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I don't even think he lost focus or interest. The entire team was floundering for most of that season and his form dropped about the same as the rest - apart from maybe Polworth, who chucked it sooner.

Good job from Patterson there to keep the ball alive instead of clearing it, leading up to that goal. (Did I mention he was poor at defending?)

Patterson didn't make an appearance at Dens and wasn't exactly stellar in the Hibs game. Clarke usually tweaks his formation with specific game plans in mind, however, and I'd guess he is expecting to be on the front foot for this one. In which case Patterson makes sense as he is good going forward - not so good defensively.

It's back to the old story - particularly for keepers - do you want to play games or do you want to earn more cash. Randolph did the same when he left regular first team football at Middlesbrough to rejoin West Ham as a backup.

Ironic given the Tommy Coyne avatar, as I remember him getting even better a his international career progressed and after his participation in the World Cup finals.

I didn't realize you were from Aberdeen.

I'll cheer him if he does the same fullback trick he pulled in his last European tie.

Don't forget to add "we never win after an international break" to the list.

Taking the week off for the international break.

If he's been double vaxxed, it should be first class.

That was what surprised me. All Kelly had to do was nothing. I suppose we are used to him being so good we don't think of him having any weaknesses, but there are a few times he's made rash decisions in situations like that. Should be an easy one to fix though,

If GA used the hairdryer at halftime last week, this week he'll need an industrial fan. We never recovered from Kelly's initial howler.

Even if it wasn't (and I think it was), all Kelly had to do was let him overrun it off the pitch. He was going nowhere.

Well that was rash.

Amaluzor is a wide playing forward, Shields is the central striker we signed from Queen of the South.

Apart from Amaluzor and Shields?

Lamie will get plenty of game time when GA brings him on in the 63rd minute as part of a 6 man defence to hold on to our 1 - 0 lead.

If Hearts did that, they'd be pretty stupid to tell the fans that's what happened.

It was already going to be a tough game, and now we also need to deal with the Manager of the Month curse. Still looking forward to it, though. Could be a classic.

Didn't need to include Kelly in his tweet, then. Would have worked perfectly fine with just McLaughlin. (And I read it here, not in The Sun). Including Kelly made him sound as out of touch as most politicians when they jump on the footballing bandwagon.

Well that's just knocked a zero off our cut of his next transfer.

They're not the only culprits. I got that from The Scotsman, and there was another article yesterday in there claiming Kelly's form had been erratic.

Is this the guy that tweeted "Utterly farcical decision. Not only is @Zanderr1 a better keeper than both Kelly & McLaughlin, he's playing regularly & in top form which u can't say about Liam & Jon. How are clubs like St Johnstone supposed to keep our best players if they must move to get Scotland recognition?” So he's claiming that Kelly doesn't play regularly and isn't in top form? And completely misses the point that he moved TO Scotland to get international recognition? He sounds like an eejit.

That's true.

I don't think they think he's good enough. They'll be looking for "a name".