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Bloody Hell! That's a lovely thing you did Lee, all the power to you . I'm glad you have found something to inspire you, and thus inspire others too, I mind you posting recently at feeling a bit detached from the dons these days.

Surely someone is going, either barron or Clarkson. Defo pleased to get shinnie in, suspect Mcrorie is now our default rb (we seriously just need to pick a position and stick with it with him). It will be interesting to see if there have been any technical improvements to his game but there's no doubt in my mind we are going to start winning more midfield battles with shinnie in the team. Prior to his leaving it was really only brown that could put him in his place. Not seeing a standout candidate in the league to do so now. I think Stewart could benefit from this as well, takes a bit of the leadership pressure off him. That's no bad thing either, you want leaders all over the park. Still want a cb but other than that I think we are reasonable shape for the 2nd half of the season. What a difference a day makes....

Colgate

How the fuck did we lose that

I wouldn't drop McKenzie myself, I thought he did really well on Saturday. I would bring scales in for either Clarkson or Barron, play him with Stewart and McKenzie and get Mcrorie into midfield.

Death by a thousand cuts. Only positives I'll take from that are we looked really solid at the back for the first time this season and JM played very well at cb.

Foster-you cunt

Looks line they might be taking Porteus off Hibs on January. He'll probably be quite a good fit there 2bh but the seethe from hibees should be quite amusing at least

His sacked in the morning episode is worth a listen. Basically says he said to Aberdeen I'll stay if I get a car like snelders has and was ignored. His take was the board wanted the sale to happen and he was shown the door

One of my best pals is a Hibby, I would have a field day with him. Never going to happen though obviously, he'll end up in the championship or perhaps Italy as they seem to be seeing Scotland as a viable marketplace now (apparently josh doig is of serious interest to Napoli, Lazio and Bologna this window). That said he would probably do quite well as rcb next to Stewart in a 3

I know this is tongue in cheek but can you imagine the seeth from hibs fans?

Sniffing around Kenny McLean on a pre contract according to the rumour mill. I would be sad to see him pitch up there but he left us the right way so I wouldn't resent him too much for it.

I suspect the club won't be keen to sell in January unless it's stupid money anyway. January window can be hard to get value in with regards to a replacement and HJK will have a decent sell on fee most likely too. I also would be surprised if Miovski wouldn't prefer to see out the season with us than go to Reims. It's not exactly a massive step up (fergie is playing at a higher level at bologna i would say) and l reckon BM will have his sights set a wee bit higher.

Miovski getting linked with stade de riems (mid table in ligue 1) for 4-5 million euros in the French press. "Under contract until 2026 in the Scottish club, Bojan Miovski would have the advantage of being financially affordable. If the Transfermarkt site estimates him at €700,000, he should not however be available for less than 4/5 million euros." I think we are going to be getting a lot of rumours the next wee while. The front two and Barron in particular are going to be getting a lot of interest. Coulsons future is going to be up in the air too as he's ooc with boro in the summer.

Whilst not a classic I thought the game had a decent intensity to it. Utd games haven't had a bit of bite to them for a while so it's good to see that return. Delighted to get the win overall. I thought the defence had its best game in a while 2bh. Utd moved the ball nicely in the second half but never really showed any penetration. Stewart had another good game as well, his distribution has noticeably improved the past recently.

Solid is good, particularly at the back.

Solid first half in all departments I would say.

This. I'm really impressed with what Martindale has done at livi, they ain't hammer throwers anymore either. I would also say SeeBass if you apply the logic of "we shouldn't lose to livi in any circumstances" that that door swings both ways. In other words you might as well be saying we should give up on beating the Glasgow 2 ever again because they shouldn't be losing to us under circumstances. You will always get underdog stories in sports, you will always get teams underperforming too. It's a crucial part of keeping the game interesting at all levels. A wise person said to me a long time ago when it came to supporting a football team "don't get too high and don't get to low, there's always a next season if things are awful.". I would add to this that there will be times that you won't have a choice in the matter such will be the importance of the fixture. A perfect example is the Scotland v England game a few years back. When griffiths scored the second I just...... lost it. Completely lost it. I can't tell you much about the 30 seconds that followed other than it was an ecstacy I had never previously felt. Then, 2 minutes later, that was taken away from me and ive never felt so low. I had no choice in feeling like this but moments like this are rare. You can usually get over a disappointing result pretty quickly if you put your mind to it, it's only fucking football after all.

Aside from defending set pieces we have actually been playing quite well. Also, it turns out Richardson has a weapon cross on him.

You can say what you like about Martindale but his coaching credentials are defo on the up. Livi are not the hammer throwers they once were and, to my eye anyway, haven't been too bad to watch this season. My instinct is this will be a much stiffer test than Friday. They are canny and capable whilst our away record this season is questionable at best but I think if we can score twice we will probably win. And wee can score twice. 4-1 flattered us against Hibs but if there's one aspect of our team I think we are all happy about currently it's our attacking potential. I wasn't that surprised we scored 4 despite not dominating because even when we are looking a disjointed mess elsewhere you have confidence we can score when we go forward. I don't think it's unfair to say you could draw a fair few comparisons between afc and most Kevin keegan sides at the moment. 3-1 dons Miovski, Duk and Duncan.

I think it probably was a pen but it took a fair few rewatches to be anything remotely resembling sure. Lopes is on the stretch whilst trying to change forward direction and Marshalls knee clips his extended foot as he's sliding through. Marshall gets hee haw of the ball.... It's enough for me.... Well just about. It's far more a fucking pen than the one hibs got at Easter Road put it that way. Is anyone prepared to give Richardson a bit of credit for his driving at the defence and playing Duk through for the pen? On the subject of Var? To be honest I don't really care, it got us a pen that put us in the lead (eventually) in a game we had looked second best in for the majority of the first half. It's here to stay, for better or for worse, so we may as well just be happy it helped us win today. 3 points will always be king to my eye. Second goal was the crucial one for me. You just can't give Miovski that kind of space in the box. After that hibs proper crumbled and whatever else you want to say about us at the moment we are good for a goal when a chance presents itself. Delighted for Rama and Clarksons was cheeky as fuck.

Does anyone know if there's any truth to the 1 million to us when he plays in the CL clause rumours going about? Probably bollocks

HEED FIRST!

I honestly don't see the point of going defensive for this one. Quite simply it just doesn't play to our strengths. We have a potent attack and a questionable defence (though one that has started to look a bit more resilient as a 3 in the past few games). Our best chance of a win here is to take a "we are going to score more than you" approach rather than trying to keep it tight and nick one on the break. One thing I would note is that I don't this game won't be won or lost by the defence or the attack. Clarkson and Barrons performance will be the keystone of any positive result we get tomorrow.

Napoli rested a few and were already through but the huns will have put a lot into it regardless.