Saturday 23rd November 2024 - kick-off 3pm
Scottish Premiership - St Mirren v Aberdeen
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I strongly suspect many of them are bargains. They're definitely punts though, most probably not scouted, or not scouted much, rather basing ability on recommendation (probably from the loaning team). That's fairly obvious given the range of levels we've seen. It does raise the question as to whether guys like Logan, Ward and Maddison were just pure luck. A worrying thought given the importance of all 3 positions when we signed the respective players.
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You were really ugly?
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Considine. Probably one of the few who'll be in the team every week and isn't a whingey little fanny. Shinnie does fit that bill as well of course. I don't believe captaincy has a massive impact on team performance anyway. Incidentally, those stats say nothing about Jack's captaincy (they don't compare to games where Jack was playing but wasn't the captain - for obvious reasons). I think they do, however, say a lot about how the team plays with Jack in it, because games where Shinnie was captain were because Jack wasn't playing. We are a lot more cautious and disciplined - and thus less of an attacking threat - when Jack is in the team. How much of that is channeled through Jack by Deek's instruction, I'm not sure. It was interesting that Pawlett had 3 or 4 shots on goal in the first half yesterday, compared with 1 (sort of) from Jack. Despite St Johnstone getting their best chances in the second half, it was noticeable that we were much tighter in midfield when Jack moved there in place of Pawlett. I thought we should have had the confidence to give Pawlett another 20 minutes personally as there was no real threat from the Saints midfield that we should have been looking to counteract - again Deek went for caution over risk in an attempt to win (although he perhaps felt adding Stockley was a balance to that - it wasn't, in hindsight).
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In, whenever I return to within the booze driving limit. Be an interesting one. Jack in for Pawlett and Shinnie to left back is my guess. Be a tight one I expect with a stuffy St Johnstone side.
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He's not very good at football. In fact, he's awful with the ball.
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Well, aye, but this aboot the transfer window. But if we could bottle "cunt" and sell it, yid make a fortune in the wanky EPL. They'd be all over cunt like an EPL coach in a boys club.
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I'm not sure it is to be fair to McInnes. He bought the very best players from other teams (or who had been at other teams), who were streets ahead like Rooney, McLean and Shinnie who have improved our team. But otherwise we've just had punts in defence like Quinn and Morris which haven't quite worked out. Lewis, O'Connor, Taylor, Logan, Maddison, Burns and plenty of failures have all been from down south with no prior SPL experience.
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Woah, at no point did I say that Taylor is a footballer, nor did I mention Hollywood passes. I've been very consistent in saying the opposite. But he wins a lot of headers in the same vein as Anderson, and isn't that bad when being run at (altohugh that doesn't stop me from shitting it every time someone does). I think the difference between the two is marginal, but I accept that folks could see it either way. Agreed, I was probably over-stating Shinnie, I think you're right. I suppose I was trying to say we shouldn't be going the opposite way and get some brute in (which I think Draper is) just he can put in a dirty tackle. We had years (on donsmad) of suggestions of Hammill and Goodwin just because they were hard-men, with no one noticing they were totally inept footballers. I'm think Draper is better than those two, but nearly as good as folk make him out and we should not be looking past the massive flaws in his game because he's strong.
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Don't get me wrang, he has obvious qualities, but he's not a footballer, and definitely not an improvement on Considine, O'Connor and probably not even Taylor. He's just quite good against us. I'd rather have Dave McKay if we were insisting on taking someone from St Johnstone. But I wouldn't have him either. Anyway, we're sorted for centre half. Draper isn't good enough for midfield, he's too slow and shite with the ball at his feet (and a diving cunt, he'd only get booked). He's worse than Jack, McLean, Shinnie and Maddison. We can do better, and should be looking to get better. We don't just need to buy a "hard bastard", we need someone who can actually play fitba too. Heikkinen was good at fitba as well as tackling, without flying into challenges and getting booked all the time. He was sensible. We basically need another Shinnie to play in midfield.
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Jesus, I made the mistake of opening the link. Is that how "news" is reported these days? Fuck me. It's not worse than the sexual abuse itself obviously, but it is a form of abuse in itself. What a disgusting rag. Anyway, Tims = paedos. Probably the Catholic links. Or something.
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Crawford would replace Maddison. Good player, but nae as good as Maddison will be obviously. Draper is overrated pish, and Anderson can't actually play football (like Reynolds). We should be looking for better than anti-footballers like those two. Don't think there's a holding midfielder in Scotland I'd take now (outside the tims). Like it or not, we're better than every team in the league bar the tims, and we'll need a better holding midfielder than the rest have got to offer.
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You've misunderstood fit I was saying. To answer Rocket as well, I said "I disagree sort of" with his original post. I think there will still be a bubble in the North East, just with a hell of a lot less people in it. So as Rocket describes in his second post, I tend to agree, but I think economically the North East will still generate a lot of dough. It'll just be a lot less distributed. I don't believe an independent Scotland would have dealt with the industry any differently/better either. There's not a political party in Scotland who would interfere. Nor should they in my opinion.
