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I think everyone could tell that Hector wouldn't get a game for Chelsea barring a ridiculously horrendous run of injuries to their defenders. By joining them he was sacrificing his chance to play regularly at the top level in England but I guess the chance to make himself financially secure for life was difficult to turn down. I'm sure he would have received offers from clubs like Palace or Everton had he hung off and I'm certain he would have made himself a regular first choice at that kind of club. Instead spent his 4 years with Chelsea out on loan in the Championship and one season at Eintracht Frankfurt. I guess it's easy to criticise his decision...as I said, he' will now be financially secure for life. But with his talent, he should have been playing regularly in the EPL for years now.

Players like Hoban and Devlin (and Scott Wright) would have been forced to retire in the 70s having suffered the injuries they have. Signing Devlin whilst only halfway through his rehab from his second cruciate repair was reckless to say the least. Bryson had no real history of injuries up to his last few months at Derby and I guess there was no reason to believe he wouldn't recover from it...nevertheless at 32 (and closer to 33) and likely to be at the top end of our wage structure....it was a gamble that has backfired spectacularly. I hope I'm wrong but I think he's done even at our level and we are stuck with a player till next summer who will contribute next to nothing and just be a drain on our finances (and possibly on our medical/physio staff's time too) I get that our budget means we have to take the odd gamble but Mcinnes isn't getting many of them right.

They might do. I agree with you.....I think he's done. But because his wages will be at the top end of our squad, it will be very difficult to get shot of him either on a transfer or a loan without us heavily subsidising his pay elsewhere. I've seen it said that he's only travelling up once a week from his home in the Kilmarnock area and Killie might have been a possible way for us to get shot of him. But with his injury history in the past 2 years, I think we are stuck with him till his contract runs out. McInnes of course has to take a fair bit of the blame for rushing him back from injury on at least a couple of occasions

I just think that Anderson isn't good enough full stop...….no matter the system we play. Had Cosgrove and Main not suffered the injuries they have, I suspect we would have went with Ruth as the 3rd striking option and Anderson sent out on loan to a (very) lower end SPL club or more likely a mid table Championship club. So I'm hoping that Edmondson gets the nod on Saturday to start...I've no idea if he will prove good enough but my mind is made up on Anderson. I have a hunch Campbell will start Saturday, but not replacing Ojo. My feeling is he will slot in at left back and if Ojo is to be dropped, then McGeouch will be the one replacing him. Kennedy was anonymous against sevco, wouldn't be surprised to see Hedges drafted in for a start in place of him. 3 points an absolute must against St J. Can't afford to be losing more ground to Hibs especially, but obv we need to stick as close to the arse cheeks as possible for a long as possible 1-2 (Mcginn, Taylor)

Fergie got the Aberdeen job pretty much at the same time as John Greig stepped into the oldco hotseat. As you say correctly, Fergie had just been fired (quite ignominiously) by St Mirren so it was a bit of a surprise that we appointed him. He most certainly was offered the oldco job when Greig resigned late '83 and very nearly took it but decided against it when one of their directors warned him that Willie Waddell was still calling the shots behind the scenes and he wouldn't get the full autonomy that he had to manage the club as he did with us ( and wee Jum McLean also then turned them down despite them offering to treble his DABS wages because he knew he was second choice to Fergie and his ego wouldn't allow him to be portrayed as such had he accepted). McGhee was just a charlatan and we should have told him to fuck off when it became known he was holding off on accepting our job offer to see if Celtic would come in for him. As for McInnes...he at least wasn't overtly touting himself for the West Brom gig at any point. Had he won the league during Deila's tenure at Celtic, his ambition might just have come true. That horse has long bolted of course. And even though he turned down sevco, just by going and taking a look should really have been a sacking offence but Wiggy instead rewarded him with an even bigger contract that sevco were offering. He has long outstayed his welcome now.

And they then signed another one on Friday, put him in immediately against Hibs and promptly had a nightmare 45 minutes, supposedly at fault for both goals, embarrassingly so for the first and forced into subbing him off at half time, bringing Rodgers on. Killie boss speared on by journos post-match. Claims that he was injured and had to make the change but no one buying that excuse apparently

There was newspaper talk 12-24 months ago of him getting a top 6 EPL gig on the strength of what he had done with Bournemouth. Unquestionably he had them vastly over-achieving but I could never have envisaged him at Arsenal or Man U etc. Leicester at an absolute push maybe. He probably did deserve a shot at somewhere like Everton or West Ham but will even that level of club be interested now? I'm not so sure. Wouldn't be surprised to see him land the Watford job though.

It has nothing at all to do with Covid. The simple fact of the matter is that we cannot afford to pay him and his team off with 22 months left on their contracts. And then bring in a new management team on top of that. The only way we will bullet him is if he somehow manages to get us into clear and obvious relegation difficulties by Feb/March in either season he's still contracted for. And even then I think Cormack would hesitate to act quickly. However I'm fairly certain that even managers as incompetent as Levein or Heckingarse couldn't contrive to put our squad into relegation difficulties so there's no way McInnes will.

No you aren't. It was certainly a foul and I was astonished that it wasn't given on VAR review, given that Arsenal scored only a few seconds later. That said...I hate Chelsea who are the sevco of the south and so glad that Arsenal prevailed.

