steelboy

save the marches for europe. from just a practical point of view the traffic will be bad enough around hampden without shutting roads so we can march down them.

i think it will actually work against us. the people that make noise and are vocal will be spread thinner round our section and the atmosphere will suffer for it. i don't think many people who weren't at the semi will be up leading the singing.

jim hamilton is an arsehole. he was an arsehole on his debut when we got a pen and he physically wouldn't let kevin mcbride who had never missed a pen take one then went on to miss it himself. he was even more of an arsehole when he walked out to go to dunfermline then came back to fir park and tried to rough up reynolds and gave him loads of verbals. in the boxing day game at east end park he spat the dummy when we went two nil up and got a red for deliberaltely elbowing craigan in the head. it still pisses me off that he captained us on a good number of occasions.

keep it up. you've been wrong all the way so far. there's no way it's going to be revenge for skippy sunday either. who will be on the park that was a mhank back in may 05? maloney and mulgrew is about all i can think of. i doubt ki, kayal, commons and roberto carlos will know about it or give a fuck. if they bring it up they should be reminded that their captain, the lego eater, spent that glorious may afternoon lieing down to rangers.

the ticket office at fir park has one lassie who works in it, one computer, one ticket printing machine and one debit/credit card facility. even if the lassie could make 30 sales an hour the ticket office would have to be open 24 hours a day for 25 days to process 18,000 individual ticket sales. multiple sales are the way forward.

that's partly why i said lower levels: junior, amatuer, eos, sos, highland. there are thousands of guys playing every weekend, some of them must be decent candidates to ref at a high level.

being a grade one ref seems to be a bit of a closed shop. as you say most of the guys are white collar proffessionals, perhaps we would have a better standard of referees if it was opened up to a wider range of people. has there ever been any comment about why teachers, accountants and polis are so over represented? there is always talk about getting ex players in to do it which is not a bad idea but there is no reason why it has to be spl/sfl players, it's safe to say there would be more playing at lower levels. to get the level that a guy like collum is at now it seems you have to be involved from your early 20s, if they were serious about raising standards they would find a way to bring through guys who have 10-15 playing experience under their belts.

at the end of the day though it's the fault of the defenders for making the challenges. last night kovacevic had to try and make a challenge and had to go but the hell were dillon and gomis doing, they've no to blame but themselves. games would be better if they weren't constantly being broken up by fouls.

i think he would have felt under pressure to produce reds for the united players because there was such a fuss about him giving considine a red on sunday. sadly that's how it works now.

is it that hard to figure out that the side closest to parkhead is the celtic end and the end closer to ibrox the rangers end?

one day shy of six years since skippy sunday. you would think the thick chunts would have learned their lesson. even if we are infilitrated it will be fine. the only thing better than scoring the winner in the 87th minute against celtic is doing it with one of the bastards only a foot away from you

it looks like it'll be another sunny day out at one of our favourite venues this saturday. after matching them on our last visit with a seriously weakened team i think we can be confident of going through and getting a result. everyone is already focussed on the cup final but we still have a wee outside chance of finishing 4th and not having to worry about last day moral dilemmas. if we can beat the jambos this weekend and killie beat dundee united then the battle for 4th will be well and truly on and dundee united will teetering on the verge of a huge collapse. bearing that in mind i expect us to go for it this saturday, we're in a no lose situation in the spl now and tails will be up after the semi performance so i think we'll see a positive attacking performance. getting the balance right between resting players and keeping them sharp as well as giving some playing time to youngsters will be very difficult for mccall. this weekend i don't think he'll worry about that too much as we're still a month away from the big day and i think he will attempt to build on the confidence gained last weekend with another win. i think the only change we'll see is jeffers dropping out as he's apparently got a muscle problem in his leg. randolph hateley craigan hutchinson hammell humphrey lasley jennings murphy mchugh sutton

someone told me they at us at 2-1 on bwin at the weekend. the best odds i saw were 5/6. do foriegn bookies usually give better odds?

i cannae get over this 'wit and guile' claim, hilarious stuff. i personally think you need the eyes of a hawk, the strength of a bear, ears of a wolf and speed of a puma before you can consider yourself a true fan.

i saw him on eurosport once playing for germany at u20 world cup. he was actually quite good. on the subject of former players mark gower has scored a couple of screamers for swansea recently, i thought he was a quality player when he was on loan here.

aye fir park is often mistaken for a mensa convention when we're playing on a saturday.

hopefully all the doom and gloom that was hanging over us with the 10 team spl vote will have lifted. the dark days of winter seem a long time ago now.

that's not how the spl tv money is divided. it's dependent on league position, not how many times you're on the telly

i'm not sure we can count on subo to give us 100% effort

6th place is worth £75,000 more than 7th. i think in our two six games we'll likely get 7-8000 more patg punters than in the bottom six which is worth around £120,000 after vat. the gate for the final should be worth around £4-500,000 to us after vat. i don't know if there is any tv money for the final. the gate for this weekend will be worth about £130,000 after vat. i remember thinking the cis semi was worth around £180,000. if you consider that we've made around a quarter of a million from sky in the course of the cup run and we had 22,000 patg punters during the europa run then it has been quite a lucrative season.

i'm sure you can see quite a few union flags on the 91 dvd and definitely in a lot of the dortmund photies that have been posted. i'll be voting snp at the election and i'd vote for independence but the uk is the country we live in and i don't have a problem with people being proud of that.

it's the 2001/02 home effort. i got it for cutting about gran canaria when i was 17. nae idea where it is but there is zero of chance of it fitting regardless.

couldn't agree more. in the last year or so we've had the cis semi and the euro run plus the 6-6 and 3-3 comebacks against hibs and rangers. this looks like a team that believes it can get results in big games. when we beat celtic in febraury i bet everyone in the ground thought 'we've scored too early' but the players stayed calm and never looked like conceding. up at aberdeen we had lost six on the saturday then they scored after 5 minutes but they stayed calm and went onto dominate the game. this is a team with baws.

i've not owned a well top for 10 years. fitba tops are for playing fitba in.