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He's probably on a healthy enough contract here and wants to milk it. As is his prerogative. I don't think he'll ever be good enough to be honest and would like to have seen us cut ties altogether. We don't need another player returning to prove himself to fill up the squad.

Barron is basically first sub for his lack of contract signing. He wasn't playing well, but Clarkson was offering nothing in midfield, with Shinnie having to do all the work again. Hayes taken on to provide width in a four, only for Jensen to come on and change to a five so that Hayes has to play wing back again and stops getting forward.

Honking fae Roos. Terrible with crosses. Rubi off, surely should be more attacking with the sub.

Neither decision "clear and obvious". The ref saw both. Re-refereeing. Embarrassing.

And again. Fucking nonsense.

Jesus Christ. That's not fitba. Never a foul.

He's switched McGrath and Polvara. Cunning....

It's the best option for our midfield and covers the defence well. It really needs some wing players. Maybe Duk on for Polvara would be good. Don't think McGrath has been that good either. We started well, they worked us out and tightened up and pressed and we've struggled since. Both fullbacks getting up the park for us though, just need people to hit the box a bit quicker and more intelligently.

Good to see us sticking with the line up for a few games anyway. Still think the lack of width is an issue, but needs must to avoid Morris starting.

Yep, we should take him on in the second half when we play towards the RDS and play him further forward. By around 700 metres.

With no rain today, the pitch will be drying out nicely making it a playable surface, so I suspect Levein has been out with the garden hose.

Rooney had Hayes and McGinn and many others who laid things on a plate for him. Even then, Rooney would miss a chance before converting, much the same as Miovski does. In terms of chances missed, they both have excellent records. Miovski's all round game and movement are better. Rooney struggled in games against the Tims and European fixtures, where Bojan has offered something this season with his improvements over the summer.

I think Robson has said he expects a couple of signings in the window. Sounds about right. Don't go overboard, we've got enough dregs in the squad to clear up over the summer and get us in a better place for next season. Besuijen going would be a good start. Ideally we cut our losses on Richardson, Morris and Gueye in the summer and build from there.

Had to jinx it.

What does that mean? Some sort of New Zealand Hun?

Good to see the establishment clubs getting the easy home ties.

You're right. Fuck this Mikey Johnston pish, we should be looking at that O'Riley lad.

If you are an established Hun or Tim then you likely are too good for any other team in the SPFL though, aren't you?

Aye, I'm with you, I don't think that's a thing. Robson, Nicholson, Hartley etc. etc. Can't think of a single player who thought he was too good for the Dons. Scott Brown maybe? Although I don't think so.

Offside in my opinion. Dirty Jambo fucks.

Yep. Sadly the only route is either through the loan system, which worked for us with McRorie, but not with the equivalent Tims, or snapping them up after they've gone down South for a bit and failed. Johnston has already had a loan move to the Portuguese top league, so I expect he'll have multiple options if he's willing to travel.

Yep, same team as last time. Should be an 0-8 win.

I think he'll be above our budget. Scales would be a good comparison. We weren't willing to get close to what the Tims valued him at. Our board seem more keen to spend money on unknowns like Gueye for some reason. I guess that they think the return will be greater. The Scales and Christie scenarios show that the Tims aren't really amenable to a deal either, which is their prerogative, and will force us to pay over the odds. I also suspect that the Hernandez move was a massive mistake that the board maybe learned from. He was way out of our existing price structure (frees and small fees), and I don't think we've come close since despite paying some decent amounts. Edit: also Hernandez and Richardson would very much have got the fans excited if they had been good at actual football. I remember huge excitement around Hernandez until the minute he walked onto the pitch. Duk has got everyone excited too. I think Johnston would too, you're right.

The Tims will be wanting close to seven figures for Johnston. He's contracted until 2026. Undoubtedly a good player, but the only way he'll be coming here is on loan. Hopefully the previous burnings of Christie and Scales will put us off this.