bobbybingo

I think the play-off games and League Cup semi mattered.

I'd put myself in the realistic camp. We need to start scoring, so Shaw will have to be given a decent opportunity, but I don't see what he's done in recent years that would suggest he's gonnae produce many goals either. Out of our available options Wilkinson would be the likely candidate for that, statistically speaking, which just highlights our problem.

We've done well with goalkeepers and defenders on loan deals, but which club is going to send us a proven goalscorer? It's gonnae be unproven youngsters like Biereth or older guys who haven't been scoring. Either that, or we pay for someone in form, but we'd need to look so far down the leagues for someone it would be highly likely we were beyond their level.

The only difference is that nobody got a chance to boo Hastie when he played for Rangers against us. Or anyone.

Kettlewell's deliberately setting the team up to lose? Ok.

Yeah, it's his job to pick the team and he is currently going with Bair because he fits his system. If you don't want to offer an opinion on what a better option would be right now because you know we don't have better options right now, you might as well pick a cloud to shout at.

Give it another 6 months and he'll be representing Cambusnethan Miners Club.

Your forward line-up would be?

In the long run, zero points is zero points and that can't go on. But I think most people can accept there is, in general, a difference between performances and results. If anyone's pleased about us losing, it's not the happy clappers.

We lost, that's a fact. You don't think the performances were good?

I'm more optimistic going into the Livingston game on the back of those 3 defeats than I would've been on the back of 3 defeats under Hammell. I think we're all aware what the problem is going to be in the upcoming games, but the team's playing well enough otherwise to warrant optimism. I don't know what element of the support on here you think get a hard on when losing gallantly to those two, but it's certainly not anyone old enough to remember beating them at least once every season, no matter how shit we were. Having said that, the gap has become a gulf over the last few decades - doesn't mean we can't win these games, but it's obviously made it far less likely. At least we've actually had a go this week.

Who said they were pleased to lose?

If, as looks like will be the case, we're still in the top 6 after facing those two in back to back matches, we're doing ok.

We equalised after they were subbed. What did they have to do with the goal we lost after that?

Marc Fitzpatrick quit as Airdrie's assistant manager in 2019. Looks like he'd retired from playing prior to that, due to injury.

If I had witnessed a trainload of Motherwell fans march through Central Station at the tail end of last season singing about being Billy Boys up to their knees in f****n blood, I'd be worried we'd lost our identity, or had an unhealthy fascination with the Old Firm. But they weren't Motherwell fans. Funnily enough....

Who are all these clubs?

He originally signed till May 2023, but at some point over the last few months that changed on the official site to May 2024. Same thing happened with Stephen O'Donnell - does anyone remember the club saying his deal had been extended? https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2021/04/13/stephen-odonnell-signs-new-deal/

Looks like it, though there doesn't seem to be any record of when it was extended, or who did it.

Picked up a back injury in training, apparently, but they're hoping he'll be ok for the St Mirren game.

I don't know how many they brought, but that was as full as I've ever seen Fir Park.

Maguire's getting Kidderminster skelfs in his arse now.

He'll be glad he didn't kick a baw tonight.

True. But what difference does it make?

Jon Obika. The devil finds work for idle hands....