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Be interesting to see which one of Gueye or McGrath plays through the middle. I get the impression Thelin would rather see McGrath out wide so that he can play there when Clarkson returns. Anyhow, strong team, strong bench.

They'd posted it on twitter at 5pm. Your post was well after that. I was simply pointing it out to you as presumably you hadn't noticed it. It's really not that big a deal.

Well you posted the below.. Unless I've picked you up wrong, you were saying the club hadn't confirmed it. I pointed out they had. I've no idea what you're on about

Aberdeen announced it an hour ago..

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/kevin-nisbet-banished-millwall-squad-095944473.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC88B8bRshRN1TRmvjelGGu94alEJUUBd-N2WAzyCkgXvnL_kR7EYKc59p7tVQwmnDlaF-5JmpyAqbbDVlYN_tWIgUv3hJ1MdGSW3LhvxJjNOE4JpWH7Xf8Z-h23DQqjBFa5Pyhx0bsKOBIYROhcGy1qkxFXq1PNQovlHxHWJnyw Scotland striker Kevin Nisbet was yesterday bombed out of Millwall's squad over a disciplinary issue. The frontman arrived from Hibs in a £2million move last summer but missed a chunk of his debut campaign in the English Championship through a serious hamstring injury. Now back fit, Nisbet could be considered one of Steve Clarke's wildcard options ahead of this summer's Euros in Germany. But the 27-year-old - who has scored five goals for the Lions this season - was dropped from yesterday's matchday squad for the final day 1-0 win over Swansea City. Boss Neil Harris revealed the ex-Dunfermline star was banished due to an internal club matter, with on-loan Burnley ace Michael Obafemi also axed. Yet while Irish international Obafemi won't be returning to the Den next season, Harris insisted Nisbet does have a big future at the club - despite the off-field issue. He said: "All I’m going to say is I’m building a culture and an environment at the football club. The standards are set by Neil Harris and Millwall Football Club. These are standards that I expect players to adhere to. Players will only be involved at my football club, when I’m in charge, if they hit those standards. It’s all about culture and environment. "Michael has done brilliantly for us on loan and we’re really thankful for his efforts. He didn’t feature for us off the bench the other day and he wasn’t going to feature today. I’d rather play our own players who have trained impeccably. "And secondly, with Kevin, it’s a disciplinary matter about culture and standards. There’s no bigger problem moving forward. Kevin is a huge part of our football club moving forward. But it wasn’t right to involve him today so I went with the group that I did."

Well put it this way, if we're being honest here, our fight is with Hearts for third, and possibly Hibs, United, Killie should they step up. I'd argue a fully fit and on form Kevin Nisbet is at least on a par with Shankland, and better than what the others have. He's worth a chance. Now someone hurry up and come up with a chant for him.

I think Morris and Rubezic will both start, but I'd go with Vinnie and MacDonald. Would be good to see some of Palaversa. Nisbet looking likely to sign before Sunday too, expect him to be on the bench.

But the thing is though, where is everyone travelling from? You're measuring the distance from the station - how many Dundee fans travel to Dens Park from the train station just now? Dundee only has two stations (the other Broughty Ferry) so my guess is very few. Bus station - buses don't just stop at the station though. Many routes will go past Camperdown and there'll be new ones added. What are the current travel options to get to Dens Park? A lot of people will need to just take a slight detour to get to Camperdown if going by car or bus. It's entirely different from the Kingsford/Pittodrie comparison, as these two sites aren't that far apart.

It's not the Pittodrie footprint you need to paste onto it though, it's the footprint from a new modern stadium. Unless AZ Alkmaar's stadium can fit on it then gtf.

But all that is irrelevant in terms of Dundee's stadium. We're currently Pittodrie not because it's the best option, but because the council are doing their usual and we currently don't have the money to build the new ground anyway. Should Aberdeen get the money, they will leave Pittodrie, and likewise Dundee will leave Dens Park should they find the money.

