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I'm the opposite. Wasn't a big fan of that Admiral template for the home shirt - it felt like loads of teams were using it. Loved the change top, though, so swings and roundabouts I suppose. Remember a few great games under the Fir Park floodlights wearing that white kit (in the days when it was the home team that had to change).

Slightly off topic, but have any overseas posters managed to create an account to buy tickets for the Motherwell v Covid-19 initiative? Even after I work around the fact it needs a valid UK mobile number, every time I try to create an account I get "Unexpected Error".

You'd have been jealous of him and all that he achieved. People come and go from all sites like this. It's part of their natural life cycle. The vast majority of discussion boards wither and die fairly quickly. That happens even quicker when there is no moderation and the trolls and spammers take over. It's a testament to posters and moderators on here that the site has been ticking over for so long with minimal intervention required.

I miss those terraces.

I like to shirt, but not in favour of 90 year anniversary anything.

I think it's time to reinstate the Humphreys Hutchison Trophy for Excellence in Spelling.

I think 'Flow talked about it in a radio interview. From memory, it was first week in (or maybe just "early") April that he mentioned.

I didn't suggest it was intentional - but it was 100% a foul and 100% a yellow card even in the 90s. Even then keepers received more than generous protection.

Even our cup winning team was useless at seeing out a game with a 2 goal lead.

It's been fun watching the retro 90's rules where you can pass the ball back for the keeper to pick up and assault the keeper in mid-air without getting a foul against you.

Certainly another good way to support the club for people who are able and looking for an option. And with the early bird being extended, it will help make sure that those who want to (or have to) wait won't miss out.

They have been trying to get control of a Scottish club for a while. Last year it was Patrick Thistle, but were knocked back by Colin Weir. I guess they thought some of our clubs may be struggling and looking for a way out. After all we did to become fan owned it was a bit of a long shot.

I hear Rangers need a cash injection.

Just from today's Scotsman - see if you can guess the "star" players from the Headline: 1) Ex-Rangers star blasts Celtic hero over title talk 2) Rumour Mill: Former Rangers star faces the axe from team he left Ibrox for Answers: 1) Hugh Burns 2) David Bates

The OF punters don't read stories about routine aftercare. They need to see their team mentioned at least once per paragraph and contain either "despair", "elation', "dream move", "war chest" or "outrage".

Looking forward to the sequel video. DT II. The steel man with steel pins in his pins.

Economists didn't cause the financial crisis. It was the bankers that did that. Not the same thing.

It was on Real Time with Bill Maher - here's the segment on youtube (I think it should work outside the US). Also, here is a link to the Wall Street Journal article I read yesterday, which lays out all the facts so far. While it is still obviously a concerning situation, it contains zero hysteria and makes for a much more informative and balanced piece.

I've had to stop watching the news. The wild and pointless speculation just drives me nuts, and the media seem intent on whipping up their favourite fear, panic and hysteria. I watched an good interview last night with a guy that specialises in human assessment of risk and fear, and he was much more sensible. He wasn't for one second playing down the potential seriousness of the situation, but was pointing out how irrational human responses can be in an attempt to give them some sense of control. Bulk buying of toilet paper when there is no shortage of the stuff is a great example. According to a recent article New England Journal of Medicine, the overall mortality rate may be less than 1% once the final number of infected people is established. Evidence for this comes in part from China where once the the Wuhan outbreak had been identified, the other areas of that had time to prepare to care for patients are seeing a mortality rate of 0.7% - still substantially more than the 0.1% of the flu, but not the figures originally feared. The recent SARS virus had a mortality rate of around 10% and Covid-19 is far less deadly than that, and far less deadly than MERS or Ebola. I'm not for one second suggesting we don't need to take steps to address the situation and keep people as safe and healthy as possible, and it's better that governments prepare for the worst while hoping for the best. I just find the 24x7 "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" coverage as exhausting as it is unhelpful and suspect it will lead to a lot of unnecessary stress. The various regional and national health agency websites are providing information in a much more balanced and helpful way.

Even if the authorities wanted to do that (and I don't think they did), I read the PFA said they were very much against it - which is understandable given the nature of their role as a union.

What changed? We didn't learn anything new about the virus or how it spreads since kick-off at Ibrox.

I agree there is certainly a lot of "theatre" about all of this. There doesn't seem to be any coherent plan here; just some cancellation of random events while letting others carry on as normal. I have no doubt Covid-19 will be spreading over the next few weeks, but if governments had been serious about stopping it becoming a pandemic they needed, by all expert accounts, to have taken action quite a few weeks ago. I suspect we are creating a financial crisis with no real benefit to the health of the general population.

Struggling to see why last night at Ibrox was safer than Fir Park tonight.

Or maybe not now it's confirmed Arteta contracted the virus and all EPL games are under review.

The mortality rate is a tricky one as in countries like the US we don't really know how many people are currently infected (apart from Tom Hanks). This is mostly due to advice to self-isolate (but not get tested) if you have the symptoms. Given flu season is still in full swing, there may be over or undercounting going on. The CDC figures for US flu related deaths this season are 20 - 40k. The problem seems to be that the range of responses is so varied that suspending football matches (which were ranked as lower risk) is negligible compared to more positive action governments should have taken earlier. Whatever the answer is, the best options have already been and gone.