Happy Dosser

Yes, can't stop watching it. Seems telepathic but it's down to great coaching and training.

A performance of silk (second goal) and steel, and we are still in the getting-to-know-you stage of team building. I hope Captain Chaos's goal will give him the confidence to develop into a consistently dangerous player. Our winner will make other teams wary of our counter-attacking ability too, which is nice.

Yes, his tactical feigning of injury latterly knocked him down a bit in my estimation: an excellent goalie, though.

Yes, and selectively wrong at times. The funny thing was that when the subtitles on the vid came to Collum's name it appeared as Pierluigi Collina on my feed. As if!

When you have little confidence in those at the top, made worse by incidents like those in our final game against Celtic, these changes seem to be of the "fiddling while Rome burns" variety.

I know it's only the BBC, but it sounds like our manager 's gone a bit Sean Dychey: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gx3e3gdz1o

I've no idea really but he looked pretty cheesed off sitting in the POD and the manager hasn't mentioned looking forward to his return, especially when the alternatives we have aren't very inspiring. Hope I'm wrong and he'll be unleashed as our new secret weapon but it was just a feeling I had. He should certainly enjoy our increase in crosses into the box.

I had hopes that Thor would be an asset but he seems injury-prone and I'm not sure our new manager has confidence in him. He was a strange choice anyway because Askou was not a simple "sling into the box for the big guy" kind of manager.

Harsh but fair.....

I shall accept your word as a gentleman, scholar and acrobat, obvs.

You're very welcome: those lyrics and his "performance" always make me laugh. We could do with yon lanky man on the right with the stetson up front this season. When you see the negative comments on this thread about Dykes it astounds me that he (and Ché Adams) kept getting selected by Clarke, who didn't seem to rate Shankland (or anybody else) at all.

'Well Again says it was 13/2/65. Andy score two and Joe McBride the other. His corners were often "bananas" or "yella hings" as we called them in the frozen wastes of EK.

For younger readers who wouldn't get the reference, I append this old Sportscene footage to explain:

I'm as confused as you. Just lazy repetition on my part: huvnyacloo.