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Dunfermline Athletic board statement published:

I was bullied quite badly when I was about 10 by a guy in my street. We lived in a new build estate and were initially pals as there were so few kids which meant you either had to kick about with who was there or with no one at all. A few months in this guy decided he didn't like me and basically bullied me like f**k (constant ripping the piss, turning pals against me, giving me kickings for no apparent reason). There was about 4 years between us so at that age he was a good bit bigger than me but it also meant that after a couple of years he outgrew the "playing in the street" age so the bullying stopped by default more than anything else. This isn't something I'm particularly proud of (well maybe a bit) but I saw him on a night out a few years ago for the first time in ages. He started talking away to me in the toilets as if we were old pals. I'm not sure if I expected him to apologise for making my life miserable for a good couple of years but a lot of old emotions came back to the surface and I decided there and then (in my drunken state) to kick his c**t in. Spent the next few days expecting a visit from the polis but nothing ever came of it.

Been a victim of bullying but didn’t realise it until afterwards really. Was mental rather than physical. happened a few years ago and tbh I have never really talked about it to anyone. I am now at the point where it is behind me and I am back to what I see as my older self - happy in my work, confident in my abilities. The guy is still at my work but I just ignore him and don’t have to deal with him I am now much more watchful for this behaviour in others - now I am aware will not stand for it.

500 of those fouls were Slattery stopping counter attacks.

Sitting in the IKEA car park waiting for Archie coming out from his first scan since November. Hes been doing well but there's going to come a point where he starts to lose the good fight. No growth found! Good boy!

Yeah. The important thing for me is that everyone who managed to get to Airdrie got behind the team from the first minute to last. All the die hards that I've known over the many, many years I've been supporting us where there, that's all that matters to me (and sadly some others were let down by the trains) Folk who were there home and away every week when we finished rock bottom of League 2 and the 3rd division. Some of them were in tears on Sunday at the final whistle. First time playing in the second tier since season 82/83 - when I was a ball boy! We all know we're not amateur anymore and we've moved onto a different level with increased expectations. It remains to be seen if full time football can be sustained long term (I'm doubtful) and we'll have to attract new fans for a start, along with getting the proper structures in place. All our current support can do is go along for the ride and enjoy the good times when they happen.

It's an uphill struggle...

Everyone from Scotland thinks the place where everyone else stays is a shit hole. And everyone else has a funny accent. Really great patter. Hope it continues.

Last Night, We Took In The Pollok v Clydebank Match To Review The New Disabled Facilities, Watch The Floodlights In Action, Get Some Fan Reaction & Got A Catch Up With Head Groundsman Campbell McLeod Where He Told Us About His Thoughts Behind The New Facilities, How It All Came About & The Thoughts Behind Every Decision That Was Made. It's Great To See A Massive Club Like Pollok Putting So Much Into Every Decision And Facility They Put In Place. The Disabled Facilities Get 10/10 From A Disabled Fan. Fantastic Effort From Everyone At Pollok! We Hope To Get To Check Out Other Clubs Facilities At This Level. If Anyone Has Any Recommendations Of Clubs We Can Visit To Review Their Disabled Facilities And Overall Facilities, Let Us Know In The Comments Below, We Would Be Glad To Showcase Them! More Info: The Youtube Channel Was Started With The Vision Of Travelling Around Scotland, The UK & Eventually The World Vlogging, Grading Disabled Facilities & Working With These Clubs In Order To Improve The Match Day Experience For Disabled Fans Whilst Building More Exciting Content Ontop Of This For Everyone To Enjoy! Our Values & What We Stand By: Fair Evaluation Of Each Stadium With An Understanding To The Potential Challenges Faced By The Club Before Structuring Their Disabled Facilities. We Aim To Offer Suggestions To Help Improve Each Stadium That Will Be Of A Minimal Cost To Each Club. Fair Treatment Of Disabled Supporters At Stadia (No Restricted View, Easy Access To Toilets, Kiosk, Parking & Help From A Steward If Required). We Also Want To Bring More Awareness To Invisible Disabilities Such As Asperger's, Autism & The Visually Impaired.

Cowdenbeath, Alloa, Brechin, Arbroath off the top of my head have been in the Championship in the last 10 years. Why on earth would L1 be our ceiling or clubs like us? Anyone could have a whirlwind couple of years like Arbroath who really knows? You are making out Arbroath have found their level in the Championship. You will be relegated again in a couple of seasons. You've done a Leicester. Enjoy the season and enjoy the ride but you will be back at your natural level in the near future and we will see how those 1,000 plus home fans are holding up. The arrogance is staggering.

