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That first video is of the team I best remember from my youth, Rennie, Wark, Davidson, Marinello, Graham & Pettigrew, with plenty of steel (no pun intended) around them to allow them to strut their stuff. Two things jumped out to me; 1: I think we paid 100,000 for Marinello, what would that equate to now? 2: How many players would each team finish a game with if Colum was refereeing in the 70s?

The trick is to look and see who is posting the criticism..........then ignore it. It works for me.

Which was a replay, after he had scored a wonder goal in the first game to get them the draw. * *Subject to my dodgy memory being correct. ** ** Which is unlikely.

Furlong, Spittal, Kelly were all worthy of consideration, and the fact that Max forced himself into consideration despite only being on the park for 25 minutes says a lot about his contribution. I went with Furlong, admittedly though, it is because I've overlooked him a few times recently after good solid performances so it is a bit of a sympathy vote.

A really solid defensive performance and we matched them for work rate in the middle of the park. There was no great standout but I thought that Spittal shaded it.

In the same gossip it says this: Ross County manager Malky Mackay aims to keep Motherwell's former Staggies midfielder Blair Spittal at Fir Park on Saturday. I presume he is going to let the air out of his tyres or something!

I think it is to do with the League being rebranded from the Premier League to the Premiership, hair splitting nonsense in other words. They are probably ignoring any records set in the old First division days too.

KVV, I would close the poll now. Butcher & Casey probably the only others worth consideration.

You're trying to make MJC's aneurysm burst, aren't you?

My understanding is that the change to 65 happened last year but anyone who had already turned 60 continues to get the discounted rate. Coatsy just beat me to it.

The only criteria involve the arse cheeks, make sure they get 19 home games each, even if it affects the teams still with something to play for, then make sure that Celtic can't win the league at Ibrox. They also have to worry about the first game after the title is settled being at Ibrox to avoid the embarrassment of Rangers not applauding the Champions onto the park. Once that is sorted they just pull the other games out a hat.

Good to see that Motherwell's B team continued the tradition of blowing it when everything suggests a home win. In form, check, playing against a struggling team, check, full house, check. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. I'd still prefer they would have won though.

Lies, damn lies and statistics. Scott Brown used to have passing accuracies in the 90%s, but all of them were back to his centre halves. Spittal at least doesn't hide like some of his team mates, and, more importantly, didn't when things were bad mid-season. Maybe if some of the others had put in the same effort he did we wouldn't have been in the position we were. He isn't the best player I've ever seen, but he is far from the worst.

Sounds about right to me, again without checking. Don't forget Andy Lynch day, what a laugh that was.

I remember a cup win in about 1975, I'd have to go searching for an exact date. We were 0 - 2 down at half time and won 3 - 2, Pettigrew scored twice, can't remember who scored the other, Vic Davidson possibly. That was a great day, greater team. Skippy Sunday could have been better if he had squared the ball to Gerry Britton, I would have loved to have seen the look on his face if he had a tap in against his beloved Celtic. (I suspect it would have hit the corner flag though)

Went with the obvious, KVV. Spittal and Johnston also had great games and Kelly looked more like the keeper we had last season.

We battered them – battered them. We were a class above them.

And quite a few who can't.

I always target 38 points before I can relax and think about how high we can finish and not how low, and in the last 15 or so years, only twice has the team finishing 11th exceeded that total, I suspect this season won't buck that trend, so 38 points should be plenty. 11 games to go, 11 points required, I think ( and hope ) that we will manage that.

And no one has even mentioned Willie Watson yet.

I'd imagine they took about 4 seconds to deny it. The real question is why the ref only gave a yellow card to begin with.

Probably not, and definitely not a Scottish referee. 😁

I've no doubt that would have happened, and as I said, I was happy not to play against 10 men, but if the referee waits for a break in play to make a booking, eg, Van Veen's stupid hand ball, why is a goal different from a throw in?

What a pleasant way to start a Sunday afternoon, thoroughly deserved three points. The BBC report, and a couple on here, have talked about Shankland hitting the post, it was actually a great save from Kelly and it, arguably, sent us on our way. Everyone contributed to that win and pretty much anyone could have been the man of the match. Having an organiser in Butcher allows us to look much more comfortable with and without the ball and at no point today was I tempted to start chewing my nails. If anything, I'm disappointed we didn't win by more. One final thought, I was surprised that their no. 3 wasn't even spoken to after the second goal, he had Dean in a bear hug then wrestled him to the ground in the 6 yard box before Spittal put the ball in the net. Given our record against ten men I'm happy nothing happened, and I'm also happy to admit that I don't know that specific rule, but I thought some sort of action would have been in order. Huge result though, 'mon the 'Well.

Two games in a row we have been given a really hard decision to make. I went with Goss because he is now influencing games with a littlle bit of skill but is also working hard off the ball. Honourable mentions to Kelly, Butcher, Cornelius, Spittal & Obika. I could make a case for most of the team in all honesty.