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Thank you pal. I appreciate that My grandpa was teetotal. His family were quite religious and he used to have a drink once a year at new year. My gran too. But after he died my mum used to take my gran for lunch and two gins and she was drunk!! And there was the time she came to my house for dinner and she had a few Canadian clubs (steam boats). Sorry gran. Im a terrible influence

My grandpa was called Colin Hayton. He died in 1978 when he was 61 and he was working pretty much up till he was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He was diagnosed and he died within about six months. He worked there most of his adult life as far as I'm aware. My family lived in Airdrie originally and then lived in Hamilton and latterly in Motherwell - they had a tied house on shields road He was a Motherwell fan but pretty sure he didn't go to games often. I wasn't at his funeral. I was 9 when he died, my family throught it would be best for me not to be there but a lot of people from Colvilles turned out - my mum said it was packed full of people he worked with. He was a fisherman and they named a trophy after him after he died She just said she turned around at Daldowie and there was just so many people there from his work He was a fabulous person. I still miss him terribly.

Thatcher privatised British Steel. While they might not be blameless if you look online there are people who think that was just paving the way for the closure My grandpa worked for Colvilles in Shields Road at the Clyde alloy. He was an electrical engineer and his pay was poor for the job he did and the qualifications he had. They went out on strike for better conditions to no avail.

I really like it

I don't think Miller will go to Celtic. I think we'll get better offers from elsewhere and he's also seen how well Mika and Max are doing abroad

He posted it on his socials that he was leaving. There was some discussion about it on pie and bov a couple of weeks ago.

Says it's been cancelled when you look online.

To be fair - we've had a few signings that fans have thought were odd and have come good Pretty sure JBA will have done his homework on us and is aware of the teams weak points. Yeah. I think this is a very decent appointment.

Ffs!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's the first game against decent opposition - with a Motherwell team that's obviously needing strengthened particularly up front - plus we are missing our goalie. I'm not advocating for accepting mediocrity but Im not unduly concerned at this point either.

He's a member but hasn't posted on here in years.

My brother said exactly the same when we were talking about it earlier on that they are comparable with Celtic and Rangers

Understand - but it's the same every season and we always get there in the end

Indeed. Both played one game so let's not write them off

I agree

Apparently there was a clause in Balcomes contract that he had to play a certain number of games. No one knows what the injury to Ox is this time. It was a broken thumb last time. There's been nothing yet to indicate it was the same injury re occurring Ox also played again at the end of last season so it looks like he recovered from that thumb injury

Apparently it was Forrest

Whyte maybe?

Come on - did you actually think we were going to beat them. It's a bounce game and that's what we need at this point

My brother just texted me and said it's like playing Rangers or Celtic pre season - it's a good test for us I think

Apparently twente have annual revenue of 40 million euros. It's really not surprising if they are out classing us

There's a link on the mfc Facebook page

It's been posted on the Facebook page

My mum uses that - it gives quite interesting results when you search for something online

Was up on the fb page this morning - kick off time