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Cosgrove had great work ethic at the start of last season. He had clearly worked on it from the previous season and was covering much more ground, taking the ball in the channels etc. Scored some great goals too, showing his touch is good. He seemed to take a huge dip when we moved to the new training ground. Whether he took on too much in training, or he got tired being part of a team that were getting worse by the week and hiding behind his goals and punting it to him. I think his own sulky attitude brought him down quicker, but that can be worked on and not unusual in a young player. With the right management he can go on to have a significantly better career than Watkins. I'd be very annoyed if we don't take advantage of that by offering him a much better team and style to play in.

He's not as good as Cosgrove, on the ground or in the air. We can choose to play on the ground with Cosgrove in the team. But it's not really about being on the ground or in the air for either really, it's about getting the ball to them quickly. I'd happily have Watkins of course, he's a good player, but he's nae scoring 20 goals a season.

Aye, mods, I think you missed one when you were handing oot the cairds. This one's got nothing to add to life.

I disagree, we're perfectly capable of playing the ball on the deck when Cosgrove is playing, the important thing is movement in and around him. Our problems last season stemmed from McInnes flooding the midfield with exactly the same player and chopping and changing the wingers every six minutes. If Cosgrove had the movement around him today at times last season, he'd have been a far better player (we did have that at times early in the season). Cosgrove has a good touch and lay off and is excellent when you get the ball to him early. Better than Watkins and Main, definitely. It's when you lazily pack the midfield and hopefully punt it to his coupon that he struggles. Wright didn't do that much on the ball today, but his movement was terrific and obviously Hedges too. Cosgrove scored twenty goals before Christmas last season, and there's absolutely nothing about his game that means we have to sacrifice the way we played today. We can - and should have - both the great movement, quick play and the twenty goal per season striker. McInnes just needs to get that. Other teams can see it in Cosgrove, that's why he has a price tag that Watkins and Main together could only dream of. Obviously, my comment comes with the huge caveat of McInnes getting that!

McRorie been excellent. The Hedges, Wright link up would have been some goal if they'd finished it.

Nice work. Did you hollow it out? Controversial with all that wid. Think I'd have ripped it into pieces for front, sides etc. Looks great though, will be interesting to see if it there's a lot of movement over time. Fit type of wood is it? Looks like a mahogany or gum maybe? Nae really up on my Aussie timmer.

Yep, 3-4-1-2 would be the business like. Wright ahin Watkins and Hedges. Good looking line up if so.

McGeouch dropped? Controversial. If it's three at the back, it'll be interesting to see if it's McRorie or Hoban in front. I'm assuming McRorie. I can't imagine having that attacking midfield, but with confirmation that it's gogic out, perhaps he thinks he can afford a midfield of Hedges, Wright, Ferguson*? *I mean if it's a four in defence (which I don't think it is)

I thought your point was that they were using heat maps, hence why I asked for evidence. This is just a link to some other stuff.

There's a massive difference between gchq and the local police. Do you genuinely think gchq are passing info to police to break up parties? Do you even think that the type of person involved at that level doesn't love the distraction of a party to cover up political fuck ups. The surveillance isn't about stopping all crime, they couldn't give a fuck about the break ins and "the war on drugs", that's the shite that keeps the plebs' hands wringing and allows the surveillance in the first place. It's only when you challenge the system or join a protest that you actually become a problem. I do consider myself under 100% surveillance, and I do consider it an issue, but you seem to be drawing the wrong conclusions from that surveillance in my view.

I'd agree about Kennedy, but not seen anything from Hernandez to suggest he's any better. Logan is significantly better than both defensively.

Aye, musk's a weird fucker. Wouldn't trust him with that shite. Snowden warned that it was possible. Is there any evidence of police using heat maps to break up parties?

Right...

No, the bike was a birthday present, so I don't think I was conned, but I'm guessing there was some sort of subliminal messaging going on whereby I was actually conned but am too stupid to realise it. It'll be interesting like, I'm maybe being a bit optimistic. I'm going for 4-2 the dons. McKenna, Kennedy, Ferguson (pen) and Watkins.

Holy fuck, are you genuinely 56? That's fucking hilarious.

I expect us to ditch defending and go for a free flowing, attack at all cost, approach. I'm inclined to disagree with jute, I think McInnes might stick to three at the back. Usually when McInnes has a game plan, you see ten minutes or so of it in the previous game if we're winning. He didn't revert to a back four (I could have missed it to be fair!), and he retained a front two. He didn't even see it out at 2-0, which was sinister. Almost like he was listening to Andy Considine fae the Livi game. I'm think he'll keep the 3-5-2 with Hayes and Kennedy, with Watkins and Main ahead of Hedges, Ferguson and McGeouch. I'd like to see Main dropped and Hedges up front and Wright in and hopefully lack of fitness (Main) will see to that, but probably not. I think Wright could draw gogic into a few bookable spots. He's slow, so I think he'd struggle being given the run around by Wright. I'll be taking my daughter out on her new bike and then watching the game.

Nah, it's more like praising a man with five convictions for armed robbery for walking past an open vault full of money. As someone likely never said.

Yep, really well done. Right decision.

But if you include those predictions, which are really just an extrapolation of existing policy direction, you have to include his mental ones regarding lizards and prior alien visits. Nutjobs are often right about some/many things (George Galloway for instance), but when they take a scattergun approach like Ike, they deserved to be ridiculed. Ike isn't censored either, he's largely ignored for being a little bit fucking mental. In my opinion, he detracts from useful discussion of the very valid subjects you mention. If I were in charge, I'd class Ike as a great person to have out there as he allows those who want to have serious discussion about - say - the monetary system or cashless society to be thrown into the Ike bucket of "conspiracy theorist mental cases". He needs a filter. He doesn't seem to have one, or profits from pretending he doesn't. He's a charlatan.

Just to let you know your entire extended family has been kidnapped. Let me know if you need anything, I'm off now until October, and won't be checking my email. Have a great weekend.

I'd have thought a three or four match ban would be about right. They'd have missed 3 games if the government hadn't cancelled the fixtures, so that would seem reasonable. Four if they're trying to standardise the punishment, as that would be the maximum number of games in a two week period. I think the point about suspension, is that it should be suspended until Monday, as it would be ludicrous to hand out a punishment this close to a game.

Two minutes before the Hibs game kicks off I'm guessing. Surely punishment will begin next week? Announcing on a Friday would seem bizarre, and could totally fuck up preparations for Sunday. I'm assuming they wouldn't do that?

I wouldn't read a whole lot into that, given the opposition last night. The Livingston game was an improvement, but not what I'd call fluid. What is interesting is that we've now got a potential back three, which McInnes has been attempting on and off for a few seasons now, unsuccessfully. The game is quite cyclical in regard to formations, and other teams seem to be adopting three at the back more regularly against us, giving us the opportunity to do similar. McRorie, and Hoban both fit comfortably within that. With Hayes being Hayes, the left wing back is sorted, with the jury still out on Kennedy. It does allow us the two forward players though, which is far more suited to our available players than a lone striker. I don't see Main as mobile enough to be a part of that as a first choice (in order to get the best of that formation), so I'd like to see hedges alongside Watkins to give us that real pace and movement when we get the ball. If McGeouch can sit deep alongside Ferguson, then Wright can fit in nicely ahead of them and given time to gel with the front two. The large squad is worrying to me, as LA don mentioned, I don't think McInnes is great at rotation. He ends up just tinkering and nobody gets time to establish themselves.

If they cancel the tournament now, then I think we win it on goal difference.

A good wee quiz on the BBC. I got 38/41, missing out two players: Euro-dons