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Agreed. Pish. What do planners actually approve though? Just the site access, that sort of jazz? The councillors doing the social, moral, objectional aspects of it?

in peace.

Yep, hopefully Harvie will get some more game time over the next few months, however he looks a good bit off first team material at present. I was hoping he'd be a good bit better. He looked quite tall at the weekend though, which surprised me. 5ft9 according to wiki but he looked a bit taller than that when he came on at the weekend. Perhaps he's still growing. Anyway, he reminds me of Clark Robertson a little, which is probably nae a good thing.

No, but he's comfortable on a fitba. He doesn't just fearfully punt it, his first touch is decent and he can find a man 90% of the time. Considine's better on the ball than Reynolds, O'Connor and Logan, he's just slow.

The problem is that he's not very good at actual football. He has zero confidence on the ball.

Exactly, and giving the role to an unemployable racist means he's likely to be there for sometime.

That's why I said second half! He was gash for the goal, but so were our midfield and rest of the defence in the build up. I would get rid too, in an ideal world, but if we only have the resources to recruit 2-3 decent players in the summer then I think we keep hold of Reynolds as cover for a bit longer until we get someone better or - as you suggest - promote from youth in Mbayo (unit like) or Roscoe. Reynolds is a very professional, intelligent guy that does no harm to our squad to have around. We just don't have the scouting ability or resources to go out and get 4 good players in the summer without making a fuck up along the way. If we get lucky and pick up a gem then get rid then, but I certainly wouldn't make it a priority.

Aye, we're allowing it. The BBC is covering it like it's a thing. It's dangerous as you say. It detracts from the things that should be being investigated So we need to get to the point where it isn't crucial, because it really should not be crucial. We don't need a leader, we don't need to be led. We need targets and goals as a society and the person who takes us there is ourselves. We've deified people in a system of deification. It's bad shite and it leads to this deep, deep investigation of a person's flaws in order to find out that UKIP's policies are zenophobic, nationalist pish. We knew this anyway, we don't need a UKIP leader to project this. Pollicy, policy, policy. Stop personalising politics, and remove power from individuals (see Donald T). That's the only way. Remove power from individuals and you remove power from their friends. We need accountability, but not on who someone is biffing.

Sounds like O'Connor's agent perhaps trying to get the dons to up their offer. Anyway, no great loss, a pretty limited player that could easily be replaced. Save us seeing him in midfield again. Not sure I'd keep Arnason either, don't think he's been as good as folks thought he might. Pool our resources and get one decent centre back with Reynolds and Considine as cover. Reynolds is okay as cover, he seemed to settle in the game in the second half at the weekend but certainly wouldn't be disappointed to see him go in the summer. Again, it comes down to our ability to get good signings in. I think if we got Devlin in we could happily let Arnason and O'Connor leave. As far as I'm aware we don't have any youngsters coming through at centre back (after McKenna), so we get one additional right sided defender in as cover for centre back and full back like we've done with Quinn, Ball etc in the past. Above that, we still need two centre mids and a striker. That could be difficult for us. Getting 4 good players in a single window will be exceptionally difficult. Worse if Christie leaves. We'd be looking at 6 signings probably, and that'd be hoping for a high success rate. With that in mind, perhaps we keep the devil(s) we know in Reynolds and O'Connor for cover, sign a single centre back and a single centre mid and a striker then take it from there. It's easy to ditch players, but we've seen how difficult it is to get decent replacements (see Tansey, Maynard and Ball in the last window). We're 3 from 6 this summer as far as good signings go, which is in line with most seasons. If we let Arnason and O'Connor go then we potentially need 3 signings in order to get one replacement and one cover.

Totally. Although it was probably helped by the example set by his boss too. Any desire to go to the hun was probably booted into touch at that point too when he realised what a shambles they still were.

^^^This. Apart from the "knowing yer second choice" thing. I don't think most managers would care too much about that. But what a spectacular fuck up. I quite liked McLeish as Scotland manager, but he does buy the "fitba needs Rangers" pish a bit much. I'd like to see us go further afield for a good international (experienced) manager, but really can't think of anyone. I'm quite glad both Moyes and Lambert are in jobs as I don't rate either of those two. Just gie it to Jim Duffy. He's been around a while.

