steelboy

i heard today that the club were in contact with one or two players who are free agents and can be signed outwith the window. i still think we'll get a striker in. it's mental to think that in the last five transfer windows we've lost 15 players who were on permament deals and only brought in six players (and two of them are casagolda and charlambous).

is this omar daley the guy who roasted the fat african in the friendly a few years ago?

i took off 20% for vat then 10% for costs and used an average ticket price of 13 quid. i think hampden will keep the catering and the sfl the programmes.

38,000 at hampden today. even if there is only 20,000 at our game tomorrow we'll still be looking at 130 grand from ticket revenue. let's get some of it invested in a striker.

quite correct sparra! i cannae wait for sunday. up early to watch bradley vs alexander on sky plus followed by andy murray winning the oz open hopefully he'll wrap it up sharpish so i can head over to the cloudy express meet up for a good scoop in plenty of time half one bus into hampden after three anything can happen but we party win or lose (even in the unlikely event of a draw)

depends on the budget. we'll look like fannies if we make a few signings then win the grella case but can't afford him.

if a cup semi final at hampden doesn't stir you a wee bit and tempt you dream you'd be as well chucking fitba all together and taking up trainspotting or stamp collecting.

this is a bit worrying. are we putting all our chips on grella or are we looking for someone else?

you forgot to mention that fir park could burn down after leeann forgot to post the insurance form.

the games changed a lot. if you go back and watch the 91 final now the general standard of play is absolutely gash, i'd say the same would probably apply to the 93/94 side. everyone creamed themselves over davies' goal against partick but we we regularly had moves of that standard in 07/08. there's also a lot more pace in the 07/08 team. modern players wouldn't get away with carrying the weight philliben, coyne, dolan and shannon did.

good idea until he scores and knocks a 4 foot deep hole in the pitch.

i didn't actually mean literally them. just someone who if you hit the ball long there's a good chance they'll be able to win the ball and work the defender.

we either need a couple of new bodies in midfield or a striker who can hold the ball up like mcdonald or jutkiewicz. if the midfield can't get a grip on the game we need a striker who can make something out of nothing balls and that's not sutton. hateley was anonymous last night. he barely kicked a ball first half, came into to it a wee bit at the start of the 2nd then played a few bad passes and disapeared again. jenno was good first half but miles off the pace in the 2nd, clearly far from 100% fit. humphrey created a couple of chances and jones looked dangerous in the final half hour but we can't afford to carry two guys who only contribute 2 or 3 times a half. humphrey definitely needs a rest but he also needs to add more to his game, when the ball wasn't out on his wing jones was coming inside and taking up decent positions while humphrey just stands out on the right touchline waiting for the game to come to him.

mccall's grown on me since he was appointed. everything coming out of the club suggests he is very positive and hands on which is what we need at the moment. i think he could do a butcher style job to see us through a difficult period when we don't really have the money to sign anyone.

in the past two games we've played 8 guys aged 21 and under, i think we're doing this already.

imo the best performances from any of the young defenders have been saunders centrehalf playing at tannadice, pittodrie, celtic park and at home to rangers under gannon. edit - wouldn't drop craigan though. in six games under mccall we've lost 3 goals. a travesty of a penalty, a corner where reynolds was beaten in the air by kenneth and a 89th min counter where we had everyone up the park. the defence is doing ok, midfield is the problem and certainly was last night.

i've heard that big sutty regularly scoops with lennon up the west end. nae idea if lennon would bring someone in because he's a mate.

there's a clear link between malcolm and stewart. guys that came through at big clubs, aren't as good as they think they are, are overpaid and are absolute nuggets. gow keeping sutton out the team pretty much summed up the change in our team between the start of october and the new year. the guy was a waster, never produced on the pitch yet was continually retained in the team, do you think that's unconnected to the turd performances we got against hearts, rangers and accies? the juke isn't a valid comparison. he clearly earned his stripes with goals and playing injured. remember this was a guy who got a puncture wound with stitched in his thigh on the saturday yet declared himself fit to play 30 mins as a sub on the wednesday.

malcolm - the guy was picking up 3 grand a week for doing hee haw. i dubt that he ruined spirit in the dressing room but we certainly have used the wage a lot better in 08/09. gow - i think it's clear that he had a bad effect on the squad. murphy was shunted out wide so gow could ponce about in a free role, by the time the accies game came round he looked completely scunnered. big sutty was treated like shite on someones shoe to fit gow in. dropped after a decent start to the season, he then comes back in and we win two games but gets dropped at easter road and slapped in the face by being a 92 min sub, a sub again at love st and we play better and score when he comes on but he still doesn't start the hearts game, he's still on the bench against rangers even though gow is dire and blackman asks not to play and even though he comes on and scores he's still on the bench at parkhead where gow disgraces himself further and the same again at accies. it was pretty clear by sutton's body language while warming up, his reaction to fans shouting for him and his reaction when he scored at dundee that it was bothering him.

agree 100%. surely we've learned our lesson after malcolm and gow. i wouldn't get too excited about senior players, it's more likely to be craggs or hammell adding another year than jenno or sutton agreeing new deals.

dougie dougie had obviously sent off his quota of 'well players for the season hibs 3 mothewell 1 23/11/02 Dubourdeau, Cowan, Segewald, Corrigan, Partridge, Hammell, Fagan (McFadden 66), Adams, Pearson, Ferguson, Lehmann. Subs not used: Woods, McDonald, Kinniburgh, Khemas. Motherwell scorer: Ferguson (47). Yellow Cards: Sengewald, Adams, McFadden Red cards: Sengewald (56), Pearson (87), Partridge (88).

would it not be easier to register than ask here?

what else is there to do on a freezing cold wednesday in january except crawl through the guinness record breaking road works at cumbernauld, stop at auchterarder for a chippy and a couple of jars then head into perth to see a top class spl match? roll on wednesday

i mentioned four games but i also mentioned that he was in the top 3 of our player of the year twice. in his first season he played his way into the scotland squad and after his final season had a few clubs chasing his signature. he had a dodgy spell when malpas was in charge but he came back from that and had an extremeley solid two years under mchghee, he's clearly not as good as ruddy or randolph but it's revisionism to say that he did nothing for us.