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Hacksaw Ridge 7/10 I enjoyed this. Garfield was very good and his accent was top notch. Vince Vaughan was also excellent and added some well timed comic relief. The thing that annoyed me was Mel Gibson's, not even veiled, attempt to deify his protagonist in a few scenes. There was even a scene with him, arms stretched crucifixion stylie in an ascension looking homage. I don't think the film needed the extra religious context jammed in as it was central to the story anyway.

If Saturday was a job interview then McCulloch failed. First half we played well and had a decent shape - you could see that we worked on corners and they nearly worked a couple of times. At this stage I was feeling positive. However, Motherwell made a slight formation change and employed high pressing tactics in the second half to which we countered with - nothing at all. We were pressed into giving possession away far too easily and carried passengers who made little impact in the middle. They went man for man in midfield and bullied us. For all Sammon played well going forward, he offered little in defence or midfield. McKenzie may as well have been selling pies for all he did during the entire game. Jordan Jones played very well second half but still can't play a final ball so he becomes a liability losing possession. Longstaff - our great white hope from Newcastle, (one of only 2 outfield players wearing gloves BTW), was easily bullied and pushed off the ball. This was almost the entire midfield for us not pulling their weight and midfield is where we lost the game. Gary Dicker was excellent again on Saturday as he has been since Christmas but he really can't be expected to be a defensive mid as well as a box to box midfield general. We employed a tactic first half which we obviously tried in training. Our centre halves would split wide, our full backs push into midfield and our sitting midfielder drop deep towards the D. However, rather than being an instinctive shape, the payers lazily wandered into this formation shouting at one another where to go. We were obviously trying to change to a 3-5-2 in attack but it was so languid that by the time we set up - Motherwell had already countered. We were also slow getting back into a defensive shape when we lost possession. This shape obviously inspired Motherwell to play a higher line second half where they exploited our lack of organization and our weakness throughout midfield. Hopefully when KIltie comes back he will give us some extra bite and drive in the middle as a number 10. Personally, I would drop Longstaff and McKenzie for Frizzel and Kiltie as soon as possible. ETA: As much as we don't like Michael Johnston, it is still saddening to hear the circumstances of his wife's death over the weekend. Joanne was well liked among the Killie support who knew her.

Doctor Strange 6/10 (Spoliery review) The worst Marvel film since Age of Ultron. Strange just isn't likeable and comes across as a poor copy of Tony Stark but without the charm, (and with a terrible accent). The pace of the film is muddling. The bad dudes begin their plan before Dr Strange has his accident and presumably spends yonks in recovery. He then heads to Kathmandu and becomes amazing at magic in time to stop them. The rational was that the bad dudes would need to 'translate' the magic which appeared to take them many, many months - Strange however, is able to do this immediately whilst still being trained. An excellent cast was badly underused with most being 2 dimensional at best. The Marvel humour is in short supply and the SFX were in overload. The film, despite it's many flaws, was still entertaining but just lacking in substance.

I'm surprised by the lack of love for Taylor. I think he's going to be a brilliant player in the future. He's already the best left back we've had since Hooky was in his prime and it's no coincidence he's got more minutes under his belt than anyone his age in Britain. He reads the game really well, he can pass and has an excellent delivery. First and foremost though, he's a defender which is what you want. He can't take a throw in though.

Apparently it's sacrilegious to say that you don't like this film but I just don't. I finally saw it for the first time about 10 years ago and was very disappointed. I thought as you did that it was atmospheric and creepy but it didn't have the punch I expected. As you say, there was little in the way of exposition or character development that you would expect in a psychological horror and I found that I couldn't really care less if Leatherface caught his victim. Perhaps it's a victim of it's own success, in that, it's been parodied and copied so much the originality and shock factor have diminished.

^^^ A thousand times this.

I definitely hate the old firm more than Ayr. I despise them and everything they represent. My hatred for Ayr is still there but I respect you as an institution and I applaud the fans for turning up every week. (Even if you've never won anything........ ever) [emoji6].

Completely agree. However, it's Citizen Kane compared to Only God Forgives from the same peeps.

Passengers 5.5/10 This film had so much potential and the premise, both as a character study, and as an exercise in cinematography, could have been utilised so much better. The pay-off at the end wasn't dealt with well either and just fell rather flat. Disappointing.

↑↑↑ Got all his Christmas presents from his local Rangers shop.

Ok, it was a shyte quiz, but to be fair I'd had 2 whiskys and entire bottle of Yellow Tail Jammy Red wine, (a bit sweet but nice enough), when I posed the question. The point is that Ayr is such a hot bed of right cheek activity that it needed a shop to fulfill their half and half scarf requirements.

I haven't been I there since about 1982, was there really?.

Crap! Anyway, the answer I was looking for was Ayr because it's ram full of ****.

TBF, he doesn't have the self righteous, patronising tone of QLP that makes you want to stand on his neck for a while.

Town exclusive

Question: Which was the only town outside of Glasgow to have a Rangers shop?

I though that was QLP?

Comedy genius. Not sure you understood the question though. I prefer Saga or Ex Machina at the moment.

Name calling? How grown up. Incidentally, what makes you think i'm fat?

Is it not your bed time wee man?

If you ever fancy popping back to look at some trophies and hear tales of success then you're more than welcome, (as long as you go through quarantine first obviously). ETA: What did your Dad say when you came out to him?

Remember the time that every single person on the forum voted for bennett being worse than Hitler and then he was kicked off for a wee while? Good times.

I got abuse for having that opinion on the Killie Facebook page a wee while ago. He showed a letter from the club telling him to behave and I suggested he should behave. Some utter fannies had a go saying he was just "passionate". He blocked me after that so unfortunately I don't see his high brow chat any more.

I've gone from hating Gordon Sawyers to just feeling sorry for him, (and also for his boy). The man clearly has problems and needs a bit of help.