She posted a TikTok the other day with her and her two pals in Miami asking "would you rather get a ticket for Seville or spend the weekend with us?" The comments were full of folk saying "I'm a Celtic fan and even I'd take the ticket"

Pat Nevin (!) once said on the fringes of an AGM, in the context of a couple of then high profile youths being released with little or no first team games, he could never understand Motherwell fans saying 'X didn't get a chance'. His two-fold point was one, we are not good enough that anyone remotely competent won't get a first team shot at some point and secondly, players get a chance every single day just not in the public eye. DOC had a whole season, including first team games with us, god knows how much training and bounce games, and then however many games with QotS, all of which will have been watched in detail by someone at the club. Had he been deemed good enough for another year, fine, but I'm amazed anyone is bothered it's gone the other day. In my now 35 years of supporting Motherwell I don't think there's been one player, be it a youth or senior, who we've voluntarily released which turned out to be a big error. If DOC turns out to be the guy who changes that fair play to him but I wouldn't put a lot of money on it.

I will spend my next few Saturdays sitting there forlornly, with a feeling of gloom and misery thinking that I need to get myself a better hobby. Then the football and visits to Fir Park will return, and I will spend my Saturdays sitting there forlornly, with feelings of gloom and misery thinking that I need to get myself a better hobby.

Yeah, I was bullied as a kid, for pretty much the whole of my S2 year. I found the move up to high school really difficult, found it hard to process the change moving from being in the biggest/oldest year at primary to being the youngest/smallest in secondary, for some reason. Then, in S2, 3 of who had been my closest pals for years (lived near each other, hung out together all the time, etc) decided for reasons that only make sense to schoolkids to make my life a misery. And I made it worse by, rather than standing up for myself, going completely into my shell, and just sucking it up. And at the time, it felt like the entire S2 year piled on and joined in, though, looking back later, some other kids joined in occasionally, most didn't give a f**k, but for me at the time, it felt the way it felt. I didn't even get respite in the school holidays, there were threatening/silent phone calls to my house, things thrown at our windows, stuff like that. There was one guy who I knew thru the BB and the played golf with, who without being a nutter, could be a hardnut and knew how to look after himself, and he kinda railed against what was happening to me, and hung out with me, went out of his way to walk me to and from school, and such. If it hadn't been for him, I dread to think what sort of place I would have ended up in mentally. It all kinda stopped in the summer between S2 and S3, though I never fully trusted those 3 in the way that I had done before. My self confidence never recovered from it, and has always been a fragile thing ever since then. I have grown up thru my teens hating my reflection, looking for both physical and mental things about myself that I deemed 'my fault' and the reason people would want to bully me for. And to this day, in my mid 50s, I still occasionally myself looking in the mirror and doing myself down, especially now that I can add 'old' and 'bald' to the list of things to dislike about myself. It's held me back in pretty much every job I've had, whether a new job or promotions, even though interviewers have spent time assessing me and deciding "yeah, he's the one for the job", I still get into the role and find myself thinking "I can't do this job, why did I put myself up for it" fairly frequently, and basically stressing myself out. I've become very adept over the years at being very careful how much of myself I let friends and colleagues know about me - most folk I'd say would say they know me pretty well, but they don't, they know the me that I've allowed them to know. I've taught myself to have a personality that doesn't come across as "there's something he's holding back and not telling us", so people think they know me. There are probably only 3 or 4 people who actually know me completely, who I trust to be able to share how I'm really feeling with, without worrying that they're going to twist that knowledge back on me. TL;DR bullying is shite.

Agreed things have changed but I think you're talking nonsense here. Montrose were kicking about the bottom end of League Two for almost Two decades. It's not as if they just didn't see any point in becoming a decent League One side all that time. On the other side of the coin, plenty of part time clubs have seen major regressions since the play-offs came in - Brechin, Dumbarton, Berwick, Cowdenbeath. Why would the pyramid play-offs be a motivator for Arbroath and Montrose but not these clubs. Arbroath and Montrose's recent success is almost certainly just the cyclical nature of part time football clubs in the SPFL. Aside from a very small number of clubs, most have been up at times and down at times. Both Arbroath and Montrose will be down again at some point.

Well if it was me judging I'd throw it out with a quick rebuff to Vardys bullshit about damaged computers and phones getting swept into the North Sea. I'd continue my ire by sentencing Jamie Vardy to 18 month for being a wee ferret faced p***k.

I work for the royal mail. The company has a huge never ending problem with bullying. I suppose every large company has these issues. But nothing ever gets done. Had a few fights in school. Won some, lost some. Used to batter some wee kid on my estate about four years younger than me. Saw him in the toilets of a nightclub once.

I don't want Malky McKay anywhere near this club. He can f**k right off.

I'm not sure what's worse, admitting to being a glory hunter, or thinking that's there's such a thing as "a cracking U2 song".

I was bullied by my brother who was 5 years older than me. He would even encourage older boys to knock f**k out of me when I was, on the odd occasion, in his company playing football. It stopped one day when he was chasing me in the house and i got ahead of him by a distance and waited behind a door. As he approached at full pelt I pushed the door into him with all the force I could muster. I knocked him clean off his feet and he was unconscious for some minutes before coming to. He didn't touch me again after that. He was the exact antithesis of how a big brother should be and I haven't spoken to him for over 5 years and feel all the better for it.

