steelboy

washing your hands is obviously preferable but fuck touching a tap in the the east stand that hundreds of other guys (quite a few of them tinks) have touched after holding their boabys. i'll stick with my own germs thank you.

let's hope motherwell aren't trying to be tight about this, if hutchison, forbes and slane are going to be the core of the first team their wages should reflect that, without going overboard obviously.

ace

for me the jury is still out on gannon. i was impressed today, hateley in midfield is a great choice. 2 or 3 more correct choices and i'll be a believer.

whit? take it you're into BFMs

i definitely got closer to the starting x1 than anyone else!

don't know why everyone is getting so excited whoever this is (if indeed they exist) is likely just to follow the proud line of neil tarrant, steven ferguson, grabban, alyidek and offiong. and to answer someone further up the thread, sheridan got games near the end of the season because sutton was horrific at falkirk.

aye, he stopped playing in the spl. anyway where's our striker?!!!!

the number of people who attend games in scotland as a % of the total population is higher than it is in either of those countries. germany has a population of 82 million and france 65 million. that's why they have bigger attendances.

we got good service out of jamie magowan, he was a solid player and i think he captained us on a number of ocassions. kampmann had some rank signings (kraska, mclair, kaven, halliday, miller, white) but also made some decent ones (teale, magowan, matthei, doesberg, michels, adams). plus there was jered stirling. linqvist was only at the club for a month and looked a tidy player. no suprise there's a fair amount of revisionism going on. plenty on here have no problems revising recent history so ten years ago must be fair game.

ruddy saunders hutchison craigan hammell hateley forbes coke o'brien murphy mchugh is my realistic choice ruddy hateley craigan reynolds hammell o'brien lasley coke forbes murphy mchugh is what i'd do if i was in charge

agreed. suprised to see mentions for tony thomas who was a quality player and turned in an immense performance in the cup game against hearts but had mega dodgy knees (only reason we got him) and michels who was a good player who just didn't see eye to with davies. manager: malpas woods christie ready vaughan bollan townsley john davies malcolm roddie henry halliday

that's pretty much the same team that were dire in the first half on saturday. we don't have anyone who can play up front on their own, or anyone in central mid who could get up and support a lone striker. we've got to start with two up front.

he's got 11 days 5 hours and 55 minutes left to get bring in a striker. after that and games agianst an experienced kilmarnock team and a rank aberdeen team we'll be able to make appraisals of his performance so far.

we were playing some of the best fitba ever seen at fir park two years ago and it made almost no impact on attendances.

it was it was a straight either or i'd have reynolds as well but if you'd have given me the choice at 20 past 3 on saturday to switch him with klimpl i'd have had maros on in a second. we've got a serious problem in midfield. gannon obviously thought reynolds might solve it for us but he showed on saturday he can't. coke and forbes both look good but if the two of them play in a two in the centre and we play any combination of slane, o'brien or humphrey on the wings we'll be leaving ourselves far too open.

i think forbes is probably 5 foot 10. buzz was a couple of inches taller than me and i'm six foot. for most of the players it doesn't really matter. dundee united, hearts and killie were all much bigger than us when we finished third and it didn't matter then.

if the choice was between klimpl or reynolds to start in the holding role on saturday klimpl would win hands down. if everybody (except faddy) becomes shite when they leave motherwell.

there were a lot of highs that season but we also went on runs of 11 league games without a win and 10 league games without a win. i'll pass.

the change in formation at halftime was far more relevant than the change of personnel imo. the tactics in the first were a joke: reynolds didn't have a clue what he was doing in midfield, o'brien and murphy were hugging the touchlines and miles away from sutton on the big wide park, neither coke nor forbes were getting close enough to sutton to support him and we were reduced to high balls as the midfield seemed unable to to collect the ball from the defence. i'm no fan of sutton but i thought it's have been fair to give him ten minutes in the 4-4-2. i also thought that craigan did alright in the first half and we were more defensively sound with him in the team. if duechar wasn't so shite we'd have lost two goals to huge errors from hutchison and reynolds. this season's going to be a learning curve and hopefully JG has learned that we don't have anyone who can play upfront alone and that something is going to have to be done to shore things up at the back. on paper st johnstone have the weakest attack in the league and if we give any other team the type of chances we gave st johnstone we'll be punished.

i thought the defence were better in the first half than the second today, st johnstone could have had five with decent finishing. i also think a lot of our defensive problems are to do with the midfield.

aye the difference being that they can all pass the ball, reynolds is a far better athlete than he is a footballer. however if we could somehow combine mark reynolds' body with ross forbes' feet we'd have a player on our hands. there's surely no way this hateley will be the new RB. he's got less experience than saunders and he's been kb'd by accies, killie and st mirren in the past year as well as reading. 17 and a half days til the window shuts, get the finger out gannon!

steaua didn't put us under much pressure though. he was horrific defensively against flamutari. looks like they'll have that big murray davidson at left mid, probably best to have someone decent in the air against him. the one downside about having played so many competitive games is that any suprise element we may have had will be gone. i wouldn't be suprised to see slane getting a few early hard fouls in the opening two fixtures and forbes not being given any time on the ball.

i've seen quite a few memorable moments there. mcdonald making his debut and scoring in the cup. woods getting chipped from the halway line in davies first game when we got pumped 5-0 spencer running 60 yards then firing in a 30 yard screamer stevie hammell racially abusing momo sylla

we played a 3-6-1 against rangers in may 08. it actually worked ok.