steelboy

We need to sign someone who can cover ground in midfield and another striker who offers more than McDonald leading the line. Sadly we have wasted chunks of our budget on Blyth and Clay so it's unlikely to happen. Lasley, McDonald and Hammell should be 1 to 1 with whoever is in charge of sport science every single day and told if they don't get into better shape they can forget about playing.

Another doing on the cards today I think. McGhee's comments about the GPS tracking being 1.5km per player down is the equivalent of playing with a man less for the full game and isn't something that can be sorted by an afternoon of interval training. We completely fell out the the Rangers and St Johnstone games after an hour and honestly didn't look much fitter than an outfit like East Stirling until late on. The buck stops with McGhee for the poor pre season and bad player recruitment.

Clay disappeared after our goal and is going to pick up a lot of bookings with his style of play. He's not what we need but at least he looks like he'll give 100%.

McGhee choosing to take off Cadden and put on a cart horse up front cost us. We went about 10 minutes near the end without putting two passes together. The only positive is that we did make chances so with Moult back we might be more competitive.

Celtic are hardly in good form. They squeaked by Hearts and Astana with late goals. They looked like world beaters last night because we let them walk right up to our 18 yard line.

The official site labelling him an 'attacking' midfielder is a classic piece of Burrows propaganda.

They tend to have players who are fit enough to compete physically for at least the first half.

It depends what you class a higher level. League One, yes. It's always a bad sign when a manager starts bringing in job lots from one agent. Hennighan, Tait and Clay could well be the new Murphy, Molloy and Keegan.

We are at the level of a Conference team now.

Marvin managed one near the end. That was shameful, this is another summer where it looks like our player recruitment is going to cost us long term.

If the manager decides to play a small left back at centre half, a corpse at left back, a 36 year old and a Conference player against Celtic's 3 centre mids and a unfit midget up front he has to bear the brunt of the blame.

Why haven't we pulled Marvin yet? The game is over.

Joe Chalmers showing why he should be nowhere near Fir Park. He's that bad you resent paying into games he's involved in.

It tells you what McGhee thinks of his signings.

Conference vs EPL there.

Pathetic. This could be worse than Tynecastle.

Big Joe is rampaging up and down the touchline tonight.

McGhee must be thinking two holding midfielders with McDonald playing in the hole behind Moult and two wingers this season. If we ever line up Lasley, Chalmers and McHugh as a midfield three it will rival the Lawson, Leitch, Carswell trio that got hammered by Accies as the slowest midfield ever to start a game.

I don't think the turnstyles at Celtic Park can take cash.

I don't see the Celtic u20s winning this. They couldn't even make the youth final last season. What level does the average Celtic U20 go onto play at? If the lower leagues teams take it seriously they will beat them.

Doesn't look like it.

It doesn't matter whether the player was sold or out of contract.

We'll receive one percent of every transfer fee for McCormack. For Murphy we would get five percent and Hutchy three percent. Obviously we live in a brainwashed Tory idiocracy but I'm surprised that a small method of redistributing wealth is so shocking to some people.

It's designed to redistribute a bit of football's wealth from the elite clubs down to clubs like us who spend a lot of time and effort on youth development but don't always get rewarded for it.

It's called the solidarity mechanism. I didn't know anything about it until I looked into last night. 5% of every transfer fee is to be distributed to the clubs who developed the player up to 23. Rangers will get a share as well as UEFA decided they are the same club. Cardiff will get a portion as well.