steelboy

my point is that we all thought we were downsizing last season and it turned out that we spent as much on wages as we did when we finished third. if butcher could find mcdonald and malpas mccormack surely gannon could have got us at least one creative player who might be worth something if he is transfer guru some people think he is cracked up to be. i enjoyed having ruddy and jutkiewicz here but we must have been paying an absolute fortune for them and yassin. jenno was obviously a great signing, coke wasn't and the jury is still very much out on hateley and humphrey.

we need to stay away from loans and one year deals next season. there seems to be some sort of myth that jim gannon was some sort of transfer market guru but the facts are that he got the same level of financial backing as mcghee but couldn't sign us one player who will be a sellable asset for the club (even malpas managed that). we need more signings along the lines of sutton and randolph. guys who appear to be our level but have a good chance of improving and building around. we have to get away from filling important roles in the team with loan players as it leaves you chasing your tail at the end of every season.

exactly. if we get 4 points from the sheep and united games and celtic beat ict on saturday then ict will have to win at killie to stay alive. st johnstone play killie, rangers, celtic and dundee united and have only scored 1 goal in their last 6 league games. nae chance they'll catch us.

i meant to quote davie boy about the 3 on 1. fair play for being drunk. fat cubans are shite.

jenno has been a terrific player for us, he's the sort of guy you love in your team. he's great on the ball, has amazing energy and is hard as nails. when jennings and lasley are bossing a game it doesn't get much better as a well fan. sadly i think for his own good jenno has to head back south. since the hearts game it seems like he gets booked every week. if he goes south for a clean slate i will have no complaints.

jones gave him a diabolical pass.

this makes me much more confident. you said we wouldn't get within three of them at tannadice. you are a diddy.

sutton by a mile. who voted for humphrey?

he's played 84 games for us since gannon took over as well as 10ish for the scotland u21s. that's 90+ games in 21 months for a guy who is still 21 and takes a fair bit of punishment from defenders. i agree that he'll benefit from a break but we should presevere with him just now. i don't think he played as badly as some are making out today, he was our main out ball and took a lot of passes in to feet in decent areas. he was far, far better than humphrey.

why you don't you email the bbc?

that 2nd goal was a total farce. clear foul on hateley before their corner but the worst part was gunning's pish poor attempt at tracking back before that. it was a soft pen but gunning i knew the ref was going to give it straight away as their seemed to be one set of rules for us and one for killie, some of the fouls on murphy that weren't given were unreal. your never going to win a game with humphrey, forbes and gunning playing in the same midfield against a team who move the ball as well as killie. i was half expecting jenno to get a second yellow just so he could get away from the 3 of them. it was embarassing watching forbes near the end of his match, his decision making seems to go due to his poor conditioning. humphrey was shocking, he did well for the goal but was awful for the other 89 and did his favourite trick of hiding behind the left back for most of the 2nd half. putting forbes on for saunders turned the match against us. we needed to be able to compete in midfield and that decision weakend us. surely gunning to left back, page to right back and jones to left mid was the change we needed. credit to sutty, jenno, murphy and craggs for good performances.

lasley is suspended.

aye they put in some shifts in england. carlisle versus bournemouth is a belter from this weekend, only the 12 hour round trip for cherries fans.

a game 45 minutes down the road at midday isn't much of a hardship. there will be thousands of fans around the uk leaving the house before me on saturday.

there's no chance that craigan would ever consider doing that and i'm almost as sure the club would never ask him to. we'll leave that to the likes of scott brown and kevin thomson.

peterborough had scored 15 goals in their previous 4 games. wednesday had conceded 8 in their previous 3. last night's result was not a suprise. it's on the bbc website that mandaric is saying wednesday will lose the best part of £7 million by not getting promoted. they spent big in the summer thinking they'd walk league one but they're in the mix for relegation now. i predict admin in the not too distant future.

keiren westwood will surely play both games for the republic after being back up for so long. randy will probably get on the bench for one game. craigan has to be in danger of losing his place as well. aaron hughes is pretty much guaranteed to start and craig cathcart has had a good season with blackpool. if neither feature on the tuesday night surely we can get them back on early morning flights and on the field against united.

dangerous play then.

would reseeding make it (more) unplayable?

you're not cool. so why is this not high feet but a chest height boot is?

rangers have three league games unscheduled. aberdeen, hibs and united. if we're forced to play united on the 29th surely rangers must play aberdeen or hibs (or both) that midweek.

there the only full time team we've beat in a european tie. that's surely something to be proud of?

there's no chance the game will be on the 29th. we'll have craigan, randolph, saunders away and gunning if ireland u21 are doing anything. will rangers be playing any of their postponed fixtures during the international release date? will they fuck. if they make us play but not the h**s i'll be taking a lead from the greeks and digging up fir park the night before the game.

i was quite suprised hutchy never got his head on it at the game, this picture shows that he closed his eyes as a natural reaction t almost getting booted in the face which is why he missed it.

the same. i remember going back to motherwell on a double decker and the full bus emptying for a piss stop at whirlies round about. being on the pitch at fir park cheering the players with the cup up in the press box then heading down to my gran's house for some dinner. magic.