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Thanks @Bucharest Help - I'm not going but have passed on to a few friends who are. As an aside, they're playing Rapid Bucharest tonight for anyone wishing to spy a look at them. They lost the other Bucharest derby a few weeks ago, with a certain Danny Armstrong banging in a hat-trick.

As for our cup draw (which, for balance, is our 10th home game from 24 cup ties), I'm to blame/thank for us getting Motherwell. A rather excited Motherwell fan at work - buoyed by beating Rangers 1-1, hammering St Mirren 0-0, and smashing Clyde on penalties - has bet me that Motherwell will finish above Aberdeen this season. So of course we will now face them back-to-back, home and away.

Now, I don't subscribe to the notion cup draws are rigged. However... In Celtic's last 24 domestic cup games, 20 of them have been in Glasgow. The tie with Partick Thistle now makes that 21 from 25. The four that were not in Glasgow - three of them are relatively close by (Paisley, Motherwell, Kilmarnock) with the furthest being Tynecastle (which is less than an hour away). Yet if they make Hampden again (in their own city) expect plenty of attendance chat and talk about loyalty and big game fans, while criticising Aberdeen (should it be us) for not filling the our end for a lunchtime/evening kick-off.

Thought Aouchiche was the man of the match today. Was almost an unsung hero in the way he linked the play and brought others into the game - was what we've been missing. For example, Morris doesn't look that dangerous without him there playing one-twos and moving defenders about. He basically did the job Okkels struggled to do last season, and that Gueye only did in flashes. Off the ball he gets himself into the right positions to be a goal threat too, and I think he'll score a few from midfield this season. Overall it was a game we needed, almost the pre-season game we didn't have. Not perfect, but some good play and a confidence builder for the European matches.

I think more likely Thelin was thinking about who is going to start on Thursday, which is why the five guys that came on are all in contention to start, or at least play a big part in the game. Freshened up the team, but still made sure everyone likely to play on Thursday played some part.

Morris and Aouchiche are destroying them down the left. They're sitting off Nilsen and Palaversa which is allowing them to pick passes for fun. I imagine they might try to get tighter in the second half. If not, we could score a few more here.

Molloy at left back. Milanovic (I presume) on the left unless we're trying Morris there. Yengi min, you've got to do something today, anything. Even a shot on target or a successful pass to a teammate would be progress.

Ignore all the above. I was probably drunk. The boy is rubbish. Totally unrelated...

Meanwhile, Oxford United have got planning permission for their stadium (also a 16,000 capacity). Estimated to be somewhere between £130m and £150m.

Has a very good scoring record though (for his age/position) and very highly rated; the talk is one of the Old Firm are actually tracking him, so would be a bit of a coup to get him ahead of whoever it is. As much as we all love Shayden Morris - the beautiful cup winning bastard he is - I think we've all said we need to upgrade on him if we want to progress and this guy looks the business.

Good summary here of tonight's Q&A with Jimmy Thelin

I used a laughing emoji, but actually, sadly, it's probably not far from the truth.

Noticed a bit of a spat between fans and a politician on X. The general argument appeared to be the SNP are saying Aberdeen can build at the beach whenever they like, but they still have signs up at Kingsford advertising they'll be building the stadium there. I'm all for a new stadium, but if we're still planning to build it at 16,000 capacity then I'm happy enough with all the delays. However, it's nuts we still have no real plan or timeline between ourselves and the council over what we're doing. Just "we meet regularly with the council/club". What do they discuss, because little to no progress is ever made.

Kevin Nisbet played the last half an hour last night for Millwall in their cup win over Newport. By all accounts he was pretty lively - though they're League Two, and he did miss a sitter. He needs to walk that thin line of getting minutes and a bit of form and confidence, without impressive Alex Neil enough to make him want to keep him.

Just watched some highlights of Bilalovic. Definitely a bit raw but very similar to Morris. A game changer at the 80-minute mark I'd say. Half a million is a hefty price for him, but I'm up for it. Just need a midfielder now and we can all relax.

Appears Lazetic deal agreed according to Italian journalists, just his visa to sort out. Here's him in pre-season training. He also played, and scored, in the only pre-season game I can find any info on - a Milan Futuro v Milan U19s game, which I reckon is enough to describe him as an "on-form striker". Hopefully arrives in time to get some minutes v Morton.

Similar to the Hearts game. Looked good in flashes, but were outfought, wanted too much time on the ball, and our number nine had another poor game. And yet, like Hearts, although we were second best we could have got something from the game. We appeared to think Celtic would sit off us and we'd get space to play, but they were aggressive. Every counter attack we had they were racing to stop us while we were labouring out. Milanovic, Keskinen (who was much better than v Hearts) and Aouchiche all had their moments, but we need to sharpen up. I'd be more worried if that was our strongest team. New striker coming in, we do have options to replace Nilsen (whether we use them or not I don't know), we need to decide what position Shinnie is going to be, and two young right-sided centre backs won't be the norm all season, Gyamfi still to get fit. There's still hope.

season ticket *holder* I meant to say, obviously.

What happened? You had booked a space Monday, but it got taken off you because a season ticket phoned on Wednesday wanting it? Hope you're feeling better soon anyway.

I think it'll be 1-1. Which at this stage we probably wouldn't be too upset with. Is Rubezic suspended due to his midweek red card? Something tells me there's been a rule change regarding just being suspended for the competition you were sent off in. Not that I think he's in line to start. More that if Thelin wanted to recreate his Scottish Cup winning tactic, then you're potentially asking Milne and/or Dorrington to go the full 90, and they don't tend to do that often, so he'd probably want Rubezic on the bench in the absence of Tobers. There's only Molloy as back-up. So I tend to think we'll play a four with Nilsen being asked to sit very deep to essentially make it a three/five at times.

Gyamfi and Tobers out until mid-September says Thelin, a bit more than "a few weeks" he said before the Hearts game. Tobers we can cope with as we have Dorrington and Milne (but may mean Rubezic hangs about). But either Molloy or Devlin are going to play more at left-back, or we'll need to sign another one.

It reads to me as nearest cities to the Highlands, as his intro was saying being based in the Highlands is the issue. He could have worded it slightly better, but I don't think the writer - who knows the Highlands and Islands more than most on here - is unaware Inverness is a city.

Yes, and then they got spanked by Ajax and laboured to a 1-0 win over St Mirren. Of course we need a big performance. But there are better times to get Celtic, and right now at the start of the season, at home, with Celtic not quite at it, is a decent time to face them.

Will always cheer for any non old firm club in Europe, because I know none of them will ever win it, and every coefficient point they get benefits us. Plus you'd need to be really bitter to begrudge Hibs and United fans having a decent European trip to Belgrade and Vienna. Good on them. Most of them will be cheering for us too when it's our turn. Old Firm being in CL has no benefit to us. They get all the money but hardly any coefficient points. Don't really mind them doing well in the Europa league (as long as they don't get close to winning it). As for where we actually want to be ranked, you only want to be 11th or 12th (or top 6, but that's unrealistic). Being 11th or 12th means guaranteed group stage football for the Scottish Cup winners, but no guaranteed Champions League place for Celtic or Rangers. So that's the sweet spot. Lot of work to get back up there.