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1. john doe 01.24.08 / 8am

   this is as funny as a boil on the bum sure your still taking the medication doubt it , you should get out more this is the ramblings of a mad man
2. TheWell1991 01.24.08 / 8am

   Eck, I’m now back into the land of the living, thank Christ. I feel I’ve just lost 2 weeks out of my life. Didn’t even make our cup game on Tuesday night :-(

   It must be a good feeling knowing that some people just don’t get it, eh? More power to your elbow.

   PS Told you about our pitch. You’re lucky you got to play on it when you did.

   PPS Hope you beat that bunch of divin’ bastards from the East when you play them in the CIS semi to finish off their season.

   PPPS The Shirey-Pirey were robbed ;-D
3. AllyB 01.24.08 / 9am

   Didn’t see the game out here, seems as if it went to plan with pool players out in force. Bit more concerned over the comings and goings for the moment!

   Cousin is off with some indecent haste…but wanted out and fee was bite your hand off stuff. Huttoon and Hemdani more of a mystery. Much smoke and mirrors.

   The next week will explain much in terms of the league aspirations of Rangers.

   Hope you are well Eck.
4. Fat Eck 01.24.08 / 9am

   John Doe - as funny as a “boil on your bum” you say? Cheers - my patter’s obviously improving! last year it was as funny as cancer. I’m not mad but my camel is.

   Hey, no-one knows better than me how much shite I talk, mate, but don’t people usually IGNORE the ravings of mad men? … if it made you feel the need to comment then it’s obviously working on some level, even if it is just YOUR level.

   Oh no - wait a minute - I’ve fallen into your trap here, haven’t I?! The fact I can totally understand your punctuation-free ramblings means I AM mad!! TRUMPTON! Artechoke! - my old man’s a bin lid!

   THE WELL91 - glad you’re well, Well. Although maybe coming on here isnae a good move for a few days yet - in case ye suffer an instant relapse :-)

   Glad tae huv ye back in the land of the typing, Sir - Bluebhoy’s clearly been missing ye too. And, oh how right you were about that Fir Park quagmire.

   just what IS the script with Gretna and Raydale - is there some sort of contractual thing with Motherwell which means they want a share of gate money from all Gretna’s games if they’re played at Fir park … and so, ye know, therefore they want them to play ALL their games at Fir Park this season? Coz what they were saying on the box last night was spot-on - with both The Well and, possibly, Gretna at home in the next round, it’s just gonnae get worse. And if Gretna play Queen of the South at FIR PARK and NOT Raydale - well, man, that’d just be a joke.

   There was nearly 6,000 at the Palmerston games when they met in the league the other year!

   Will see what we can do for you next Wednesday!

   Bet you were relieved about Burley getting the Scotland job. In a strange way, so was I - not just because I thot Burns and Souness were both all wrong for it - but coz I’m kinda excited about what McGhee’s doing at Fir Park. Thot he was defo off when i saw his piece in the Sunday Herald, playing up his goal for Scotland v England in 1984 (I was right behind that net!) - but turns out he was as badly treated as the rest of the candidates. I’m glad he’s staying at Fir Park for your sake and for the SPL’s sake. Won’t be saying that when ye cost us the league and turf us oot the Scottish cup but, for now, i’m enjoying it. :-)

   Shirey-Pirey? - four offsides, one dodgy pen and a lucky break-away :-)

   In fact - it was a seriously dodgy pen … but the ref had one of those names where the christian and surnames are interchangeable. Know what I mean, brother!
5. TheWell1991 01.24.08 / 12pm

   Eck, I’m not 100% sure on this, but the talk is that Gretna didn’t apply for any safety certificates for Raydale for their cup games, so all their home games need to be played at Fir Park. If they get through against Morton then I don’t see why they couldn’t play Queen of the South in Dumfries. Or would that be too sensible?

