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I think that moving players on is more important than signings in January. We've got a massive squad, filled with filler. We can't see the Woods (pun intended) for the trees. I'd like to see about six or seven moved on and maybe one or two in. Devlin, Kennedy, the three loanees, Jet all binned. Probably McLennan too. Attacking midfielder and a winger in place of them. Sorted.

They're good, but they're nae Brora.

Sorted

That was seven years ago, things were different then. They have managed to get the newer models down to only lasting four years.

Fairly pish second half. Jammy as fuck goal, but they were far better than us. The attacking, entertaining, revolution doesn't really exist does it? It was never going to. Samuels isn't better than McLennan. He needs binned. Couple of injuries again, just for good measure.

Well we had a horrendous spell there, but rode our luck and managed to get out with only losing a goal. It was as if we were a man down for 20 minutes. Gurr especially was poor, but McGeouch too was being dragged about and hot potato-ing all over the place. McGeouch settled down nicely though. The front three have been great, with Hedges and Watkins really taking the pressure off at times and Ramirez doing a lot of work and dropping deep to cover very well. Bates and McRorie doing well, I much prefer Bates on the left side over McRorie. Ferguson playing well and Hayes not bad either. Their defence is gash and if we can pressure them they'll fold. Thon carter-vickers is nae Ajer like, he's just a brute. They don't really have anyone who can take the ball out like they've had for years now and it shows.

I've replaced numerous laptop screens, it was a piece of piss. Never tried a MacBook though. Probably got special screws or impenetrable glue.

Sounds like aliens or the government. I'd burn it.

I don't think he was ever our player really. We were clearly being used as a vehicle by our parent club. The greater dilemma would have been if he hadn't been shite. Imagine having to give up a decent player at way under value? I'd love to hear McInnes' take on it once he gets a new job. I'm surprised nobody has asked the scout boy that was punted his take on it as I suspect he's got far less of a confidentiality agreement in place.

Examples please.

The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham is worth a read probably. It's very much of its time, whilst being fairly prescient, in that it could have been more or less written today about existing events.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was good. Also entangled life by Melvin Sheldrake.

Christ, it's virtually impossible to read anything in the record. There's less intrusive advertising on one of the fitba streaming sites. Anyway, good work Ojo.

Mental isn't it. I'm guessing that they don't check the person's back catalogue.

Ach, it's only Dundee, just go, they're all riddled there anyway.

Aye, agree with that. Time for gemmill to go perhaps? 85th minute subs when 1-0 down in a must win game. Mental.

I think it's the fact that we won that makes it so good. Maybe the France games beat this one, especially the away performance? That was a genuinely good team, with no suggestion that they were under strength or that the game didn't matter. All the other games ended in glorious defeat. Losing to Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands at Hampden were great performances that came close. England twice too, resulting in draws. Even the Wembley playoff game twenty years ago was a glorious failure. Going back to the nineties and prior things were different. We were usually second seeds in our group, and teams like Denmark weren't that great (they didn't even qualify for the Euros in '92 for example...). We generally qualified for tournaments and were probably almost in the same bracket as the likes of Denmark. All our big victories therefore happened at tournaments rather than on the way there in theory. Beating Switzerland at the Euros, Sweden at the WC, tanking the CIS and the Dutch in 78, alongside a number of glorious defeats of course. It's difficult to compare then to now, so probably best to rate it against 21st century. I'd go: 1. France away 2. Denmark 3. France home Edit: of course we beat the Dutch at Hampden in the first leg, which was a massive result too. It gets tainted by the away result, but only in hindsight.

What a performance. Best this century. Just brilliant. Adams motm, but every single player was top class. Ran themselves into the ground. Phenomenal. Well done Clarke. Nae bookings either, because we barely put in a sliding tackle because we were so disciplined.

That's the best half of fitba I've seen from Scotland in a long time (maybe the England game?). Phenomenal performance. The workrate been immense and the concentration and discipline too. Completely deserve the lead, and the extra bonus goal for having millions of corners craigbrown™

Souttar the big surprise I suppose. Dykes out is a blow, not been convinced at all by Christie of late, however Brown looked like a total headless chicken when he came on, so probably not many options.

It's a'rite Jute, I'll get it

It's clearly deliberate too, to give the big teams a better chance to progress. Nobody would consider it beneficial from a sporting perspective. They'll have clearly considered it and assumed that the bigger teams that might drop into the playoffs will likely be less affected by missing a player or two. They probably also know that the bigger teams will have had less yellow cards over the qualifying. I understand that Clarke has to remain focused, but it should be called out publicly by someone at the SFA. I'd actually liked to have seen guys like McGinn, Adams, Gilmour, Robertson, Tierney be told to go and pick up a deliberate booking against Moldova to rule them out for tonight's game rather than the playoff semi. It's such a difficult balance, but I think that a seeding with one or two of our better players missing is just as difficult as being unseeded with no players missing, and there's a very good chance that we're both unseeded and have players missing. Not only that, but a suspension would have wiped the bookings count for the playoffs, which is vital. I could see McGinn or Tierney get through tonight's match without a booking, but I can't see them get through two games without picking up a single yellow, so I think we should have taken the hit and let a few of the fringe players like McLean, Nisbet etc have a free run at it tonight with the pressure very much off. To be honest, I wouldn't even trust Dykes not to pick up two bookings in two games!

Good experience for them regardless. Competitive games against men. They'll train with us during the week too for the most part. No different to guys sitting on our bench really. Also, if they're not going to make it with us, it'll help them get used to being part of a different squad as well as a bit of an advert for them, and avoiding sitting at Cormack park feeling unwanted.

Vital goal, great finish and layoff. We've done okay, without being amazing. If we'd gone in 0-0, we'd be running low on options. Great save from Gordon of course. McGinn playing well, might be worth throwing on the new boy soon in place of Armstrong. We've got a lot of players not playing every week, so we'll need fitness - maybe O'Donnell on for Paterson after 70.

Scotland team Armstrong in alongside Adams.