Electric Blues

BBC News: sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests...

Gillespie would have saved it anyway.

The Dons fans over on the P&B match thread don't sound confident at all. There's a real battle of negativity going on there. In related news, MJC predicts a 3-0 home win. Sorry, did I say "news"...?

Be an awful shame if they went straight back down again, eh?

Rather than wait for nature to take its course we need to get 6-0 up at some point, and then win a penalty. This Saturday might be a possibility, I hope.

My first impression was that it was going in already, and I still think it might have. However, in the moment Chris Long doesn't have a protractor and an action replay, and I agree he did exactly what you'd want him to do. On balance it's far better to have a hungry striker on hand for these opportunities than stood buffing their fingernails on the edge of the 18-yard box.

Has that SquirrelShagger chappy not been on yet? It's unlike him to miss a Kilmarnock thread.

If only I'd lazily typed "& Killie" instead of "and Kilmarnock".

Aberdeen and Kilmarnock both 2-0 down now

On a slightly tangential note, today was my first visit to Fir Park for a while. How long has the stadium announcer been coming out with that “the mighty” pish? It was jarring enough the first time, and by the tenth I was ready to go full postal.

Score first, go behind, game over. Again.

Much as I hate to sound negative, we haven't taken a single point from a losing position so far this season.

I suspect my only chance of a happy ending today is if I buy the wife a really big bunch of flowers.

Do you have a link to that pig video by any chance?

Aye, Les might be a prick, but he's OUR prick. (For the avoidance of doubt, I don't know Les from Adam. He may very well NOT be a prick at all.)

Frear scores for FGR.

For comparison, across their entire professional careers to date, Carson has saved 13 out of 48 (27%), while Gillespie has saved 11 out of 46 (24%). Samson saved 9 out of 35 (25%). Hard to get a fag paper between them on those stats alone. Fraser Forster is often lauded by the fawning Scottish press as a master of the penalty save - to be fair, he's saved 13 out of 34 (38%).

According to transfermarkt, while playing for Motherwell in all competitions, Carson has faced ten penalties and saved none of them, while Gillespie has saved four out of eleven. That's a reasonably impressive 36%. On a cautionary note, however, Craig Samson saved two out of five, a 40% success rate. Lies, damned lies, and statistics...

We've reverse-jinxed him, Excellent!

I take your points, chaps, especially the Craig Moore one, and would merely point out that the comment was made before Cole spectacularly missed an open goal from about a yard out.

Apropos of nothing, that punt that no premiership outfit was prepared to take on Shankland is looking increasingly like it might have been the wrong call.

Those Hielan' Laddies, accustomed as they are to the grim, dreich north, won't be able to cope with that! 7-0 Motherwell.

As I type, Hartley has eight actual votes. Yours isn't one of them.

I almost went with Seedorf, if only to see Yodo's head explode, but in the end Polworth edged it for me.