RicoS321

Fucking ace. Definitely watching now. If he doesn't score at least two we should probably drop him.

Nonsense. We need to be cashing in on prospects like Considine. A couple of goals and we could be looking at another £6 or 7 million added to his value.

Yasssssssssssssssssssss, Andy. I'm heading down to Hampden to sit outside with a candle. Best defender in the world. In your face, McKenna.

Yes it is your right. I'm not questioning your right, just asking for explanation of your position. There was no comparison to Rolf Harris, that was an example for illustration of the point, not a comparison. There was no conflation either, just to clarify. Although comparison is not the same as conflation either, which seems to be missed in modern day debate. I'll use another example if it helps: if I were to have punched Tony Blair, I probably wouldn't be that remorseful, but would understand....etc. The point is that you stated that Gallagher was not remorseful, and I'm interested to know how you know that to be the case, and why you think that is? From the pish in the press at the time, the judge said that he believeed it was out of character for Gallagher, which suggests that Gallagher would likely be quite remorseful if it was yer everyday drunken scrap that got out of hand and he lost it, or he was young/stupid/naive or whatever. The fact that you state that he isn't remorseful means that he thinks the guy did something fairly substantial to have merited it (rightly or wrongly) and that he'd do the same thing again. As I say, I can't really see enough in the newspaper reports to guage it, but you seem to have a fairly good grasp of it, which is why I'm curious (I'm definitely not doubting you). The remorse thing is fairly key, you're right, it says a lot about the guy. That's why I asked your thoughts on Goodwillie. I could think of reasons why Gallagher might have done what he did (although I wouldn't, obviously), but none that mitigate Goodwillie's actions as laid out in the civil case. I certainly widnae be paying £500K for a 30 year old though Tup.

He's done his time. It seemed to be an isolated incident. I don't know the facts, but I don't necessarily think that not showing remorse is a sign of a bad person in anyway. For example, if I punched Rolf Harris, I probably wouldn't be that remorseful, but I would understand why it would be assault and expect to be punished for that. Out of interest, we're a club that gave a home to Goodwillie who didn't serve time for the acts described in his civil case. Were you okay with that at the time?

We'll likely lose, but it's job done. The manager's role is to set the team up to always be one game away. Glorious failure is the name of the game.

Aye, McLean a good penalty taker for the dons. We'll take it like. Fraser looked good when he came on. Serbs will be an interesting game. Gallagher very good tonight it has to be said.

Niall slams one in for the norn.

Terrible stuff like. How the fuck Clarke took 73 minutes to make a fucking sub is a mystery. We deserved to lose a goal based on that. Jack looked pish. Mcburnie pish.

Should have signed a two year and got us a fee in the summer for looking after him. Obviously, if he was shite, we'd have hooked him.

Forgot about O'Donnell of course.

Definitely. Better than some of the other pish. It's really the right side that we're struggling for though. We don't have a right back, which is bizarre, but I'm guessing we'll go for a back three. In which case, I'm surprised that Kerr at St Johnstone hasn't been given a shout. Gallagher isn't having a great season by all accounts, I'd have thought Kerr would be that little bit better. If we quickly sign Hoban on a 6 year deal with citizenship thrown in, we could be onto something.

I think that's a very simple view. I would also argue that anyone voting for Biden is an imbecile. But then that has to be weighed against the perceived "shame" of not voting at all, which would be my position if I were in the US. Anyone who votes in that American electoral system is validating an anti-democratic sham. Whether Trump's speech had a touch of Idi Amin about it or not is largely irrelevant. In four years he's been largely - not completely - curtailed in anything he's tried to do that could be described as dangerous or pyschopathic. He's mainly held back by his own incompetence and lack of attention span. I don't see that changing with age. He's no Hitler, he doesn't have the ability. He's not even Steve Bannon. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that he's just a distraction that draws people into the minutae of his every utterance and throws up fake culture wars and arguments that take attention from the real issues.

Just those three, but I'm guessing all Tims will be removed ahead of the most important game in the world the following weekend as a precautionary measure.

Dropping like flies with the covaids.

I was on my laptop. I just didn't think that they had any detail at all on the BBC website. When you go into Scottish football home page, it was just the Scotland game. Going on now, I noticed that you can now get to the Scottish League Cup page from a link under the article about Hamilton getting beaten. I didn't spot it. I find the BBC pages really unintuitive. Especially now that they've replaced the Scottish Premier League page with linked images only instead of having the league table and so on. I'll just have to go to the Scottish Football home page now I suppose, which is fine, but obviously at the moment it's riddled with the Scotland game stuff (which is also fine). My original point about the league cup stands though, there's nowhere on the BBC website showing the scorers and only one article covering the results from last night. You can't click on any game in the link below to see a report or even scorers. That's fairly tragic. BBC League Cup coverage

Well done lad. Hope he does well, but I jut can't see him coming back here and holding down a position unfortunately. Also, is it just me, or can you not access the goalscorers or any match reports for the league cup on the BBC?

