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Nooooooooooooooo! The times I've seen him there were catastrophic. One at Tynecastle makes me shudder. You may find this hard to believe, but Russell was actually signed as a STRIKER at Aberdeen. It was Ebe "pass the malt" Skovdhal who switched him to a midfield role. :icon_police: This was discussed on Saturday. Russell, I think, holds several records for goalscoring in Aberdeen youth leagues and represented Scotland as a striker in the Under 16s. Amazing really, I can only think of one goal he's scored from inside the box since we signed him.

-------------------Esson------------------ --Proctor--Bulvitis---Munro---Golly----- -------------Cox------Duncan------------ ------Hayes------Sanchez----Foran------ ----------------Rooney------------------ Rosscoe has been poor this season.

Niculae scores twice for Dinamo against Sturm Graz in the Europa League.

Is on Monday at 2:30pm. Apparently it's live on Sky Sports News. Here are the teams in the draw: Aberdeen Celtic Dundee United Falkirk Hamilton Accies Hearts Hibernian Kilmarnock Motherwell Rangers St Johnstone St Mirren Airdrie United Ayr United Dundee Dunfermline Athletic Inverness CT Partick Thistle Ross County Stirling Albion Albion Rovers Forfar Athletic Montrose Edinburgh City Inverurie Locos Irvine Meadow Clyde / Livingston Cowdenbeath / Alloa Athletic Morton / Dumbarton Raith Rovers / Peterhead Stenhousemuir / Cove Rangers Wick Academy / Brechin City I have highlighted my four choices for the draw, all away from home. I also wouldn't mind a crack at either one of the Old Firm, seeing as they are both utterly abysmal this season.

We probably should have taken a point from that game, I think. We started well and it was a great ball from hayes for the goal, I'm not sure if Tokely did get a touch on it. After this we had another couple of opportunities (Sanchez putting the ball wide when he should have done better) but let Partick come back into the game. We seemed to lose any outball up front and every time our defenders had the ball all we could do was give the ball away again. According to my mates (I was going for a slash at the time) Esson made a wonder-save from a header and then a Partick striker sent a free header straight at the keeper from inside the six yard box - they really should have scored. Second half continued in the same vein but with the fog coming in I couldn't really see what was going on at the other end. The first goal was a header, I think but the second goal is a mystery to me. We did step up our performance a bit, Tuffey had to push a Hayes drive behind for a corner and Bulvitis sent a header just past. In the closing minutes Foran started to assert himself and sent a low cross for Cox which the home defender somehow managed to prevent going in - a remarkable clearence. All in all, I thought we could have taken a point from the game but I can't complain too vociferiously about losing. We really do look brittle at the back and, if we aren't on a game, we don't have a great deal of penetration up front. The period of pressure we had at the end of the game didn't see us creating any great chances - we seem to just chip the ball into the box andhope for the best or, these days, give the ball to Hayes and hope he can beat his man and hit a good cross. Foran had a realtively quiet game but started putting himself about towards the end - we need this from him for the full 90 minutes if we are going to challange. Pretty low away crowd from us, which is probably due to the game last week and the 'season'. Without trying to turn this into a car-crash point scoring eye roller like the other thread, I thought the home crowd was quite low - there seemed to be massive gaps int he home fans. Fair play to the young lad at the front for taking his top off when Partick scored their second though :025:

Song suggestion, to the tune of that annoying Jan Vennegor of Hesselink song that the Celtic fans used to sing: Belle and Sebastian are sh1te Belle and Sebastian are sh1te Belle and Sebas- Belle and Sebas- Belle and Sebastian are sh1te Brown flared cords are unacceptable! etc

Absolutely - the most important thing for international football with a side like Scotland is to be hard to beat. Alex McLeish and Walter Smith achieved that and we need to get someone in who will make the team difficult to play against again. A good benchmark is Greece, who overcame a lifetime of non-achievement by appointing Otto Rehhegal. Manager's who go on about playing great football, building fantastic teams are usually pish. The most important thing in football is to win. Look at Tony Mowbray, currently making a hilarious balls up of Celtic.

I should be there.

Same team.

