steelboy

we need to get PJGB signed up

the guy said he was going to make the right decision for his family. more money and a better place to live.

not exactly his fault when the manager while he was 18-19 would do anything rather than give a young player a chance. any time an opening in the team occured mcghee just filled it by playing an established player out of posistion. i'd bet that forbes will make a positive breakthrough this season.

good luck to buzz. i'd say it's a step down for him but the combo of more dosh and one of the best places to live in the UK should make up for that.

steven mcgarry. and foran was a better athlete than most in fir park. definitely the best in the air at the club.

dazza definitley deserves another chance, i also think we'll be seeing a bit of forbes this season. he's always looked a good player and has a wand of a left foot. if things don't start well this season i wouldn't be too disapointed to see us going back to a butcher style of play - solid in the middle with stevie hammell hitting intelligent long balls to mobile strikers.

he's scored 3 goals in 64 league starts and 24 sub appearances. the idea that we coudn't find a use for foran in a team which used mcgarry, clarkson, quinn and hammell as wide midfielders last season is ludicrous.

he's better than mcgarry. it's worrying that we have so few players but when you consider who a few of them are it's terrifying. players don't neccesarily have to be good players to improve our squad. and foran's record stands up in terms of scoring goals, scoring important goals and bringing in cash when he left. 35 goals from midfield. take out the pens (which we've struggled to score since he left) and you've still got 20 odd goals in less than 100 games. i'd wager that we haven't scored 20 goals from midfield since he left.

darren smith played well when he came on on saturday. mcgarry was mcgarry when he was on (being slow, over playing, hitting powder puff shots and passes rather than putting his foot through it.) i'd like to see dazza start. john sutton was at his tinman best on saturday but i'd still play him up front with jamie. we're not going to create much through the middle with lasley and fitz so it'll be up to o'brien and hopefully daz to get in behind and get some good balls in. also saw that gannon said he likes mobile strikers, nae luck sutton!

foran is better than mcgarry. therefore if we can't get anyone better in we should sign him. that should be the attitude taken with any wide/attacking midfield players.

exactly. john boyle gave mcghee 100% backing and i think he'll do the same with gannon. i'd be suprised if he wasn't given a say in clarky staying until xmas. he probably chose to sell clarky so he could build his own team, he seems like an independent minded type of guy. clarky and quinn were great servants and if they can help fund half a dozen new players they'll have done us another turn. imo opinion we need a keeper, a right back, a centrehalf, two midfielders and a striker.

i doubt coach and clarky were huge draws for the average tv viewer. we're at a massive crossroads just now. the make up of our squad has been fairly steady the last few years and now we're going a big change which is obviously making everyone nervous. things look bad just now but you have to believe that there is method to the madness and that selling two players might allow us to bring in 6 or 7. gannon also said on saturday that he would try and talk to stephen hughes and convince him to re-sign. i posted a big doom and gloom thread on the last day of the season but after losing our manger and most of our best players i'm strangely optimistic. nobody would have thought it at the time but going into admin was the probably the best thing that could have happened to us. things don't look the best just now either but it could be as much an opportunity as a setback.

i think gannon is the man for the job, i liked what he had to say about bringing players in and he emphasised that he will give youth a chance. seemed a good guy.

maybe with a top hat on. the guy's 5 ft 11 max.

fraser page craigan reynolds hammell mcgarry lasley fitzpatrick o'brien murphy sutton i don't want to be too negative about a friendly but we looked very rusty although apparently we improved as the game went. micheal fraser isn't the tallest keeper and to be honest i don't see him working out well. also fitzpatrick seems to have spent the last four months he's been out the side in the gym - he's a tank but he seems to have lost some mobility.

we were just shite, no excuses. we were playing against a team who had came up from wales on a bus this morning and 4 of their starting 11 had done a night shift last night. everyone looked very rusty and we'll have to play much better on thrursday. it's a double blow as we'll have lost confidence and llanelli will clearly hear about this result and get a wee spring in their step. the game finished 3-1. i went down the road to watch the lions but appatently ross forbes scored a 30 yard screamer and darren smith hit the bar and had a shot that their keeper made a great save from. we were undone in the first 15 minutes by high balls through the middle. the rhyll manager said that llanelli are a stoke style team who chuck in long shy's at every oppoprtunity. also heard from the motherwell end that the team started today will start thrursday (although i'd rather see dazza, forbes and saunders playing)

to be fair he's just sitting in the wee stand, porteous and craigan looked to be in charge. we were terrible in the first 15 minutes and lost 3 goals, micheal fraser didn't look very clever (or for that matter very tall). played abit better after that but no cutting edge. team. fraser, page, hammell, reynolds, craigan, fitzpatirck, lalsey, mcgarry, o'brien, sutton, murphy.

paul quinn wasn't at the game today and the word is that it's a done deal with cardiff, £350K. cheerio coach.

he might not take the job, he's currently up at dalziel park watching us getting gubbed by rhyll. it was 3 - 0 when i left. bit apprehensive about thursday now. spoke to gannon briefly before the game, he said he has targets identified and that he knows the squad needs strengthened. seems like a sound guy.

we're always going to feel hard done by as soon as any player puts together a consistent run of form bigger clubs with more money will come sniffing around and said player will be off quick as they can. i'd much suffer from players being on an upward trajectory than a downward one though. consider how many of our players have left and moved onto "better" things compared with our rivals - killie, st mirren, dundee united, falkirk aberdeen. we're fortunate enough to have been able to watch better players than the fans of those clubs and while it's sore when they leave surely it's better to have loved and been hurt by faddy, skippy, rossco et al than never have loved at all? i started a thread on the final day of the season gloomily predicting what state our squad would be in a year's time. somehow as well as losing our manager nere enough everything i predicted has happened in a month. we just have to hope a new manager can sign a few gems and that the youths step up, the same things we're always hoping for basically times 5.

if the players train hard, eat properly and don't bevvy they should be fine... shite. loads of players play 50+ games a season. more physically demanding sports such as tennis and cycling have 11 month seasons. and you won't hear anyone going to the world cup moaning about burn out. the way only europe could effect us negatively is if we make the groupstage and have to play loads of midweeks (which would be amazing).

fucking XXXXL! fat bastards.

there was more but i edited it for reasons of politeness. seriously, hoping we draw 1-1 against a welsh league team at home, what's that all about? if you want to be petty use your flight down to wales to go and put a dug shite through their letterbox but don't root against the 'well.

clarkson should be tucked up in his bed just now. 800K seems a bit more like and if we are punting our assets just now lets hope the club have a plan as to how they and a new manager are going to reinvest the cash and make us a competitive side again.

hope it's not true as well. i also thought the price was a bit low but considering we didn't get much more than that for mcdonald it's probably about right. half a million is about 15% of our total turnover so we probably can't afford to knock bids like that back. pretty sad, davie along with quinn is the only player who has been here all the seasons since we went into admin.