RicoS321

I mentioned on Wednesday that Jet allowed us to play a much better style against the poorer opponent. His movement was good again today, occupying the space behind Ramirez, although he did have to use his head a lot more than on Wednesday. It draws a player out, and we're effectively playing four up front. He actually got back and helped out very well today too, but it was also easy to exploit hence the introduction of Jenks. It's risky, but entertaining. He's an enigma though, next week he'll be pish.

That was unexpected. A great performance and a great game in the conditions. Hedges at his very best today and the rest not far behind. Pace on the attack and clinical finishing. Jet was great and Jenks came on and did well too. Probably the best performance at pittodrie this season, discounting the European games.

What play acting? I've no idea what you're on about.

I thought you were suggesting he was being racist. I had already seen his reaction to the penalty and didn't think much of it, so assumed you must have been talking about something else. The penalty was soft. The player dived, but TV has changed the rules of fitba to be slightest touch = penalty, as opposed to whether the contact, in a contact sport, was enough for the player to fall over. Bates had a couple of similar dives for us last night.

You should always provide links, or some sort of explanation to your rant, otherwise you look a little crazy.

Decent game tonight, glad I went. We played well and dominated the game. They were relegation material. Ojo probably the only weak link tonight (offensively, he wasn't troubled in defence), but still better than Gurr. Agree with tlg that Bates was good tonight, he's significantly better than McRorie in that left centre half role. McRorie had a couple of unnecessary ropey moments too, but was generally quick enough to recover. Ferguson, Hayes, Hedges all played well alongside Bates too. Jet worked hard tonight, his movement was very good left to right. Against weaker opposition, where tracking back isn't as important (although he was okay at that tonight) it's a really useful outlet to have. It draws players out giving us far more space in behind and in the final third more generally. In better conditions, I could see us getting more from him too, it's difficult to pull off one touch control and flicks in a windy, wet night, but he was fine and deserves a place against st mirren. Overall, a good team performance, which should see us beat the Paisley minks on Saturday.

I've just been for a walk. It's fucking freezing. This is where I don't get the whole "you can't have more teams in the league, it'll reduce the number of fixtures" nonsense. Games like tonight are a complete chore to attend and we'll end up with a shite crowd. Just ditch winter midweek fixtures, they're fucking awful.

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.