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IN the build up to Calderwood's 200th game, our messageboard contributors were asked to give their summary of his reign to date.
And with the first post, a Dumbarton Red called Mason89 succinctly summed up the majority view with: "Some amazing highs, some unforgivable lows, with the dullest football I've ever seen in between."
Truth be told, Saturday's win was looking like another one of those 'in between' games as we laboured as badly as a Motherwell side clearly suffering from a bad case of Second Season Syndrome, and whose small band of boisterous fans certainly didn't deserve such a performance (or the heavy-handed treatment dealt out to them by Grampian Police).
It was only two moments of inspiration that seperated the sides, the first from the always impressive Aluko, the second from our occasionally decent non-flying Dutchman Jeffrey De Hairdresser.
All of which underlined the other truth of Calderwoods reign, which is that it may not be pretty, indeed at times be god damn awful, but over a season we'll always grind out enough points to be comfortably in the Top 6.
We'll accept that obviously but the prospect of another 200 games of tedious mediocrity will hardly have us overflowing with joy.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/-SPL-fanzone--03122008.4754494.jp