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You could just not look? My biggest fear is that we get another number 9 in, but don't offload any of the others. Thelin seems to want to involve every player in the squad, and I can see him arseing about with a mix of Ambrose, Nisbet and Duk for thirty minutes every game. At present, the volume of options is doing as much harm as the quality. I'd like to see two out, one in, but I'd settle for one out, one in. I think we'll just get the one in. The problem with that is that we never get partnerships built. Nisbet got maybe five minutes with a tiring Gueye yesterday, and I see the exact same thing happening with the replacement.

It seems I've not done a roundup of our signings so far this season. Disgraceful. Mitov - good Jensen - jury's out Tobers - good Dorrington - jury's out Nilsen - good/jury's out Palaversa - good Keskinen - jury's out Okkels - jury's out Nisbet - fail Ambrose - horrendous I've gone jury's out on many, because I'm feeling generous. They all look like average squad players to me apart from Tobers and Palaversa, who I think will go on to be very good players. Mitov, of course, is good because we knew he was. Keskinen will be one of these lads who suddenly finds out what he's supposed to be doing and will turn out good, but who knows if that will be with us. Overall, I'd say that recruitment has been weak. We're paying out money for players who are just okay. Coupled with the complete imbalance, everything seems a little disjointed. We desperately need someone in to oversee the football operation, and keep Thelin at arm's length. The recruitment guy reeks of a return to the McInnes situation that we've been desperately trying to move away from. I have a fear that we're going to get a couple of random loans in the next couple of games, in positions we're already covered, and we essentially go with what we've got until the end of the season. As an aside, I think Jensen is worse than Devlin, but will slowly replace him for the remainder of the season.

Aye, I was there 96, was that when Judas Wright scored from the halfway line against Dons' legend Nicky Walker? I remember thinking it would be great to watch on the telly that night, but it coincided with a TV strike or some pish, so I've never seen the goal again.

Exactly. What was the last terrace in the premier league? Brockville was still terraced before the playoffs in 95. Was there anything after then (they went down, alongside Partick, who still had terracing at the ends I think, the following season)?

Special mention for Duk, who just shouldn't be still getting on. Aye, Jensen was a complete fanny all day.

Quite the tribute to JC's tombola.

Yep 4-1-2-1-2. Mental.

Holy fucking shit

We are absolutely honking. Why are they dicking about with the subs?

Agreed, it's not been great. Plenty of nice quick passing at times, but that lasts five passes and then it gets played behind someone or slowed down. Right footers on the left lead to that, despite them all playing okay. Gueye and Clarkson isn't working, Gueye especially been poor. Keskinen been terrible too. I'd take Nisbet on for Clarkson and Morris for Keskinen.

Dorrington and Tobers makes sense. Shinnie and Palaversa also. Would like to have seen MacKenzie back in. Gueye as the main striker again. I think I'd like to have seen him alongside Nisbet. The problem is that by the time we bring Nisbet on, it'll likely only be another 5-10 minutes until Gueye comes off. That's no time to build a partnership.

Brockville was fucking ace. Who'd have thought that moving miles out of town would lead to a soulless experience.

A masterclass in shitfesting. Stevie May's work rate is still phenomenal.

Hope it goes through, we're overloaded with left sided defenders, we desperately need balance.

Livi beat Falkirk at fake brockville. Some result. Martindale good at getting points in football games.

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I've heard plenty of Dons fans question Shinnie's technical abilities, and I'd say that Campbell falls into that same boat, but was generally worse. A scrappy midfielder who puts himself about basically. Killian Phillips reminds me of him, Phillips being less experienced but bigger. I suspect he'd do well for utd, but I think he'd be a step backward for us if we're continuing to play the way Thelin wants. He'd have been a great signing under Robson or Goodwin.

Did you? If so, you might not remember this, but just before your last post, you agreed to give me £10,000 as a thank you for all my great posts over the years. It'd be nice to get the funds before the end of the window, thanks.

Sounds like an agent trying to get him a better contract offer. Us, hearts, Hibs are definitely his level, I don't see him getting a lucrative offer from down South. The states or somewhere might be an option if he's looking for a move with his family. I like McGrath, he's a good player and we'll struggle to replace him. He goes into his shell a little when things get tough, and doesn't try the passes we know he can make, or often he just gets lazy with them like he doesn't believe he can make them. That's up to the manager to address though, to try and protect him from some of the flak. I hope he stays for another couple of years.

I actually knew that too, I just couldn't be arsed looking for a better example, and was hoping that you wouldn't notice.

I've heard we're looking at Angus MacDonald from Swindon.

Top marks for the searching though. I'd forgotten about Lancelot Huncunt. Hope Montrose bin him.

They only had one win in nine though, and he wasn't actually fired. Seems to me like he recognised that he'd lost the ability to turn things round and jumped (invoking abuse and family) to keep his reputation intact. That fifth place looks as false as our position, we're probably the worst two teams in the league just now. I think they'll continue to fall in league places, but all the evidence suggests that's exactly what would happen if Kettlewell stayed. Edit: I should say, I don't at all blame him for resigning, management is a ridiculous career and you can only really look out for yourself. The biggest difference between us and them is that Thelin is killing us by trying to play entertaining fitba, where Kettlewell was going for exactly the opposite in an attempt to scrape a few lucky wins. They are both unsustainable approaches at our level, and our budget doesn't guarantee being able to play our way out of it anymore than there's does. Both managers should probably have sought a middle ground.