steelboy

speaking of the defence is anyone else having nightmares about that corner aberdeen scored on tuesday? mcginn and hayes will be putting every corner and set piece right under our bar guaranteed.

just double however long you usually take to get to dundee.

he gave omar daley a run out and an appearance bonus on the final day of last season so ripping the pish out the club obviously doesn't disqualify anyone from getting a game under mccall. people said jim paterson wasn't out of shape under malpas yet mcghee made him a far better player by forcing him to lose a bit of weight. our second half performances every week show we have a fitness problem across the squad so i don't know how much faith we can have in the training the players are doing.

when your team earns ten times what the opposition do you can afford to carry a fat lad. commons was a nobody in england and gets away with murder up here.

do you think he's in the best shape he could be?

he looks lazy because he's lazy. he's slow because he doesn't train hard enough. that's good enough for motherwell these days though which is why this season has been as entertaining as watching paint dry.

the stewards aren't going to restrain kids but the club have to be seen to be doing something so they hire them anyway.

i would guess mcmanus was telling him to stop moaning at the ref and put in some effort when we don't have the ball.

135 minutes and the only shot on target has been from a penalty. We'll need a big improvement on sunday.

i didn't see any foul.

he watched anderson punch the ball into net and gave everything against sutton the other week even when the united players were jumping all over him. It's almost as if a member of his family had a bad experience at fir park and he holds it against us.

Apparently his knees are gubbed.

the big sutty to left mid decision was a bit controversial where i sit. hopefully that didn't ruin your day.

the first was a decent contest. The second half was dire, i don't think we had a shot.

killie have sold their hotel and done a deal with their bankers and all united have done is have some fans buy their debt and give them more favourable terms. It's hard to see what MFC have to offer a rich benefactor.

considering that the first objective of the society is to obtain fan ownership it puts them in a bit of a pickle. can they continue to give our money to directors who aren't committed to the society's goals/ i've missed the last few society meetings because i came to the conclusion that weir and co were only looking for a cash float and were not serious about fan ownership.

so why hasn't started in 3 of the past 4 games then?

maybe build them a time machine and they can go back and play in the 60s and smoke 20 woodbine as well then. every player needs to contribute without the ball these days and if they don't you end up with days like saturday. there is no reasons why vigurs and ainsworth can't do their share of defensive work i can think of apart from (i) they are too unfit (ii) they are too lazy (iii) they are too thick. do we spend a chunk of our budget on a guy who has been left out of 3 of the 4 games because the manager doesn't trust him to play in competitive games? a guy who can hardly ever manage 90 minutes and hides away from home? it should be a simple no but his goals make it a bit trickier especially considering the lack of goals from the rest of midfielders.

if there is a chance of a penny more for them and their client their agents will be sharing details of their contracts with anyone who asks.

the problem is that even by the standards of our squad lawson is very slow so he doesn't offer much defensively hutchy and mcmanus both good games against celtic when reid was sitting in front of them which obviously made things a lot simpler for them.

if he plays in a team that has anybody protecting the defence he will improve. Our defenders have been hung out to dry by mccall since jennings left.

i think the time we are losing the goals in is telling as well. The vast majority recently in the second half and a fair few right before half time which suggests that fitness is an issue.

the buck has to stop with the manager due to the contracts he handed out last summer and the systems he employs. That midfield selection was unbelievable on saturday. With the players we have contracted and the need to cut the budget i don't see things improving next season. Does anyone know the details of ramsden's injury beyond ”knee”?

it's not all about the bigger picture. People travel up and good money so it's not much to expect competence from the manager and the team.

we played compact defensive formation against celtic because they had scored 10 against us. United had 9 goals against us but we started off 4-4-2. Cifti has ripped us everytime so mccall gets vigurs to man mark john rankin. Mccall and black have no idea how to make a team defensively sound and have no chance of managing at a higher level.