Electric Blues

Don't speak too soon. Livi are still just three points behind us, with a better goal difference. Shame we didn't bang in another 4 or 5 in the second half but, hey, mustn't grumble.

Hello... hello,,, is that Paddy Power...?

I've secretly got my heart set on 7. Another 1 or 2 before half-time and I might even put money on it.

On a semi-related note, I hope Dundee don't get relegated. Those 9-12 points (depending on respective post-split positions) are even more nailed on for us next season if Tanner's back.

Aldred starts, Main back in - so back to the team that won the last eleventy-twelve games in a row.

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."

The more times I see that winning goal the more I'm reminded of Shane Warne's dismissal of Mike Gatting with "the ball of the century" at Old Trafford. The expression of disbelief on Gatting's face looked strangely familiar too.

We had Dennis Nilsen on the books at one time. Oh no, tell a lie, that was Gunnar Nielsen.

Better yet! ETA: St Mirren - ooft.

All aboard the Motherwell Juggernaut!

If WE don't know, neither will Saints. Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency...

I guess, indirectly, that every other bottom 6 team dropped points today.

Delighted for big Curtis, absolutely delighted, but let's not get carried away here.

And here I thought marijuana was still illegal in Texas

Hey pal, no need for that, don't shoot the messenger. I think you're great, it's Steve who thinks you're a dildo.

I bumped into Robinson yesterday and he told me he's picking Grimshaw solely in order to wind you up because he thinks you're a dildo.

Just in from a really shit day at work, but now I'm wandering about with a huge smile on my face, which is making the wife very suspicious for some reason. I really don't dare tell her it's because I fucking love David Turnbull!

Well, that's this year's business plan right up the fucking Swanee.

Northen Irishman, signed on loan in 2011, currently still playing at Nantwich Town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(footballer,_born_1976)

Oh, er, eh, I thought he said "choux"...

To rub salt into the wound, want to bet we lose now to a goal in the 15th minute of injury time?

Orient were my local team in the early eighties, in the old Division 3. Even then, the quality was nothing to write home about, although my fondest memories of those times include a 4-2 victory over Millwall in some Mickey Mouse cup or other, and what to this day I still rank as the best burgers served at any ground I've ever been to anywhere in the world.

The more I watch that goal the happier I get, not just with the goal itself but for what it says about Johnson's current and future confidence. He could - and almost certainly should - have passed, taking the easy option for a striker struggling for game time and without a goal for a while. The fact that he obviously made up his mind what he was going to do early on, and then had the belief and the ability to execute it is surely exactly what anyone wants in a striker.

Voted for Grimshaw, although I really wish I could vote for Johnson too. I feel sorry for Turnbull who hasn't got a single vote so far, having set the bar far too high for himself with his previous netbuster. Hopefully he'll make up for it next time out with a sublime 40-yard lob to complete his hat trick.