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How much? It's not for me (I'm working) but know someone local to Stirling who was looking the other day.

Explain how wanting Aberdeen to win everything "ensures that Aberdeen's chances are limited". Also explain how Scotland's coefficient going up does the same.

Yeh, supporting Aberdeen is self interest. I don't sit and hope that over the next 5 years all the trophies will be evenly shared out among all the clubs.

This sums up the world's problems.

If they don't this season then they are due to at the end of next season when Scotland are projected to fall to 14th, because this is the last season where our coefficient ranking from 19/20 - when we scored a fairly impressive 9.75 points when the old firm both made the knockout stages in Europe - is counted. We need a very good season this year and next to stay in the top 10. Being 14th would mean losing the automatic group stage spot for cup win/third place. Fall to 16th and we'd drop from five teams in Europe to four. That's ace. If you think Aberdeen alone can carry the coefficient then crack on. But I dunno, I guess I kinda like knowing we've got guaranteed group stage football until Christmas, rather than fighting hard to knock out a Swiss team only to find Aston Villa standing in the way.

Less than a year ago we were debating if Roos was any better than Lewis, suggested Polvara had never seen a football before joining Aberdeen, and if Morris would never be spotted in a red shirt again.

Robson saying that McGarry won't play (despite him wanting to). Said he's now on a two-week pre-season, so doubt we'll see him until the St Mirren game.

No, you saw a parody account (or people you've seen talking about it fell for the parody account). The same account also said Michael Beale was getting a two-match ban by UEFA for sectarian singing.

League average was 15,628. We had nine games last season where the crowd was above 16,000. Yeh, sure, if you need more evidence.

Two takes from this. Hearts are a small club. And Dave Cormack can get his 16,000 capacity stadium idea right in the bin.

Mackenzie and Polvara, the new McLeish and Bett.

Gustaf Lagerbielke due to arrive in Glasgow today to sign for Celtic. He's a left sided central defender. I would imagine once he's signed up then Liam Scales will become available.

Because last season he played 12/21 games at LCB. In 2020-21, Stewart played 15/33 games at LCB.

No, people are being positive because they can see it was a good performance, and there's a confidence there that we may be in for a decent season. We don't have to be negative and miserable because we lost one game.

But like I've just said in my original reply, we probably aren't targeting another LCB. We have Mackenzie and Williams to play there. Stewart too if you like. If we sign Scales it'll be us making room for him in the squad because Robson likes him. So there's no need for us to hand out deadlines - there's one coming up on 31 August anyway.

But why 24 hours? Carter-Vickers has just done his hamstring, can't see Celtic being in a rush to let a central defender go. We don't need Scales per say, but if he's available we should sign him. We're probably not going to sign another LCB as we have Mackenzie and Williams capable of playing there, so we'll sign Scales on the basis that we'll either get him permanent now or potentially in the future. If we hand out a deadline, it passes, then he becomes available, do we just let Hibs or someone sign him instead?

Are we doing a separate match thread for Stirling or just extending this one? It's a good fixture to have because we'll likely have McGarry making his debut and McDonald, and possibly Williams, getting minutes after injury. So good to have them doing it here rather than away to (likely) Hacken. That said, be harsh to drop Duncan after a promising showing v Celtic. But I guess with two games a week coming up there'll be plenty of game time for everyone. Would like McGarry and McDonald to get 45 minutes at least in what is essentially a second pre-season for them.

Not sure he knows the meaning of the word "humble" if that's how he reacts to a 20-minute cameo.

A settled defence and better end product from Duncan and Morris* then we potentially win that. Shame, but we've transfers still to come in and 36 games to go. Our attitude was good and we rattled Celtic a lot. *I get the "he wasn't shite" comments, and fair play he got stuck in. But struggling to think of one good ball into the box. There was one point he beat two Celtic players - proving he can actually take players on and beat them - but he doesn't do it enough, let's defenders stand him up too much. I'd say he's probably earned an extended stay and a season working under Robson and we may well get a player out of him yet. But I still think we're crying out for a better player there.

Nah I disagree, you don't take off someone playing well just to freshen it up. We were creating chances and getting at Celtic, no need to disrupt it. The only sub I disagreed with was I'd have taken off Miovski ahead of Duk.

Encouraging 45 mins. Duncan needs to sort out his first touch, other than that he's been okay. Odd to see Rubezic overlapping and getting to the edge of the box but I like it, it appears Robson wants him to target Nawrocki. Shinnie - needless foul for first goal apart - been excellent, as has Duk. Just really frustrating as we should be at least level.

Hayes should only be out for a week according to Robson. McGarry arrives in Aberdeen tonight (time keeping not great clearly). We appear to have two goalkeepers on the bench in Ritchie and Doohan which is an odd move. We're surely not that stretched as a squad. Looks like Duncan at LWB. Get him at Ralston and see what he can do.

Yep, genuinely astonishing the number of people who think buying players is like going shopping in Tesco.

After St Mirren's win today, and potentially a Hearts win tomorrow, our season is practically over if we don't win tomorrow. Even a draw I fear would leave us with too much to do. Thankfully, we're gonna hammer them imorn. McGarry I'm guessing won't play - not sure if he's even in the country yet. McDonald and Williams both still out (according to Robson). I'd be inclined to start Dadia at RWB and Devlin at RCB, with Polvara in midfield sitting a bit deep and allowing Clarkson to go forward. It's a bit defensive but Morris is going to offer nothing in this game, let's be honest about that. We could really use a performance from Hayes in this one. Prediction: 1-0 to the good guys.

I am off until Tuesday. This is what happens when I leave them alone for a few days..