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Fucking hell SeaBass he will need a decent improvement on the 5 goals he managed last season

Fair comment. Like Shane Duffy and Roy and Robbie Keane before him, James McCarthy is only going there because of the Irish connection (even though he’s Scottish) not to further his career. Always rated him as a player and actually thought he would end up at Man Utd one day. Looked a fantastic young player but 30 now. Hart is just there to top up his pension.

Hopefully you are right but you've got to give him time, he's played one league game. I can remember folk saying exactly the same about Devlin and Gallagher (Jon) then slating them further down the line. You can't properly judge a player until he's played 25 games. I'll be interested to see Ramirez handles Livingston's plastic pitch on a Wednesday night in January.

Just too many things there this time that should never be Olympic sports. The Olympics for me should be the pinnacle for your sport so no need to have sports like golf or tennis in it. No way a gold medal at the Olympics can compare to winning the Masters or Wimbledon. Also the idea of an Olympic medal for BMX, skateboarding and three on three basketball is ridiculous. These sorts of sports being included devalues the famous gold medal achievements of the past. They might as well just include darts and e-gaming whilst they are at it.

Brown has played over 250 games in the last five years, probably more than most players in our squad have played in their entire careers. He’ll be fine. I’d be more concerned with guys like Hedges who seem to injure themselves getting off the bus.

Surely Brown can cope with playing on Thursday then on Sunday, even at 36 this early in the season. His last Celtic game was on May 12th, that's over two months rest. Too much is made of squad rotation by guys that have been spending too much time playing Championship Manager. At a club like the Dons we really don't play two games a week that often during the course of a season, unless we were to qualify for the group stages of the Europa obviously, it's not like we are Man City and playing 60 games a season. If you look at someone like Andy Considine, who generally plays most games, he has played an average of about 42 games over the last six or seven seasons.

I can remember the Merkland stand used to have benches, I seem to recall sitting on those when I first went to Pittodrie as a bairn.

Stevie May and Nicky Maynard. An unforgettable partnership, hard to separate them in terms of their goal scoring prowess. ?

A poor Celtic is irrelevant to us, they are in a completely different galaxy in terms of spending. They have just spent more than £8M in the last week. I think you totally underestimate how close the gap is between the bottom 10 teams in our league and I think Dave Cormack does too. Hibs are decent, Hearts will be no push overs and St Johnstone won two cups last year.

Remember Glass did not take over a team fighting at the bottom of the league. You make it sound like he inherited a total shambles when in actual fact we finished fourth and not that far off third. We were also 11 points clear of fifth place. On the basis of your Fergie example, you can’t honestly suggest you would be happy with four seasons of rebuilding just so we can then start qualifying for Europe again in season five because in reality if we finish sixth this year and have a poor start to the following one you would be calling for a new manager.

I hate that phrase, it is just an excuse for being shite really. Glass got this job in March so has had four months to get his recruitment sorted, which is ample. The problem with calling it a transition season is what do you judge as acceptable? Do you fire Glass if we finish sixth?

I get concerned any time signings from abroad are mentioned. (Very) Generally speaking, foreign signings just don’t work long term for us unless you go back to the Snelders, Gillhaus days and let’s not forget these guys were top internationals which we can no longer afford never mind attract. Whenever we sign from abroad they are either crap from the start or have a very short period of effectiveness before they become crap. Can think of very few who have been successful for a long spell. Even the likes of Zero and Stavrum, who you could say bucked the trend, were barely here before they moved on. I’d far prefer we stuck to British or Irish players.

I am totally the opposite and really unenthused by the last few people in the door. Jenks, Gurr, Ramirez just look like a continuation of the crap we signed on loan in January. Was really pleased to get Brown and Gallagher but these other guys?? Looking at his stats on Wikipedia, looks like Ramirez has done very little since 2017. 14 goals in the last four seasons - Darren Mackie would be disappointed with that ?

They did well but I think everybody seriously under estimated Croatia. In reality, the games were getting harder in our group each time and we really needed to win the first game which was what everyone was saying before the tournament started. The first game was by far the easiest, progressing to England then on to the runners up in the world cup. Croatia are a good side and could easily end up making the semi finals. We are bang average but on a positive note, we are getting better.

