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I haven't seen his name mentioned but if Goodwin is proposing to keep Mikey Devlin over Consi then I'm not sure I have the vocabulary to properly express my thoughts on that idea.

By the sounds of things a proper clearout is under way. Lewis, Woods, JET, Campbell, McLennan all allowed to find new clubs, McGeouch, Ojo and Consi not getting renewals. Really not fussed about most of that lot, although I hope Dean Campbell goes on to prove Goodwin wrong as there looked to be a player in there when he first broke through, and I'm kinda sad about Consi but I'm not sure if that's just sentimentality. Big call getting rid of so many, if Goodwin doesn't already have improvements lined up then literally anything could happen this summer, good or bad.

If livi beat well and we win, then we’re above well on goal difference so that game is irrelevant. Beat county and hope hibs don’t beat hearts, mathematically it’s as simple as that.

Daily record () saying McGeouch and Ojo not getting new deals.

Two wins for us gets us to 41 pts. We need no more then two of the other teams to get above that. Utd: will get at least 42 by beating Dundee. Hibs: Unlikely. Best result for us would be them failing to beat utd. Livi: could possibly win both games. county: if we’re winning both games they’re not finishing above us. well: could win both games. st mirren: unlikely to beat the huns. livi v well and Arabs v hibs look like the big games but you’ve got to think two wins and it would need some very unlike things to happen to keep us out.

Watkins and Considine apparently in the "matchday squad" for this one. Devlin - SHOCK - and Kennedy the only missing players, although JET isn't getting picked until he pulls his finger out. If we don't show anything tomorrow with two weeks full training and a nearly full-strength squad then it'll be worrying.

Do we have here a poster who is too mental for even the hat?

Goodwillie back to Clyde on loan. Doesn’t seem to be going down too well, although apparently the Clyde fans kicked up a fuss when they heard the club had initially rejected the chance to take him back.

Goodwin said pre match it’s a 4-3-3 so Barron, mccrorie and Ferguson in the middle with besuijen and Montgomery either side of Ramirez.

Looks like lewis Ramsay gallagher bates hayes Ferguson mccrorie Besuijen Barron montgomery ramirez due a win over this shower, let’s hope new manager syndrome does its thing.

No way is Glass Cormack’s best mate; he might have been Cormack’s best mate’s tea boy mind you.

McGhee is an absolutely insane appointment. The Rusk guy who is going to be his assistant was actually the manager at Stockport and McGhee was his No 2. What's that all about? Someone must be running Dundee for a laugh with the confusion over voting, Strachan working for them and Celtic and now appointing his best mate as manager. Absolute comedy.

Mind folk said Woods was as good as or better than Lewis?

Pap horse. Not his fault he’s a pap horse but that’s what he is. Never achieved anything in his career that would merit the job, and don’t get me started on this idea that the wee boys running the club have of implementing a new structure. The first move in any revolution should be getting the board to fuck and the collection of nobody’s they employ right out with them. A fucking joke of a club these days and there’s no point anyone thinking it’s going to get any better. Wrote that over a week ago about another club but also feels relevant right here, right now.

I completely agree that our approach to youth development is hopeless, at least when the youngsters reach the fringes of the first team at any rate. There is a slightly less cynical view that the club aren't just paying lip service to committing to youth but they're actually just hopeless at it. If a kid isn't going to be in the team or match day squad by a certain age, but you want to hang on to them, then it's got to be a loan at that point. But that requires clubs to take a proper long-term view and I'm not sure we've been that kind of club for a long, long time.

If a player makes our team better while he's here then he's worth having. The only question with this Montgomery boy is whether he does that or not and you've got to say that's questionable at this stage. Ryan Christie didn't score against us in a cup final because we had him on loan: if he hadn't been loaned here he'd have been loaned elsewhere anyway so it's completely false complaint. We were a better team when we had him than when we didn't so of course it was worthwhile. Could be worse, we could be spunking tens of thousands a week on a 31yo crock.

Wonder whether he's been allowed to go now that we've signed the Dutch boy, or if we'll be after another. I would imagine we all want another but we'll see whether the club think so. All in all Hedges has definitely been one of our better "who is he?" signings.

According to the Daily Diana anyway: https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/sport/football/ryan-hedges-join-blackburn-rovers-26077476

25yo lower league journeyman. Not exactly inspiring.

That would require a braver man than me.

Fortune favours the brave thread starters in these difficult times. We can only hope this boy works out well as the mls is still pretty unknown. Should we be worried he’s ended up here rather than in the mls or is this a sign he sees his career in Europe? He looks the part physically at least. Hopefully more Ramirez than gallagher/gurr.

A not unreasonable point in all fairness. Seems pretty legit mind you.

US college “star” Dante Polvara allegedly about to sign for the Dons. 6’4” box to box midfielder. https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/international/dante-polvara-aberdeen-set-to-announce-signing-of-highly-rated-us-midfielder-3519889

Possibly a coincidence but we looked good going forward in the European games, then had a spell of being inconsistent at best once the league started. We’ve now beat teams we should be beating in the last two games. Who started the season playing behind Ramirez but has been left out for a long spell before coming back into the team this week I wonder?!

Hi! Haven’t seen you in the fortnight we were getting good result