steelboy

phil o'donnell?

not so mcculloch but edu and whittaker are big and fast which generally isn't something we deal we well with. also see samaras, m-a fortune

worrying that thomson is the ref. uber-h*ns hate him and he gave them f all in the league cup final and then gave celtic a dodgy pen that should have decided the league (and seen us in europe). it may well be in the back of his mind not to piss the orcs off further. the c**t owes us for his god awful performances in the defeats to hibs and accies last season. by my count he denied us 3 pens, gave hibs a goal when bamba fouled randolph and didn't send off bamba, canning and imrie. we'll get nothing from him.

before we played them at xmas they hadn't beat us at fir park in 3 years. we usually give them a game at fir park, last season was just an exception imo. when we played them at xmas we were in crisis and we had eye on the cup final when we faced them in april. the season before last we should have beat them twice when o'brien missed the pen and that baldy twat of a linesman chopped off our 2nd goal. i think it will be back to normal and a close game.

it's a big test for hutchy up against jelavic. he's had a great start to the season but jelavic got the better of him 3 times last season, hopefully he'll have the confidence to assert himself against him. 4-5-1 again with humphrey dropping out and las back in. rangers look average at best just now and have a difficult game on thursday. we should be looking to get at them from the kickoff. law and murphy to take turns torturing broadfoot on the left.

it was utter bedlam but not quite the level of odense maybe they were counting the time hammell takes to take a shy as our possesion

it was a good three points and i was delighted to boot the p&b st mirren mob in the baws with a late winner but hateley sticking in the free kick didn't change my thoughts on the previous 89 mins. i don't think i'm being fickle, i'm just not getting carried away (at least on here). there were a lot of positives yesterday but also a few issues that might catch up with us over the season, i don't think it's wrong to talk about them.

the only times under mccall have been the rangers semi, the celtic win, the final and the last home game before the final against killie which was prep for the final. a bit different to facing st mirren.

on the spl website they have rab douglas down as having 7 shut outs in a row for celtic in 2000/01. clean sheets against rangers, dunfermline and celtic needed to match it. easy

we're a team that plays 4-4-2. it appears that forbes can only play in a midfield 3. since mccall has been here he has played forbes in a centre mid pairing once at killie when he came on as a sub and got subbed back off. i'm not enthused by having to play 4-5-1 every time las or jenno miss a game.

i did my share of celebrating last night. it was a great 3 points but it wasn't a great performance.

our tactics didn't work at all. we didn't 'let saints have the ball', we got the run around for most of the game. we were up against two of the worst centre backs in the league and our centre forward won nothing against them. how many times did we kick the ball at higdon followed by him jumping 4 inches and their defenders winning the ball with no one near them? we didn't use the players available to the best of their abilities. humphrey didn't have a clue what he was doing and barely got a kick, murphy was on the edge of the game for 90 mins and law disapeared for the first 35 of the 2nd half. apart from jenno no one in our midfield kenw who they were meant to be picking up for most of the game. is it a lack of faith. if las was fit we would have played a 4-4-2. forbes is meant to be a centre mid but he can't play in a midfield 4 so we have to play one up top to fit him in. the fact that it only takes either jenno or las to miss a game to make us completely change tactics is very worrying. st mirren are utter garbage, we shouldn't be happy just because we edged them in a close game.

it was a definite lack of faith. murphy and humphrey spent the majority of the game man marking their pishy fullbacks. if forbes was up to it he would have been a straight swap for keith. he isn't so we ended up chasing shadows.

honestly?

brief thoughts. our midfield was horrible. they were hopeless. we made all the chances so we deserved the win. higdon - that bad he tried to get himself sent off. that performance isn't acceptable, up the workrate or face questions about the waistline. humphrey - it's like playing with 10 men. that's 270 mins of utter failure, wtf!

if you had a compy to get in then you can have no complaints.

craggs for me. double figures in clearances in his own box. tremendous. forbes had a lot of good passes. on the other hand we had to change our full shape because the manager didn't have the faith to play him in a centre 2 and there were quite a few occasions were he should have been in control but he got shrugged off it because he was too weak.

you went to st mirren - aberdeen rather than our game against killie?

a good appointment. in his book big tel talks about how big an influence marhsall was in the dressing room and how he gave the team talk at 90 mins in the hearts semi. delighted to have him back at the club.

i thought he came onto a game in the 2nd half, he won 2 or 3 huge headers near the end. he also played one of the passes of the match down the line to hateley. i think we need to bear in mind that he only had a couple of minutes against partick and nothing against leeds, ict or killie. he's obviously a bit behind the rest in match sharpness.

i think it's down to where you sit. good vibes in our section, nae point slagging your own players when there are wanks like grainger and templeton about. if anything las should have passed the ball back to randolph rather than trying to chip it out left, as tweed said he had a hand in his own downfall.

he was born in belgium. some folk are just massive, lebron james and dwight howard were monsters when they were 18.

i had a google of the rules up until a certain age (23) if a club signs a player on his first pro contract they have to pay 'training compensation' to the clubs that developed him from the age of 12 to 21. fifa rules govern cross border signings and the lowest grade of compensation under their guidelines is 10,000 euros per season.

he might have been a good player but i doubt he was worth 90,000 euros which is what we would have had to pay to various french amatuer teams. i'm guessing his agent didn't inform us of that when he brought the guy over.

looking forward to seeing big shaun and craggs versus big sutty. they should at least be wise to his backing in and grabbing trick.