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I'm half cut and still no idea how I'm going to sleep. Got off the ball on and watching the goals back incessantly

Nothing puts you through the grinder like the national team. I'm spent after that. But I'm also, finally, going to a world cup. I'm a wee tramp for an overhead kick but Tierneys goal was the goal tonight for me. When I saw it was him about to take the shot it was like I felt a sense of anticipation... And then it hit the back of the net and we all just lost it. I mind saying to pals in 98 "we'll go to the next one" cos we were all teenagers and skint. I ain't missing this. I suspect there will be a faor dons talk representation in the states.. We should have a meet up.

Thankfully I work at home so no-one can see me pulling my hair out in anticipation. I don't care who's running America. If Scotland go, I go! I'm not far shy of 47 years old and this is really the first and last opportunity (couldn't afford France back in 98 as I needed to save for uni) I have to go to a wc to support my country whilst still being just about young enough to rough it a bit if needed.

I feel positive about the big personality, the club in general feels a bit fragile at the moment.... almost like it's scared of it's own shadow. A big character can instill confidence in others and I think Thelin is in need of that 2bh. Warnock was nothing but a tourist whom had never worked outside FA leagues as either player or manager whereas Lutz is the only player to have played in all six fifa confederations. He's kinda the anti Warnock you could argue Oh for sure, you want a core of homegrown, but I wouldn't say no to getting the next young Bobby Firminho at Aberdeen either......

It's completely true and easily my biggest criticism of Thelin but, in fairness, I dont have a fucking clue what our best midfield setup is either.

Thats him in the door and there's a 40 min interview with him up on RTV. Seems an interesting guy, defo with a bit of charisma about him. He's going to be very engaged with all things first team and under by the sounds of it. Feels it's important that a person in his role should be attending matches of the development teams at all ages reguilarly too, not just for players and their families to see him there, but for the coaches too. At one point they talked about how in Germany it wasn't uncommon to see the sporting director be on the bench with the manager etc so it will be interesting to see if he does that on Sunday. Also mentioned he still speaks to Julien Nagelsmann, whom he described as the best manager he ever worked with, a few times a month and the general gist of the chat did make me wonder if we might be looking to Germany again. He has contacts galore out there for sure though so I wouldn't be too surprised if he was involved in Gyamfi's transfer now I think about it. Toward the end he also talked very highly of Ryan Gauld and it was hard not to get the impression he was going to try to get him to come home. Welcome to the good ship Aberdeen FC Lutz, I have a feeling this will be an interesting voyage.

This would please me, he's caught the eye a few times now.

Nerves are really setting in for this now, bet I'm absolutely no use whatsoever in work tomorrow . No idea what to expect, the Danes may well be a bit rattled after bottling it or they may be really pissed off and highly motivated. Regardless though we need to be on it from the off. It would be nice if we actually look like a team that wants to go to the WC and not the limp dicked dawdling around the park of the first 43 minutes against Greece.

Like a combination of Romario and Miller

I reckon Anderson has been playing a lot of fives since he retired. He looks very comfortable in this format

Andy Considine "hold my beer"

Anderson again with a gallus no9 finish

clubfoot with a peach

on a side note, that utd kit is honking

He didn't give a shit about getting a sore one, he was scoring against der hun and that was that. Love it!

Russel Anderson turns into fucking Romario in this format

It did cross my mind he would do well in a thelin team 2bh.

I actully think Clarkson is remarkably resilient for his slight figure. I've seen him take some sore one's and bounce back up.

Fucking loved how Young proper bust a gut to get to the ball to open the scoring. Cracking flick for Miller and he's just stuck in one against the tims.

I would actually like to see us stop being so committed to one formation. The Motherwell game is a great example, I would have been seriously tempted to change to a back 4 after 70 mins as we looked massively out of ideas and I didn't think it was just fatigue.

Yep, all in I don't have a good feeling about this Greece game at all 2bh.

I wonder if you will be allowed into the concourse for a beer if you've got a ticket for another part of the ground.

He wasn't great against well either jute which was also concerning but I had thought he looked handy when we saw him before. Fingers crossed it's just a coming back from injury thing.

Polvara would make a cracking no 10 imo. He's not the most mobile but he has good touch and awareness and defenders struggle with him when he gets in the box.

Too early to say on the latter imo and I suspect he was probably only meant to play 45 mins after playing 45 2 days ago. I think Gyamfi has potential 2bh but time will tell, he's defo not fully match fit yet.