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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgqewqllw8vo No McInnes, staying with your hammer throwers and not kicking a ball all season would’ve been a “bad decision.”

All joking aside, there's an argument that a game tonight might've been beneficial for our new signings before the much more important cup tie on Saturday. So now I guess we're genuinely hoping that one's off as well.

Something's gone pretty badly wrong if a Saturday game is on doubt on the Wednesday afternoon, especially with the pitch not having been played on for 11 days.

Better. Devlin and Milanovic excluded for space reasons but I wouldn't be surprised if that's our shape once Leven's gig is done, or maybe even tonight.

That's an incredibly poor piece of work from the Scotsman character. In terms of quality chants, "Fuck you Celtic, we're gonna win the league" in the league cup semi last season was excellent for it's defiance and - probable - humour.

Was alright on my laptop but aye, it's away to fuck on a smaller screen

Be prepared for a return to three at the back if we get a German coach... Mitov/Bratveit Morrison/Tobers. Milne/McIntyre. Knoester/Molloy Lobban/Devlin/Milanovic Aremu/Nilsen Geiger/Shinnie Keskinen/Frame/Gyamfi Cameron/Armstrong Nisbet/Lazetic. Olusanya/Bilalovic

We've even reached the stage where the social media admin person is needing sacked according to some because the club apparently haven't released enough info on what specifically is wrong with Knoester. Social media is superb as long as you don't take it too seriously.

While that's definitely true, it seems like we're pretty much in tear it all down and start again mode so one step back to take two forward is going to have to happen eventually. Plus a sizeable proportion of our fans will decide certain players are shite for all sorts of reasons so that's probably going to happen anyway.

Our team has been guff all season so I’d be very surprised if playing our new signings makes us much worse. They might play below what their eventual standard will be until they get up to speed but we’ve not exactly lost Pele, Maradona and Willie Miller so I don’t expect too much of a drop off.

And, if it's Tom McIntyre we're going for, at least he's an experienced defender who won't be taken by surprise by the physical nature of the Scottish game.

Twitter linking us with 22yo Everton centre back Reece Welch

It's all moot anyway but we wouldn't have had to pay £1.5m for Aouchiche, we could easily have said to Sunderland "nah, not paying that but we'll give you zero pounds instead" and got him that way. A decent player but we seem to have been clearing out the old loans to get the new ones in so on that basis it's no surprise he's away. On paper, a midfield of Aremu, Geiger and Cameron should be an upgrade on what we had before but I'm not sure a better midfield helps our inability to defend set pieces... maybe we're planning on 100% possession every week so that the other team can't even get a corner.

That’s an absurd appointment from livi. Bartley was absolutely woeful as Queen of the South manager in League One, showed absolutely nothing to suggest he’s got what it takes at a higher level.

Derek Rae saying it’ll include a “buy option” and that Lutz has been working on the deal for ages.