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Wonder what Lovell would get if he stays.

Aye, their albums have improved each time. Hold On is a stormer!

I think we miss him, but he always seems to be rushed back, and then injured a few weeks later.

*puts tin hat on* Sick fed up of Mackie getting boo'd. Doesn't matter what anybody thinks of his abilities, he's clearly low on confidence and booing him is hardly going to help. Its not his fault he's getting a game. What Zander doesn't realise is that folk were cheering because he was going off. Cretins in my opinion.

Not quite sure what to make of him. He has no pace for a winger, but he put in a brilliant cross at 1-1 which Nicholson should have scored with from about 5 yards out.

Good post. I would definitely keep the back 5 for Saturday but the rest of the positions could be up for debate, apart from Nicholson.

Mackie was guilty of some awful play and should have scored at least one, but what did Lovell do all game? I don't remember him doing anything of note at all, and he certainly didn't get himself into any scoring opportunities, but he's treated like some sort of god. Granted our "strikers" were not helped by too many high balls which neither of them are capable of holding up. EDIT: For those of you that weren't at the game, the substitution of Mackie was greeted with huge cheers, but the substitution of Lovell was greeted by huge boos. Unfair in my opinion.

I'll quite happily agree to disagree but I thought he spent most of the game not tracking back and shirking out of challenges and hardly doing anything positive. The amount of times he let his man run past him without chasing back in the first half was shocking.

I definitely think our UEFA cup run will have turned heads down south. We are no longer the big team we used to be, and have probably been unheard of by many for quite some time. This season has put our name back up there in Europe, but our SPL form is atrocious.

Just in. The game itself was grimmer than visiting Dachau last week. But we should have won, and had quite a few chances. Mackie and Nicholson should have scored. Sadly Mackie had a complete nightmare - only Maguire had a worst game. But why oh why did we suddenly go 1 up front? Motherwell came back into it at that stage and scored. God knows what Diamond was playing at with the penalty, a very stupid mistake. Best players tonight were Nicholson, Soutar, Diamond (before his lunge) and Maybury. The rest were either average or poor. So disappointed we didn't take 3 points, but suddenly we're not too far from the top 6 at all.

From a Chinese by any chance?

Spot on. Until we have our players as good enough as Walker and Aluko, then I don't have a problem with loan deals.

I'll no doubt get slated, but Willie has overhauled the youth system and lets hope it works this time. But it'll surely take a few years before we see it bare some fruit. Also, I'm not aware the scouting system has gone tits up, I thought we had scouts working all over the place, including the likes of Peter Weir.

Great shout. Remember when we were playing some Polish team and he announces a substitution "And the player going off is Picz.......................................I actually thought he was having a good game". (pronounded "pish")

Reminds me of an amusing incident at a past AGM. Willie Miller was not involved in the club at the time but stood up to ask a question along the lines of "When is the club getting new training facilities? You are still using the same playing fields that we were using in the 1980s!" Before Milne could answer, Ebbe comes out with "Ah, but there's new grass there now!" to much hilarity. Anyway Willie, when are we getting new training facilities?

Having an actual training facility might help!

We seem to have a habit of over hyping youngsters. I don't know if the EE is to blame, but Mackie was the next Owen, Maguire is the best youngster Nichol has ever worked with, and Diamond too was hyped up. Diamond is doing well now that he has stopped believing the hype. Not sure Maguire will ever make it for the Dons. Another John Stewart I fear.

On the odd occasion I used to visit, he was either posting incorrect financial figures, or appearing to deliberately misquote Calderwood to stir things up. In between that, he has some good points to raise though.

Explain.

I think we'll win.

After seeing who posted it on BNP-Chat I would be very surprised if its not a complete load of bollocks. Do managers sign pre-contract agreements?

Yep. I'd imagine most season ticket holders will be there but not many others.