steelboy

i've enjoyed the last few months but it'd be daft to suggest everything is 100% perfect. in all three league games we've seen changes of formation that have resulted in massive changes in the level of performance. imo we've been far better than the other 3 teams we've played and if we had played as well we can for the full 90 in all minutes we'd have took maximum. i'm also concerned that the short term nature of all our signings except humphrey plus other players going out of contract at the end of the season will leave us up shit creek again next summer. grading the signings: coke and hateley have been great, ruddy was fantastic in bucharest but has looked a bit shaky since but has done well, humphrey looks like he might have something and could be on a jim o'brien style gradual improvement however jennings hasn't shown anything positive and lukas' performance on saturday matched the reviews from plymouth and huddersfield. two years ago we were all raving about mcghee and the football we were playing and look how that ended up.

whit? he had the most of assists of any 'well player last year and even on saturday he played in o'brien for the penalty claim with a great ball.

more of a european away game type of guy?

not really i took as a fairly uninspired chant from a bunch of people who were either drunk, stupid or drunk and stupid. why give mark mchgee the paedo chant? why not chant it to jim jeffries or lee wallace? i'm like you and i like a bit of atmosphere at the game and saturday could have been a great day for it but the patter was pish. surely for an ex manager that is widely despised amongst a large proportion of our support something more specific and humourous could have been thought up.

if someone was to call someone a long haired ginger c**t and they have long ginger hair and have proven themselves over a long period of time to be capable of some shocking behaviour then that's fair enough how do you identify a paedophile? you can identify someone who has been convicted of it but not all paedos have been convicted or even accused. there were surely far better ways of getting at mcghee but clearly no one had the wit or desire to think of them.

i thought the chants were out of order. not because i care about mcghee's reputation or his feelings but because any argument we may have had with mcghee about his actions in his final months with the club has been lost. after this weekend no one is ever going to look at it any other way than seeing mark mcghee as the injured party and motherwell fans as being scumbags (as far as this situation goes). if anything we've actually enhanced his reputation among the people whose opinions he cares about - fellow managers, journalists, directors and the type of people he is likely to bump into directors lounges. mcghee was motherwell manager long enough to know what section of our support was doing the chanting and there's no way a man as arrogant as he is would give a flying fuck what they think about him. the opportunity was there on saturday to go up and give him a pasting but in the end it was a total failure. the shite tony mowbray chant was funny and more like that would have been ideal. the main chant we got was unfunny, untrue and left us completely open to attack. now we have a situation where when they come down to fir park there will loads of media attention on us and the well boys/baby crew/whatever will swell in number and likely drop in IQ. the same as everyone else i didn't hear any f****n chants but for a group of people who spent 90 minutes making false claims about an individual to complain about someone making false claims about them is a strange mixture of funny, sad and pathetic.

on saturday hammell had been solid defensively and jim o'brien was running riot down the left. then hammell goes off and we remain solid at the back but o'brien falls out the game as reynolds doesn't particularly want the ball when we're playing it out of defence and isn't very effective when he gets it. reynolds' are his athleticism and intelligence, not his skill with his feet. as someone else said if we want to shut up shop against a particular winger then shove reynolds to left back. but for our average game we need some creativity from at least one fullback and hammell is far more likely to provide it than saunders, hateley or reynolds.

that's a relief. i was a bit worried you might have known some of my darker secrets. see you soon fatley.

say whatever you want. your cousin has come on and has defended mcghee being called a paedophile. why? edited cause i forgot to call you fatley

aye that's true. mark mcghee being a paedophile isn't true. try to learn and mature from this.

no way. they've not got a game for two weeks, they've got at least 10 days training before the h*n match. they were clearly sent out to do it.

if mark mcghee's a paedophile then bop's suicide note must be hilarious. put your money where your mouth is ya pleb.

get it up pronto. it might bring back kylie

mcgarry and lasley got sent out to do shuttles after we we had used all three subs. did the team benefit from it? No. did mcgarry and lasley benefit from it? no. what else was it but public humiliation?

i wouldn't say that at all but the game was there to be won today and we managed not to. i'm not a sutton fan but he was great last week and he got dropped for a boy who today gave us nothing. reynolds was dire in central midfield at perth and was worse today. surely after perth anyone would realise he can't play that role. i think that gannon made mistakes today and through in perth but overall it's been a good start to the season and i'm quite chuffed. however what he did to lasley and mcgarrry today was well out of order. both those guys have done us a turn and to intentionally embarass them is out of order.

ok. words don't matter. you're a wee poof with a vice versa barnet. repost your suicide note and give us all a laugh.

gannon today? reynolds in midfield? that lucas character lasting 70 minutes? taking off murphy who was playing great? switching us back to 4-5-1, which was a disaster at perth when we were in the ascendasy? forbes on for 90 when he can clearly only last an hour? jennings getting on when he is fat? lasley and mcgarry getting sent out to do shuttles when had used 3 subs and we don't have a game for a fortnight. a fucking joke.

went for coke. thought he was superb. hateley, saunders and craigan were great as well.

i was at the game today and our fans were a disgrace. absolute fucking disgrace. mark mcghee's an arsehole, yes. a c**t, no one could argue with that. a bastard, fair enough. a prick, no bother. the chants today were well out of order. phil o'donnell on his his first game back at fir park got horrible abuse but this was 100x worse.

age must have something to with it or every team would have 16 and 17 year old in them. it's very much the exception rather than the rule. mcghee saw enough in slane to take him to austria last season, play him in the friendlies and give him his debut against accies. hutchison also got his debut against accies, he didn't get a look in before but our defence was rock solid after xmas. i started a thread on the final day of the season slating mcghee for not giving youth a chance that day and got ripped for it off certain posters on here. mcghee jumped ship as he knew all the senior players were leaving and he wasn't up to putting in the hard work of rebuilding the team. he has a few arsehole qualities about him but it wasn't long ago people were singing his name, his time at motherwell was overwhemingly positive but some people can't seem to accept that which is basically bitter and pathetic.

we got a bit of money from porter who he brought in for free and the sales of clarkson and quinn who came on loads playing under him. he's clearly due some credit for that. he's admitted he's underestimated forbes but to be honest i doubt anyone expected him to do as well as he has. it's up to ross to maintain those standards now and prove he is as good as we think he is. it's just stupid to say he ignored slane and hutchison, they're 17 and 18 and both got shots in the first team last season. even faddy wasn't playing week in week out at 17.

mcghee fucked around with his tactics to combat individuals quite a few times. home to celtic in march 08 and home to st mirren before the split this year. also don't actually think there was much done to combat kyle, the main change from the second half in perth to the killie game was sticking hateley in midfield to make us a bit more solid.

there's four buses going and most of the friends fare tickets seem to be gone (obviously not all to 'well fans) plus there are quite a few 'well fans based up north. i can see us having 300-400 there.

what school did you go to? the graph shows that wages as a percentage of turnover was around 75%. that's still higher than the recommended level but given we turned a profit and that the increased wages that season also contributed to the extra income from the nancy game and the transfer fees of porter, quinn and clarky and it has to be seen as shrewd investment.

not really the new tv deal for this season is the same as the old deal for this season.