steelboy

scottish cup being paraded on an open top bus = roaster magnet

the team is fairly obvious. i've heard mo ross hasn't been training so saunders will be at right back. a repeat of his last performance at hampden would be ideal. the subs should be hollis, gunning, jones, jeffers and carswell. i don't think we'll see jeffers unless we are getting beat. i think carswell will make the bench as we need cover for centremid and he has moved ahead of forbes since he made his debut.

saw that myself when i was in on sunday. maybe a wee side business in selling comps a la robbie earle?

give the lad a break. it was the heart of darkness in there today

i was giving massive props to the minority motherwell supporters who turned out to support the team this afternoon. it was a rainbow co-allition of well fans at the stade de gadd.

player/ top six games/ total games) randolph - 4 games (52 g.t.s) saunders - 3 games (38 g.t.s) hutchinson - 5 games (24 g.t.s) craigan - 2 games (54 g.t.s) hammell - 3 games (42 g.t.s) lasley - 3 games (39 g.t.s) jenno - 4 games (42 g.t.s) hateley - 5 games ( 52 g.t.s) humphrey - 3 games (49 g.t.s) murphy - 4 games ( 53 g.t.s) sutton - 3 games (49 g.t.s) players had to be rested today. it has been some season

i never realised the motherwell support was so multi racial. fantastic turnout from our ethnically african and asian fans today.

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i'm more interested in the rumours of dougie freedman being interested in murphy. are palace not skint?

i'll be in a group of 3 going. what else is there to do?

i'm going to go get tickets for it tomorrow. i'm not particularly looking forward to it but we either qualify for europe or get to laugh at thousands of torn faced tims. i'd rest as many bodies as possible pre final. hollis page saunders gunning ross humphrey forbes carswell pollock mchugh jeffers

it would be mental under normal circumstances with a player like mccormack or o'brien. with guys like jennings and sutton who have gave 100% all season and are totally commtited to the cause it is, to put it politely, beyond mental.

craggs for me.

what? killie didn't get a kick for the first 20 minutes and we had a couple of decent spells in the second half and had the chance to win the game with saunders' header. it was a decent enough game with both teams playing the ball on the deck without much bite. if jenno's goal had been given i think we would have ran away with it.

what you are forgetting is that in november we had management in place who seemed to rate sutton as less valuable than gow. he only started 2 out 11 games in that period (madness) so maybe it was the management rather than the club who didn't want to give him a new deal. good luck to sutty if he departs and if chrissy p comes back then jackpot.

they might have forgotten that he played for motherwell. the people who made the tribute video shown at parkhead last december certainly did.

i still don't understand why people feel so strongly about this. is there that big a difference between playing 9 teams 4 times in a ten team league and the status quo of 6 teams 3 times plus 5 teams 4 times? would or season have been that bad if accies and midden had never blackened or eyes and we played hibs, ict, st johnstone and the sheep one more time? the reason they are trying to do this is to strenghten the teams currently in the first and make relegation from the spl less of a financial blow. you look at the problems of the likes of falkirk, qots and dundee and it's clear they need a hand.

not a lot to say about that, it looked like a game we were trying to get out the way. we didn't seem to have put any thought into how we were going attack with jeffers up front on his own and mainly just booted the ball long from randy. if we're going to put in a such a shite effort surely it wouldn't have hurt to play 2 up front? hutchy had an utter mare and made daly look like drogba for their second goal. forbes was diabolical again and i can't see what future he has with us. on the brightside i thought tom hateley was decent and it was another good showing from carswell.

hateley, jennings and lasley versus ki and broon i like those odds

too much sun and booze for the decorator today!

i forgot how many people had those bucket hats. are there 2011 versions of them out?

surely that would be our first argument at the initial hearing and if it doesn't work we will use other (valid) arguments.

you're right. even more of a loss then.

and if you read it it's only a profit due to thompson loaning them £300k. united have many more senior players than we do so it's definitely not like for like.

what an old snake.