buster.

Playing ok, final ball is poor

Candeias is on fire !!!

Surprise for most people, probably including McInnes. Can't really say much about it, we'll have to wait and see how he goes. One sure thing is he'll get a couple of dull ones early doors.

PQ content (total coverage in minutes) divided by 2018/19 co-eff. points........would be a thin spread for the Dandy Dons and Yahoos. On the other hand......... Cup qW qD qL #W #D #L Bonus Points Average 6 Scotland 4 teams 11 10 3 2 2 2 0 22.0 5.500 9 Glasgow Rangers EL 4 4 0 1 2 0 0 10.0 not out 28 Celtic EL 4 3 1 1 0 2 0 7.5 not out 80 Hibernian EL 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 4.0 186 Aberdeen EL 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.5

Practise makes perfect (or at least better). We've had very little time to drill the players wrt a new way to play so I think it'll be a way that keeps as many players as possible in their customary place. Hence Candeias and Kent where they usually are and a practised understanding on both flanks between them and the respective full-backs. Middleton hasn't played enough to hve a customary position, so he's the guy who get's a slightly different role that may suit his relatively less tactically disciplined side. Arfield will have to put the kilometres in middle to front and can be adaptable dependent on how game is going.

Old School Wes Tav........Goldson........Worrall.......Flanagan Candeias....Jack.....Ejaria......Kent Arfield......Middleton Some solidity with wide options who are disciplined and can defend (main sheep danger is wide IMO). Arfield can drop deeper if necessary to help out the middle two (will need to be fully fit because he'll need to put a real shift in) Middleton doesn't appear to be as tactically disciplined/drilled as some others but I'd give him a roving role and tell him to go out, enjoy, make a name for yourself and cause them problems.

Wes or Shagger ? Despite McGregor having an excellent season, it was Wes IMO, who made the best save of the season from a Rangers keeper against Kilmarnock in this competition. On the presumption that Wes has continued to train well, I think it'll come down to how the arrangement of Wes getting LC games was 'signed off'/agreed. I'll leave it to SG and would be happy enough with either. Centre-Forward ? On the presumption that Sadiq will start on the bench, that leaves us without a CF which may mean that instead of trying to shoehorn someone into being a CF for the day, I think we'll play a system that doesn't include a CF. - False 9 - Two guys up running channels, creating space, etc - 4-3-3 ?????????????? If we employ a speedy threesome, the sheep will probably sit deeper and it could develop into a nervous stalemate. A first goal before the 20th minute would suit us just fine. Looking forward to the game.

Don't forget the children.............

Agree with John. It should be about online sales, that's very much where retail is going.

I recall a quote from Rodgers from a couple of years ago............... "I'll be judged on Europe" Well Brenda, in a word......shite !

Last group stage we played in we were being cuffed 1-4 at home by an unknown Roumanian team so a draw isn't the worst result and we still have to see how the game in Russia goes before we can make a considered judgement on the differences between the sides. 11 games undefeated in Europe is frankly amazing given what went before with better players. WDDWWDWDDWD Prior to that (From 2008/09), it was.....DLDLLDLLDWDLLDDDDLLDDLWL Onwards we go.......

How many times have we heard this kind of thing and come gametime, the opposition have got their act together ?

It seems that way and this I think is personal for Ashley, who was always likely to look to maximise pain and it's duration.

PSG in real danger of finishing 3rd in their group. They won't fancy their chances at Ibrox in Feburary !

If you refer to SDI wrt repeatedly getting beaten....they aren't.

That would be an expensive waste of time. It looks more like it's SDI that we can't manage to shake.

At least you are getting more inventive in your weekly offering of the same advice

We've been in a difficult snooker ever since we signed the agreement of spring 2017.

What I think it will be for Thursday......... McGregor Tav Goldson Worrall Flanagan Jack Coulibally Ejaria Candeias Kent Morelos

I'm not getting into the nuts and bolts of that on this thread, Scott. Suffice to say that they are both formidable in terms of lobbying influence/power. They'd both be in the upper half of Pot 1 !

Sounds encouraging but at the sametime we need the teams that start the next two games to be fully at it from the get-go.

Probably. However, the whole issue does need some kind of shake because they carry on regardless and a shocking catchphrase if widely presented and explained as being used to promote awareness and a need for meaningful action then just maybe it could catch-on. Imagine a press conference with hundreds of victims from all corners of the globe sat behind a series of prominent speakers who would command attention from the media. All victims wearing a T-Shirt with 'F**k the Pope' (not the actual word Fuck) or some other such phrase. -------------- What seriously threatens the Israeli government policy isn't Hamas, it's the B.D.S. campaign. ie. to take on the really powerful lobbies and get some form of justice/fairplay,.... you need to take them away from their comfort zone. I use the Israeli example because I think along with the RC Church, you have two of the most powerful three such blocks that exist.

You don't seem to be able to understand much and if what you write were representative of a political stance, it'd die still born.

I must have missed an International campaign against the RC church and how it engages in industrial scale child rape that has adopted FTP as a recognised catchphrase. An effort to shock, grab attention and highlight an ongoing disgrace that doesn't get proportionate coverage. If that was the case, I could understand your stance on this. However, going back to the core issue of this thread.....Ian Durrant used the FTP at a supporters function and when highlighted in the media, instead of using the platform to state a position of protest against the RC church for the afore-mentioned, he apoligised, quote... “I’d like to apologise for my comment at a recent sportsman’s dinner event in Lanarkshire. I meant to cause no offence to anyone.”.......He isn't on the same page as you seem to have latched on to....(because of song ?) If the media hear it sung by our support, they'll describe it as 'offensive add-ons' and won't mention a protest against Industrial child rape. In this, general perceptions are of course, often shaped by the media and it's reporting of x or y. When either of the above happens, you have Nil by Mouth appearing and quickly putting the boot in so as to re-enforce any neutral opinion as to the offensiveness of remarks, link it to sectarianism and we hear nothing about industrial scale child rape. It's you that plays nice with the pontiff if your angle of attack is to to shout FTP because you'll be easily dismissed as a bigot. The difficulty of taking on the RC church and it's extensive power/influence is very high and I don't have a silver bullet. The best way might well be the victims of child abuse themselves forming an international coalition of some sort and looking for general support. Public figures speaking openly about it helps, eg. Stephen Fry's eloquent and passionate talk at a debating programme on the BBC. Had Fry finished with a shout of FTP, it would have been understood by those posh folk in the audience as being in context and justiified...........If you or Ian Durrant are caught on film saying it, you'll be on the front page of the Daily Record.

White Smoke At The Rock by Stephen Watt, DFC Poet in Residence. -------- Interesting concept It sort of gives a football club an indirect artistic license to communicate in a way that could of occasion force home a point of view or observation that may be difficult to censure.