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Finished 4-1 to Sturm Graz, but no more goals for Biereth. Max got 10 minutes at the end.

"You'll be shocked by this cheap alternative to anal bleaching that big Pharma doesn't want you to know about"

Two messages to your less-than-enthusiastic-sounding new striker...

The Craig fucking Samson?

But soon... starts another big riot!

Aberdeen sack Barry Robson saying eighth place is 'unacceptable' They panicked after all

Aberdeen manager Barry Robson insists "there is no panic from me" after his side's winless Scottish Premiership run extended to a third game in the 1-1 draw with Dundee Three games? Fucking amateurs.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. For me (and for most fans of most clubs, especially the more, shall we say, mature contingent) supporting your team is rooted in your childhood, and on the long-gone terraces, where year after year you watched legends like Joe Wark. There was continuity, and tradition, and you could identify more readily with the team. That love of the club based on mutual history doesn’t change, but almost everything else has, and I wonder at what point more and more people start just saying, “Ah, f**k it, I’m done with this”. At least with fan ownership and the regular emails from the Well Society, there’s still a good sense of “belonging” with Motherwell. Could they do more/better? Aye, most probably, but we’re lucky compared to some clubs and I suppose if we can endure fifteen without a win, most of us should be good for few more seasons yet.

For f**k's actual f**king sake. In all seriousness, can we try just not training for the rest of the season? As an added bonus, it couldn't make our passing (or throw ins, or corners) any worse.

If you don't mind me saying so, you've already got some balls making suggestions like that!

Aye, that would be my guess, especially given he's moving halfway across the world. I mean, imagine we gave him a 2 year deal and he turned out to be complete Danzaki-style bobbins. Nuclear level heads gone would ensue.

Miller does this thing where he passes the ball to another Motherwell player. It's pretty cool. He should put on a seminar for the rest of the team.

Oh, I wouldn't put much faith in anything the BBC say...

Either that, or Sturm Graz have signed him up. Injured it is, then.

OK, I know he's not Austrian, but close enough surely?

Is this rancid old witch not dead yet? (Jones, that is, not the fragrant "Catherine".)

Traumatised by the continual stream of bad news on the Motherwell thread I was reading back through this one and came across the "Grail Watches" discussion. This one in particular caught my eye because by happy coincidence I'd just been looking at a video featuring the A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Tourbillon, which makes me go all wobbly in a very good way. I've added that video here, not just because of that watch but also because it is perhaps the most dryly funny watch review video I've ever seen, with a few actual laugh-out-loud moments. Sadly, even if I won the lottery I'd be afraid to actually wear that beauty. However, there are some nice looking tourbillons in the extensive Sugesss range...

This'll never work - the "Toby" jersey is currently already filled.

I can't be 100% sure many decades after the fact, but I don't think I ever so much as took a piss in the school lavvies in all my years at the high school. In fact, I couldn't tell you where the toilets even were.

Ha, he's a year younger than me then, and if I can do it anybody can do it! For a novice like me it's time-consuming and fiddly, and you've got to be pretty careful when the movement's exposed, but it's not really that hard as I'm sure the regulars on this thread can vouch. FWIW, it took me about 5 hours to build, although a fair bit of that was watching the instruction videos. Then after I'd finished it the second hand started sticking when all three hands were aligned so I had to disassemble it and redo them. (It was much quicker/easier the second time.) The one thing I definitely WON'T be doing is taking it underwater. It has a gasket and a screw-down crown, but I wouldn't trust anything I'd built myself in the bath, let alone in the Red Sea. Purely decorative!

Unless I've missed something, Halliday hasn't actually signed? If and when it actually happens, I'll get my panties wet/in a bunch then.

The kids clubbed together and bought me a dive watch kit for Xmas, which I finally got around to tackling yesterday. The watch itself is reasonably decent quality with a a Seiko NH35 movement. The face is British Racing Green, and they chose a steel bracelet with a glidelock clasp. I'm sure it cost them a lot more than the sum of its parts, but I guess you're paying for the experience and support as much as for the parts. Movement, face, hands, case and bracelet all came separately and needed cobbling together, and I was a bit apprehensive as I'd never done anything more complicated than replacing a battery or a strap before. My eyesight isn't what it once was, and my hands aren't as steady, but it it was surprisingly enjoyable nonetheless. (f**k me, though, those hands were fiddly!) The instruction booklet was spot on, and there are a series of videos to follow online as well, and it came with every tool needed and a few more besides. I'm wearing it now as I type, and feeling remarkably smug and unjustifiably pleased with myself. The kids are definitely in the good books this year.