Congratulations to Dundee. I don't think I've ever seen a game with two more contrasting halves. We were excellent in the first half, Johnny Hayes was in great form and we definatley should have scored more goals than we did - the disallowed goal (not sure what caused it to be chalked off) and Sanchez hitting the bar from six yards could easily have ended up as goals. We really bossed the game and had lots of possesion - Ithought that Duncan in midfield had a great game as well. Second half we just gave too much time and space to Dundee and stopped pressuring them. Withthe quality of attacking players they have you can't really do that and we were punished. It's a cliche but defending a two-nil lead is tricky but the one thing that you must do in this situation is keep things tight just after taking hte lead and we didn't do that. I thought Dundee could have stretched away after they equalised but the game settled down, although we hardly created another chance. Poor stuff from Dougie Imrie, glad to see our captain have a go at him for getting sent off in that way. hayes showed that he should be in the team ahead of Imrie anyway. From a Caley perspective, the game was another example of our failings thsi season. We are good going forward yet brittle defensively and have made a habit of conceding goals in bunches: Partick 26/09 - Three goals in six minutes QotS 10/10 - Two goals in seven minutes County 7/11 - Two goals in two minutes. Dundee 22/11 - Two goals in five minutes. Looking at our squad, I don't see what we can change to stiffen us up at the back. If we have any cash available in January we need to bring in a player like Mihadjuks or Dods, a dominant centre half that we've been missing for years.

KEANO-KEANO Well said Keano.

Lets be honest - everyone loves it when their team wins by cheating. I remember loving it when Juanjo, Barry Robson or Wilson used to dive to win penalties.

What a joke. The Irish need to get over themselves. Perhaps we should ask for a replay of the Celtic game in 2004 when Lennon dived to get Juanjo sent off? Then Celtic could ask for a replay of the Old Firm game in 1997 when they had a good Di Canio goal chalked off wrongly. Henry should be condemned - for not celebrating like Adebayor, that would have been funny. Edit: I recall a few years we got a 1-1 draw with Celtic at home after being 1-0 down at half-time. McGeady (as usual) did a number on us in the first half but in the second we had four players all booked for individual fouls on him (Bayne, Black, Hart and Tokely). He quietened down, we equalised and got a point. Was that cheating?

I just read the 'Interesting' thread and, aside from a possible prosecution under the Trades Descriptions Act, I don't see anything wrong with it. A couple of posters had different opinions from other posters and there was a bit of discussion/debate/arguing about it. That's what the forum is about. There was no personal abuse of anyone and no breach of any forum rules that I could see. Perhaps we are all being too sensitive?

Most football forums are full of ill-informed idiots arguing about things they barely understand and find impossible to articulate. Would we have it any other way? All forums have these debates, issues with 'schoolkid' posters, problems with the mods. To my mind it's part and parcel of a forum.

If they got 357 fans for every home game I'd imagine they'd be in much better financial health. Why was the 1995 Inverness Cup final played on a Saturday? :huh: International game?

When the moon hit's the sky, like a-big pizza pie That's Mannone!

Also, we had a few relatively ropy showings in that season. Against the bottom teams we struggled to a 1-0 win over Brechin at home (thanks to a Barry Wilson penalty). I'd imagine if we replicated that result these days many on here would demand the manager, board and ground staff sacked. We also beat Ayr Utd (the other relegated side that season) 1-0 and 2-1 at home, results that these days would have some of our fans apoplectic. I appreciate that we aren't playing well (I have seen it myself at games this season) but we aren't doing that badly. We have scored more goals than any other side in the league this year and are a five points off the top, which isn't a bad position to be in.

It's a fecking joke! It's either a direct train at half nine or a two hour journey via Stirling, all after a night out on the Saturday. I am going, plus two. Altogether now: I'd rather be in Kabul than Dundee Rather be in Kabul Rather be in Kabul than Dundee You can stick your f*cking circles Stick your f*cking circles Stick your f*cking circles up yer arse. etc

I imagine that Butcher will start with the same XI as yesterday.

We won loads of games in our championship season like this and I do recall people moaning like fvck about long balls and pish football then.

This thread has gone off topic - who would win a fight between Richie Foran and Nikolai Valuev?

To be fair, if the board were to defend themselves what they would say is that most of the current regime have been in place for the most successful period in our clubs history, when we've finished higher in the league than we ever have done, when we've won promotion, won cups, made money from transfers, built an SPL compliant stadium and turned profits on a semi-regular basis. I don't think that our club are run in the most efficient way possible and there are issues with much of what has gone on (mainly the entire Niculae fiasco from start to finish) but to listen to some posters on here we are at death's door. One thing that I hope people don't pin their hopes on is someone doing the mythic 'putting money into the club' act - that simply doesn't work for clubs like us. You could argue it doesn't work for any club but that's another story.

Kevin McDonald

Foran said that he's had fights with Butcher before. I wish I'd seen it, would probably have been better than the game! Maybe Imrie started on Tokely, in a sneak preview of the Haye-Valuev, David v Goliath fight.