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I'm on early shift at work this week, so I will be up at 4 am on Saturday. I'm not staying up for 24 hours, so I will have a few hours sleep then get up at 1 am for the game.

The latest from the BBC is that he is conscious.

That would be quite interesting if you could only use players born within the postcode. Aberdeen would do quite well, St. Mirren would have a huge pool of players & both Hibs & Hearts would remain shite Worth a go

Apparently Christian Erickson collapsed in the Denmark Ukraine game and the match has been abandoned??? Can’t find much online at present? Hope the boy is ok…..again!

Morocco Norway today should be an interesting game to monitor. Both prepping for the World Cup (unlike Bolivia) so I’d expect both teams to try. Both teams regarded very highly too at present.

Very low bar I know, but maybe sokler was better?? I suppose going back 5 years i’d certainly take Christian Ramirez ahead of him. But Watkins lazetic Ambrose dabbagh Samuels JET markanday, wouldn’t consider pape gueye a legit forward, more a 10. Painful bunch.

I think we should adopt an Athletic Bilbao-style policy by only signing players from the North East of Scotland.

In Search of the Beautiful Game with Kevin Bridges was a good watch.

I don’t think it’s a shift. The squad is all about balance, cant be all Scot’s, all foreigners, all domestic, all project players, all youth etc. It’s also balance between needs, wants, availability, and affordability, and who we can ultimately get to come. I’d suggest mitov tobers knoester devlin shinnie nisbet nilsen and Armstrong, plus karlsson, were all meant to be the experienced spine and leadership of the team last year. That’s decent balance between them and youth, on paper looked good and made sense, plus palaversa and aouchiche who were young talent who had lost their way. It just didn’t work out that way for various reasons. weve replaced shinnie tobers and nilsen with leaders and grafters in mayo happe lyons and maybe breidl, none are young but all have a reputation of being competitive and leaders, what we ultimately lacked. I think there’s a lot of judgement on the recruitment to date, but the essentials are being put in place. By no means glamor, but needed for balance. i still think lobban frame gyamfi bilalovic and Kjarten have a place in the squad, maybe even topi and Jensen, all players who need the experience and leadership alongside that they didn’t really get this year. Olusanya has been our third best forward in recent years, behind bojan and nisbet, he has value and can be effective in our league. I’d place duk in the karlsson bucket of a player we don’t want. I wonder if Olusanya and nisbet could work as a front two like shankland and Adam’s yesterday (poor example I know), provided we have two good right and left mids. Saying that, i still feel we need a legit starting 9, I don’t think nisbet is that good. If we sign a Hayes and mcginn (big if), even a Morris and hedges, we’re a completely different team. These are the two positions this summer we have to get right and positions I’ll judge the club on. I’d take bojan back in a heartbeat, modern football is purely about money and winning. But getting a legit forward means nothing if we dont sign players to provide service. Again, poor example, but doak and Christie were very good yesterday, and all of a sudden our forwards get chances. And goals. just as important, milanovic yengi lazetic and palaversa need moved on asap. Cant punt everyone, but then its topi gyamfi molloy and Jensen if there’s better replacements available.

Just watched this. Really good. Link for those who haven’t seen it.

Feels like the major shift in strategy has been to move away from buying development projects that someone else has given up on. We’re now firmly in the territory of hardened lower level professionals which feels like Robinson’s MO. Let’s hope we haven’t completely abandoned the part that brings actual footballers.

Next on my list as about to finish with The Pitt, which has been really good.

Legends on Netflix has been excellent.

Fair

Benefit cheats

Good tune but I don’t trust scout leaders

Onions!

Badly mis-managed by our physios at the time. Went to Europe and got a “special sock” or something which seemed to resolve things.

Hey Duggee FTW

Wasn’t sure if this was WC or Dons chat, will spare you the Venn diagram I used to work it out. Moneys paid for player’s involvement in WC. Covers last 4 years of qualification as well as tournament including NL

Brazil full back Wesley could miss the tournament.

The point of a strategy is it isn’t set in stone. It outlines the vision and targets so everyone can understand what you’re trying to achieve and their part in it - but it also is intended to be revised and amended as time goes along. Now our strategy was clearly massively flawed, but it appears that’s been recognised and they’ve changed course - so credit for that. Hearts have signed 2 lower league CH’s from down south, and paid over a million for one of them allegedly, so clearly Jamestown doesn’t have an issue looking there. Every signings a gamble, especially with us, but it will be interesting to compare our new CH’s and how they get on with the Diets new guys. One thing for sure, on paper they are definitely more suited to this league than any of the recent CH signings have been…

I saw a bit of Moon & Me on CBeebies. Whoever came up with that show was smoking something very strong.

Derek Jacobi is of course the magic ingredient.