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Aye, it was a horrible game. The conditions made for a lot of wayward passing and poor touches and the ref compounded it by losing control completely from the first minute. In fairness to McInnes, he recognised that Saints come here in and sit in and so put a more attacking threat at fullback (Hayes then Shinnie in the second) rather than Considine. It's actually the sort of thing we've been crying out for all season and our defence wasn't affected by it. I also understood his reasoning for playing Rooney slightly wide of McLean at the start. He won quite a few headers against Foster rather than against the centre halves. It was really more of a front two also when we had the ball. We had enough good chances to win that game, McLean missed a couple of good opportunities, Rooney missed a couple too. If you miss those types of chances then you risk losing. We were the better team and looking like the only team scoring and McInnes made an attacking double sub with plenty of the game left. We're correctly critical of Rooney's form but the subs were awful. Stockley especially. That's the real conundrum for me and the problem we've had all season. Stockley and Storey are just not good enough and looking to the bench we're completely limited. That has meant our first eleven looking very jaded at this point of the season. The break helped a lot and it's obvious that next season we just need to go for quality rather than quantity. We just need one or two very good subs, not eighteen Miles Storeys. Anyway, Saints did their usual. Sat in, battled hard and took their chances. A deserved win.

Terrahawks. Fucking cunts.

Maybe he and his family fancy a change in lifestyle. Or he could go to some English shitehole and play in the Championship. Good on him for considering something different (if it's nae a heap of pish of course).

He must have felt like a right tit turning up at Ibrox for the cup final.

Strange one like. I can sort of see why a ref would give just a yellow in a match, but to overturn his decision seems bizarre. It's borderline during the game in that it could have been argued either way. An aggressive challenge, out of control and deliberate (i.e. not going for the ball) with studs raised. It's very difficult not just to back the ref in this instance. It makes it very difficult for refs when they're undermined for decisions like this. There is simply no need to overrule him when the challenge meets all the criteria for a red card. Compare it to the one Hayes appealed against the Tims last season (the Quinn winner game), where it was agreed that the player was out of control. He wasn't at all. Whereas Brown, here, aimed at the player with his foot in a position that could have really hurt the player. I hope this is held up as evidence in all future appeals we have. We've only had one straight red this season (Stockley) so it's difficult to compare decisions.

It's impressive in its nature. Utterly fucked up of course. Lynton Crosby is the cunt behind it. Economist cunt. The most pathetic of pseudo-sciences. He was also behind using the phrase "hard-working" in every single sentence in the last election (by implication, the unemployed are the source of all societies problems). It's a despicable form of politics. A better politician than Corbyn would have jumped on it though; and perhaps he still will. If he'd got one of his minions at PMQs yesterday to mimic them in a question to May, repeating "strong and stable leadership" over and over again in a piss taking fashion, it'd have soon shut them up. They just need to call it out. As do the media. I was very surprised when Kwasi Kwarteng was on Channel 4 news the other night and repeated a couple of times that the interviewer wasn't all over it. The media don't have to be snide or attacking, they just have to ask them to stop repeating it. If politics was really designed to be for the people, then phrases like that would be cleaned out. We'll never progress as a country or species if we continue to base our advancement on unmeasurable attributes such as leadership.

They could though. If they got enough season ticket sales. Which is what the story is really about. Just the daily Hun doing its bit for the establishment club.

He played for two minutes in their last game and eleven in the previous one. Most games he wasn't in the squad. He's nae the finished article and could struggle even at the huns. He needs a good run of games but nae be relied upon every week. Not sure that weird cunt at the huns will manage to develop him correctly.

Barthun banned for 18 months. Seems harsh.

It could be that the repair borders on his land or something, and the land was owned by him but a public right of way or some such. There's a road that goes behind my hoose that is owned by the neighbour, thus he is responsible for cutting the grass, yet I own the bit that goes beside my hoose and so am responsible for that which I didnae know until recently. If someone had taken an illegal shite on that part, I would have been none the wiser it was mine until I checked my deeds. Given it's a public path, it'll be an embankment or something that belongs to the property, but the cooncil probably cut the grass or whatever so it is legitimate that thon cunt Young might not have known. Going by the last paragraph, it suggests that he wasn't involved in the decision. Mine, he wasn't getting a hot-tub put in or anything (although at 200K I'd be expecting one) so I can't imagine it'd be a profitable venture.

Fash?

Is it a bream? Or is it a snapper?

That would ignore the overwhelming evidence of where Taylor loses concentration when we aren't 2-0 up. He just loses concentration regardless of scoreline. In fairness to him though, I think the first goal was poor decision making rather than concentration (as well as a very good run and cross). In other words, it was pishness rather than focus.

