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Wouldn't say hes the forgotten man yet. He wasn't fit before but I hope once things get back to normal he will do well for us.

I voted Cosgrove but I have to say Andy deserved it. Its easy to overlook defenders, but he has really came on to a game in the last few seasons. The good thing is, as he has never been particularly blessed with pace he doesn't have anything to lose as he gets a bit older. He can hopefully keep it up well into his mid 30's and who knows how many appearances he can rack up. I disagree with the Ferguson goal being goal of the season. I voted for Vyners and thought that stood out well above the rest. Perhaps a lot of people didn't want to vote for a player who had only been with us for 6 months though.

Think that depends on us aswell. If we do manage to actually qualify for a European competition and start pushing at the top of the league again there is no reason he couldn't keep developing here for another few years.

Did he not win championship player/goalkeeper of the season at Falkirk one year? I always got the impression that he was rated highly and he would be the successor to Joe Lewis when he moved on. Pretty sure when he signed on Lewis was being linked with Aston Villa, so the management must have thought there was a chance he wouldn't be with us and Rodgers would get a chance to break into the team. Obviously Lewis has stuck around and intimated that he will be here for the long haul, so the situation has changed. He might still do ok and I'm sure based on the successful loans he has had he will get fixed with something at scottish championship or a low level English side.

I don't believe the clubs ambition at the moment is to win the league, but I think that's another discussion. Whatever your opinion on that, I don't think that bringing Jonny back is incompatible with winning the league. He is still a good player and would be a good influence within the squad.

Part of the problem with Scottish Football is that most fans don't want to support there local team. They usually choose one of the old firm and it has a detrimental impact on the smaller clubs. Even up here the amount of locals that support Rangers, if they supported Aberdeen you would think our attendances would be better.

The collar looks daft on the home kit, If it wasn't shaped that way I think it would be alright. I kinda want to like the away kit but I agree with the previous poster about the sponsor panel ruining the look.

Ideologically that sounds nice but I can't see it working due to competition for players from the leagues down south. I don't know how the NFL draft works exactly so if I've got it totally wrong please correct me. But if your a promising Scottish youngster and you have the option to go into a draft system where you could shine and yet end up playing for Hamilton or you got the option to join a mid sized championship club I'd imagine you'd take the latter. I presume it works in the NFL because there are no other competing leagues and because every club there is of a decent size.

I would have quite liked to see the league restructured as well. The 14-14-14 would have had the benefit of making the split fairer. You split after 26 games and then play each team in your half a further twice meaning we would never end up going playing a team away 3 times in a season to balance the home and away games.

I don't see why we would only get 3, the coefficient has been getting better over the last few seasons. I haven't seen any confirmation that we are getting the final spot, notice posters on the other thread saying the Scottish cup is not null and void yet? Not that I'm convinced there will be European football next season, so it might not matter anyway.

Doesn't really feel that satisfying, Id be ok with it not being awarded. That's a pretty pathetic points total we need to do better then that next season, who knows when that will even start. That should be our next predictor.

Add to that it wont be in front of fans even if it does restart, which means the club will probably have to refund all these season tickets it has sold in the last month. It's going to be a difficult situation.

So they have awarded it based on an average points per games played basis. Makes sense in a way I suppose, There is certainly no easy way to call it.

There was a few seasons under Craig Brown where Vernon scored a decent amount for us despite us being pretty rubbish. But I think he was one of these strikers who needed someone up front beside him to be effective. When we started playing one up front under Mcinnes he wasnt scoring as much and ended up second choice to Rooney. I think he left when his contract expired, but he may have been allowed to leave early.

It's probably a no go anyway. We all know that the TV deals are negotiated on the basis of 4 old firm games a season. I'd personally welcome league reconstruction but it wont happen even in this case.

Does anyone think that we would be able to sell more tickets in the event that they were cheaper? I'm staring to see a bit of movement among fans for cheaper tickets so if we get to that situation and have a smaller capacity surely that would screw us. I don't think its beyond us to get 20,000 fans regularly if there is a better match day experience and if we could put a successful team on the park is there anything to say it couldn't be more. Cant get behind reducing the capacity for these reasons.

We are going to need teams to start regularly scoring OG's against us at this rate.

Fair enough. I knew he was able to come back to train, but never realised that extended to playing reserve games.

The only way I could see us ending up in the bottom 6 is if we don't get any more wins before the split, which I do find unlikely but would certainly get McInnes the boot. I think if we don't get 3rd big questions will be asked. It would be a massive blow to our ambitions as a club not to make Europe, and although 4th place would likely get us in there is no guarantee we will get that on our current form. This season we have been terrible and it has been slightly disguised by how rotten the rest of the teams who should be competing with us have been. I think McInnes gets more slack from fans who are not attending games every week because we are sitting 4th one point off 3rd, which makes it sound like we are doing ok, but clearly doesn't tell the whole story. I also personally feel he needs to do more to get our promising youth players into the first team. That said I'm still slightly on the fence about giving McInnes the sack for a number of reasons. We all know how badly wrong changing managers can go for example the McGhee era. Caution aside I think there is also a part of me that doesn't like the reactive chopping and changing of managers that goes on too often these days. But it's been a couple of seasons we have been playing rubbish football. I think if McInnes manages to turn it around this season and get third or the cup he should get one more season to see if he can get us back to where we were a few years ago. I don't know if he is capable and I'm probably living in hope rather than confidence at this point.

Thought Virtanen was out on loan? Or does he get to come back in for reserve games?

Anderson could be a Shankland all over again. When he does score the quality of finishing is better than anything Ive seen Main or Cosgrove produce. But the fact is he isn't getting a run in the team. It feels like McInnes expects more of the youngsters then of our experienced players sometimes.

That was a great goal, moved the ball quickly and sliced the Hamilton defense open. Exactly what we haven't been doing the last few matches.

Was away to do that the other day, but I noticed in the new rules we are not allowed once the January window is shut. If its allowed I'll take 63

I think it could work but like the saying goes, its only as good as the people using it. At the world cup there was a stipulation that it was only to be used for clear and obvious decisions. When I see controversy with it down south its usually because refs are using to override borderline decisions. Its also possible that the rules need to be modified along with it. At the moment someones toe or arm being offside is strictly speaking grounds for disallowing a goal, but they could make it that if the players are generally in line the goal stands. I think they will get it right eventually but I don't think there needs to be a rush to implement it up here yet. Let them iron out the problems first.

I felt we were just way to ponderous tonight. Everytime one of our players got the ball they wanted to take three or four touches before playing it. There was no flick ons or through balls being played. I think the players we have are actually decent but they need to move the ball a bit faster. At times it would just be encouraging to see the ball clipped into the box. Disagree that Hernandes was gash rico, thought he looked composed and seemed to get up and down the wing well. However he wasn't really tested defensively so we will have to wait and see on that. Obviously I hope there is a little more to come but seeing as the Norwegian season runs from March to November I presume his fitness isnt 100% yet. I do however agree with the comments regarding Gallacher. There is no doubt he has an engine but his touch is atrocious and Im not surprised we struggled with him behind Cosgrove. As for Cosgrove himself there is no doubt hes gone off the boil a bit. Its hard to judge him because the service was so poor at times, but I would like to see him be a bit more aggressive in the opponents box. I dont think any of our team won a header in there tonight.