steelboy

the sunday herald journalist ian bell is a pretentious arsehole. he is a total scrotum who for some reason is allowed to moralise in riddles in the news and sport every weekend. he is also a hibs fan obviously the juke's leveler was the fitba viewing equivalent of being gang raped. fuck you ya hibee scumbag!

i don't agree that it was a shameful performance. we were diabolical at the back but we played well from 15 to 90 and played some right good fitba. i was pissed off at the time and watching it back you can see where we fucked but we still played a lot of right good fitba thorughout the game. we'v played much, much worse this season.

i'm feeling more and more and confident about this. i'm in row A, if we score down our end i'll be on the pitch ruddy saunders craigan reynolds hammell hateley jennings coke o'brien sutton juke same team as hearts. bring on the h.uns!

skippy sunday for me. we got our pride back that day after the pumping in the cuo final. seeing lennon lift the trophy on the hallowed turf with celtic fans celebrating in all four stands would have been sickening. if we had hit a 7th last night my answer might be different though.

some header reynolds wins to set up the equaliser. watching it back i can't see where the criticism comes from. he fucked up at the 6th but apart from that he had a solid match.

good to see him get a couple of goals. if he had scored that volley in bucharest he'd probably have hit double figures, instead it took ten months to get his first one.

hibs just scored their 6th. reynolds didn't get out and played 3 hibbees on. the well fans are streaming out, iain_mfc looks glum as fuck up the back of the east. we just got the third, i'm going to enjoy this next half hour

rewatching the full 90 just now. we're 1-3 down but playing some nice stuff. 1st goal. we ended up 4 on 4 at the edge of our own box. craigan should probably have cut out the cross, he looked like he didn't want to play it with his left foot 2. murphy totally fucks up marking john rankin then hibs get a couple of wee breaks of the ball. can't really blame ruddy as it goes through reynolds' legs 3. giles obviously but tom hateley didn't look too clever either. edit 4th. i'd be impressed if we scored that goal, that's the 5th goal hibs have scored against us this season when we've had our full backs pushed up edit 5th - the hibs player ran by big sutty and he never moved. reynolds was near cutting it out.

fitzy's two best games for us were the win over celtic in spring 08 and the game in nancy. this is his type of game (ie one where he doesn't need to do too much with ball). he put in a good shift up at pittodrie at left mid and i think he could shore us up a bit on sunday. we've got enough attacking options from coke, o'brien, sutton and the juke, we need workers as well.

looking at the highlights there the defending was poor but we had zero protection from the midfield. if you watch the first goal it was 4 hibs attackers against our back 4 without another well player within 15 yards. as ya beezer said hateley had an unbelievably bad game which left us with coke as our only midfielder and gave hibs free reign to pile men forward. i'd seriously think about playing fitzy at left mid on saturday and hateley back at right back.

he's a different player from last season, he's changed from a guy who trys to the lead the line to playing deeper and works his socks off for 90 minutes. the shift he put in at left mid when we're down to ten men at falkirk was unreal. i was a critic but i'm firmly won over now.

again. we've played them 3 times on a playable park, each time they've played four guys right up top and we haven't been able to handle it at all. we got absolute chasings the first two times we played them. if we had lasley and jennings available we might have been able to deal with them but we didn't.

because we cut the adult prices by 45% and the u16 prices by 90% and we didn't come anywhere near doubling the gate.

a quick swatch about the squad lists gives me this amount of players in each squad over 21 (playing min 270 mins) us - 12 hibs - 17 du - 17 hearts - 18 we've clearly got the thinnest squad and more than likely the smallest wage bill.

no chance. even with 6500 well fans you'd need an average of 2160ish in home each stand. does anyone know the capacity of each stand?

that's just my estimates. which one(s) do you think is/are particularly unaccurate?

i don't mean weak as in poor. i just mean we've got far, far less experience than hearts, hibs and dundee united. hibs have 8 or 9 full internationals in their squad. hearts have a £10m wage bill united have twice as many over 21 players in their squad as us.

600 hibs fans 2800 in the east 1200 in the cooper 1500 in the main.

i don't think ruddy had his best game tonight but he was still decent. he could have done better with one or two of nish's goals but that wasn't the problem. hughes dismantled gannon the first time by pushing 4 players right up against our back 4 and did it again . that totally fucked us and we only came back into the game when riordan went off tonight. we paid the price for having a weak squad tonight. when you're switching between murphy and sutton at left mid because you have no you trust to play their you'll pay the price.

i think tonight proves that as a club we can never implement the price cuts that certain posters on here are constantly bleating on about. just over 6000 with probably a 1000 weans who came for a laugh. the fact is there will always be people wanting to talk pish about fitba on the internet who will never be up for actually paying to watch a game that could be shite or could be a classic. look about motherwell on a weekly basis and you'll see guys with plenty of money for pints, horses, puggies, ching, takeaways and clobber. the difference between 20 or 15 quid won't seal the deal, it's the time commitment that bothers folk more than the money. cuttting prices at fir park is never going to work. there are no fans out to entice. anyone who wants a good team on the park is going to have to pay for it.

same old song but, whit? saturday hammell sold the first. second was unlucky and after that didn't matter. tonight saunders struggled but craigan and hateley were worse. the biggest factor was missing jenno. saunders has had a superb season.

while we're on the topic of fouls in the spl, epl and championship this season the two teams that average the most fouls per game across these three leagues are hibs and dundee united. we're currently the third least fouling team with only swansea and donny rovers cheating less than us. i agree that good players don't need to foul, especially ones with pace like reynolds. i would say that he should realise that if your not giving away daft fouls or picking up stupid bookings then you should use that to your advantage to pick up some smart ones.

to get back on track about reynolds, surely he's the fairest player we've ever seen in a motherwell jersey. apart from his daft sending off at dunfermline his disciplinary record has been outstanding over the years. this year he's played every minute of every league game and only commited 22 fouls with no bookings, compare him to the cloggers playing at the back for united, hibs and hearts and he's almost saint like. reynolds would actually be on to play 47x 90 mins this season but gannon subbed him against steaua because he thought reynolds gave away the pen when it was actually o'brien.

that's a fair enough point, mcghee did leave us up shit creek. however with only two of gannon's signings looking like staying on beyond the summer plus reynolds and o'brien leaving the squad could have been in a much worse nick this summer if he'd have managed to chase hammell, lasley and craigan out the door.

maybe naebody likes him at fir park? i've not heard a good word about him from any club employees since he left. i'll be sad to see reynolds go, he's been a great servant to the club and deserves to go somewhere and make some serious dough and hopefully get picked for scotland (although that's unlikely with big haddy loving levein in charge, he'll probably call up darren dods). hopefully if he does leave the craigan-reynolds centreback pairing will get the recognition it deserves, mcghee planted the idea in a lot of peoples heads that they couldn't cut it together when none of the facts backed that up and it seemed to stick for a long time. this season the thing to say seemed to be that craigan was past it and reynolds wasn't a centrehalf. thankfully craigie broon was too wise for that and since he took over both players have been superb playing together. since we played a 3 at the back in 93/94 and 94/5 reynolds and crags must be our most succesful pairing at the back for a long, long time.