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McGregor being poor as a substitute in his first game back from injury doesn’t really disprove this, does it? He’s clearly a first choice in the Scotland midfield and arguably the best option we have.

Listened to the game today while out running. My favourite moment: Pat bonner talking about a Celtic goal, to which Richard Gordon said ‘and it all came from a Celtic goal kick that rangers didn’t deal with’ ”I KNOW THAT RICHARD” boasted Pat, irked by him questioning his extensive knowledge of the game. “yes Pat, but the people listening might not” “oh right, of course, yes”

‘There is no old firm’ being the argument of the day suggests Celtic fans know they chucked it today.

Hit a tough couple of weeks in training with 7 weeks until Edinburgh marathon. Just felt very sluggish recently as well as pain my shoulder and lower back. Attempted a 23 mile run today but stopped at 17 due to feeling a bit lightheaded in the sun, which is what ruined me in my last marathon. Good news was I felt fine in the legs up until the point the sun took effect, need to cope better with a bit of sun. It’s inkty like 12 degrees!

I’d recommend listening to these games on the radio. Tremendous entertainment spoiled only by the idiots talking over the seethe from the stands.

That was technically ‘poor control’ but it was fired into him at pace at probably knee height, was a very difficult one to take and he wasn’t that far off managing it. Great ball though.

It definitely sounds like a poor lie. If it has gone they way you suggest then they are cowardly and undermining their own credibility. Such a silly own goal. If macdonald is offside then they need to be bold enough to say the lines at the time were wrong but the decision is still right. It’s a shit look but it’s a hell of a lot better than lying about it and leaving that open to peoples interpretation.

Some of the takes on the pitch are absolutely wild but it is boring chat for a match thread so that’s that. Did notice on redtv that gartenmann blamed the conditions for the fact there were some aimless passes. Pull the other one stefan

I think that looks offside, but not sufficiently for them to be weird about releasing the lines. Maybe if it was so obvious they shouldn’t have taken about 10 minutes to decide at the time. f**k what VAR has reduced this to.

I listened to their weekly rage about our managerial situation on my way to livi today. It’s all very performative. You can tell it’s a bit scripted by the way they frame it too. Oh it’s all about the fans, they must be so upset! Very particularly designed to whip up reaction from fans over this stuff. ‘what if the club can’t get Jimmy Thelin, they’re in serious trouble aren’t they?!’ Aye, I’m sure that’s a totally not contrived opinion that Aberdeen are in peril if they don’t appoint the Swedish guy you hadn’t heard of until last week. It’s quite insulting really.

Lucky for you I’m not interested in an extended debate on the pitch either. I don’t advocate a ban or having a vote. I believe livi or anyone else have the right to have the pitch they want. But let’s not pretend livi wouldn’t choose a grass pitch if they had resources to sustain one or that it doesn’t have an impact on the game of football. It quite simply does. If we can all be grown up about that then we can say no more about it. On the game, I thought livi have actually regressed from our season opener. They looked very solid on that first game, even though we were poor, but today I thought there were definitely weaknesses to exploit, we were just far too shit to do it. We did some ‘ok’ stuff in midfield in brief moments but overall it was just so poor. The amount of terrible quality passes, balls run out of play, poor touches were just unforgivable. Leven deserves credit for 7 points from 3 games but no one is under any illusions.

The pitch is shite ffs it’s not even a debate. Stop being so precious. Neither team deserved to win that though.

New rule - if some c**t goes down injured, just play on. I don’t want to spend my entire Saturday evening in West Lothian.

Good to see storm Kathleen hasn’t deterred our centre halves from chipping the ball forwards to no one in particular.

That was a reasonable United team so not sure this totally counts, albeit it’s definitely in my top 10 for games I left absolutely seething. Unless you’re talking about jamie langfield specifically of course, who did absolutely shite it from a cup of coke.

Sometimes I think you might actually believe your club are hard done by.

Disappointing but can’t really blame people. Im going but im fully expecting a defeat as usual. Even with recent upturn in results we don’t look a team capable of pulling this off even on a good day. It’s a big effort to get down to hampden for lunchtime see us lose for the umpteenth time to Celtic.

I have a ticket for this. Farewell to the Tony macaroni.

The pequeno y grande front two will be a pioneering tactic for the gegenpress teams of the future.

Don’t let me stop you

Good to see the lengthy appointment process hasn’t deterred cutting edge comedy like this.

Yeah, I hold him in contempt but…I was saying in here a couple of weeks before he left that he should be reflecting on whether he actually wanted to be here or could make the difference he wanted, and if not he should walk. Sounds like that is what he did. But you could argue that if he was in that position after a few weeks then he really should never have taken the job. But it’s on cormack and burrows for not scrutinising that aspect of the appointment.

So you’re not talking about actually increasing attendance, just restructuring a league to fudge statistics?

Now that we’re in wanky formation chat, it is now quite wild to me that when I was growing up every team played 442 and if not it was 451 to be defensive. 442 doesn’t actually make much logical sense at all as a formation, but then maybe that’s just because everyone else has 3 guys in midfield now. Who knows, just sign some good players Aberdeen eh!