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What I've seen of him, Milanovic is a decent winger, scores some very tidy goals. WSW fans seem to think he's too good for Aberdeen, lol

Me and a bunch of mates are heading to the Auckland vs Perth game next Sunday. Likely to be the day Auckland wins the league. I've watched most of their games on the tele so far, and have gone to half a dozen games. Still not committed as a proper fan yet - I mean I follow them cos I live in Auckland. If I moved to Wellington, I'd probably switch to The Phoenix. Whereas I'll only ever follow Aberdeen regardless of where I am in the world. What gets me is they don't look fantastic. This is a team who have got to where they are from team-work (no superstars) and an incredible rub of the green. Next season will be interesting assuming the law of averages in the "rub of the green" luck isn't so screwed in their favour. Sakai, Pauline and Gillion have been standouts all season, but the rest fall in and out of games regularly ... fortunately not all at the same time.

Polvara has a strength to him that's lacking in our other midfielders. When we took him to Pittodrie, he was featherweight and felt like he was just a signing to keep Christian Ramirez company. The following off-season he clearly hit the gym, and came back much more of a physical threat. We saw that when he came on on Saturday too, didn't get pushed off the ball by Hearts' cavemen. I hipe he gets utilised more regularly by JT - between him, Clarkson, Palaversa, there's good options in the middle

Agreed. Gueye, Nisbet, Dabbagh, Okkels and Sokler aren't the answers we need upfront. When Keskinen and Morris get going they remind me of Hayes & Mcginn circa 2013-ish. But we haven't got sufficient replacements for them. The res tof our midfield and defence looks good now. Not brilliant, but notnin need of surgery like upfront. Problem is Dabbagh has Miovski's shoes to fill, and Miovski was so much more than just his goals.

Aye but it's supposed to be a neutral venue. It should be 50:50 to begin with, and if Aberdeen don't sell their allocation in a certain time frame, the remainder can be offered to Celtic. It was said here well before the semis, we will be punished for not bringing a full allocation to Glasgow for a 12.30 semi-final kickoff. Had Saturdays game been a 3pm kickoff, I am confident we would've matched Hearts crowd-wise

You reckon they'll keep Giancarlo, or has he taken Phoenix as far as he can?

At Easter too. Wonder if he'll return in a couple of days

Must be a demand from the Tynecastle Board "can you play stoneage football? Y/N"

I mean, great to be through to the final. But we were utterly boring. Only ones who got pass marks for me were Clarkson, Keskinen, Polvara and Gueye. Jensen got picked apart time and time again. Palaversa was absent. Morris tried his best, but got marked out of the game. Dabbagh's goal was a strikers-instinct goal, but he had some shocking moments when he came on. On the plus side, nice to see both Mitov and McGrath out there again. McGrath clearly not 100% yet, but his confidence grew with time on the field

Stop pissing about with it. Go and get a 3rd FFS

DANCER!!!!!

Fuck sake min. We are boring as fuck! Tidy strike from Dabbagh, but the amount of possession we've had, there should be daylight between the team score-wise. I still have an awful gut feeling Hearts are gonna win. Although we may finally see Devlin, thanks to Dorrington's dodgy hammy

Melbourne City's draw means it could be a home title win for Auckland next week against Perth. What a maiden season!!

Dabbagh is gash. And we seem to want to walk it into position. Every time Hearts get it, you feel they could score. We are ridiculously pedestrian, and it's been like this long before Steinwender's red card. I dunno where the improvement will come from the bench either .... Devlin being the only change I can see that would improve things. Maybe Polvara to add a bit of beef in the midfield?

Why? Why's he taken Keskinen off? He's been our only feed into the strikers.

Palaverse for McGrath. Probably the right sub to make - Ante hasn't been able to control the midfield despite us being a man up

Jensen is all over the place, the Jambos are bullying him at every opportunity. Get Devlin on for him asap. Difficult to see who would come off for McGrath at this stage though, as Gueye has been good so far. Nisbet has barely touched the ball, but he is a constant nuisance

Aye, Heart by far the better team. Palaversa has been anonymous, Jensen is getting bullied by "their" Devlin, and Knoester has been miles off the pace. But with them down to 10 men, a chance for us to hit them with pace. Morris has shown glimpses. Keskinen was through, so the red-card was very much the right decision. And who knew Gueye had lightning pace?!!! I always thought he was just a giant lump! Second half will certainly be interesting

So how does the promotion/relegation work? What if Brora beat a lowland side, ie Bonnyrigg in the play-offs? Does the Lowland League expand by 1 to accommodate Bonnyrigg ?

I dont like Hibs. But I do enjoy it when they finish above the Jambos. They were only third biggest when Romanov fes them his crooked cash. In terms of hate, I rate them marginally below the Old Firm.

Yep, my pal has just bought a firestick and it's now "with a guy" (nudge wink). Keen to see what quality is like, as I may follow that path. I can't be done with SPFL's continually suboptimal pisspoor efforts on YouTube anymore. Second half highlights of the County vs Dons game was literally one cross.

My Sunday morning tradition here in NZ is to watch Goal Rush on Sky. It's one of the previous day's 3pm games from either English Premier or the FA Cup. It has in-game updates from all the other 3pm Premier games. I wish the Scottish Premiership had this. Currently, there is zero way of watching Scottish Premiership games in NZ unless I VPN-it. Instead I'm reduced to 3 minute shit highlights on YouTube that have no commentary and no on-screen scoreline. What an absolutely honkingly shit product our top league is! It's even more difficult when the games are from either of the cups

3 episodes into Adolescence. It's superb so far. The single-shot technique is brilliant, gripping, makes you part of the events. And some of the acting and abrupt are exceptional.

I dunno how I feel about gunning for third. Bragging rights and a bit more cash are obvious pros. But we don't have the squad to compete in Europe AND at home yet. One summer window will not be enough to convince me either. The January window showed me JT can fix problems. But I think he needs another season in the doldrums of domestic football to build a squad capable of actually doing anything exciting in Europe. On this game, Well look like they'll bring a sizeable support up to Pittodrie which could make for a cracking atmosphere with our sold out home areas. But I reckon we will just edge it (glass half-full as always) 2-1 Dons, Jensen & Knoester

Still not confident we would win that group. Stonehaven Juniors can be a handful when they aren't nursing hangovers