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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, joewarkfanclub said:

    Seems to me the beautiful game is well past saving for the ordinary punter.

    53 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    But this one of the reasons the non-football part of our business - be it community, brand, media, whatever - is so crucial. We're going to have to find something to rally round and keep people attached because as you say, the quality - with the odd exception obviously - is only likely going in one direction.

    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.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, crazylegsjoe_mfc said:

    In the seasons where we finished 3rd, 2nd and 2nd, really only Steven Saunders and Simon Ramsden had any injuries of note. These days, any time we've a small squad we seem to get injuries by the load. What's changed between then and now? Is it worse physios? Plastic pitches? Is our smaller budget making us go for players with chequered fitness history?

    25 minutes ago, camer0n_mcd said:

    Few folk on twitter saying Montgomery is out for 3 months

    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.

     

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, MurrayWell said:

    Wonder if it's a Casey style situation, 'We reckon you could do a job here but he's a short-term to start' given he's not played here previously. Protects us and the player. 

    Looks like a potentially good signing. 

    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.

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    Watches

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    On 10/11/2023 at 21:59, greendot said:

    Screenshot2023-11-10at21-53-30ZEITWERKMINUTEREPEATER-147_025A.LangeShne.png.7d506816271b012843a317eaecf4bdf9.png

    The A Lange & Sohne Zietwerk Minute Repeater with the silver and grey dial.  I just can't fault it for the simplicity of the dial and the design of the layout.  Just absolutely gorgeous.  Just need to find the quarter of a million to afford one!

    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... 😉

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    The Compo Faces Thread

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    13 minutes ago, Crawford Bridge said:

    The red flag for me is the shite. 

    Nobody ever dropped one at school. You'd take your chances skiving and going home to do one rather than use the school lavvies. 

    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.

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    Watches

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    15 minutes ago, GHF-23 said:

    What a wonderful gift, I'm sure they're delighted at how much youve enjoyed it. Thank you very much for sharing, my dad turns 60 this year and I've bookmarked their website as a probable source of his gift - he's not massively into watches, but he'd enjoy the hobbyist element and I'm sure would appreciate having something he could keep forever and eventually pass on 

    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! 😉 

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    Watches

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    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. 

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    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.

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    Work colleagues

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    5 minutes ago, FK1Bairn said:

    A colleague is having microwave heated fish for lunch. Place is stinking!! 

    It really should be illegal for people to eat fish in a workplace

    We had one of them, and he was a complete c**t. Granted, it's not a statistically significant sample, but I think we can reasonably hypothesise on this basis that everybody who does it is also a c**t.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, capt_oats said:

    After @thisGRAEME pointed out that it was Leith who worked on the creative and knowing the style of their other campaigns I think it's fair enough to assume it was deliberate and they knew what they were doing. Which is kind of a relief in so much as we haven't produced this in-house.

    So, if we'd knocked it up in-house for a fiver it would be shit, but because we spunked £25k on it (amount made up for dramatic effect) it's somehow a work of genius? Fucking creatives! 😜

    And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
    Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”
    - Rudyard Kipling
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