“The bad news is, we’ve been relegated to League One and Hughes is probably staying in charge. On a more positive note, we have made the board leaner and more flexible, meaning I am chairman *and* CEO… You’re still thinking about the bad news, aren’t you?” “There is no good news, David. Only bad news and irrelevant news.” “I think merging the position of chairman and CEO is generally considered good news.” “We’re going to be replaced by one of Hughes’ old jobber pals!” “You’re not going to be replaced by jobbers! God.. just.. YOU’RE not gonna replaced by a jobber..” “YOU’RE not gonna be replaced by a jobber!” “..you know..” “YOU’RE not gonna be replaced by a jobber!” “You know Nottingham Forest’s season ticket sales had fallen by…”

Of course clubs will move towards their 'natural' position but what happens is that they tend to ebb and flow around that. It really is ridiculous to pick Arbroath's best season in almost all of our lifetimes to decide that this is the actual natural order of things. Club after club have hit highs and would have said almost exactly what you're saying now. Do you think Clyde fans thought they'd end up bottom of the pile within years when they were a whisker away from the Premier in the 2000s? Or Brechin fans had any clue they were about to hurtle straight out of the SPFL when they won the Championship play-offs just a few years ago? Christ, it wasn't that long ago that Falkirk were playing in Europe and Cowdenbeath were finishing 8th the Championship.

Well, this is the relevant point isn’t it. You’re both guilty of ramming your respective associations down everyone’s throat. That’s what people have an issue with, not with the fact that they have Irish heritage or celebrate it. Because seriously who cares?

It's an airport to an entire region of a country: you don't get to choose the other users any more than you can control a heap of stag/hen dos at your departure airport. A distinct air of snobbery/ignorance in your post. I'm also really not sure where it is the middle of the school holidays in mid-May tbh.

Listened to Mathie's interview there. I honestly can't get my head around how folk can listen to that and have a negative reaction. We've suffered for years by being light years behind other clubs in certain (most?) areas off the field, which we now seem to be fully investing in.

Not a Gatlin boy was left standing.

Dick Campbell too, but nobody tell him or else he'll never shut up about it.

If Nicky Devlin, a run of the mill mid-to-lower end SPFL defender, is the ‘one that got away’ then I think we’ve a pretty decent record at judging youth players’ potential. All the best Darragh, nothing but good luck to you.

I actually love the idea of the community club and making a difference to the town, we all want to win cups and be in the prem but it sounds like Smith, Mathie and Co are trying to leave a legacy of bringing the club and the town back together something that has been lacking for far far to long.

Can never be proved of course but the old joke is no-one has ever had a kick in the balls and then asked when they want to try for another.

If the choice just is Butterfield or MacPherson, the fact you'd opt for the crab that will be getting a free transfer next week says it all about our £50,000 buy that's meant to be here for another two years. Agree that the Aberdeen performance should be the clincher but under no illusions that Butterfield isn't ideal. His efforts to close down McGinn ahead of the cross for the second goal in Sunday were pathetic. Next one, May or Middleton?

If their fans were not a shower of backward, knuckledragging absolute fucking wankers, I would be more inclined to wish them well.

Maybe not. Looks like Ian Hislop has taken the stand today.

Yeah but singing "No one likes us and we get really upset about it" doesn't have the same ring to it.

They care a lot about people not liking them.

I’ll be at Glens game tomorrow night along with the other die hards you watch your team all season but Rangers are in a cup final so stay in and watch them don’t think so

Bankies put out a team where most of them have been in the first team squad all season and involved in a 20’s team which absolutely romped its league, there were boys scoring goals for fun. If our manager wants to blood some youngsters and see if any are worth signing for next year its up to him who he plays, we dont owe any team any favours. Regardless we’ve always had hard games away to Largs and they were a team playing for their league place (and from the way they played football it was an artificial position). I want Clydebank to win the coin toss, but it was right to rest players like Nicky Little etc who have played over 44 games this season.

Your over 10 years late to start worrying about paying bills tbh.

Aye, I mean don't get me wrong, 1 win in 15 raises very legitimate questions that need to be addressed if not to the wider support then certainly to the board. It's the nature of the business I'd imagine that's true of any club and any sport, not just Motherwell. I'm interested to see how/if that informs our summer. That said, there's a definite and very specific section of Lovejoys in our support. The mental gymnastics and hand-wringing over a goal keeper coach moving after 5 years at the club or a 5th choice centre back who'd made 5 appearances at the start of the season not being kept on is indicative of that. Like I say it must be fucking exhausting.

I will never get used to this.

None of the brothers were identical twins, so yes, a DNA test would establish the paternal puppet shagger. There seems to be a suggestion of fraternal skulduggery in your post. The Tracey's can only hope any child conceived comes with no strings attached.

10 for Monday

I've said it before but since it's just happened again, auld c***s that go into a shop with 20 lottery tickets asking the person to check them bonus points for this w****r as when he handed them over he said "pretty sure there is nothing on them but can you check them anyway" the young lad at the counter should've said "naw f**k off there is a big queue behind you, you ignorant twat."

Nope