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He's our diving bastard, thanks.

You complete disgrace. It’s not a World Cup if you wake up with anything other than a crippling headache that can only be cured by more booze. Have a word.

Just getting my suitcase packed just now. We leave for London tomorrow afternoon then onto Boston Wednesday morning. Feel remarkably calm about it at the moment given how long I've waited for this opportunity but I bet I don't sleep too well tonight or tomorrow.

English is right. This is our level. We’ve no keeper, no centre backs and no strikers. We’re decent at full back with Robertson and when Hickey is fit (ha!). We’ve got what should be a capable midfield but that’s it, and none of our players bar 20yo prospect - prospect - Doak are remotely creative. It’s a tale as old as time but Scottish football gets what it deserves. The SFA, the SPFL and our top clubs are all absolutely complicit in not doing enough to improve our standards over 40+ years. Ian Wright was bang on on ITV last night even before our game had started. We’ve got phenomenal supporters from the national team through the clubs down to the grass roots. We’re a football daft nation and those who run our game are letting us all down badly.

John Crace on good form today with his opening paragraph, in response to Liz Truss revealing Labours "secret plan" - get Burnham back to Westminster to challenge Starmer. "It’s one of the great philosophical questions of our age. Or any age, for that matter. If Liz Truss didn’t exist, would it be possible to imagine her? Could anyone conceive that someone so brain-meltingly dim could have once been our prime minister"

I know I’m in the minority, but provided he’s not our main center forward and a squad player, I’m fine with this. New 9, nisbet, and he’s third option. He offered more than lazetic Ambrose and yengi last season and played a part in keeping us out of the playoff. He’s not first 11 but certainly offers something.

Ahead of my time.

Honestly can’t think of a less appealing fixture

The new Moroccan revolution. Just need a young midfielder that can perform bicycle kicks in all situations and we're sorted.

Shinnie regretting his life choices after seeing ICT’s new sponsor:

He should just drive them out into the countryside somewhere and leave them there.

I think that's a bit harsh. Armstrong was defo one of the stronger contributors for us this season and I think if you put him in a team that can dominate physically he's going to have a lot more freedom on the ball. This is not a player you want to be doing loads of leg work like he's had to this season. But he has done it, he's a good team mate and I have high hopes for Armstrong next season as he has guile which is rare in Scottish football.

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

This. We’ve moved from career politicians to out and out grifting politicians. Trump clearly doesn’t give a shit about what happens in the political structures now, he’s full tilt into building and protecting his wealth and that of his family. The ruling to exonerate him and his family from tax investigations in future is beyond wild.

Oh mate.. Type Miovski into the search and use "search by author" and @redordead He hated that boy long before it was fashionable

I mean. Just how?

VAR was introduced so that no team would ever get knocked out of a tournament (or prevented from going to one) by terrible refereeing decisions. It's good that it's gone full circle and is now in charge of all terrible decisions. Agree about the pen, although they've correctly been ignoring those all tournament, which has been refreshing to watch. It wasn't clear and obvious either, but subjective.

Hopefully the good Dr. Congo can prescribe a win over England later.

It's a good job this is being shown after the watershed, because that second goal was XXX-rated pure filth.

Norwegian club Brann lining up a move to sign Kjartansson on a permanent deal. Unless they are offering crazy money, which would seem highly unlikely, I'd personally keep him. Not sure how we would pay decent money for the potential he apparently has and then do nothing to develop that potential. If he isn't ready for our first team, then get him out on loan somewhere where he will get decent game time surely Source is P&J but can't access to read full article.

Get McInnes in. I'd take McGlynn. A manager I'd have been happy to see at the Dons. Right call from Clarke and he goes with a lot of goodwill, he's been excellent when he's been excellent.

A knee infection? 4 tae 6 weeks? Weak kneed if ye ask me .... followin' my vasectomy reversal, I got an infection in ma fuckin balls ... but Ah was back shaggin' within days even while the pus was soakin ma punts twice a day! ... Gie the boy slap an' tell him tae harden the fuck up

Hope he is a better coach than pundit

Not really left 2bh

My voice is absolutely fucked after that. Hell of a stadium though even if it did take two and half hours to get back into Boston. We were shite but we won so I don't care we were shite. Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia in their opener in 22 so I'm really just not going to get too stressed about it. It's not uncommon to grow into tournaments and the pressure last night was huge. It can't be overstated at just how much of a monkey off our back it is to get a win at a World Cup given our last one was 36 years ago.

Reckon we could take both these teams. Water breaks are fucking gash, get them in the sea. "Referee view" is an abomination.

Thick as planks, they are.

