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You are spot on DD and I have no idea where my confidence came from at all, but that was 24 hours ago and it has slowly dwindled away over that time. I had even broken my own basic simple golden rule as a dons fan............ Lower My Expectations which I have stuck to diligently over the years. So for the visit of Killie BUS (of old) has returned and I am going to say they will sneak it 1-0 with Bruce Anderson coming off the bench to grab the only goal of the game in the 88th minute. Hoping for the best 3-0 the Dandies with my mate Kev grabbing all three. Being prepared for the worst 0-1 Killie (Anderson)

Looked up O’Hara and Mandron. Didn’t realize they are on the older side. O’Hara out of contract this summer, 31 in December. Maybe a two year contract but I assume he’d be looking for more? Captain and leader with a familiarity of the league and our manager, I’d say the contract has to be right if we’d consider him. mandron 32 in October, also looks like he’s out of contract. Another is maybe give 2 years, nothing more. given Robinson has talked about seasoned pros needed and these two being out of contract, I think there has to be interest.

No loss, I’d actually compare him to molloy. Different strengths and weaknesses, but neither a starting 11 player. No point in having both.

And we thought Trump and Netanyahu were the tyrants

Margaret Atwood rocks.

Might have moved back down to live in Portsmouth and get treatment but he is contracted to us until the summer. Portsmouth and McIntyre agreed to terminate his contract in early February meaning we were able to sin him outside the January transfer window as a free agent

In Driving RDR 3-0 Dons (Nisbet x2, Olusanya) Pick up a chipper supper on way home to celebrate

According to the P & J, he has gone back to Portsmouth.

Thought he didn't have a parent club Thought he ripped up his contract and joined us as a free agent

Tom McIntyre has returned to his parent club to receive treatment for his injury.

I actually think it’s StM who will escape play off spot. They look more able to win games. Killie can’t play away and are hot and cold so I suspect they’ll end up 11th but probably avoid drop by winning play off.

I think Killie will avoid relegation. I think Neil McCann is actually very tactically astute and he failed at Dundee because the players didn't take to him, but Billy Dodds is good foil for him at Killie. I'd just like us to go the rest of the season unbeaten at home at least, and if we do that I think we'll be safe.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Hey! No need for that.

Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna' Come

It’s what Highland League representatives agreed to when restructuring took place. The League lost two Inverness clubs, Ross County, Elgin, and Peterheid when a restructure allowed this. Otherwise, there was no merit-based system for ambitious clubs to progress to a higher level. Your point is valid, of course, but Cove were desperate to climb into it, as are Winton’s Banks O Dee, Atholl’s Formartine, and before they burnt themselves out by crazy over-spending, Locos. I’d imagine the Broch would swither over it too. i’m afraid the comfort zone factor does weigh significantly, though. At individual player level, i worked with a number of SHFL players who were frequently offered trials and transfers to eg the Angus clubs, but who saw no advantage in this. Wages might have been slightly higher, but they all said that getting to training two evenings a week, having to sacrifice holiday entitlement to enable midweek away matches, and arriving back in the city at an ungodly hour from such fixtures before working next day made it not worth their while. Brora are now two matches away from promotion, and are the second most geographically-disadavantaged of the current SHFL membership. It’ll be interesting to see if they’re up for it.

Selling mattresses no?

Got you

Bloody depressing. But the funny thing was, that we actually started the season with a decent spread across the squad, then it stopped, and stopped big time.

It is not so much comfort zones but more that the pyramid system is great in theory but in practice just does not make sense. Why on earth would a team like Buckie want to be going away to places like Stirling, Annan and Clyde every other week. If you are a player working during the week you just ain't going to want to spend 6 or 7 hours of every second Saturday on a bus. If you chuck in the travel costs for the club of doing that, it is just a stupid concept for a wee Highland League team.

I'm hoping that if Hearts win the league this season the same happens to them............but quicker

More than a third of our goals this season coming from players who are no longer at the club. Minging form. Would be good to see Cameron and Olusanya chipping in.

I’m a touch concerned about the sense out there that a win against 10 Hibs players who looked like they couldn’t be arsed from the get go means we will sweep Killie aside. The post-Thelin (and probably pre and during) Aberdeen would have us all in expectant mode only to come out in their slippers and lose 0-1. Clinging to the idea that Robinson has them fired up and that the dart board and coffee machine are doing some heavy lifting on spirit. We really need to show up here as Killie are going to. 2-1, Olusanya to finally get up and running with an ugly, cumbersome finish.

Swaddon and BUS both saying a win for us. I now have the fear. The two hun cunts in charge at Killie will have them well up for this one.

The Dons go into this one looking to build on and extend their winning run of one in a row and continue to boost their confidence as the try to claw themselves away from that dreaded relegation playoff spot. SR should have no problem in making sure our lot are well up for the challenge of one of our closest relegation rivals. This is probably our biggest game of the season, and should be treated as our Cup Final. Beat Killie and we go 8 points clear of them with only 4 games to go. I have no idea why but for some strange reason I am quietly confident that we will see them off quite easily. 3-0 The Dandies (Nisbet with all three)