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McGhee had the same option, but didn't play them. Gannon showed he had sufficient contacts to bring in an entire squad of new players if required, but chose to go with a number of the youngsters. I think you're wrong on this one.

As much as I respect Jimmy Calderwood, we shouldn't be looking to him in the long term. When his term at Aberdeen was winding down, he kept going on about how he needed to look for a fresh challenge outside of Scotland and that he was getting bored with the SPL. Not the sort of outlook required.

Being so unfit you get out of breath walking to the pie stand is no grounds for adoration.

Just the opposite from when McGhee left then? Guy takes us to Europe 2 seasons in a row, gets us to 4th in the league, and when he leaves he is an 'evil scum sucking paedo' (allegedly). Gannon took over a team that was down to less than the bare bones. Just go back and look at this board in July/August to see all the regular doom merchants postings about the end of the world, relegation etc. Whether you like him or not, to assemble the team he did, in the time he did was pretty impressive. I'm not saying that, if there was such a deterioration in the relationship, that the board shouldn't have sacked him. They should. That doesn't mean we don't have a squad better than most of us could have hoped for 6 months ago. I know fans love everything to be black and white, but the real world isn't like that. Most people are good at some things, bad at others. I was happy with a lot of the players Gannion brought in or promoted from the youth team. I was unhappy with some of his behind-the-scenes antics. It's okay to be both.

One of my favourite Shankly story supposedly took place during a practice game. The captain went for the toss up and lost. Shankly walks over, puts his arm around him and asks: "What did ye call" "Heads", says the player. "Ach, ye should have called tails, son".

You prefer the "Aye Chick, over the moon, boys gave 110%, one game at a time" type of manager?

The flag says he was in Uddingston. Ive been there too. It was longer than 6 months ago, but a wee bit sunnier.

Only because we have plenty of previous. Everybody on here was giving us pelters too last season (and rightly so).

They should be congratulated. When I was a student I had to work all summer so I could afford to buy my (full price) season ticket for Fir Park. It made me what I am today. A bitter, twisted auld man with nae mates.

Aye, that's what made him so annoying. Bags of talent, less than zero application. Could have had a decent career if he kept his ego out the way.

Moved to Hamilton in 1969 when I was a nipper. My dad was raised a Falkirk fan, but wanted to take us to see a local team. The top 2 choices were Motherwell or Accies (who at the time were in the process of running up the lowest number of points in the history of the First Division). Bobby Howitt was the manager at the time, and his son was in my brother's class at school. That made him more interested in 'Well than Accies so I'm told (I don't remember), and the rest is history.

Because Gannon has a long term plan of trying to combine a Scottish style with a more European approach. If you'd ever listened to his interviews, you'd have picked this by now. Beats humping long balls up the park any day of the week.

Really? You would call Morrisons or Comet before you shopped there this week? Most businesses extend their hours at Christmas, not randomly close without notice. The club made a mistake in this instance. End of.

Not if you're in PR. If you inconvenience a paying customer due to a mistake you made, you need to suck it up and try and make good.

Why would you call someone to ask if they are open during their posted business hours?

It's a sad day when the trolls aren't even making the effort.

We always concede an early goal at Ibrox. You'd think we'd have worked out a way to stop that in the last 15 years.

I thought we sold Porter for about 400k? That wasn't a bad profit.

Or the story in the Sun is nonsense, perhaps.

The most reliable way to get access to the uk sites is to purchase a proxy service from a site like this one: Clicky That cost about 120 quid a year, but is very reliable. I don't use this method, but others do with great success. They offer a free trial if you want to make sure it works for you. The alternative is free, but takes a bit more configuration and messing around. This is what I use, and it does work for the BBC highlights and match day radio broadcasts. Clicky I'd read the comments in this blog as they give some useful tips if you use this method. For example, as soon as you get a valid connection to your target site, you should immediately stop tor.

Ah, the Saturday Night Sock Puppets. A fine SteelmenOnline tradition.

Aye, I'm sure Yassin dreams of warming the bench at Spurs. The comparison was about defensive qualities. Hutton is a terrible defender and is constantly being caught out of position.

From what I have seen he has the defensive skills of Alan Hutton, and he was snapped up by an EPL club.

Did 'Flow not say he was in Ireland on business?

Was that the slogan for 'Country Life'?