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I think it was Considine. It was a really good cross, very difficult for the defender. The fault was with the three players that didn't prevent the cross coming in, or even making it difficult. I thought we were decent last night, but I didn't see anything we wouldn't have under McInnes (the 3-3 earlier in the season was a much more accomplished performance), which is to be expected. What we did see is a team that's had its confidence raised a little by the new manager, responding well to some simple instructions. Ferguson starting to look back to the way he was playing at the start of the season and he should have put that chance away after the lovely through ball from Brown. Hopefully we can do the business at the weekend and give us another game to look forward to, and hopefully the players can just enjoy the remainder of the season.

Collum was 400 times better than the guy at the weekend. Would like to see the Turnbull incident again, I think it's a red but not sure. Definitely not a pen for Hayes, just ran out of steam.

Decent line up. Guessing Henry through the middle and Kamberi wide, with McGinn tanking about wherever, getting ready to not celebrate after scoring. Looking forward to it.

But what actually happened? Guys like Milne sided with the Tims so that the actual things that matter don't change. We set the stage perfectly for a triumphant Hun return. The fans had a say in absolutely nothing. What happens if this super League shite doesn't happen? A return to the ultra fair closed shop champions League? A proper discussion about the fairness of the game, fan ownership, equality, integrity, competition? It's the equivalent of voting for labour, but still being left with Westminster. It's what isn't talked about that's the issue, not this pish. It's fucking staggering the outrage at such an obvious conclusion to the game at that level. Where did those club's fans think that they were headed? They're just disappointed that they had the audacity to not maintain the illusion of fairness and sporting merit. That's why the politicians are involved, these clubs broke the golden rule by forgetting to pretend that they were doing it for the good of the game. They forgot the greenwash. Edit: they made the cardinal sin of not wrapping their statement in: "we here at the Liverpool family..."

Will be really interesting to see how we approach this one. I don't think they'll struggle to get themselves back to speed for this one. Their record is fairly good against anyone who isn't the Huns with a massive goal difference and on track to get to 80 points. We'll be confident following the cup win, but there were still some glaring deficiencies in our game. Will be interesting to see if McRorie plays at right back or if we go with an extra man in midfield. He's been poor for quite some time now and he was way off it again against Livi. I don't know if Glass would risk Ramsay and McKenzie, but it would be justified. I can't see McRorie being dropped though, which is one of the dilemmas we're going to have next season when we're completely overloaded in midfield.

It would revitalise it, but it wouldn't answer the question of what we want from a league, just as it didn't when the huns died. I'd rather be in a position where any of the top tier could win the league (within a couple of years of promotion, say). A proper competition for proper sport. That would mean that we wouldn't get to keep any european money, and would require that TV money was split evenly. Customers through the door would still go to the clubs, but the issue that sees us with 4 times the budget of Hamilton is no better than the one that see the huns and tims buy their success. If that means [total] wage caps or whatever, then I'm all for it. The whole league has to improve together or not at all. I don't believe for a second that this would happen of course. Our greed is just less succesful than the cheeks.

He's a clever lad that Mourinho, always looks out for himself. Failing in the role and sees a way out whilst at the same time retaining complete integrity. He'll likely join Juve in September.

Absolutely. However, it's fairly clear that we'd become the new huns. Without complete restruction, wealth sharing and competition as the main driver we'd pick up a fairly unfair share of the revenues coming into the game. The scum need the colts in the league first before they fuck off as the uproar would be too big were they to be let in afterward. What would likely occur, however, is that the scum fans would likely try to setup some fan owned franchise of both teams that made their way up through the pyramid, possibly even utilising their grounds. I'd struggle to see a barrier to that other than some form of sterilisation program.

It's not really suspicious though is it? I don't think they've tried to hide their intentions to fuck off and leave a B team in our league setup.

