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Ethan Ross would be the ideal one, but he's getting a lot of good game time at Raith just now, the last thing we want is him being dragged back here to sit on our bench so that McInnes can play Campbell, Ferguson and McRorie and Main and Cosgrove up front. With McLennan back soon (I think), I'd prefer we went with what we have. Thing is though, there's a long game here for McInnes. If he accepts any cuts to his wage budget now, he'll have to maintain that. If he gets Stewart (or some other Hun) in to replace Wright then it maintains that wage structure.

I get the impression that the club want Wright gone so they can either get a fee or not have to pay for McRorie. If that means having to take Stewart for six months they'll do it. Laziness would suggest that McInnes is getting an option too, I'm wondering if he's been told that he would get no budget for a replacement if Wright moved on and the swap deal is the only way he'll see another body in the door. A case of Stewart being better than nothing. I'd rather have nothing of course.

Good stuff. Likes his hillwalking and the like I believe and loves Scotland. We should probably tell him to fuck off back to his own country because brexit.

Show us your evidence. I have evidence that Hoban doesn't want to be here when his contract expires. Will he be relegated to the youths? I have evidence Hedges is looking to move on to a bigger club after the dons. Quarantine? I've heard Logan and McGinn might not be getting new contracts, they won't be interested either. I believe McRorie hopes to establish himself in the first team in order to get himself a move down South. I could go on. The idiocy of freezing players out because they're looking for a change in their lives is there for all to see. We'd constantly be playing half a team. Players come and go all the time because they're human beings who don't all want to stay in the same city all their lives. Wright has done absolutely nothing wrong. The club took a risk and decided to see if he was going to return on form and they've been caught out. A year's extension in the summer would have solved all these problems, but they didn't have faith in the player.

Dyer acted like a child. If my kid was in the killie youth setup, I'd be telling them to get out of there before they risk being hung out to dry by that unprofessional little twat. He's the adult in the situation, you rise above it and treat human beings properly. Sure as fuck he can't complain the next time a player leaves, he's set the benchmark for how killie treat their staff. Wright has done nothing wrong, he's said he wants a move down south, the club publicised it, the Huns expressed an interest and the club publicised again. The club are trying to cash in during this window, they're forcing the issue. Neither Jack nor McKenna downed tools for us, I don't expect Wright to. In our position we need him until he leaves and makes way for a replacement. Scottish football's enjoyability is not based on Wright having the same human rights as every other employee in the UK.

Nonsense, the world has moved on since the days of 85 year contracts and treating players like property. It's a disgusting way to do business. These guys are human beings and employees. We're adults too, a club shouldn't act like kids when dealing with guys in their twenties. Almost every good player that we have will decide to leave at some point, and others we'll drop in seconds too if we decide they're not good enough. If we start getting arsey with players who decide their future isn't exactly as planned for by AFC supporters, then we'll never be able to sign anyone. As I said before, if Wright had a poor start to the season we'd have ditched him in a heartbeat. We should have recognised the type of player Wright is and what he can offer and taken a gamble on a one year extension based on that potential. The club waited and other clubs are now recognising the potential that may (or may not) come to fruition. The Huns approached us to tell us they were interested, so they've done the correct thing it appears. The player has no control over approaches. McKenna had not control over the Tim's approach for him.

Yep, it would be bizarre. The only thing you could say is that if you are going to do something that risky, now is a good time to do it because if there were fans at the games he'd be getting a lot of stick. Also, our setup now is clearly more suited to his game than McInnes' insistence on playing him on the wing. It would be interesting to see if it would break Twitter too. The rage would be fairly special. McInnes would just get his "he feels he has unfinished business" speech out again, IT would just reinstate his account, so it would be quite an efficient signing.

He hasn't had talks with the Huns. They have expressed an interest in him. One is within his control, the other not. Seems to me that the club are very keen for him to leave in this window and so are doing their business in public. It may even be the case that the player doesn't really want to go to the Hun but will be left with little option if further offers don't transpire and the club continues in this manner. The Huns don't need Wright this season and would be best served offering him a pre-contract, which would force our hand. At least they have taken the decent approach of contacting McInnes to note their interest, the rest is up to us.

Aye, goals Aberdeen were the same. I regularly played with the sides of the pitch piled high with snow. In fairness to the ref, he wanted to play the game, but with the ten minute delay there was no way we could play the game before the ten o'clock bookings were due to come on.

