Yngwie

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If I ran the SPL I would do whatever I could to ensure Gretna limp on until the end of the season (or at least to the split, at which point I'd let their results stand and just have a 5 team bottom "6"). A bit of inconvenience and bad press here and there is surely better than the alternative.

I don't get the bit about him going to County for a few days before the trial with us. Is he also having a trial with them, or is he so blatantly unfit that if he came directly to us he's be sent back on the bus before getting the chance to kick a ball?

An hour ago I saw the bus to Inverness on the outskirts of Perth and there was definitely a dark haired male on it. FACT!

Brewster is totally undermined and finished as a manager if he fields a player who openly states that he doesn't want to play for him. The whole squad would lose any respect they have for him. Giving your best at all times is a pre-requisite for being in the squad, it's not optional.

Brewster has made mistakes, but I think he has got this one absolutely right. Blackie needs some mature advice here, and if Munro is at all a good captain he should be sorting this out.

Don't think so.

How can we forget Paul Ritchie?!

Mine only updated when I went into my Profile and clicked on Auto-detect in the time settings.

That's certainly what we're all suppose to believe :023: I don't think anyone (other than one or two fans here) has ever suggested that Parkie was the glue that held the club together, in any way at all. How can you suddenly suggest that "they" want us to believe that he was, without having done or said anything to create or perpetuate such a myth? There are just too many conspiracy theories for me to cope with :029:

So Motherwell are effectively giving away the use of their stadium to maintain the benefit of their Gretna fixtures points advantage over rivals like Dundee Utd. Not that you can blame them for acting in self-interest, and of course they can claim the moral high ground of helping a fellow club survive.

Brewster may not be a tactical genius, but come off it, do you really think the manager's tactics were to play high balls to a player whose marker is a foot taller than him? I would add this to the category of the players needing to have a look at themselves.

The club (quite rightly) wanting to keep details of such matters in the dressing room.

There have always been dressing room bust ups, disputes with managers etc at our club. I think we are hearing about more than usual at the moment because : - all season there have been undercurrents of discontent caused by Niculae's salary, and sooner or later it was going to blow up (with contract January renewal negotiations and Rankin's big money move being triggers) - we are going through our worst ever run of form and everyone is looking for someone to blame

Hasn't he already signed with County for next season, or was that just a rumour?

Can't think of any myself. Got me thinking though about wonderful and unusual football club names (first reply to the thread and going off topic already - oops!) Deportiva Wanka (Peru) Grasshoppers (Switzerland) Young Boys (Switzerland) Kaiser Chiefs (South Africa) Hearts of Oak (Ghana) Eleven Men in Flight (somewhere in Africa)

Mark Brown

Like Naelifts I'm tempted to make the effort next week. If we can restrict them to 3 goals, we might win.

Conceding 4 is what I expect pretty much every week with McGuire, but I never thought we'd score 3.

This was a moral victory! Sounds like the best performance for ages.

He's simply adopting Blackie's role.

I wouldn't shed any tears if Brewster resigned, but I would have concerns as to whether we would get anybody who would do any better under the circumstances : the problems CaleyD mentioned above, factors outwith a managers control, that any new manager would be subject to, the Niculae factor, and undercurrents of player unrest due to feeling financially undervalued. Sacking the manager would give a short term boost but wouldn't solve our clubs underlying problems. And of course it would be very expensive use of our limited funds. ?100k to pay him off? A similar transfer fee to get a new manager? What a waste if it doesn't lead to any real long term improvement. This summer we should lose Niculae and finally replace Dods. If there is no substantial improvement by September, sack him then. But for the time being Brewster just gets the benefit of the doubt from me.

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Come on guys, there's room for all views and posters here, including people who have particular areas of interest within the world of ICT. And Stevico is certainly not the only poster with a Marius obsession! But an ICT player scoring an international goal in a game between 2 highly ranked countries is certainly worthy of discussion. :022: