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I think we'd be better focusing on Devlin's inadequacies as a player as much as his injury record. His positioning was good and his strength. His passing and general ability on the ball was severely lacking from day one. Significantly worse than both Gallagher and Considine. He was about the level of mark Reynolds when he left us. There's nothing that Devlin could offer that Taylor couldn't, with Taylor significantly better in the air. This is nothing to do with his relationship with McInnes, his inability on the ball was apparent from day one and something many of us mentioned on several occasions during his first run of games where he was at his best for us. He just doesn't fit into a team that his going to be passing to him under pressure. It would be really worrying if Glass offered him a deal as it would suggest that there is nobody at the club who can see that Devlin doesn't fit the requirement of a Glass team. Glass himself can obviously be excused for not knowing but if they're contemplating Devlin then it does suggest that he's not articulating his requirements to our scouting and recruitment staff or that they have zero ability when it comes to recognising player attributes.

Aye, list only.

The results coming in is the most exciting part of the entire election. Fair play to anyone turning out to vote with such a dearth of policy and inspiration.

It's the correct opinion, whether popular or not. Although Considine has been fairly consistent too.

Is that a baseball bat in your trousers Declan?

Falkirk fuck up, allowing Montrose to pip them into the playoffs. Dunfermline and Raith draw.

I'd hope they would care about it, but you're right I don't think they do. It was certainly mentioned at the time though, was it not the reason for that other FC United or Manchester (or something) being setup? That's the thing, they've got a team ready for their support if they really hated it enough. It's obvious that this super league gash is the thing that has tipped them over the edge so that they can pretend to give a fuck, whilst uefa changes the existing competition to do virtually the same thing in the background. The whole thing is akin to Facebook complaining about Google taking your data.

They loaded the club with debt almost immediately and used it like some sort of money laundering vehicle. That happened years ago though, and all that a long time after uefa had screwed every league in the continent with its shitey champions league pish that utd have been complicit in since inception. They said fuck all when their club started paying footballers £100k+ per week (Rooney?) and they were paying £100M to sign individuals. Their game was gone ages ago, I'm really not sure what they have to complain about. AFC's owners would do exactly the same if they could of course, we're all part of the same ugly system.

Horseshit, that's not what you said at all. There was only one interpretation that could be possibly taken from: That clearly refers to the present, not that we should be beating Hibs historically in some different version of our season. If you'd said that not finishing above Hibs this season has to be seen as a failure, most would agree with you. You didn't.

What the fuck are you on about? Don't introduce a different argument. You said that we'd given ourselves a good chance of finishing third and we'd better not fuck it up. We're three points and ten goals behind with two games to play with our final game against an unbeaten team away. That is the weirdest definition of good chance I've heard. Hibs are above us in the league over 36 games, so a good team comparatively speaking. Should we be expecting to win? Yes (although not winning wouldn't be a disgrace either). Should we expect to beat them by five goals? No, that would be stupid. At the moment we're just hoping to take it to the final game with a mathematical hope.

We're going to be hard to break down next season with a sixteen strong midfield.

I think we could categorically say he was pish after about 13 minutes of his debut. I can't believe McInnes chose to spend twice as much as he's ever done on a player in a market that he'd never shopped in, and Aberdeen had no scouting in. If you'd told me that someone else was responsible for that signing, I'd probably be cynical enough to believe it. But no, Dave stated that it was McInnes' signing, so I completely and unequivocally believe that.

There's not a huge uplift from fourth to third, both access Europe at the same stage, so just the SPFL place value, perhaps £250k? Not insignificant, but not huge. But to suggest not getting third would be to fuck it up is a bit ludicrous. We'd need to win by four or five goals to give us a realistic opportunity, it certainly wouldn't be fucking it up to not beat a good Hibs team by that margin.

To be fair, that probably had an audience of one.

I'd give it a month before you'd be complaining about us going long to the big guy! Hendry has done well, but if you compared him with likes of Watkins, he's not as good and I think that's probably the benchmark for a striker for us. Edit: Anderson with an assist and BBC motm too, so would definitely deserve his chance.

Deserved win in the end although we made it difficult. Two good goals, excellent play from McLennan for the first and a good incisive break for the second. An absolute belter from jet for them. Something to play for next week at least, however faint. Will be nice to give Hibs a tanking.

Great goal. That strong fast break and we have a player that can finish.

