Electric Blues

Orient were my local team in the early eighties, in the old Division 3. Even then, the quality was nothing to write home about, although my fondest memories of those times include a 4-2 victory over Millwall in some Mickey Mouse cup or other, and what to this day I still rank as the best burgers served at any ground I've ever been to anywhere in the world.

The more I watch that goal the happier I get, not just with the goal itself but for what it says about Johnson's current and future confidence. He could - and almost certainly should - have passed, taking the easy option for a striker struggling for game time and without a goal for a while. The fact that he obviously made up his mind what he was going to do early on, and then had the belief and the ability to execute it is surely exactly what anyone wants in a striker.

Voted for Grimshaw, although I really wish I could vote for Johnson too. I feel sorry for Turnbull who hasn't got a single vote so far, having set the bar far too high for himself with his previous netbuster. Hopefully he'll make up for it next time out with a sublime 40-yard lob to complete his hat trick.

It makes the found footage from the Blair Witch Project look professional.

I can confidently predict it's not going to be Carl McHugh.

Thing is, Robinson did what the majority on here wanted (eventually) by switching to a 4-4-2, giving Turnbull a start, and then sticking with it for this game. He'd be getting pelters if he'd gone 3-5-2 and lost 1-0.

Remember when the 3-5-2 was first a thing, and everyone thought it was the cat's pyjamas? I suspect the real trick is to have more than one system that we're comfortable with, coupled with the nous to select the right one for the right occasion, and change it mid-stream if needed.

Live on Alba - got to be better than Chelsea v Palace.

Absolutely delighted to see Grimshaw and Cadden right up there as contenders, but I went for Turnbull for the overall performance, not just the goal. That said, he'd have a good case for MOTM if that had actually been his only touch of he game, what a belter! It was very reminiscent of Colin O'Neill's wonder strike, albeit into the opposite corner. In both cases, I suspect the ball would have made it into low earth orbit if the net hadn't been there, they showed no signs of ever dipping.

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You show one fud, though, and then everyone wants in on the act - much like "Readers' Wives" back in the seventies.

I quite agree that Turnbull deserves all credit for the shot. (Just for the record, I voted for Cadden.) I typed the original comment during the Alba highlights, and was alluding as much to the way Samson was flapping at corners and crosses, and just generally failing to inspire his defence with any confidence. (I didn't think Bowman did much wrong on the one that ended up in the net near the end of the first half either, although not speaking Gaelic that might have been disallowed for an offside rather than a foul, who knows.)

For the first time ever I was going to vote for Craig Samson, but his name is unaccountably absent from the list.

Celtic 3 up against Dundee now, so no surprises there.

"Collects the ball about 25 yards out and fires it low and hard which catches out Samson! "

Get fucking in!

One shot on target so far - for Saints.

Club Twitter reports "Motherwell lining up in a 4-4-2 formation".

It's easier to predict where we'll be if we lose our next two - rock bottom, that's where. Let's not lose them, eh?

Definitely Wednesday.

I've never been to Livingston's ground (I can't bring myself to type the abomination of its official name) but looking at it on the TV it appears that they've given three full stands over to Rangers. I can't see a single Livingston fan anywhere, although presumably they're in the fourth stand I can't see on the telly.

That name's going to stick, I fear.

I realise it's the exception rather the rule, but in the last few games we've scored 3 against Dundee and 3 against Rangers, including a last gasp equaliser. But you knock yourself out there, pal.

I thought the point was to hope your own team scored a few goals. Guess I've been doing it wrong.

Almost right, but you missed the bit where they didn't make any gloating comments about how Carson and Motherwell deserved it after what that nasty Peter Hartley said about Cardosa's nose.