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Gunn is there because his da played for the Dons, and he's neither Zander Clark or Liam Kelly. Also, that lineup builder website didn't have "Lamppost" as an option. I'd bring Bowie on for the last half hour probably. Adams is very hardworking and will run their backline around for a while, which is a good option away from home. Ferguson ahead of Christie I wasn't sure about either. I always associate Ferguson with playing further forward, and I'd be intrigued to see Christie play in the role he does for his club, even though I'd have reservations about the weakness of him and Gilmour together. I'm fairly certain that Clarke will continue to play him on the wing, despite him being ineffective there for quite some time, and we'll see McGinn landing us in shite from a deep lying position instead.

Should be interesting tonight. Might get a good idea of how the qualifying will go. Odds on Clarke shoehorning Hanley (on his wrong side) and McLean into the starting lineup? Thankfully Ralston is out, or he'd have been in too, and with Tierney missing that should see the end of the back three. I'd go with the following. I don't like McTominay and McGinn together, but maybe with Doak providing width, that'll create enough space for them not to step on each other's toes. Christie and Gilmour is quite a light midfield, but we don't really have a hard midfielder who does the yards (McGinn solid, but gets caught in possession far too often to be deep).

That does sound risky. And sore.

The question would be whether Motherwell have a route to the first team or if Lennon Miller was just really fucking good? I think it's the latter. I really think it needs to be part of a publicised strategy. We're taking through 1-2 players per season with the aim of giving them twenty first team games (or equivalent). Get the manager on board and ask the fans for patience. We should be able to carry a young player in a lot of games. It's strange that we apply double standards to carrying a young player, versus carrying Yengi, Ambrose and the myriad of other pish signings over the years. Boyd could easily have played a dozen games from the bench last season.

I'd have Doig over Tierney going forward. Tierney is a great player on his day, but that happens once a season.

Will we get a cut of the transfer?

Massive shock, as Tierney pulls out of the squad through injury. The other lad too. Ridiculously, no call up for Armstrong, despite his massive summer move.

Fucking Sunday league pish!

Great to see young lads like Lazetic, Gyamfi, Duncan and Suman get their opportunity on the big stage. As an aside, we really need to be getting minutes for Lobban. Or we could just send him down south for a million quid, and never see him play.

Aye, it's a strange one. Although he looked good when he first joined. I mentioned previously how I thought that signing Dorrington made zero sense. Whilst there are still plenty of games for him to be involved in during the season, I imagine it'll leave a sour taste missing out on Europe. It's great for us to have an option such as him if we get two injuries at the back (once Tobers is fit I mean), but it's at the expense of a young lad's development, which isn't great. He could have gone to Livingston or Dundee and played every single week. After his involvement last season, I hope we were at least up front and honest with him that he'd be third choice right centre back.

It doesn't look too bad. I'd start Armstrong over Aouchiche if he's fit. Fullbacks are a bit poor, and the midfield is crying put for legs (what we should be getting from Palaversa basically). The other problem being that we've not got much of a plan B, and a few injuries to the players that make things happen and we turn into the nice looking but easy to beat team we've seen since the middle of last season.

Weird. Does it help that he's Scottish, for European purposes? As in, we might as well have another Scot to fill a place that would otherwise be empty? He was decent a few years back, but not entirely sure what he offers. A, sort of, McGrath replacement perhaps?

Think Gyamfi is October, not sure about Tobers. Given they've not had a preseason, they probably won't be up to speed for half the fixtures, so might be easier to just keep them out of it.

Don't you need three goalies? I'm guessing Gyamfi and Tobers could comfortably be left out.

Can naebidy at the BBC contact AFC to find out the whereabouts of Boyd? Just to see if he's okay really, a young loon like that. Also ask him if he's seen Sokler. Cheers.

I think he had to leave after the Germans bombed the city in 1943.

It didn't have the bit about Jesper in earlier! All good now, apart from the ever present segregation and prominent coverage of the scum.

Apparently he went to a campervan trade fair at the Birmingham exhibition centre instead of signing for Villa, and he's currently making his way back up the road in a luxury motorhome. Just rumours like.

Weegie pish Did Nick go to bed early after quickly penning some old firm shite and a couple of afterthoughts?

They don't show you the 78 efforts he blootered over the stand though. He certainly turns a bad window into a nae bad window. Obviously, he's just a stop gap, but it buys us time until January, when we can address the glaring issue of midfield. It's clearly a difficult time to be buying players. In terms of squad building for Europe, I think we're nowhere near the required level, but it is what it is. Hopefully by January we'll have a good picture of where the new signings are at, and we've had six months to nail down a potential midfielder. We're putting all our eggs in one basket with this lad, so he better not get injured! Edit: oh, aye, welcome back Kevin

That's a shite idea

I'm concerned that if I go to bed now, big Jesper won't be signed when I wake up.

So nae midfielder then, and no confirmation of Boyd or Sokler (or Nilsen!) leaving?

A loan deal, I take it? Reckon he might be an upgrade on Okkels.

This is outrageous