McInnes will not be sacked. Far too expensive to pay him and his backroom staff off as it is, even before having to find the funds to bring in a replacement management team. Our best hope of getting rid of him before his contract expires is if Scotland have a ridiculously bad World cup qualifying campaign and Clarke walks next summer/autumnish. DM is probably the number 1 candidate to replace him (not because he's any good, just he's the best of a poor set of Scottish options) and there MIGHT just be room for a deal to be done by that point. Although I can't see the SFA getting close to matching the deal he has with us....but if he can get a 3 year deal with them, it should be worth his while. If Scotland do well though, we are stuck with him till summer '22

Studs up challenge. Won the ball cleanly and even 5 years ago wasn't considered even a yellow but the snowflake rules of today sadly persist and he had to go.

Well I guess the second half was marginally better. In the same way that being served a deep fried dog's penis in batter for your dinner is a marginally preferable option to a deep fried shite in batter I suppose next week will provide a better indication of how our season might pan out

The tactics we have employed made picking Anderson a pointless exercise. I get that Edmondson will probably take a couple of weeks before he is ready to start but lumping high balls up to the vicinity of where Anderson was standing was bizarre. We would have been as well going with Levein's genius 4-6-0 formation

I think Mcinnes will sub Bryson. Ojo to get red carded. Their midfield are making ours look pedestrian, only positive is that we are still only one down. Not sure where we are going to get a goal from but we cant just sit back and let them come at us this half. We aren't good enough defensively to do that without risking them adding to their total. Just wish for once Mcinnes would tell the team to go out and get right in these cunts faces

horrendous defending

Millermong indahouse. Dear oh dear Anyway get tore into these hun bastards. COYR

Fuck the draaaaa……………..I want these hun cunts sent back to the weeg with their bigoted tails between their legs and nul points registered on the league table I suppose reluctantly I'd accept sharing the points if Harvey, Kunt and Hagi all copped Durrants. And McGregor copped a JFK on the bus on the way to the ground

Tipped by 2 pundits on Clyde1 to finish 4th this season. Fraser Wishart reckons Hibs will finish 3rd. But the reason I am telling you this is that Hugh fucking Keevins was the other one (he reckons 'Well will come 3rd). This bellend never gets a prediction even close to being correct...the first season sevco got up to the SPL he tipped them to win it...and the year after! So lump on us for 3rd. It's a dead cert (He's also tipped Celtic to win 10IAR......I cannot stomach lumping anything on sevco ever though so I'll be avoiding that one)

He means the 'hat. It's also had a makeover but is suffering from just a few glitches. Been offline more than it's been on

Strange they've announced Edmondson but not Hoban?

We are so thin on the ground for strikers that I'll trust McInnes on this one. Assuming we get it over the line, he will be a useful addition to the bench tomorrow....throw him on for the last 20 minutes and let him become an instant hero. Really really want to ram it down the orc hordes' throats, many of whom are predicting they'll waltz into town and deliver us a 4 or 5 goal horsing.

He was pictured training a couple of weeks back so assume he's fit to go if required....and with 9 players allowed on the bench I'm sure he will be, even if we get a striker in tomorrow. Longer term, I suspect he will be allowed to leave on loan prior to the window closing in October. Possibly even freed if he can fix himself up somewhere. Just cannot see him getting a contract extension with us under any circumstances.

Our squad should be good enough to comfortably achieve 3rd, especially with Motherwell essentially having to replace half their first choice 11 from last season. But they do have (IMO) the best manager in the SPL who works miracles on the budget he receives so I cannot discount them from being in the mix for 3rd. Likewise Hibs who, of the teams below us within 10 points, appear to have strengthened the most. I was dead against us signing McGeouch in January...far too similar to Ojo and probably now one of our top 3 earners....I'd rather have tried to tempt Hamilton to sell us Gogic, or at least get him in on a pre-contract. The man is a beast, something we really don't have. I thibk he will prove to be Hibs' best acquisition of the summer and he will be on a fraction of what we are shelling out to McGeouch. Celtic to win title by 10-15 points. Slippy to walk next summer before sevco get the chance to bullet him, possibly with a few games left to play. Us in 3rd, by 5-7 points from Hibs. Coonty to be relegated.

Just don't think Anderson is good enough, even as a short term solution until one of either Cosgrove or Main is fit. Will get bullied by the sevco central defenders. I know a lot of our support are desperate to see him do well but I'm afraid I wrote him off as not good enough over a year back. Of course nothing would please me more than to see him bang in 2 or 3 on Saturday and cause a meltdown on the orc fanboards. But right now I'm desperately hoping we get someone in on loan that is of a better quality.

I've always said that Kennedy was the best player we had in the late70s/early 80s. Yes ahead of Miller/Strachan Mcleish etc. He could play any position along the back 4 and had an absolute Rolls Royce of an engine.....was as quick in the 90th minute of a game as he was in the first. Tragedy his career was cut short so abruptly..IIRC it was in the ECWC second leg at Waterschei he picked up the injury. He goes in... Captain has to be Miller. If you don't know why you ain't a dandy. Striker...…..Harper, Jarvie, Magoo, Black, Shearer, Rooney, Gillhaus and Nicholas all have valid claims to go in. But for my mind, it has be McDougall. Again, a player who had his career cut tragically short. Never seen a better finisher. An absolute steal at the £110k we paid for him. Who gets my fourth spot is the hardest decision. Strachan, Weir, Simmie, McLeish, McMaster, Bett (I'm just too young to remember Buchan with us..but I do remember him with Man U/Scotland and I'm sad to say I though he was a fucking duffer). I'm going to go with Bumper Graham though. Was my idol as a young loon in primary school. Would lay on a barrowload for McDougall and chip in with about 10 goals a season himself. Also wore my favourite strip of all time...the Admiral one with the stripes going down one side and on the shorts.