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Rescheduled to Wednesday 15 January, live on sky. The game before it on the Sunday at home to Hearts is also live on sky, as is the trip up Fir Park on 5 January. So including the 29 December game with Dundee United (premier sports), four out of five games will be live on the TV, and our next game after Ibrox is a Scottish Cup match so every chance we get a TV game too. Handy time to be on the TV considering you'll all be skint after the Donstalk secret Santa and the weather will be cold.

I'm just warming up. I haven't even got to McGarry's goals per minute this season yet.

No I didn't. You said you couldn't understand why others were saying a right back was more of a priority than a left back. I gave some reasons why. Our priority (in my opinion) is a striker and a left sided centre half. But we're not going to buy a replacement for Mackenzie in January when he might still stay. So you'd be signing a back up, when we already have a back up. Unless McGarry leaves in January (possible to be fair) then it's not a position we need to worry about.

Despite us not making the final, Rangers' win over Motherwell means we'll have no game that weekend as our trip to Ibrox on 15 December will now need to be rescheduled to a midweek game. Shame, as playing them three days after they played Tottenham would have been handy. Does mean we have a two-week break in December now though. Can see us booking a week away in Dubai for some warm weather training since there's no winter break this year.

Difficult to share that conclusion considering Milne has rarely played a first team game at right back, and the manager doesn't consider him a right back.

Because he's not as good as Mackenzie or anyone else on the left hand side. He's a back up. No-one here is suggesting he should replace Mackenzie permanently should he leave. What you're suggesting is we buy Mackenzie's replacement now, when there's every chance he still might stay. A second top left back would be nice to have, but it's not a priority, and as per the original question you asked, a back-up right back is more of a priority right now than a back up left back.

If Thelin can make a player out of Morris and Gueye, and turn Ambrose into a goal scorer, then we shouldn't write off anyone ever again.

Because this is the January transfer window we're talking about. We have a natural left back as back-up, we don't have a natural right back. It might be if Devlin gets injured on Scotland duty.

McGarry was in the squad yesterday so isn't totally out of the picture. But he's not going to oust anyone on the left have side out of the team. Milne appears to be the back-up to Rubezic. And you said yourself he's not a natural right back.

We have James McGarry as a back-up. Don't think the issue is we need someone to replace Devlin, more that is he was to be injured we have no-one to fill in. Our priority in January is a charter plane for the Champions League. We don't need any players... actually Liam Scales. Bring him home.

They had eight shots on target and scored six of them. Their first five shots on target all went in. Again though, I don't think Wednesday was an issue. For 25 minutes the game was a non-event, Celtic looked as flat as we did. But you blink and suddenly it's 3-0. Like I said previously, I don't think tactically we'd got it that wrong. It's fine saying in hindsight maybe Palaversa should have made it a midfield three to make it more compact, but you could see the plan was for McGrath to press and for Aberdeen to force Celtic into mistakes, which we actually did, but we never took advantage because inevitably our passing was poor and we couldn't get the front four properly into the game. Celtic just had that bit more quality that made the difference. When they made a mistake we didn't make them pay. When we made a mistake, they cut us open.

Well, they say you learn more from a defeat than a win. We didn't zip the ball around the pitch as we normally do. I don't even think tiredness was the issue, we just didn't pass it well enough, and picked up some silly early bookings which got into the players heads. Even at 0-0, it was the most animated I've seen Thelin, looked like he was trying to tell them to lift the tempo as it was so pedestrian. I don't really think there was much Thelin could do tactically as it was individual errors and poor performances all over the park. Against Celtic in Glasgow you're not getting away with that. Celtic didn't even play particularly well, every shot on target seemed to hit the back of the net.

Wednesday was disappointing, we let our standards drop by conceding, missing a penalty, and letting a really poor side believe they could steal a point. I fully expect us to return to form, keep it tight at the back, and end Celtic's unbeaten run.

I knew exactly what you meant, I was just being a wee dick I think he'll go for similar as to what started the second half at Celtic Park. So that was Sokler in front of Duk McGrath Keskinen But Duk went off injured last night so even if fit I don't think he'll start. Morris could start but he plays on the right, and as Rico said Keskinen was doing well until he moved to the left to accommodate Morris. With that I wouldn't be adverse to giving Vinnie a start on the left. He's done okay off the bench the last two games.

The fact they didn't win means that it can't have been that easy. I don't think Wednesday will affect us that much. Apart from our back line, we are constantly making changes to the midfield and forwards, that's the big difference from the McInnes era where everyone got ran into the ground. For example, last night it was McGrath, Duk, Keskinen and Sokler who started. On Saturday there's every chance at least two of them don't start. You could (I'm not saying do this, just making an example) make the front four Clarkson, Vinnie, Morris, Nisbet and I don't think you've significantly weakened it. Likewise, I think Nilsen might be on the bench for this one with Palaversa starting. We'll be fine. Game done by half-time and players rested in the second half for the Dundee game.