RicoS321

The problem is that his gone legs consistently cover more ground than any other player on the pitch. I think he should go in the summer too. I don't believe we'll do a good job of replacing him.

Kincorth. It's not about loving him, it's about understanding his position and is obvious limitations.

Exactly. Proper fans throw chairs off their player's face.

You or I have absolutely no idea what he does when an actual manager is in place. The new manager should be making that call, and until that point should act with decency and integrity like any other employer would. By all means remove him from caretaker, of course.

It's not just dishonourable, I suspect it's not even legal! He surely must have had something written up to say that he'd be entitled to get his previous role back after agreeing to the poisoned chalice of caretaker with this squad?

McGlynn is a very good football manager with a lot of experience. I'd have him at the Dons in a heartbeat. Lennon is also a decent manager, I'd grudgingly accept, but would want him nowhere near Pittodrie.

He was playing out of position against Dunfermline, as anyone who has ever watched him play football even once would have known. Seemingly none of our management team understood what midfielders do, or even watched the short spell in that role against the Tims midweek.

I genuinely find this bizarre. As I said in the other thread, you can't ask a guy to do you a favour for a few weeks and then fire him for failing at it. He should at the very least be offered his old job back, and is probably due a public apology from the club for having monumentally fucked up the appointment of a new manager and hung him out to dry by having him in a post he's not suitable for and has no experience in for months on end.

Could it not be a bit of both? Lutz has (or had) identified the new manager, who had presented his style of play and formation, so Lutz has asked Leven to try and work that in so that we're on a better footing for next season. He may also have asked him to play some of the new signings to get a feel for them ahead of the summer window. So not actually picking the team, but interfering a little with a view to next season. I would expect that to fade out as we get closer to the end of the season and a new manager is appointed. It's actually only Geiger that's currently getting minutes that might have a slim chance of being here next season anyway. The rest are all loans that will return, and were stop gap signings made to cover injuries. Aremu got a couple of starts, which was completely understandable in the role he's expected to be able to play eventually. Nilsen is probably the only player that can feel aggrieved at the lack of minutes at the moment, as it's his role in midfield that is being taken by both Geiger and Aremu. I think the more likely explanation for it seeming like Leven isn't picking the team is that we're a squad that is really low on quality and depth, and he's scrambling around a little because every time he picks a side they go out and fail. Personally, I'd be picking Shinnie and Nilsen in midfield with Cameron or Armstrong ahead, either in a 4-2-3-1, or in a 3-4-1-2, depending on whether or not he feels Olusanya can be trusted wide or not.

It's harsh, because it's not his job. It's like asking Sarah from accounts to cover HR for Julie, who's on maternity leave, for a few months and then sacking Sarah because she accidentally paid someone the wrong amount. I don't think any of us know whether Leven is good at his actual role at the club or not. He should at least be given the opportunity to return to that role either now or once a new manager is in place should they wish to retain him. It's is very unfair to expect him to be good at the role of manager when it's not his job, or what he's being paid to do. That the club can't get their shite together for a replacement for Thelin is not Leven's fault, and he shouldn't be punished for it. Being a constant doesn't infer blame. The youth team staff have been fairly constant too, but they're not at fault, neither the admin staff. None of us have the slightest clue what Leven's day to day responsibilities were under Thelin or prior. It's possible to be good at being a coach and foil for a manager but be shite at tactics and taking responsibility. Plenty here seem to be suggesting that we sack Leven and promote a guy who fits exactly that description in Docherty. We're basically suggesting replacing one caretaker manager for another caretaker manager with the exact same skillset. Leven is a pish manager, but we've made and shat in that bed and we have to live with it until we can do the right thing and get a proper manager. Firing the guy that we've asked to do a favour for a few weeks isn't the answer to anything.

If you don't think Docherty had a hand in that lineup yesterday, then I think you're being kind to him.

