BobbyBiscuit

Are Thistle still in? I can see into their stadium from my living room. I could invite Minj in for a cuppa.

Doesn't count as it wasn't in the UEFA Cup. FaKt.

Dunfermline or Airdrie will do. Or Forfar. I'm not fussy.

you phoning sex lines again Mini?

Hibs already out, Killie out too. One of Motherwell and St Mirren will be out as well. Don't want to get ahead of myself, obviously, but if we get through against East Fife, start praying that the OF get drawn against each other. We would have a fantastic chance of winning this cup.

Zaliukas sent off for Hertz. Chelseahunwanks fans singing "You don't know what you're doing" to Big Phil, as it's still 0-0 at the Wayne Bridge.

aye, first chance in particular should have been buried. Charlie Adam has just been sent off on his Blackpool debut for Serious Foul Play. Apparently when they heard that Adam had come down from Scotland to sign for Blackpool, the Blackpool beach donkeys were outside Bloomfield Road with signs saying: "Blackpool Jobs for Blackpool Donkeys!" I'll get my cloak.

Did you see any of it TF? Alves had three or four great chances, Given denied him each time. Really should have taken at least one of them. there's no soul in Boro's team though, and i was really surprised Tuncay was only on the bench.

The Jutes are 2-1 down at Hamilton after being 1-0 up. Falkirk lead the Diet Huns by a Steve Lovell goal that was supposedly yards offside. couldn't happen to a nicer shower of cunts

I can understand his request too, but Maguire should maybe think about the majority of other Dons young players who go out on loan... how many come back any better and how many come back and actually stay with us? the fact we haven't looked to put him out on loan should tell him he's a first team player now and he should get his head down and work on getting into the first team.

According to the BBC: Zander and Considine back in, Gary McDonald is out with a slight injury and joins some guy called Jamie Smith on the sidelines.

Game off tomorrow?

But will Hans appreciate what Lavein (sic) has done in the UEFA Cup....?

It could be argued but it would be incorrect to do so. It's a bit like United's fans claiming they have a better record in Europe than us simply cos they got to a European Cup Semi Final as well as a UEFA Cup Final. It all means fuck all if you don't win the thing.

But this is why people are upset. It has been shown in the past that when he goes with 3 at the back we generally do not do well at all. Mistakes are fine as long as we learn from them, but he doesn't seem to learn that we can not play three at the back. So what makes you think that he's going to learn from it this time, when he's not learned from it several times before?

Are you trying to say I have an ill-informed agenda? I refer you to this post:

Excuse me? Who said he wasn't a player? Playing him in his correct position would be a fucking start, no? Yeah, Mulgrew too, so we actually had options to play a back four. EDIT: Pretty hard to play a settled side when we have injuries and suspensions, no? Fucking idiots.

Vidal, Mair, Seve (who is very much a CH now) and Foster. Not that hard, is it?

I don't agree that we "were very much punching above our weight". If that's the case, we wouldn't have got a result against them last season and had several good results against the huns in recent seasons. I fully admit of course that in the grand scheme of things Celtic will beat us more than we beat them but I think terming our victory as "very much punching above our weight" does our players a dis-service and gives too much credit to a comparitively very poor Celtic side. I said on here at the weekend that we'll now probably go and beat Hearts at Tynie next week such has been our ability to bounce back under JC after a setback like Saturday's. But, there does have to come a point where he shows more faith in his side. We are a better side than Falkirk, of that there is no doubt so let them worry about us. If we start the game in our usual formation and they're dominating, then change it then. I know on this site we are generally opposed to the JMG'ers, but that doesn't mean we can't say the guy got it wrong on Saturday. We all make mistakes, there's no shame in admitting it. We are susceptible to these sort of results, I fully understand that, but there does come a point that for the sake of our progression they have to be ironed out. We have been doing really well, but we always have to be aiming for better. By the sounds of it, most of our players just didn't turn up on Saturday and that isn't JC's fault and shows how inconsistent our players can be. But give them a chance, play a consistent formation which will only help them find the required level of consistency over the long term.

Even more so than usual? Perhaps an early start in the UEFA Cup will help us get out the traps quickly in the SPL, which would make a nice change.

Ouchy.

STONEY DESERVES BETTER!

Well indeed. But then, maybe his fan club should also get a fucking grip then? I will not sully the guy's testimonial, he's a dandy but fuck me he is fucking bad.

Once played for us, and has coached our youth team, our reserves, our first team, been our kit man, our main scout, and was so good at his job that Alex Ferguson promised to come back and play a testimonial for him. As an aside to your Willie Miller story, and obviously not as major a call, but Brian Grant had broken his leg not long after signing for us, an when he came back to play Teddy Scott thought he needed "a bit of a change" so played him up front for the reserves. He scored something like 9 in 6, and he got promoted to the first team as a midfielder/striker and was in and about the first team ever after. And look how good a player he was for us? Fucking brilliant.