RicoS321

Legend for Aberdeen, best keeper in the league, completely overlooked for the national side. As soon as he joins the Tims, Clarke calls him up straight away. Disgusting.

This would be one of the best made up stories I've read. Good work.

Mate in the know suggested it might be New Zealand international, Nevin Kisbet.

Ah, that makes sense. Maybe we should consider coaxing Winters out of retirement for the Liechtenstein game.

Aye, that'd be correct. Slicker is the obvious choice, because he came through the u21s, and nobody expected him to have to play. McRorie had a dogshite season for Killie and McCracken is also guff. I'd probably take Kelly in, because he's fairly comfortable with his feet, but he's another guy who chose money and being a sub over first team football (not necessarily a criticism, just maybe not something we should be rewarding). I'm not going to blame Clarke for the goalie situation though, there has to be other people at the SFA looking at these things. Slicker isn't ready, but he should have been able to be thrown in against a pish team and told to go and do his best without pressure. He's 22, not 17. Gordon had probably played fifty games by that age. Whilst he's never looked particularly good for the u21s, Ipswich obviously felt he was good enough to be given a four year deal, so an international friendly shouldn't have been beyond him. Hopefully it hasn't damaged him too much, but I suspect that he might have just dispensed with his entire career.

That was impressive in the scale of its shiteness. I have absolutely no idea why we're playing friendlies after the season has ended, but, regardless, it was one of the most clueless performances I've seen. It all falls on Clarke unfortunately. He picked guys like Hanley, and also chose a back three (Tierney looked dogshite too, Souttar was fine, probably MOTM). Johnson wasn't great, McGinn pish, Hirst isn't required (although wasn't terrible), Ferguson poor. Lennon Miller looked decent when he came on!

Aye, competition winner. Ambrose in goals.

Because he's a dirty Tim fuck.

He's a young lad, in a difficult fixture, it'll be interesting to see what he can do.

Hilarious. Trump really is thick as shite. Everyone in the galaxy could see that coming before they even met. What an embarrassment of a nation (as most nations are). Two of life's absolute losers involved in a playground slagging match. Who'd have thought that volume of money (handily accrued from daddy) wasn't a good barometer for wisdom? Or a metric of anything really, other than the game of money. What a pair of charlatan cunts.

Seems like a half decent manager. What's the deal, not minded enough? The weird thing is they'd likely have been excited if it had been the son of a good manager, or Gerrard who's objectively worse than Martin. Hopefully be gone by November with a massive payout.

It might not be true, but it was good of you to ShayRe id.

That's like praising someone for having a better human rights record than Hitler. Have to say, though, that Hale and Murray up front for Dundee would likely see them top six. Sometimes you can even employ Steven Pressley and have everything just fall into place on the transfer front. I think he'd come to us over them, even as backup, but it depends what he wants for himself. I think England would be a bad move, don't think he's suited to the game down there.

No way he's turning down the opportunity to work with Elvis. We move on. In all seriousness though, I'm not sure about him. He's a good goalscorer, but he never looked particularly great on the other aspects. Given that he'd be out second choice, that finishing aspect could go out the window without match sharpness. I think Sokler would score a similar number of goals as first choice in a team like County. If he was Scottish, then it'd be a no-brainer, for European numbers.

I don't speak Arabic, but does that say "fuck the Tims" in the inscription?

I hope we finish ahead of Steven Pressley's crack Dundee outfit.

Him and Carroll were the two I think. Carroll to Forest was the one that fell through.

Great minds etc. That was almost my exact reaction. Must have been Strachan?

It's a decent stadium, I've been a couple of times. Out of town though, like a Spanish McDairmid.

Elche promoted. My folks are season ticket holders there. That'll be their prices up for next season!

Maybe, but Knoester isn't brilliant in the air, and both are good positionally and coming out with the ball, so are usefully interchangeable. Milne would be the most comfortable of the three on his wrong side, but I wouldn't want him playing there other than an emergency (or to preserve subs within a game). Tobers and Dorrington have both been poor on the wrong side. But it's beside the point really, if we're saying Molloy isn't good enough as cover, then we need another left sided centre back to cover Knoester, as Dorrington isn't the answer there, not the other two.

I didn't think he was poor on the right for more than one or two games. He appeared far more settled on his correct foot. The loan system does indeed get you better players, but it would make zero sense to take any player on loan for a position you already have three players for without moving a couple on (in the case of defenders, who generally form partnerships and get plenty minutes). You'd basically be saying to both Tobers or Milne that they are surplus this season, but good for next season once we send the better player back to his club. Neither are young lads, and would rightly take the hint that next season would likely see the same scenario. As I said, fine if we're moving two on. I would disagree that one should be Molloy though. Molloy at left side of defence is better than Milne, Dorrington or Tobers on their wrong side. Where you see four centre backs (in your scenario, sending Molloy away), I see an imbalance of three right sided and one left sided. To me, it makes more sense to have two left and two right, plus the option of Polvara to cover if we lose two on either side. If one is Dorrington, then Tobers or Milne needs to go, alongside Rubi. We had a tight squad last season, with a few players in it that needed to be appeased. We shouldn't be starting the season with that approach on known quantities. We didn't know guys like Ambrose weren't going to be up to it, as they were new signings, and we'll undoubtedly pick up some more duds this summer too, that'll all need game time. Dorrington would unsettle the squad too much in my opinion, so if he comes, someone needs to make way. Unless we're changing to a back three of course, in which case fire on.

Maddison, Clarkson and - due to injuries - Dorrington were all signed for places in the squad where we were short. That's generally how the loan system works. Overloading the squad with defenders by loaning one is a terrible idea. If Tobers and Milne are deemed not good enough, to the extent that we're loaning a player, then one needs to go. Obviously, the caveat being if it's a loan with agreed fee. The biggest reason for signing Dorrington would be his sell on fee. That'd be the only reason to sign him, and we'd need to move one on (aside from Rubi). The worst thing would be if we signed him with the intention of pretending that him or another of the right centre halves can play on the left. He was poor on the left. Last thing we need is another imbalanced squad.

He's got a lot of good attributes, it remains to be seen if he can match that with the mentality and drive to use them. The fact that he hasn't set the heather alight at QP is a big issue. He's going to need to work very hard in preseason if he's not going to be released. If he could work on his sprinting, that could be very beneficial. At the moment, he hasn't the power to back up his technical skills, and I think that with a good bit of work he could make it. That's no different to Polvara, Palaversa and many others. Currently I'd put him in the Jayden Richardson category of a player that should be good, but might never be. There may be an opportunity for him to drop back to left back for next season. He's diligent enough for that role, if he no longer wants to drive at players further forward. Dorrington is an interesting one. He's going to be a better player than Tobers, and probably Milne, but we'd be buying him just so that we didn't miss out. Unless we're moving to a three, I don't see it. I don't like to see buying players just because they're available, and we'd need to shift on at least one in my opinion. Happy to see Tobers moved on for Dorrington. I think Tobers can adequately be replaced by Milne and Dorrington will be more valuable in a few years than Tobers. There is no world in which we need Milne, Dorrington, Tobers and Rubi. Especially when Polvara can more than adequately cover that side of defence. Move a couple on (if signing Dorrington) and use the funds to sign a striker.

Like we'd accept that.