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They're pish, we'll take them. Lennon will get the lads riled up for it.

The manager of the German national team? Very kind of you to befriend the village idiot.

Ex Hoffenheim manager mentioned by a friend of mine today Nagelsmann. Know nothing about him but apparently in the process

Yep, I think you're right. I tend not to boo (pretty much just at the ref), and I felt sorry for Morris. However, the Morris situation lies squarely at the door of Warnock. Watch back any videos of our previous performances, ask anyone at the club, and you'd know that Morris can't, and should never, play wing back (and McGrath, very obviously). He just didn't do any research work before and after arriving at the club (because I don't believe he's a terrible manager), that would have avoided these scenarios. The manager basically hung Morris out to dry with his atrocious team selection. He had played him the week before, against Bonnyrigg (his actual first game at Pittodrie), in a role as a winger, which is a legitmate way to play Morris that compliments any abilities that he does have. A good manager should just know this. If he'd played Morris with Devlin covering behind him against Motherwell, we'd probably have been going in level at halftime and Morris could have gone off in 60 minutes or whatever having been ineffective, but without the dog's abuse. Compare our performance with that in the Tims game prior to Warnock's arrival and it was night and day. The players were on edge in the first half, but we kept the formation and approach simple, worked hard, and a calm talking to from Leven at half time settled the players into the game and gave us a solid performance. Incidentally, the exact same setup and approach was taken for the Killie game at the weekend - the weeks of dicking about by Warnock culminated in us going back to exactly what worked before he arrived. I don't like being hostile to a manager, but Warnock brought most of it on himself (St Mirren aside). In terms of the booing of Roos, and previously Lewis for the terrible kicking, I think it has a direct negative effect on a goalkeeper and serves only to make their kicking even worse. We have to accept that goalkeepers are going to be less confident with the ball at their feet. We also have to factor in that for large parts of the year in this country the pitch will not be a perfectly flat surface and that the wind has a big effect on the ball's movement. Combined with the fact that the vast majority of kicks a keeper makes involve taking big swings at the ball, the chance of error is far higher than that of an outfield player. Adding anxiety to a keeper's game with booing is fairly stupid, and it has noticeably effected Roos, and Lewis previously and spread to the rest of their game, notably effecting their decision to come for crosses (at their peak, both Roos and Lewis had no problems coming for balls in crowded areas, latterly both just decided to stay on their lines). I find it strange that our fans were simultaneously booing Roos for poor kick outs and jeering at Denis in the Killie goal at the weekend, without working out that maybe there are more factors at play to cause many of the goalies that come to Pittodrie every week to produce crap kickouts.

Seven companies "at least". I thought you worked as a butler for Camilla? You think you know someone and then..

Being an old git think music finished in 1969...but was reading the Guardian's over-by-over on the India v England test match (the English were getting absolutely mullered!) and somebody posted this and just thought the video was terrific and the song's pretty good too.