I think that's a fantastic rewriting of history. We would have been at Kingswells had Scotland got Euro 2008. We would have been at Loirston had the council not pulled a fast one. And we'd be currently building Kingsford if we had £60m a few years ago. Again, what is their alternative? The stadium is a shitheap. Pittodrie would be a massive upgrade on what they currently have. Waiting isn't going to do anything for them.

Why? A new stadium with increased capacity, better facilities, more commercial opportunities, and going by the artists' impression it's a huge upgrade on Dens Park. But there's not a pub nearby.. As you know I chatted to Dave Cormack for a good hour in the summer, we're pals now, and he assured me the stadium is on its way. He's delivered Cormack Park. He's delivered Graeme Shinnie. He's delivered Jimmy Thelin. He'll deliver the new stadium, with a pub nearby.

Cheers pal, knew you didn't think I was a cunt. Yeah got a certificate and everything.

When they were putting the fixtures together, how difficult would it be to say "Hearts, Kilmarnock and St Mirren may all have play-offs on those dates. Maybe we shouldn't give one of them an eight-hour round trip in between the two games." But hey, I'm just an educated cunt.

Okay so what's your suggestion they do instead? They can't build that stadium on the current Dens Park footprint.

Because it appears you need a telling. That wasn't McInnes saying that though was it? Well it shouldn't have been a penalty, should it? You've basically said the same thing three times to make it look like three separate things. He's correct in saying the SPFL could have put more thought into the fixtures. I count just two complaints then. The penalty and giving Kilmarnock their longest away trip in between two play-off ties - two entirely justified complaints. If he wasn't a moaning cunt would you still not want us to rip him a new one on Sunday?

It's about an eight minute drive from their current stadium. Unfortunately it's difficult to find a prime city centre location for new stadiums these days, at least theirs is very much within the city. When you look at the map of Dundee it's realistically as close as they can get to the city centre and train station. So what's their alternative? Dens Park doesn't look like it has the footprint to rebuild a stadium there. Not sure even a stadium share with Dundee United could be built on that street either. For Aberdeen, we were building at Kingsford when the council had space in the city they could give us, and have magically realised that actually the beach might work. I don't see those same options in Dundee.

Where are all the examples of him constantly going on about it?

We would be complaining about the same thing. He's not complaining about Aberdeen, he's complaining about the SPFL not bothering to use common sense when putting the fixtures together.

Dundee's potential new stadium. Looks alright to be fair.

Aye, granted, that was pish. But this is why I'll probably live longer than the rest of you - I've learned to let it go. Good luck to the big fella.

Passed me by that Stefan Gartenmann has signed for Ferencvaros. Bit of a surprise that considering they're the Hungarian champions - you'd think they'd be after a better level of player than Gartenmann. That said, they're out of the Champions League (knocked out by Midtjylland, who Gartenmann was still signed with at the time, though didn't play either leg). Gartenmann has been an unused sub in both games since he signed. Good luck to him, but I wasn't keen on us signing him permanently so I see it as no loss. He's landed on his feet though - Budapest a cracking city and Ferencvaros' stadium is the type of ground you'd love to be replicated at Aberdeen beach.

I should bloody well hope not. Think we were the unseeded team every time. Maybe the only time we were seeded it was Maribor who we were desperately unlucky against (goal chopped off, resulting pen missed, Stockley red). I wouldn't begrudge the man finally making it. Cos it reduces Hearts' prize money, it gives Killie more games to play on the fixture list, and it's coefficient points for Scotland. All three of those benefit Aberdeen.

£3,200 to sponsor a player? For that I'd want a weekly Q&A and the player to come do odd jobs around the house.

Noted: Let's use "New Firm" relentlessly before the next ga... derby. Hope Hearts lose cos don't want them getting the coins from the Europa League. Doubt they gave Aberdeen much support against Hacken last season for that same reason. But good luck to Kilmarnock. Derek McInnes I would say deserves a crack at the group/league stage.