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Correct, but his old man knows the score. He's a Hun, of course, but not a Hun Hun. He was delighted when his loon was motm and scored the winning goal at Hampden to take the dons to the cup final ahead of the scum, as was Lewis himself and McInnes despite the fact that they're rabid Huns it seems. The comparison with Jack is a good one. A very good player, and exceptionally mature, at a young age. Didn't seem to have the belief in his own ability to progress out-with Scotland despite being clearly good enough, wanting to be the big fish in the smaller pond as is his right (and he's still a very good player). I think Ferguson is a little bit more like McKenna in that regard and his old man* will certainly instill that in him too. I think he has the potential to be an absolutely fantastic player, there's so much visible space for improvement there. *Having heard his uncle speak a few times over the last few years, I've actually been impressed with his attitude and grounding (very self deprecating, which was a surprise) and I get the impression he'd advise his nephew to be the best he can be too, and that doesn't require a move to the Hun at this stage in his career.

Not on my watch he doesn't. He's been consistently good again this season, solid and reliable and one of the few players showing any drive. But we're more than covered in his position and he only got drafted in when injuries occurred anyway, so it's no disgrace that he's not there (unlike Palmer). Once I kneecap several of the other defenders in the squad, the dons dream team defence will be reinstated for the England game with Andy scoring the 90th minute header.

Aye, Winslet a cracking actress like. Really good. Although I thought Monday's was the last episode and was a little disappointed, but it turns out there's two more. Enjoying it.

I'm guessing both sides are playing it a bit here. The dons will want his desire to leave public as early as possible and the player wants to leave as early as possible. I've no problem with it, much better than handing in a request the night before a European game.

They're in because of injuries, so it seems fair enough. The Paterson one reeks a little given Palmer hasn't let anyone down. He's not even been great for the u21s in the games I've seen, so I don't think he's deserved it at all. Tokenism indeed. Thought Clarke was above that.

Yet when I asked you the question earlier you didn't answer. I entirely agree with you.

Meh. McKenna did exactly the same but still continued to play well for us. He'll be doing what his agent tells him is best to do. He's got a long time left on his deal so we hold the cards and can hold out for a good offer. Run his course here so a good offer will hopefully be forthcoming.

You can't even state your position, so it's blatantly clear that your attitude is more of a problem. I've stated mine on numerous occasions (in summary, it's point b) above). You're not saying anything remotely controversial or new here. Football stopped being a competitive sport in this country at least two decades ago. I'm asking you what you'd do to tackle it. Not just repeat the same thing back to me.

Considine dropped. Tournament over. Dicks.

Welcome aboard jet.

Voter ID/suppression underway in the UK. In an ideal world this would be enough for the people to see through the government and for it to take them down. Plays to their base unfortunately.

Really? What did they say? Doesn't surprise me mind.

You didn't make a point. That's the point. Do you think the dons should: a) spend tens of millions over multiple seasons chasing the league b) work with other clubs to force a complete overhaul of the game and its financial distribution. c) neither of the above, just "believing" is enough to win the league.

If we've offered him an increased deal, which it looks like we have given the list of leavers just announced then we're due a training fee for Anderson. Something like £250k I think would be the asking price, however it's unlikely anyone will go close to that so as bait in a swap seems fine. Although I am far from convinced by jet.

It was absolutely criminal of Cormack not to allow any signings in the January window. I completely understand that McInnes was likely on his way out, but that's not remotely the point. We've changed nothing in terms of recruitment (that I'm aware of), so the notion that we'll suddenly start picking up amazing talent with Glass being the only change is silly. At most, he'll have one or two players that he'll favour but so far we're fishing in the same pond. Gallagher, Jet, Robertson are not signings that McInnes wouldn't have pulled off. As I've been droning on about for years, recruitment is a club responsibility, with a manager signing off. The club should be assessing targets and coming to a consensus. That process should have happened in January so that we weren't stuck with needing 5 or 6 first team players. That's an exceptionally difficult task in a single window. If Cormack had doubts about McInnes, which he should have, then all he needed to do was to instruct the club's scouting team to look for targets in the areas where we would be short in the coming season and tell McInnes to take a back seat while that process occurred. If he didn't think that the recruitment team was good enough then that needed to be addressed in January. Glass is a manager, not a scout, the roles need to be separated. It very much seems like Cormack and Glass are winging it.

