steelboy

belter. what do you know about me? if you want to get personal be a man and do it face to face, i'm not hard to find.

an empty xxl jersey again. 1 decent performance in 2012, shocking.

what a load of shite. we were crying out for a sub at half time. you could easily have pulled ojaama, law or carswell but mccall thought we were fine. then we goal a goal down and his tactical masterplan is to move law inside and we end up two down then he makes the subs. total pish, i'm struggling to remember when his subs made a positive impact on a match. the favouritism towards nicky law has to stop. he was barely involved last week and was rank today but his place in the team never seems in danger. the same goes with higdon, he did absolutely nothing in their half after being an empty jersey last week and knocking us out the cup the week before. will either of their places been in danger? no chance. murphy doesn't look interested any more but i can't say i blame him. he hasn't had a shot in his favoured position since last summer, is the only one who ever gets dropped and is the first sub. mccall's man management has turned a £750k asset into zero. he came onto today and daley played through the centre! the guy is a joke of a player but he is another one of mccall's favourites which explains the fact he is here next year despite the budget needing to be cut. hutchy and jenno played well first half but were terrible in the 2nd. hammell and humphrey had decent games. there is a lot of work to do to get 3rd place.

i meant semi. it should make for some cracking matches anyway, hopefully sky will focus on the battles for 2nd and europe since their is no title race.

the post split fixtures should all be pretty tasty. if celtic beat hearts in the final 6th place will miss out on europe so the three teams below will be battling to avoid that. add in the battle for 2nd and every game should be a significant one.

the chances of lennon not going on sky if celtic win the league on sunday?

if the only thing they think of is not talking to sky then i don't think the 10 have much to worry about.

mccall says a decision is embarassing to the refs face in the tunnel. lennon says a decision is criminal on tv and then to the press later on. guess which one gets hauled up? lunny comes from a family of celtic fans, he could at least try to hide his allegiances. hooper elbows jenno fracturing a bone in his face? ok. mastorovich gets a red with no footage proving it was the wrong decision? rescind it anyway. regan is a terrible administrator and you have to wonder how much influence his good friend lawell had on appoinining vincent. celtic have been getting an incredibly favourable deal from the refs this season. their fouls to booking ratio is off the charts compared to every other team in europe.

if you clap for everyone it means nothing. it has to be for people you especially respect. i know nothing about this guy other than his boy plays for killie and he died at hampden.

it's not hard to respect a minute's silence. i've sat quietly for a paedo sheltering pope and the never worked a day in her life jakey queen mother. appluading is different as it is actually an effort. i'll applaud people that i feel have earned it.

i can't really say i'm keen on clapping someone i know absolutely nothing about.

fuck that

that's what it should be. ideally i'd like - united (h) hearts (a) celtic (h) rangers (a) st johnstone (h)

jumping about in a fountain with your boaby out is probably best forgotten

exactly.

there is two different ways that can go down. leeds united, charlton and middlesborugh way. rangers never leave the spl, their share is transferred prior to oldco being liquidated. there is a mechanism within the league rules for this to happen. or they get liquidated and their membership lapses. do you make any distinction between them?

i wouldn't chuck anyone out that is capable of fulfilling their fixtures unless their is some explicit cheating going on eg the calcio scandal. ebt's are immoral but they are only a small part of a massive amount of tax avoidance (70bn a year). they were widely used by banks and english clubs as well because their accountants told them they found a loop hole in the system. the government closed that retrospectively (which i'm glad about) and now they have to pay up. no one is talking about punishing the english teams involved and no one has ever mentioned newco share transfer ruining the credibility of english football as far as i can remember. where were the high horses when we went into admin, bumped the taxman, sacked our players and finished bottom and still stayed in the league (then signed partick's best players whilst still in admin)?

why would what happens to rangers effect anyone's opinion on securing the future of motherwell. the point of the society is to make the club safe and sustainable for decades to come. the worst case scenario for a newco rangers is being back in the spl debt free in 3 years time (which is nothing). is lording it over rangers for a few years more important than the future of our club? not for me.

i think we need to know exactly what rangers being chucked out the league would mean for us. if it means binning our succesful business plan, chopping our playing budget by a significant and wholesale squad changes to make the new budget viable i'm not for it. i don't give a fuck about punishing rangers, i care a lot about motherwell continuing to be succesful. i also think a lot of the newco rage is a bit manufactured. i know a good few motherwell fans that support leeds and it doesn't appear to be an issue for them. i've never heard it casted up in regards to middlesborough or charlton. the directors have a responsibility to the club. they are working hard to make us as succesful as can be, to expect them to just discard perhaps a million quid of income a year is unrealistic. motherwell comes first.

26 goals in 11 games since he signed. before that we were averaging 1 goal a game in the spl under mccall. which is worse than brown's current spl record with aberdeen of 1.03

that's not really true. we actually scored slightly more goals per game under brown 1.43(63/44) than we have under mccall 1.41 (86/61). when you consider that mccall has clocked up 24 goals against lower division pish compared to only 2 for brown then it's safe to say we were a fair bit better at scoring in the spl with brown in charge 1.51(53/35) than under mccall so far 1.1 (55/50). under mccall we've failed to score to score on 24 occasions (39% of games) under brown we drew a blank 10 times (23%) i don't understand how the brown dour, mccall exciting myth got started.

i checked that out a couple of weeks ago. going by how teams that followed that path this season were seeded we wouldn't be.

we've already guaranteed top six. we're nowhere near guaranteeing fifth yet.

i don't think so. there's no way to know how much each player earns but the directors have stated that the playing budget for this season is £1.8m (35 thousand a week) which means there must be quite a few players picking up 2-3 grand a week. i think our average first team player will be on a better wage than their counterparts at all the other non city clubs. randolph, law, hammell and higdon would have came in on a good wage and hutchinson, hateley, murphy and jennings have surely all had pay rises over the past couple of seasons.

they took £150 quid out my account last thursday. does that count?