steelboy

600 hibs fans 2800 in the east 1200 in the cooper 1500 in the main.

i don't think ruddy had his best game tonight but he was still decent. he could have done better with one or two of nish's goals but that wasn't the problem. hughes dismantled gannon the first time by pushing 4 players right up against our back 4 and did it again . that totally fucked us and we only came back into the game when riordan went off tonight. we paid the price for having a weak squad tonight. when you're switching between murphy and sutton at left mid because you have no you trust to play their you'll pay the price.

i think tonight proves that as a club we can never implement the price cuts that certain posters on here are constantly bleating on about. just over 6000 with probably a 1000 weans who came for a laugh. the fact is there will always be people wanting to talk pish about fitba on the internet who will never be up for actually paying to watch a game that could be shite or could be a classic. look about motherwell on a weekly basis and you'll see guys with plenty of money for pints, horses, puggies, ching, takeaways and clobber. the difference between 20 or 15 quid won't seal the deal, it's the time commitment that bothers folk more than the money. cuttting prices at fir park is never going to work. there are no fans out to entice. anyone who wants a good team on the park is going to have to pay for it.

same old song but, whit? saturday hammell sold the first. second was unlucky and after that didn't matter. tonight saunders struggled but craigan and hateley were worse. the biggest factor was missing jenno. saunders has had a superb season.

while we're on the topic of fouls in the spl, epl and championship this season the two teams that average the most fouls per game across these three leagues are hibs and dundee united. we're currently the third least fouling team with only swansea and donny rovers cheating less than us. i agree that good players don't need to foul, especially ones with pace like reynolds. i would say that he should realise that if your not giving away daft fouls or picking up stupid bookings then you should use that to your advantage to pick up some smart ones.

to get back on track about reynolds, surely he's the fairest player we've ever seen in a motherwell jersey. apart from his daft sending off at dunfermline his disciplinary record has been outstanding over the years. this year he's played every minute of every league game and only commited 22 fouls with no bookings, compare him to the cloggers playing at the back for united, hibs and hearts and he's almost saint like. reynolds would actually be on to play 47x 90 mins this season but gannon subbed him against steaua because he thought reynolds gave away the pen when it was actually o'brien.

that's a fair enough point, mcghee did leave us up shit creek. however with only two of gannon's signings looking like staying on beyond the summer plus reynolds and o'brien leaving the squad could have been in a much worse nick this summer if he'd have managed to chase hammell, lasley and craigan out the door.

maybe naebody likes him at fir park? i've not heard a good word about him from any club employees since he left. i'll be sad to see reynolds go, he's been a great servant to the club and deserves to go somewhere and make some serious dough and hopefully get picked for scotland (although that's unlikely with big haddy loving levein in charge, he'll probably call up darren dods). hopefully if he does leave the craigan-reynolds centreback pairing will get the recognition it deserves, mcghee planted the idea in a lot of peoples heads that they couldn't cut it together when none of the facts backed that up and it seemed to stick for a long time. this season the thing to say seemed to be that craigan was past it and reynolds wasn't a centrehalf. thankfully craigie broon was too wise for that and since he took over both players have been superb playing together. since we played a 3 at the back in 93/94 and 94/5 reynolds and crags must be our most succesful pairing at the back for a long, long time.

that actually makes me more nervous. i'll get a bit of dutch courage into me before the game tonight and i'll be fine. hopefully coke, ruddy and the juke make it, with half the starting XI probably being offski in the summer it makes it seem an even bigger game as it's impossible to tell what kind of shape we'll be in come aug/sep and it could be a while before a big game like this rolls round again. if we get a quick start tonight and and an early goal hibs will fold. hopefully we'll come flying out the blocks.

dundee united are 6 million+ in debt with no sign of it coming down, they've got zero bargaining position.

i'm honestly confused. i thought we had a record four year deal with a supplier then they went into admin, the contract got cancelled and that's why we're now looking for a new supplier. it doesn't really matter what they are/were called, the mob we had a deal with still went tits up.

are we not getting a new supplier because they went bust??

i've never been in amsterdam but my motto in eastern europe and asia is whatever happens happens euro decider on wed night, i'm just glad it's in our own hands

there was a point in the first half where forbes was chasing back full pelt and craigan took ten yards out him with a brisk job. the boy cannot run!

15 out the 16 guys you sucked off last night are liars. they all love u tho.

poof! biggest cheer of the day from the well fans was obua slicing it in

ruddy played well, especially in the first half, if the salmon teuchtar had been in we'd have been two down by ten minutes. things have worked out well, we could have got a great point today and still ended up behind hibs. the highlight of the day was the sevenways erupting to obua's goal, 30 well fans going loco and ten eastenders looking a bit confused.

lalsey had a better game than stewart on saturday without even putting a pair of boots on. stewart was rank. the guy isn't half the player he thinks he is, gets sent off twice a season every season, was involved in all the dressing room shite at hibs and is so much of a cock he's the only player in british football who's loan spell has ever ended because his teamates leathered him.

exactly the sort of player we don't want. a liability on the pitch and a bad influence in the dressing room.

i'm delighted with this. i think we can read between the lines that gannon told coke and jennings that if they came up they could play one year and get a good move back down south off the back of it and probably used quinn, mccormack and porter as examples. so the fact that jennings has agreed to stay on another year is huge boost. i read some positive quotes from lukas on the bbc website today, he seems to want to stay and it seems to be down to everton. i've got a wee feeling we might end up getting him, it would be a massive boost if we did.

the way we lined up on saturday will be fine for the final 3 games.

that's actually a worse nickname than dairylea.

fair enough. inform me of the matches which humphrey made a valuable contribution this season then? i'd say he played well at celtic park, was not bad at accies at RB but was outjumped for the second goal and looked dangerous but produced zilch both times at perth. he's had more than a few nightmares. nae goals and one assist from a corner from a guy who does nothing but attack and has great pace is a poor return. andy roddie set up more goals than humphrey.

i went up and got my tickets there, row b also there's only 400 for ibrox so i'd get in fast as there's a good chance we'll still be playing for europe and it might be the last chance to see ruddy, the juke and reynolds. for the game i'd think about putting lasley back in if fit and hateley to right back as saunders look a bit bambi on ice when templeton was running at him on saturday and i think mcgeady could give him problems. obviously ruddy comes back in if fit and the only other decision is should we play the juke or wrap him in cotton wool for wednesday, i think i'd be tempted to play it safe. heading to the sevenways as usual prematch, hopefully seeing hearts get the win to give us a wee boost.

humphrey for all his game time this season has produced next to nothing. he's a decent guy to put on if we have a couple of goals of a lead (eg killie home and away) but when's he's started or come on when games are level or we're behind he has contribued nothing.