Ya Bezzer!

I remember the game but haud on a minute - Harri Kampman beat Rangers? Must have been his only win!

This isn't a joke - The Sun is written so that everything in it should be understandable to someone with the reading ability of an 8 year old. It's considered one of the hardest papers to write for because its difficult for adults to actually write in that sort of very basic style.

Don't get me wrong, I've been laughing my head off at the whole McGhee/Aberdeen situation but I don't get all the serious bitterness towards him. OK, maybe he's a bit of a pumped up fud with a delusional opinion of his own merits and place in the footballing hierarchy but he did a great job with us. To turn that Malpas side round, probably the worst Motherwell side I've ever seen, into probably the best Motherwell side I've seen since the mid 90's was nothing short of miraculous. We lost some very important players and his second season wasn't as good but it was hardly a disaster, we just missed out on the Top Six, actually finished the season with more points than Hibs in the Top Six and qualified for Europe. The guy did a great job for us and even snubbed a huge pay rise from Hearts to stay with us. A lot of this hatred of McGhee seems to me like ingratitude.

If the game had gone ahead the only people at the match would have been people living within walking distance, we'd been have lucky to 2,000 - 2,500 at the match and all of them would have been fucking freezing and probably caught some kind of respiratory illness. Still, its been a while since we got the orange ball out.

Should have tried to get a train out of Glasgow last night. The Russians runs trains over Siberia, we cannae get them over a thick frost in Rutherglen!

Just got up 5 minutes ago, looked out the window and knew there was no way the game would be on. I live 5 minutes walk from Fir Park and it is currently snowing heavily with what looks like a good couple of inches of snow lying on the ground. There is no way the Police would have allowed this game to go on.

I think the only time I've seen Motherwell in a penalty shoot out was against Alloa and we lost it so going by our recent record at taking penalties I'd just go home! For the record I was still at school the year we won the cup and I wasn't allowed to go to midweek matches, so no Morton match, missed the Celtic replay as well.

I'm pro the referee's strike although not because I'm entirely sympathetic with the referee's although they do have a case in some regards, especially regards to the media treatment of referee's and the whole Celtic nonsense. However the main reason I'm pro the strike is that I believe the change required in Scottish football will not happen without an extreme form of catalyst. Fixtures being called off certainly falls into that category. If missing a weekend fixture helps to fix the terrible state of repair our game is in at the moment then I am quite willing for that to happen. It would be a terrible thing if this week turned into a damp squib and everything got back to normal next week.

It's supposed to be below freezing with more snow tonight.

Glad Dallas is gone. He was something of a tyrant and an obstacle to change. Now all we need is... 1) Dougie McDonald fired 2) Points deduction for Celtic 3) 'Well win on Sunday

They are saying on the Bristol City forums they are going to punt him in January. If Gow leaves, we'd have a space, come home Clarky!

Lennon isn't any worse than a lot of managers. Take Jim Jeffries or Billy Reid or any number of others. It wasn't all that long ago that our own manager at the time Jim Gannon was heavily criticizing referees. Don't remember having a go at Gannon when he was up to his tricks. The really terrible thing isn't so much Lennons antics, even although he should grow up, it's the club behind him and its bizarre campaigns and stoking up of paranoia. That's the really cynical side of this.

Our referees are no where near good enough, they behave in a supercilious, pompous and overly haughty way, they belong to an arcane clique that desperately needs to be dragged into the 21st century and now cannot even be trusted to tell the truth to other football professionals in regards to their decisions. But you know what? I don't blame them. The best possible thing that can happen is if the referee's stick to their guns here and have next weekends matches are postponed. The game in this country needs a wake up call and the referees strike might just be the thing. We've had years and years of bickering and self interest for clubs, individuals, organizations but it cannot stand for much longer. Unless the Scottish football establishment can come together and work as a united front it will not survive much longer. Players, managers, clubs all have to have a long hard look in the mirror. So do referees but the mud slinging has to end now, with everyone coming together to work things and and try and build a better game. The alternative is oblivion, its as stark as that.

Sometimes you think the memory is playing tricks but no, that was a fucking monster of a free kick.

No offense to Stevie but this is just proof that Levein has lost the plot since he became Scotland manager. The guy has cracked. What a massive snub for Mark Reynolds.

Be fair to McGhee, right now Alex Miller has the worst record in Aberdeen's history. Not saying McGhee won't eventually take the unwanted crown though!

Note to self, next time you book concert tickets 3 months in advance, look before hand to see if there is a midweek game. Going by the attendance, a lot of people were elsewhere!

Is that when we were getting fucked a home by St. Johnstone with a team full of 18 year olds and a nutjob for a manager? Oh aye! I remember now, we've gone backwards ever since! The reason a lot of youth players have gone 'backwards' since Brown came in is obvious - they weren't ready for the first team when Gannon introduced them as 17 or 18 year olds. Its also a well known phenomenon in football that youth players often start strongly, fade, with only some of them recapturing their initial form. But anyway Humphrey has done more for Brown than he did for Gannon, Jamie Murphy is finally showing his potential having only shown brief glimpses for previous managers, Saunders is more or less a regular in the team, Forbes still features either from the bench or from the start, Smith was given his debut by Brown, Page has probably made as many if not more appearances under Brown than he did for Gannon etc, etc. And does anyone honestly believe that McHugh should start before Sutton, Blackman, Gow or Murphy? Does anyone honestly believe Pollock, Meechan, Hutchinson etc warrant a place in the first 11 or even 16 given our resources?

I was away all weekend and didn't get a chance to follow the match but another great away result. Just waitin' for the highlights to go online.

Didn't make it to the game today so I can't say much (well, anything!) about the match but I suspected the midweek game would take its toll on the players. Usually when there is a 'high' a 'low' follows immediately after but if we were to win two of the last three games this is the one I would have chosen to lose.

Murphy came back on and he walked off so it can't be THAT bad. We'll miss him if he's out for a week or two but I'd be more worried about Lasley's injury which looked much worse. Any word on that one?

Craigan, Hammell and Randolph were the stand outs for me. I go for Craigan for MotM.

Not the best match but at the same time there weren't many failures in the team. Everyone was trying hard but the final touch wasn't quite there. That said we deserved the victory although Randolph probably had more real saves to make than his opposite number. The keeper and back four were all very solid, midfield a wee bit sloppy at times and the front players all showed good touches with out ever looking very dangerous as a goal threat. We missed Lasley and Murphy when he went off injured. Churned out the victory, can we go one or even two steps further?

I'd give it to Stevie Hammell. Very good solid game throughout. Humphrey started well and finished well but there was about 50 minutes when he hardly had a kick.

Though the stick Gow was getting was a lot of nonsense. Give the guy a break, it was his first home start and he was no better or worse than Murphy or Blackman. As for the second point, that's exactly what I thought when the full time whistle went - "OK, that's us out the cup!".