Doctor Manhattan

It's not going to plan, not so far anyway. You'd better hope those booster shots are effective.

I completely discounted Mrs Brown's Boys because, whatever else it is, it definitely isn't comedy. It may have a role as a weapon of psychological torture, or it may just exist in order to make pantomime look good, but comedy? Nah.

A lot of agreement at the top of the table, but I suspect there's a lot more room for debate at the other end. My bottom five, without any conscious thought whatsoever (and in no way based on the likely remainder of Tony Watt's top 5) would be: Miranda Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy Young Sheldon Citizen Khan Joey

Not least the line about "Motherwell rules".

There's more of a "Bad Santa" tradition in our house, but I suppose it depends how old your kids are.

After feeling the touch and going down, I'm sure he'll be back on his feet to celebrate within no more than five minutes

The only other time I've ever started a match thread, Motherwell emerged victorious. In the extremely unlikely event this happens again, I'll start a few more this season.

The beer is mainly lukewarm, flat piss too. It would buy a beer fridge.

2-4-4 next week. I doubt it'll alter the result.

I hope it's "Laeta est Ropy", come full time.

You have one point, we'll take two, but we'll buy the first round. Sound fair?

If there's any balance in the universe, young Ross is due a trophy or two soon. On a slightly lighter note, his final sentence implies he's going to fit right in here: "What’s Plan B? To make Plan A work."

Agreed, A total non sequitur, but I had to turn off my ad blocker before the Scotsman would let me see the whole article, and what a fucking state that website is. I don't know how print editions can be failing if all they're up against is this sort of awful online mess where you have to wade through three paragraphs of adverts in between every line of the actual article, while popup videos appear at random over the bit you actually want to see. (I'm sure it's better if you actually subscribe, but after that sort of experience who would ever volunteer to pay good money to find out.) <\Yer Da mode>

I do hope this is indeed true because that's my watercooler conversation for at least the next week sorted, and I'm going to be mightily disappointed if somebody proves otherwise.

I was at both games over the festive period in 1983-84 when we beat Rangers 3-0 and then Celtic 2-1 with a very late winner, Brian McClair scoring all five. There was nothing particularly riding on these results, but it's fair to say that I celebrated both victories as if we'd just won the European Cup. What a diddy, eh?

That may be funniest thing I've ever seen! (Except maybe for Frankie Boyle's bit about Benjamin Button.)

My own theory is that people celebrate beating his teams with additional vigour largely because Robbie Neilson's a complete f**king dildo. This was all about the non-penalty "incident". Strangely, he doesn't mention the sending off at all, which is weird, because I'd have had slightly more sympathy there. It was one of those where the first foul was probably worth one and a half yellows, and the second just a half, if that, but that's not how it's supposed to work.

Indisputable I'd say, but Gordon kept it respectable, to be fair.

Fucking hell, is Lamie going to be the man of the match? The End Times are upon us.

I'm not sure it counts if you goad them!

Not a single outraged mention of O'Donnell on the match thread yet either, although it's still early days.

Fair play to the bold Tommy. If that's what the ballot said, then that's what it said, although I don't remember many people punting it as a serious option at the time. It's been the Joe Wark stand in my mind for a while now, though, and that's going to take some shifting.

I sometimes forget that some of you lot are mere babes until I see a statement like this. 1996 seems like yesterday to me. In similar vein, I always feel a twinge of whatever the opposite of schadenfreude is (gluckschmerz?) every time Luc Nijholt pops his optimistic head over the parapet. At least he got a cup winner's medal out of us, though, so it's not like we owe him anything.