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Pretty impossible to avoid when you’ve got young kids. Think as soon as it turned 1 November, it’s all I’ve heard in the shops here.

Good to have you back. At least you had an excuse, jute forgot his log in details and he’s a mod just sad he’s not come back as The Jute.

Pretty much covers my thoughts on it. Although I hope he doesn’t end up at Auckland as he’d tear it up in the a league. Now if he came to Welly then all would be forgiven

I still find it wild how badly his career has gone since he left us. But since he signed for them, it’s fucking hilarious.

Excellent, an evening game I should be able to watch on the sly at work. Hopefully a bit more excitement than there was last mid-week. They're on honking form at the moment so hopefully we can prolong that!

It’s a cracking stadium. NZ played Peru in the WC qualifiers when we were travelling through but we missed the game by a few days. Their media is bonkers over there.

I see he was down in Otago a few times, does the book mention why? Is it on kindle ?

Feels like it has 0-0 written all over it but I hope to fuck there were some seriously stern words after thursdays performance. Think the most frustrating thing about this team is there are moments when we can score goals like we did on Thursday, but it’s our inability to do any of this with any level of relative consistency. Their form at home isn’t great but our form in general is pretty honking. At least the defence seems to be the area of least concern. out bed bed work 0-0

Great goal, lovely finish from Nisbet

Not much happening tbf. I missed the first 20 mins though. Adil took quite a hit but seems ok for now.

Is there much transition to alternative energy technologies happening in ABZ?

It was him I wondered if Thelins post match comments were aimed at. I hope we see more of him. Had read somewhere that he’d changed agents at the start of the season and that’s been unsettling him? Either way, easily one of the best footballers at the club, just hope he gets the chance to shine. thunder storm woke me up this morning, taking it as a sign that we’re going to smash it ️

Cousin from Aberdeen, hand me down 89/90 top on one of the many trips up to the relatives in Ross-shire. Probably didn’t start properly until I was 15 or so though. Internet changed a lot although always had a Shearer and Jess Shoot poster on the wall

If he’s based in Portugal, he’s either getting a helluva lot of avios or it does seem a bit impractical. I get he’s probably spending a lot of time online reviewing footage of players around Europe, so probably is a relatively flexible job, but would have thought it would be better to be in person.

This was around the time I started supporting the dons, from my then home of NL. Mind chatting to a mate about the bike

Agreed, whilst not priority, I was wanting us to sign another GK that would genuinely provide him with competition. There is just something about him that always makes me doubt him. SC final aside obviously

Hoping Swaddon can make it 2 from 2 in all honesty one of the few winnable games and I think we should be going into it with a bit of confidence. Credible draw last time out in Europe and a decent 3 points (not performance) at the weekend. out work work work 2-1 to the good guys, lazetic and Devlin

Can't argue with any of that I'm still in shock with the lack of cricket, but it would be interesting to see a report on the impact 20/20 has had on test cricket. Yes, Starc was on fire, but fuck me, some of the shots attempted should have been easy blocks. Completely shafted the fans out of at least a day of cricket. I was chatting to an aussie mate and we thought it wouldn't make beyond 3 days. Christ we were wrong.

That’s the only silver lining. I worry that they’re seeing how pish the league is and decided to get their shit together.

Was an excellent start to my Monday morning, waking up to this result. Had hopes this was gonna happen, but there seemed to be so many uncertainties re: the line ups of both teams. Looking forward to catching the highlights at lunchtime! Already seen the goal, was a classic Topi goal that we know he can and should score more of.

No idea what to expect today tbh. As you say Al, any kind of win will do and that’s all I hope for. Doesn’t matter how we get it, seems like our confidence is fragile at best so anything to help it improve is all I ask for.

Love cricket. Being in NZ, there's plenty of it and England really didn't look great in their warm up games here. I think it's going to be a whitewash in all honesty. Hopefully they can dig deep and find a few performances though, would be a shame to be a complete waste of a spectacle.

Looking forward to a drop of the good stuff tonight it’s been a long day

Fuck all work got done during those two hours. Was almost greetin at my desk. Wild, still can’t believe we’ve actually qualified for a World Cup. What a year 2025 has been. Proper roller coaster of a year. Three of the best goals we’ll see in a modern Scotland jersey. I mind questioning why no one else had lobbed schmeichel as he was miles off his line. Then king Kenny does his thing.

I thought he’d lost that status since consi had left?