It wasn't that bold a move considering they were 2 down in a cup game. In fairness to McInnes, the difference is that we generally have our best 11 on the park. The obvious example would be the last cup final where we didn't make a sub until 65th minute, but we could only bring on Stockley anyway. If we'd been 2-0 down early doors at the weekend, I suspect we'd have seen McGinn on pretty sharpish for example (at worst half time). McInnes is actually quite quick to make a change if one of his favourites isn't on the pitch. How often have we seen McGinn playing poorly for 80 minutes before being subbed, but Pawlett have an okay game being subbed before 65th minute for example. McInnes' biggest problem is his predictability. That said, I'm not convinced anyone would have predicted that atrocious sub he made at the weekend in bringing on O'Connor. There was simply no need, and it was obvious to anyone who's ever seen us play football that it was a bad sub. It wasn't even in hindsight after the goal either, everyone round me was shocked when O'Connor came on for Christie. I've always known McInnes was cautious, but that was taking it to extreme. If he felt he needed a back 3, then he should have just moved Considine over a bit and played Hayes wing back. I'd love to hear why he thought O'Connor was required at that stage in the game. Was it a loyalty (to O'Connor, who he may have felt deserved to be involved) thing? Extreme caution? McGinn's fitness meant he couldn't come on? Christie's fitness meant he absolutely had to come off? Formation struggling with the width of pitch? Practice for the final? It's annoying we don't have proper fitba journalists/interveiwers in the game, as that question should have been top of their list. To say he got away with it is an understatement. I hope we never see 4 centre halves on the pitch again, it was embarrassing.

I want to know where to park at Hampden and which end is the most sectarian.

So, Farage versus Clegg in the French elections. Should be an interesting one in a couple of weeks. Le Pen will be hoping for a few more shootings between now and then to help her cause. Very interesting political times in the world. Every country experiencing a distinct lack of options and complete voter disenfranchisement. Can see our own election having a very low turn out.

Aye, should be a decent game. No dicking about from McInnes hopefully. McGinn back in (if fit) and take the game to them. Then give Hayes a couple of weeks off, he looks tired.

The hardest one for us to get to. Obviously.

Not an issue really is it? He'll go back to the tims after the last league game. Up until that point, any tactics etc. will be obvious from how we approach the league games up to that point. I don't imagine McInnes throwing up any tactical shocks in the final anyway. However, I don't see the benefit to him being here beyond finishing second in the league, unless we can get an agreement to sign him permanently, so I'd send him back if we win our next two games.

What the fuck are you on about? We're discussing the ends. The parking was resolved ages ago.

But is it easier to get to the Tim end for Hibs or not (actual trafficwise)? That's what I wanted to know. If not, then that's a pretty big thing I'd have thought. Easier to police perhaps, in terms of getting folks away from the ground without overlapping/clashing? I'm just thinking of any good reason that they could possibly use to justify it.

Aye, I never even thought. Do the Hibees actually have a specific side of the ground? I just assumed we'd be at the most logical side of the ground for transport for dons fans (before I picked up my tickets). Weird that the club didn't make a thing about it. Stupid kick off time, and further to travel.

We've got a fully functioning existing stadium. We've got the option of a 12K stadium. We've got the location, we could easily sit tight and see if building materials, techniques and options begin to change (do the architects in the audience genuinely not believe we'll move into a completely new era in building design with additive manufacturing and material science within the next decade or so - i.e. whilst we're still paying off a mortgage?). Pittodrie will easily last ten years or more. Accept that we don't need to go full steam into a project for a new stadium just for the sake of having a new stadium if it's nae in the right place and doesn't make us better off in the long term. Have the balls to say it's not the right move and we're not just going to do it because it's been one man's vision for the last 20 years. In the meantime, go full steam ahead with the training facilities and start churning out the next Willie Millers's and such like.

Nah. It's a shiny new thing. At the very worst, the first season is going to be packed. Good performances on the pitch will see another couple of seasons of crowds that exceed the current crowds. I think you're underestimating the fickle pull of a new thing. I think the 40K cup final crowd is an indicator of how folk get on board for something different. I think there's a good chance that we can keep a healthy portion of fans if we play well in our first few years. However, I don't believe that's a good method for basing a decision to move from a city centre location though. We need to be thinking longer term than 5, or even 10, years. I think losing a city centre location should be an absolute last resort. It currently isn't.

The warden kindly showed me to a spot where they don't charge folk last time I was there, which was kind of her (and she wisnae lying). Very close to the grun, but the wrong end this time roon.