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He makes Dadi and D'jaffo look talented. His very important goal was a case of right-place right-time. But I 100% agree he is being made to look good by those around him

Appeared off the bench in the 81st minute to make his Champions League debut

I'm just warming up. I haven't even got to McGarry's goals per minute this season yet.

Go on, write him off. Join us. It's cathartic.

Yes

Any chance of a transcription for those of us with failing eyes?

Much as I understand your thinking here Rico, I'm afraid it is fundamentally flawed. Exactly when the fuck do you think that Scotland will find themselves three up with ten minutes to go

Well, that was gutting. Our impressive run was always going to come to an end, but in that manner? That's where my disappointment lies. Having said that, this group have just kept going and going since the start of the Season, we've had some big performances and big results, they are still learning, we shouldn't lose sight of that, and like I said in my last post, I think when he brings all of his own players in, players that will improve us in particular to how Thelin wants us to play, then I have no doubt we will be just fine and then some. I liked how he immediately shut down the tiredness talk, despite it quite clearly being the case last night, he said that is where he wants us, 3 games a week! Celtic had the luxury of resting half of their 11 midweek, literally. We started with the same 11 that put in a shift and won midweek, a lot of our passes and tracking etc... were well off the pace last night, you could just see it. They were knackered. Need to take this on the chin, learn from it, use it and fester it all into Dundee on Saturday and continue this excellent domestic start. Maybe Nesbit will be back, Dante Polvara allegedly isn't far away, Gueye still to come back, I remain fairly confident and optimistic for the remainder of the Season.

Yep, I think that's about right. Tactically we were probably okay, but its implementation wasn't there. Our system relies on the press working, and being in perfect unison among the front three and one of the sitting midfielders. We were regularly off that beat, and it wasn't just the goals, but the bookings we picked up when caught too. Duk, Devlin, MacKenzie, Rubezic and Nilsen (possibly Sokler too) all lacked the sharpness required from early in the game. I don't think it was a case of heads going down, they were definitely a little off the pace. Perhaps having Palaversa starting would have mitigated some of the jadedness, but I think we were getting done regardless, they were on top form.

Have to disagree. Nothing to do with bottle. How can you even come to that conclusion after some of our performances and fight backs this season? This team has plenty of character and bottle. This was a case of a team who gave everything, physically and mentally, midweek vs r*ngers not being 100% ready to go again a few days later. And if you’ve got any hope of beating celtic in Glasgow then you need to be 100% and they need a dip in form. Celtic had a relatively easy game midweek coupled with the luxury of resting players and having other first team regulars returning from injury. Also add in the revenge factor of us having the audacity to get a draw with them a few weeks ago and they were always going to be in the mood for dishing out a schooling.

They had eight shots on target and scored six of them. Their first five shots on target all went in. Again though, I don't think Wednesday was an issue. For 25 minutes the game was a non-event, Celtic looked as flat as we did. But you blink and suddenly it's 3-0. Like I said previously, I don't think tactically we'd got it that wrong. It's fine saying in hindsight maybe Palaversa should have made it a midfield three to make it more compact, but you could see the plan was for McGrath to press and for Aberdeen to force Celtic into mistakes, which we actually did, but we never took advantage because inevitably our passing was poor and we couldn't get the front four properly into the game. Celtic just had that bit more quality that made the difference. When they made a mistake we didn't make them pay. When we made a mistake, they cut us open.

Bad news Jute, the bar was lowered to a round dozen during the cost of living crisis