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Ha. Was just thinking Taylor looks the bomb scare of old and came here for a read. Good god he’s causing Aberdeen major problems!!

I hope you are right! Certainly doing well, especially with mcginn fading away, plus he seems to bring the best out of hedges.

Not so sure. He’s finally finding form but it’s been years to get to where he is. Can he maintain it? If he’s still this good by Xmas perhaps a contract is due but as I’ve, and other have too, I suspect he’s the new Peter Pawlett. Until he maintains form for a prolonged period I’ll hold my judgement.

Up to 8 players and 4 staff with covid at sporting now apparently. Plus their game this weekend has been postponed.

Job done although the manager got the line up wrong. McCrorie and Ferguson have been a big part of our play of late and their partnership in midfield shouldn’t have changed. With Kennedy out it should have been Logan, McClennan, even Hernandez at right wing back. Thought we missed McCrorie in the middle and a naturally defensive mid in mcgeough doesn’t drive us forward the way the forementioned do. I’ll also agree with Stevie Cowan in the commentary, our defenders need to push up more and force the midfield to get further forward. Play like that in the next round and we’ll get thumped, they really should have scored against us tonight. ill also add that Watkins puts in a shift up top and links well but needs goals. does everything but that......and a striker needs to score.

Haha haha! That works!

Another chance for them from the RB area. Bring Logan on. Also hook mcgeough, McCrorie will give us so much more in there and mcgeough sits too deep and we sit rather than push up.

Decent first half but we’re making them look better than they are. Id say they’re mid table premier league at best like a st Johnstone or Dundee United. I’d hook mcgeough for Logan and move McCrorie back into midfield. We miss his drive in the middle of the park and anything they create comes down the right. While Logan is in decline we need a right back/wing back out there.

More likely 3-3!

Interesting comments about Kairat. From my memory they were much better than us, and had an excellent attacking mid who I think scored a cracker too. Don’t think we bottled it against them, they were the better team. Do think we bottled it against Apollon and Maribor, thought they were beatable and we didn’t perform to our ability.

Jumping the gun which is bad, but I'm reading Sporting have been ravaged by covid!?!?

Good win, but I think we made it harder than it needed to be. Would have liked to see us push on more and get the 2nd, almost like we played counter attacking football at home to Killie. Still, another win and another shutout!

That drives me nuts. Unintentional handball from the Killie forward 30 yards from goal, ball bounces up from his poor control and hits his hand, free kick. Not much different to the ball bouncing up in the Killie box off a defender and hitting his hand 10 mins ago, no free kick. Explain...

Sounds like Bryson is officially gone. Getting pelters from many, feel for the guy, don't think he did anything wrong, just couldn't stay fit. Then again, if he was fit would McCrorie have been signed? Not the exact same positional player, but another center mid. Worked out for us.

Not sure where he fits in now. We'll regularly go with a back 3, 3 from Taylor, McCrorie, McKenna, Hoban, and Considine. Wing backs would be Hernandez, Hayes, Kennedy, McGinn, even Hedges, and in a back 4 I see right back being Hernandez, Hoban, or McCrorie. The fact Logan doesn't really play other positions, not sure when he'll play unless we get injuries.....which is certainly possible.

Ever? I recall the back 4 of Gough-mcleish-Miller-Malpas not being too bad!

Certainly hope dean Campbell goes out on loan, he’s now fighting with mccrorie Ferguson Ojo and mcgeough for minutes. Given what we are paying them I fully expect them playing ahead of dean. Will be a good move for him, needs to be playing.

Who said you knew nothing? It’s the opposite, share what you know! Educate the uneducated! Every cop doesn’t shoot someone in the back. It’s attitudes like that that are causing so much trouble here. The vast majority of police do their job correctly yet now aren’t allowed to do it as trained, risking their own lives in the process. As I said before, the police need reform and not all are good, but your statement isn’t appropriate or fair, and it’s that blanket attitude that’s doing damage. I’ve also taught in a 3500 student public high school and have seen police brutality too, plus I’d regularly drive students home to extremely dangerous neighborhoods. Eye opening to say the least. Doesn’t make us experts though and all police don’t subscribe to police brutality. i didn’t say you knew nothing, in fact since you called me the idiot, help me out here. You said I was wrong about Trump doing more as president for helping minorities, can you provide more info here? You also said Trump isn’t the best option. I’m not a fan of him either but who is the better option? You really think Biden, you didn’t answer that? How so? You disagreed about my assessment on the us changing from arrogant asshole to poor me. Can you elaborate on what you see then? There has been a significant shift in American culture over the last 20 years. Arrogant Bush was replaced by Obama who went a total 180. I also didn’t bring up defunding the police, you did. You slammed me but don’t give much info. Again, since I’m the idiot, educate me rather than simply criticize. I stated in a previous post that I welcomed opinion from others who live here. You, to me, just demonstrated what is a major issue here. Because I don’t subscribe to your beliefs I get blasted and called a complete idiot. People aren’t capable these days of hearing differing opinions without flipping out.

