RicoS321

You're not really booing the player himself though, it's a public display of anger at the decision to get one of their players ready for first team football. There isn't another way that will satisfactorily show the disgust. A banner doesn't cut it. It needs to be heard, and discussed on the radio/telly. It's just a very obvious protest, and unfortunately for the young laddie, he'll just have to be on the receiving end of it. He did choose the Huns after fucking off the club that raised him. He's basically Connor Barron. The club needs to be held to account, and it needs to be public. I never boo the team at half-time or full-time, or if they pass the ball backwards for the ninetieth time. I'll happily boo this lad, because it's a protest that the club needs to hear, and I'm comfortable that it's not remotely Hunnish to do so in those circumstances. The tone deafness is unbelievable. The club strategy was to be working towards regularly getting into Europe with a view to pushing the scum all the way. I could almost understand the acceptance that came with the signings of Scales and Christie. We were way off the Tims in terms of budget and points, regularly, with the knowledge that they could just up their spending by a factor of ten if they felt threatened. The Huns are not at that same level though, not even close. They're a good team, with a well salaried first eleven, but beyond that there isn't much to be feared. It seems bizarre that we'd choose to try to close the gap by improving their squad, even in the short term. Of course, we know we're in a bad place and it's only really about optics, but those are important too. It also questions the ability of our recruitment team. Is this really the best they can come up with? An unavailable player? Who plays in a role, and in a way, that we're not short in? Or have we made the catastrophic decision that we have to wait for the new manager before signing anyone, therefore being behind in another window? Has Cormack still not learned from the Hornby, Hendry, Kamberi debacle?

I assume he's getting a large booing if he comes on at Pittodrie? None of the "I'll support him in a Dons top" pish. This is a fucking rank move.

On this day in 2026, the Dons signed a Hun. From the Huns.

He's got plenty of experience of the type of setup required in his previous roles though. I like him.

Aren't the players working?

Fuck sake.

I guess they wouldn't get in the way as much if they were dead, or give the ball away, so I think you might have been right.

Do you? It seems to me that he's saying nothing at all, from a vacuum of imagination. If he'd articulated his position, then there might be something to go on, otherwise it's just some trite pish, of the clever, smart-arsedness type that lacks any depth or wisdom. Fairly fucking pointless in the scheme of amiable online conversation. I would genuinely like to hear his position, going beyond the tired, narrow, elusive statistics of the system (GDP, poverty, flushing toilets etc) and some real thoughts and opinions to show me/us how linear progression isn't just a pathetic myth. It is the best time to be alive because it is the only time we will be alive, and via the lens of the technological system, things have never been so technological. Look at the improvements in art with AI. The beauty of the Top 40. Today's the best there's ever been.

You think some of them might improve with death?

Cooper Masson going to be the latest youngster to leave before kicking a ball?

The loan would be completely unacceptable to any right thinking Dandy. I'm fairly certain that Cormack will know that. I'd wait for confirmation before throwing my season ticket into the sea. But, aye, we don't need him. There isn't the room to play him and Clarkson. Probably isn't room for him and Armstrong. He has the potential to be very good if he can do the yards on the pitch.

To be fair, if Egypt are playing again at 8pm, I can understand them not wanting to expend too much energy attacking.

Good news. All of those correctly dispatched, with Milanovic requiring a loan to confirm he's definitely pish sounds reasonable. Six out leaves a much easier squad to deal with.

Not all aspects of a player's game require strength in the tackle though. Clarkson is weak in the tackle for example. He's fairly decent defensively despite being a poor tackler because his positional sense is decent. He's very two footed (probably the most two footed player in the squad), and is technically decent. He's a vast upgrade on utility players like Dom Ball for example, who was poor, but still a worthwhile squad player who covered numerous positions in the course of a season. He's already better than several of our squad in their preferred roles, so I wouldn't be confident we could go out and get better. None of this is to say he's good, just that he's above average. If we accept that his weakness is physical strength, then that's no different to accepting that Shinnie's weakness is pace, and Devlin's is technical ability. We make up for it by signing players who compliment, whilst working with Polvara on strength conditioning and not being a fanny.

I assumed he was including himself in that? I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I thought he played well in the last two games. His movement was very good on Sunday, making space for others, probably not noticeable on the telly. He's an intelligent player, who quickly gets to grips with the position he's asked to play. He's not a world beater, but slightly above average and can play in numerous positions. We need a player like that in the squad. It means that you don't have to overload the squad with shite. On the assumption that you're always going to have injuries, he's a reasonably dependable all rounder that can cover, meaning that you can offer him twenty games a season comfortably and you don't need two players in every position. It's a case of better the devil you know, and we've seen how poor the signings have been, we'll definitely sign worse.