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Neither Davidson or Tansey are better than Jack, and I'm surprised that anyone thinks they are. We're definitely on the look out for a midfielder though. To replace Maddison I would think. If not, then we need to drop one of McLean or Jack, which I think the manager will struggle with. If Maddison goes, then it's simply McLean to the advanced position. I think we're okay in the other positions unless we let one or two of the squad players ago and replace with better.
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I disagree, sort of. I think we'll see a proper technology shift in the next 5 to 10 years that'll see a lot of continued extraction in the North Sea. However, I don't think it'll involve lots of jobs. I think we'll shut in until it becomes economic, and new technologies and new players will make it economic. I'm speaking development and production rather than exploration.
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That's nae use, he's in subsea construction.
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Disagree about his positioning, I think he reads the game very well, in fact it's his best attribute. Do agree that he hasn't kicked on though, despite a decent start to the season. Always plays like he's being held back. Perhaps he is.
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Probably just to rest him. He wasn't playing that well anyway, and as you say, missed a sitter like (keeper saved to be fair). Think Deek was right to take him off, but surely Storie was the only possible change that could have been made. 40 minutes for a young loon with very little pressure on him. Anyway, hope he leaves at the end of the season, he's clearly wasting his time here. Agree about O'Connor and McLean. I'd have given MOM runner up to McLean though, as I thought he was excellent.
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Well, nobody guessed Logan, O'Connor, Considine, Hayes...
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All over the shop, Hayes in the back 4 in order to keep Shinnie in midfield. Anyway, he did change it. Great performance, but 3-0 up, 3 fuckin nil. Who do you bring on? You've got two strikers on the bench desperate for appearances and goals, a young central midfielder, a winger who needs games. Fucking Mark Reynolds? Holy fuckin shite. I don't like to moan after a great video, but fuck me Deek. It's like he's trying to make a point. To back up his shite decision at the weekend. Anyway, it made no difference, and he did bring on Burns then Stockley for at least 20 minutes, which was decent. Some good goals, good awareness fae Pawlett for the first, great pass from Rooney and great finish for the third, great play from McGinn and good battling from Rooney for the fourth, lovely flick on from Stockley for the fifth. They were fucking gash. Lee fuckin Clark. Who the fuck interviewed that thick cunt and thought he could manage a fitba team? Worst team in the league.
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I've always thought Considine was a good defender. From the season where he broke his leg (he was immense before the injury) onward he has been very good and very reliable. His main issue is concentration, but I think that would be harsh to single him out over any other defender. He's always been decent on the ball, and the issues that were apparent in his early career where he dithered on the ball and wasn't particularly strong were ironed out a long time ago. He's strong in the challenge and always comes to meet the ball and the player rather than wait for them to turn where he's at his weakest. I think he suffers from the fact that he's been here a long time and folk think back to his early years and mistakes he made then. You're really going back to the early Brown days for any serious fuck ups and the more recent errors (one vs Tims springs to mind where he should have been sent off) have been few and far between. He regularly goes several with little or no mistakes of note. I touted on donsmad a few years back Considine for a Scotland call up. It was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but folk were suggesting Reynolds at the time and I was adamant that Consi was a much better fitba'r, which would make him more eligible than Reynolds (in truth I didn't reckon either of them were good enough). Then Grant Hanley came along and showed that you neither have to be good at football, or have an ability to read the game in order to play for Scotland.
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I'd be surprised if anyone argued against that one. I think Taylor and Reynolds are pretty strong back-ups too. The issue isn't - for me - our best back four, it is "is Shinnie in midfield and Considine at left back stronger than Shinnie at left back and Storie/Pawlett/Hayes whoever in midfield". That's the one that throws Deek constantly.
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Enjoy Christmas and new year without thinking about it, and then start again in January. There's a marginal pick up in the industry, but its small and I don't think it'll have a big impact on jobs in the short term. What will be interesting is if companies have permanently shed those jobs through efficiency or if we'll see a return to just throwing bodies at the next project or ten until things go tits up again. I suspect the latter, which I suppose is good if yer just looking for another short term job. 2017 is set to be another interesting political year, so it'll be interesting to see if that has an effect on the oil price.
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I think it's the left side that is the issue not Taylor (although Taylor is a horses ass, and pish and shouldn't be near the team). Has to be Considine in centre and Shinnie at left back. Couldn't care as much about Taylor or O'Connor after the cup final debacle. But that leaves a decision in centre midfield, which McInnes will not make. We have Storie, Pawlett, Hayes or O'Connor as realistic possibilities (he's nae - quite correctly - going to play Maddison in there as part of a 2). He's clearly going to play Shinnie ahead of any of those. Flood would have solved this problem. So would signing a fucking midfielder.
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Cheers Al, did I write "The coming on China"? That'd be a different type of film, although equally as intriguing. I believe it is 22:40 tonight, so prefect timing for after the game tonight when we're all style buzzing due to the scintillating performance from a resurgent dons team.
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John Pilger documentary on ITV the nicht. Be well worth a watch (around 2230 I think). Pilger a fantastic journalist. About USA provoking China and the lack of coverage in the West. Edit: it's called: The coming WAR on China. Everyone should watch it. Sorted if for you Rico