RicoS321

No Shinnie.

MacKenzie?

United must be favourites for second now.

Think that's a bit of a myth to be honest. They'll be training on plastic everyday. The pitch actually looked like it played well today. Obviously not for our lads.

I thought Polvara looked decent when he was given game time. Surprised he didn't feature today. Maybe just getting back to fitness. Easily as good as Palaversa to date.

Why? There are hundreds of players that don't sign new contracts with us. You can't just stop playing them. That'd be wild. Especially when both have been excellent this season.

Reverting to the mean now. Worst performance of the season so far, completely lost all confidence. Thelin needs to work out his best eleven, who can play together as a unit and then who makes the biggest impact from the bench. Changing it every week isn't working, give the eleven a few games to prove themselves. Give McGrath a rest too, he's had a great season but is in danger of losing the goodwill with the manager not taking him off when he's struggling. Think we missed Molloy today. He has his issues, but he knows instinctively to come across when Rubi moves out the way, like for their third, and just moves the ball to the forward far quicker and more accurately. Anyway, the score summed up the game perfectly. Got exactly as we deserved.

Wales excellent for them. Looks a player.

Keskinen off? Wow. McGrath must be looking better at the ground?

That was coming. What fucking game is Thelin watching? Those subs needed to happen five minutes ago. Fucking waiting again.

He's not been the worst player, but he is a waste of a jersey. Every touch he's had has been awful, he doesn't look like he's played before. The service has been poor, but his movement has been terrible (although I accept the telly may be deceiving).

Another poor half, with players all over the shop. Molloy has been poor for a couple of games, but MacDonald on his wrong foot is never the answer. His body shape is always wrong, and his passing is always biased to the wrong side (he either plays one down the line that curves out, or plays it into the area of the centre halves. MacKenzie hasn't helped him much and has been poor too. We seem to be struggling with their shape, they have a couple of wing backs, and our fullbacks are a good bit off them as they've also got Wales and Vassell up front to be aware of. Duk isn't tracking, and when he does it's completely unpredictable. This surface, away from home, cries out for someone like Sokler to run into the channels and chase things down whilst making space for others. Shinnie not been great, but McGrath seems to want to make it impossible for him to get the ball through to by hiding behind the midfielders. Keskinen been about the only bright spark today. Ambrose obviously a waste of a jersey.

Aye, been terrible. Duk defending is like having a man down. MacDonald for the goal was weird, he just seemed to run away from the flight of the ball.

Ambrose has started for us before. He was gash.

Molloy dropped for MacDonald, and Ambrose starts. Fairly wild. Mitov back will help undoubtedly. MacDonald on his wrong foot isn't great, so hopefully they'll shift Rubi right and tell him just to use his head only. It'll be interesting to see what the next phase in the Ambrose experiment looks like. He really doesn't look like someone who has played football before.

Just go by dates at Christmas time, it's easier than days.

What's happening on Tuesday?

They'll not stop him getting his dream move.

Have you got shares in McGarry?

He's not very good. Better than McGarry, not as good as Mackenzie. Not as good as Molloy. A very average defender who'd be a good squad backup to have. However, if he's not interested in being a backup then he's best off elsewhere. He's nowhere near good enough to be starting every week, and doesn't really have any attributes that stand out. You can tell Rubi to be aggressive and attack the ball, Molloy to focus on sweeping up and using his good distribution. Jensen is okay with the ball, but slow to use it, is okay in the air and not particularly quick. He's like a poorer version of Molloy but at an age where he should be at his peak defensively. Morris and Gueye both had very obvious attributes that a manager could work with, I don't see any in Jensen. Like McGarry, he's just that bit below the required level, which is fine for backup with a view to shifting on when we try out the next guy.

Clarkson's still a young lad, in a very difficult role, we can give him time. McGrath also had several years where he wasn't up to it during his career. You're expected to make things happen, but also take the abuse when you try something that doesn't work. I find that the Dons fans around me are very impatient with Clarkson, but he's the one trying to do the inch perfect through ball that will get us the goal, so he's going to have more misplaced passes than likes of Shinnie or Neilsen, and McGrath when he's out wide. He was very good in the first half on Saturday, but the error seemed to knock him well off his stride. He was also good against St Johnstone. McGrath has just drifted in and out of games of late, and I see no reason that we shouldn't give them a half each for the next couple of games.

Said no one, ever.

Well that was fucking cold and shite. Went a bit calderwood with the subs at the end. Ambrose was better than Sokler, and I assume we won't see Nisbet at Pittodrie again. Hibs took their chances well. Rubi pish for the first, their second was a good bit of play and then another fuck up for the third (was it Clarkson that gave it away?). Keskinen probably best player for us. Need Mitov back asap.

He scored for QP, minutes after coming on, to clarify. Playing left back and got forward quite well. Probably better than McGarry. Probably still not good enough of course.

Ryan Duncan. Get him signed