He can get fucked

As terrible as the world is, I don't think that there's any need for bold letters in the opening post. Anyway, it's just the beginning of civilisational collapse. It'll a decade or three to get into its stride, it's fine. When all the hard to reach resources have been used up, which they largely have, and when population begins to drop, then this is the result - always. Venezuela is as much about the US having oil as it is China not having it. They're not making roads without Venezuelan oil, that's for sure (or at least not very good ones). You can have all the solar panels in the world, but diesel builds infrastructure. We're basically entering a period where our children and their children will have less energy at their disposal (especially with the negligent AI waste). Our economic system can't handle degrowth. The mental cases in charge have spent fifty years shouting GDP, growth, "what about the economy" and "he/she is economically illiterate" at anyone who tried to point out the anti-thermodynamic cult that they had created. They'll die clinging to those religious economic beliefs.

That's because Robson continued to try and play the exact same style (Clarkson behind two guys pressing) as he had previously, seemingly unaware that he'd replaced Ramadani with McGrath. It was like having two Clarksons. In the first half last night, Clarkson was sitting deeper than Shinnie and Polvara, and it worked very well and Clarkson was our best player.

Raving about it on the radio. He's some goalie like. Better nae get injured.

I had considered the 3-5-2, but assumed he might go with a more recognised number ten. Although I have said previously that Milanovic looks to me like a guy that wants to be central, so would like to see it.

Interesting to see where Polvara is. I have a feeling it's a 3-4-3. I like Polvara there, and it also allows him to step into a 4-2-3-1 if necessary, which it could also be (Clarkson ahead of Shinnie and Polvara). I'm guessing the former.

I'm guessing that they'll turn folk round and try and utilise the bypass. The water was horrendous there last time there were bad conditions, so wouldn't be surprised to see it going across the carriageway. Inconvenient, really, as a hundred yards further and the traffic could have just gone through Portlethen. The best news is that it won't affect me. If it were me, I'd head off through west Cammachmore towards lair hillock and then keep gan to south deeside and back in.

Think the rain might stop for the game, but the wind winna.

Agreed. Although it was very clear that under Thelin we were trying to create "high quality chances"*. In theory, by the time we got the ball to the forwards, they wouldn't have been able to miss. In reality, we took so long that we lost possession or had lost all confidence in the ability to shoot, or decide whether shooting was worthwhile at all. Nisbet's chance against the Hun was a serious case of trying to do too much, and ending up doing nothing. However, it was noticeable the other night that Leven probably isn't interested in high quality chances, and was keen to go direct and see what falls. *Mair modern pish.

Correct. There's plenty that can be done to prevent people voting, and the Republicans have got it down to a tee in places like Georgia, and other places that matter. Things like voter cross-check (purging the voter rolls), and then eliminating provisional ballots*. They've been doing it since Bush "won" in 2000. The Democrats were, as always, a lot slower on the uptake and - like the Labour party in the UK - expend most of their energy and tactics on stopping the left of their own party getting votes (see Sanders v Clinton for example). Things like mail in ballots are a red herring, there is very little fraud in those areas as anyone in the UK would know. However, an accusation of fraud is often as good as actual fraud when you want a vote challenged thrown out, which is why Trump mentions it continuously. The reason for targetting mail in ballots is because they generally come from three cohorts. Those professional middle class types that are well organised and work in cities, plus lower class ethnic minorities that are very time poor and whose employers simply wouldn't allow them time to vote in person. The older generation still prefer the tradition of in-person voting unless they are disabled, and of course those with a disability also utilise them. Traditionally, all of the above would be a Democrat majority. That is not to say that everyone who is a Democrat uses mail in, and vice versa, just that there's a very obvious majority, so targetting the whole is fruitful. Trump's biggest issue with a mid-term will be voter turnout. More people will turn out with a grievance than with lukewarm support. That's the same for any president, but will probably be a large factor this time, as he's lost a large part of his popularity (again, not unusual). There is nothing he can do to prevent states from holding their vote, but there is plenty he can do afterwards to challenge and indeed fix the result. It will start with full scale accusations of fraud when he loses, and then Republican states not declaring and so on. Votes get thrown out until the correct result is returned. However, I think it will beyond his control, as the turnover required will be too great. *the volume of votes not counted in certain Republican states is staggering.