Morrow scores 5 in one half

From the Edinburgh Evening News:
“SAM MORROW scored six goals as a strong Hibs side beat East of Scotland League club Vale of Leithen 8-0 at Victoria Park last night. Morrow was in scintillating form, especially in the second half when he scored five. ”

Morrow scores 5 in one half

From the Edinburgh Evening News:
“SAM MORROW scored six goals as a strong Hibs side beat East of Scotland League club Vale of Leithen 8-0 at Victoria Park last night. Morrow was in scintillating form, especially in the second half when he scored five. ”

Morrow not for sale

Hibs boss Tony Mowbray has told Falkirk that Northern Irish striker Sammy Morrow is not for sale. Mowbray has had enquiries from a couple of clubs, but he has no intention of selling the striker. He told the Scotsman:
“Sam has knocked on my door now and again and asked what is happening and I’ve had to try to appease him.
“We brought him to Hibs because we could see his attributes and assets but I understand everyone has his own ambitions and that Sam wants to get his career up-and-running.
“He wants to get out there and show what he can do but we have two boys who scored 40-odd goals between them last year and Sam has to wait.
“He has to be ready when the chance comes and you never know when that may arise through injury or suspension.”

Morrow not for sale

Hibs boss Tony Mowbray has told Falkirk that Northern Irish striker Sammy Morrow is not for sale. Mowbray has had enquiries from a couple of clubs, but he has no intention of selling the striker. He told the Scotsman:
“Sam has knocked on my door now and again and asked what is happening and I’ve had to try to appease him.
“We brought him to Hibs because we could see his attributes and assets but I understand everyone has his own ambitions and that Sam wants to get his career up-and-running.
“He wants to get out there and show what he can do but we have two boys who scored 40-odd goals between them last year and Sam has to wait.
“He has to be ready when the chance comes and you never know when that may arise through injury or suspension.”

Healy conspiracy

[So it took a last minute penalty save to keep us from defeat in Malta. Oh dear. It’s not fun supporting Northern Ireland at times, I’m glad I wasn’t able to watch the match.
Also having some problems updating the template – Apache’s giving my a 406 Unacceptable Behaviour error message??? – so bear with me. The next match is of course the Azers on Saturday 3rd September]
Anyway, LeedsUtdMAD think that Kevin Blackwell is trying to sell their ‘best player’ who would ‘would walk into any other Championship team and even some Premiership teams’.

Tonight

Well, last night if we’re being picky about it.
Stuart Elliott apparently had a mare for Hull against Sheffield Wednesday, couldn’t score to save his life. Great. Brunt started for Wednesday.
David Healy set up the opening goal for Leeds, but the eventually lost 2-1 to Cardiff (with Whitley in the engine room and Mulryne as a 90th minute substitute, hardly worth his while).
Tony Capaldi put Plymouth 2-0 up against Watford, but the game finished 3-3.
And Michael Ingham and Wrexham were made to suffer – after a busy performance from the ex-Cliftonville and Sunderland keeper, Notts County got the only goal of the game in the 90th minute to steal a 1-0 win.
Lincoln City skipper and Ulsterman Paul Morgan was sent off (for pushing the referee, according to the BBC site), after the ref gave Chester a last minute penalty, having already handed them an early goal. Lincoln had been 2-0 up before the referee intervened.

IFA RSS feed

Don’t worry if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
For anyone who wants to know whenenver the IFA site (www.irishfa.com) is updated, without having to go to it (the burden of actually having to go to a site is increased tenfold in this instance – for those on dialup at least – as the IFA site takes so long to load) I have put together an RSS feed for it using a very handy website I discovered recently:

Rotherham go “Mad”

Rotherham have appointed 30-year-old Northern Ireland defender Colin Murdock as their captain for the season.

Manager Mick Harford explained why it was an easy decision to choose Murdock:
“He was a natural choice because he is an experienced player who has played at the highest level. I am sure he will be a good leader especially as we have several much younger players in the squad now and Colin is a good talker so he will help them along in the right manner.”
Murdock is also hoping that his move down to League One won’t affect his international career:
“I played every game last season and am hoping to do so again this season. The England game, in particular, is the one game I’m looking forward to after they beat us at Old Trafford.”

Andy Smith and his biggest fan

Andy Smith has been talking about his loan move to Motherwell, and has given a strong hint that he’d like to make it permanent. He also tried to compare himself to Stuart Elliott, which is just not on:
“I was desperate to go out on loan this season as I need to be playing regular football if I’m going to do myself any justice with Northern Ireland. Playing for my country means the world to me and if I was not playing for Preston then the manager would look elsewhere.
“Odense in Denmark did offer me a loan move but I was never interested once I found out about Terry Butcher’s interest. I want to prove to people I can make it in full-time football and Stuart Elliott has already showed the way. He was a major success at Motherwell and went on to great things so hopefully I can follow him.
“This move is only on loan at the minute but who knows what will happen.”
Meanwhile, Andy’s biggest (only?) fan, a Mr L. Sanchez, has received the backing of former teammate Vinnie Arkins Jones:
“I always knew Lawrie was boss material”
“He’s a very clever fella – very bright. He was at university and all that.
“He was always the intellectual one at Wimbledon – the only one we had!” laughs Vinny, whose acting career took off after the highly successful Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
“Lawrie used to do all the contract negotiations for the Wimbledon players.
“He comes from a team of winners. He knows what it’s like to have a small team battling against all the odds.
“What he will bring to the Northern Ireland camp is professionalism and an inner spirit. It’s all about getting players to believe. At Wimbledon, most of us had limited ability compared to the likes of Manchester United. But we would go out and find it in ourselves to beat the big teams on the day. That came down to inner strength and working for each other.
“Lawrie knows all about that kind of thing because he has been around the game for a long time and being part of the Crazy Gang at Wimbledon I’m sure he would probably want to instil that kind of spirit.
“Obviously times now are different and you can’t get away with the antics that we did. But I’m sure building team spirit would still be his number one aim. At Wimbledon among our strengths were pattern of play and set plays – knowing where you should be when defending set plays and also on attacking set plays. That’s how we won the 1988 FA Cup Final against Liverpool with Lawrie’s header.”

Coleraine’s last hope

Here’s a message from Coleraine’s supporters – one of the biggest Irish League clubs, and about to go out of existence unless this last desperate effort works.

“This is our last chance to save our club, to raise enough money, to try to better the offer for the C.V.A. that our club might be able to survive. We are asking all Irish league fans, if you can, come to the Showgrounds on Tuesday, admission is free, we are only asking for donations. The money will be collected by supporters, and will have nothing to do with the men who brought this club to its knees.
Imagine for one moment that you replace Coleraine with your teams name, imagine the heart break that your fellow supporters are feeling. It is not our fault no matter what some may think. So please, please, come on Tuesday night.
IF NOTHING ELSE, IT MAY BE THE LAST TIME YOU EVER GET TO SEE FOOTBALL AT THE COLERAINE SHOWGROUNDS EVER AGAIN.
Thankyou in advance.”