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Presumably we are not looking at reinventing the wheel though? We already have a director of football so this new person surely would be continuing with the existing plan…..or are we just tearing it all up on the Monday morning and starting again? If that is the case we might as well just fire the manager and stick the whole squad up for sale.

Hard position to recruit for I'd imagine. In an ideal world I think it would be great to have an older type who knows the club, maybe an ex-manager who had been around the block a bit but hard to think of anyone like that. Most of our ex-managers have not been very good. Hope it is someone who has seen it and done it rather than some young whipper snapper who is just out of college and talks about underlapping full backs, low blocks and transitions. Knowing Dave, he will appoint someone like Carlos Bocanegra. You heard it here first.

Massive schoolboy error. Never buy a pre packed buttery

Across the board, I don't think there are many examples of players who make it back to their best after they slide down a level or two. Most players seem to lose interest once they have been discarded by the big clubs. England could almost field a team of them - guys like Dele Alli, Jayden Sancho, Ross Barkley, Calvin Phillips, Raheem Sterling and the rest.

Hard to know what to expect from this guy. I have read comparisons with Charlie Nic and Hans Gillhaus and would be great if he is anywhere near that level. If you look at the detail, he is 27 and been capped just 14 times by Sweden who are not blessed with a vast array of exciting wide players. He has played the equivalent of about 14 full games in the last two seasons. Certainly has an eye for a goal by the looks of things. Very strange that Bologna would splash out €11M for him then only play him 15 times . Been racking my brain to think of a player who we have signed that was once brilliant and we have rehabilitated back to life but struggling.

Thing is, if the Dons make a habit of having a few young lads in the team then parents will surely encourage their kids to pick us instead of other sides if they can see that the lads will get a genuine chance of breaking through. If a 16 year old goes down to Man City, his chances of breaking through there are like the odds of winning the lottery. City can basically have their pick of the world's best youngsters. We need to actually play these guys though, just sticking them in the first team squad because they are Scottish and signing a load of 24 year old foreigners in the hope of selling one for big money is not the answer.

This was leaked earlier by a member of the backroom staff. Apparently Clarke insisted on Ralston at right back until Naismith assured him that he was sent home injured. Plan is to keep it tight until the last seven minutes then bring on Adams for Dykes.

It’s just a bit frustrating watching us at times isn’t it? You feel like there are just too many times where we do not do ourselves justice and the team performance is not equal to the sum of the parts. We’re not world beaters but my god, we have such an inferiority complex when playing anybody remotely decent. We really should be aspiring to be at the same level as a Denmark, Sweden or Switzerland, surely that is not unrealistic? You watch a team like Wales and they always seem to give any opposition a real tough match despite having a team that on paper that ain’t that great at all. If we are starting a game with the likes of McGinn, McTominay, Robertson, Ferguson, Hickey, Tierney, Gilmour and Christie, why the hell should we feel inferior to what you might call a middle ranking kind of team? Yes, we have a handful of bang average players in there as well but not everyone playing for a Sweden or Denmark is a superstar. I just don’t think we believe in ourselves enough. Setting out with a mentality of “let’s not lose this” is just not very brave and even more so when our central defence and goalie are the weakest parts of the team.

I know it happens loads in the strange world of football but the whole home/away concept is totally bizarre and 100% psychological. I would love to have been in the dressing room to hear exactly how Clarke addressed the players last night. We play Denmark away from home and set out to not lose the game yet we think by playing at home, we are at some sort of advantage, and will play totally differently. The players, by and large will be the same, the surface, the climate and rules are the same, so why are we treating the games any differently? This is not like tennis where you might be better at Wimbledon than in Paris because one surface suits your game better than another. Or in golf where Augusta may suit your game better than a links. The only difference between Hampden and playing away is really that you have the majority of the support. We come off the park last night almost celebrating our point as if it is some kind of moral victory where in actual fact, we have not taken any points off Denmark, we are on both on one point and we have in fact lost ground on Greece. All is really does is put more pressure on the team to win the remainder of the matches. The ex-hun on the BBC last night kind of eluded to it when he asked Brown and McCann, are you happy seeing Scotland sitting in and parking the bus and you have to wonder. The Danes won't be playing the way we did last night when they go to Glasgow. It's almost like we handicap ourselves from the outset. We have the opportunity to win 3 points, 1 point or no points and before a ball is kicked we take the 3 point option out of the equation straight away. I always think in these qualifiers that to get through, you need to win a tough game that perhaps you were not expected to win. If we had been a wee bit braver and come off with a win last night, we would have struck a massive blow to the Danes qualification hopes. If we had been a little more positive but ended up losing the game, it would probably have meant going all out for the win at Hampden which is exactly how we still have to set up anyway so a point has made little difference.

Not bad Rico and lovely graphics too. I'd have Ferguson in for Christie, maybe Bowie in instead of Adams and my Granny in for Gunn but apart from that I'd go with the same. As long as we can stop getting Gunn involved we have a chance.

Pity that Boyd never got more game time. We're so slow to bring players through in this country....and I know you cannot put half a dozen in the team at the same time. The 20 minute bit parts I don't think help anybody. I would contrast what the Dons did with Boyd to what Motherwell did with Lennon Miller. Miller got 60 odd games (proper appearances) and Motherwell got both the benefit of him as a player in their team plus a far greater fee than AFC achieved with Boyd. We neither got a decent fee nor anything added to our team and now we will never know if the lad really had it or not. You would like to think that if he had played a proper run of games that he might have been more inclined to sign a longer deal and if not, would have been sold for more cash. Surely 10 experienced first team players can carry a youngster in the team for a wee while.

Holy fuck, we actually have some players born in this country. In all seriousness, this is a game changer and I think this has actually saved Thelin’s job because the way things were, it was a matter of time before he was heading for the exit door. Nisbet is the closest thing you’ll get to buying guaranteed goals. He’s sure to chalk up 40+ goals in the next three years which makes a huge difference. And yes, he is 33 but Armstrong is a fantastic footballer. Hope he is still up to it physically because a couple of seasons ago he would have been head and shoulders above anything else we had in our team.

Real, real shame that. Local boy, awfully highly rated and out of sight before he gets a proper run in our team. Just don’t agree at all with the strategy. Agree with the sentiment on Gueye, Morris, Rubezic and Jensen and they can go to France but you can’t be letting Boyd go yet. This is a massive mistake, just have a hunch this lad will go on to be a superstar.

Their next couple of games will be interesting. If things go badly they could theoretically be 10 points behind Hearts after 5 games.

Shitey competition, shitey teams.........our shitey foreign players......... Sorry but hard to get excited about our Scandinavian select having a tie against Zrinjski Mostar or Noah. It's got the feel of the Intertoto Cup, the tournament no one really wants to be in.