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It's nonsense really. If you don't like a song being sung, start a chorus of something else and drown it out, which has the added bonus of keeping the atmosphere going. Don't boo the songs, start fights with other fans or go grassing folk up to stewards while sitting on your hands. Dickish behaviour. From what I can gather, it seemed to be overweight middle aged men (possibly Weegies) who started having a go at young laddies enjoying their day out and having a sing song.

Dear fuck I hated Calderwood and his pish.

Sense. People seem to be ranting and raving on social media about everything and anything at the moment. Some of it is the sort of self entitled drivel that I'd laugh at fans of the cheeks for having. Demanding to know why we haven't signed a striker without considering it's often a waiting game and we don't want to rush in the wrong player. Unhappy that we're looking at the English lower leagues for a good striker, and equally unhappy that we can't unearth a gem like Moult (signed from Wrexham) like Motherwell did. The mentality of "there must be someone in the youths who can step up" without properly thinking as to who is actually ready to make the step up, whether it may not be right in terms of their development, how they're training, their attitude etc. All for fans having opinions and I understand we're light of numbers and people are on edge, but most of the nonsense above is spouted without fear or favour of being contradicted or proven wrong. McInnes has one shot at getting this right and will have hell to pay if he doesn't, so it'd be helpful if people properly weighed up the arguments and considered everything first of all.

Absolutely this. The "we don't scout enough" debate is like the "blooding youth" debate, in the sense that fans can spout pish on Twitter, on forums like here, ranting and raving about how (less successful) teams do it better than us without fear of getting called out about it when they're proved wrong. Sometimes takes a little bit of thought as to what's actually involved in building a proper scouting network, or deciding when the right time is to blood youth players in terms of their individual development. It's not a question of happy clapping, or just accepting shite as is the usual comeback - 9 times out of 10 I can see what the manager is trying to do or where he's coming from, even if it's not always the way I'd have done it, albeit hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Surely it's best to reserve judgement anyway, until he's actually played a few games. Modern fitba Happy enough with this. Could also be the case that we don't register Cerny, which would allow us to sign a striker if the right one is available today. No immediate rush though.

Looked good albeit a friendly, pleased for Cosgrove given some of the guff written about him over the last wee while.

Someone said May had a better minutes per goal ratio than Rooney last season, not sure if that's true.

Sensible post, but the self entitled whingers would never allow it.

Hence why McInnes is perhaps looking for a more complete striker as his top man upfront, rather than a number of individuasl who can only hold it up/score tap ins/run about but contribute little else.

You don't think things like pressing and holding the ball up are important attributes for a striker to have, especially in a where we won't likely have the majority of the ball? The salient point here isn't that Cosgrove and May have been incredible because they haven't been yet, it's that physically Rooney cannot press or hold the ball up.

Linked well I said. Shows signs of promise, rather than our whole attacking play being geared towards putting the ball in front of a declining striker in the six yard box.

It's funny how Cosgrove played a big part in the successful run in last season, including a good performance at Parkhead, yet you're dismissing him. Especially since the tap in king was nowhere to be seen.

Drivel. Cosgrove only really played post split, was very handy at Parkhead as a target man (something Rooney isn't) and in the Hearts home game (where he linked well with May, something Rooney couldn't do). Need to give people a chance rather than whinge constantly. You can go so far with a striker who only scores tap ins, but a striker who is perhaps more complete and can do other things too is what we're now after.

He's maybe looking for a striker who can do more than tap ins and penalties

Perhaps a reason why Rooney is being moved on...

We'll be signing a new striker.

May and Cosgrove linked up better in the last Hearts game than Rooney has done with any strike partner that I can remember. Promising and something we'll see more of next season I'm sure. Would love Moult or someone in though.

Thanks for everything, but time to move on. Should not be beyond our means to find a striker who can contribute to the team in general as well as score the tap ins. Imagine the Messiah has someone lined up anyway.

Surely being well known or not shouldn't come into the manager's thinking? Someone who's effective if and when called upon will do me. This boy may or may not have it. Not quite getting the widespread bemusement around Rogers' situation either. Perhaps McInnes sees good potential in Rogers (still very young for a keeper), but he's not quite at the stage where he can be relied upon week in, week out for us yet in the event anything happens to our excellent Number 1 - hence the loan to a club in the same league as us to get him tested. Sitting on the bench for us won't benefit him in the same way.

So we've decided he's shite already. Fantastic.

And I don't think he's especially great either, but I can understand the signing. After all, it was a position which McInnes already ticked off this summer before Gleeson's injury. I daresay we could have looked at other defensive midfield options, but they may not necessarily have borne fruit before the Burnley games and we need somebody immediately. Goodness knows we'd also have heard all about it if we'd gone into Burnley without any sort of defensive midfielder and it cost us.

I never said you or anyone else was upset, I said I wasn't Let's not forget you were complaining about us only signing "names" last summer who looked good on paper, rather than there being a logic behind them, so I'm not sure how that fits in with your desire to be "inspired". If this is a short term replacement for Gleeson then the likelihood is it's been sprung upon us, and McInnes has moved quickly to plug the gap with the Burnley games in mind especially.

Not especially a Ball fan either, especially at RB cover, but I can see the logic in taking on someone the gaffer knows well if to cover for our defensive midfield signing who seems to have got a bit of a nasty injury in pre-season. I can't get overly upset about it if I'm honest, and if we're demanding to be inspired by backup defensive midfield signings then we're even more self entitled as a support than I thought.

Or smacks of Gleeson having picked up a fairly bad knee injury?

Impossible to say without having seen the lad, but I'd like a wee bit of pace with our new striker. Somebody who can play on the shoulder of the last defender.