Just tuned in for the final 15, seen a lot worse! McGinn looking decent, McLennan looking pish. Sibbald shouldn't be on the park, but they should be one up after the pass back from McLennan. Pitch looks deliberately dry meaning the ball is holding up. We've had a few decent chances. It's frustrating because once again if we just scored a single goal the game would open up and be far better to watch. A finisher would have bagged Henry's header.

Ten in a single window would be a relative disaster. Pragmatism would be to keep a few. There's no way we're signing ten players better than McGinn, so I'd say another year would be a no brainer. Anderson as backup too perhaps. We don't have the capacity or scouting ability at the club to get eight further good signings so I'm guessing we'll concentrate on 3-4 players who are known quantities, good quality, low risk signings. The guys being mentioned probably fit that bill, alongside Brown if he's fit enough. If we can get four permanent in and perhaps pad out with some good loanees later in the window. Make a few more in January. Worth saving some budget for then to give us a good idea of what's needed.

I had a double take when I read that.

Been linked with McGrath at St Mirren. Really good player. I'm surprised there hasn't been a lot of hype around him to be honest. I'm assuming we're looking at a 3-7-0 next season.

I thought both Ramsay and Campbell were poor at the weekend. A fairly pointless three games on the whole. Maybe give Ruth and Ross some more game time. Hopefully we relax and play with a bit of freedom. Might as well. Then the following two games can be used in as an exercise in hacking.

Come on, it'd make training a lot more fun with him and Brown there.

There are plenty of players with enough skill in our team to overcome united. Kamberi is skillful, but he was playing dogshite after a decent performance against the Tim. It's obvious that his tracking back leaves a lot to be desired and his decision making poor, so don't chip little balls to him with his back to goal on the half way line. If a team is pressing you then stretch them and go long into the channels so that they have to hold off on the press for fear of losing it in behind. Don't just continue to pass the ball out from the back because that's what you've seen on the telly. That's the sort of pish we saw when Sheerin was in charge for a couple of games. It's childish, naive, nonsense. It's the exact crap we saw from McGhee where he would try and play one way and not recognise when it was failing. Similarly, when you've had two hard games in a week where players were struggling towards the end, use the squad. Get Ross in for McGinn, Hornby for Kamberi or Henry, McGeouch for Campbell. When players are tired, there not going to perfectly play your Dutch total football game from the back and it's when you make your mistakes. New signings or not, Glass cannot lay down a style of play and insist that everyone does it regardless, that's just stupid. You have to work with what you've got and adapt that style to suit who's on the pitch as well as recognising that when they're not fresh they'll react differently. We're not going to be buying our way out of this in the summer, we've got guys on contracts that will be here next season and guys that when played correctly will happily take us to third in the league alongside some good quality signings. I don't buy the "clear out" shit, it's simply not happening. The guys out of contract will mostly leave of course, but there's still a significant portion of that team that are here next season. Furthermore, I fucking hate the "it's not his team" shit that gets trailed out every time a manager joins a club. It's the very definition of a manager that you work with players to understand their strengths and weaknesses and maximise those strengths by playing to suit the majority in the team. Even when you sign new players, you're always going to make errors, and those errors are no different to accepting a previous managers signings. That's where the skill of a manager comes into play. That's what Clarke did so well at Killie, he recognised inividual players' strengths and maximised those. Hopefully Glass gets a good summer and brings in 3-4 really good players that can bring the best out of the guys we've still got just as Watkins, Wright and Hedges did earlier in the season. I don't believe he's a terrible manager based on a few games, but he certainly shouldn't be immune from criticism for making basic errors that an experienced manager should deal with. Just as he should be given zero credit for "saying the right things". We've gone down the route of an inexperienced manager who is still learning, we'll have to accept that he's going to make errors along the way. He's a fairly intelligent guy who'll likely work things out pretty quickly. It's a high risk strategy, but that's fine, it'll make things exciting.

You genuinely think that we're going to be making more than four successful signings in the summer? Woods/Lewis, Considine, Hayes, Ferguson, Campbell, Ramsay, McGeouch, Kennedy all under contract so likely staying and I wouldn't be surprised to see McGinn getting another year too. Plus McRorie. To be honest, I think with a striker or two in there, Hedges back and another couple we've got the makings of a decent team, just as we had at the beginning of the season. But injuries to those new signings, or just them turning out to be shite will mean that the players we saw today will form a large part of next season's squad. I think it would be entirely unrealistic to expect many more than 4 good signings (6-7 signings in total, at a 60% success rate) in a window and I don't see us operating with a massive squad either.