Frustrating for the fans like. I travelled all the way to France to watch it on red TV, and they cancel it ten minutes after kick off. Poor.

It's actually fairly exciting. Better than our last game against them. Postponed now like. Shame, tasty tackles were likely. The plastic surface working a treat.

It would seem unlikely, a resignation would be more credible, but still unlikely. He is acting very un-McInnes in this window though by showing his hand early and clearly trying to move Wright on in January. He's either trying to play the board off against the fans, or Cormack has asked him to release info publicly to dry and drum up interest in some players to get other business done.

A mountain bike.

Have you seen the Holiday Inn Westhill? I'd say it's in keeping with the area.

I suspect it's paper/agent talk. Would be fairly grating to see another Aberdeen lad in their midfield, although he's better than that hagi fucker they've got. I expect we'll see plenty of other rumours floating around towards the end of the window. If we can get one of those weird deals that went down with McLean, that'd be ideal. Maybe a swap with McRorie?

Interesting. I don't think it seems unreasonable. I doubt many would want a middle of the night trip in cold, dark winter. I certainly don't think we should be relying on it. I'd have thought the major issue identified there was distance people were travelling. What I think will be more of an issue is that the government will have outsourced the work to some two-bit shitehouse, newly formed company who will make a cunt of it. The UK has an experienced team of flu shot givers who do these things every year and likely a significant bank of volunteers who have been involved in that in prior years. You can just imagine them being sidelined by a Serco type company because it'll be more profitable to bus in some cheap labour from somewhere.

They're not protecting them, they're just not making up new rules to punish them. Which is probably fair enough. They're shite enough on the park to not require punishment.

I haven't read about this, are you talking about tests or vaccination? Obviously a vaccination requires a professional, a test you can do yourself. I really don't want NHS (or other) workers working through the night, especially with the number of people working from home now, who probably have a little more flexibility of their working hours. You might take an appointment at 3am, but in order for that appointment to exist, someone has to be working at that time. I don't think that's what we should be aiming for, even in pandemic times. The government are still dicks though, just for clarity.

It's not really their decision though. The Tims have complied with the rules by getting everyone tested the day before the game, it wouldn't really be appropriate to go changing those rules. I'm not sure what the additional test would have provided, unless Hibs were hoping a few more tims missed out so they might have a greater chance of winning. I'm not even sure the results could have been guaranteed in time. Good on Hibs though, they got a good statement out which has cornered the SPFL, ensuring their cup semi can be postponed if there are covid cases, that's about as far as they could have got.

Oops. "We didn't break any rules!". Correct, you didn't, but you really didn't think it through though, did you, fuckwits?

We were holding our own. Brain fart by Taylor in the opening seconds was cancelled out by a good opportunity for Cosgrove who had more time than he thought. Wright had a lovely run into the box but picked out the wrong pass and Cosgrove had a solid run and slightly overhit pass that would have put Wright through. A simple tactical change in their midfield resulted in us totally losing our shape, which was frustrating. Main was asked to man mark Davis, which was fine, but then Davis began stepping up and aribo came central, resulting in Main tanking around about an inch from our defence and the rest of the midfield unsure whether to help him out. It was nearly ten minutes before the goal and we hadn't completely sorted it out by the penalty. Main had reverted to just marking whoever the holding player was, but we were still dicking about a little. I think if we'd have held onto the ball for a couple of minutes around that time, slowed it down, we'd have ridden it out. It was a spell in the game rather than them being completely dominant. Annoyingly, if Hedges had just left Morelos, I'd have had full confidence in Lewis to save any attempt. He's phenomenal in those types of one on one situations. We lost our discipline after that and 0-1 was probably a good scoreline at half time. Campbell did himself no harm too, he did alright. I think McRorie has been poor of late and I think Campbell should be giving him more of a challenge. Wouldn't be surprised to see them both shoehorned in against an on form Livingston.

Yes. Here's the info. Really does hinge on deliberate or not. Rules

If it's a deliberate attempt to stop a goal scoring opportunity it's still a red. I'd say that one was a yellow for most refs as it didn't look deliberate, but it's borderline. One of those ones that is the right decision by the definition of the rules but probably most refs would have just given a yellow. It was poor play from Hedges like. Sold the jerseys.

I'm guessing he thinks it can be stuffy or some shite.

Main and Cosgrove, thus nullifying both Main and Cosgrove.