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I think Keskinen did really well with the ugly stuff and didn’t really look out of place at LWB, other than the 2nd goal but Mitov should be coming for that anyway. Can’t question his work-rate.

That’s the problem with the data-driven football decisions, there’s no statistic for “yass min” which means you end up with Jensen starting more games than Devlin. Nicky was immense tonight.

Mitov has to save that.

Type of game we need a Gueye-type who can hold onto the ball long enough for midfield/wingers to get forward, otherwise we'll never get up the pitch. Not sure yet if Lazetic can play that role, he's only featured as a sub when we've been chasing goals so far.

I think we’ll see the back 3 in a few of the European games so makes sense to give it a try here.

Good thing we had everyone back for the corner so we didn’t risk leaving anyone unmarked.

If anything did happen with Thelin, I think the prudent thing to do is put Leven in charge again until the TD is in and settled. That at least gives us another couple of months to determine whether the players are being impacted by the tactics or if they’re really just shite.

Yengi has made more suplexes than shots or passes.

Lazetic and Devlin playing for the B team at Forfar tonight.

At the risk of putting too much belief into what he says in interviews rather than just assuming he’s trying to get through them by giving the blandest, inoffensive responses possible, it’s a little concerning that his hypothesis is that we just need to do the same as we’re doing but with more intensity and hard work. We’re easy to play against because we’re predictable. Inverted wingers only really work if the wingers switch sides often, otherwise every full back knows they’re going to cut inside and as a result the full backs “tuck in” a bit more closing gaps in the back 4. Can also be effective if you have overlapping full/wing backs who can get to the goalline but Jensen usually shits himself at the prospect and bungs in a cross from deep instead. At least with Morris we had a bit of a Plan B, now we just seem to be doubling down on Plan A.

Far too pedestrian. Too slow to get the ball forward, too slow to get to loose balls, too slow to take fucking throw ins. Gyamfi and Karlsson looked good though.

Yeah I’m out.

I would say that’s a very romanticised view of what he did. He never debated in good faith, there was never an openness to consider differing viewpoints, only pushing his own agenda (rooted in disinformation), mostly on people who were not equipped to “debate” with him. Plus the whole “debate me” schtick seems to be just the window dressing on what his Turning Point organisation was actually doing. Lots of prominent people in academia and journalism coming out saying they were targeted with harassment campaigns designed to silence them. Not saying that excuses what happened to him but he wasn’t just some politically-curious young man with a passion for debate. He was an activist for an agenda that will result in human death and suffering whether it be removal of healthcare, removal of access to safe abortion, consequences of false demonisation of vaccines, rhetoric on acceptability of gun deaths, and the general approach to diversity and immigration that will have lasting effects on millions of hard-working families.

Think Ferguson plays a bit deeper for Bologna these days.

The guy Chelsea signed for £40m? This guy? https://www.givemesport.com/tiemoue-bakayoko-what-now-happened-to-chelsea-flop/

Old Town area around Republic Square is about a 30 minute walk from the stadium (or 10 minute by Tram - Lines 8/26). I imagine that's also close to where most fans will be congregating.

I think Vitols can be registered on the same basis as: "Boyd would not need to be registered as he's come through the youth system and is u21". Ambrose & Sokler seem to be on their way out so I'd drop them from the list. Gyamfi and Tobers seem like the most likely additions unless they're both scheduled to return imminently but both can be covered if not.

I would have thought your average Bolognese dog would be quite happy getting wanked off.

Currently injured so fits the brief.

What’s the upside of the 3 year project? Winning the league or consistently challenging for 3rd and getting into Europe most years? If it’s the latter, you’d get similar return out of someone like McInnes/Robinson without having to wait 3 years, especially with the amounts we’ve been spending on transfer fees during the last 3 windows.

If I'm reading that right, the team he played for that got promoted from Portuguese 2nd Division didn't fancy him in the 1st Division so loaned him to a team back in the 2nd Division. Doesn't scream £1m+ but who knows.

AEK Larnaca's stadium only holds 8,000. Might be tricky getting tickets for that one.

So much for being easier in the Conference League! "Aberdeen are at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, Strasbourg and Noah - and visit Sparta Prague, AEK Athens and AEK Larnaca." AEK Larnaca beat Legia Warsaw 4-1 at home...

Indeed, FC Noah of Armenia knocked out AEK Athens on their way to the Group Stage last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Noah#European And Shkendija who we scraped through against on away goals back in 2015 knocked out FCSB from this year's Champions League qualifiers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KF_Shkëndija#Results Plenty of beatable teams there, but also plenty of teams that can punish us if we're sloppy.

Terrible, terrible decision but we were asking for that being so slack with the ball over the preceding 5-10 minutes.