numpty

If that's your measure of managerial success, you must have really hated the last 20 years.

Quite. I forget who said it on that fairly crap "Scottish and Irish players who were fabby dabby in England" series that's on the BBC just now, but in a one-on-one they were told to always dink the keeper, and it usually worked.

Exactly so, and that's the joy of the Cup. I wonder how many ties have been contested by two teams who both won their previous games 5-0?

You didn’t, if it was the BBC highlights. Despite being much shorter, the Sky highlights managed to include more actual highlights, including the best angle of Blair’s first goal. https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/13065721/motherwell-5-0-ross-county-scottish-premiership-highlights

Cleaners pulled out the wrong plug, possibly on at 11.30 now instead.

I dunno, most of the folk on here who apparently know all those things better than him are only based at the club for 90 minutes a fortnight.

If he can fool all our trained medical professionals into thinking he's injured, I know who I'd be letting go.

33 in his previous 82 appearances... spookily close to the 38 in 84 he scored for us. ** ** Figures from Wikipedia, resemblance to reality may be fleeting.

The keeper does everything right, but Paton takes a touch too many and the last one is comically heavy. That said, there haven't been many Motherwell players I'd back in a 1-on-1 over the years, so I wouldn't be singling him out for this one.

Positively Jim Hamilton-esque.

One man's fannying about at a corner is another man's defending in the opposition's half. It was a perfectly reasonable thing to try at that point in the game, we just made an arse of it.

Hmm, will try something else.

No picture on MFC TV for furriners?

Closer than the result that’s currently showing on the front page of the ‘fishel website, anyway.

Probably too expensive to turn on for light snow though, the pitch covers are better for that if we've read the forecast properly.

Tough tatties, wouldn't be his choice.

Sounds to me more like he's saying he's always been well aware of those things, and that they're the mitigating factors that should give him more time.

To my knowledge he hasn't set up a team in that formation in the past 13 years, so that would be quite a surprise to say the least, and perhaps even a tactical masterstroke.

In last season's EPL, the ball was in play for an average of 55 minutes, so you'd end up playing anything up to 20 minutes of stoppage time in each half. Would either have to come up with some other definition of "when the game stops", or reduce the length of a half from 45 to 30 minutes. (And people would still find plenty to complain about in both those scenarios, I'm sure.)

The number on the board is a minimum, ref can add as much over and above as he sees fit.

People have said that on here every year for at least the past 10 years.

Fair enough... guess he forgot to update his Wikipedia page

Jamie Murphy at Ayr Utd, Mark Reynolds at Cove Rangers, Marc Fitzpatrick at Airdrie. Chris Porter was released by Oldham at the end of last season after spending most of it out with DVT, and hasn't found another club.

Presume he meant unbeaten away league record... we'd already lost home league games under SK before yesterday.

Two backheels in the one move, no wonder we’re joint top of the league.