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Have we considered giving Hastie a contract and loaning him out to Newcastle?

What he did for us in a short period of time (always feels more than just a season & a half) will stay with every Bairn who saw him forever. Only Crunchie and Latapy get anywhere near him in my lifetime. So far anyway🤞🏼

I'm sure Tommy Wright will clear it up for us in his next conference.

What a man !!!

Saw them all. Being old does have it's advantages.

Marshy you missed an absolute genius. His speed of thought on the pitch was unbelievable. Some of the things he done were unbelievable. A lot of people forget though that he was an unselfish player and really improved Sammy McGivern with the way they played together. I’ll never forget what he done for our club. A true legend. COYB.

I loved Stainrods wee tricks, he'd have his back to a defender, put the ball one way but turn the other way himself leaving the defender for dead. Beautiful And he did this mad thing where it looked like he was going to control the ball with his chest but he'd duck down and let the ball skelp over his head then he'd turn the baffled defender and scurry off with the ball. Remember him scoring at Broomfield where the ball broke to him with just Martin to beat, I reckon every other player on Earth would have ran on towards goal to close the distance but he just fucking smacked it from where he was, a fucking belter, and then off to try a somersault. Hero.

Obviously will be overlooked a bit because of Hastie, but it's pretty remarkable that Robinson is holding a MOTM award considering where he was after the County game - a lot of supporters wanted him out at that point - some turnaround and fair play to him.

My son is named after him - that's how much he means to me. Played in the same team as him as well in a 5 a side tournament The Holy Trinity of Bairns will always be Stainrod, Crunchie, Latapy.

If another season like this one would be such a disaster, then it seems like madness to commit to a set up that might be the same, while hoping that it changes to a more localised but less competitive league. Surely this will not bring you the higher quality of player and additional revenue you guys speak of?

Given that he played Junior football very successfully for several years, I'd imagine he'd be fine.

Tony?

Just to add something positive to this thread and remind us all that it’s not always been shite being a Rovers fan. My uncle was a sports photographer for the courier back in the day and used to print me off photos he’d taken from the Rovers games. I found these ones the other day in my mums attic. They were taken after the game in which we clinched the 1st division title in April ‘93. I spotted a few familiar faces in the crowd.

I don't want to go all "Well Fans II" but if Hastie signs for Rangers then f**k him. That is all.

If this is true (and there's enough folk going on about it to make me believe it's a done deal) then I have no problem with him moving on to a bigger club for more money. I do think it's the wrong move for him from a playing point a view, though. Even if he stayed at Fir Park for another season, then made his move after playing 50+ times in the Premiership, he'd be in a far better position to do make that step up. Now though? He was playing for Alloa three months ago and he's then hoping to get above five or six wide players already at Ibrox. A tough ask. If and when it's confirmed, I hope Stephen Robinson comes out and says he'll no longer be considered for the first team. If he's made his decision, fair play to him. Motherwell's model is to bring young players through and sell them on. If he signs for Rangers, job done for Motherwell. We've got someone like Elliot Frear who'll be playing be for a new deal at Motherwell so I'd rather give him the opportunity over the next couple of months. There's no doubt by the time he's 23, Hastie will be a wealthy guy but I have the feeling he's not making the best career choice here. Still, I'm very much of the opinion that when a player moves on from Motherwell, I couldn't give a shit where he goes or what he does. I was never the fan who went out a bought an Everton top with McFadden on the back of it, nor was I one to head to Preston for the day to watch Louis Moult sit on the bench. All the best to the lad, but we'll move on and bring the next one through.

3 years since we appointed Dick as gaffer. What a ride it’s been

Flat number 07, Henderson’s Corner, making fun of Hearts’ Lego Bus and some Youth Leith Team graffiti in an official club video.

So proud. That's another one scored off my bucket list. When I say 'another one', I really mean 'the first one' - I'm a lazy bassa.

Can't find the scores just now (it'd be a shame if my moment of near-glory has been removed from the internet - or maybe the quizzing website just isn't easy to navigate) but I'm sure it was open to competitors across the globe, so I like to claim that I was right up there internationally...

The Rutles-All you need is cash

I know it's how modern fitba works, but the power that Agents hold over teenage laddies is just fucking grim.

See, that's the thing. There's absolutely no doubt it's not a good look with hindsight but we gave him a 2.5 year deal back in 2016 and in that time he's made 32 appearances for Airdrie in League 1 and scored 4 goals and scored 3 in 23 appearances for Alloa. 7 goals in 55 games in the lower leagues isn't the sort of return you'd be anticipating Sevco to break out their chequebook for. I'm pretty sure we'd have spoken to him about a new deal at the start of the season and there was one on the table at the end of January (the game against Dundee on the 26th was only his 2nd start for Motherwell). I get there's a bit of hysteria about the whole thing but I genuinely don't see offering a deal to a player with a handful of starts in January is particularly unusual. Whilst most would have had high hopes for Hastie even the player himself has admitted he didn't see the impact he's had coming. He came back to Fir Park expecting to be making appearances off the bench. 3 weeks ago he was pretty much saying he planned to sign. Then he started pinging in 30 yarders and well...we are where we are. There's an irony of sorts that had Elliot Frear not been injured for the Hibs game there's a fair chance Hastie would have been on the bench and every chance would have signed the deal on the table. There's also every chance we'd be several points worse off but sliding doors and that. It's easy to say that Motherwell should have been chucking a 10 year deal at him at the start of the season but I'd have thought his rep would be telling him not to sign anything until he saw how things played out. Which from his client's point of view is absolutely the right thing to do. Why would he advocate signing a longer term deal on lower terms at the start of the season when there's a chance he gets to January, comes good and is in a better position to negotiate? We absolutely got lucky with Turnbull but again, we were offering him his extension in October and by the time of the AGM we'd had 4 offers kb'd, and that's from an agent who wanted Turnbull out on loan this season.

