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That one had me in stitches 🤣.

Might I add a Sunday Post classic from The Seventies: "Last Gasp Point for The Stealmen". Wisnae there, cannae vote. Looks like Slatts is Da Man, though.

Liked the "versatility" comment: looks like a manager not afraid to change things during the game as required. I know talk is cheap but he does sound energetic, knowledgeable and motivated.

Great to see the ball sticking to Obika and allowing him to link excellently with KVV, who really tired hard today too. Honourable mention to Spittal again but I gave it to Butcher. Never put a foot wrong and is an organiser like Hartley. He and Casey make us seem a lot more secure in central defence, which has been one of our weaknesses.

There's some truth in that. I watched some fans gleefully giving van Veen the treatment when he was subbed against The Tractormen a few weeks ago (someone else mentioned this today) but all seemed to be forgiven the other night. Such abuse is often solved by a good performance or goal. I've never booed a 'Well player yet (despite much provocation 😇), although I do remember shouting something obscene at Bobby Watson during a game at Muirton. In my defence, it was just one, sclaffed, square, overhit pass too many...... * Literary note: Watson is the only MFC player mentioned in an Ionesco play*

I will be surprised if either Holloway or McCann became our next manager. I remember Peter Reid of Everton fame had a very short interview with the club once he saw the available budget and was quite dismissive afterwards. I suspect Ross' polite turning down of the managerial offer (if true) was just a more diplomatic reply. i hope we're not going to have a re-run of the lead-up to Hammell's appointment where lack of money or interest seem to have been the determining factors.

Agreed but I hear he's always been a 'Well fan and longed to pull on the "clamber and aret".

Absolutely, and Courts wasn't sacked by The Arabs but left for what seemed a better gig but maybe his colloquial Hungarian wasn't too good . Both Ross and Goodwin seem to have had a catastrophic loss of dresssing-room confidence in their latest appointments. Just now i would appoint the Anti-Christ if it would keep us up, I don't care which side of the Old Firm he is supposedly associated with.

Could they not take one of our advertising hoardings instead?

Thought it was just me. In my darker moments I've rationalised that If we go down, at least we weren't playing in a proper Motherwell jersey and it's all been a bad dream. We have an unique, classical strip yet we keep buggering it about. We should take a tip from clubs with a strong identity (like Newcastle Utd.) and do very little to mess it about.

Shows better positional sense than Sol, I think.

Sadly, at the moment neither do we. Oh for an old-fashioned CH and Ally Mauchlen-style midfield enforcer.

Yes, for all his potential ability at our level, he is very frustrating. A small example was just before HT, when Penney was looking to shy it to him quickly but he had turned around and started to jog to the Hibs goal, not watching what was going on. When the defender shouted something at him, he gave a dismissive "I wasn't ready" shrug. He looks lazy, huffy and arrogant but he's all we've got up front just now.

Thanks, smiddy: thought he was an English teacher there but wasn't absolutely sure. I suspect his bark was worse than his bite. As you and weeyin said, the loyal players couldn't maximise their earnings in those days. Think of Joe Wark of the Indiarubber legs, and one of the last of the One Club Wonders.

And I believe he taught at Dalziel HS and he ordered me and a mate to take the MFC jersey hamper into the Cowdenbeath away dressing room before a cup tie, so ticks all the boxes? Yeah, obviously (he Kaned).

Same to you with knobs on. I bet you wish you were freezing your nuts off in EK really 😱.

Good suggestions. Never saw him but Andy Paton would be another candidate: apart from his tremendous footballing ability he was a born leader who didn't give a flying fruit bat about Rangers or Celtic and relished playing them, according to the Old Timers I have spoken to.

Warning: may contain nuts/apocryphal material...... An old friend of mine (sadly departed) claimed that, at a 'Well match at Shawfield, Clyde were about to take off Brian Ahern, their veteran midfielder. As the new substitute (unknown) was waiting to come on, a Clyde fan vented, "Oh, no! They're taking off Ahern and bringing on a haddie!" And don't get me started on Harry Haddock.

Looks like a pre-match sesh in the Tutties' Neuk right enough. Last time I was at Gayfield I saw a sign on the doorbell of a wee house near the ground which had a smokehouse at the back. It said, "Ring for Fish". So, I rang for fish and Lo! the smokies were provided. Life's like that sometimes......

I was just too young to have seen Ian St John or Pat Quinn and so Willie Hunter was my first 'Well hero, with Charlie Aitken close behind. Willie (or Billy as his family called him, I believe) was such an elegant player and had it all, so he fully deserves his HoF status. IIRC, both he and Pat Quinn ended up in the same Hibs team later later in their careers.

Me too but he was a talented player who could score goals and he had a low centre of gravity so difficult to nudge off the ball. Nowadays he would be highly valued for his abilities.

*Exaggerated Maldini-style shrugs of disbelief/innocence* Oi nevva done nuffink!

Agreed: I've heard that, like his sister Margery, he's a bit up and down.

Impossible to compare players from different eras, but Willie's record speaks for itself. My Dear Old Dad, an incorrigible Accies fan, grudgingly told me he missed as many as he scored but an old work colleague from the 80s who saw 'Well win the league said he was a brave and irrepressible forward. Just look at the stats.....