steelboy

my brother said he got us 3 return tickets for 42 quid today, coming back on the quarter to 7 train, this afternoon. i think he went into queen st station though rather than trying online.

it took me about 5 minutes to click who you meant. big kevin the pole.

it was superb to get another clean sheet on saturday, for all the stick the defence has taken at certain times over the past month they've had a very solid start to the season. so far we've played 10 games, conceded 8 goals and kept 5 clean sheets. what's really impressive is we've only lost two goals from open play, with four coming from crossed set pieces and two from penalties. let's hope we keep it up.

good result and win today but to be honest it's probably the easiest 3 points we'll get away from home this season. it turns out the team half the board are tipping to be dark horses for the top six are shite. they had two chances in the first few minutes then never threatened again after we scored, we should probably have got a couple more but we were never in any danger. good performances from everyone but i reynolds was my motm, he had parkin in his back pocket, his distribution was excellent and he broke out of defence a few times. the other 3 at the back strolled it, randy earned his money in the first 5 minutes, lasley and jenno bossed the midfield and the front 4 looked dangerous. blackman was in and out the game but when he was in it he looked superb, if he keeps improving we'll have a player on our hands. a good days work

reynolds for me.

how many away fans does the average conference side take with them? how many of them wear brand new relica tops? i have a hard time believing this.

i hadn't noticed that. i always just tend to think of of the 11th of september as 9/11. i would disagree. we went over to odense and were much more offensive than scotland were in lithuania. in fact the way we played in the away games at rugby park, pittodrie and tynecastle last season under brown should have been the way we played in kaunas.

100 grand to occasionally have people cutting about motherwell, wishaw, bellshill, lanark and carluke with a fitba top with your name on it on the few days of the year where it's warm enough that people aren't wearing jumpers/jackets? genius. is the lip duncan bannatyne?

saturday will see a return to supporting a team that features neither scott brown's ripped coupon on the park or a clueless manager who's ambition seems to be take walter smith's anti football crown off him. i cannot fucking wait! with europe being over for us for another year and most of the players having had a wee break this is almost like a new start for us when we can get properly focused on the task at hand in the spl. st johnston will be desperate to get their first win so hopefully we can frustrate them a bit and come away with a sneaky win. i've no idea what brown will do with the team , i can't see him playing two out and attackers on the wing and i expect that if gow does well humphrey will be back on the bench but mcdiarmid park is massive and suited to humphrey and he's had two good games there before. does anyone know if hammell will be fit? -------------randloph page craigan reynolds hammell ---lasley-- jennings-- hateley humphrey----------------- murphy --------------sutton prediction: 2 nil to the well (murphy, blackman) i think i'm going to go up to perth on the train for the first time on saturday, are there any decent pubs around? maybe even a sports bar as there's 3 games on at luchtime.

since his squad includes barry bannan who is probably the smallest player i've ever seen as well giants like caddis, arfield, wotherspoon and fleck he's talking shite. if anything we've plenty wee guys (naismith, maloney ect) and could do with some decent big players.

how many people do you think are wearing motherwell strips on an average day? unless a company wants to promote it's brand in PE classes and 5 a side courts in the greater motherwell area it'll be the tv, newspaper and stadium exposure they'll be after.

hateley will be at right mid for his delivery and to back up saunders at right back and gow will be at left mid, it'll be the same as butcher's 04/05 of mcbride-leitch-o'donnell-foran.

whit? before sky you were lucky if you got one live game a week, these days you could pretty much watch live fitba 24/7 if you wanted to. there's also a clear connection between players becoming 'less skilled' and fitter, players get less time on the ball and there's more emphasis on defending. a team of fitzpatricks would beat a teams forbeses every time. also celtic won the european cup on the toss of a coin so it doesn't count

but did joe wark ever have to face dougie mcdonald? every team in scotland's fans (and probably all fans around the world) will tell you about the truly great players their teams used to have. i think it has more to do with the fact that people saw less fitba and had fewer ways of comparing players.

st john - faddy mcloy - admitedly we've not had many top keepers but big randy might be the one forsyth - mcculloch pettigrew - clarky wark - hammell will beat his record deans - mcdonald

were all those guys really quality though or has the fans perception of what quality is shifted in the age of televised fitba and an over active media and internet? plus of all the guys you've listed there how many of them were actually signed from another senior club? bobby graham and gahagan i think but i may be wrong.

what quality players would these be? the ones who were getting relegated in the 70s and 80s?

if he shirks anything down where i sit he soon will. we needed to get someone who can play on the left and i think we'll now see a gow-lasley-jenno-hateley midfield with humph going back to being an impact sub. i doubt he's came cheap though so it must mean there was a bit of money there but brown couldn't get anyone else in.

i already disliked gow before he was linked from us and i like him less even more after his antics of the last week. he comes across as a complete cock and even if we can get him for less than he was originally asking for i still wouldn't want him. i don't think it's a co incidence that hibs were flying high last year but as soon as he came into the team they went down hill.

we've currently got 18 outfield players in the first team squad and 9 of them are 21 and under so it's fairly certain we're going to see a lot of young players getting a chance this season.

ladywell toi will greet if he doesn't get to hand out his award so probably best not to.

if they go to 14 teams it'll be done with two coming up and no one going down. i hope they don't because i think a split after 26 games is too early and as the team most people would describe as the 7th biggest in the country we'd have the most to lose by it coming in. we could be 7th on goal difference after 26 games and miles clear of relegation and end up with 14 meaningless games to end the season.

i'm a bit disapointed we didn't get someone in to play on the left but glad we've hung onto reynolds as two league positions and a couple of cup games will make us more than that swansea deal would have. we had our chance to in cash in on mark two years ago and we passed it up, if he ends up going for nothing then we can't really complain as we'll have got about 220 games out of him over the five years. only time will tell how this transfer window has went but right now randolph looks to be a great find, blackman looks raw but could be a success and the cypriot and casagolda remain enimgas. right now i can't help but feel that a bit of money has been wasted by signing a back up keeper while we still had fraser and the fact that sutton got the nod in centre mid ahead of fitzpatrick on sunday makes me think his 6 month deal will come to nothing. you also have to wonder if we've overpaid hateley as he's meant to be a top earner now but isn't putting in the performances to justify it yet, unless he bucks up his ideas in the centre we might have to stick him at left mid or right back and see how he takes that. right now we have no one to play on the left hand side of midfield and it'll seriously hinder our chances this season if we have to play murphy or sutton out their as our best chance of getting top six is them striking up a good partnership and sticking away 20 odd league goals between before the split. depending on how things go with blackman and humphrey we might have to give jamie pollock a run out there and see what he can do.

how exactly did you envisage him saving scottish football? maybe he's out of work the now because he's finding a cure for cancer.

what could craigan (or anyone) actually have done? it's not like he could go down and start throwing digs and i doubt a stern word would have made the odense defenders realise the error of their ways. if it had turned into a 15 man battle royale then we'd have a thread about how that had put murphy off as well.