Wonder if he's managed to pass it on to any England players ?

What is the basis for Ethan Ross being worth anywhere near £200,000 compensation? Not complaining like, just wondering ?. He's barely started a game for us. It can't have cost that much to develop each player in our youth team. Considering what we paid for Ferguson from Hamilton, who was recognised as being a really good prospect, it doesn't make much sense. Ross is nearly 20 and hasn't got anywhere near the first team really.

Aye, could be an issue I suppose ? I blame Marshall entirely Rico. His job is to protect the goal, we should not be in danger of conceding a goal just because we lose the ball mid way inside the opponents half. There were two defenders goal side of the Czech player so Marshall had no need to be anywhere out there. This whole sweeper keeper thing is plain stupid, started by Neuer and become some kind of cool trend because of how Liverpool and Man City play. Marshall almost came a cropper from it in the first half when he rushed from his box to clear into the stand but seemed to forget that putting it in row Z does not work when there is another ball immediately available for the opposition to take a quick throw. The whole playing out from the back thing is ridiculous too, players have forgotten how to defend. Almost every Czech chance yesterday came from us dicking around at the back instead of just hoofing it clear when we needed to.

Could not believe my lugs listening to McFadden in commentary yesterday. He was slating Jack Hendry for the second goal and never even mentioned Marshall! It was comedy goalkeeping at best, if Marshall was back in his box that goal would never have happened. Despite all the preparation it amazes me that Clarke still does not know his best team. Marshall, Robertson, O'Donnell, Tierney, McTominay and McGinn seem to be constants albeit Tierney has injury issues. Apart from that it really could be any 5 from about another 15 names. Don't think I saw any of the so called experts guess that Armstrong or Christie would start yesterday. Noticed a few starting to get on the bandwagon suggesting Dykes is not good enough, the sportsound guys were questioning it yesterday. I think him and Adams link up pretty well and hope they both get a start in the next game. Also, a lot of the pundits seem to have harshly written off McGregor with a big clamour suddenly for Gilmour to start based on half an hour against a dismal Luxembourg team. Next team should be: Gordon O'Donnell Gallagher Hendry Tierney/McKenna Robertson McGregor McTominay McGinn Forrest Adams Dykes

Hope you are right with the away shirt Chris, like the look of that. Similar to one of the Abtrust? ones back in the 90s.

Don't see why all the negativity about O'Donnell, he's not a world beater but at the same time he's a dependable full back. His delivery into the box is also decent. We have had a lot worse right backs. More worried about the fact Hanley seems to have played his way into the starting line up. He has been culpable for more goals going into our net over the last 10 years than most. An accident waiting to happen. In fairness to Patterson and to add some balance to the paranoid out there, he must be a good prospect to have broken through into the hun first team because they generally have zero inclination to blood their young scottish players.

Clarke does not seem to have a scoob about what is his first choice defence. First he gives McKenna the captaincy and plays McTominay at the back, then brings in Considine albeit with injuries to others. Then Gallacher looks like a first choice, now we have Cooper, Hanley now Hendry! Has he actually ever played the same three centre halves for two games in succession? God knows who will play in the proper games. Tierney seems to be the only certainty. Even the midfield is a bit unknown, will we go with McGregor, McGinn, McTominay, Armstong, Fraser, Forrest, Turnbull, Christie?? First time in a long time that we could actually field two not bad teams.

Jute, it was a light hearted, private exchange between two mates via text message, not personal abuse directed at anyone yet he has been depicted as some sort of monster. People seem determined to get offended at anything nowadays yet we seem to accept the bile dished out at football grounds to referees and opposing players without batting an eyelid. Jesus, we've just signed someone who served time for fracturing a guy's skull with a baseball bat!

I don't particularly like or dislike Malky Mackay but he has been a victim of the massively politically correct world we now live in. What he said in his texts was absolutely no different to what you would hear in most factories, buildings sites and probably more importantly, in the stands of most football stadiums throughout the country on a daily basis. His texts with the bloke at Crystal Palace was simply private banter between mates. He was stitched up big time and as a result lost his way having been a really promising young manager that was doing pretty well down south. Good luck to him at County.

Without injuries, we would have had 5 ex-Dons in the Scotland squad with McLean, Jack, McKenna, Fraser and Christie.