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Good to have you back. Without your support, the team's really been struggling....

My FIRST game of the season AND.....on the way up I can listen to the first Barclay James Harvest album released in14 years! Postie just arrived. All my heroes in one day. What a day in prospect

It is one bad result, and probably marks the end of the halcyon start. That was bound to happen. And ICT have played badly and won before, but this time, STJ were on fire obviously. Third to every ball sounds as though the players got too cocky.

I'm trying to think of a nice way to say please don't come back again...

Not sure why Ben didn't play today? Feels a bit strange after plaudits he got last week for his second half performance?

We missed the overlapping runs from raven. The passing and distribution throughout the park was poor, nobody made runs into space or gave options for passing. Too often playing high balls which the st j defence lapped up all day. Not sure about polworth didn't look ready for this level. But for brill we would have been really hammered. Also TB took too long to make changes as first half showed it just wasnt working. disappointing but was a good away crowd today.

With the way the other results went, a win would have put some distance between the top two and the rest so it is disappointing that we have been soundly thumped. Sounds like a real reality check here. We got off to a flyer because we had a settled team which apart from the keeper and Vincent knew each other from last season. Other teams are beginning to gel and there will be no easy games from now on. Celtic 3 points clear with a game in hand and I would expect them to run away with it now. The rest of the the sides are all capable of beating each other and I am sure all will have good runs and bad runs. We can always dream but we need to be realistic and accept that for a club with our resorces a top 6 finish represents an excellent season. We have to expect days like today but overall we are still doing very well.

Before the game I was telling him that this was the best ICT team of all time, so prepare to be entertained.....

the most disappointing thing for me is the sounds of glee from the commentators and pundits as we go three down

The BBC. Siphoning off millions into salaries of the few, millions from public money, and not a suspension proferred. Hires muscle to get its TV licence fees that then get spent on massive salaries for executives. Asides from opinion on women's football, the BBC need their own moral compass found, and to stop trying to find it in other areas of the media. I actually didn't like his article, I think it was base and crude, but that's what the DR is, so one can't really be surprised. But a word in his ear would have been suffice.

Getting a wee bit off subject here, guys. The thread is about the treatment of Tam Cowan and not the merits of women's football per se. I happen to think Cowan is funny. I don't think he ever intends to offend people but his tongue in cheek humour can be cutting at times. In truth, I doubt that Cowan has any ill will towards women's football. What the article was doing was actually celebrating his beloved Motherwell and it just so happened that women's football was the butt of his humour. It really annoys me that people these days are so sensitive about the slightest thing. There seem to be some subjects you can no longer make jokes about and womens football seems to be the latest thing. Personally I am all for the promotion of the women's game. Of course it is not as good as the mens game in general but that is mainly a reflection of the number of women who play and the length of time they have played. But what annoys me is these people who, rather than defend the game or better still, respond in kind with a tongue in cheek attack on the mens game, instead try to gag those who dare poke gentle fun. Clearly the womens game will never be as physical as the men's, but as a consequence, it can be argued that to excell at the game women need to be more skillful. In time, the women's game could potentially display more skill than the mens game. And let's face it the real heroes of the mens game are not the big powerful guys, they are the small skillful players - Best, Maradonna, Cooper, Messi, Mckay, for example. Why can't those humourless morons who want to gag Cowan simply enter into the banter and laugh about it? For instance, the humourless Roseanna Cunningham could have retorted that if Cowan's Motherwell played more like the Scottish Women's team they might still be in Europe. Or could they not simply have said "Ha ha Tam. Very funny. But actually it was a great night and the first time the home side has scored so many at Fir Park for many a long year!" It should be clear to all that this was meant to amuse and not to offend or to be a serious critique of the women's game. After all, if Cowan seriously thought it was inappropriate to play a women's match at Motherwell's ground, he would have mentioned the most important reason which is, of course, that the high heels ruin the playing surface. But coming back to the BBC's action, I am seriously concerned about what it says about the attitudes in this country these days. He is taken to task for his obviously tongue in cheek remarks about women's football but not about something else in his column which to me, people might have genuine reason to feel offended about. The BBC and those that back their actions seem to be saying that it is fair game to suggest that men from Aberdeen may have an unnatural affection for sheep but not to make gentle fun of women's football. What sort of moral leadership does that offer? We really do need a sense of perspective here and certain people need to get a sense of humour.

Pic of Lawson getting the signed strip from YT:

As if they don't have enough bomb scares there already.