It’s not letting me edit. You ok with all the violence right now? Ok with police not being allowed to do their jobs? Both parties are a joke if Biden and Trump are the best option. And we had a Trump here rally last sunday, peaceful until it got shot at. You ok with that too?

You think Biden is a better option?? I am not one to call names, but if you do, I think you’re pointing the idiot finger in the wrong direction. You don’t think we’ve adopted the victim mentality here? That’s so obvious. We can agree to disagree, or not, I can only tell it how I see it.

If you know racism and social justice in this country you’ll know this has been coming for years, and it’s cyclical, happened before and will happen again, just happened to be Trump’s watch. It could easily have happened in 2012 under Obama with the Trayvon martin murder. And while Trump has done more for minorities than any other recent president, the media does not emphasize that, and Trump also doesn’t help himself with some of the shite he spouts....and tweets. i do agree, the democrats and the media portray trump as more of a racist than he appears to In my eyes. The media is so biased and are doing their best to cause trouble. The idiot democrats in power in major cities are making bad decisions, as much to spite trump as anything. They don’t dare want to be seen siding with him and the nation suffers. Trump is an idiot, but the other side is worse and local democratic politics are causing major damage right now.

Don’t think you’ll get a disagreement from anyone. But the fact he’s the best option for this country right now says so much about the current state of the US. And the fact that the democrats had 4 years to come up with a candidate to beat Trump and their solution was Biden speaks wonders about that party!

I’m a green card holder, not a citizen, so can’t vote, but always saw myself more democratic than republican, but not any more. I don’t blame trump for the current situation, I blame Obama and his relaxed politics, and Trump has to deal with this shit show he created. Since Bush jnr. this culture has gone from the ‘we’re number 1’ arrogant assholes to embracing the victim mentality, poor me, and people should be giving me a free helping hand. I never liked Trump and he certainly comes across as an idiot, but pre covid the country was in its best economic state in a very long time. Unemployment was at its lowest, and a lot of people were happy. And I’m by no means wealthy, I’m a teacher in one of the most expensive places in the world. It’s also my understanding that he has also put in more policy creating funds and opportunities for minorities, including African Americans, than any president including Obama, but that doesn’t get discussed because it doesn’t support the media’s agenda. I may be wrong on this, Its just my take on the situation. I stopped watching the news for the most part a long time ago. It’s not news, it’s propaganda and so toxic. And when i see the bbc I feel it’s a fucked up version of American politics based on the shite the biased media spurts out here. Lastly, I fully agree, this country needs a third political party! Someone in the middle who campaigns on common sense. Although, yes, I know, common sense doesn’t exist any more.

My reference to lord of the flies is that the police, due to the obvious issues, and being given less and less support by local government, to where riots are being allowed to happen. There’s decreasing law and order. Democrats, for the longest time, still called these riots peaceful protests and wouldn’t even acknowledge violence. I think they finally did a week or two ago, and it’s been months! Society is now being policed less and less in a number of cities to where there is, to some extent, minimal form of authority and while not quite anything goes, it’s bad. Trump wants to send in the national guard in many instances to prevent rioting in cities and to defend law abiding citizens, but local govt is declining assistance, and rioting and violence occurs. As a result you are seeing more of the ‘right to bare arms,’ and quite often see in the news people openly walking around with firearms, and using them. And this includes full on automatic weapons, not just a hand gun. Can’t believe what I’m seeing at times, and I’m at the stage where I am looking to buy a gun to protect my family, plus thinking about leaving Los Angeles and California due to their changing laws. I never ever expected to say that but I never expected to see what I’m seeing in this country. Crime is up and it’s not getting better any time soon. People are being given too much freedom. I guess I’m more traditional in values and believe in authority and rules/regulations, and that’s not really the democratic way these days. They are even telling police not to get involved and you’ll see in some instances them sitting back and allowing violence to happen. Then as soon as a policeman gets involved, he’s all over the news when you’ll see an edit video or partial video, and shit goes down. I’m not defending all police, reform is needed, but they have to be allowed to do their jobs and not all police are bad. Crime and violence are up, and if the democrats win the election I expect to see more of this local government that is allowing riots and violence to happen. That’s my take anyway.

I’m also curious to hear from anyone else who lives here. Those of you in Britain get the very biased and one sided democratic news for the most part since the majority of media is democratically owned (with the exception of fox I believe.) Regarding liberal, it’s becoming lord of the flies here. And the majority of democratically run cities are letting it happen.