RicoS321

He's not very good. Better than McGarry, not as good as Mackenzie. Not as good as Molloy. A very average defender who'd be a good squad backup to have. However, if he's not interested in being a backup then he's best off elsewhere. He's nowhere near good enough to be starting every week, and doesn't really have any attributes that stand out. You can tell Rubi to be aggressive and attack the ball, Molloy to focus on sweeping up and using his good distribution. Jensen is okay with the ball, but slow to use it, is okay in the air and not particularly quick. He's like a poorer version of Molloy but at an age where he should be at his peak defensively. Morris and Gueye both had very obvious attributes that a manager could work with, I don't see any in Jensen. Like McGarry, he's just that bit below the required level, which is fine for backup with a view to shifting on when we try out the next guy.

Clarkson's still a young lad, in a very difficult role, we can give him time. McGrath also had several years where he wasn't up to it during his career. You're expected to make things happen, but also take the abuse when you try something that doesn't work. I find that the Dons fans around me are very impatient with Clarkson, but he's the one trying to do the inch perfect through ball that will get us the goal, so he's going to have more misplaced passes than likes of Shinnie or Neilsen, and McGrath when he's out wide. He was very good in the first half on Saturday, but the error seemed to knock him well off his stride. He was also good against St Johnstone. McGrath has just drifted in and out of games of late, and I see no reason that we shouldn't give them a half each for the next couple of games.

Said no one, ever.

Well that was fucking cold and shite. Went a bit calderwood with the subs at the end. Ambrose was better than Sokler, and I assume we won't see Nisbet at Pittodrie again. Hibs took their chances well. Rubi pish for the first, their second was a good bit of play and then another fuck up for the third (was it Clarkson that gave it away?). Keskinen probably best player for us. Need Mitov back asap.

He scored for QP, minutes after coming on, to clarify. Playing left back and got forward quite well. Probably better than McGarry. Probably still not good enough of course.

Ryan Duncan. Get him signed

I'd be very wary of getting a loanee right back in of the potential calibre of Ramsay. He'll be looking for first team minutes, which if given would relegate Devlin. I think if you're going to do that with a guy who's performed so well all season, then it needs to be for an actual signing, and not some temporary measure who leaves after six months. Fit's Dom Ball up to?

Foreigner. I've been saying for years that foreigners are the way to go. Welcome aboard foreigner.

You should start up the Auckland soccer causals and start kicking fuck out of people in the name of passion.

That'll be the last we see of Duk then.

Maybe they should release a statement calling him a Judas Hun cunt?

Yes it is.

Worth a look?

It'll need demolished soon anyway, it was built by Stewart Milne. Just move the road back a bit. It's fine, we're the Dons, anything goes.

I was referring to the flats behind the merkland not getting any sunlight.

That's ace. Get it done. Maybe slide the whole thing towards the sea by 10 metres to help the lads on merkland road with their vitamin D.

Does it? I can't work it out, but having a team that everyone could potentially beat is only useful if we're the ones beating the good team and getting the unexpected points. I think we have a good chance of beating Denmark, but so do Greece, and Belarus would fancy their chances of a point too. With Portugal, I reckon we'd have the best chance of taking something at home. The way the fixtures fall will be key. Get some easy ones at Hampden first up, then an away trip to the top seed. Finish up with the top seed at home, who may have already qualified two days before in a hard fought victory away to Greece in forty degree temperatures.

You're reading it right. Not an easy group. Both Belarus and Greece are not shite. Good chance that any of the teams could take points off any of the others on their day. I'm assuming Belarus will be away from home in all their fixtures, which might make them shiter.

Racist

He is correct, and it's quite right too, a person having a sex change should not get sacked. I get the analogy, but it's probably a false equivalence. Your situation is more like a person not speaking in the correct accent (being too colloquial). It's about class, rather than race or gender. It's deemed inappropriate, or unprofessional, to have a tattoo. These terms are bandied about by dickheads with zero moral compass, zero empathy and zero self respect. The type that carries out a boss's orders without question, even though they know it's wrong. Professionalism is an utterly nebulous concept, which could be more appropriately described as doing as your told - or conforming. It usually makes for a fucking incompetent employee or manager. You should write to them to complain. Ask for them to explain the causation of impoliteness, lack of empathy, lack of diligence, tardiness, work-shyness with neck tattoos. In fact, if I were you, I'd write directly to CEO andy.cliffe@agsairports.co.uk asking him to explain his class-based discrimination.

Was your tattoo in the shape of a penis?

Take them to court. Bigots. Absolutely ridiculous in the 21st century.

Forgot to mention, Palaversa was very good when he came on yesterday. Had Milne not been struggling, him and Shinnie might have gone on to win that for us from midfield, as they were starting to get hold of it. As it was, Shinnie went to left back again.

We played Duk up front as number nine, which is a legitimate use of him, although he wasn't very good there. When Vinnie got injured, he moved up front and Duk wide because he couldn't run. Anyway, we were very poor. Didn't create much at all and didn't use the ball well. They played well, and are definitely better than they were under Levein. Very few pass marks today, but conditions were difficult. As others have said, McGrath, McGarry, Nilsen and Nisbet were all poor. McGrath especially, and I don't think it was because Clarkson was in the team, he was just second to every ball and his decision making was terrible. I was going to make a comment about McGarry prior to today's game after his okay performances in the last two, but I forgot. It was that he was (in those games) good at doing the easy things such as taking the ball and moving it on, but that he shirks the difficult parts like taking an opponent on, or going beyond the winger. That really showed up today against an opponent we should be beating. He offered nothing to advance our game. It's why you can forgive Mackenzie and Devlin for any defensive errors, because you know that they do the things where they might get caught out, and aren't afraid of taking responsibility for their mistakes. Of course, McGarry is likely extremely low on confidence, but he's never going to be good enough. Clarkson got pass marks today as did Molloy. Doohan was okay, but doesn't offer anything in terms of building moves and taking the ball from the defenders. A couple of injuries has been the difference really.

Lovely night. Perfect conditions. We played well and were unlucky in the end not to get a point. They just had a little bit more quality. When you give up that amount of possession, it only takes one error, and unfortunately Devlin - who had been brilliant up against maeda - had his eye on the man instead of the line. I do think that if it had been Rubi and not Molloy, he'd have dived in to block the shot (or give away a pen!), but Molloy was very good again so it's not a criticism. Nilsen and Shinnie were really good in the middle, and the team was very well organised overall. Doohan and McGarry did well. McGarry could probably have cleared before the goal, he was letting a lot come down that side, but he should have been off 5-10 minutes earlier as he'd put in a shift and was visibly struggling (as was Devlin, but he's played ninety minutes every week and is used to it). Good to see Polvara back, he's going to be an asset in the coming weeks. Hopefully back to winning ways at the weekend.