Fratelli

Dave Davies' Twitter has shown us that he's a bit mental, but a nice way, you could say.

I’ll take your word for that, but there are a fair few 2001 born players in the Premier League with almost or even more than double his appearances who are established starters now. I think he’s past the stage where not playing much isn't a concern. The second bit was more my point. I still expect him to forge a career for himself in the Premier League, but the flat out refusal to accept that things aren’t really going as we’d hoped for him has been a theme of this thread.

He really hasn't played much football at all for someone his age, i know folk will jump to make excuses for that but aye. Not going to make any definitive statement on his career, but we maybe all just got a wee bit excited when he came through, as he was by some distance the best technical youngster we'd produced in ages. I still think he'll establish himself as a good PL player and be one of our main men for years to come, but the world class hype (which i indulged in) was in hindsight based on a tiny sample of games. When you look at a genuine world class talent like Bellingham for example there's no 'ach he got unlucky with the change of manager/he's not been given a chance/the fans who watch him every week and don't rate him don't know what they're talking about' stuff - he's so ludicrously good that he's (obviously) the first pick every week and dominates games at the top level consistently. Still think we have a great player on our hands mind, and being out of the spotlight may be a good thing for him, but for both his and our sake he really needs to start playing regular football soon.

Jonathan Pearce is so, so bad.

Been a brilliant game this. Even though Wrexham essentially a league side in all but name, it’s still a real upset. I’m going for over 5 ‘magic of the cup’ mentions post match.

Has John Hughes been on the radio saying he'd 'sprinkle a bit ae the gold dust aboot the place' yet? Get the boays feeling good aboot themselves.

In hospital at the moment, with chat on Twitter of it being pneumonia. Not good.

FWIW i think anyone banging on about 'getting it' and knowing what it means to play for Celtic is similarly full of shite for the most part. The last couple of years have shown that especially.

Miller there saying that there's far too many forin players and not enough who 'know what it means to play for Aberdeen'. Know what it means = be better at football.

Tom English and co are always embarrassing whenever one of the usual Scottish fitba characters lose a job. Blame is on the players 'nae characters, nae fight, nae leaders' and inane shite about modern players having it easy. Jumping to take bullets for their pal and chucking any credibility in the process. Echoes of the the collective gaslighting effort in the Covid season in regards to Lennon.

That Kevin Thomson episode is one of the all time greats. Incredible stuff.

I can't even try to understand what he was doing there.

What the actual f**k was that from Armstrong?

We've been absolutely rotten. At the same time why are Turkey being a bunch of absolute nerds and seemingly taking this quite seriously.

I quite like it for gambling purposes, but McTominay is a nightmare for a clumsy, needless booking. Literally every time he plays just about. Also we've been really quite rubbish.

A bizarre game all round, this. One of those games where it seems like hardly anyone is even aware that it's happening, and will be forgotten by almost everyone who has watched it by the weekend.

Complete negligence from Clarke as usual - typical Scotland. If we were a serious footballing nation we'd be using our limited time together to call up uncapped 26 year olds to get a look at them. Anyway, check out my Twitter account @ScotsAbroadPod

Signed his first professional contract on Monday. Really trying not to get carried away here but i think he might be the best player we've produced since Jack Harper.

If he was Belgian he'd have 40 caps by now. Bloody Playstations/No ball game signs/SFA.

Quite frankly embarrassing that Real Madrid are still trying to score - alright lads we get it. Fuckin nerds.

Our CL campaign in a nutshell this. A result you'd expect and wouldn't really be surprised with before a ball was kicked, which has unfolded in a very frustrating way. Done OK in spells, can't finish for shite. Out on our arse. Elite level fitba eh!

We were given our first penalty since April on Sunday. With VAR.

That cross was fucking ridiculous.

The boy King has been given one hell of a raw deal here - would normally be phased in gradually, dipping out occasionally whilst starting cup games. Being expected to hold an (already shaky) defence together in the CL with next to no experience of playing professional football - never mind European football, isn't ideal. A bit like Stephen Welsh for us in the Covid season - spared of the usual patience folk have with young players due to being thrown in as the main CB at a high pressure time.