   We are relieved that Oor Mark didn’t get the Scotland job, but you could see that he was miffed at not getting it. Hopefully he’ll look to finish the good job with us that he’s started. Typical that the news was leaked before those concerned were told - hearing it from Sky was just not on. Wish Gorgeous George every success though - another ex-Well man.
6. Fat Eck 01.24.08 / 1pm

   Aye, TheWell1991, I thought the way the SFA handled it was a fekin shambles. Mind you, Burley was the man I was wantin for the job too and it was good to see McGhee expressing genuine dissapointment not to get it - honest reaction from a guy who is great value as an interviewee, whatever the subject (I hear he’s pretty boring on the life and works of Verdi, mind - just can’t stop going on, and on, and ON about Giuseppe’s “Middle Period” apparently - yawn, yawn).

   Safety certificate, is that the key to the Raydale mystery then. Ahhh - having been down there recetly, that makes sense: It’s cute but it isnae even a quality junior ground.
7. Rusty 01.24.08 / 7pm

   Not sure about Burley myself - a good manager and someone I think would be great with fantastic players, but for Scotland? McGhee or Burns would have been my choice, both of whom are very aware that we’ve done well playing defensively and would not be tempted to believe UEFA rankings hype or Chick Young-like hysteria.

   Apropos of nothing - the poor man’s Kris Boyd! ;)
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dny5H3XNcfI
8. TheWell1991 01.24.08 / 9pm

   Well what do you know? The SFA have agreed with Gretna to play their re-arranged tie with Morton & also their 5th round tie with Queen of the South at Palmerston Park, should they get through.

   SFA & common sense? What’s the world coming to?

   Our pitch will still be shite though.

   @Rusty - Gerd Muller eh? Surely the ultimate penalty box striker, or the poor man’s Dougie Arnott? Eck will have been creaming himself over that, ill or not. ;-D
9. KevinG 01.24.08 / 9pm

   Unsure why i think this but….i think McGhee widnae have taken the Scotland joab, i feel he has bigger fish to fry and thinks he needs a bigger platform to prove all his doubters- who ignored him for other joabs in Scotland- wrong….

   Reading his quotes as well, i think he will leave Motherwell in the summer and has already agreed his next employment….

   Probably wrong though….just get that vibe….
10. iang 01.24.08 / 10pm

    I am glad Burley got it and even more glad that burns did not.

    Burley has got the character tyhat is right for this job and as long as his new bosses don’t find the booze stash he’ll be fine.
11. Thistledhub 01.25.08 / 9am

    The Saints fans down here are quite happy as George was having a poor season. Personally, I think he will do ok, as would Souness, Burns or McGhee. His biggest problem will be the expectation of the fans.
12. Fat Eck 01.25.08 / 12pm

    Scotland job - for me, Burley was the best of the four candidates selected for interview. My preference is based only on that sickeningly realistic, money-based criteria. Ideally I would have wanted Jose Mourinho (Well, actually I would have preferred Hector Cuper but I would also make Hector Cuper Prime Minister, Rangers manager, my bank manager and/or the doorman at my place of work if I could - my Hector Cuper love it’s just a personal, psycho-sexual thing which is all mixed up in my head and has something to do with Valencia at Ibrox in the Champions League and that goal Hernan Crespo scored for Inter against Newcastle at St James’ and just a general love of hard, devestating counter-attacking street wise football played under the guru-esque guidance of an autocratic Argentine Zvengali who still retains his fighting weight, even in his sixties, and could probably still do a job as a vicious defensive midfielder and looks hard as fuck in his quality tailor-made suit - but I won’t let my twisted proclivities interfere with the wider common sense point I’m trying to make here) but the SFA were clearly more limited in their net-casting than a Peterhead fishing crew adhering to EEC regulations.

    As for fans expectations, I think Argentina 78 has completely changed the Scotland fans expectation levels forever - this is why Doe a fucking Dear is the most popular song among the “Tartan Army” (puke!) - we’ve turned losing into something to celebrate, we’re so desperate to get ANYONE through the turnstyles. 1978 had a massive effect on our collective psyche but, on Burns Night, normal Scotland fans like ourselves know that it’s back to year zero once again. Everything’s up for grabs again - could be shite, could be great, could be inbetween - we’re ready for another slog. the media will try to stoke up indignation and hysteria with the same old pernicious reporting but WE won’t be fooled again. S’all cool.

