steelboy

how can you blame craig brown for every team in scotland deciding to fill their teams with overpaid, shite foriegners rather than bring through young scottish players in the 90s and early 00s? that's why the national became so shite, nothing to do with brown and roxburgh. the reason forbes is struggling is because he's not good enough. he is either incapable or unwilling to get into the required physical state for the spl and if you look back when has he actually had a good game in the spl? the 3-1 win over killie is about the only one i can think of. saunders and page have had a decent amount of game time this season and hutchy will get his opportunity when reynolds leaves. mchugh probably would benefit from a loan spell but with casagolda being injured we need him here just now, there's plenty of time for boab anyway as he's only 19. ess- anytime i've seen jamie pollock play for the u19s he's probably been the best player on the park in terms of touch in passing. if there are boys that are better they surely won't have a hard time getting a club and establishing themselves.

a hero and a legend aren't the same thing. i think steven gerrard is an overated, despicable fanny but i can also recognise that he is a liverpool fc legend. a legend for me is someone who is synonymous with the story of the club. names like mcfadyen, ferguson, ferrier and stevenson still resonate from 70-80 years ago. the same can be said for the 52 cup side, the ancell babes, there are names from the 70s and 80s that i never seen play but pop up all the time and are familiar to me: pettigrew, wark, gahgan, forsyth, graham just being a few. i don't think it's very likely that if the 00s pop up over a few pints in 2040 the consenus is going to "nae stand outs.

we've only had the one away game since tynecastle and it's only been just over a month.

you mispelt aff.

everyone knows it's spelt stuart

jamie pollock was picked for the u19 euros squad the past two seasons, he must have a bit more than luck going for him.

the aberdeen fans have a 400 mile round trip so it seems fair they get 3pm on the saturday.

i think you can be a legend through great service to the club (wark,philliben) and by being skilled exciting like faddy. fadddy is no doubt a legend but he only won 16 matches in a motherwell shirt and as much as he was an exciting, brilliant player to watch it's easy to forget that he was quite often extremely frustrating trying to do too much himself. he's definitely a huge figure in the history of the club due to when he emerged and the boost we got from him but i wouldn't say he's the dominant figure of the past 10-15 years. craggs, hammell and lasley have been stalwarts during a relatively very succesful period for us and even though they all left the club but like phil i think it says a lot for them they chose to come back. except from the blip under malpas the club has been in excellent shape since we came out of admin and in years to come i'm sure the euro trips, cis cup final and semi's, top six finishes and pretty much ending our hodoo's at tannadice, easter road, tynecastle and pittodrie will all be fondly remembered and the players at the forefront of people's minds will be craggs, hammell, lasley, reynolds, phil, clarky and the kaiser.

i thought lukas was dire when i saw him at aberdeen but much better when he came one against the h**s and dundee united. the game against celtic at parkhead was the first game he really looked a player.

i agree that i'd be gutted to see kerr back. the guy was a shirker and although he had some decent games he spent the majority of the the time shitting out of challenges and hiding. however we can't be suprised that brown is looking at midfield options. tom hateley hasn't won a tackle since he moved into the centre and it's clear they don't rate fitz and forbes. we need a left sided player and a centre mid, it's a shame we're pissing money away on casagolda, the cypriot, fitzy and gow.

4-5 vs dundee united was a great game. 5-6 versus aberdeen was a farce that would have shamed a public park. for me 5-6 aberdeen 1- 7 celtic 1-5 cis final 1 -2 st johnstone (scottish cup) 5 - 0 st johnstone (a) 4 - 1 pars (a) scottish cup 0 - 1 caley scottish cup (barry wilson) 3 - 4 ayr scottish cup (glynn hurst) 1 - 0 killie (a) the night dubordeau punched someone and gave away a pen after 85 of the worst minutes of football ever seen. it was about -5 and we never had a shot. 1 - 5 livi edited for 1-6 hibs and 1-4 ict. fuck you mapas!

phil tommy coyne valakari arnott clarkson

only 25 players have made 200 post war league appearances for motherwell and two of them are current players - craigan and hammell. lasley will be the 26th the next time he plays in the spl. by christmas hammell should be outright third for post war league appearances, only willie kilmarnock and joe wark will be ahead of him. in all competitions hammell, craigan, lasley, reynolds and murphy have a combined 1116 appearnces and 44 years service. both within the context of the modern day game and the context of history of the club we're seeing some remarkable service at the moment.

would it not be something like section 7, article 9 rather than out of ten?

it seems pretty straight forward that the attendance figure should be the number of people who attended.

the three times we've thompson this year he's been brutal. at perth he let duberry away with manhandling our strikers all game, the first day of the season he let bamba away with murder and yesterday he let canning and mclaughlin grapple blackman all game. someone needs to tell the guy that he's an spl ref not a wwe one.

aye hateley was brutal. he's never a centre mid and i think he's at best as good as saunders at right back. i would actually pay forbes his contract up the now and tell him to go. he's due a ramsay/fagan fall through the leagues, never an spl midfielder. why we kept on playing the long ball throughout the first i've no idea. big randy obviously likes putting his foot through it but we're just playing into accies hands, they reduced the game to a successioin of set pieces (which we're pish at). i was disapointed in jenno today, he was by no means the worst but he was the one who should have been sorting things out in midfield and dictating how we play and he just didn't do it.

you've got your seasons mixed up. the world cup was 2006, mcdonald's final 6 months were 2007.

am i the only person who thinks people's medical details shouldn't be posted without their permission? all the best to joe and his family but as someone who has seen close hand what alzheimer's does to a person i don't think "getting better" is very likely.

all the semi money gets pooled and split four ways.

that bumps the home game against st mirren to midweek then. also thats us guaranteed to play 48 games this season and hopefully a few more.

hopefully he finds a better club some time in the near future.

no one stood out tonight, it was an up and down performance. i thought hammell showed the most consistency throughout the game so i went for him.

what's that got to do with friday's draw?

we won 3 league games in the 2007 part of 06/07 and mcdonald scored in all of them. all 3 games came after he had signed for celtic. he had a great game and scored at killie before xmas when we were bottom of the league. he had a great game on boxing day at dunfermline and scored. if we had lost those two games i believe we'd have been relegated. in my opinion, in the moday night game at dunfermline mcdoanald was one of only a few motherwell players who looked committed in a game that could of guaranteed our safety. imo he did very well in his last six months.