Sounds like he's done us a good turn here. Best of both worlds for us, a fee for a player leaving and we get a bit of time to replace him. I thought McGinn had an excellent last 6 months for us at the end of last season when he knew he was off, so hopefully we'll see the same from McLean. He can hopefully play with a bit more freedom and try a bit more of the passing he's clearly capable of. Good to see all the pish about him joining the huns put to bed too. Clearly started by huns but lapped up by dons fans as a stick to beat him with.

The Holiday Inn Express on Chapel Street?

AoC played centre half on Saturday, with McLean, Shinnie and Christie in midfield as ayrshire mentions. Do you mean AoC's role in the last hun game? If so, totally agree, we need to drop that shite right now. Stewart, aye, I like him too. I think him and Niall are similar but I've decided that McGinn hates the huns more. Yer right though, either would be fine and I'm not sure McGinn will yet be 100% fit.

There was certainly of partisan - dons can do no wrong - pish spouted at the time of his departure (dons mad was full of it), and many folk took a pathetic huff when he made a comment about the lack of training facilities at the dons meaning he couldn't do after hours training (rather than accept it as an objective, non-malicious, piece of criticism that it clearly was). It shows the importance of training facilities to guys like Fraser, as I don't believe we'd have ever taken him to the level he has managed to reach.

That's nonsense, he clearly does. Like Jack before him, he doesn't dive in because he doesn't need to and occasionally poofs out. And he can win a header - in fact he's pretty decent in the air. McGinn could play in Christie's forward role in the midfield but nae deeeper. Jess could tackle too, he certainly never pulled out of challenges in the way that McGinn regularly does (which is fine in his current position).

Aye, it'll be on the Red TV I expect, but I don't think it's televised. Should be a good one. We played well at the weekend, but there were some glaring deficiencies in O'Connor and Reynolds at the back. Hopefully we'll see McKenna slotted straight back in at least (hopefully Arnason too) and we retain the formation. I'd probably take in McGinn for Stewart and leave the rest the same (maybe May for Rooney perhaps). If we're ditching McLean, then do it after Wednesday as we haven't got an adequate replacement in the squad at present. Hopefully the chunt fae Nigeria will hae his work permit sorted in time, but I suspect that some hun at the Queen's customs has been given the masonic signal to hud it up until Thursday.

Emmm... Holiday Inn Express, Chapel St - £47 a night. #Culture.

He's scored a few goals this season. If he drops out of the Bournemouth team for whatever reason, Crystal Palace or someone will pick him up and the going rate for someone who has scored in the best league in the world is >£10M. Just hope he gets sold soon so we can pick up the cash that he's due us. Everything that has happened so far in his career has suggested that he was correct to leave the dons when he did, so fair play to him.

It's a'rite, Donsdaft has tickets for the home end.

A 22.5% sell on fee? Fucking accoontants.

That's a fucking weird one like. You're nae good enough for us just now, but we've got a target of being much shiter by the start of next season by which point you'll fit in fine. Fuck it though, he played very well yesterday (was better than Shinnie I thought, who started very slowly) and we'll struggle to replace him before the summer. Ideal situation. Bobby, McGinn in central midfield? I've never seen McGinn tackle anything in the history of McGinn. He's frightened to header the ball.

Reading In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat at the moment. Decent read like, very interesting, but hard going on a subject I dinna really understand (quantum mechanics) - well written for the layman. Done, The Secret Deals That Are Changing Our World was also a decent read recently. Read Beyond Civilisation by Daniel Quinn at the end of the year, was okay, but the Ishmael book is better and also Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics, which is quite good too. Elif Shafak's 3 Daughter of Eve was a good story on the fiction side. Nothing as good on the fictional side of things as The Sellout by Paul Beatty as I mentioned earlier in the thread. Get it read if you haven't already. Classic.

I think it's more the immigration folks that would be the issue. Is he even allowed in the country? I'm assuming he'll be on some sort of weird temporary visa. I actually thought that you couldn't sign a non-EU player without them having so many national appearances for some reason. Perhaps that used to be a thing.

I'm pretty certain that doesn't actually happen in businesses. In fact, I'd have thought that'd be illegal. A little bit like not declaring your full salary and accepting a large part of it in the form of a loan.