    If we don’t qualify for Zoot Efreeka with maximum points, Gordon Smith’s a fucking dead man! :-)

    Rusty. I love you. I’ve never seen you but I now know you have the looks of Brad Pitt as well as the intellect of Stephen Hawkings. (Thank god I didn’t get that the wrong way round …)

    Seen all those goals before but you gave me the excuse to watch them all again.

    THAT’s a show-reel: A winner in a World Cup Final, World Club Championship final, European Championship final and two European Cup finals - that says nearly as much as ye need to know about Gerdy … until you see him sticking the nut on Larry Lloyd. Now THAT’s a hard man!!

    I’ve banged it onto my You Tube favourites. Ye should have a search through my You Tube page favourites (link is down to your right on this page under the “Blogroll” heading) to see more Gerdy stuff.

    Ye can never get enough Gerdy stuff.

    (What’s that, mum? yes - yes - I’m surfing for porn - honest!… No, of course it’s not Gerd Muller clips … I’m over that now … no - it’s pure porn, mum - honest!! Naked ladies with boobs and stuff - oh yes - very dirty - yum, yum …)

    Oh, BANG ANOTHER ONE IN FOR ME, GERDY!!!

    Incidentally, my fav non-Gers team goal of all time is the one you see him scoring against the old Soviet Union, in the Heysel, in the 1972 European Championships final (NOT the four he scored against the same mob in the official opening match for the Olympic Stadium in Munich a month earlier - nice way to make yerself at home!) on the 2minute 50 second mark on the clip - I actually think that goal’s better than the Brazilian fourth against Italy in 1970 - that 1972 West Germany team were certainly the most exciting German team ever. The way Gunter Netzer and Jupp Heynckes are just pounding the Soviet goal relentlessley until Gedry is there for the tap-in - ahhh - that’s POWER PLAY PAR EXELLENCE and I love it!!

    Der Bomber was a poor, tatsteless and innaproppriate nick-name and it was given to him by a Glasgow journalist. Arguably my fav Gerdy finish is the first of his two against Italy in the infamous 1970 semi-final where his art-form is revealed in its starkest, most brilliant light: He just GETS IN THE WAY of a simple pass-back and only applies the smallest of NUDGES to the ball - yet it’s enough to breach the very embodiment, the apotheosis of the Catenaccio defence. He just NEVER LETS IT LIE.

    He’s the greatest. get that RIGHT UP YE, Ronaldo and Pippo Inzaghi!

    Jim - yer not wrong. Cream duly delivered :-)

    Great decision to play Gretna’s cup game/s at Palmerston. It gives them a truer home advantage than Fir park … for the Morton game anyway! :-)

    KevinG - McGhee’s going to Celtic when Strachan walks this season. That’s my personal opinion based on as much reason and evidence as I base all my opinions on. The regular readers of this blog will tell you of my astounding success rate with such predictions.

    Aherm.

    What?!! Well, it IS astounding. Just gonnae noh tell Kev in what WAY it’s astounding! Please!! :-(

    On the Gerdy theme, here he is scoring in the Maracanna … with a little twist in the tale:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJWBiGWNVQ
13. KevinG 01.25.08 / 6pm

    Eck, will i go to the bookies and put money on that then? I “heard” that as well, but the same fellow, says he is friends wie the heid suit at the SFA, told me in the same conversation that TB was a stick on for the Scotland joab……

    Like that scene in “Trainspotting”- maybe yer predictions are pish but you know a lot aboot Gerdy……
14. KevinG 01.25.08 / 6pm

    Oh, i agree, i reckon GS is already packing his stuff…
15. Lone Star Ranger 01.26.08 / 3pm

    Ahhh the middle period culminating in his two greatest operas…IMHO 8-)
    Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Also, again IMHO the best version of trav was in the early sixties I beleive, and featured Dame Joan Sutherland as Violetta. Effin magnificent voice. La Stupenda!

    The 2KW stereo in the motor gets cranked for that one…

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