Happy Dosser

If only to stop Louis Moult scoring freely against us 😱.

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Yes, I heard that rumour too, at yesterday's game. Surprised they are interested, frankly.

Oh, please, keep offering your opinions and living your particular "dream" as long as you like but I do wonder how much of it brings you much positive satisfaction. I'm sure you'll have quite a lot of scope next year for your negatively-loaded views, given the inherent difficulties for a club of our size, irrespective of who is manager. Plough on.

Well, given the generally negative remarks you make at length and so frequently, I suppose your definition of "supporting" and mine are not quite the same. I've had over sixty years of ups and downs with MFC and know how hard it is for us to survive in the stacked deck of Scottish football. And , no, I don't expect a medal but it does perhaps offer some perspective when considering our difficulties. Most of the current squad will be gone next season anyway (surely an improvement?) and if Kettlewell is so "crap", were you so voluble about his two predecessors, when we were in free fall post-Sligo and its SPL aftermath? Or did your negativity have a longer history? If I were so convinced things were going to be absolute shite in August and found so much at Fir Park unsatisfactory, I think I would find another interest/activity to spare me such angst. Good to know that you'll be around to support the club next year, though, once the manager and all the crap players have been removed.

If you're so sure of that why would you return next season? Some form of masochism? I don't understand such an attitude.

Exactly: very rare to get the complete midfielder and almost impossible at our level unless we find and bring them on ourselves. Someone with awareness and a range of passing, a box-to-box "good engine" player and a midfield assassin are what most teams at our level would like, with perhaps some overlap. Actually, the more I see of Billy Bremner in those old YT vids, the more I admire him.

A typically street-wise St Johnstone under Levein's cynical control will find it all too easy to con the ref with their play-acting and time-wasting while I fear little will be done about their "robust" takling. If they score first these tactics will only increase and we will find it hard to turn things around. Conversely, if Slattery were playing for us on Saturday I doubt he's last the 90 minutes, given the referee we've been assigned. These end of season games worry me when the majority of the players in claret and amber on the pitch on Saturday will not be here next year and also may be concerned about picking up an injury which could affect their career at a new club. Mind you, going into a tackle without full commitment can often be dangerous. Of course, I suppose one solution is to not bother tackling at all..........😱. I'm just glad we're safe and aren't having to rely on loanees and PCAs geting us out of relegation/play-offs danger.

According to Historical Football Kits, we wore white ones with a reversed jersey: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Motherwell/Motherwell-change.htm

Yes: I have particularly bad memories of the plastic amber shorts around about the Dixie Deans era. I think the last time the fans chose the strip they came up with an amber shirt with two offset claret stripes for the 78-9 season.

I think my opinion is quite unpopular but I feel white shorts contrast really well with a trad. strip in our bootiful colours. Ultimately, I think most supporters have a hankering for the jersey the team were wearing when they started attending FP, and I can understand that.

Those "soup plate" bunnets are insane, I must admit. There's also footage of a derby match with Panathonaccies which has some great crowd shots IIRC. No pipes or fags nowadays, of course.

Yes, I liked this season's traditional strip and fear a crazy design for 2024-5 "just be different", perhaps even worse than the Jester's Outfit. I would always keep the "home" strip pretty traditional. The designers can have the other two strips to mess about with (and I agree that Celtic's change strips have generally been absolutely honking). Then we can concentrate on The White Shorts contoversy 🤣.

Agree, and I'm withholding judgement on him until he's had full dose of pre-season training: I don't think he featured much for Hearts in the first half of the season. If his legs haven't gone (or any other part of him) he could be useful and SK has already mentioned his "old head' organising on the pitch. And if he returns to form I can always criticise those scattergun tatts of his. Every silver lining has a cloud.

I think Killie are going back to grass in 2025-26, and not a moment too soon. Rugby Park used to be a great surface in The Olden Days. Freaky Fact: Motherwell are back to being top scorers outwith The Cheeks this season on 50 goals so far, twice more than relegated Livi and Snore-a-Bore St Johnstone. Mind you, having Levein as your manager can't be easy if you're a football lover.

And that bloody hailstorm at full time, just to make it all even worse. Off to realign ma chakras 😱.

Oh, SMIOZ: you could you? "April is the cruellest month" indeed. Forty-eight years of therapy down the drain. "Doesn't affect me, affect me, affect me, affect me....."

If we're talking about the 1976 SC semi-final, then yes, it was one of the worst refereeing display of all time. Willie P chopped in the box by Greig at the Rangers End at 2-0 up, IIRC, and then a Derek Johnstone swallow dive minutes later outside the box with the ref miles behind play but still able to award a penalty. As BB says, JRP Gordon was found guilty of taking a bung in a European tie a little later. A few years later I encountered a 'Well player from that night who mentioned very strange events at HT. That and the 1978 3-5 game at FP merely confirmed my ultra-dim view of "The King's XI".

Quite: I think when Dundee were relegated in 2005 (John Sutton was on loan with them at the time) they went down because of a disastrous sequence of results after they narrowly missed getting into the top six. Pressure can build and panic ensue quickly if the first two or three games don't produce some points. I suspect St Johnstone supporters will be particularly unsettled by RC's victory. For once the likliehood of our having three away fixtures post-split may seem to be a good thing, given our poor home record.

Agreed: and how strange to see three of my favourite 'Well players playing for the opposition. And what a wee shame for Henry "Bad Perm" Smith that his handling was so poor. Were you one of the crowd celebrating behind the goal that day?

Is that Bible Speak for "he pissed on their chips?" 🤣

Still amazing to see that, apart from The Cheeks, we are top scorers in the league. Personally I like to see our goals being spread around rather depending on a KVV-type. Let's all get down to FP next Saturday and get behind the team. "Mon The Dossers!

In a way I'm glad he didn't get on the pitch but then there will be a good few training sessions to negotiate before the match on Saturday. Any further news on Lennon Miller, anyone?

Neil McCann said on Sportscene that Steven McLean was the VAR guy on Saturday so, if true, I'm hardly surprised they made an utter Gove of it all. Collum and McLean: a combo made in hell. Get VAR in the sea. It's costly, does not adhere to its original principle of rectifying obvious mistakes and completely spoils the match experience while we all wait around for some eagle-eyed ninny in a studio to find a reason to justify his existence. As in so many areas of modern life, common sense seems a rare commodity. Like some commenters above, I heard people around me in the POD saying that VAR is putting them off coming to games, which is a woeful state of affairs.

I have a nagging memory of Aberdeen coming to Fir Park on a terrible run and then beating us 5-6. I hope we avoid any complacency and give them a sair skelping. For some reason (probably their sense of entitlement) their fans annoy me almost as much as those of The Cheeks.