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Seems low. Been a decent player all in. Will struggle to replace his movement and pace.

It was when haardon first replied though. They've obviously downgraded because he was so quick to say take it. Bologna are known for watching this site.

I'd like to see us run sustainably as a club and have as little reliance on Cormack and others as possible. The last couple of seasons has seen us take a fair hit, and if we can rectify that quickly, I think it's in the best interest of the club. Ramsay's value isn't likely to go up significantly (from now) playing in the spfl, and I think doig at Hibs provides a decent example of the opposite happening. £4.8M would have been huge (albeit, looks a lot more like £4M), and not likely to come around again. It sets a benchmark for future sales too, especially if he does well. Ramsay could be the start of something bigger (or not), we've not really established a baseline for selling players. If we start getting a lot of players through like him, I think we would begin to question selling quickly.

After the latest masonic revelations about Burns, I think he may have actually been a Hun. You should probably sit and watch the entire game on red TV, with the sound on so you can hear Cowan, as penance.

I see very little evidence of shit shooting, and plenty of evidence of bad choices and poor tactics. Hedges is probably the only one I'd say is guilty of missing half chances, but almost all of these he engineers himself and is usually off balance or shooting away from his direction of travel - in other words, they're not easy chances. Rooney in his prime for us was probably converting 30-50% of his good opportunities. He missed plenty, but almost always had more than one. McGinn blazed over the bar regularly before scoring. They both had plenty of chances in a game and knew that missing one wasn't generally dropping us points. I think we've probably missed a handful of good chances this season. We need to be creating 2 or 3 every game before we can start criticising our shooting. Other than Jet Vs city, could you name a good chance we've had that resulted in a shot off target?

A striking coach should not be instilling keeping their head down in their play, unless he's teaching primary kids. If they're at this stage in their career and don't already know that then they're screwed. He'll be teaching them about runs to make, walking them through the weaknesses of specific opponents, set plays etc, along with many other general coaching duties (I don't even think his job title is striker coach). There was only one chance last night where we had an open shot on goal and that was a decent effort, wide, by Ferguson on his wrong foot. Every opportunity high and wide was either a bad choice to shoot (out of frustration, with Ferguson particularly guilty) or under pressure and difficult to get away a shot. Those types of shot are difficult and a cursory glance at even the greatest league in the world will see midfielders blazing over with a man between them and the goal. It's a function of playing without wingers and it was apparent even against Edinburgh city. We had so many shots against them, but only a handful were actual decent chances because we're simply not creating them. The Jet chance against city being the first sitter in open play we've missed in ages. Our tactics are forcing us into trying to convert difficult chances in crowded areas, and no amount of coaching is going to improve that.

There were very few shots that a striking coach would have much influence over. Telling people to keep their head down has no bearing on anything, they'll have been told that since they were 5. The reason we're skying so many is that we're dicking about forever in possession, leaving us to try difficult, speculative efforts from distance with a player between the man and goal when the answer is just not to shoot. Very few of our shots have been open and what you'd class as good chances. We're not creating good chances. We're too easy to frustrate thirty yards out. Not only that, because we don't hit the line and get a cross in, we don't benefit from any other chances that might come from a deflection or poor clearance either. I feel a bit sorry for Hedges and Ojo, who've been asked to cut inside and try and make something out of nothing through intricate passing in congested defences.

You're saying that like our name isn't all over the cup.

Campbell is a midfielder, too similar to Brown or Ferguson to get a game there. I thought he'd be decent at left back, but he's not delivered to date. He was okay defensively tonight but you'd expect his use of the ball to be far better. Jury is still out, but I think he'll turn out alright. Seems to have a decent footballing brain, but maybe wanting a bit too much time on it at the moment.

That was the worst we've been in a while. I'm still not seeing the entertaining fitba we were promised. Predictable pish. Goodwin knew exactly how to set up tonight, give Bates the time and space and cover the outballs so he has zero options. Attack McRorie when it goes to him and he'll just fire it away. If we do get it forward, press hard and we'll fuck it up. I mean, they played for a draw and got fucking lucky that Ramsay decided that defending was optional. Really bad defending like, horrendous positioning. Great finish, but we weren't offered anything like that on a plate from Tanser or Fraser. Cowan is fucking irritating too, further ruining the game. Jet came on for Hedges and so took up the positions across the front that Hedges would have, only 40mph slower (negative speed). That was clearly "tactical". Should have been told to stay close to Ramirez and stretch them. Ojo, Jenks and Hedges at the same time isn't a thing, unless we're trying to be solid against the scum. They trip over each other trying to play narrow.

Nothing happened, just not an impact sub. As soon as he was relegated to bit part player he was always going to struggle. I still think he's better than McLennan, and probably jet and Jenks too, but I understand the need to wind down his game time and if he gets regular fitba at Dundee, I could see him scoring a few. Fuck knows what the idiots in the dons support will accuse him of when he scores against us and doesn't celebrate. "He disnae try against them".

Bit slow with breaking that news. Hopefully your prospective client won't take that into account tomorrow. I mean, I would, but that's just me.

Anyway, McGinn to Dundee? Thought they hated him for sending them down. Hope he does it again. Good luck to him, been a fantastic player for the club, and even when he's been pish lately he's worked hard.

Fuck sake, he's bloody Colombian anyway. David Gonzalez then.

Van De Ven was pish. Ten Caat was average. Ferne Snoyl was vastly overrated. Gillhaus and Snelders are the benchmark (Mason disnae count, he was English), and Van Der Ark gets a special mention for being fucking massive. I think we can all agree that he's already better than Dave Bus. Edit: and Dyron Daal Edit again: Touzani was okay, and I'm nae old enough to remember Sven Baas

I have it on good authority that he's actually fae Dyce.

A lot of flailing tackles in those clips! Also, they suspiciously seemed to cut away before the final ball/shot on many of them. I've a feeling I could put together 2-3 minutes of McLennan clips that would make him look fairly decent, and that's basically the benchmark for this lad - to be better than McLennan. I'll put him down for a hattrick the morn.

I've heard he could be the next De Visscher. Welcome aboard loon.

As long as they keep Davidson for another week.

Scottish Cup - fifth round Motherwell v Aberdeen Celtic v Raith Rovers Abroath v Hibernian Annan Athletic v Rangers Hearts v Livingston Peterhead v Dundee Partick Thistle v Dundee Utd St Mirren v Kelty Hearts

St Johnstone. Nae luck.

Good training match for the Dons today. They weren't up to much. Difficult to learn much from it, other than it's difficult to play a game exclusively in one half of the pitch. Jet challenging miles storey in the sitter of the century competition, an absolute horrendous miss. Ojo played well today, although we should have been bringing on a wide player to give us a bit more width (in place of Jenks) after Hedges went off. Barron looked neat and tidy and not ready to trouble the first team, but it'd be nice to see him get more minutes this season if another loan can't be arranged.

He's straight

Boyle away to the journalist murderers. Assuming his wife will be signing for their women's team.

If they'd just remove the Hun from their name, they'd be in a lot better shape.