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There are a few of them around NZ, but have seen some huns flying under the radar. Their car license plates are usually the give away

Is that the place where they're eradicating the rats? Maybe get them to head to Govan if successful.

It's literally in the club's strategy, and it's fairly clear that Cormack was keen on it, and from their opening interviews on joining both Glass and Goodwin had bought in. It's a fairly nebulous concept, but the whole "passing out from the back" seemed to be a synonym for entertaining and that went on throughout both Glass and Goodwin's tenures despite very clear evidence that teams were just stepping up and pressing us higher. All of Glass' reign was defined by possession football with little or no penetration and no attempt to switch it up. That changed slightly with Goodwin, who wasn't afraid to punt it forward when necessary, but otherwise it was the same 83 passes, waiting for the opponent to gain their shape before giving it away again. I don't believe that the two of them were just that bad at management that they couldn't see what was happening, and that the players they deployed were incapable of doing what was asked. I could be wrong, but the evidence suggests that they were trying to play to a pre-defined model. Certainly for Goodwin, not a model he'd tried anywhere previously. What Robson has added isn't rocket science, he's simply playing the way McInnes, Nielsen, Lennon, Clarke etc all have done succesfully in the SPFL. To any objective viewer, Glass and Goodwin (and McInnes in his final year or so, when he had Hedges, Watkins and Wright in an attacking lineup he'd never have previously considered) were avoiding the obvious setup that would have returned more points for something else. I don't think that there's any other explanation for taking guys like Gallagher, Bates, Stewart and so on, so far out of their comfort zone for such a sustained period. It was like a form of torture.

Should it be hyphenated? I wasn't sure, and the hyphen was too far away. You're barking up the wrong tree for dog puns I'm afraid, I'm far too serious for that.

Could be one of those weekends that changes the course of history (bit dramatic maybe, or is it?). Aberdeen and Hearts both have terrible away records. On paper, we have similar challenges this weekend - us away to Saints, them away to Killie. We win, they don't, then we're right behind them and Neilson will be under severe pressure. However, they win and we don't, all the good work from beating them is gone and certain Danish managers called Jess will continue to see us as a chaos club. McInnes, you owe us one lad after lumbering us with Funso Ojo.

Finally made it out on the mountain bike after probably nearly a year and a bit. All the stars aligned which meant I could make it to Makara which is west of Wellington. Good gruelling 1hr long ride up and then a good few decent down hills. Didn’t fall off this time (hadn’t done this track for 4 years). second pic is looking north east towards Wellington harbour.