thursday wouldn't have cost any more to put on than a league cup tie against a lower league team with much higher revenue. the costs of the stewards and the police should surely be less than £10,000.