steelboy

it's nice that your giving your own mum a break during the offseason. anything else you want to say pm or fp.

abuse a footballer and you can get five years in jail. however if you're a footballer and send pictures of your knob to a 12 year old you'll get a fine. makes perfect sense. i voted snp but they have made an arse of this. instead of trying to deal with the issues that cause sectarianism they are just giving themselves a tool to hammer people who express it plus a wee present for the polis so they can harrass football fans at will. the parliament has done a lot of good things but it's horribly small minded. they shat themselves at the assisted dieing bill (supported by 85% of the public), they tried to extend licensing hours and ended up reducing them and now this. it's all about telling people what they can't do and reducing choice when it should be the other way around.

check the thread 'paddy mcourt is easily the best footballer in the spl' is your exact words. if this nicky laws thing is true it's very promising. it would be a good sign that mccall can deliver in the transfer market.

so you didn't say this? i'd be interested to know who could walk out the stands and do a job in the spl at fir park, i've not spotted any candidates sitting round me. perhaps there are superstars who unjustly didn't make it in the cooper tho what standard do you think there is for turning proffesional. it's just a numbers game dependent on how much money is in the game at any given point. there is no benchmark of ability required. you might say i'm a pendantic wee hoop but i come on here to give my opinion. you keep coming out with pish like this and saying paddy mccourt is the best player in the spl and i'll keep disagreeing with you.

tynescastle (a) on xmas eve could be the stuff legends are made of away to dundee united, hibs and ict in october.

to be fair his only ever appearance livened up one of the grimmest games ever.

the last part is as stupid as the rest of it. do you suggest we start playing 8 or 9 aside because you think players aren't good enough? if whatever players you are referring to weren't professionals who would take their place?

i'm sure there will a option to pay it up, they'll be doing everything they can to get fans on board.

brazilian has hit the nail on the head. we've known this is going to happen for around 9 months now but it has only really been discussed in depth whenever the club releases something or it is brought up in the media. the more it is discusses the better imo. i'm quite excited to see exactly how it will work and what effect it has on the relationship between club and fans. whatever happens i'm fairly certain it won't be dull. regarding jba's point i think we'll manage to get 1500-2000 people on board between the core support who go week in, week out and those who live further a field but want to stay connected to the club.

i think they're doing it the correct. surely it is better to have people waiting for all the info to be released and talking about it than have the full concept sprung on you out of nowhere?

the idea that there are guys with season tickets (meaning they're not playing on a saturday) who could do a job in the spl is mental. there are right good players who can only make it as far as a good junior or amatuer team so there's very little chance there are people sitting in the stands who are better than them nevermind the guys we're paying to watch. some delusions of granduer here i think.

not a suprise at all. i hadn't seen the thing about jones and hanley before. broon is taking pish, there is no way we'd have got jones on loan, blackburn fans and the media were raving about him after he made a few appearances at the end of 09/10. he lives in an alternative reality.

obviously his mate humphrey or humphrey's bird has telt him. fair enough. get hughes signed.

the idea is that whatever is raised through the various levels of membership will serve as a cash reserve that we can use like an overdraft if we incur unseen costs or have cashflow problems. half a million quid or so rainy day money seems pretty handy to me.

didn't no one else read the boards before the cup final? i'm fully expecting 10,000 people to sign up for this

that is fair bit of wheeling dealing.

if we actually did sign adam le fondre i'd beyond delighted. cannae see it though tbh

a definite naw to duffy. we're being linked with a left mid from partick call chris erskine on pie and bovril.

the total wage bill for everyone employed by the club works out at around 60k a week. i've no idea what proportion of that goes to first team players though.

it depends. if your on a ryanair/easyjet effort then it is pish but if your on a emirates/klm free booze, 500 movies and quality stewardesses flight then it can be quite enjoyable

gunning let commons pull a ball that had travelled 60 yards through the air and turn him like he wasn't there. i think that contributed to the goal.

in the way that he was constantly selling goals. the first one up at ict when he passed the ball straight to foran. the 2nd and 3rd at killie. both goals at tannadice in the cup tie. all 4 in the league game up there. 3 of the 5 at home to rangers. the first one in the cup final and he was posted missing at the other 2. obviously he's a young player finding his way in the game but if we're going to be playing loan players i want them to be better than the players we've got and he wasn't. gunning looked the part on the ball and was good in the air but his man marking and concentration was pish (he was like an even worse brian mclean in that regard) and he was extremely lazy tracking back. if we could sign him this summer i'd say go for it as he does have potential if he can sort the mental side of his game but i'd rather we gave our own players an opportunity than have him back on loan.

he was that bad we finished 3rd, qualified for europe 3 times and set a clean sheet record.

gunning is a bombscare. if we could get reynolds back and get a hammell/craigan/lasley sized contribution from him it would be a great bit of business.