steelboy

#herbal life

If the guy turns out to be a Moult we're laughing. If he's another Bowman then it's not so great. After two cup finals we should be adding quality in the final third.

He has a similar problem to Maclean in that he doesn't fit into Robinson's hoofball system.

I saw Whitehall play in one of those Unicef games at Old Trafford. He might actually be better than Newell.

Ideally Ciftci signs with another club ASAP and we can get on with finding a player who can provide the guile we have been lacking up front. He might end up being a useful player for someone but we aren't in a position to gamble on him.

Do you also enjoy watching paint dry and kettles boil? The only thing worse than hoofball would be watching Cerny waste a minute of game time before the hoof.

He's played 200 games aged 26 so i doubt he's coming to sit on the bench. He got dropped after the new year so he was probably freed.

They had zero attacking intent in the second half but the defending was impressive. The goalie threw the free kick in, hopefully McCrorie is fit for the semi final.

2 nil to Scotland already against South Korea. Campbell starting again. Middleton crossed for Billy Gilmour for the first. The second Burke ran 50 yards and finished well.

Hutchy and Saunders would have been playing boys club football the last time we beat Rangers in the league. Kinniburgh and Partridge at the back that day. The game you are thinking of is the one where Jim O'Brien missed a pen in the last minute to win it. And Yassin Mouatkil ran riot against Jerome Rothen.

He tried to leave Falkirk last season but they refused to budge on compensation and no club would pay the money for him. That resulted in him being forced into signing a one year deal where he got sent off in his first game and apparently never hit the heights of previous seasons after that. We could possibly end up in a similar situation with Cadden.

McCrorie was excellent when he played at Fir Park with Berwick last year. The players coming through seem to have improved technically and what we are lacking are dominant centrebacks and a physical striker.

I don't see him going to St Mirren right now but he's not far off the Owen Coyle to Ross County stage of his career.

There would be more conflict. The clubs look after their own interests, the SFA are responsible for the whole of the sport. Say they merge what happens with sponsorship? Who would decide what percentage goes to the senior clubs and what goes to women's and grassroots? The richest clubs already have a big influence at the SFA. If you officially merge them in they will end up completely dominating it to the detriment of every other part of the game.

If the players are being told to hit diagonals every single time they get the ball then it's down to the manager.

What benefits would come from a merger? The SFA adminster all football, the SPFL are the professional clubs. It's two different things.

Gemmell makes Steve Robinson look like Pep Guardiola. You can make case for the senior team's switch to all out shitfesting we are about to see under McLeish but what do we gain from the u21s constantly punting long balls?

It's because they try to avoid paying as much tax as possible.

Do you not think it's strange that he never thought it might be a good idea to get himself in shape at any point during that time? If your getting paid 8 grand a week for essentially nothing it's surely not that hard to find 90 minutes a day to train.

I was at his first game and his last game. He was walking about the park for most of the the final game and at one point in the first half chased a ball when he was offside and was so gubbed he was still offside when we won the ball back and hoofed it back up the park. Even Skippy never got caught offside twice in 30 seconds. There was also his embarassing cameo in the semi final and the shocker against St Johnstone. It's possible he actually got less fit.

Why do you think he isn't fit? The guy was training with our first team for months and isn't any fitter than when he got there. If he is doing all the training with the club that the other players do then he must be doing something wrong away from the club.

O'Halloran is clearly trying to engineer a pay off from Ibrox. With Ciftci it's not just about preseason you need to trust him to sort his diet as well.

I don't have agents sending me lists of available players or a head of recruitment so obviously i can't come up with names. I'd stay well clear of Ciftci though. If he had any intention of getting his career back on track he would have been working hard off the park over the past few months but it's clear he hasn't.

Why would we sign Ciftci when he couldn't be bothered to get fit between January and May? Give him a contract and he'll just take the piss like he has for the last three years.

Aye he made a great tackle to stop Rogic scoring at one point. He does the job Robinson wants him to in the middle of the park. Given the height of Campbell and Grimshaw and the fact that Rose is a blouse he's likely to be doing the same job next season.