Yeah, Crunchie, Stainrod and Latapy. The Holy Trinity, as posted elsewhere. Latapy pulled the strings more quietly if you know what I mean, just gently bossing teams. SS and KMcA were the stars, and stood out a mile.

All religion is nonsense; all of it. Some religions are practiced with more fervour than others and are far more widespread in their respective communities and therefor have a far more determental effect in society. In years gone by Christianity, and people’s interpretation of it, had sway over the way this country operated. Thankfully that is no longer the case; the influence of Christianity has not disappeared but has significantly reduced. I appreciate that there are folk whose criticism of Islam is a very thin veneer for something else, but defence of that backward religion is PC bullshit. It’s funny how supposed progressive are prepared to defend a homophobic, mysoginistic religion for fear of being labelled ‘Islamophobes’. Interestingly criticism by such progressives of staunch NI Protestants is still fair game.

How many times does it need to be said. The Spaniards are quite happy to allow an independent Scotland into the EU as long as independence is achieved by legal means.

The “real” Bo’ness Utd would fucking pump them obviously!

This has been explained time and time again. such an approach means every single club in the pyramid need to meet spfl premiership requirements, IT IS UNWORKABLE. we need an approach that has stepped progression so that top end clubs of whatever tier can progress and achieve the higher standards of the tier above, We will occasionally see clubs have a one-off season from a normal lowly position that suddenly have the season of there lives and are unable to take promotion, but at least 9/10 the progressive step should be achievable for most.

Terrible picture but it's nice to see the queens relegation express documentary on the TV at Falkirk hospitality tonight.

f**k off out my thread virgin

Far too many hipster "good for him" views on this. Please be seething when (if) it happens. If it does there is no reason for him to be involved in the team. We've nothing really to play for. Other players have their future to play for.

Can't disagree with much of that. On the one hand Maxwell wants to pick up and drop 140 Junior clubs into the Pyramid (without much consideration for those already there), but on the other try and slow down the pace of change as far as SFA membership is concerned. Those two policies don't sit well together. The SPFL are already out numbered by non-league clubs in the SFA, add in another 40/50 over the next few years and those clubs could suddenly find they can't dictate what happens in the game. Maxwell hasn't covered himself in glory since he took office and of course, he is an SPFL man. If derogation isn't granted then he's going to find himself fire fighting yet another controversy. I do believe he had no idea about the 31st March deadline either. As for what's next on SFA Licencing, my best guess is seating.

Wid

Tom Petty - Free Fallin'

Junior Campbell : Hallelujah Freedom

Gorillaz - Hallelujah Money

People who spend today (International Woman's Day) loudly asking anyone who will listen when international men's day is. It's November 19th.

Wrote a big long post but my phone collapsed before posting. Proper seething. Anyway, here's the gist. Those years 90-95 were fantastic times to be a Bairn and thankfully for me they coincided with growing up, moving away from home and going to uni so I had the opportunity to follow the team around a whole lot more. I've mentioned it before but my brother is a St Johnstone fan, and that day at McDiarmid I could clearly see him up the back of the East Stand, giving us pelters after they pulled a goal back from the spot. And rightly so. Oh, how their joy turned to ashes as Sir Simon lofted one over Hamilton and into the net. Genuinely the only time I've/we've gone bananas like that was when big Peter nodded one in at Hampden. The corner at Brockville. The volley at Raith. Setting up 459 goals for Sammy in about 6 matches. Consecutive home matches finishing 7-1 and 5-1 immediately after Sammy's hat trick at Broomfield. Taking 8 million fans to Fir Park to give Motherwell a cracking game, ruined by Baptie getting his cheek smashed by that big cuddy Cusack. The diving header v Celtic. Kneeling on the ball. Being live on t' telly and annihilating Ayr. So many happy memories. [I must admit to a feeling of hmmmm though, at the Musselburgh story. Rangers were spending megabucks and Dundee United were coming to the end of the McLean glory years but still a fearsome team. Simon's story that he basically ripped the piss out of all of them might be overegging the pudding a bit. Or maybe they were treating a preseason 6 a side tournament as only a wee kickabout.]

I got the impression that the coppers back then enjoyed the fighting as much as the fans. Also in Dundee you got the choice of the cells or a kicking on the back of a van. Which was considerate of them.

This is why we can't have nice things...

Think you're going to need to make that emoji just a tad bigger there m9.

Brb, Well Fans II

Technically they weren't, Birmingham City won that day which meant United would have gone down regardless of the result against City, it's a good myth/bit of folklore for historians to peddle but factually inaccurate, although many reckon that was the moment that sort of sealed their fate in a piece of inevitability.

And you didn't think to photo this slutty lady?

Today I have just discovered that a colleague of mine goes to Tesco most days and buys a sandwich. He then returns to his desk and eats it using a knife and fork.

Bought a bag of steak Doritos, I'd recommend you don't. My full house smells like sport arse, or that humid funk when you shag a fat bird, a sort of Bovril/sweat/shite shame. Like have you ever been having a right good scratch at your arse and the itch leads you to the outskirts of Flavour Town? Then you inevitably smell your fingers and it's absolutely no right. Well it's like that. Can't stop eating the c***s though.

I got five for Thursday which the Cardinal couldn't be arsed to put in the table. I could excuse him if he had missed it as he was too busy revising for the evening quiz. Obviously not, though, judging by their score.

We recently had a couple stay at ours whilst we fucked off on holiday for 2 weeks. They actually made a picture frame for us, they loved our two girls so much.