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Went for big Maros as he was prepared to stand up to Scott Brown when the ref wasn't, the wee git was at it from the first whistle when he tried to mix it with Sutton before any Motherwell player had been within ten yards of the ball, obnoxious little toad that he is. No failures today but the Loanee superstar is top dollar for me.

At the time I couldn't understand why Mensing's goal was chopped off but having watched the highlights on the BBC site the handball is quite clear, especially from the camera in the South stand, turns out that Dougie McDonald did make a correct decision on Saturday after all.

The author Quintin Jardine.

I was in the home end for the first half and couldn't see a thing, went out at half time, along the front of the main stand where loads of people were demanding their money back (They had no joy, somethings never change ) and went in the gate at the away end, in those days they opened the gates at half time, and stood on the side of the ash slope where the rest of the main stand should have gone. I could see about a third of the pitch but could at least see Pettigrew's penalty hit the net. Sheer bedlam and as most of us oldies have said the "ahem - official" crowd of 26,000 was at least 5,000 low if not more. By far the biggest crowd I have ever been in at Fir Park.

I was at that game too and KMcAlpine is quite right, Willie McLean just outdid Fergie at his own game. If St. Mirren fans really want to moan about something from that era of their club, I suggest they start with their board for getting rid of Ferguson and allowing Aberdeen to snap him up and see him turn their club into the success that it was, that could easily have been St. Mirrens glory had their board had any balls.

Motherwell awarded a penalty Motherwell score a penalty Get in there!

Good signing, good servant, and if the money quoted is correct then a great deal for the club.

Agree whole heartedly with this, most of the comments re Darren Smith in this thread are exactly the same as those questioning the signing of J O'Brien until he was given a few consecutive starts and started to show some form.

It'll be interesting to see how the referee reacts to Hughes' (justified) criticism of Willie Collum's handling of the Rangers game and his subsequent refusal to wipe out Clegg's red card. As for the game we should have enough to win, but when have we heard that before.

Great seeing that stuff again, especially the ground as it was, shows what we're missing with this all seater nonsense . That first clip when Gregor Stevens knocks the ball out for a throw in and the Rangers guy slides in late, how far would a Hearts centre half roll if that happened today?

Damn thing got stuck in our spam filter, fortunately I've got admin rights so i was able to release it. 'Flow, is it possible to change an e-mail address or is it better just to re-register with my home one?

I stopped reading the Sky sports report when I saw Made up rubbish obviously

On the plus side, if an offer has been received, and I stress the if, and he is on the radar of larger clubs in England then they may feel the need to put in a larger offer, depends how desperate they are for a goalscorer now. If we accept the money for a guy we got for free and who gave us 25 goals then good, if the money isn't right and he stays till the end of the season then that's fine too. One thing I'm pretty sure of is that he won't end up at Tynecastle.

That would then make Ray Farningham a legend for emptying Ibrox in twenty seconds....... Actually that's not a bad shout, give that man a knighthood.

No idea mate, we don't have a game. There used to be some daft rule about rescheduling replays and the police insisting on a weeks notice or some such drivel. Don't know if that still applies or not. Total pisser for me as well, I could maybe have wangled getting there this week but the 21st is impossible.

Aw crap, I was looking forward to this and can't make the 21st even if I could have made it up there in time.

Fair does, but the ball just tends to come straight back in causing the defence to work harder whereas if we leave someone up to hassle the opposition players, especially someone fast like O'Brien or Clarkson who can close down the defenders quickly, it slows down the return ball and lets us reorganise. It also forces them to leave more defenders back reducing the number of targets that the dead ball taker has. It isn't just McGee who has used this tactic, Malpas and Butcher regularly did this as well.

Why do I hate Hearts? John Robertson, Craig Levein, Dave McPherson, Wayne Foster, Walter Kidd, the list is endless. FHW

Not the greatest performance I have seen, but a much more comfortable result than the scoreline suggests. I just wish we would shoot on site occasionally. One thing that does annoy me (other than referees of that standard) is our insistence on pulling everyone back for free kicks and corners, fair enough if it is the last 5 minutes and we are hanging on but it was just about every time last night.

Should this not be in the "Drunkest watching the 'Well" thread? Oh aye, and for someone with a Higher English your spelling is terrible.

18th May 1991, no question. At the age of 28 and after 23 years of glorious failure, not so glorious failure and on more than one occasion being cheated by the officials out of at least getting to a final (thank you messers Kyle and Thompson in particular) I had finally witnessed my dream. I remember my wife saying before the game she would cry if we lost, my reply was "I won't, but I will if we win" That day will live with me forever.

I don't think you can draw a parallel between wages and club size in this instance. There was a story in one of the broad sheets a couple of months ago (The Scotsman I think) which compared wages as a percentage of the clubs income ours was a sensible 45% (ish) The jambos was something like 130% a completely ridiculous and unsustainable situation and just one of the reasons that they are paddle less and up the proverbial brown coloured creek.

Done. Good luck with the project.

Joe Wark and Willie P. Dead heat.

Yes, but that was not the calculation which was being done in the thread earlier, it was the games per goal ratio which was being quoted. i.e one goal every so many games. I was merely supplying the mathematical equation for that calculation.