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You could be right, I don't imagine these fixtures offer anything to any of our players who've just had a long season, and I'd expect drop outs.

Bowie, Conway and Wilson is wild. I'm not seeing it with Wilson at all to be honest. Bowie might have something about him, and Conway is half decent. Three right backs and one left back is an interesting concept too. I'm intrigued by the young lad Hanley at Birmingham too, it'll be interesting to see if he gets an opportunity with an eye on the competitive games. Don't get me started on the goalies though. Edit: for some reason, I didn't notice Robertson in either of the above posts! Fine with the fullbacks. Apart from Ralston, who shouldn't be invited

Getting rid of Doc to employ an inexperienced former Utd favourite would be tremendous banter.

Exactly. Unless he joins the Jambos. They clearly had a problem defensively, but I thought - like us and St Johnstone (under Valakari) - it was because he was being too open in an attempt to be attacking and "play out from the back". Certainly, Dundee from a couple of seasons ago, played some really nice football. They lost McCowan, which was a key component of that style, and it doesn't seem unreasonable that they might have an off season whilst looking to work out a new way to play. That said, it's probably not too dissimilar to Robson with us. He played good direct football, underpinned by two relentless midfielders, but when one left he just pretended that hadn't happened and continued to do exactly the same things. Thelin can count himself very lucky that he's foreign, and announced a "project" before this season, because it strikes me that Docherty has done exactly what he has this season (not learning from mistakes). Get him back to the Dons as setpiece coach I say.

Was he not once friends with a good manager though?

That's a shame, I thought that he might have turned out to be a decent manager. Wonder if he'll get the Hearts assistant's role? On one hand, it's decent of Dundee to have given him the season, but on the other, it feels like they could have then offered him the chance to have a crack at it next season. I do think that having a poor season shouldn't be enough for a manager to lose their job if at all possible (if they're not spiralling). I don't know enough about Dundee's position though.

Can't believe that the Jambos have taken our bottom six champions title though. Devastated.

Finished a draw for County. I reckon Livi might beat them.

Maybe saving Nisbet for the final. To be honest, we had lost the game by that point, and Nisbet had already missed a good chance and looked frustrated generally. Earlier in the season, I complimented Thelin on numerous occasions when he made proactive subs that stemmed the opposition after they'd come back into the game. He's reverted to type now though. What is it with every single manager in the world not making subs until ~65th minute? Is there some sort of training manual? As soon as we started to get shaky, about 5-10 minutes before the goal, the subs should have been on. Disrupt the flow, make their manager think, and maybe one or two of their players will be hesitant to push on until they get a handle on the sub. Keskinen for Okkels, a lamppost for Gueye, does it really make a difference taking those two off ten minutes before the alloted time? It should have been very clear that we were going to be losing a goal shortly. It was to me.

It might be that we see them when they're a bit older like Milne and MacKenzie. I'm assuming we'll get some money from the actual good ones that go down South before kicking a ball too.

I don't think he'll ever play for us to be honest. We're spending far too much money in the transfer windows to have time for these lads. I don't see a route for any of the lads at Cove, or Bavidge.

I thought Emslie looked a little Connor McLennany

Lobban definitely the stand out any time I've seen Cove. Not sure we need a third right back unfortunately.

On BBC alba for those with a telly.

Is there any truth in the rumour that Nilsen was in the crowd at today's game?

And it's English pish.

Yep, a reasonable question. There's a lot of conflating "seeking to explain", with "justification" when these types of incidents occur. It's completely acceptable to try and understand why something occurred, whilst also maintaining that it is entirely unjustifiable (which you are doing). I asked the question about booze, because every time I've been to tannadice, it's been riddled with folk completely fucked, and it's the second time that throwing incidents have occurred. It's also correct to point out that had the pitch invasion not happened, the chair throwing wouldn't, Utd will have a degree of liability here and will probably get fined. Again, it's not an excuse, or justification, just evidence. As @Slim points out, they were teenage kids that were goading the Dons fans, it could have caused some serious damage. It takes a serious idiot to launch a chair at a crowd of people.

Can you eat them?

He seemed to be putting in a decent shift in the opening 30 minutes. However, I'd bow to @Jute on this one, as numerous times I've come back from a game thinking Gueye was a disgrace, but others on here have seen differently. A lot of what he doesn't do is hard to spot on telly, it's his off the ball work that it usually lamentable. I'd rather he wasn't here next season. I can't be doing with players like him and Duk who pick and choose when they perform and are poor team players. Waste of a shirt.

That's fucking mental. There are a significant minority of absolute cunts in our support, and they show themselves when away from home. Does the local boozer still give out a box of 24 beers to any customer willing to pay? Reckon a bit more can be done pre-match in Dundee to weed out some of the worst fuckers. Hopefully the individual will be forced to watch the last four games on repeat, in a cell, for two years.

Fucking fuck me.

Changes after the goals. Fucking criminal.

Need to get Palaversa off too.

Never a pen, he fell over.

Need a sub. Morris for Gueye or Polvara for Gueye. Edit: nah, we wait until they score, as always.