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You do wonder about Miovski and whether the club risk it. Doesn't seem to be much movement on that front? Personally, if he's going to go i'd rather he go now so we can actually get someone decent in to replace him. Sokler will do ok, but not at the same level (from what I have seen).

That's a bit of a shit outcome for you there, Seabass!

In keeping with recent tradition, here’s another thread for Rico. Thelins first home game, how’re ticket sales going for it? I’d imagine we’ll be lucky to hit 10k for this, which would be decent for midweek cup game? anyway, I’d imagine a similar line up to the first cup game, as this is definitely a more testing opponent than EK were. Wonder how close to the saints line up this one will be? can’t see Vinny keeping his place, certainly didn’t appear to earn it and I’d imagine we’ll see Nilsen back alongside Shinnie which will protect him a bit more than McGrath / Clarkson did (not that I think that’s their roles anyway). out bed work work 3-1, sokler, Shinnie and Nilsen.

Pleasing to see us score 4, albeit against EK, but minutes, goals and a run out for some of the fringe players wasn’t a bad idea. I was very impressed with shady mo’s goal, that first touch was sublime, which is not a word I’d ever thought I’d be using to describe Morris. If the trick was to play him in the left, well Thelin! And kudos to McGrath too, cheeky as fuck. Shame that Vinny doesn’t seem to be trying to make the most of this opportunity, we need to cut our losses with him, it’s not happening. looking forward to seeing how we do against airdrie, which’ll be a much sterner test. They’ve certainly scored plenty of goals so likely be a bit more of an opportunity for the defence to see how they’re getting up to speed.

Seems fair

I like it it. Different and quite like the angled cuts.

Good on him. Done what we all probably dreamt of at some point until we realised we were pish(ed)! Glad to see him go out as a top flight pro

Was an incredible save at the death. Have been some crackers this tournament so far, but I think that takes it!

Said the same to a few mates this morning. Such contrasting outcomes.

The spain georgia game was brilliant. If only all teams could actually make a proper go of things.

There’ll be a few that get shifted but as an opening set of fixtures (Perth away on a Monday aside), it’s pretty damn good. Hopefully the team will be building confidence during this period before we play the bigger sides.

Disappointed the Dons didn't keep with tradition an announce a signing on a Scotland game day to ease the inevitable pain.

Shite football delivered by a fuckwit of a manager. I've no idea what his game plan was this tournament was, unless it was be the worst team there? Team were so uninspiring today and making the changes so late in the game (again). Muppet. He should be emptied after this (I know he won't). What was it, 4 shots on target all tournament? Embarrassing. We deserved to lose tonight. The fans didn't, but that football on show was turgid with no viable outcome. Not convinced it was a pen, Armstrong should have stood up and taken a shot but decided to be weak as piss instead. Clearly looking for a pen. In summary: Shite.

Short sighted fuckwit. Guess those other clubs never existed then, did they. Ah well swift leg break will do, fuck him.

Draw is probably a fair result, although I did feel the swiss had another gear in them potentially. Our back line is fucking horrendous, i'm not sure what pictures Ralston has of Clarke, but they must be good ones. Much more heart and desire than the opener though, so that was a massive positive and had that header been a few cm's either side it's either a goal or someone should knock in the rebound. All to play for though and that's the main thing! Thank fuck i'm WFH on Monday

I really enjoyed watching Rama play yesterday. There was a tackle he made midway through the second half which was the exact thing we were missing for most of last season. Well, amongst many other things we were missing too

First half, he was unplayable. He is a joy to watch, which as you say is a hard thing to say.

We were fucked from the outset and our recent form has just been exposed. Absolutely shite from front to the back, a lot of pretenders and imposters out there. As good as the Germans were, we were horrendous, I genuinely can’t recall a moment of positivity, other than the final whistle? Thank fuck this guy didn’t become our manager. also, I don’t buy into this let’s have a sing song and dance whilst we’re being pumped. It’s shite. Needless to say, it was a fucking shite start to my day on a hangover

Library pictures pal have serious fucking fomo from watching all the videos and seeing the photos. Cunts. Good news is that the game is on council tv here, HWFG

Think it’s a bit of everything : - manager turned to shite - didn’t get the move he probably thought he was going to get - believed his own hype robson ruined plenty so I’d hope that Thelin might be able to get a return to his previous form. I’d like to sell as soon as we can to get at least a return on our investment though.

Any highlights for this one?

Hands down. And as I said, it doesn’t make me think less of him. He’s always been a Tim, but never stopped him from putting his all in for the team.

Shame he's not sticking around, big heart and no one can forget what he did for the club / fans during Covid. It does irk me that he's likely joining them, but it won't tarnish my image of him. I've no doubt he'll be a good coach.

Can't really complain about it in all honesty. We did well with the initial deal and I hope he manages to get a decent club. As you say, certainly shouldn't be short of suitors.

Thoroughly depressing to see how this squad is panning out