: Sat May 24, 2008 6:45 am  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

Or not - the Motherwell board have rejected Mad Vlad's approach.

Sorry, I don't think I was clear. What I meant was that I can only deduce that other clubs have tabled bids for some of the Motherwell players and that they will be moving on. Otherwise I see absolutely NO REASON WHATSOEVER for him to go to Hearts.

: Sat May 24, 2008 11:22 am  

C'mon the Queens...

: Sat May 24, 2008 1:34 pm  

Big day for the Rangers. Can they earn their second one of these this season?

: Sat May 24, 2008 6:39 pm  

Watched it on BBC Scotland. Not a bad game actually but Kris Boyd aside Rangers were dead on there feet and fortunate that they were playing Queen of the South and not an SPL side. Not much celebrating a full time from the Gers fans.

: Sat May 24, 2008 8:09 pm  

Can't blame 'em. They only got half the quadruple and the crap half at that!

: Sun May 25, 2008 6:41 pm  

Seen the good side of Scottish football today at Parkhead in the Phil O'Donnell tribute match. Was a fun day; took my young Celtic fan cousin to Parkhead for his first trip and he was really excited to be seeing Henrik Larsson and co.
A very fitting tribute to a lovely man, the legends done him proud. Especially some of his former Motherwell colleagues who were, shall we say, showing their lack of training/fitness regime since their retirement, but they gave their all.

: Mon May 26, 2008 11:14 am  

Bilko wrote:

Watched it on BBC Scotland. Not a bad game actually but Kris Boyd aside Rangers were dead on there feet and fortunate that they were playing Queen of the South and not an SPL side. Not much celebrating a full time from the Gers fans.

The SPL are shocking at helping any of their sides in Europe mate, and not just the blue side of Glasgow, Celtic had a shocking lack of support from the league last year.

: Mon May 26, 2008 1:33 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

The SPL are shocking at helping any of their sides in Europe mate, and not just the blue side of Glasgow, Celtic had a shocking lack of support from the league last year.

The SPL allowed them to postpone games. That's why they ended up with such a backlog. That's why the other teams had to have their season extended when they should not have had to.

In the end, the SPL's pampering to Rangers needs was what caused them to ask for more pampering, which they got by getting their extension.

No team should ever be allowed to postpone a league game on the Saturday just because they want to have everyone fit for another game the following Wednesday.

I don't see any of England's European representatives wanting special treatment in this way.

: Tue May 27, 2008 12:59 pm  

I don't get all the complaining and moaning about the fixture backlogs. Perhaps Rangers shouldn't have been allowed to cancel their game, but the SPL were simply trying to help their team in Europe after being severely criticised for not helping Celtic when they were in the same position.

Nobody, either the clubs or the SFA could have had any inclination that games were going to have to be put off after the sudden, tragic death of Phil O'Donnell nor that those postponements were going to be compounded by the bad weather that followed throughout the season.

It's been a one-off season with lots of variables that couldn't have been predicted.

: Tue May 27, 2008 1:44 pm  

I did not actually realise the strain that this season has actually HAD on Walter Smith I must say. The pressure has clearly got to him and the stress has led to one or two worries about his heart.

Seemingly he has had a quadruple by-pass in the last week or so.