Malky79

Course he fucking can, if he goes off and wins the 2 or 3 games after annoying as a loss to Accies would be it would quickly be forgotten. It wouldn't be a great start and would certainly see an already sceptical support struggle to warm to him but one game is rarely ever worth more than the 3 points on offer so lets not go overboard. He certainly could do with a good start and the quicker the first 3 points are on the board the better for lots of reasons!

McCall is no ones first choice, but we all reckoned McLeish and Davies were useless managers after their stint with us. Like McCall it was their first job and they've gone on to do better elswhere. So if we do get McCall I can only hope he learned from his experience at Bradford and can be a better manager than we expect him to be. Or he could be murder but he'd have to be worse than Malpas to relegate us from here I reckon so fingers crossed if he is murder we stay up and can bin him in summer if it a catastrophe!

A team that couldn't play the ball on the ground from back to forward regardless of unwanted senior players playing or not that was gifting cheap goals as soon as opponents sussed out we wouldn't compromise. We have young players like Murphy and Saunders playing regular and arguably playing as well as they ever have. though in Saunders case as before very up and down. Forbes was playing terrible before Gannon moved on and Hutchison has had injury problems. A reasonable start but what was it 10 games without a win? Currently we've had 4 and 2 of them have been without a manager. A vision we would have to realise from the first division most likely. A manager that wanted to chuck the baby out with the bathwater. For a good look at a how a good manager can have a vision but has the sense to work at it bit by bit look at Owen Coyle and Bolton. Hasn't binned every experienced pro but has gradually changed Bolton into quite an attractive team and is currently doing rather well. A team that won the fair play league the season before! I have no objection to Gannon wanting to be imaginative and trynew things but every tangible pieve of evidence suggests despite a decent eye for a player he was a bit of a dick!

You good at the revisionism yourself, exactly what do you base your faith in Gannon on? A few mouthy statements from Gannon and not a whole lot else. Barring the general lack of home support and money we are in better shape now than when Gannon walked out. Still fairly perilous but turn aroundable. Any issues over youth development should be laid at Youngs door not Broons!

It maybe only a relatively small amount he looking for the board to shift and reckons it could be negociated. Got to try and bash out the budget before he signs rather than take if he really thinks hands just be to tied. If it happens it happens and if not though both parties move on. Not overly fussed either way.

Sorry to hear that news, no good time to lose someone but particuarly bad time this time of year to cope with that loss.

We're not to bad a team to watch the now, but overall and it maybe as much a matter of perception as anything else the entertainment is still very average. We are a tidy unit with one pace merchant on the wing, a player in Murphy who can be worth watching, skillful and a decent eye for goal but somehow overall most of the games we involved in just remain mostly dull. Brown might have held them back a bit but nigh on every manager seems to have a cautious approach. Which makes the thought of a 10 team league all the worse if the spectre of relegation is the source of this fear. There is rarely a hint of self expression or collective joy in playing the game to be seen. That Templeton lad might go down a bit easy but least he showing a bit verve and skill and not quite as bad as made out either or I doubt he'd have scored the goal he did a few weeks back running half length of the pitch to do so.

Well you kinda maybe should because if Everton were to come poaching our manager he'd have to do a hell of a good job!

With the exception of Messi and a few superstars can do I don't see why we can't expect a bit more of what you describe. These guys are professional football players, it is all they do and yet we have to watch guys who look like they couldn't trap a bag of cement or hit a cows arse with a banjo at times. I don't expect the average guy earning a living in the SPL to have the skill of Messi, the strength, pace and skill of Ronaldo but surely to fuck the ability to strike the ball cleanly, make 5 yard passes and learn a bit of decent movement not mention a professional attitude to physical conditional and provide a reasonably entertaining product isn't to much to ask? We seem to have almost collectively accpeted we're shite and given up and play to a stereotype of commitment and closing down and the odd meaty challenge being a reasonable alternative!