We're now at the panic button stage. We could end up with any manager. Very harsh on Leven if he gets sacked from a caretaker role. He's not meant to be the guy that runs the first team, he's a coach. Anyway, last night stems from not understanding midfielders, again. Just as did with Goodwin, Robson and Thelin. We effectively lined up with a 4-1-4-1. Shinnie is not, and has never been, a player that sits in front of the defence (the same error that Goodwin made with Ramadani). He doesn't play the side to side well, and he ends up being late to everything and just looking old and slow, whilst getting absolutely knackered. It was very clear in the 15 minutes he played against the Tims that he struggles there if Leven required a fucking reminder. Secondly, in Scottish fitba, you have to be very good to play two "creative" midfielders against anyone. We're not close to being good enough. It's Cameron or Armstrong, not and. Nilsen and Shinnie with one ahead of them is how we should be approaching every game, regardless of the opponent, based on the options we've got. Switching out one for Geiger as and when required for fitness or suspension. I genuinely don't think that Leven recognises that midfielders come in different forms with different specialisations. He sorted it in the second for a bit, but after the game was gone. Milanovic is dogshite, but I understood the reason he started. Olusanya can't play as a winger. Bilalovic was a disgrace against the Tims. However, if you are playing Milanovic, you can't play Lobban, it has to be Jensen. Especially with Frame on the other side and a tired looking Milne. Anyway, the players were terrible, but they were set up to fail.

Easy to get there, nice ground in a good location, and easy to get home from. Shame about the fitba.

Milne is a shareholder. That's why he's there. If someone buys his shares then he won't be.

I might watch it this evening, and the early hours of tomorrow.

Also. Pile of shite. I've also never read Tolkien, which is why I didn't feel obliged to watch the films. I might read them at some point, but probably not.

Fuck that, we're getting Lee Miller back on the balls and getting Partick in the semi.

Really good performance from Falkirk. Absolutely destroyed utd for 44 minutes. Utd had a decent spell for 15-20 minutes maybe, but Falkirk just stepped it up and ended the game in full control again.

They've just let in a goal as Cormack was one the phone to his agent.

By a mile. Arabs are having no luck at the moment. McGlynn is almost certainly a good enough manager for us, and almost certainly better than the fashionable foreigners that we're courting.

Wild. Without context, I'd assume it meant the exact opposite. Isn't Armstrong a solicitor? Trained in ambiguity

Getting back to this, after some people rudely derailed the thread (it was everyone's fault but mine). There's a weird religious angle taking shape, which seems to be a distraction. I think it's a useful intervention from Trump's perspective, and one he'll totally play up to, but it's not the thing we need to be paying attention to. I was discussing with someone the other day and they said I was missing the cold was angle, and I think that they're right. We've all got our eyes on Israel and the US supporting them, but that's not what the real game is I don't think. In reality, it seems, Trump is doing what he said he'd do (weirdly). Venezuela was strategic boom for the US. The cold war 2.0 is US Vs China, and we perhaps have to look at everything through its lens. The US has realised just how far it is behind China in terms of not only production, but the ability to produce. Trump's backers need that not to be the case, the military, the politicians and the wealthy need that not to be the case. They've realised they're at a near existential point for the US and its world domination (the unipolar world as it were). China has carefully built up not just its manufacturing base, but it's watertight contracts in regards to accessing critical minerals worldwide, while the US has been offshoring and ignoring critical supply chains because they were the dominant power for so long. Venezuela was providing China with significant volumes of useful oil on the cheap, because it was against sanctions. The US has captured that, and at the same time provided itself with a significantly cheaper alternative to Canadian supply (screwing two birds with one stone, especially after Carney's rash intervention). Iran, then, offers more of the same. A perpetual war, with increased oil prices, effectively closes off access to Iranian oil for the Chinese. The US can withstand a jump in oil price, but China can't continue its levels of manufacturing without the critical energy source to power it. From the cold war 2 perspective, the Iran war makes perfect sense. The people behind Trump are happy for to make his absolutist and otherwise ridiculously stupid pronouncements, because the more fragmented Iran becomes, the longer their oil is shut in. By going right for the spiritual and religious leader of the Shi'ites, he's created a position where there'll be a severe backlash, but also no hope of negotiation (the US can't be trusted, obviously). Something that could take years to resolve and allow the US to regain its standing. Possibly, but it's difficult to tell. Seems about right to me. Ultimately, no attempted solution to actual predicaments facing our civilisations (perhaps because there are none), simply another shite game of chess led by weirdos.

I should fucking think so. I couldn't sleep last night for wondering what constitutes a duel.

The same way flu shots are, despite each form having been invented that winter. The mRNA vaccine had indeed been in the making for a decade. As far as I'm aware, it hadn't been through trials for much, or perhaps any, of those years. You wouldn't ordinarily expect a decade of trials for such things, I'm not sure that figure is relevant.

I agree, but it would have been a disgraceful penalty to give, even on the current rules, and unfortunate because there would have been nothing he could have done about it. Just your use of the term fortunate in that context made it sound like a penalty was merited on the strength of their play. I think your overall point was sound, they were the better team, but it didn't need embellishing with what would have been an undeserved and fortunate penalty (rather than the other way round).