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I think youngsters had started to (ahem) boycott the longer format and, to an extent, 20/20 was necessary for the generations that never had to wait for the tele to warm up. The 2024 series against India was great, and the antics of Sam Konstas added to that. Since then he has shown he's not quite adult (boring) enough for test cricket and hasn't featured. The Poms got it wrong thinking they could 'Bazball' against a team that regularly beats them and has decent players in reserve. It was arrogance and stupidity. Will they learn from it? Heat and humidity in Brisbane might make it necessary. Amusing story from day 2. Some of my mates were in the section next to the Barmy Army and there was one guy pished and taking it a little too far. He was bought a hat by one of the Australian fans but refused to wear it as it was Australian merch. Apparently you could smell gammon cooking!

As said previously I have already written off Europe in my head so would rather we rested key players for this and kept them for Sunday. Clearly not what Thelin will do. This is probably the easiest of the ties we have but they still look a decent side. Work means not able to make game so tv for me. oot work couch flat 2-1 Aouchiche and Lazetic

Can't argue with any of that I'm still in shock with the lack of cricket, but it would be interesting to see a report on the impact 20/20 has had on test cricket. Yes, Starc was on fire, but fuck me, some of the shots attempted should have been easy blocks. Completely shafted the fans out of at least a day of cricket. I was chatting to an aussie mate and we thought it wouldn't make beyond 3 days. Christ we were wrong.

Mitov was fine yesterday. Just like the rest of them he made a single error. Not sure his was worse than any of the others. Generally speaking, he's decent at crosses too, but we seem to face an inordinate number of them in games. Far more than we throw in. We've given up blocking crosses, and seem to prefer to defend them in our own box these days. That results in Mitov having to gamble a lot more than you'd like. Saying that, if he'd stayed on his line for that one yesterday, I think they might have scored. He seemed to do just enough to put the guy off, despite not getting to it first.

Hun. My kids don't even make the top ten.

Not seen that second Cash edit - jesus

Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay

My Sons are in joint first place. I was 9 in 83 and didn't really get the significance of that win. Was just another trophy for us, at a time when we won lots.

Aye, very sad. RIP

Was the best day in 1983 or when your kid(s) was (were) born?

Second best day of my life. What a day and what a weekend. Glorious. I only wish I could have somehow bottled that feeling, after Mitov saved that penalty.

Jimmy Cliff RIP

There's been some chat online that our defence is 'sorted' because we have had a few clean sheets recently and it's absolute nonsense. Our defence is improved but if Hearts take their chances yesterday they win comfortably. It doesn't help that Mitov seems to be becoming increasingly uneasy at coming for high balls and we seem to be getting at least one erratic moment per game from him too. Yesterday was one of those games where we deserved it because we managed to score and the opposition didn't but we were very fortunate to deserve it if you ask me.

During *Grampian TV’s interview with Goodwin tonight, I noted among their sponsors the name “Favela”. Whilst abhorred by the existence of such Brazilian poverty-level shanty towns , thanks to the cruelty of capitalism, and the company name being ill-chosen by thick fuckers, it chimes well with TSMSTID’s “stadium” sponsors, Calforth Construction, and Clayton Caravan Park. *fuck STV

That’s the only silver lining. I worry that they’re seeing how pish the league is and decided to get their shit together.

Was that the season we just about got relegated til we beat Hibs on the last day? He fairly turned it round the following season...

Ill see if arsed the morn,but I venture out less to midweek games.Word of warning though, to anyone who hasnt bought a ticket yet.Bought my ticket yesterday,about an hour and a half before k/o. Bad enough paying £29 to get a soaking on the Y,but because it was so close to kick off(this is a new one on me),the ticket price goes up,the closer to k/o time it gets.I ended up paying another bleedin £5.Almost told them to ram it....luckily for them it was Hearts,so I caved in,but....

Shearer, Mixu, Booth and Jess had over sixty in the league between them in 92-93. Mental. Don't remember the pens stat though.

The Scottish Cup losers are close to appointing Nancy as their new manager. Wilfried, that is. Not Sinatra.

Aoife Odonovan - Lay this burden down

they would have won the lot as well if the BitB weren't the BitB.I can't remember if it was that season or the season before, we scored about 70 goals in the league but had no penalties given... funny that.

Six months since that wonderful day

I think I read Mowbray has been with us since April on a consultancy basis, would be interesting to know how much input he had to our summer signings. I think I also remember reading that the current Head of Recruitment is based in Portugal full time which doesn't seem to be ideal if the only time he spends with JT is on scheduled Teams calls.

For all the tedious shite we hear about JT "being backed", and big player budgets/spending a lot of money, we only had three signings on the pitch yesterday, and one of those is a loanee. The return has been exceptionally poor this summer, as expected. The sporting director and Mowbray only now joining has set us back a huge amount, and that has to be shouldered by Cormack. A total false economy spending a load of cash when you don't have the system in place.

3-5-2, 3-3-2-2, or 3-4-1-2. We played a 3-5-2 against Motherwell, with Karlsson and Lazetic central, but we quickly shifted back to the 3-4-3 because the midfield struggled (that was the game that Armstrong looked knackered anyway). In my opinion, the 3-1-4-2, with Clarkson (or Polvara if we must) sitting in front of the defence, with two in front would work nicely. Similarly, two sitting, with Armstrong ahead would work fine too. I'd argue that none of these work particularly well with Karlsson in the side, but I find it bizarre that we haven't tried any of these options when looking for something to change a game, instead insisting that Nisbet comes on as a lone striker in abject failure, every single time.