I agree. He had decent potential when he was here but was lightweight as a youngster. He obviously would have addressed that with age and has made a half decent career playing in the championship. As others have mentioned, the fitness over the last year or two is a concern. And he's a hun.

That's not the question I asked. We're not at the stage where teams don't even bother trying to challenge, that's the point. We're at the stage where teams don't pretend to you, the supporter, that they're going to challenge. There's a logical difference. There is no correlation between a team that says they are going to win the league and them winning it. None. Just as there was no correlation between St Mirren saying that they were going to finish fourth and finishing fourth. Jack Ross cannot win the league, neither can Stephen Glass, or any of the players that play for either team. It will take tens of millions of pounds of investment as shown by the dirty scum. We don't exist in some fairy tale where all it takes is some shouty melt that will get £2K per week players to romp to victory with good old fashioned grit. If you're suggesting that we spend tens of millions of pounds then do that, or suggest a way that we can change the politics of our game to challenge the duopoly, but don't spout some disingenuous pish about "not challenging" as if it's as simple as trying hard.

They do try, they're just realistic about their chances. Would you prefer that they pretended they could win the league before every season? Would that make it more acceptable? Or are you someone that thinks there is a significant correlation between believing you can win the league and actually winning it?

I've not seen anything particularly good about Glass so far, nor anything completely horrendous either. When you say he's not taking any passengers, what do you mean? I don't think there's much evidence either way so far.

Just like Brown, it would be a high risk signing. If I were the manager, I'd steer well clear of guys that you have to devote a lot of time to and I think Griffiths would be one of those. That said, I'd like to think it wouldn't matter if we sold Ferguson or not, and if we wanted Griffiths we'd offer him a reasonable contract. Then again, I wouldn't sell Ferguson either, I think we need him for at least another six months. I think the chances of us successfully implementing a complete overhaul of our team in one window are virtually nil and I think that Ferguson has the potential to be very good in the coming season. Similarly, I'd be concerned that with a good pre-season we'd be missing out on a very good player in McRorie. McGeouch, Ojo, Virtanen, Kennedy, Devlin are the guys we want to be shipping to drop the numbers in the squad. It would be a fucking abomination to give Devlin a contract while letting McRorie go.

Strict liability doesn't exist in Scottish fitba. It's what the clubs, including AFC, want. Let's not pretend that a similar percentage of dons fans wouldn't have been doing similar though. I'm pretty certain there'll be a party or two in the streets of St Johnstone when they win the cup next week.

Ferguson improved in the games since McInnes left, his workrate certainly increased and he was getting in the box far more regularly. In my opinion he was struggling with the extra workload so late in the season and probably the change in training regime. His final ball/shot just seemed to be fairly weak like he was running out of steam (Hayes too). His effort against the Tims was a good example of this after Brown's pass. I think he'll be a much improved player next season with a good preseason in him. I really hope we keep hold of him and he proves himself worthy of a move. I could easily see a team taking an expensive punt on him in the summer, but I don't think he deserves it.

Celtic finished on a higher points total than anyone outside the scum ever has. There's nothing loser-ish about the mentality at all, that's shite. You can afford to buy a team that can get to 80+ points or you can't. We could probably just about afford one, but it would require zero recruitment errors. Would you call your neighbour a loser cause they couldn't afford a Ferrari? When every single league in the world is bought, why would you expect AFC or Hibs to manage to overcome that? Are the various Portuguese, Italian, German, Belgian teams who don't win their leagues losers too?

Did well in his second spell. If he'd been a new signing without the baggage of his prior stint, we'd have been disappointed to see him go. Good luck to him.

Worth a read of you haven't already. It was China