steelboy

we chose to boot rangers out the spl at a cost of £350,000. selling one of our most important players on the cheap is the price of sporting integrity. £100k is sickening when you consider the fees paid for the likes of maguire, jonsson from hearts and the two young lads from falkirk all of whom jamie is streets ahead of.

we played great football without him on wednesday. when he wasn't there it forced everyone else to raise their game rather than just look to move the ball out to the right. he seems to have lost his pace as well. ryan o'leary and lee johnson matched him at points today. he set up a goal but the phrase monkey's and typewriters comes to mind. he was put 1-1 with full back well over a dozen times and we got very little out of it.

i think he meant henriik at left mid. he's been far better at left mid than playing through the middle in the past month or so but i doubt mccall will play him there.

hopefully watt comes back from airdrie and gets and opportunity on the left or the right. if humphrey doesn't want to sign a new contract he should be put on ice asap.

murphy and randolph were the only two who played for the 90 minutes. going for jamie. some great touches, a good goal and unlucky to have one cleared off the line. you have wonder what he would have done for us over the past couple of seasons had he been played through the middle or on the right rather than being handicapped playing on his weaker side.

First time i've ever posted on my phone during the game. Fair to say i didn't enjoy our performance in the first hour, it was a carbon copy of easter road.

Thats 8 or 9 games in a row we've been rotten playing his 4-4-2 and he's changed it to great effect in the past 5 spl games. The question is why continue to start with it? Changing a winning team after our best performance in ages was inexplicable.

Mccall is a moron

copy and pasted from stv news. i don't think there is much to interest us there. the only players who strike me as in our price range and not utter shite are iain davidson, darren barr, dylan mcgowan, nick ross, tudor-jones, aaron doran, james dayton, richard brittain and chris millar.

138 out of contract spl players at the end of the season Aberdeen Isaac Osbourne, Jason Brown, Gary Naysmith, Russell Anderson, Chris Clark, Gavin Rae, Rory Fallon, Rob Milsom, Josh Magennis, Mitch Megginson, Ryan Fraser, Danny Rogers. Celtic Paddy McCourt, Thomas Rogne. Dundee Brian Easton, Gary Irvine, Stephen O’Donnell, Mark Kerr, John Baird, Kevin McBride, Jim McAlister, Mark Stewart, Ryan Conroy, Nicky Riley, Neil McGregor, Steven Milne, Iain Davidson, Matt Lockwood, Carl Finnegan, Davide Grassi, Kyle Benedictus, Rab Douglas, Jamie McCluskey, Declan Gallagher, Martin Boyle, Graham Webster, Alex Baird. Dundee United Jon Daly, Willo Flood, Barry Douglas, Steve Banks. Hearts Andy Webster, Andy Driver, Darren Barr, Marius Zaliukas, Danny Grainger, Ryan McGowan, Dylan McGowan, Scott Robinson, Arvydas Novikovas, Kevin McHattie, Gordon Smith, Brad McKay, Dale Carrick, Jack Hamilton, Fraser Mullen. Hibs David Wotherspoon, Lewis Stevenson, Ivan Sproule, Alan Maybury, Eoin Doyle, Pa Kujabi, Shefki Kuqi, Gary Deegan, Danny Galbraith, Sean Murdoch. Inverness Nick Ross, Andrew Shinnie, Owain Tudur-Jones, Aaron Doran, Shane Sutherland, David Raven, Gavin Morrison, Ross Draper, Antonio Reguero, Gary Warren, Scott Mathieson. Kilmarnock Cammy Bell, Liam Kelly, Mohamadou Sissoko, Borja Perez, Garry Hay, James Dayton, Anssi Jaakkola, Ryan O’Leary, Danny Racchi, Kyle Letheren, William Gros. Motherwell Jamie Murphy, Michael Higdon, Darren Randolph, Tom Hateley, Steven Saunders, Nicky Law, Chris Humphrey, Omar Daley, Robert McHugh, Simon Ramsden, Zaine Francis-Angol. Ross County Richard Brittain, Michael Fraser, Grant Munro, Paul Lawson, Mark Brown, Scott Boyd, Mihael Kovacevic, Iain Vigurs, Marc Fitzpatrick, Rocco Quinn, Stuart Kettlewell, Mark Fotheringham, Mark Corcoran, Sam Morrow, Alex Cooper, Steven Ross. St Johnstone Craig Beattie, Dave MacKay, Liam Craig, Chris Millar, Rowan Vine, Callum Davidson, Kevin Moon, David McCracken, David Robertson, Gary Miller, Frazer Wright, Pat Cregg, Jonny Tuffey, Alan Mannus, Jamie Adams, Liam Caddis, Zander Clark. St Mirren Paul McGowan, Steven Thompson, Gary Teale, Craig Samson, David van Zanten, Marc McAusland, Graham Carey, Sam Parkin, Chris Smith, Graeme MacGregor