Not on here you won't, unless you're actually being racist. Point to a specific policy, tell us about it? I'd love to see your statistics on crime increase, and in what way they relate to policy? I don't buy it, basically, and you've probably seen my position on Biden and the Democratic party in general - it's not great. I'm just not convinced that there is a republican local government that is "doing it right" on crime compared to a democrat one. I'm guessing that if you overlaid poverty statistics and crime you'd get a pretty strong correlation and that if you overlaid poverty statistics and voting democrat you'd also get a pretty strong correlation. In other words, those who face the greatest pressures of inequality are more likely to commit crime and are more likely (though possibly incorrect) to believe that inequality would be reduced by voting democrat. Trump's use of the FBI statistics on crime to show "the top 10 most dangerous places" in the US was at best stupid, at worst, deceptive.

Could be finance related? Maybe he's over budget. Especially if we're missing crowds beyond that time. I didn't think he was that good first time around, just okay. Allows a back four with Hayes further forward though, which would be a benefit. I never thought he was that good positionally, so I'm not convinced he'd cut it as part of a back three. He could just be cover for various positions (we're really short in centre mid, so he can play there). We maybe just couldn't find a centre half so we're using up the budget.

Good luck to him, he definitely needs game time. Although I'm not sure Ayr is a great move for him. I can't think of a single player that has moved there and come back a success.

Agreed, Campbell going out on loan should be a priority. In terms of Ojo, I reckon McInnes knows the writing is on the wall for him and he's probably just trying to walk the fine line between not having a player unsettling the squad whilst at the same time paying him for the privilege. It's a shame, he had a decent spell of 6-7 games post January this year, but he started this season way off the pace, just like he did last season. It's a difficult one, he should have turned out to be a decent signing, I can see why a scout would look at him and think he was a prospect - unlike a Gleeson or Forrester or Tansey who clearly didn't have any of the requirements. Ojo has the attributes to be a decent player, but his application has been terrible. I don't think it's a laziness thing either, it looks entirely like confidence and a lack of belief in his own ability. He's not afraid of a tackle, but arrives late and gets booked stupidly too often and at times he appears like he can hold the ball really well without being daunted under pressure from an opponent and then suddenly he'll just panic and pass it straight to an opponent before panicking further in an attempt to get back in position. He's like a guy that's playing at 70% fitness. He reminds me of Hartley approaching the end of his time; knows what he wants to do, but just can't do it anymore. I don't see where it goes for him in his career, I think he'll be a wasted talent. He's now another, like the many before him, who are taking a place in the squad that a youngster should be filling. It's not healthy to have guys at his stage of his career littering our bench, and every minute he gets on the pitch is now a minute that Campbell doesn't. It's been a problem throughout McInnes' time here, and I think it stems from the fact that he's been fairly well supported by the board. He realised that Bryson and Ojo weren't up to it and the signing of McGeouch was sanctioned. Now McGeouch is getting 20-30 minutes here and there where Campbell could be and Ojo is further complicating it. The board should have told McInnes to make do in January and forced his hand in playing Campbell. McGeouch, after a very poor start with only one good performance prior to the pandemic, is an expensive player to have on our bench.

Which particular policies? Seems fairly normal, centre right, stuff. Maybe a few tokens thrown in for the left. Surely you don't see Biden as someone who's going to stray too far from the donor class' wishes? He's just a slightly shitter Obama.

One thing that is very much noticeable is the lack of passing it across the defence and back again, and then playing it long. When we did play it long, it was nice and early and into the channels. It's just so much more watchable and entertaining. I also think it's important that players like Wright are allowed to make an arse of things. Trying little flicks and clever passes is completely fine, and probably a lot easier with a crowd-free ground. They didn't come off for him at all last night, but they can be exactly the type of thing that makes the difference between scoring and not. For too many years we've been drilled into taking the extra touch, turning and passing or taking a first touch backwards before laying off, so it's great to see a bit more directness. McGinn is very much in the latter, where he always takes an extra touch, which he largely makes up for by being excellent at crossing, but he is very culpable for slowing down a fast break. I think that if we're going to get the best out of Wright, then he needs Hedges close by rather than McGinn (it also gets the best out of Hedges), but I don't think McInnes will see it that way and we might see Wright dropped for the next fixture.

With Hoban playing as an auxiliary winger at the moment, I think we'll need one. To be honest though, Ash did okay last season and I think we'd survive until January with him there if necessary. If there's a decent centre half available on a pre-contract that we could maybe do a deal on in January then that'd be okay. Hoban's new deal has to be a priority.

Leave doddsy alone, he was referring to his potential when he was at Raith before joining Dunfermline. He was wrong about a lot of other stuff though, like joining the fucking Hun and ebts. Anyway, a rather good win in the end. Thought Ferguson had a decent game, with McRorie poor alongside him. Thought McInnes got the setup wrong tonight. Hedges and Wright had formed a decent partnership, they should be the front two with Watkins. McGinn getting on a bit but he's a fairly reliable tracker back and would be far better at the wing back role. Watkins was very good, but he's nae a striker. So many times he needed to go across his man but didn't. Hayes been great since he came back, a fantastic signing. Hoban very good too. Good changes by McInnes. Not sure about Edmondson yet. McLennan played well.