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Lamine Yamal has been really poor- has great talent but trying to do too much Real will catch them on the break and get a second

Russell was a great player for us but he was never very physical, in fact when he came up against a physical CF (for instance Kris Boyd) he didn't cope very well. Probably not a welcome observation but it was what it was.

Agreed. Barca need to lift their game in the second half, they’ve been a bit low key and careless.

Real ahead with Mbappe goal that was a little fortunate but no more than they deserved on the balance of play. Barcelona just not at the races so far.

I was only interested in one team at this stage. Do however agree that the Largs v Ayr United is probably the tie of the round 👍

Real started the brighter. Barca maybe still with a bit of a hangover from PSG defeat.

Full draw as some auld cunt was to lazy to put it up. 😉 As Al says cracking draw for Troon but probably trumped by Largs v Ayr. Can see TV going for Clydebank v Livingston or Elgin v Thistle.

Couldn't have asked for any more than a home draw in the third round If Portland Park is good enough for Pele to grace, it's certainly good enough for Raith Rovers 😂

Where’s Dante when you need an auxiliary CB. maybe Briedl could try it. He’s fucking useless as a midfielder.

Was thinking that too, devlin and molloy with Milne in the middle. And may as well play palaversa in midfield. If only Ambrose was available.

Devlin can play in a 3.

Game aff on Wednesday? Fingers crossed.

So this is either storm damage or Olusanya has been doing some shooting practice.

Considine was weak as pish for his first couple of seasons, at least. He was still being called weak about six years into his Dons career despite having developed massively after the first couple. He was regularly knocked off the ball by smaller opponents and giving away stupid penalties because he wasn't aggressive enough in the initial challenge and was just generally non committal. Anderson was weak at right back, but that experience set him up really nicely for full time adult fitba. Guys like McKenna and Graham for the scum of the dee are in the minority, players that come in with an aggression of a manny. I'd argue that Knoester appears to be a lot more aggressive this season than previously. I think a lot of it comes with just playing regularly against the same type of players and knowing that you have the strength to go and attack the ball. Milne still looks a little on the skinny side, with weak legs, a bit like Diamond did. A bit of work down the gym and he might begin to believe in his own strength. He should be spending three hours a day trying to win headers against Olusanya, that'd sort him out. I'm saying aggression here, but really I'm talking about confidence. Confidence that you can go and attack the ball and win it. The best part about Considine's development, was that when he gained the confidence in the challenge, it also massively improved his concentration. He lost those jitters that Milne still has. That didn't make Considine a world beater, just the best he could be - he reached his ceiling with us. In my opinion, we're not seeing anywhere close to the best Milne can be. Considine and Anderson both had that learning at fullback, and that's perhaps something Milne could get. He'd get huge confidence from winning headers in the air against the smaller winger, but still at mannies level fitba. I don't know if that's an option available unfortunately.

Classico at 8pm tonight will be interesting. Barcelona been flying but Real cannot afford to lose if they want to stay in title race.

Carrick looking like he will be looking for alternative employment as Manchester United currently 0-2 down to Bournemouth at Old Trafford. ETA 0-3 just as I hit submit.

Anderson developed into a good leader but it took him a few seasons

Don’t agree. Neither were ever big girls blouses. Russell was never a traditional hard man, but he developed as a footballer as he had the technical aspects to his game - timing headers / tackles / read the game well etc. Led by example rather than aggression. Wasn’t scared to stick his head in where it hurts though. Considine wasn’t as good a player as Russell, but was still good in the air and also not scared to get stuck in...

Hibs make it three defeats from three for the new boss. Luckily for him, they've got us soon.

Russell Anderson and Andy Considine fit the bill I’d say.

I have to ask, how pray tell do you “develop aggression”? Its an innate individual characteristic, you’ve either got it or you don’t - and Milne don’t got it, along with myriad other flaws that mean he’s miles off the level for this league. I can’t think of a single case of a player who started out as a big girls blouse who turned into a hard man. Happy to be corrected of course…

He's 23 might want to get on with that. But yes Gocic is horse wasn't suggesting him just think Scottish centre halves should look like they belong in the "in court today" section of the paper Rather than deliver them.

So Mayo is out for 2 months Happe is suspended Knoester away for a scan on Monday so we can pretty much forget him for this. Tobers - aye, well its Tobers. So Milne & Molloy at CH it is. No choice in the matter. Guaranteed Muller & Cadden will be back there too. Games a bogey lads. No danger we’re beating the hun down there with that at the back. Would make the Scottish cup miracle look like nothing special at all…

There's been a few fluff pieces about Tobers recently so hopefully he will be back soon and we can hopefully see how good a CB he actually is.

Sore one to lose that. There was plenty to like about the performance basically up until we equalised, after that we just seemed to stop doing everything we had been good at doing and handed utd the points. Had the fear the moment I saw Knoester was out and whilst his replacement did ok I don't think we lose that if he played. 1st goal is a 2 deflection freak that is just bad luck, these things happen and I thought we responded really well to that 2bf, but goals two and 3 are very avoidable. Caddens focus is too much on being physical and not enough on the actual flight of the ball and the third we are just wide open. There were some positives. Ronan actually imposed himself on the game at times, Nisbet and Mouloua showed a few wee signs of developing a partnership and overall the times we took the game to Utd we were causing them problems. I'm more frustrated than deflated at this moment in time 2bh