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This seems like really good news. Less avocado toast all round and this'll be sorted imo

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yeah, quite aggressive. All the new guys have looked decent enough for the first game of pre season tbh, Younne quiet though. Kenneh looks like a decent DM so far, happy sitting deep but gets across the ground well. Needs his studs change though he's slipped a few times.

I just find the idea of Wikipedia as specifically a data source quite funny. It's so caveated around reported figures and, as he says himself, inflation, that it's not really a worthwhile comparison to even attempt imo. That's my understanding as well, can't remember who I was looking it up in reference to.

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Teams for the first pre-season game today (on youtube at 11 if anyone fancy's watching). Looks like a 4231 in both halves, which is grand. Think if Doidge has really been told he can leave then taking into account injuries we could still do with either a wide man or forward, and there's been the talk in the last few days about wanting to bring in a cb as well. Seems, going just by this and squad numbers, that Kenneh is being considered a first team player, and interesting to see Delferriere in the same role in the second half. Interestingly MacKay and Tait are neither in the teams nor the travelled but injured list. @craigkillie how did Tait get on for you guys last season, someone you'd expect to be stepping up to this level at this point?

I know a couple of folk who are marine biologists who used to work for the EPA in the south east and apparently he's a massive pain in the arse. Heart in the right place, but everything was from the point of view of making things better for his angling pals instead of the health of the rivers themselves.

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Definitely been the same for me. Individual threads load fairly quickly but can be a long time waiting on sub-forums, although not all of them strangely enough.

Bit sad to see Doidge go, clearly came back from the injury a level below where he'd been before but had one of the best turnarounds of form I've ever seen from a Hibs player midway through his first season, ending up with a decent record as the focal point of a shite team. His second season he was a great foil for the more talented players around him and while he scored fewer in the league his goals in the Scottish Cup did a lot towards us reaching that final. Leaves with between a 1 in 3 and 1 in 4 record, I don't know if we've really seen someone with that goalscoring record while doing the target man job for a long time.

Quite excited to watch this tour, albeit never getting a tour and regular games against the big boys down south is one of the things that's held us back from kicking on in the last 7/8 years imo. Obviously a lot of guys rested/unavailable, and the usual handful of strange exclusions, particularly in the backs, where I hope we get to see Currie, Bennett and Hutchinson offering a more attacking edge. Equally in the backrow there a lot of very promising guys who will hopefully get minutes. Bit strange that Fagerson is playing the A game but I guess his and a few other inclusions are a sign of the caution which has been the hallmark of most of Townsend's thinking post-2019 6 Nations; not wanting to run the slightest risk of an upset even for the A team. On the back row, been thinking recently about how our relatively recent explosion of good options there makes the captaincy discussion more difficult. No guarantee Hogg is stepping down but I think for most Ritchie is the natural choice. Is he or should he be guaranteed a place now, though? He'd probably be my starting 6 in the majority of games but I don't think he'd ever really start at 7 with Watson and Darge available for me, and going forward if we start to adapt our back row to the opposition there are times when you'd maybe prefer Skinner as an extra lock, Dempsey/Bradbury/Fagerson(maybe even Muncaster in the near future?), or Darge to get our best jackal on the pitch. Christie and Crosbie could force their way in at some point in the future too. On the flip side, I can't think of anyone who should, imo, be guaranteed a start who would be a good choice. Zander def not, J. Gray or Cummings maybe at a push, Watson no. In the backs there's a lot more but none I'd really want as a captain, except again maybe Price. Hard circle to square at the moment

Daz now becoming a player/coach as part of the dev team. We are skooshing that league surely. I'm sure he'll still be available in a crisis but I reckon that's another indication that there's plenty of business to come in.

1 - what does this even mean? 2 - who are you talking about, and why are you presenting this as an either/or scenario? 3 - was he? "despised"? at least you've climbed down from "most unpopular manager ever" 4 - who are you talking about here? This is pure making someone (and something!) up in your head to get mad at here.

So with all the ins and outs this is the squad as I see it at the moment. To quote your boy from Chernobyl, not great not terrible. I think a new starting quality CB to let Hanlon rest/be the rotational option and DM and I don't actually mind that first team, presuming that Miller and Tavares are decent which obviously I am not optimistic about given recent years. Want to see Tait playing and as long as we rarely see Doyle Hayes and Newall playing together they both offer something. Quite like the idea of Cadden as a sort of limited winger, but no idea if that's actually part of the plan. Question marks over fitness for Magennis and Nisbet and losing them for Doig and Porteous, and I think on top of the two positions I mentioned above we need at least one actually good, creative winger. McGeady is fine, I guess, but would hope we could do better/add another. MacKay, Campbell, Bushiri and McGinn are more than welcome to leave imo

That's what struck me seeing the current pricings. I last lived in Glasgow as a student 2011-15 and would go along at least 3 or 4 times a year with a few pals, for I think about the same price that you mention there. And aye, this was watching a team which you felt would inevitably end up winning something big at some stage, had a cast of trully top players and played fantastic rugby. The Friday night element of it was a big pull factor as well. Couldn't believe how much they're charging for a far inferior product now.

Khrungabin just finished, equally class. Big thief, Gorillaz and DUA LIPA still to go tonight. Festivals are class, especially when you don't have to camp and they're not swept away in mud

At primavera the now and just saw Alex Cameron again. Can't recommend him live enough, it's unreal. I might start following him about on tour like those girls who got taken in Taken were doing for U2

A good start, and to be fair not sure the Ukrainian armed forces would cope with Azov members taking time off to have the tattoos lasered so a decent compromise imo!

I think drew is absolutely right. If it was me I would have definitely factored in the probability that, after arriving close to two hours early as advised (and required, judging by the photos of the queues), water would not be available and simply have slammed 3 two litre bottles directly before entering, rendering myself dead by water poisoning

Went along with a pal who had a spare ticket last night, delighted for you staying up. That back three looks like it could have a lot of potential next year, Mahon in particular looked very good and Cleary did a bit of the Jason Kerr bundling forward impression pretty well. With Wotherspoon coming back you'd imagine hallberg drops into the midfield 2 where I think he'll still be good for you, he looked great last night which I'm glad of, always wanted him to play more with us. Know he has been chronic all season but based on last night McPherson could be a decent enough backup to Hallberg in that role, did his job well and in that first half was one of the few players capable of playing a ball along the deck without it bobbling about and hitting folk knee high. Rooney and Clark will obviously be very hard to replace, but Hendry would be the big one for me. An absolute nuisance winning headers he's no right to, even if they don't drop to a saints player, and he's obviously a good if streaky goalscorer. Likes of Hibs and Aberdeen will probably pass on him thinking (wrongly imo) that they can do better but if he ends up at Well or Utd pushing for Europe again could see him kicking on. So unless he changes his mind about systems completely in the summer you're looking at a GK, RWB, a CM to do what Davidson did last night but without being so decrepit he has to make a sliding challenge every time the ball's further than a metre from him, a CF (unless there's a glorious return for Chris Kane) and a winger/forward who likes running at folk presuming Middleton isn't coming/wanted back. Big summer again for you.

I don't think that was one of mine but whoever said it is a good lad. Your team's just won a cup but it's imperative to defend the honour of the Azov battalion. It's some life

The wing backs are the real weak link for hearts (cue Cochrane winner)

Stu has set up a new ban evading account to write lists of bad gays. Fair play to the man he's committed to the bit