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No. I was specifically talking about our back 3 defensive personnel. That has been our weak spot for the past 2 or 3 seasons (at least), so Casey & Blaney can go without contract renewals. I thought Gordon would be a step up, be hasn't lived up to his early promise either. So I'm fine with him leaving too. No point trying to tweak what we have. We must have tried every possible combo without being close to successful. Sometimes you just need start again. Hartley and Aldred were probably our last 2 good central defenders, and that's the level we need to find again.

We've ditched a few under those circumstances in the past. If Wimmer tells them they aren't part of his plans, I'm sure arrangements can be made.

We have tried a few different shapes, but the underlying issue is that Wimmer wants us to be more comfortable with the ball and only about half the team is good enough for that. In particular, the central defensive 3 struggle to make one pass between them. After our defensive atrocities in the previous season I was 100% on board with dumping them all and rebuilding from scratch. Would be equally happy for that to happen this summer.

A game and a performance worthy of the pitch. Take your pick...

Dundee won't win today. We won't finish 11th. Livi aren't going to make it to the play-off game. That's my bold predictions for today.

Dundee often score early. Their big issue this season is they struggle to hold on to a lead.

Have they narrowed the pitch? That's a lot of green behind the linesman.

Hard to imagine, but you can see already that the bounce on that pitch is even worse than usual.

Anyone else old enough to remember when people at least made an effort with these?

Aye, I miss the safe hands and club stewardship of John Boyle.

Undandy. Take your pick...

If you've used a VPN recently, sometimes that gets cached by the browser and you need to clear out all the cookies and restart to get it to recognise the US again.

Great work from Paton to beat his man and stand up a cross just begging for a finish.

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I'm watching the video stream right now, same as usual.

Despite my snark, I do agree with the issues around yellow cards. I understand why they are in place, however, as without them, there would be 100 yellow card appeals every week from across the leagues.

Another 15 of these and they'll be half way towards making up for Dunne staying on the park after his assault on Mika.

TBF, there have been quite a few comedic performances on the park this season too.

Had a bit of a cough this morning, but I'll be fine for Saturday.

Big article about Mika in today's Guardian

You forgot the option where, like the Euros, he qualifies and then plays horrible tactics that see us fail worse than miserably - also like the Euros. Quite honestly, there are so many teams that qualify for the World Cup now, getting to the finals is barely a pass mark.

It's not the trips abroad that are the problem. They don't want to upset the Old Firm by shaking up the current development structure and making things a bit more equal across the board. Last thing Rangers and Celtic want is stronger competition from the wee teams.

It is.

He's better than Kenny McLean, though,

Clarke doesn't exactly have a stellar track record of giving new caps even in friendlies. Meanwhile the U21s are getting gubbed 6 - 1 by Iceland as Gemmill continues his stellar youth coaching career.