end of the season.

i can see the appeal of that but the bonus of not having to listen to his pish on the radio in the car on the way to and from away games is too great. sportsound appear to have made an editorial decision this season to fill the void in their program left by no old firm rivalry solely with interviews with craig brown and terry butcher. i feel like i've spent the entire season on the A9 listening to them going on about injuries or chippies.

i think brown will be gone at the end of the season. it's obvious that milne loosened the purse strings in the summer in the hope that they could challenge for the title and get big crowds. they had their sell out saturday at the beginning of the season and their players were talking about a title challenge in the media but it's same old shite up there despite their large, experienced, well paid squad. fingers crossed for a bottom six finish and broon being sent to the knackers yards.

can't see it happening sadly. there will be too much money on offer for him down south and it's possible that we won't even be able to match his current deal never mind offer him improved terms. best case scenario is that he keeps his recent form up, chips in with a few more goals and leaves the club in a strong position with the cash from second place and a europa tie to look forward to.

two goals and an assist in the first half = motm

we need someone up front who can score goals and contribute to our overall play like mcginn, thompson, griffiths, doyle, daly, russell, sheridan or mckay. when your two of your attackers who start every week have managed 2 goals in almost 50 appearances between the pair of them you are tying one hand behind your back every game. higdon was scoring enough earlier in the season to make up for his failings but he hasn't kicked his own arse in the last month.

i'm sure if you asked the players they would rather the moaners continued handing over their cash. i'll be suprised if anyone from last night's 11 is at the club in 3 years time, nevermind ten. getting new players in is easier than getting new fans.

we keep on playing him as one though and i don't think he can play anywhere else as he'll never be one to track back or mark a man.

nicky law was our best player by a mile

we've won two home games. one where ojamaa started on the bench and the other where we only started playing well when higdon and ojamaa were subbed off. we've won 3 games away where murphy started centrally (killie, st johnstone, ict), the hibs game where we were terrible in the hour we spent with those two up front, the united game where we were pish for most of it and under siege the full second half due to the strikers being unable to win/hold the ball. that leaves the win against dundee where ojamaa did come on a make difference playing in tandem with higdon. plenty off effort from henrik no doubt but we already have a winger that can't score goals so we can't afford a striker that doesn't score and won't shoot on his left foot unless you put a gun to his head.

we were absolutely pish for the first hour against hibs. surprise, surprise mccall lines us exactly the same against st mirren and we're equally punchless. the higdon ojamaa partnership isn't working and mccall needs to try something else up front to get goals. the defence is a shambles but they get no help from the middle of the park so it's difficult to blame them individually. for both their goals hammell was marking his man and they moved him into the centre which allowed them t get unchallenged crosses in while ojamaa who had moved to the left stood 20 yards away watching. humphrey's efforts at the second goal is why he'll never be a football player.

30 games. 1 goal. never a striker.

ojamaa has been murder this season. it has never been easier to score in this league and he has 1 goal in 24 appearances. he looked better when he was playing a bit deeper in the final half hour on saturday but has been largely ineffective up front. if we get the chance to cash out we should bite their hands off.

poor at home, poor standard of football over all, a shocking defence and none of the recent signings contributing anything. mccall has to up his game to prove he is the man to take the club forward.

when half the squad fuck off in the summer we will have a decent bit of money available in wages even if the budget is cut. it has to be spent wisely.