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After Dean Keenan, probably the least likable person to have played for Morton in my time supporting us. Just an awful human being.

I've seen him score for Troon. Beat that.

I remember that Forthbank game. When he got subbed off he threw a water bottle at McInally. Scenes.

Troon tho

To be fair he was also eligible for a state pension at the time. (Nah for real though, that's actually good of him. Fair play.)

This season's been fucking dire, no question, one of the worst in the club's history, but I read stuff like that and remember it could be worse, we could have Dean Keenan and Kieran McAnespie gurning around the place. The current squad is rancid and nondescript but has there ever been a less likeable figure at Cappielow than Dean Keenan? Maybe Andy Millen or Hugh Scott at a push.

They had their eye on him in the summer as a squad player. If I'm not mistaken he's only signed until the end of the season as cover. Still, like you say, a good step up and he'll be on alright money.

As much as I'm pissed off with the result, I agree with this. I think he acknowledged that it's difficult, which is fair. What I object to is this idea that it's somehow harder, and I don't think that's what Shiels is saying. Of course breaking down any team is difficult when you can't create chances.

Settle.

I blame the Australians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oAFlPLGA8

Presumably in one of the state leagues, not the A-League?

I agree with this. The one thing you could never accuse McGowan of doing is holding back. Of course as he plays for St. Mirren I want him to lose every game but as a professional I am a fan of his. I'd take him back at Cappielow in a heartbeat but sadly his level is SPL.

I'm not rubbishing the juniors. I'm rubbishing your conception of the juniors' being anywhere near SFL2 standard. The junior game is fine for what it is - it's just irritating that junior fans always surface every time they see a player not tripping over the ball to say "oh, he could do a job in the SFL", or because they can manage crowds in the mid-three figures (at £5 a go with a carry-out allowed in half the grounds) they're "on a par with the Second Division." As I said - junior football is fine for what it is, but with SFL regulations, SFL policing, SFL structures, SFL seasons and so on, not a single junior side in the country would be doing anything but scrambling around at the bottom of division 3. Which is why they remain junior - their setup works for them.

Well, you can hardly blame him for having a mixed debut, having made the step up to the dizzy heights of the juniors.

That is superb

Which means nothing about the quality of the league. I'm sure there are some players talented enough in the juniors to go senior. In a very few cases they're better off staying part time in the junior setup. But in the vast, vast majority of cases, the players either 1) aren't good enough or 2) don't have the mentality to succeed in the SFL. I have nothing against the juniors whatsoever but there is a real gulf in quality between the middle of Division 2 and the very top of the Superleague.

Oh, you.

Van Dyke Parks - Discover America

Beck's Vier is, IMO, a pale imitation of regular Beck's.

The Beach Boys - Surf's Up