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Confirmed. he also played four games the previous season.

petrel blue, sampdoria style please.

Need to add Moutaouakil to the outs and it's at right back that we're doing a McGhee and playing square pegs in round holes.

Killie October. Then Aberdeen November.

Paul Quinn at Aberdeen was last.

5,543 according to Rothmans

Hearts certainly rule heads on here. Week after week the optimists predict Well victories. Just to remind you, for months we have all complained about how badly we are playing. We have no wins in our last eight games. Potentially we are missing Saunders and Hutchinson from central defence. Hateley is a doubt which leaves us struggling at right back. Just the sort of adversity whch has seen us spring a few surprises in the past but I'd take a draw right now if someone offered it to me. Oh, and if Slane makes an appearance today let's hope the boo boys hold fire and don't make his decision any easier.

In the 50-70 minute period we have conceded 13 of our 28 league goals. In all games we have conceded 20 of our 42 goals in this period. 50-55 minutes is our most vulnerable time.

The Premier started in 75/76, NOT the late 70's. From then Willie P scored 56 league and 16 cup goals for Well. Puts him a lot further up the table than earlier comments and certainly above Clarky who does top the Noughties. I reckon only Kirkie beats him and he played a lot more games. Add on Willie P's goals in the seasons before the Premier and he's comfortably ahead.

Four, six, whatever. We're a soft touch compared to every other SPL team.

From the BBC stats shots at goal:1 fouls conceded: 4 Both of these figures concern me greatly. If you don't shoot you don't score and frankly we seem happy with ball retention and a slow build up rather than just chancing our arm. We regularly run up just a handful of fouls in a game. we really need to be putting a foot in here and there. If it costs a free kick then fine. It will disrupt the flow of the opposition. I'm not saying we should be a dirty team but we need more grit and not to be allowing the opposition to play.

My lad Remi was mascot that very day.

Allegedly is the missing word in this sentence. Alleged by three Saints fans to have made a racist comment, and conveniently on a weekend when Tayside police were on an anti-racism crackdown. No surprise when it was found there was no case to answer. Momo Sylla made no friends amongst Well fans by just shutting up when he could quite easily have said it was a load of bollocks.

Save yourself some time and don't read the Scotland On Sunday match report. I've not seen anything as one-sided since Ricky's old reports on motherwellfc.org

In terms of unbeaten runs at the start of a league campaign we have equalled our best in the post war era. We have managed five undefeated three previous times in that period (73/4, 75/6 and 95/6) but couldn't manage a sixth. Absolutely no way we'll get near our best ever undefeated start. In 33/34 we had nine straight wins to begin and went 22 games (19-3-0) before our first defeat. Good times but is it just a carry over from our early start and will we run out of legs? Hope I don't spoil it with my first appearance of the season next Saturday.

Prices 'are' much cheaper on the continent but 'all' clubs benefit relatively equally from TV deals and not just a select one or two.

You can see the headlines now about a soft penalty and the red card. Dougie McDonald will get pelters from the press but it was a pen and if you gob off to the ref then you should walk. Will we get any credit?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz HOTD for this pish

No league table but from an article I wrote for GLF in Nov 2006. Figures from start of Premier League in mid 70's. Only Aberdeen and Dundee Utd had more wins against Rangers. They were both ahead against Celtic while we tied with Hibs and were one ahead of Hearts. Combined, only the New Firm had more wins but Hearts and Hibs draws would put them ahead of us in points gained.

[quote name= Very good column so many women have said that to me...for a little while and yes, brainier. I might know the author Oh, and I love Airdire

what about the scottish sun where we are described as: Colours: Orange shirts with a red stripe, orange shorts, orange socks

RIP Brian A real favourite player and one who would seriously challenge to be in my all-time Well line up. No mean feat when you consider the other midfielders we have had. What would we give for a midfielder nowadays who could score 20 in a season?

We were never going to beat them especially with a referee with "big team" syndrome.

Just had a quick check and reckon seven in competitive fixtures is correct.

And a pint can be had for around 60p if you go in the right places.