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In fairness, they're probably saying "okay" by the players' own benchmarks rather than general fitba standards. Morris looked quicker than I thought he was previously. He was absolute dogshite on the ball of course. Markanday shouldn't be getting minutes, it's a totally bizarre situation. Bavidge should have been on earlier instead. Kennedy obviously not getting a new deal, and I'm assuming that Richardson is getting a game as a last chance to prove that he's good enough not to get punted in the summer (I guess that could be the same with Morris).

Big relegations today. Accies lose the championship playoff against Airdrie and - even bigger - Spartans displace rovers, sending Albion down to the colts league or some pish.

Nae luck.

I doubt they're getting an offside wrong these days, he looked in line with the fullback in the replays. Miovski made zero attempt to shoot, it was really poor. He was just leaning into the defender until he fell over. In fairness to Miovski he was using all his strength to get in front of the guy that I think he was eventually just leaning against him for balance and support, but I still think he should be swinging a foot at it at least.

Yep. That's to be expected though. We signed 10 new players in the summer, and another few in January. We brought forward Watkins, Hayes, Kennedy, Barron, McKenzie, Besuijen and Duncan from last season so it's no surprise that we're struggling given a fairly standard 50% success rate in transfers. Next season it'll be just as bad. Clarkson our best player too, and he's leaving. There's no way we can possibly recruit the volume and standard required. We're nowhere near ready for European football next season. It's probably a distraction we can't afford.

Aye, fuck it. Scores the winner before getting taken off injured, returning to full fitness just after the window closes. Best of all worlds.

Fantastic. Get him in the team for tynecastle.

Given the turnover of managers, there are few options left. Mcpake at Dunfermline for the whole leagues probably best overall performer, but obviously it'll go to the plucky underdogs' manager when he wins the treble.

It's easy saying £3M, but actually getting someone to pay that is something entirely different, every player has a ceiling value. They'd just walk away from the deal. The bidding probably started around £750K-1M (that's his value on transfermrkt, which obviously requires a little pinch of salt, but seems reasonable), so I think they've been very difficult to deal with. I think we're doing the club a disservice here, and being incredibly unrealistic if we're expecting more for a strong athlete of limited ability (an upgraded Dom Ball). "No requirement to sell" is aimed at the guys with potential, not McRorie. The only reason we would not sell McRorie is if the board felt the turnover of players was already too great (I'd agree with), not because of the player himself. For me, £2M for McRorie is the equivalent of being offered £5M for Duk or Miovski. You'd have to let the player consider his options with such an offer, it'd be deeply unfair not to.

It's not low though. There's a limit to what people will pay for a player, regardless of contract length. I'd have him valued at around £750K if he'd had a year left. I think the club should be given immense credit for managing to get a club to pay £2M for him. That's clearly, already, an inflated valuation which takes into account the 3 years left.

Christ, that's a terrible thing. Not even sure I'd have had the maturity of thought to even consider such a thing at that age, nevermind be in a place where I actually felt I could go through with it. Hope you can get yerself through without going down the drink route, which is very easy for me to say from where I'm sitting of course.

The giant-couponed bellend leaves Queens Park.

This. They go someway towards addressing the point, with important mentions of the Highland and Junior leagues, but a more scathing attack on the structure of the game would have been worthwhile. The wider point being made was about what was best for Aberdeen, and I think we need to look way beyond that selfish and insular approach if we're to really make things better in Scotland. That said, it's a strong decision, likely to have been taken under considerable pressure from the power holders, so well done AFC on reaching the right conclusion. Next up, refuse to allow VAR back into Pittodrie.

Don't think so. Ramadani was put through at one point, but decided to head away from goal and then kick it out of play. That was the closest we got.

One slight underperformance against Hibs led to the knee jerk sacking of our previous manager.

That was an impressively honking game of fitba. Turgid stuff. Difficult to pick a worst performer, but 5 or 6 made a good case for it today. Pollock and Coulson deserve special mentions, with Duk putting in a tremendous attempt too. Even Clarkson wasn't at the races today, and Duncan was poor, although senior players should be taking the responsibility with Ramadani showing his limitations as a footballer as well. Miovski was okay and Roos comfortably man of the match. The subs took things to a whole new level of shiteness, and showed extremely poor judgement. Dogshit like Markanday and Morris should be nowhere near our team, which they've proven already. Richardson was worse than Coulson at his worst, as expected. Bavidge should have been on, and Barron should have replaced Duncan with Clarkson moving forward. VAR once again wrecking football as a spectator sport.

0-4 final score. Queens looked tired. A step too far for the giant coupon of Coyle.

Agree with this. With the volume of players coming in, a couple that are as close to known quantities as possible would be good. He's a very low risk signing, an upgrade on Kennedy and Richardson. He's an actual right back too, which leaves the option of switching to a back four if necessary, where he should be comfortable. He's got two goals and four assists (zero sending offs) this season, which is significantly better than McRorie. He'd do fine.

I don't know, AC Milan's ground can be a tough place to travel to and can be a real leveller.

Gary Bowyer leaves Dundee. Seemed to do alright from the outside, but now they're back in the big leagues we should expect a more experienced head to take back the reins. It'll be interesting to see if Strachan can coax his friend out of retirement.

That'd be good. Coupled with the possibility of an Ayrshire one for the SPFL place would be a great advert for the playoffs - entirely ignored our broadcasters of course.

He's having a hernia operation apparently. I'm guessing that if he has it now then he'll be able to pass a medical when the window opens. Fairly pragmatic from the club I suppose, and probably not something that you want to risk leaving too long if it can be avoided in case of further injury. Even if he's staying, it'd be just as beneficial for him not to miss any of pre season training here. Don't know the turnaround on a hernia, but probably safe to assume we won't see him again, and definitely not at Pittodrie. Coulson on his wrong foot gives me the fear, but at least it suggests that Kennedy won't be getting a new deal, which a miniscule part of me was still fearful of!

Serious lack of reporting on how this finished. Shocking. 4-3 to thistle for anyone who uses these pages as their only source of fitba results.

If it was outside and not a red then it can't be checked. I've not seen it of course. John Beaton was the ref though, so it was very obviously a foul.

We should offer them some tickets in the corporate end in return for Shinnie. Make them feel special. Probably work a treat on that type of chancer. Reminds you of the various charlatans that got hold of the Hun during their first few years as a club.