FTFY

Safe travels @tlg1903 Look forward to reading about the adventure. Try nae to get deported

That's not the debate though. The debate was you saying he's been Aberdeen's best forward in recent years bar Nisbet and Miovski. Well there is a comparison to be made, because Olusanya played on both the right and left under Robinson at St Mirren and may very well play there for Aberdeen. He's played in a front two because that's how Robinson set up in the handful of games he's been in charge. Short memory. There were many fans - a lot of here - debating if Olusanya was actually a footballer. In the last 12 months he has played for three clubs, made 35 appearances, and scored twice. He causes a bit of chaos and has his uses, but let's not pretend he's been terrific for Aberdeen, because for the most part he's been average at best. He's been made to look better by how abject Lazetic has been. Gueye scored eight goals, had assists, made an insightful impact in our run of form at the beginning of the season, suffered injury, and yet when he returned helped coax the best out of Nisbet. He could play as a forward, number 10, won headers, held the ball up, and his passing wasn't too bad either. Not amazing stats, but that's more than Olusanya has contributed. I'm not making out Gueye was fantastic - very much like Olusanya, he wasn't always that clinical in the box - but he was a better player than Olusanya, and if we had a choice of bringing one of them back I'd take Gueye. Again, we're talking about a guy who has scored two goals in 18 games. Bilalovic has played the same number of games and scored more.

Since Scotland are rolling back the years, it seems like an appropriate time to resurrect this classic tune Appreciate the youth of today wouldn't be aware of this song

@tlg1903 wins for being there, Malta will be fab Al and I will be watching with my 5 week old granddaughter

I find it quite funny when people point out he’s breaking the law - he doesn’t give a fuck. Democrats are trying to catch him out on rules for a game he isn’t playing.

It's easy to miss a capital here and there, but Jack MacKenzie has previously said that he'd rather be hit by a thousand chairs, in the nuts, than have someone miss the A from his name.

Just apologise. Preferably post a video of you saying "I'm sorry" and we'll all move on.

Walk e plunk or jine e crew onybody ? (Showin my age now ) British Bulldog ?

It's really hard to argue with this 2bh

My only big criticism is the playing of Mcginn left midfield. It doesn't work and Christie is far more effective there. Thought we shat it a bit after going ahead against Haiti and was disappointed he didn't make changes sooner but could understand why. I didn't care about the performance as long as we got the win at the time. Morocco I thought we did well to keep it to just one at half time after a disastrous start but second half was our best performance in the WC. I thought we really competed with them and I'm still furious we didn't get a pen for the foul on Mcginn. This game is the one I was most drunk for as I was watching in a pub in boston so wouldn't really want to say more than that. Brazil is really frustrating as we started well then gifted them their first two goals and the first was such a sucker punch particularly. I don't think much blame can be attached to Clarke for this result 2bh as the game was over the moment the second went in. I have a lot of sympathy for Clarke 2bh. I also think losing Gilmour was such a huge blow, he would have made a massive difference on all 3 games.

I'm very much in the Mcglynn camp. He's at a good age for it, his players clearly love him, his teams play good stuff and he knows the Scottish game. Agree that an ange kind of appointment looks good on the face of it but he wouldn't stick around long and we need someone who is in it for the long haul cos the next world cup is much closer to home and I'm thinking camper van for that one. McGlynn is as obvious a choice as Clarke was when he got the gig imo.

Including a goal with the back of his head

Needs to be willing to take the service bus to training also

Agree starting BGD was unwise .... exciting, brave player, but lacks experience v a well sussed team the callibre o' Brazil. Late sub would hae been a better play. Re, Clarke, and the team as a whole, referring to my previous posts - we need tae manage expectations. A 3-0 gubbing fae Brazil (as Ah said, ranked 6th ... but underrated at that), and a defeat v Morocco are nae shock results. A mere 1-0 v Haiti is the only shock (shocking) result in our campaign. The fact we still hae a chance o' progressin' is indicative o' the shit structure o' this WC tournament. The number o' teams admitted meant it was easier tae get there than previous WC tournaments .... surely, given such favourable chance, there should be nae need for this 'doggies life' 3rd place scramble. Dinna get ma wrang, if Scots get through, Ah'll be chuffed ... but ... holy fuck .... dae we deserve tae? Ah've a lot mair tae say aboot the structure o' WC 2026, which Ah'll hit yiz wi' a bit later ... but for noo? We were drawn in a bastard tough group .... playin' in hot humid conditions all 3 o' oor opponents were accustomed tae, and in terms o' each team's rankins, we were fucked fae the start, lookin' desperately tae become unfucked by the end. Overall, we failed ... but aa things considered, nae miserably. Specifically though, the Haiti game was far we failed worst. Yet, although Ah would cite the Haiti game as evidence tae ditch Clarke, Ah think he deserves credit for at least gettin' us here .... Aye, he could hae done better, but .... it's like askin a sparky tae finish aff a plumber's job.

The university angle they're pushing is a bit of a reach. Just design a kit, show me it, let me buy it. Not everything needs to be a work of "collaborative creative genius". And even if it did, "ooh, they've got and uni and so do we", isn't much of hook.

Ronan signed on a two year deal Confirmed.

Olusanya started every game when he was here on loan. Think folk are deluding themselves thinking he is not being signed to be a starter.

Yep, but not ridiculous for a ref to give that in real time. At least it was a proper foul. Nobody in the entire world wanted VAR to intervene for that second red. It's anti football shite. There's no way on earth that player would have been given a retrospective red in times past for that.

Yep. I also think that's maybe why there's a delay in the strip being announced (I know it's a new deal but this contract will have been signed months ago). They'll likely be making sure the stock is actually in place this time rather than the small parcels Adidas used to send. Towards the end of June appears to be the timeline for a strip reveal.

We all know of your dislike for him when he was at the club but to say that he never scored a header for us is not true