steelboy

they might be the facts but the way i see it these jokers got a good deal and far more than most people would whose employers suffered the same scenario. karl ready was that overpaid and rotten that i'd still have backed boyle to the hilt if he had paid somebody to kneecap him.

wasters like forrest and ready taking the moral high ground doesn't sit well with me. we're supposed to feel sorry for them but in any other line of work they'd have been sacked for incompetence and got fuck all. boyle gets slated left, right and centre in this country but he must have put £13 or £14 million of his own money into motherwell and you never hear him or anyone else ever mention it. eddie thompson got treated like a saint for putting in £5 million and his son never stops going on about it. rangers, hearts, united, killie and aberdeen are all massively in hock to the bank and murray and milne actually make money out the clubs. murray outsources as much of rangers operations (catering, tickets ect) to his own companies and pays himself for the privilige (a la glasgow city council). milne is one of the richest men in scotland but never puts a penny into aberdeen and is going to make a fortune building houses on pittodrie. name another individual that's pumped as much of his own money into scottish football?

i think mio must be a sports reporter for the danish paper i was looking at this morning. they did player ratings out of ten and every one of our players got a 2 or a 4 except reynolds who got a 7. their left back got 10/10

all the players that got sacked (and someone needs to tell the press it's eight not 19) got near enough 50% of the money they were due from the remainder of their contracts and they had the opportunity to go and get deals elsewhere (effectively getting double wages for that season). technically it was the administrator and not mfc that sacked them but it's clear there was a good guy/wank element in deciding who had to go. twaddle - he had some decent spells for us but was murder in his final season he was more interested in boozers and bookies than fitba most of the time. he got a deal at hearts so you have to assume he ended up doing well out the situation. martinez - never tried a leg for us and deserved the bullet. it's fair to say things have worked out alright for him. forrest - an imposter of a footballer. his true colours were shown when he juked arbroath to go to raith and it ended up being a wind up. he should be grateful we were ever stupid enough to make him an spl player. ready - shite and on big wages. so stupid that he decided not to play the following season thinking that he'd be more likely to get more money from us, he didn't. i'd have paid him to stop playing in september 2001. strong - the only one i feel almost sorry for as he was a decent player for us and always gave 100%. on the other hand he got over half a million pounds out his time at mfc and tried to act the hardman when he came back with livi so fuck him. dow - a dire player. another one that should just be grateful davies and nevin enjoyed giving large amounts of the club's money to average journeymen. cosgrove - never played a single game for us. brown - was on his way out the door anyway.

big rocky's face at 3:38 as the ball flies in the top corner is superb probably just as well the cameras weren't on us when the taps were coming aff

you're having a fair old time of it with these tickets. i heard there was a bit of an incident after the game on sunday?

was andy walker not actually employed by the club either while we were in administration or shortly after we came out to be a part time specialist strikers coach? the man's a complete bellend anyway.

boyle going mental on sky is what will get us our money. what was the reaction down south when we put out the first statement? F all. what was the reaction down south when the embargo was lifted without us being paid? F all. what kind of coverage did our debt get prior to boyle going on one when bellamy was being linked with them? not a lot. boyle has let everyone know that cardiff are shafting us and forced the cardiff chairman to comment to on the issue live on tv. if cardiff don't pay us the other championship teams that hate them will go mental. boyle has played a blinder here, so what if he looked a bit of a clown it's £175 grand ffs.

that was superb from boyle today. cardiff clearly don't give a fuck about paying their debts and the previous statement and legal procedures had no effect on them. now boyle's went on ssn went a bit mental and probably got 2 or 3 times as much airtime he was meant to and it's been on the news cycle all day. cardiff can't ignore it now and if they do the other championship clubs who are already beeling will be right on their case.

dundee united in the spl last season conceded an average of 1.23 goals per game. 5 points of 15 in the top six is also ok for us. our best return is 7 points in 08, in 04 we got 1 point and in 05 we got 5 points. when you also consider our early start and the fact we got sent to glasgow twice that's a decent return.

