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Have to agree with Derek Rae, he is good. By far the best Scottish commentator going, in fact the only one. The 80s had a few goodeens like David Francey and I was always a fan of Archie McPherson. Ian Crocker for some reason has always annoyed me.

Found it difficult in a decade when 1) We haven't played them for over 4 years. 2) Won on our last 3 trips. 3) haven't lost to them since 2009 (7 years) at Pittodrie not to mention a quarter of a century at Ibrox.

See where you are coming from there but is Halliday a guarantee pick every game? He is a club captain type. You don't always need the armband to be captain.

Results against Gibraltar and Israeli sides along with Inverness and Alloa shows they aren't a good side at all. The OF match was a one off IMO. Results in OF games over the years have thrown up 5-1s 6-2s etc and doesn't reflect the true differences in the sides. Just realised Aberdeen play Thursday night in their Quarter Final against in form St Johnstone - that can only be a good thing for us on Sunday having 48 hours extra rest.

Exactly what was needed. 5 goals and a second clean sheet. A good ending to a few rough days. Waghorn hattrick at the perfect time, that's him up and running. Now the manager has good problems to deal with - who does he pick for Sunday. Glad that Holt and Windass was a precaution, I would have rather went with a weaker team than risk those two. Excellent confident booster for Sunday. QotS are no mugs, they are top of the Championship and easily on par with some of the Premiership teams.

I wondered where the Guardian interview came from so quickly. The guy is showing his true colours and obviously is still immature. Don't think he will be pulling on the Blue jersey again. He talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk - that should be his final chapter in the new book.

Id give Waghorn the second 45 minutes and Windass 30 minutes, both important for upcoming league games.

Obviously he crossed a line whatever did happen. But going on National Radio probably added to it along with calling the manager 'Warbs'. Barton had his first season at Burnley where he only made headlines on the pitch, I thought he had maybe matured and was coming to Ibrox to use his experience in cementing Rangers back into the top 2 in the league. But he obviously is still a ticking time bomb. He should have done his talking on the park. The manager must have consulted the squad and got their opinion as harmony is important to MW, if Barton was being a bad apple then he will stay away. A cooling off period of 3 weeks is a good decision and a lot can happen in that time. If Barton goes away and trains well then comes back and apologies, keeps his head down and tries to win his place back then fine but that is unlikely with the person he is. The likelihood is his contract will be mutually terminated and result in us paying him off to go find another club. He will get good money in China, MLS or the Middle East where being outspoken wont go down well or understood.

It all depends how match fit Crooks is along with the other doubts like Rossiter and Dodoo. Id like to see Senderos and Hill together. Hill may still be able to do a job and the more matches he gets should help. He should be starting at Pittodrie on Sunday anyway so give him an hour today then a day off. Id rest both Wallace and Tavenier, both are too extremely important at the moment as we are very light at full back. But Ive no idea who could come in at LB. Gilks Hodson Senderos Hill ???????? Holt Crooks Halliday O'Hallaran Garner Forrester

I say don't even look at the other results and concentrate on our own game. A win at Pittodrie puts us back up the league. The league table never really takes shape until 8 games anyway so its not true positions until another couple of weeks. Goal difference doesn't mean much at this stage unless a side is winning / losing by 3 or 4 every week.

Do you expect it to be an overnight turnaround? It doesn't work like that. If someone gave you all the parts to a Ferrari you wouldn't be able to go out and get the best out of it the next day. After a week or 2 of assembling you still may have not put parts where they should in the engine so it may not be running right so would be looking to tweak and get it right. Some fans need to realise real football isn't like it is on a playstation.

I didn't say it. I was just explaining what JFK said that you didn't understand.

On the playing side he would need to do a mini preseason and get his fitness up, he just doesn't look sharp at all. He could start dictating the games a bit more if he is at the races. It will be an interesting week with him returning today.

He said if you take us out of it, meaning they are the best of the rest without the OF.

Pittodrie goes to new heights though so the players have to expect a team who will raise their game maybe 30% compared to maybe a Kilmarnock who raise 10%. (Along with Tannadice and Easter Road) Hopefully MW has learned from the Celtic game not to drop the attacking passing game and go with experience hoping it would be right. I hope we go with the fast younger skilful attacking players.

Back on topic, I think the QotS match comes at a good time. A chance to make a few changes in the team and score some goals and give the team confidence. 2 points from the last 9 isn't what we expected so we aim to change that and get back on track next weekend which will be a difficult match due to playing at a group who hate Rangers more than they like their own team.

That game could have more poison than Celtic last week. Id take a defeat from celtic ahead of that lot right now.

He started young and is one of these players who peak early then its downhill from there. After 27/28 Rooney has been nothing but average. Same as Michael Owen, once he lost a yard of pace he was a poor striker. Yet you get the Sheringhams and Bergkamp type player who get better with age. As for Man Utd, its good to see them losing under Mourinho. Jose seems to have lost it in the last year and I hope this continues, he is nothing but a miserable presence in the league.

Nothing more to be added, my thoughts exactly. The only way MW wont be there this season is if HE walks. Anyone talking about him being sacked if we lost at Pittodrie with results so far has a postage stamp mentality.

You have to remember Everton's manager is 4 games into his career there, they will only get better. Klopp is starting to improve Liverpool but it is the same story - they pick up points in the big games but lose the so called easy ones.

West Ham cost me a coupon for the second week running. Deep problems there at the back. Everton looking refreshingly good. I did say Koeman should have stayed at Southampton one more season then got the Arsenal gig or even Barcelona in a few years time as I thought Everton was a slightly side ways step at the time but with their investment only a large stadium is preventing that club now from being top 4 contenders every year.

But its the timing of going on Talksport. He was asked to go and reflect and he should be doing that. By going on National Radio shows there is a disruption in the camp the night before a game - its a total knee jerk rush of blood call. He should went away, kept low key, waited until Monday after meeting with the manager then could have spoke about it on radio. On the playing side he should have been dropped anyway this weekend, he is clearly not fit. He even admitted on Talksport he didn't have a pre-season yet he was doing media enough in the summer, perhaps he should do a mini preseason now, stay off twitter and come back in 2 weeks. You don't get sent away for nothing.

Thought this would be a banker 2-2 draw. Chelsea certainly not the same team, I thought it would be a see-saw season for them but will be involved in plenty high goalscoring games. Liverpool beginning to click. It will be them Everton and Spurs going for two CL spots. I expect the Manchester clubs will ease the top two but some having doubts about Utd following 2 defeats.

Straight swap Halliday from my team. McKay could be done with a rest also, started the season bright but tailed in the last 2, time to give the team a freshen up. I forgot about MOH, he is worth a run out. But selection wise we also have a cup game ahead of a trip to Pittodrie so there will be plenty chances in the next few days including the likes of Crooks to get some game time.

You have to remember last term we had Ball sitting also. I think that has had an impact on the Midfield though.