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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.

Ruled himself out. Huns too slow to act.

You could be right. I just thought we looked easy to play against and predictable. A lot of possession with little end product, where sitting in could easily get a 0-0 draw.

You must've been watching a different game to me, because I was there and it was like watching the Dons play against a bottom six team. Lots of possession and very little of anything else. Nisbet put in one of the worst performances I've seen in a Scotland top (and I was at the Iwelumo game), and I hope we don't let him near the starting eleven (or he plays and scores).

I think we're primed for a slip up here. Dykes being out is massive, Christie to a lesser extent. We just haven't found a way to play yet that doesn't involve the combination of Dykes and Adams up front. Unless the new boy is good, I just don't see how we plug the gap. If they get a goal from nothing, we're pretty much screwed as I don't see us getting two. On the plus side, they're fairly shite.

WINTER Raid to leave bears feeling blue as former boss swoops in for Ibrox idols. The January window could see a flock of departures, with John Beaton expected to be top of Gerrard's Christmas list.

I've seen Saudi play at a world cup in the flesh. They were not very good. Good support though. Not many women.

Hope yogi has his phone on him.

He was a fantastic player for the Huns. Easily in the top ten players to have played in Scotland in the sky TV/champions league era. I'd have him above van dyke, and definitely in his time in Scotland. Can't think of many better beyond the obvious Larsson and Jess.

Why is that then? It looks fairly harmless in the photo. Are they drowning, falling? Or is it just your standard Australian tourist-murder like you see in the films?

Underland by Robert McFarlane is good. I'd recommend it for Christmases.

That was fairly pish. Reminiscent of many of our games this season and last. Team comes up and hoofs us off the park for 45 minutes, carefully ensuring that each player takes a booking. The dons run out of ideas before forgetting defending. Bring on McGinn who immediately brings others into the game but the opposition are already sitting deep and we can't draw them out. Their keeper was good too. Campbell and McGeouch poor, and I couldn't work out what happened with the defence for the goals, there were gaping holes. Special mention to the Motherwell neds starting fights in the boozer. Classy.

Yes, it should. It'll be interesting to see if Hedges and Watkins being available will unlock the defences of those teams that come and sit in. I'd like to see us taking a few shots from distance early doors, see if we can get Ramirez onto any scraps in what will be interesting conditions. It might draw them put a bit and Hedges and Watkins will get in behind. If we get the first, we'll win. I'd retain the back three from the start too and avoid any mistakes.

I'd love a couple of bi-folds where the main stand entrance is. Looking out across the blaze car park. Beautiful.

It's great that the fancy images still have pittodrie in them. The colts will be in the first division by then and will need somewhere to play.

I know, I thought the anthems were before the game. Also, I missed the start because of the queues, thus was not booing.

I'd be more concerned by a government picking an arbitrary percentage from thin air. As far as I'm aware, there is no figure for herd immunity with vaccination, and we know that vaccination doesn't prevent infection (it significantly reduces the spread, slowing it). It's difficult to see what the additional single digit percentages will do, other than piss people off. It'd be very interesting to note the vaccination rates versus rates of poverty, ethnicity and educational outcomes in the various districts too. Given that vaccination's ability to reduce the rate of spread decreases after a few months, you need a population that is increasingly less skeptical over time in order that they get boosters when required, so to take such a coercive approach - using arbitrary round numbers - to cajole people into getting vaccinated seems, to me, to be completely counterintuitive or, perhaps, setting people up to take the blame. If a reasonable person such as yourself is already calling a minority freaks then it seems likely that the division is already well sown and anyone spreading malicious anti vaccine messaging (as opposed to those who are just frightened) has done their job.

Why is saying that you don't like cunts on a Hun thread off topic?