Desp

Somebody really should grab all of Barry's quotes about the last five or six Rangers managers, a couple of months after they've taken charge. I'm fairly certain it'll be the same quote but with a different manager's name. Which manager did he tout to dominate Scottish Football because he made the Rangers players wear suits to games again? Was that Beale? Barry Ferguson was a fantastic footballer but he's as thick as a Boxing Day shite.

The Chasni pies have signed on until the end of the season.

I liked Wilkinson, but no. Wrong player at the wrong club at the wrong time. Let's not rewrite history here. I've said for years - since 2015 basically - that I don't fear relegation. I'm fairly certain it will happen someday, but unless we pull something magical of our arse this month, it's very likely to happen this season.

Imagine moving to Sheffield Wednesday... on a fucking Wednesday? What shite patter is this? Massive loss. If we end up replacing him with some c**t with 4 goals for some non-entity like Walsall or Colchester Utd, we're in the heavy shit.

The East Stand will never forget

Possibly putting two & two together and getting 46, but a long shot of going for Calvin Ramsay on loan? Liverpool recalled him as he wasn't getting much of a look-in at Preston. He needs minutes, we need a right wing-back...

I've still not touched a drop this year and it's been relatively easy so far. I'm not exactly out all the time, so not going to a pub for weeks on end isn't out of the ordinary, but the wife and I do like a few drinks in the house on a Friday & Saturday night. She's still drinking but I've been quite happy with either some fizzy juice or non-alcoholic beers at the weekend. I've found Heineken 0.0% & Guinness 0.0 to be excellent and for me are as close to the actual stuff as you could possibly hope for. Never, just never, go near the Tennents Zero. An absolute abomination. I don't expect to last the entire month as I'm heading down to Yorkshire on the 27th to catch up with some family and have a day at the football, but we'll see how that goes.

I'm only going by Wikipedia here so it may not be 100% correct, but defender Willie Frame played 198 times for us (1924-1931, 1938-1939) and didn't score. In my lifetime, Simo Valakari played 119 times for Motherwell between 1996-2000 and never scored. He did, however, make a few dents in the Davie Cooper stand roof with some of his attempts. I'm pretty certain Simo then went onto score on his home debut for Derby in the Premiership, live on Sky, just after leaving Fir Park.

Sums it up.

So we don't schedule them then? We have to reschedule for these dates, in the event of a postponement. We rarely have games called off in August, September or October, so we've already lost three months of potential midweek fixtures. As for the teams playing in Europe? f**k them. It'll be Celtic, Rangers and some other mug. They should be big enough to play catch-up. Not something Dundee will need to worry about anytime soon regardless.

You could be right. The summer season is definitely too short and maybe if we played more midweeks during late summer/early autumn, it would take away the need for any mid-season break. In terms of "who's it for?", I'm sure the players would be in favour of a break in January, the average punter might be happy with a couple of weeks off from paying daft ticket prices to sit/stand in the cold at a time of year when many are skint, but there's definitely changes that need to be made to sort out the football calendar that could benefit everyone.

It won't be a busy time for contract extensions, will it? I can see us trying to keep Slattery (but he'll leave), Spittal (he'll stay) and possibly McGinn (he'll also stay if offered). The others can jog on.

It's a fucking nonsense that we can't schedule league games for midweeks in August, September, October etc because of UEFA competitions. Sorry lads, you can't have Motherwell v Kilmarnock or Ross County v St. Mirren because Real Madrid are playing Lyon on the telly. Get that rule to f**k. It would mean we could lighten the load in late November/December, somewhat, when the weather gets worse. Still have fixtures up to Boxing Day and New Years Day, then have a three week break, coming back at the end of January for the Scottish Cup.

Recent footage of @thisGRAEME getting his final month's wages.

Peter Pawlett was the diving wee c**t, wasn't he?

I don't think Wilkinson was actually that bad, certainly compared to some of the pish we've had through the doors in recent years or even some of the pish still at the club! Wrong club at the wrong time perhaps, but I think he'll go on and have a decent enough career down south.

Big call this.

Barry Maguire to save our season, IMO.

FTFY

Aldi

Tried these last night. Decent, if unspectacular. Wouldn't go out my way to buy them again.

It's certainly more of a thing than it was a few years ago, certainly in restaurants. I don't actually mind sweet potato, tbf. It's probably just the latest in these daft phases. Remember about a decade ago pulled pork was all the rage? Then a few years ago the trend of having salted caramel in every fucking dessert kicked off.

You seem to know everyone that's involved with Motherwell in some way a wee bit. #ITKBusta

This is me, as well. I avoided Christmas nights out for years but with the job I have now, the Director takes the team out (around 10 folk) for dinner and drinks. He pays for the lot on the night. It's always a Thursday after work and the Friday afterwards is a "quiet day".

Tell me what you really mean, brother!