Happy Dosser

Great stuff, Well Well. Thanks for all your efforts.

EK Squad got tae stick thegither 😂.

Glad you enjoyed it, me old haricot. Willie (Billy to his family, apparently) was my hero too. Pity I missed Pat Quinn by a year; my brother and all his pals thought he was a genius. They say you should never meet your hero but I did meet Willie and his wife by chance in Glasgow before Covid IIRC, and he was a complete gentleman and his wife graceful, explaining that the 'Well forwards and HBs would work on routines in training and Bobby Ancell would generally leave them to it, once he's picked the team. He had faith in their ability. Some very talented players in that squad, evoking happy memories from a very different era.

This is a squad photograph after Ian St John in 1961, and before Pat Quinn (the pre-Iniesta Iniesta) left us for Blackpool, who were an excellent side in those days. Our creaking main stand looks rather fresh in them days.

Yes, I thought Peter Martin's questions were fair enough but the other churnalists and presstitutes lived down to my expectations.

Yes, I noticed that.......... Thanks for the liquid amber. Let's keep ingesting them together to avoid a glitch in the space-time continuum. "Claret , amber, colours true: far ahead of green and blue", after all. Ahoo! Werewolves of London!

And this is why I would love AJ to succeed. He has a lot on his plate at the moment and Saturday is an important game to try to reverse our setbacks. Let's hope he can reflect on what hasn't worked and make the necessary changes. Fortunately Rugby Park has reverted to grass so we have no excuses in that regard.

Thanks for the tip(ple)!

If things get bad, I'll have a claret and amber™, a glass of red wine plus malt of my choice. Love those colours.........

I think there was a lot of resistance amongst the dinosaurs of our Scottish football world, who resented an outsider showing that our SPL payers could actually play attractive, attacking, pass-based football beyond traditional Scottish kick-and-rush. It put them to shame basically, so they (e.g. Ian McCall) confected grievances like their pearl-clutching reaction to Askou's comments on Handley or MFC's 140 years of relative failure. Not necessarily a huge fan of M. Stewart but he played straight with us, as did Andy Halliday, who was frozen out instantly by JBA but could see his methods worked and were quite visionary (for Scotland). Hats off to him. Don't know what Alfred will achieve here frankly but he's not JBA so will have to model the team given his resources and in line with his own beliefs. He needs until the window to see if he can improve our performances as he adjusts to our league, one which his predecessor couldn't wait to get away from, and for good reason. He's in a foreign country with a wife and young child so I think he needs some slack cut for him at the moment. Like many MFC fans, I suspect, I'm dismayed but not but not reaching for the malt whisky cabinet yet.

Or all three, even 🤩.

Jens' Death Stare was impressive, I must admit. Even those clueless "journalists" got the message. Ruthlessness is necessary in a manager, as are good man-management and tactical nous. I hope AJ turns out to have both.

Still laugh when every Celtic fan I know told me he wasn't "Celtic class". We miss his passing from the back badly: with Watt and Just ahead, he could unlock defences in an instant.

Did you have to?

Won't detain you all for long. Basically, AJ needs until Christmas to organise the squad imho. After that, the board need to re-assess. I hear comments about players not listening to him/"buying into" his instructions. Most of my working life was spent under managers who a) couldn't do my job or b) hadn't done my job, but I still went into work and did my best. I expect them to do their best The club needs to pull together to get us out of our mini-slump, and by "the club" I mean the supporters too.