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The only blood pressure issues CMWellfan has caused me this year is the worry I might burst a vessel laughing at him.

and Steve Nicol is 34th.

I would never point to Rob Green as an example of good goalkeeping as that guy is liable to implode at any time. However, the defence is a unit, and if Samson isn't going to come off his line, others need to deal with that. I mentioned in another thread that Jim Leighton made a career out of never leaving his 6 yard box or catching a cross. His defenders knew that, and Big Eck and Willie Miller took care of it instead. Of course, that was a particularly high quality defence, and I'm not pretending ours is as good, but there is no reason we can't adopt the same approach. I suspect it's easier to teach a defender to sit deeper and clear those balls than to teach Samson to catch them.

Always been a believer that when it's windy you shoot on sight. Take advantage of the conditions. Glad to see we did that and got a break. Moult's play for the second goal was excellent - as was Skippy's finish.

Often a battle up there, but our record in recent years hasn't been too bad. Would have settled for a point. Delighted with 3. Another 3 againt Accies would be a nice way to end the first half of the season.

Kennedy wasn't injured - he was ill, apparently, and couldn't train for a long time (hence McGhee's remarks about how much weight he had lost). Doesn't, of course, means that McGhee rates him - just that there was a real medical reason for him not playing.

Are those guys in charge of similar budgets? They always seem to have more to spend than us. I think we mostly know our strongest lineup, but injury has prevented us from playing it on a number of occasions. While the results have been far from ideal this season so far, I'm encouraged by the number of U20s making appearances. Not only that, but we have been extending their contracts too. Exactly what we have all been moaning about in prior seasons. If McHugh and Lucas can stay fit that will give us options in midfield and a fit Kennedy will also provide another option.

Is it not Myanmar these days? Also, I'm not sure you can pray to Buddha, even for a something as important as a football team.

The problem is if they aren't getting a game it could be 2 or 3 months before they are fully match fit. I've lost count of the number of English league players we have signed that turn up off the pace. Even the successful ones like Porter took a while to adapt.

Nobody lets their good players go in January. Unless we sell someone after an exceptional offer, I don't expect to see many new faces coming in.

Dropped for who? How well do you think Brill is playing to not be first team starter?

Lucky Samson didn't miss the spot kick or Christmas would have been cancelled.

I'm just watching it on Mobdro on my android box.

You mean a stream where Aberdeen haven't scored already?

Or maybe just 4-4-2 with Skippy and Moult up top.

Aye it's good to watch and, apparently, the starting lineup at Aberdeen had an average age of 17.

I know what you mean. On the other hand, even if it's just idle speculation, it's positive that we are finally being seen as a club with (under contract) players worth buying.

I think the total we owed was around 1.6 million, but have payed some of it off from the Johnson sale. Would be sorry to see Ben leave so soon, but if Kennedy is back to fitness, he could slot in there while we count the fivers.

I think you are agreeing with me then. The elite 8 notion is nonsense. The quality of coaching and the development of young players should be the focus, not some mini-group of teams selected by representatives with a strong self interest. And you know Rangers and Celtic are going to be the big two in the that small group despite the fact both of those clubs are typically where young players' careers go to die.

He's blown a bit hot and cold. Since he signed for Middlesborough (for 1.3 million in Jan 2012), he's played 89 league games total for 4 clubs, and scored 24 goals. Done much better in the lower division than he did in the EPL.

The point is that the elite status idea is nonsense and misses the point when it comes to fixing our game.

I'd settle for the same half time score that the U20s have just racked up.

So it will be Pearson to Hibs, then?

U20s aren't much different from the senior players these days. Some are let go on a free, some move on for a fee and some have their contracts run down. We have taken advantage of this ourselves when we brought in players (Ben Hall springs to mind) and Craigan has said he might have to look for a couple of fresh faces in January. What has been encouraging is that over the past few weeks we have extended the contracts of a number of our promising prospects.

We were forced to be a bit makeshift thanks to injuries with, as McGhee pointed out, right sided defenders playing on the left and Skippy playing deeper left. From a financial perspective it's vital we stay up this season and important we blood a few new players. I'd obviously like to see us pick up a few more points, but a point yesterday wasn't a bad result and I'm encouraged that the youngsters coming through don't look out of place.