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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    2 hours ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    Livingston cuffed us 5-1 at FP the day Khaled Kemas scored the goal of his life.

    But aye - it would still take an astonishing collapse to get relegated from here.

    That said, lose in Dingwall first game back while St J beat Livingston and I'm nervous again.

    This was my first ever game when they used to give free tickets to schools. 

    I also got another ticket a few weeks later and we conceded in the first minute against Dundee United.

    I'm amazed that I stuck with us tbh. 

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    c***s on the road

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    8 hours ago, Swarley said:

    Dash Cam Owners Australia release a compilation of videos every April 1st. Its of idiots who think someone else is at fault or absolutely minor or nonexistent issues.

     

    There's a channel on YouTube which is the UK equivalent. 

    Folk with dashcams are amongst the worst offenders. It's as if they feel that having a camera means they can do no wrong. 

    I used to work in insurance and it was unbelievable the amount of folk who would send in dashcam footage of an accident which showed they were the one at fault. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    26 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

    I mean, ethics of taking the cash of Human Rights abusers aside, Gillespie's pretty much living the dream.

    He'll easily be a millionaire despite playing 3 games of football in as many years (all in the 2020/21 season). Fair play. 

    Toss up between Gillespie, Randolph and Ruddy for best keepers we've had in recent times. Gillespie would be a very decent keeper at English Championship level but you can't grudge him getting silly money for doing f**k all other than training at the club he grew up supporting. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    2 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

    Tbh, the interesting thing about that incredibly brief statement is that it feels quite carefully worded.

    It's a "US based family" which seems separate to the mooted investors previously mentioned ie: it's not that Australian/Middle Eastern mob.

    Also, it feels relevant that the investor has "expressed his desire to work in partnership with the Well Society". Which again, given the previous offers mentioned were talking about diluting the WS ownership down below 50% - working "in partnership with" suggests a bit more balance.

    Then again it goes from "US based family" to the "investor" having "expressed his desire"...which is it lads? A family or a single investor?

    It's a family but the dad is in charge. 

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    Motherwell v St. Mirren

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    5 minutes ago, AW saint said:

    Having seen the highlights back several times I cannot believe we were yet again denied another hand ball. 

    This happens way too often. We would be sitting comfortably 4th if these decisions were called correctly. 

    Those bloody anti St Mirren refs, eh. 

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    Will you ever see your club win a cup?

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    I missed our last cup win by 4 months on account of not being born. Any final we've made since has been against the arse cheeks and we've simply not turned up. 

    Making both cup finals in 17/18 is probably as good a chance as we'll ever get. We were cracking in both cups thst season and in any other year would have won at least 1 of them, I reckon. But typically we came up against Celtic's "invincible" team and came up short. 

    I always thought that there was a 50/50 chance between us winning a cup and getting relegated. I now feel that relegation is more likely in the short to medium term and, that being the case, any cup win is likely to be off the table altogether. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    39 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

    It's weird right?

    It's like of McGarry spending his time writing follow up pieces on whoever our version of Theo Bair is? It just doesn't really happen.

    In fact, who is our Theo Bair equivalent? Someone who we invested a bunch of money in, was a bust but went on to be prolific at their first season at their new club?

    We've had plenty of obvious busts but folk like Fletcher, Blyth, Manzinga, Fisher, Sloth or whoever either didn't get anywhere near the number of appearances for us that Bair did for Saints or didn't end up doing anything at their next club (or in the case of some both).

    I'd forgot Manzinga even existed. 

    He seems to have carved out a half decent career for himself. Currently playing in the K-League so fair play to him. 

    Would Mandron be in with a shout of our Theo Bair award? Was a bit of a donkey with us (albeit got a couple of goals) yet I feel like St Mirren fans really like him. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    My view on VAR, which has probably already been said, is that it's mostly utter shite. 

    Goal line technology improved the game and VAR for black and white decisions (e.g. - offsides) would be fine. Where it falls down massively is when it comes to objective decisions such as Theo's handball at the weekend. 

    The poor standard of refs we have up here were getting a lot wrong pre-VAR but you could just about give them the benefit of the doubt (sometimes) given that they only had one look and a split second to make a decision. 

    We're now in a situation where officials are getting multiple views of things and are STILL making awful decisions. To be honest I'm surprised more refs (not just in Scotland) aren't calling for VAR to be binned as in the eyes of many it leaves them with no excuse for some of the decisions being made on a weekly basis.

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