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Every season Polworth has played more than 30 league games for us we have finished 3rd.

Decent.

You assumed correctly.

The ex-Academy team mates linking well for that one.

Getting current players on the commentary team has always been enjoyable. Watt has been excellent - in prior seasons guys like Hartley and Tanner were always good value.

Much brighter start to the second half to get that 3rd goal. (I think Devante was shooting, though).

First half pretty much what I was expecting. Fortmartine up for it in the first half hour, difficult pitch to play any kind of passing game, and us with our usual post-international-game performance. Missing Watt's energy. Lawless our best performer so far.

Is this Liam Polworth posting on here?

Tony Watt

If a regular starter takes a knock and is out for a game, I can see the point in mentioning it. For players that are out longer term the medical staff generally don't like making predicitons about when they will be fit again, so I'm not sure what good it would do for the manager to run through the long-term injury list every week and tell us who is still out.

You might be right, but from memory, they said exactly the same thing for the Euro game and when you clicked the button it said "you need to buy a ticket on the PPV site".

Motherwell players playing for the first Scotland team to qualify for the Euros in 20+ years? Booooo. BOOOOOOOO! Get them ooooot!!!!! Don't want all those fancy dan internationalists anywhere near our squad when we can have non-league journeyman to fill the jerseys. Let's get Grimshaw back there and put Lamie at left back!!!!!

Aye, no Cup games of any kind in the overseas package.

And we'll be in it at least until we get St Johnstone away in the next round.

If this season has proved anything it's that we need a minimum of 10 first team defenders in the squad to have a fighting chance that 4 are fit at any given time.

Cheers. Sorted.

I suspect that if he'd joined us he'd still have been sold to Rangers around the same age. That's how things worked in those days. So it's possible we saw him in claret and amber for longer than if we had signed him as a youngster. We certainly wouldn't have seen him line up with Bobby Russell, who people tend to overlook when talking about Cooper, but who made a significant contribution to his success at Fir Park.

Aye, I'm not worried about signing up, just wondered if it was actually happening. I know how these things go sometimes.

Anyone read or heard anything more on the streaming front for this game?

Good point about the shorts. I remember the white shirts, but couldn't tell you about the shorts. I also remember the press (Record I think) bigging up McKeever as the next Gerd Müller!

A Mess of the Blues.

I thought it was maybe one of those time traveller photos you see on the internet. I can't add anything to the white shirt mystery, but the "borrowing it" seems the most likely explanation. I wonder if someone like Davie Hay would remember.

Also a puzzle is why the date under the Albert Kidd photo says December.

In the 80/81 season, the only other team I can think of that might have clashed is Berwick Rangers - but the change kit rules were a lot more relaxed in those days. I honestly don't remember if we wore that white Adidas more than once, though. The Utd game is a standout largely because of how well we played against a very good side.