steelboy

st johnstone are chronically slow at the back so hopefully our pace will exploit that. on the other hand they're all big bastards and we'll be smaller than usual, randolph will come and claim high balls the way he was on tuesday.

mccall said on the radio last night that he has the same agent as law and hutchinson so hopefully he shouldn't be too hard to deal with.

he was much improved today even although i don't think he managed a shot. however i would wait to see whether it's down the support of the crowd, the added support or the two jokers at the back for dunfermline. all in a good performance, it's amazing how much better we are with two players up front. it's a shame mccall was intent on boring everyone for three months before he accepted it.

smart man. i hated that useless teuchtar prick.

this is why i'm against video evidence. tv companies shouldn't be involved in decisions or discipline.

i'd have scored at least 2 of the 5 chances he had today. just off the blower to big vinny. 3 game ban in the offing. shocking attitude towards the people who pay his wages. hopefully he does a bit of cardio during his break.

surely all of them were looking to step up to the first team? and that's not the case now?

the games i went to were not overly competitive. and i don't think you could describe something where everyone playing would rather not be playing as competitive. no one cared who won. we send 11 guys who we want to give game time out against 11 guys in the same situation from another club. it doens't matter what you call, the players will get as much out of it as they put in, it's up to them and the coaching staff.

randolph kept us in the game.

were you at the game caller? craigan played well today, has played well in recent weeks and other than hateley has played more than anyone else in our squad this season. he scored an og today but it looked like russell would score and most people i spoke to at halftime thought daley and jenno sold the jerseys.

we were definitely improved today. we fell out the game after their goal and didn't get back into it until ojammaa came on. i thought we made enough chances to win the game but i'll definitlely take a point. jenno was off the pace in the first half but was better in the second. omar was shocking, it's quite dispiriting that we have him on a two year deal. it was a good finish from higdon but he had missed 4 absolute sitters before he managed to score one. if people are happy with that more fool them. his general play was better than usual today but still wasn't causing any problems and he gave away as many stupid fouls as ever. same 11 that finished for tuesday please.

a reserve game is no more real or competitive than a bounce game.

the two things are connected. we're not going to qualify for europe unless we start scoring more goals. mccall's comments after the game on saturday didn't appear overly concerned about our lack of punch up front, he actually seemed deluded when he spoke of the chances we had made. we need some acknowlegement that he realises that something is badly wrong at the moment.

in 40% of games under mccall we've failed to score (21/52). just in the spl we've been failed to score in 47% of his games in charge (20/42). if he doesn't sort this lack of goals then i'd say he will be under considerable pressure come the end of the season.

'pathological dislike' maybe it's just that i've seen them play and know their strengths and weaknesses?

to get back into the rhythm of playing football, formations, tactics, movement etc. forbes obviously needs that as well but he clearly has problems with his basic fitness levels that he should be able to improve with through training (and if he is incapable he has no future as pro player). there were part time amatuer players in the queens park who looked in better condition than him the other week, how do you explain that?

i would challenge his fitness due to the number of times he has to be subbed off after an hour and the occasions where he was been subbed on in the first half and subbed back off in the second half due to being gubbed. you also see his decision making declining after about 55 minutes of games and he starts playing terrible passes. if we're just talking pace it can be improved through technique. craigan has spoken about going to see sprinting coaches, i'm sure someone with track experience could help forbes to develop but he is just as slow as he was two years ago. saying that you need games to be fit is rubbish. are mo farah and jessica ennis preparing for the olympics by playing football matches? no. plenty of people achieve a far higher level of fitness than any of our players soley in the gym and on a track. i'd also say it looks like most of our players fitness levels have declined since the beginning of the season - hateley, lalsey, murphy and law in particular.

surely he could be fiiter than he is? a couple of seasons ago we had a corner at celtic park. they broke up the field and forbes was chasing back, the next thing you know craigan ran by him like he was usain bolt. for a young guy to be so bad at running is unexcusable.

he was shown up by amatuers 10 days ago. part of the reason he was succesful under gannon was because he wasn't asked to do much, the left back was expected to push high up the park and he had hateley sitting behind him so he wasn't shown up to often defensively. he did well in the game against celtic but being honest he probably should have been sent off, the ref let him away with murder. he played well in a narrow midfield 4 at aberdeen which limited the amount of running he needed to do. can we count on him to play 90 minutes and put in a shift every week? no and that's why he's finished at fir park.

you're meant to try and get the ball to your team mates. standing on you tip toes and glancing the ball off the side your head so it runs through to the goalie is useless. he had one decent flick on to the right on saturday but the wee glancing headers are murder.

that shambles was reduced entry.

so he gave the ball away every time?

i disagree. daley and murphy at least looked dangerous in the first half and they were all awful in the 2nd. do you not think there is a connection between or shite goal scoring record and higdon? we paid for a leader and he's not doing it.

randy would have leathered ***** ********. fair play to him.

anyone who voted higdon is smoking crack. a striker who didn't manage either a shot on target or setting up a shot on target. low expectations.