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Or was it Hamburg FC?

Thanks for that about Andy Weir: wasn't absolutely sure. Andy always looked so old and frail to me when I was a wee boy but i don't think he ever fully recovered from the meningitis he contracted after his head injury against Third Lanark.

Joe McBride certainly and a distant Andy Weir?

White shorts? Agreed but that's the Marmite option for many 'Well fans.

Yes, that made it so much worse.

Yes, the only bad memory for me was that latterly there seemed to be a lot of greyhound turds lying around Shawfield on match days. Sad to see the decline of Clyde. Think they should have moved to EK and tried to build up their support from there.

Agreed. As my Dear Old Dad used to say, at Shawfield you could hit a ball in Lanarkshire and score a goal in Glasgow. Also the site of the great Clyde substitution urban myth, "Goad! Theyr'e takin' aff Ahern and bringin oan a haddie!"

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".