Kmcalpin

Thats good news indeed. I'd always thought that we had between 2,000 and 2,500 season ticket holders. Hopefully a few more will invest in half season tickets.

Yes, a good idea especially for those living some distance away from Lanarkshire.

I'm with Fatcalf on this - a decision is not controversial unless the OF are involved. There's been the odd snippet about his perfomance last Saturday buts all. The media simply aren't interested in most clubs outside of the gruesome twosome.

The club needs to promote its womens teams. We need to involve more women with the club both as spectators and players. Its only right therefore that the Official website should evote at least a page to its own female teams. They're doing well and MFC should recognise that.

If you feel like that can't you just ask the Administrators to remove it?

I'll go against the flow here and say John Ruddy, although both are good keepers. Of the two Ruddy is better in the air.

Well it makes a change from our fans saying the same thing. For years now our fans have gone about Hibs and how good they are. Perhaps now we've seen through them.

Certainly no game changing decisions, but he got several major calls wrong. We should have been given a first half penalty when Nick Blackman was brought down - soft admittedly but a penalty nonetheless. Someone then deliberately elbowed Chris Humphrey on the head right in front of the POD Stand and got off scot free. The keeper should also have been given a straight red card but escaped with a yellow. Can't complain too much though - a geat performance and 4 goal win. Happy days indeed. Some devastating attacking football which was a joy to watch.

Kevin Kyle!!! Is that really how bad we are? I'm a bit surprised that Barry Douglas isn't in the Scotland squad yet - still I'm sure Craig Levein is watching him.

Yes, he looked promising when he came on last night. Lets not forget he has never been 100% match fit since joining us and he's duw a chanceto show what he can do. As another poster, Welldaft, told me last night he's been scoring goals for fun in training. CB seems to be impressed with hm too.

Interesting....the south end of the POD stand has bene cordoned off in recent weeks ostensibly because of...... repair work? Does anyone know? As I sit nearby in the centre stand will we be moved?

Good away win and a vital 3 points! This was a tricky game.

Some good points being made here. In youth football its all too easy to be influenced by size and brute strength. It takes a good scout to pick out talent. That said, to get to the top it usually takes a combination of size, brute strength and talent. I've said this before, but Premiership players tend (and of course there are always exceptions) to be far bigger and stronger than our own lads. The EPL is a very physical league. I know that scouts of top clubs consciously look out for big lads with talent. One of the main reasons Mark Reynolds has not yet moved south is his lack of physique and clubs have been honest about that. By comparison, a leviathan like Gary Kenneth will always attract attention - wrong I know but thats football. I was shocked at Faddy's appearance just months after he moved to Everton. He must have been "forced" or "encouraged" to put on about another stone of beef. If he hadn't done that he would never have competed in the EPL. Part of that may just have down to natural development but most of it was down to the gym.

Good post Dee. I'd much rather read text language than foul language. Who knows - maybe text language is the future? Anyhows the original poster has raised a valid issue, that deserves to be discussed. We should be encouraging open debate and new members on these Boards.

Joking aside, and its no worse than the Duck Sauce remix comments, the lad has a point. If there was no more to it than confiscating a beach ball then thats a very poor show. Now if the ball had had a Tricolour or Red Hand of Ulster printed on it would it still have been confiscated?

Gven his remarks at the club's AGM a few months ago, Craig Brown rates him as being a good prospect.

I wouldn't want to see Brian Kerr re-sign for us. First time round he was lightweight and totally anonymous for most of the time. What has he done since leaving us? He also showed no respect to the club when he left. In short, no thank you!

In see that Dario Quinn had a good game for Linlithgow at the weekend, scoring a goal and turning in a bandaged Terry Butcher like performance. It was interesting that he said that he hoped the club would clarfy his position shortly.

Spot on. John Sutton lacks mobility but if you're pressurising the opposition in their own box, slinging over crosses and corners to a big defence then he's your man. Yet again I'll say that Alan Gow will never be a centre forward so why play him there? I don't get the Bob McHugh thing though. He might come good but we've no evidence either way about that. Al B is also spot on. I've seen many derbies against Hamilton just like yesterdays - stretching right back to the 60s. They're up for it and we're not and consquently get caught cold. Stephen Craigan's comments on Frday evening were a bit alarming in the respect.

Some fouls will always go undetected during games and refs, like everyone else do make mistakes. However, yesterday Craig Thomson allowed much of yesterday's game to be played outwith the rules and thats not on. He made so many errors, both large and small, which influenced the course and character of the game. That said, CB got his tactics and team selection wrong. Even allowing for that he could have rectified matters, through changes much earlier in the game. Ross Forbes was not a success, and could easily have made way for Mark Fitzpatrick (how match fit is he?) or preferrably John Sutton. Alan Gow should have been moved either back to play behind the strikers or out to the left wing. John Sutton should have played alongside Nick Blackman. As an aside do we ever practice set pieces? They were woeful. CB has done an excellent job so far but he got things badly wrong yesterday.

Absolutely no contact was made.

Yes we had a good hand in losing, ourselves, but the ref had a huge influence too. Had he clamped down on Accies fouling and play acting that may well have forced them to change their tactics. For example, McGlaughlin looked to have had Nick Blackman in his pocket all game but much of this was achieved through illegal means. Had the ref clamped down on this, Blackman would have been far more effective. Our loss was due to a number of factors - poor decision making off the the pitch, a jaded tired performance on it, weak refereeing, and a streetwise Accies performance.

Craig Thomson deserves a thread on his own for a totally inept display. His weak handling of the game played right into a streetwise Accies hands. Why was Canning not red carded at the penalty? Why were Canning, Hasselbaink and the Accies no 18 not yellow carded for cheating and diving? Ross Forbes' booking was a total disgrace - the "tackle" took place just in front of us and despite not being touched the No 18 fell to the ground as if poleaxed. Martin Canning gets hit with the ball in the stomach and then falls to the deck holding his head????? These are but 3 examples of a very long list of injustices.

Spot on, Al. After Accies scored this game was made for John Sutton - physical challenges in the box against uncompromising defenders. Alan Gow is great is great on the left wing or behind the strikers. He is not a target man. Not sure that lasley or Murphy would've made much difference today - this wasn't their kind of game. We got it wrong off the park.

Seconded. Keep our feet on the ground folks.