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Finished Stranger Things last night, was quite good. Not sure if I was completely taken by it, but entertaining. It was a bit goonies meets aliens at points, but decent nevertheless. Been watching Spotless (on Netflix) after the wife goes to bed (what with the drugs, tits and necrophilia), and just finished last night. Very good series. Would highly recommend.

Given Pawlett didn't make the squad last night, I'd surprised to see him here much longer.

Cracking strike by Jack off the bar, need more of this from him. Rooney correctly called offside on the follow up. Lovely penalty save like, really good. Advantage of a big goalie is he really covered one side completely for the pen. Smartly up for the second save too, which he got a good leg on. Taylor unlucky for the penalty, really should never have been given. Much like the Draper one from last season, but even more soft. Poor decision. He's looked pretty awful apart from that though. McLean needs to improve in the centre and we need more from Hayes, but we'll see it out comfortably. Hopefully see Stockley and Storey if they're on the bench.

That youtube video is class. We have to sign him now like, he'd look ridiculous if we didn't.

This. The noises his agent was making before he came across here were worrying. If we offer him a deal, I'd expect his agent to be whooring him out all over the shop on that basis.

Aye, one year left on his deal. Don't expect he'll get a new one. Looks like a shiter version of Shankland

Aye, but jobs, ken? Fucking moronic argument from the GMB. It highlights the huge issue with a union having such sway over a political party. Whilst better than a corporation having huge sway over a political party, it's still a fucked up situation. One of the reasons I've never voted Labour is because of this compromise (and Tony Blair, obviously).

Very believable. Pointless bit of kit that should have been binned years ago. Get the fuck out of NATO as well.

I wid Ryder.... A couple of "you just wouldn't have done that" moments of unrealistic behaviour that nearly put me off, but I suppose it's quite difficult not to have those things in a jumpy thriller/horror type program. Half way through, so should have it done by Friday given the paucity of decent programming on the cooncil telly at the moment.

Started watching. Quite entertaining, despite the annoying little kids. An easy watch, good for an evening. Will probably get through the ten episodes in a few evenings at this rate!

He was quite brown too - facially speaking - so he should have been on the suspect list. At least the yanks used the opportunity to release the missing 911 documents while no-one was watching.

I'm unhappy with your link provision. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/

Yep, military coup. Not before time. Erdogan is a fucked up cunt. Reckon it'll be Ruskie sponsored like. Good for them.

It's one of those in between ones though isn't it? Nae quite good enough to get the euro-hard-on yid associate with Sociedad, but probably still a better team(s) than us. Probably a bit like last season. We need a dnipro-like performance to get through. It'd be a good achievement. But probably no different to beating the Tims over two games.

Aye. Thankfully we have the diplomacy of Boris Johnson now to respond on behalf of the UK.

Some brutal shite gone down in Nice tonight. 73 dead so far. Deliberately running folk over in a truck. Lass in my work just away there today, hope she wasn't caught up in it. Horrible stuff. Nae for the faint hearted: http://pamelageller....o-50-dead.html/

Nah min, he won the ball, it was a strong challenge but the boy was trying to get him red carded. You could tell he wasn't hurt because he was waving his sair leg about in the air. Cheating cunt. But you're right, he's still shite!

Yep, Jack for me as well, followed by Rooney. A special mention for Considine, who was the only one of our defence who was happy to play football. Reynolds and Taylor are a disastrous footballing combination who don't seem capable of the basics with a fitba (although coped well defensively tonight). We did nothing for an hour, until we replaced an ineffective McLean with Stockley. Stockley seemed to be playing in behind Rooney when he came on, but naturally drifted forward into a 4-4-2 when we had the ball. Worked nicely. Wes Burns looks a decent height and strength, and a great finish for the third. Loved our first goal, really nice fitba, and a good solid header from Stockley. A comfortable 2-0 defeat next week with a jittery last ten and then on to the next round.

I don't get the Jackson Irvine thing. He's always seemed a bit limited to me, bar a few months where he had a half decent spell. He always came across as a bit of a fanny in the tackle too (being harder than our midfield isn't a sign of toughness), which is not what we're looking for.

Jack started last season very well, and has barely turned up since. But there is definitely a good player in there. I think McInnes very much restricts his role, which makes him look a lot worse than he is, but he certainly has a heap of room for improvement. He should have been way ahead of where he is based on his previous form. The thing about Jack is it's the first player we've had in years (perhaps Pawlett at a stretch, definitely Fraser) where the improvement path was clear for him, and it was obvious that he could have developed into a very good player. He's got a season to turn it around otherwise we, or he, has/have failed. He's a man playing within himself that's for sure. I've always been a bit meh about Flood too. He had his uses, but his annoying habit of running at our own centre halves and then passing it to them about 5 yards away putting them under immediate pressure really got on my tits. However, I can see us not adequately replacing him.

Fucking hope so! The right decision assuming we can get in a better replacement. Failing that, I suppose it could be argued that Storie is at the age where he should be a direct replacement. Never thought Jack and Flood really worked together, so Jack has no excuses now.

I'm assuming these things can't really be done without the January return option these days. We're basically hoping he's good, but not good enough to trigger the return clause. Certainly gives us plenty of attacking options. With no-one to supply those options! Hopefully a midfielder in soon.

In/ out: In Pre match: Pub Match: Mainer Post matcher: Home Prediction: : 3-0 Aberdeen. Burns x 3

How the fuck did Zola never do that for us?

It was a disgraceful piece of management. He should have been hauled off immediately. Anyone who's played football before knows that if you have a passenger in the team, it is really off-putting. You look up, see a player marking an opponent and so you concentrate on a different player. On a couple of occasions Flood was left marking someone who just side stepped past him because he couldn't move. Indeed, they even got a shot on target because of it (it didn't help that Flood kept running back to help out instead of just sitting high up the park - but again McInnes should have been screaming at him to stay away from our goal). There was absolutely no benefit from him being on the park, it leaves our own players unsure where to position themselves. We've played many times with ten men, and it's easy to re-shape the team after a player is lost (to injury or red card), it happens all the time. Felt very sorry for Flood and hope is continued presence on the pitch hasn't led to any worsening of the injury. I'd be very surprised if McInnes was able to come up with any justification for that decision, it was like he stopped thinking. I'd be interested to hear if anyone thinks it was justified for (positive) tactical reasons. Really bad game too. Not too disheartened yet, as we've had some tragic pre-season friendlies over the years against shite, and that's what this was for the players. Hopefully the new players bring more to the team or it's going to be a long season. Bring on the Latvian cunts.