It was consistent with the ref's entire performance, he was incredibly bad. Showed a complete misunderstanding of the game of football, with 47 fouls given. Livi were slowing the game down and doing plenty of niggly fouls that would have been nipped in the bud with an early booking. However, he was blowing for the slightest contact on any player on the pitch (by that stupid standard, it was a pen). Football is a contact sport, you have to allow the type of collision (and it was barely that) that occurred between Campbell and JET. It's not helped by the idiot commentators that parrot the EPL/MOTD shite of "there was contact"/"entitled to go down", which is just a slippery slope toward a game where nobody can touch anyone at any point. It gives refs an excuse for making shite decisions, but also gives added confusion for those refs who haven't played the game and don't understand it. Going by the ref's ridiculous standard of non contact at the weekend we should have had a pen for their defender pushing Henry into the goalkeeper (it wasn't a pen, but more of a pen than Campbell's one). He shouldn't be reffing at professional level at the moment, he clearly wasn't up to it.

It's just a logical extension to the existing model, I'm failing to see what their issue is. Are they seriously trying to suggest that the leagues of Europe aren't already available to the highest bidder?

I think it's a bit of a myth that we punted the ball long regularly under McInnes, and we did so just as often yesterday. That's often just a function of the shape and the movement in front and there's little the defence can do about that. It seemed to me that Considine especially just took it upon himself to stride forward with the ball which forced the movement in front of him. The difference being that McInnes would likely have told him to hold his position and exercise caution. Until Glass decides his best formation I think we'll not see massive changes in our approach.

Aye, I thought he was shite in the first half but finished strongly as the rest of the team found their feet. Ferguson a lot more dynamic today too, obviously been told to get into the box a lot more and I think we'll start to see him back to the level he can perform at. Thought McRorie was gash and Hoban poor too. Considine played like a captain, the only one with complete commitment and drive throughout the game (although some honking passes in the first half) when others were hiding. Henry and Kamberi did well and McGinn showed his class again. They played anti football for most of the match and deserved to lose. Great to see us run up and take throw ins and set pieces quickly, instead of the nonsense under McInnes where only the designated throw in taker was allowed to take it after everyone was in their correct position.

Never in doubt. Shat myself when I saw the former England striking coach giving advice on penalties though.

Forgot, the ref been very, very bad. 800 free kicks. Fucking awful.

Two goals. Fairly entertaining after our goal. Considine been good, McRorie and Hoban gash. McGinn class for both goals. Henry and Kamberi made a difference.

Fuck sake McInnes, fucking change it.

I've heard that instead of playing it out from the back, we've adopted a style whereby the ball isn't allowed to touch the ground. Volleys only, no headers. All very American apparently.

Looks very much like a McInnes team, will be interesting to see the setup. Harsh on McKenzie, I'm guessing Hayes will be left back, or no left back in a three.

Jack would definitely have been in. Now we can go back to McTominay in midfield.

Aye, that'll work well. Can't wait to see our midfield of McRorie, Campbell, Ferguson, Brown, McGeouch and virtanen next season.

It's a serious gamble if true. He's been pish for a very long time.

Not sure that would stand up in court! If he'd punched the guy square in the face the minute it occurred I'd have understood, but there was a decent amount of time between the abuse and the assault. I don't think he'll be charged, but he'll be lucky not to be. I think uefa have got it about right there, with the Czech guy missing out on the Euros. Again, the Tims being lionised (by Anwar this time) on the BBC without a single mention of the Logan incident. It'd be an interesting thought experiment to consider what would have happened had Logan been playing for the Huns. I think they would have hung their player out to dry. That's the biggest thing in the eyes of Scottish football, the relationship between the two cheeks. Much bigger than racism, ironically.

Looking forward to it, wouldn't expect much change from the second half of last week. Glass had been fortunate with the timing of his arrival. Hornby being fit makes a big difference to the setup of the team. It's not that I think he's particularly great (jury is still out), but having a number 9 on the pitch completely effects the way we play and brings out the best in the other players. We've not had a fit number nine this year and arguably all season despite Watkins playing the role very well. Hopefully Hornby shoes what his large transfer fees were all about.

If we don't win the cup and finish third, he can fuck off back to Atlanta. Welcome aboard Glasser. Looking forward to it.