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In a country as parochial as Scotland, and with our stacked football system being what it is, taking games "round the country" would in reality give people the chance to moan about money being spent renting stadia from the Huns/the Tims/the Sheepshaggers/the posh rugby cunts so, for once, I think the SFA were damned if they did and damned if they didn't on this one.

Stubbs is an imposter of a manager who got lucky with a Scottish cup win. He had two goes at getting hibs out of the championship and failed miserably so why st Mirren thought he’d be any use with a lower budget in a higher league god only knows. He was also rank rotten at Rotherham so i’d say his managerial days at any half decent level are over.

If Tierney plays centre back it'll be with Mulgrew, at least in the Albania game. With the Belgium game being a friendly McLeish might try Souttar and Tierney together but I doubt it. Would make more sense to give Souttar his debut alongside Mulgrew, who's familiar with the position and has plenty experience.

The BBC gossip column just quotes the papers so it's no surprise they're full of shit.

So we're shit now and going to be worse when McInnes goes. Does that mean we should keep him?

Have you followed ANY of our games during mcinnes’ time here? That’s his preferred formation and nothing new so I don’t understand your surprise?

Lewis Logan devlin McKenna considine (new guy?) Shinnie ball/gleeson Mcginn Wright/Ferguson gms May/Wilson Is a better team than hibs or hearts and will be neck and neck with the hun - maybe even Timothy as well if they contoinue as they’ve stared the season.

Ferguson is a great signing and exactly the type of player we should be going after. Anyone who downplays the quality of that signing is either completely lacking in football knowledge or just trying to find any kind of reason to have a go at McInnes.

Aye, but shite management, coward, lacking in ambition etc etc etc

To bring in a new era you need more than a city or stadium switch unfortunately. And sadly I don't think moving to Murrayfield would make one iota of difference to the authorities' approach to running the game, whether that's in relation to their rangers/celtic bias or anything else.

As I said, Murrayfield's better but not significantly better. Still shite views from behind the goals and not without segregation issues so why move unless it's somewhere actually worth going? Moving won't solve any of the significant spetator-related issues currently affecting Hampden. Not necessarily from you, but there's more than a hint of "get up Glasgow and the Old Firm" from some of the people who want to move to Murrayfield.

Fuck all point moving from Hampden to Murrayfield. It might be bigger but Murrayfield isn't significantly better to warrant a move.

Awesome. "No one likes us and by fuck do we care"

Thanks, that was my point exactly. It quite clearly does work, even if it isn't quite as attractive a style of play as most of us would like it to be.

You should check our record in games where we take the lead over the last 2/3 seasons and see if it really doesn’t work.

Unless it's a mega pay rise from Celtic for the few months he'd be there it really isn't in his interest to do that. He's unlikely to have any great loyalty towards them so why sign a deal to net them a fee when he could move as a free agent and get a bigger signing on fee for himself?

Accounts don't identify individual salaries though, that would be madness.

Would you agree with that being as much, if not more, of a contributory factor to the shite atmosphere at the Emirates than the actual stadium itself?

Maybe an attempt at frightening other teams off from approaching other youngsters? Not that it should work of course but would at least be some kind of explanation. Never mind the players though, maybe we should be signing their entire youth development set up?

Maybe worth a thread of its own but it is relative to some of the recent discussion here. https://www.givemesport.com/1372426-its-the-end-of-football-as-we-know-it-just-ask-celtic-and-arsenal?amp&__twitter_impression=true The link between "traditional" fans and clubs is going (gone?) and I doubt very much whether it'll ever come back.

A very good post with some very good points. If the club does see youth development as key, then McInnes needs to know that he will be afforded some latitude by the board if, by running a squad where youth is the majority of the backup, he doesn't get us to second or we go on a bad run. Whether the majority of the support would be happy with that is another question entirely, even if the board were ok with it.

I think the Hamilton boy is right to demand as much as he can get and I'd back his right to do so all day long. Whether he gets it or not is another matter but put the shoe on the other foot and we'd be raging if one of the cheeks signed our hottest prospect in years and a tribunal only gave us a pittance.

Events may prove me wrong but I'd be fairly certain that, other than an outside chance of the Huns and probably Celtic, Mulumbu will be back at Killie if he stays in Scotland. He only came up here due to his connection to Clarke and can't see him signing for us, Hibs etc rather than Killie if he doesn't get any better offers elsewhere.

Not necessarily having a dig at you in particular as I've seen this said a few times, but why is any meaningful league game the right time to be trying new players and formations? If McInnes sent the team out with Harrington and right back and May up front with Cosgrove, and we don't win, he'd be absolutely crucified. We don't know yet how good or bad Dundee or St Mirren will be this season and we neeed points on the board, let alone actually trying to win the league cup so it should be the strongest team possible on both occasions. Playing Harrington at right back might be the best option but if McInnes doesn't think so then he shouldn't be experimenting in either of the next two games.