RicoS321

We've got a left back though, don't we? Or his he just for two years time or something? If he's back in a month or so, should we really be signing another player? Maybe a loan until January would do no harm. What about a Max Low(n)e?

Aye, that was predictable. We were fairly shite. I'm going to say bottom six level. Milanovic was half decent, although not defensively, and whilst he beat his man several times, never really escaped him. Not sure about Aouchiche. Yengi pish. Nilsen looked like he hadn't played in six months. Jensen gave it away too often and immediately fucked up when moved to left back (because he isn't a fucking left back). Milne looked shaky. Shinnie wasn't great, but after he sold himself for the first, Knoester should have been first to that ball, even before he slipped. We just weren't very sharp all game. Not sure where we are yet, would like to see more of the new lads before passing judgement. It doesn't look promising though. I said we'd need a number 8 to do the yards, and I still think we do. A striker obviously a must.

Forgot about Nilsen. Makes sense alongside Clarkson. Hope the Aouchiche lad does a power of work to help out (not questioning his work rate like, seemed reasonable, just got caught on the ball a bit). Think I'd have gone back three. Surprised to see Milne keep his place, but pleasantly so. Edit: just spotted Sokler on the bench, and nae Ambrose.

Aye, with the conditions, and lack of striker, I wonder if he might go back three with Shinnie in midfield. I'd go something along these lines, perhaps with a lamppost ahead of Yengi instead of Keskinen, as he isn't that great up front. Meant to be a 3-5-2, but the thing didn't work

I thought he was a stand out every time I saw Cove. Although I'd agree that he isn't quite ready, but one I thought could be given game time to develop this season. He looks most likely to be the one to make it out of him, Marshall, Stewart, Bavidge and previously Emslie in my view. It's getting that transition between loan and first team where we really struggle. We should be able to carry a right back to some degree during games, and we should be forcing ourselves to do so in order to blood the young players.

Quite bloody right. I just made the essential journey of going for my morning coffee and there's just a bit of a breeze. Shorts, t-shirt and sandals weather. Perfect for fitba.

Aye, that's what we'll need come December - more fitba.

Just get it played. It should be illegal to call off games in the summer months. I'm going to write to my MP.

We also get a dispensation, as Ambrose hasn't been trained by any football association.

You're too lazy to include the second "o" in too.

Squad numbers out. Interestingly, no number three in there. Also, Lobban in the squad. He looks like a great player, but not sure how he gets a look in with Devlin and Jensen there. Perhaps just to make up the Scottish quota.

Interesting. Like Dorrington, it strikes me that we'd be predominantly better signing him for fear of missing out, as he is apparently a good player. At the expense of squad imbalance and resulting in some players getting less minutes than we'd want. Either that, or it suggests we're going to be regularly changing our system to a three in midfield. Unless Clarkson or someone else is leaving. Anyway, looking like no number nine for tomorrow, which is a touch disappointing.

Aye, I spotted that today, it's bloody frustrating. I would generally prefer to give the BBC my business (and do), but the website is a little bit shite at times. Only Scottish results on the Scottish page seems reasonable to ask for.

Killie two up on Livi, putting them top of the league. They're going to be difficult to catch now. As an aside, @Panda, what's the deal with the BBC website not managing to get players' first names in the lineups? Is it just what's provided to them by a third party? Can you nae add them manually to the database?

Fuck sake, we're down to third in the table already as things stand. When the fuck are we signing a striker? Absolute disgrace.

My daughter gets a few years out of hers as she likes wearing them. She usually buys the goalie tops, and nobody seems to care whether they're current or not. She got the purple one the other day, which looks ace, and the long sleeves means she'll wear it for longer.

No surprise. I'm not sure it really does a whole lot for us him having a good spell there, but game time is definitely beneficial. I'm not convinced we'll see much that'll change Thelin's view between now and January, I think he'll take a few years to get to his peak.

I think it's Adidas rather than the club. We're a relatively small fish. Hopefully the mizuno lads will recognise our sleeping giant status.

Fuck the coefficient. That is a spectacular document utd have provided. This is the equivalent of the deadco soliciting advice from the lad who made porn films. Thon ZLX firm have clearly come in and promised to reduce their tax bill and Utd's directors have given them carte blanche to do so, without any basic due diligence. I don't think that incompetence will be a possible defence for the Utd board like, they'll likely face fines. I don't agree with the taxpolicy blog's assertions that players, chefs and analysts couldn't apportion a good chunk of their salaries to the various projects, but that is totally irrelevant as "projects" such as nutrition and analytics are clearly an operational cost of a football club, and definitely not R&D. You'd have to be a con artist to suggest that they were. Which will probably turn out to be true in the case of these consultants. Hope Utd didn't pay them a fortune.

Good luck to him. A good time for him to move on, and a good deal for us. Much like Duk previously, he could be a very frustrating player, but extremely useful on his day. Had we kept him a year longer, I could see the fans bemoaning the frustrating side a lot more. He turned it around from the horrendous first season, and despite some excellent goals, I'll remember his final performance when he worked his arse off and played for the team (The cup final. Which we won. On penalties. Against the Tims).

Aye, short of being red, it's a good effort. Better than the abomination and the North sea ones.

I think your point, overall, is a very valid one, I slightly object to Miller for the reasons @BigAl states, that's the only disagreement. I think including him in the list of players missed out on is harsh on the club, unnecessarily. The other two, definitely. I think the club are looking further afield perhaps because there is no real advantage to looking in this country if the player isn't Scottish? Not sure. I keep thinking the same as you, but then I struggle to name any good targets from other clubs either! Perhaps I'm just not paying attention. Devlin was obvious, as was Penrice for the diets. There wasn't an obvious candidate last season.

Miller? As in Lennon? There was never an opportunity to sign him. The other two are only missed opportunities in that they are Scottish, and we need Scottish players. I think if we were looking at Hale, then Bruce Anderson would be a better bet, as he's Scottish and came through our youth system. Hale perhaps marginally quicker, but Anderson uses his body better. Both would depend on us offloading Sokler though, as I don't think either are any better than him. Sokler would score as many as Hale playing regularly for County. Both Anderson and, to a lesser degree, Hale are comfortable coming off the bench and finding the net instinctively, which would be worth having. Sokler needs game time to develop the habit of scoring - his movement and getting into the right position are not in doubt.

Aye, would think so. I'd be very surprised if he was looking to leave. He'll be on relatively decent wages here, and he's done nothing at either loan to suggest he could make it with us. If he can get a good loan deal in the championship then he might manage to get some interest elsewhere in January or at the end of his contract with us.

Fuck sake @BigAl