sinjy

I did not watch the game today but have just watched the highlights and I am absolutely raging. The incompetence of officials in this country is beyond belief. What is worse do they not even know the rules? Two players should be between the goal and the attacker and when the goalie steps out they should be well aware of this situation. On Sportscene they glossed over it by saying it was a great move as if that made it alright and then excused the officials as it was an unusual situation. Imagine the meltdown if the same move sees the bigots knocked out tomorrow .

I don't think it is weird at all to be punting Alan Campbell. His transfer fee will be decided by training compensation this time. That sum will probably be more than we would get in a straight transfer if he resigned and we sold him at the end of next season.

Of course Watt s a quality player. O'Donnell is an international. Where are the others in our retained group. Carson if he gets fit. Donnelly if he recovers full fitness. The rest are journeymen SPL players. Recruitment will be vital if we are to challenge for top six next year.

Looking at our team just now I get a real fear about next season. Who are the best players in our squad? I would suggest Kelly, Gallagher, Campbell, and Cole. All four will be away come the summer. Huge boots to fill.

Very light on forwards on the bench. Only Hastie as an attacker.

You get a sight of someone in a no 38 tracksuit eating his dinner in the latest inside Motherwell video. I had to look up the squad list and Nolan is 38 so we are feeding him.

As far as I am concerned Rangers fans are scum. It is a long time since I braved Ibrox but always found the walk from the car very intimidating. I am old enough to remember the time in the seventies when they broke in at Fir Park when we were ahead, the game got stopped and we lost after the restart. No action by the SFA. Rangers have been in three European finals and two of them, Barcelona and Manchester have ended in riots yet the media continue to fawn over them.

Great win. Thought Alan Campbell set the tone with his first half performance. Kelly has made us forget Carson and Lamie is like a new player since Alexander arrived. Hope Tony Watt is Ok but we have a two week break so maybe some more players back. Competition for places can only be a good thing. Onward and upwards and if Celtic beat United tomorrow we go above them

I will be renewing. I have seen every home game for free so this year's season ticket has been used.

My absolute hero. Remember as a kid telling the barber how I loved him and the barber gave me a crew cut just like him. I was at Ibrox when we beat Rangers 5-2. I think the next round when we lost to Airdrie made up his mind to leave. Hampden 1961. Centre forward for Scotland Ian St John FP of Calder Primary CF for England Joe Baker FP of Park Street School later Cathedral primary half a mile away. Thanks for the memories

I am Scunnered by the team and the manager No fight or heart in the team Scunnered by injuries Scunnered by the seven signings made in January. Only Kelly has worked. Magloire the only other one to get a start. Mystery surrounds Foley, Nolan and Smith absences. Smith and Roberts look no better than White and Seedorf. Scunnered by the managers tactics. Our three man midfield gets over run when Campbell and O'Hara are there. On Saturday we have three Championship level midfielders and he persisted with the system. What did he expect to happen. With a make shift defence he should have been giving them maximum protection. The short passing at bye kick might be alright with a team full of confidence but not with this lot. Anyway one of the best long passers in the team is the goalie so why not use him. I have watched every away game this season apart from Rangers and Celtic but will be missing out on Wednesday. The six o'clock start does not go down well with Mrs Sinjy as she has spent all day in the kitchen preparing a Cordon Bleu meal and she is scunnered when half way through the meal I leave the table to set up the lap top. It is not worth the hassle any more.

I am reminded of a lovely guy I worked beside in the mid nineties. He was a Partick Thistle die hard. When it was obvious they were going to be relegated from the premier league he said he was looking forward to seeing new teams and winning a lot more games than ten or so wins they were getting in the SPL each season. They got relegated again the following season. Be careful what you wish for. Relegation will be awful.

So if the Kilmarnock and St Mirren games had gone ahead then it would be done by now. I would like to see a couple of more in but I do not want to lose Gallagher. O'Donnell and or Campbell going I could live with.

As a usual happy clapper I am now worried that we may get relegated. While many will point to bad luck and unfair referee decisions there is still something very wrong with our team. For me the problem lies in mid field and the speed in which we change defence into attack. There were a few occasions today in the second half where we won the ball on the edge of our own box and were not able to move upfield with pace. When we got to the halfway line we usually turned back and played a square or back pass that allowed Aberdeen to regroup. it saddens me to say that the main culprit was Alan Campbell and to a lesser extent O'Donnell. The mark of our successful teams of late has been pace when breaking out of defence. This team does not have that attribute.

Conspiracy theorists might suggest that Lennon's rant was the start of a move get the season null and void.

Two games in a row I went for Mugabi. It has to be a defender as we limited them to very few chances even though the attacks were coming all the time in the second half. Special mentions to Gallagher Watt and Cole. While our midfield did little on the ball they covered a lot of ground off it marking and following runners.

That was a great point. The manager's game plan worked and hopefully the players will gain confidence in him and buy into his ideas. He seems to want to see the fringe players in action thus Seedorf got a start and McIvor a run out. He won't have seen much of them if he has been watching videos. I don't think either of them did themselves any favours. The criticism that we defended deeper and deeper is a sign that we lack confidence and if results improve this will stop.

This shows what a shambolic organisation the SPFL is. When they released extra fixtures for cup weekend and we were not in it and Saints and Killie were I thought the appeals were likely to be thrown out but now we have to find a couple of dates to fit these games in. Typical no forward planning or common sense. I hope Burrows gets on to the SPFL and demands that any players signed by them since the original games are barred from playing. Open goal now for any club to claim they cannot field a team.

Tin hat on but I went for Mugabi

Turned over to the St Mirren stream at FT to hear what they were saying about the penalty. It was shown two or three times and was never a pen. Their ex player said they had got away with one but these thing even out over the season. I thought Mugabi had an excellent game and thought the pen was against Gallagher. For me the difference was, they brought on subs who could alter the game. We brought on Jordan White and Barry Maguire for Hastie and Cole. That was not going to improve us.

Just seen that there is an away team video on the top right.

4 streams. Any of them for us. I've tried 1 and 4 both St Mirren biased.

I hope he has watched our last four games on tape. That's six hours work that should give him a good idea of what has been happening plus a mornings training. I hope to see a big reaction from our under performers. Wasn't going to buy the stream but will now to see if there is any immediate difference.

That replay at Ibrox was an unpleasant experience. If I remember correctly we scored in the first few minutes as we were making our way round behind the goals where there was a shed at the back. As we were celebrating a group of menacing Rangers supporters came down and surrounded us and we had to run over to the shed at the side of the park. My hatred for Rangers stems from quite a few incidents and this was one of them. No segregation in those days. If I remember correctly ex Celtic goalie John Fallon played for us that night and had a poor game.

We lost the two young players who may have come in and made a difference, McAleer?? who went Norwich and McKinstry who went to Leeds. We just cannot hang on to good youngsters. Maybe they would have been the Turnbull and Hastie of this season