Ajja

To be missed on an internet forum has got to be a low point in your life surely ?

Yee-ha, we have a new thread for the season. We got 27 out of 30 last season, 50 seems reasonable enough In fairness, he is letting the rest of the team in on the act this time.

Who is going to step up to be captain next. Its cursed I tell thee.

Lets at least support that view. McGhee needs time. If the curve is upwards then let him keep doing what he does.

Maybe we will swap him for his brother. Its possible the other team (whoever they currently are) won't even notice.

I think McGhee is being pretty honest about what its all about. He is being asked to work with a very tight budget and cannot afford to make decisions based on emotion. He is to be applauded for his strength of decision making as far as I am concerned, this was clearly a very very difficult one to make.

I'm with DerBomber on this one. Sentimentality can fuck right out the door if there is opportunity to be better. Any new manager is going to have to be given the freedom to build his own team around what he wants to achieve. I am happy to see a sense of purpose from our manager.

Is that the second game that Considine has played alongside Ifil and looked very confident and assured ? Encouraging sign, maybe ZD should be looking over his shoulder if he has a bad spell.

Read on mad that Fyvie in in the squad and might play tomorrow Surely not?

Looking at his 'career' you would have thought we could have drawn that conclusion early on.

In moments of rational thought that was my private sentiment. Its one of those great win-win scenarios. They get to the groups and you know they are going to be weakened in the league, they lose and you get to enjoy plenty belly laughs (neglecting to remember our own hideous capitulation of course!).

Can't believe Dougie Donnelly said they were discussing some 'black humour' regarding Nade's 1st half display. Classic

2-0. Chances on goal 10-0 Possession - 74%-26% Raped.

Didn't think it was possible to watch a Scottish team get raped harder and quicker than we were but looks like it might be on the cards.

Seems to me there is little point in drawing these comparisons. While they are correct and highlight the problem we now face there is little sense in hanging on to a situation that is now past. As has been pointed out over and over again by the club, the new manager and many posters on here, we are shopping in a different market now. Our ability to secure and retain personal of that level has diminished to the point where the standard is going to be very very difficult to maintain. Our previous manager was undoubtedly accomplished at talking established players into playing at Pittodrie and I suspect was given a wages budget to match his mouth to an extent. We no longer have the money to do so and so the new manager is going to have to look for a different solution. That is likely to be a combination of fringe players, unknown foreigners and youth. Its going to be difficult but you are comparing apples with bananas in terms of his resources if you believe that our squad of 2007 can be compared to what we should now have.

100% and they need to shape up or ship out. There are kids who will play with more and I would have them in the team without doubt. Time for someone else to get a shot at it.

I'd sideline Miller and get a fast, active front line of Maguire and Paton and Aluko and Pawlett supporting in the wider areas. Hamilton were rank last week and looked open to some direct football on the deck.

Always a possibility but after watching Sportscene on Monday I thought Hamilton and Falkirk looked very very poor and while the Motherwell v St J was an interestingly open game there was no football being played. I predict a dire season of football

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/heart_of_midlothian/8210162.stm Both captain and vice-captain are suspended for the Rangers game and they are only 1 game in.

Thats not going to happen as there are too many poorer sides in the league than us. I'm still sure we will be looking back at the last month and laughing by Christmas. It is just going to take some time to get this squad to play the way he wants them to and that will involve weeding out some real slackers who were just as guilty under JC as they are now. I really hope that he is going to give Paton and Pawlett a run because some of the current 1st team are so sure they just have to turn up to be picked.

England and Dundee apparently.

Can we not at least be honest about why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan in this discussion ?. These nations pose no direct threat to life in the UK or the US or the Western world for that matter. What they do is pose a threat to our ability to profit from areas of the world that might not be in our control if the regimes in these countries strengthen. There is no doubt that innocent civilians are leading difficult and, in many cases, very pianful lives. This is the case in many areas of the planet and I am all for doing something about it. The selection process for occupation is all about what benefit the West can get from creating the insurrection in the first place, not what protection it can provide to the civillians. The result for these people in either circumstance is pretty poor. This is a critical distinction that many British people fail to understand. Its hard to blame them, its the line fed in by the government and most mainstream media. Its then chewed up into utter pulp and passed mouth to mouth across huge sections of the population. You can bet that the armed forces will be at the top of the food chain for that particular meal given that they are the ones being placed up front. I have no wish to attack an individual for the difficult job they do, likewise I have no desire to celebrate with them either. We all have to face difficulty in our lives and beleive it or not other people outside of the armed forces risk their lives and suffer in their struggles. People aren't going to genuflect at your feet for the role you play in securing the future profit and dominance of our country in the world and hiding behind some misguided bullshit you have been fed about 'protect and serve'. Its simply isn't the case and the quicker you wake up and smell the shit they are shovelling at you the happier you will be. We all still love you though and if you need a hug and aflower in your hair then let us know

Although the revelation that we need FB cover ONLY after the Celtic display seems new ??? ??? Thank fuck for that particular bolt of lightening

Spot on. If we are in the market for correcting oppressive regimes lets have a look at Saudi Arabia, its one of the most brutal in the middle east but because they are a trading partner for the west and a regime who happen to be in our team we turn a blind eye. Iraq regime change had nothing to do with ending a brutal regime, it had everything to do with getting a friend into control. Afghanistan is effectively trying to do the same thing. We aren't trying to protect their population, we just securing our own.

Speaking to a Motherwell season ticket holder the other night, he reckoned it took McGhee a good few games to get his shit in order at Fir Park. Where are those straws when you are lookin' for a clutch ?