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Quite funny how it's all worked out. When this game was originally due to be played, we planned to have Eirik Horneland as a guest. Now it's been rearranged, tonight we plan to have Sandro Schwarz as a guest.

I actually listened to the recent episode on the way home yesterday after it was advertised on here, and I had AI vibes too. I've been on the HereWeGo podcast a few times in the past as a guest, but sullied myself each time by talking shite. I think I'm better off with the written word rather than trying to have real life human interactions.

What's the eligibility? Like, can we use posters from the English forums if they have grandparents that post on Donstalk?

That's just a fever dream.

Yeah, twice, but they don't count because that prick Ferguson wore a maroon tie on Saturday, so we've disowned anything he won.

My predictions are clearly shite. Like I said before though, I'd play the players who can't play v Dunfermline (Geiger for one, is anyone else suspended?) and give those who need minutes - Frame, Lobban, Morrison, Armstrong, Bilalovic, Lazetic, Aremu, a run out. Our entire season is now all about the cup. Without Nisbet, I don't think we have the players to play an effective front three. I'd play a front two.

Aye, it's too obvious now.

The man was clearly wearing a red scarf yesterday, in the support of his team. There's bigger problems in the world to worry about.

Do we have such a thing?

Is it a full moon all this week?

I think Celtic will win at Ibrox but drop points at Pittodrie. Not because we're any good, but because this season is fucking mental and it's going to end with Hearts winning the league and Aberdeen beating Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi then Mitov failing to save a single pen in the shoot out v Jim Goodwin's Dundee United. I've went off on a bit of a tangent there...sorry. Play the reserves & Geiger, and save everyone for East End Park.

Odd behaviour this from McInnes. Geiger overreacts, but why do it in the first place? You've won an important match and are nine games away from becoming a legend at Hearts and probably Scottish football. Enjoy it. According to some Hearts fans, he also made some derogatory comments about Aberdeen in midweek at a supporters event. Bit needless and a fine way to lose goodwill with a club who gave him an opportunity in 2013, treated him very well and paid him handsomely for the privilege.

Watching that today felt like watching a Barry Robson team. Was a lot of long balls that didn't really have much purpose behind it. Hearts played the same way at times, and it was a rubbish game for the neutral, but Hearts are a bit more adept at it and had players they actually found with their passing. Then, late on, we were just knocking it around our back line and going nowhere. The main difference (among many failures for us) was Hearts' positioning. They knew when to double up on a player, when they passed they found players in space (space we gave them because our positioning was so bad), they just had players in the right position while we look so badly coached. Positives (few, but there were some). Some of Mitov's goal kicks were poor but generally thought he played well. He's still our number one in my eyes. Frame was hitting the byline well when he came on. Nilsen played okay. Also thought Nisbet played as well as he could with no service, but as @RicoS321 pointed out, twice he was screaming for the ball in a great position and someone else made the wrong decision (I actually think it may have been three times as Frame couldn't find him late on when he had made an intelligent run).

We're determined to pump it long, which means Geiger and Cameron are barely in the game, but are being pushed high anyway, which means when Hearts break they just breeze through all the space we've given them. Hearts are also wise to us trying to find Keskinen and Olusanya out wide, so are covering them, and after a shaky opening from them they now look relatively comfortable.