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Has anyone ever been given a retroactive suspension for anything other than violent conduct? Didn't even enter my mind that this was even a possibility.

Amazingly the guy who wounded the linesman is only at no. 2 in the Scottish football press public enemy list having been unable to dislodge the downright evil Scott McKenna who left a poor wee lamb in agony with a dead leg. No doubt if an Aberdeen fan assaulted a match official there would be a 12 page glossy pullout.

What’s GWT?

Looks like either GMS will play centrally behind 2 strikers or Cosgrove will be up top on his own and GMS/Wilson will be playing on the wings. That would leave zero creativity in the middle though.

Can’t see anything other than a morale-sapping humping.

Forrester. Forrester was signed to be the number 10. Wright's the only other player in the squad that's capable of being effective in that position. Ferguson looks like he's better further back alongside Shinnie.

I think we've had a few full back pairings over the years that share the same skin colour. Considine & Shaughnessy Considine & Maybury Kennedy & Rougvie McKimmie & Robertson Solberg & McNaughton I'm sure there will be plenty more.

I'm not one for knee-jerk reactions, but this doesn't exactly inspire confidence: Terrific reaction and we're just missing little margins? We were honking. We could be playing until next week and still wouldn't even look like coming lose to scoring in open play.

Getting nothing off this ref, McKenna has been fouled in the St.J penalty box 3 times.

How many countries have a national stadium outwith its capital/largest city? Struggling to think of any.

Doesn't work with a 352 formation, but if we're playing 442 or 451 or similar, I'd have Robertson at LB and Tierney further forward. He's good at getting forward and getting crosses in, and would have no problems on the defensive side of things if Robertson roams forward. Don't see anyone else in the current squad that would give opposition right backs any problems.

Succession was very good, loosely based on the Murdoch family/empire with Brian Cox as a Scottish media tyrant trying to keep control of his company from his kids. Written by Jesse Armstrong (The Thick of It and Peep Show).

Will Reynolds be back by January? Makes sense to have 6 defenders. 1 RB (Logan) 1 RCB (Devlin) 1 cover for RB/RCB (Hoban) 1 LCB (McKenna) 1 LB (Lowe/Considine) 1 cover for LB/LCB (Considine/Lowe) Reynolds replaces Lowe when fit.

Another thing to consider is that Shinnie prefers playing in midfield and mentioned around the time that he signed that McInnes assuring him that he sees him primarily as a midfielder as one of the reasons he signed for us. Obviously we can’t have players dictating where they want to play but I don’t think we’ll ever see Shinnie playing for us regularly at left back.

I would imagine McInnes already has a shortlist of defenders he would go for if McKenna did leave. It would be bordering on negligence if he didn’t.

Peter Lawwell handing out log ins to Celtic’s payroll system to journalists

He’s been warming their bench anyway.

Would be interesting to know how much we're paying Gleeson and how much we would have had to pay for Mulumbu. I'm all for giving Gleeson a chance (despite shitebagging out of a 50/50 with Ryan Jack) but you'd think Mulumbu would be the more sensible option (proven at a higher level than Gleeson has ever played at and proven in the SPFL) if the wage demands were in the same ballpark.

I’d rather take the loan option for a year than spend £200k signing our 6th/7th choice striker on a 3 year deal. We’ve now got 12 months to plan for the long term solution. He should be at least as good as any of the League 1/2 strikers we’ve been linked with.

McGinn's still useful out wide, he's very good at getting a cross in without needing to actually get past the full back.

Apparently there’s an unnamed Scottish team battling with Hearts to get Demetri Mitchell on loan for the season. Could be us?

I guarantee that father will be getting abusive calls from them for the next couple of weeks.

I hope there's a hell of a lot more to come from Gleeson and Forrester, they were really off the pace.

Tailgating is fucking ace though. No chance we’d ever be allowed to rock up to the stadium car park with a cool box full of tinnies and a barbecue.

Fuck's sake, the reason I come on here is to avoid reading what those zoomers mash into their keyboards, can we keep their attention seeking nonsense on their own site?