definitely not true. a quick browse at soccerbase shows that since mcghee's first game reynolds and craigan have played 97 games as a cb pairing and have conceded 111 goals. that works out at 1.16 goals per game which is decent for us and better than what dundee united managed finishing third in the league last season with all their big commanding centrehalfs. when we finished 2nd in 94/95 we conceded 50 goals in 36 games (1.38). you say we conceded 16 goals in the last five games last season but you didn't mention that we scored 13 (and missed a pen and had a good goal chopped off at tynecastle). motherwell going to ibrox, parkhead, tynecastle and having united and hibs at home and emerging with a -3 goal difference is nothing out the ordinary.

3 o'clock. same team unless something drastic happens in denmark. hopefully this time we'll take our chances when we're on top.

have a look at the highlights, saunders is exactly where he should be for the third goal. he's got riordan on the edge of the box before he slips the ball to miller. the problem with the third goal was the full midfield being far too far up the park away from the defence.

some people need to get a grip. we saw a cracking game today and narrowly came out on the losing end, that's fitba. where were the threads like this when we were keeping clean sheets every week earlier in the year?

every team loses goals.

i thought we played well very well today and totally dominated the first half, the game should really have been over before 20 minutes. the defence are getting a lot of stick but riordan, stokes and miller are class acts, imo stokes is probably the best striker in the league at the moment. hibs will always cause us problems and on paper should be clear favourites for third. we were are slightly unlucky that we had to play them on the first day before their imbecile of a manager fucks them up properly. we looked dangerous going forward today and when murphy, humphrey and sutton get properly into synch we'll cause teams a lot of problems. the same goes for the midfield it was a bit unweildy today but when they get used to playing together and figure out their roles it be ok. i don't think the heat helped us today either, we weren't able to keep up the same tempo in the 2nd half as we had in the first. craig thompson is a tosser. he gave us nothing at perth in march and even less today. he seems to think that his job is to make the game some kind of spectacle rather than just applying the rules. he gave us nothing at 1-2 but when it went 1-3 he gave us a penalty because it wouldn't be as vital to the outcome. a shitebag of a man who is clearly refereeing with one eye on the inspectors report and his attempts to get up the uefa pecking order. he knows if he gives a free kick every time bamba and hogg commited a foul people would accuse him of ruining the game so it's easier not to do it.

this is a load of shite. we win as a team and lose as a team. reynolds and saunders were both a bit below par today but were excellent last week. hibs have some of the best forwards in the league and will always cause us problems.

he's not that wrong. there's people that are 65 now that will have been born into the nhs era, took advantage of every benefit and have retired before the retirement age gets moved. they'll have made a fortune of house prices as well. they probably don't support motherwell though.

would it not be worth asking if you can do a pick up in odense on thursday?

not really. over the past three seasons we've had three wins, one draw and two defeats. same team as the aafk game. big yogi will do exactly what he did on his last two visits here when the pitch was playable and play riordan, stokes, nish and wotherspoon right up top, hopefully this time we will be wise to it. we need hateley, lasley and jennings to give the defence plenty of help, especially the full backs.

good idea, i'd perhaps take it a step further and suggest brown drops the entire first team squad and pulls 18 bodies out of daniels at half 11 on sunday morning to make up the squad. that'll really give the players something to think about.

you seem to be an expert on everything under the sun, maybe you should be the chief executive?

is the free kids in the cooper deal not still going?

murphy is still only 20, he turns 21 on the saturday between the OB game at fir park and the celtic game. could be quite a weekend for him. what no one is really talking about is that if the league reconstruction proposals get passed there would be no relegation this season. if that happens then there's no great need to sign anyone.

sport relief get all the free publicity they could ever need on the bbc, what would they have had to gain from linking up with us?