Annoyingly it looks like the ref called both penalty decisions right. Though someone shoot Mark Reynolds please, height of nonsense at the first goal both on the line and what he did immediately before. Also Templeton should have been stopped before he got into box for 2nd, poor defending from Hately and someone else I can't be bothered looking close enough to see for sure. Maybe Jennings on a yellow being reluctant to take him out. If only Gow could have got a 2nd assist when we broke clear before they got their pen, should have down better with that final ball. A huge what might have been game.

Don't entirely agree, draw seemed about a fair result and given they scored from a farce of an own goal and a questionable pen and had a ref given them about everything I think without being at or best or even very good competed well enough and had some decent moments of our own that we didn't capaitalise on, perhaps being that bit rusty.

For same reason no. If he keeps doing the business at Inverness I hope he gets given another chance at a higher level and again does the business but I'd rather remember the good times and not risk lets face it his limited success at managerial level bite again. We weren't as one dimensional under Butcher as some make out but we were definately a team on the decline by the end of his time and it was probably a good thing he moved on when he did before things turned sour.

I'd probably take Calderwood, not with any great enthusiasm but solid enough jobs at all his SPL jobs. The rest not so much.

Will take your mind off it!

I think Leitch has been somewhat unfairly tarnished by association with Mark McGhee. I couldn't give a toss when he left and like most was relieved when he supposedly passed up the job and sticking behind to be foisted as an assistant on the next manager was far from ideal also. He might well be a complete banger, clueless, lacking in man management skills but really not someone who causes me any concern one way or the other. If he returns in some sort of coaching role I could care less so long as he does a decent job.

On another note I was quoted £26 for the outdoor and £55 for the indoor.

Harsh didn't look that big a haddy!

Think you'll find they were fighting against cuts and dedregation of their working conditions not demanding more money, so even if you still think they have it cushy or whatever at least be truthful about it.

If you think Humphrey has no talent then you not been watching very closely lately. Lot more to him than just the pace, no doubts the final ball could be improved but technically he has come out with some of the finest touches of any in the team in past couple of months. Forbes has some talent but if he had half the talent some make out his lack of fitness and strength would be something he should be overcoming a lot better. Countless times I've seen him look utterly lost and lack the touch or compsure on the ball to find a man when his lack of ability to run with the ball has failed him. In a slower paced league he might well do better and would love to see him develop into a regular player if he could reproduce the efforts that brought him to prominance but I'll be surprised if that happens.

Every season you usually here murmurs about sales being up at this time of the year but crowds don't ever seem to go up so I'd imagine we sold abbut as many as we usually do, and if they are up it because people are being canny and getting the season rather than paying week in week out.

Some shite posted on here, Gow is a very decent player. Seems a wee bit to likely to do to much by himself but he ap layer I'd be disappointed to lose. Him, Murphy, Blackman are 3 I hope we see playing at least to the end of this season and realisticaly hopefully Gow and Murphy beyond this season.

Criminal omission of Dougie Arnott, and to suggest the wee man wasn't even close blasphemer!

To quote John Cusack in Grosse Point Blank, "Dumb fucking luck!" Ouch!!

In no particular order 1-0 cup win against Aberdeen in 91 The 4-2 Celtic replay in 91 Beating h**s 2-0 to more importantly keep us away from relegation trapdoor and nicely their title party. 52 cup final Also whatever game sealed the league title way back when as well, though not necesarily mathematically chances are there was a fixture that maybe all but sealed it, crucial win over the ones from the dark side late in season maybe.

Couldn't possibly keep to 5. In no particular order Dougie Arnott Colin O'Neil Davie Cooper Luc Nijholt Steve Kirk Rab McKinnon Brian Martin Tommy Coyne Sieb Dykstra James McFadden Miodrag Krivokapic Martyn Corrigan Good many others I have a lot of time for but these ones stand out for a variety of reasons. Again would also add Craigan when he becomes an ex player and the housewives favourite of course!