steelboy

It doesn't seem like anyone has been excluded at the moment and there is the potential for other teams to gain Elite status. Looking at the"progressive" teams you would expect Dundee United to go for it when they are re-established in the top flight and Dundee when they have sorted their new stadium and training ground. Partick probably will as well when they have their training complex finished. St Johnstone don't seem interested in youth development and the Highland clubs are a write off due to the small population. The general idea of better qualified coaches working with the best players is definitely the way forward.

Willie Kilmarnock played 300 games, captained the Scottish Cup winning side and won the League Cup as well. He also had runners up medals in both competitions. If you replaced Higdon, Brian Martin, McKinnon, Gahagan and Lambert with older legends then it would be a pretty good list. Moult has a chance to join the ranks of the guys like Faddy, Coyne and Cooper who didn't play that many games but are club legends.

Three times as many people live in Lanarkshire as live in the Highlands and there are more people here than live in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire combined as well. I would guess it's a younger population with more kids as well. No Tayside teams being involved is strange but none of them seemed to be that keen on it.

MOTM for big Darren in the World Cup playoff in Copenhagen.

Cadden and Campbell start for the u21s. The game is live on Youtube. For some reason the game's in Perth.

Play 3-5-2 and you are asking Kipre to deal with Scott Sinclair ie you are asking to get beat. This team has goals in it mainly from set pieces, Moult making something from nothing and Cadden and Tait's deliveries. Celtic will have the majority of the ball regardless of what system we play so the priority has to be having a solid defence. Pressing at Hampden is a mug's game as the park is too big.

We haven't got anyone who can support the striker from centre midfield though. Tanner is the obvious choice but i'd say Moult and Bowman both work harder than him defensively. If you watch the semi final the strikers were taking turns at dropping very deep anyway.

Kipre is being hung out to dry. He's a massive guy who is being asked to go cover a huge area of the park as Cadden is constantly pushing up leaving acres of space between the two of them. He played much better in the second half last week in a back four.

That's us beat but we got a bit of pride back and hopefully it will be lessons learned from Robinson. We have had so many poor first half performances this season, almost every league game. We will need to play for 90 minutes in the final.

Rose and Dunne off. How many times have they been subbed off for being pish this season yet they always start....

Needs a full back outside him.

Is it not down to the requirement for photo ID?

Carson, Tait, Kipre, Hartley, Dunne, McHugh, Rose, Bigi, Cadden, Tanner, Moult 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 but we are obviously preparing for the final.

That does sound a bit dodgy and opens the door for corruption via proxy voting given the low turnout in most votes. It would be interesting to hear why the society wants to give share buyers full voting rights.

It says you join the WS at the pre Steel level but i'm not sure what that actually means.

I agree that giving society membership for buying shares is wrong. Was that put to any vote?

They might if they think there's an award in it for them.

Anything could happen in the next 30 years but if 57% no longer represents a majority it will be a major shock....

You can't demand to buy the club with 30 percent. It's also likely to be very difficult to figure out who actually owns all the shares. I don't think that the controlling interest going from 70 to 57 changes anything. People need to be realistic. You are getting a certificate and a letter once a year, it's not the Dow Jones.

We would have been out it by half time without Hartley.

I wouldn't have taken off McHugh for a few badly executed passes as he was still competing for the ball and might have passed better with better options in the second half. Rose is rotten and as soon as he was on the left of the midfield four Hibs just bombed forward at will as they clearly had no respect for him (see also him getting marked by Lewis Stevenston at corners). I'm not saying Fisher would have won us a point but Bowman in particular contributed nothing and under normal circumstances wouldn't have played 90.

If you change the team then have to change it again ten minutes later because you are getting horsed you can't have made the right substitutions. Using three subs by 55 minutes meant we couldn't bring on Fisher when both the strikers were having nightmares.

Very poor, we've barely played two passes. Dropping Tait who battles for everything for Frear who has a pea heart makes no sense if you are just launching long balls. Rose is still murder, a 6 foot 4 blouse that can't head, tackle or pass. Every week teams are happy having guys that are 6 or 7 inches shorter marking him at set plays. We turned it around against Dundee and County are terrible first halves so hopefully we ring the changes and get a better performance.

It should be a good game today. Hopefully the wind dies down a bit but if it doesn't we should be sticking everything we can on top of Hibs' rotten keeper. If we have to play without Hartley and Campbell it will be a real test of the squad. I think Moult will start but if he doesn't I wouldn't start Fisher and Bowman together again.

They didn't even do a match report on our game last night. Just interviews with Robinson and McCann.