Livingston v Motherwell 25/10/2025

[well_said]

30 minutes ago, Richie said:

Swings and roundabouts.

Alot of it depends on the state of the squads and how Röhl performs.

Johnston got injured again last night and CCV done his achillies as well. Ihenacho also got injured.

An injury to others Eg Scales, or McGregor and they are in a mess.

Not forgetting injuries to Walsh,  Clancy,  beaton and Robertson.

[FirParkCornerExile]

1 hour ago, robsterwood said:

We were up against a rangers team in 2005 that had bob Malcolm and Ross in side. We had O'Donnell and Scot Mcdonald but still lost 5.1. There's usually old firm bias. Budget divide is massive.

Aye but had we not had Gordon Marshall who absolutely sold the Jerseys that day the result could have been different or at least alot closer. We brought it back to 2-1 within 13 mins and had them back peddling then that big Diddy sold the Jerseys. 

[robsterwood]

20 minutes ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Aye but had we not had Gordon Marshall who absolutely sold the Jerseys that day the result could have been different or at least alot closer. We brought it back to 2-1 within 13 mins and had them back peddling then that big Diddy sold the Jerseys. 

Very true.

[grizzlyg]

2 hours ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Aye but had we not had Gordon Marshall who absolutely sold the Jerseys that day the result could have been different or at least alot closer. We brought it back to 2-1 within 13 mins and had them back peddling then that big Diddy sold the Jerseys. 

Jeez it's brings it all back, big marsh had a mare that day

[Yabba's Turd]

1 minute ago, grizzlyg said:

Jeez it's brings it all back, big marsh had a mare that day

But was pretty decent getting us there

[mio]

27 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Jeez it's brings it all back, big marsh had a mare that day

That whole occasion brings back bad memories. Its up there with one of my least favourite matches I’ve ever attended. From being hijacked a bit with the Davie Cooper final tag (I loved cooper but I didn’t particularly like the constant love in build up with Rangers… we dont get to finals enough for that to have happened) this ended up with Rangers fans thinking it was fine to snap tickets up on mass….. pardon the pun… for our end. We had dozens of them pi55ed up wandering in draped in union jacks, singing the sash and FTP and wanting to fight with our fans who told them to Fk up and get out. By the time they got ejected we were 3-1 down.

it was a rotten day.

[Ya Bezzer!]

3 hours ago, FirParkCornerExile said:

Aye but had we not had Gordon Marshall who absolutely sold the Jerseys that day the result could have been different or at least alot closer. We brought it back to 2-1 within 13 mins and had them back peddling then that big Diddy sold the Jerseys. 

While that might be true we would never have got to the final without a brilliant performance by Marshall in the semi final.

[Ya Bezzer!]

Was looking at previous starts to the season up to this point.

25/26 Askou - 8pts

24/25 Kettlewell - 13pts

23/24 Kettlewell - 10pts

22/23 Hammell - 10pts

21/22 Alexander - 14pts

20/21 Robinson - 8pts

19/20 Robinson - 16pts

18/19 Robinson - 5pts

17/18 Robinson - 13pts

16/17 McGhee - 8pts

15/16 Barraclough - 7pt

So Askou's start is in the bottom 5 and there has only been 2 worse starts in the last 10 years.

Looking closer at the seasons with 8 points or less (but obviously not including this one) there are 4. 

We finished Bottom 6 in 3 out of 4.

The manager was also fired or resigned in 3 out of 4. 

The exception was season 15/16 when Barraclough was fired after 8 matches, McGhee came in and we shot up the league.

Now I definitely don't want another manager replaced and I think the season can still go either way but just looking at the facts over the last ten seasons it doesn't look great for Askou.

Really need to win at Livingston tomorrow.

 

[mio]

25 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

Was looking at previous starts to the season up to this point.

25/26 Askou - 8pts

24/25 Kettlewell - 13pts

23/24 Kettlewell - 10pts

22/23 Hammell - 10pts

21/22 Alexander - 14pts

20/21 Robinson - 8pts

19/20 Robinson - 16pts

18/19 Robinson - 5pts

17/18 Robinson - 13pts

16/17 McGhee - 8pts

15/16 Barraclough - 7pt

So Askou's start is in the bottom 5 and there has only been 2 worse starts in the last 10 years.

Looking closer at the seasons with 8 points or less (but obviously not including this one) there are 4. 

We finished Bottom 6 in 3 out of 4.

The manager was also fired or resigned in 3 out of 4. 

The exception was season 15/16 when Barraclough was fired after 8 matches, McGhee came in and we shot up the league.

Now I definitely don't want another manager replaced and I think the season can still go either way but just looking at the facts over the last ten seasons it doesn't look great for Askou.

Really need to win at Livingston tomorrow.

 

We’re lucky to have eyes though and a modicum of footballing knowledge to realise we are watching 100% better football than any of the statistical seasons above. We could easily go on a run of wins and I still don’t see us finishing in the bottom six. 
we have the keys to a suped up twin exhaust Honda civic here 🤣 time we all realised it 

[Kmcalpin]

I see that Livingston are releasing blocks of seats in the same way that the Hampden authorities are doing. Best views are released later. Its one of my bugbears that clubs like Livingston constrain seating to tight sections.  I'm not saying that most of the stadium should be opened up for our benefit but its annoying when most of the available sections are full; latecomers can't find seats and they steadfastly refuse to open up another section.