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4 games tomorrow. DR Congo v Benin at 12:30 Senegal v Botswana 15:00 Nigeria v Tanzania 17:30 Tunisia v Uganda 20:00 Plenty of Scottish interest in games with Tounetki and Balikwisha from Celtic, Ikpeazu from St Johnstone and Obita and Bushiri from Hibs.

Egypt scrape passed Zimbabwe 2-1 with a Mo Salah 91st minute winner.

You’re going down a road to hell with patter like that.

Christine Collister - I could be happy

Altered Images - I Could Be Happy

Michelle Branch - Are you happy now

My theory is that Cormack wants the whole back room structure sorted; coaching, academy. Basically a whole DNA - pathway to first team, pathway for coaches to step up too. This whole "three year project" is more about Thelin leaving a legacy on the club, an imprint. That's why he has backed Thelin a hell of a lot more than Glass, Goodwin or Robson because they weren't offering that. And I think results wise, Thelin winning the cup and banking £6m+ from Europe, that was probably ahead of schedule - the club likely were aiming for that in his second or third season. It would also explain why Thelin doesn't feel the need to throw in Bilalovic and Kjartansson. I think he's quite happy to develop these guys and have the next manager enjoy the fruits of his labour. Like I said, just a theory. If he gets sacked next week, someone delete this.

Second game was won 2-1 by South Africa. First time Angola have not won their opening game. Zimbabwe currently 1-0 up on Egypt in late game.

Thought that was Lee Ann Womack Anyway Elvis Costello - I Hope You're Happy Now.

Ann Womack - I hope you dance

Decided not to go there lads Extremely poor taste. Next you'll be asking if he has AA recovery to tow his car home

My colleague found this quite amusing, let's just say I'm known for being a little more cynical in work. Kind of you to say though

I did hear rumour he was casting admiring glances from Italian clubs so you're probably spot on.

Wang Chung- Dance Hall Days

You set them up.... Driving home for Christmas.... I'll finish them off. Just in case anyone didn't get your joke.

Car crash?

Think club has said it’s a sell out now? But guess the re-sale platform might change that. Hope to fuck we get a performance from the team, we need something after that woeful display at parkhead.

We know what we’ll get in this game - physicality, long balls, long throws, and general joot hoof ball pish. It works for them though, so can we counter it? Based on experience so far - hmmm…

Looks like they have a fair few injury doubts. Hopefully all the big dirty bastards.

Honestly can’t see Watson moving within Scotland. Would be good to see what Marshall can do though. He might be more of a prodigy for Armstrong but we should be building him into a central character in there.

The square pegs is a big problem. His system is dependant on WBs but we don’t actually have any. We have a collection of converted left and right sided midfielders or CBs into FBs. Lobban has done well but I’m not sure he is a WB. Our wide attacking players are easily defended as they always cut into traffic. We were arguably better when we had next to useless haddies like Morris as at least he would take the ball to the goal line and cut it back into areas of danger where Nisbet could do what he does. All our attacking play is into congested channels or on the edge of the box. We are toothless as a result. Very little bite or dig in midfield means we struggle to win ball, maintain any posession or build from a platform. Teams overrun us easily in that area. If we get the gaps right between middle and back we are hard to beat but utterly inept up front, if we get the gaps further up right we start to look dangerous but wide open at the back. We seem to fluctuate between these two set ups in game.

So I think its fair to say we’re pretty much all on the fence with Thelin currently. I agree with most comments made above. We have not progressed at all in his time. At best we’ve flatlined. None of us have any idea what he’s trying to do. There is no identity and style to this team. Too many square pegs in round holes. Jensen is a prime example, he’s an absolute liability at LWB, offers nothing and is a complete bottleneck, yet when he switched to RWB yesterday he was so much better and more effective. That’s on Thelin, not Jensen. Trouble is we need to be developing young Lobban in there so there’s not really a place for Jensen. The inverted wingers has just not worked, end of. He’ll stick with it regardless though which for me is a massive red flag. The boy at Motherwell is a really bad look for JT. He’s offering everything in terms of identity, playing style and maximising player potential that JT simply is not - on an absolute pittance of a budget. While loyalty is an admirable thing, I can’t help thinking Dave’s commitment to JT is as much driven by his desire to not be seen as having appointed another dud as any genuine belief in his talents. The recruitment has been a disaster last couple of windows. We’ve downgraded all over the place. Painful as it is to say, the diets this summer have been a really bad look for us on that front. How much this is on Thelin is debatable of course. Lets see what the penguin pincher brings to the party on that front. Mowbray being back, given his track record doesn’t hurt either. Agree January is massive, both for recruitment and playing style as well as results. At the moment I’m far from confident we’ll see the desired progress though…

Led Zeppelin - Dancing days

Dean Owens - Days without you

Finished 1-1 with Zambia equalising in injury time with a diving header.