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I have.....kinda.
Mostly I think it's the old 'another week, another game' blah-de-blah-de-fuckin-blah wisdom/philosophy/crap us punters spout...unless it's, in the words of aDONis, 'utterly gash, proper gash, Steve Paterson on a sick day type gash' you still forgive the fuckers the following week and to be fair my main problem last week was that against truly awful opposition we played it like it was a Pre Season bounce-game.
There nothin wrong wi our fitness for once (and I'll put good money on at least 2 of our 'Injury List' being fully fit tomorra), but our passing and movement was as sharp as a pair o blunt safety scissors.
No doubt the justified audible Red Army groans of dissatisfaction at yet another stalled start will have oor esteemed lard arse contemplating putting on his 'Tinker Twat' hat and ringing the changes.
By all accounts he experimented wi 3 at the back in the Everton bounce game. Personally, I think we'd be better off stickin wi the auld 442. I'd bring in a (fit) Zander and move Touzani and a (fit) Seve into midfield wi Smith and Rickaldinho/Chris bombin doon the flanks.
The Seve-Heiks combo playing in front of the back 4 lead to much of our 'success' in Tango's first season and lets be honest it can only be way better than Nicholson and Clark in there. Nicholson somehow managed to be more anonymous than most last week and Chris, god bless 'im and his work rate, isnae a central midfielder.
The most probable point of his tinker-twattery is between the sticks and whether to replace Bonny Langfield after his clanger last week wi Soutar. I say no.
As Soutar is by any standards is a 'short arse' (and a shortarse who fumbles it a bit to boot) and he's playing in Jim-bob Hamilton a player who is by anyone standards a 'lanky c*nt'.
Making the change in this game would make no sense to me...but this is the tactical genius of Jimmy Calderwood so expect Soutar to start.
Just to appease PitchMick, I'll begin this paragraph wi... 'I've said it before and I'll say it again' that both Soutar and Langfield will have outstanding games in goal for us this year but they'll also cost us 12-15 points.
Sadly until the day we get an international class keeper in there we ain't gonna need to increase the Brasso order.
Mind you there was never any money for a keeper this year anyway so it is I suppose a Crying (Milk;Spilt) kinda scenario.
As for our opponents well....'I've said it before and I'll say it again'...but whilst Terry Butcher is undoubtedly going to hell for the obvious reasons he can claim in mitigation that he did save one of Scotland's most historic clubs and left a legacy of some good young talent.
It doesnae seem to be working though. Motherwell based on the press reports I've seen are rank.
Now obviously not being a Setanta subscriber and declining to say up after midnight to watch a tepid draw on Scotsprat the only SPL goal I've seen this year is the one Crawford tucked away in front o me last Saturday but even with this Andy Walker level of knowledge (if of course the former Wayne Biggins backup can have a level of knowledge) about them I know what's wrong wi Well.
Paul Hegarty.
Now I heard Richard Gordon a few weeks back claiming that Paul had been 'unfairly' treated at his other clubs. Utter f*ckin pish.
Paul Hegarty may well be a nice chap, great wi kids, kind to animals etc etc but as a football manager he's a fucking walking disaster zone.
EVERY club he's been involved at managerial level has recorded one of the worst periods of their history.
Take his period at Pittodrie...sure there was the obligatory honeymoon euphoria but this can probably due to the druglike euphoria that swept the club caused by us not being managed by Alex Miller anymore.
This honeymoon came to a shuddering halt on New Year Day 1999, when 7000 Red (and many more locked out) watched a 4 goal horsing from the Saints...it got even worse after that...papped oot the cup at home by Livi, shipping 5 to both sides of the OF and even worse a relegation threaten Hearts (months after their Cup win...history fans) shifting 6 past us at Todders on the final day.
The only one who appeared to be unaware the club wouldn't be making his employment permanent was Hegarty himself and the only 'unfair' aspect of his departure was that Neil Cooper was forced into temporary exile from the club.
Just to prove Pittodrie was no fluke he went and actually did even worse at his beloved Arabs !!! His assistant being a certain Maurice Malpas.
So I fear for the Well, a shame cos I actually like and admire them but I fear any Well fan moaning about his bungling management duo will find little support on Sportsound, where they'll be no doubt advised to give the desperate duo 'more time'.
Of course no one on Sportsound would ever criticise any manager in the SPL as there's an odds on chance the following week they'll be commentating beside them the following week.
Given the lack of objectivity on the likes of Sportsound/Scotsprat any Reds thinking of demanding Tango's head if we naff up yet again should at least be aware what their walking into.
Anyway no need for the tedious Head-Heart-Arse malarkey this time.....3-1 the Dandies min, at's where to put yer shekels! Yep Touzani opens for us, Jim-Bob Hamilton (natch) pulls one back for 'em before a Lovell brace sends the Reds hame happy.
Oh and I'm nae goin again this week...or for that matter to Love Street next wik either (Ah ken! part time gloryhuntin bastard eh?) so you'll be relieved to know there'll be nae 'View Fae' next wik.
Unless of course one of you lot wants to do it...I mean it is a 'View Fae the Red Side' disna mean it has to be mine every time....and it's piece o pish really...mangle a metaphor...spin it oot for a couple o paragraphs...garnish wi something ye mind fae the game et viola...a 'View fae the Red Side'...
Come on surely there's one o ye?
The Red Avenger