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Was at a wedding in Northern Ireland this week. This little guy was the ring bearer.

Yep. I also think that's maybe why there's a delay in the strip being announced (I know it's a new deal but this contract will have been signed months ago). They'll likely be making sure the stock is actually in place this time rather than the small parcels Adidas used to send. Towards the end of June appears to be the timeline for a strip reveal.

. My fat fingers at play. Just don’t want to see us over think the Haiti game like we did against Hungary. We can’t afford to read it wrong and get caught out or we’re on our heels immediately.

SR is clearly going for the concrete just now. Strong CMs and muckle CBs. The central spine is starting to take shape but it’s never the exciting part of building a team and is probably what we are all expecting him to be handy at. Hopefully we start to see the flare being added soon. Much harder bit to get right. Lutz needs to step up.

If you took the majority of “online” dons fans’ opinions of anything then you’d be in for a pretty wild ride. I assume (hope) most club’s fans will be the same so will cross my fingers that this guy will be decent.

Interesting that no gossip about briedl, happe, or Ronan until they are pretty much a done deal. Club does well to keep things quiet, which makes it less fun for us! who is next?? I’d like to think we could find a cheaper equal or better ability player than olysagna, although you can’t deny he was effective in the games he played, plus I think we’re more inclined to try and find the next Miovski instead of paying a chunk of money for the current one.

I don't know why I found "shut the bed" quite so funny! I'm not sure it'll be shitting the bed, so much as trying to get all his best midfielders on the park. The good thing about this world cup is that it'll be fucking roasting. Clarke will have to use every outfield member of his squad in the three games and so it'll be much easier for him to drop guys he ordinarily wouldn't with a view to preserving them. It won't necessarily be about getting his best 11 footballers all on at once. That should hopefully allow him to let Adams take the bench for Haiti.

Aye, the club could have made a lot more money on tops like the northern lights and north sea top. I wanted both of those and just couldn't find one anywhere

Abz just did a podcast on him with a guy from an orient podcast (his last name is pronounced happy btw). Injury was mentioned but hardly to a Scott booth or Paul Bernard level. The thing that really pleased me was he is apparently very tidy on the ball, not one for hoofing it at all and particularly good at finding a right winger with a crossfield pass from the left side of defence. Certainly not a hammer thrower.

This is the issue. And it's the same over here. Educationally sub-normal types are buying into a cult.

I find it quite funny when people point out he’s breaking the law - he doesn’t give a fuck. Democrats are trying to catch him out on rules for a game he isn’t playing.

Hopefully Clarke doesn’t shut the bed and stick one up top. This is a must win game and we should be taking the game to them not closing down the game and hoping for a breakaway. Adams works hard but he’s not the finisher that Shankland is.

This. We’ve moved from career politicians to out and out grifting politicians. Trump clearly doesn’t give a shit about what happens in the political structures now, he’s full tilt into building and protecting his wealth and that of his family. The ruling to exonerate him and his family from tax investigations in future is beyond wild.

Orient fans have mentioned a lot about fitness and injuries. Made of paper and AI pics of him signing on at Dons with a cast on his leg type stuff. Some saying he would have played at a higher level than them if he could stay fit. He did play 40 games last season so maybe he is strengthening and conditioning in the right places. Fingers crossed.

Said he’d be out a couple of months so will miss the league cup group games but might be back for start of season proper, though that might be a wee bit optimistic…

Was there any estimation as to how long Knoester would be out? First thoughts were it was a really bad one.

Watched the Haiti v Peru friendly from last night. Haiti again looked very fast on the counter attack and they gave the Peru back line no time at all on the ball. However they again struggled to defend corners and free kicks and lost two goals from corners in a 2-1 defeat. Usual caveat of friendly to be applied to the above.

6 foot 3 right sided CH - Mayo 6 foot 6 left sided CH - Happe Back-ups in Tobers (if finally fit) and Knoester unless we get a good offer in which case he could be away. Cheerio Milne & Molloy at CH. Proof of the pudding will be on the park of course, but its a resounding yes from the Moog jury so far in that Robinson has identified a glaring weakness (wasn’t hard tbf) and has has done something about it early doors. Just need Gogic back there now to complete the set…

Starting this one early, as I happened to watch the Haiti v Peru highlights from last night. Haiti weren't amazing, but they have pace on the counter attack. Isidor looks like a good player and Pierrot looks like a very good athlete. Both will cause us big problems, and I worry about Hanley in a back four when we're defending high up. I wonder if we might go back three instead? Defensively they weren't great, and their midfield could be passed through with ease. Gilmour would have been absolutely perfect for this game, and, to a lesser degree, Lennon Miller. Without those two, it'll almost certainly have to be McLean, who is by far our best option at slowing down counter attacks as well as moving it quickly forward. That means a decision to be made between McGinn, Christie, Doak, Curtis. Because of that, I'd expect us just to play one up front, so that we can get as many of the preferred players in. I'd much rather we played two, Dykes and Shankland, but I suspect it'll be just Adams on his own.

I'd argue that defenders from down South are generally a good fit for the SPFL. We've had some bad ones, of course, but we've had decent success too. Being 6ft6 is a very good start, and could be the defining starting point of the Robinson era. A very Robinson signing. The interesting part is that he's left footed. That suggests no room for Knoester, if we're going for a back four. That would be a boost for Milne, who could be allowed the space to develop alongside a guy who'll most likely target everything entering our box. We could very easily have opted for a right footed giant to accompany Knoester.

Hopefully he does the job for us, but signing players from the lower leagues in England worries me. We’ve been burnt too many times. It’s a bit uninspiring, I’d expect players to be going to the o’s rather than from them. But fingers crossed he brings some much needed leadership.

I mean. I’d expect us to sell more than say, Bournemouth or Brentford etc. But still, good that they’ve confidence and hopefully macron push some good quality gear our way.

Because it’ll make them richer. They don’t care about the actual implications of it.

Trump is down in the polls, he's continuously being shown to look like the thick, strange guy he is, the US military has been embarrassed under his watch, he's spent millions if not billions of taxpayers money on his vanity while average Americans experience a real struggle to live comfortably so why do politicians on the far right in the UK seem to think it's a good playbook to follow?

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