Happy Dosser

It would have been time to get the Leonard Cohen LPs out the loft. Or descent into weremadness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae25976UgA

Death wish? Surprised the owner is willing to bankroll him.

Well, as we all know as 'Well fans, it's the hope that kills you, but the players owe us one for yesterday's huge disappointment. I can't believe they want this season to fizzle out.

Thought JBA looked ultra-frustrated/raging after the match yesterday so I hope that translates to the players next Saturday. Terrible KO time, of course, because the authorities couldn't care less about the proles.

I just get disgusted by the sheer dishonesty and mental gymnastics used by Collum (and the authorities generally) to justify the unjustifiable. If I'd had to suffer another year of Kettlewell hoofball and the joy-sucking effect of VAR and its subsequent crap decisions, I would probably have given up going to 'Well games, something that I never thought I would say. In his post-Falkirk interview, I thought JBA bit his tongue a bit and didn't go large on the refereeing decisions in the three games we lost to Falkirk but from the first bad one when Said's wonder goal was chalked off for nothing, it seems we have been pretty hard done to when playing them. Wasn't at Falkirk yesterday but reports of Slattery-esque simulation, a player on a yellow handling without consquence and Bairns players allowed to commit multiple fouls without a caution, it seems it was same old, same old. I doubt Slattery will hang about with a further suspension hanging over him and a very good season behind him.

Sounds like we're going to try to pure malky them. Tongs, ya bass!

Yes, he probably will. I once saw some advice online: "Never get down and dirty with a pig. The pig will just enjoy it and you always end up covered in shit." In any case, if Hearts beat them on Monday night, they'll be cooked. I love the smell of crackling in the morning 😈.

Facts are wasted on stumers, something I have discovered the hard way. You were quite right, best not to engage, and not to argue with half wits.

I was talking to a Rangers fan earlier today whom I always thought was quite normal. He quickly blew that by saying he was sick of Scottish football because everyone was raising their game just to beat Rangers. When I pointed out both Hearts and MFC had beaten Celtic there was an awkward moment: which allowed me toexpresss surprise at the time. I thought it was Sellick fans who were supposed to be paranoid.

Any truth in the rumour Hearts fans were singing "Stand up and sing for Motherwell" after hearing the result at Ibrox? Surely shome mishtake.......

Conspiracy theorist 😂. Now that I have calmed down a bit, I thought Ward's "bowling" yesterday was excellent and provided some variety in how we usually play out from the back, our third goal being a good example. And that save from Chermissi was brilliant. BTW, isn't Raskin a really annoying wee dweeb? Lovely day today, inntit?

Quite: not bad for "shitebags", innit? 🤣

Unlike us 🤣. If we'd had an out-and-out striker since Game One, who knows what would have happened this season? Happy for Spittal, though.

Apart from all the great goals Willie Pettigrew scored (often against Celtic), one of his greatest feats (imo) was scoring four against Dundee at Dens Park (a young Gordon Strachan and all) in a 3-6 victory. He and Bobby Graham ran riot that day. As for tomorrow, I expect to get little from the referee in front of the baying hordes of Castle Grayskull, even though I think we are good enough to beat them (think of the foul on Fadinger in the last minute of our game at Christmas against Rangers, for example). I think Mr Slattery can expect some "incoming". I noticed Jens mentioned the importance of getting the right refereeing decisions in his pre-match press conference. Unfortunately this might be a further red rag to our "double-down" (and often vindictive) officialdom.

As a wee boy I always looked out for Charlie's blond hair at corners, since he was so good with his head. Of course sometimes Andy Weir would score directly from them anyway and save Charlie the trouble. A truly great Motherwell player ignored by the selectors? That would never happen! 🤣

"Abandon hope all who enter here!" Run, Willie, run!

Ooh! Matron!

To where? Pluto? 🤣

The first time I went there was the early 70s and I was amazed how much better it looked than FP, whose toilets were medieval by comparison. All the best to The Ox and The Pars. Looks like Falkirk's prodigious luck this season (mainly against us, IMO) finally ran out. It's a wee shame for them soanitis 👹.

I'd have been much more surprised if the authorities had done something meaningful and decisive but they will never penalise the OF by a points deduction, especially when (for once) this title race is so close. Their "reaction" to this riot, the banning outspoken journalists and the dreadful refereeing decisions this season show the state of our game is, as the Yanks say, SNAFU.

Looks like footballers in The Premiership may have better judgement than Mr Clarke..... Of course, Callum Ward has been helped by our possession stranglehold, since he's not the greatest GK in the league, but his distribution has been important.

Just checked in here this morning and I can't say I'm surprised at Stewart's treatment. He at least isn't afraid to court controversy, unlike the usual bland commentators and, as you say, he has praised us for our football this year. I'm afraid cancel culture/censorship is always a sign that the organisation employing it doesn't have valid or credible arguments to use in rebuttal so has to get the sledgehammer out. This problem has spread far beyond the world of sport these days and I feel free speech generally is threatened. It's somewhat ironical that the BBC itself suffered from it via the Traynor ban, of course 😁.

I didn't know that but I always had the feeling that he never forgave us for releasing his brother Brian, since the former's "performances" against us almost always seemed inconsistent at best or incompetent/biased at worst. It seems such behaviour is typical in the petty and largely unchallenged world of Scottish football refereeing. Dae ye mind o' Craig Thomson? Dae ye?

Blyth debates: "Shut it Pizza, ya silly big c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-clot!" Also the driver of the only Motherwell supporters' coach to enter Aberdeen from the north on one occasion 😱 (allegedly).

I quite agree but I hope you don't give up. A sense of apathy or helplessness only helps the authorities perpetuate the status quo and, when push comes to shove, Hearts might well end up biting the carpet like us over refereeing decisions before this season is decided. Having said that, my attendance at games is the only resistance I can think of, unless clubs unite to mount some kind of challenge to the obviously unfair decision-making by the authorities.