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Desperately trying not to get excited by this guy. When I see the scarf above the head shot, then I’ll start believing! id still be peeved at £4m for miovski, but aye, as long as the sell on is mega, then so be it. He grabs the likes of Reals attention and who knows

Be interesting to see how the saints cope after their European qualifier this week. Didn’t have any impact on them last week, but the team were considerably shiter and valur weren’t that flash either. Regardless, saints come into this fixture with decent confidence, likewise we should have taken plenty of heart from the majority of our performance on Monday. Molloy was unlucky with his own goal and we really shouldn’t have conceded nor made Monday as nervy as it was. Any news on sokler? Wonder if Miovski will be gone as is rumoured. The subs may be key here, but that’s another concern in itself. Scoring early too as saints seemed to go up another gear after half time on the weekend. injuries permitting, can’t see much of a change to the first XI. out bed bed work 2-1 dons, think we might sneak this one. Shinnie and McGrath

Definitely slower than other places but hey ho definitely positives for it

Wouldn’t begrudge him, but think a year under a competent manager wouldn’t do him (or us) any harm at all.

A loan would do him good. Feels like we need to manage him carefully to ensure he doesn’t go the way of shankland and anderson etc when they were with us. 6 month loan to see how he goes in the championship would be ideal. Definitely not done anything wrong so far but he’s still very young.

I figured this is what you meant and agree.

Amazed that they did this, especially given his record appears to be worse than Beales? But I guess he’s won a cup?

@tom_widdows will you be doing this seasons one?

Pleased for the saints. Killie mate was raging at their result, complete fuck up from McInnes in his eyes. Wrong line up, winnable tie and didn’t lay a glove. Sounds very familiar

I’m guessing this’ll be the same starting XI as the Dumbarton game providing there’ve been no injuries since. Keep forgetting we’re playing after the weekend though! No idea what to expect from this. The cup games whilst competitive, didn’t provide a high level of opposition, but u know there are swings and roundabouts to that. JT was able to test a couple of things. Really had hoped we would have a new striker by now though.

Will sort that out

I’ll bloody take that, but was 4 no? Anyway, I’ll restate that I want to see mcgarry played at LW. Granted I only saw the highlights, but he’s always been better going forward. He’s a confidence player and I hope it gives him the confidence he needs to show what he can do. anyway, onward and upwards, good to see sokler bag another brace. Still feel we need another forward and a right sided winger.

Daugava we’re done for match fixing weren’t they?

I’d happily see them lose and drop down into the conference league qualifiers

Was great seeing the turnaround after the first half of pish against Airdrie. In theory this should be an easier task but nevertheless I think Thelin will take his professional approach. Another few days of being under his stewardship, the players should have a bit more of an understanding as to what he’s trying to achieve. It is concerning that it took miovski coming on to turn it around though as Sokler didn’t seem up to it, but he should have the confidence from his first game or two. Really hope that if we are to lose miovski it’s sooner rather than later as we’ll need to unearth someone better than sokler. anyway, they’ve lost all their games, albeit they were unlucky against airdrie but we should win this comfortably. out bed bed day of birthday parties 3-0, Rubi, Shinnie , sokler

I would actually like to see us try McGarry on the wing. He was always better going forward than defending (hence why I was surprised we got him as a defender anyway). This would free up space for Hancock.

Hope so, i'm sure he was as disappointed as we were with his season last time out. No doubt there's a player there.

Forwards: Ambrose - 1 Dabbagh - 4 Duk - 2 Gueye - 8 Nisbet - 13 Sokler- 7 Midfielders: Besuijen - 2 Clarkson - 7 keskinen - 6 McGrath - 5 McGarry - 1 Morris - 4 Okkels - 1 Palaversa - 2 Shinnie - 4 Defenders: Devlin - 5 Dorrington - 1 Jensen - 1 McKenzie - 1 Rubezic - 1 GK: OG: craig Gordon - 1 kasper schmeichel - 1

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.