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You want to play GMS in the middle of the park?

----------Lewis------------ ----Devlin McKenna Considine---- Logan Ball Shinnie Lowe -----------------GMS------------------- -----------Cosgrove Wilson------------- Lays out quite easily as 3-4-3 but it certainy wasn't as straightforward on the park as it is on paper.

I was going to post exactly that. Feels like there's at least one if not more on this board alone.

I think the point about our youngsters perhaps being better now than those we've had previously is a very good one. Whether that's in relation to the general standard of the squad or to previous generations remains to be seen. The lack of any of our recent unwanted youths going on to any success elsewhere would certainly point to the majority of them having been shite and does, to a certain extent, justify mcinnes' decision not to give them game time.

I certainly don't dispute the assertion that a striker would have made us a better team etc but to pare it down to "if we had Moult we'd have won those games" is far too simplistic. What the if the new striker had got himself sent off, been injured etc? And I emphasised the Scottish Cup game because no centre forward would've made Ball have a better game or sorted Arnason and Lewis out either.

You're not, in all seriousness, suggesting the difference in those games - especially the Scottish Cup semi when the entire team was atrocious - is solely down to Stevie May being signed instead of Moult/AN Other are you?

In a country as parochial as Scotland, and with our stacked football system being what it is, taking games "round the country" would in reality give people the chance to moan about money being spent renting stadia from the Huns/the Tims/the Sheepshaggers/the posh rugby cunts so, for once, I think the SFA were damned if they did and damned if they didn't on this one.

Stubbs is an imposter of a manager who got lucky with a Scottish cup win. He had two goes at getting hibs out of the championship and failed miserably so why st Mirren thought he’d be any use with a lower budget in a higher league god only knows. He was also rank rotten at Rotherham so i’d say his managerial days at any half decent level are over.

If Tierney plays centre back it'll be with Mulgrew, at least in the Albania game. With the Belgium game being a friendly McLeish might try Souttar and Tierney together but I doubt it. Would make more sense to give Souttar his debut alongside Mulgrew, who's familiar with the position and has plenty experience.

The BBC gossip column just quotes the papers so it's no surprise they're full of shit.

So we're shit now and going to be worse when McInnes goes. Does that mean we should keep him?

Have you followed ANY of our games during mcinnes’ time here? That’s his preferred formation and nothing new so I don’t understand your surprise?

Lewis Logan devlin McKenna considine (new guy?) Shinnie ball/gleeson Mcginn Wright/Ferguson gms May/Wilson Is a better team than hibs or hearts and will be neck and neck with the hun - maybe even Timothy as well if they contoinue as they’ve stared the season.

Ferguson is a great signing and exactly the type of player we should be going after. Anyone who downplays the quality of that signing is either completely lacking in football knowledge or just trying to find any kind of reason to have a go at McInnes.

Aye, but shite management, coward, lacking in ambition etc etc etc

To bring in a new era you need more than a city or stadium switch unfortunately. And sadly I don't think moving to Murrayfield would make one iota of difference to the authorities' approach to running the game, whether that's in relation to their rangers/celtic bias or anything else.

As I said, Murrayfield's better but not significantly better. Still shite views from behind the goals and not without segregation issues so why move unless it's somewhere actually worth going? Moving won't solve any of the significant spetator-related issues currently affecting Hampden. Not necessarily from you, but there's more than a hint of "get up Glasgow and the Old Firm" from some of the people who want to move to Murrayfield.

Fuck all point moving from Hampden to Murrayfield. It might be bigger but Murrayfield isn't significantly better to warrant a move.

Awesome. "No one likes us and by fuck do we care"

Thanks, that was my point exactly. It quite clearly does work, even if it isn't quite as attractive a style of play as most of us would like it to be.

You should check our record in games where we take the lead over the last 2/3 seasons and see if it really doesn’t work.

Unless it's a mega pay rise from Celtic for the few months he'd be there it really isn't in his interest to do that. He's unlikely to have any great loyalty towards them so why sign a deal to net them a fee when he could move as a free agent and get a bigger signing on fee for himself?

Accounts don't identify individual salaries though, that would be madness.

Would you agree with that being as much, if not more, of a contributory factor to the shite atmosphere at the Emirates than the actual stadium itself?