The Dude

Hypothetically, you wouldn’t care then if in these dead rubbers we took an absolute scudding or do we still go into these games demanding a performance from the players regardless of whether the titles done or not?

So there’s as much pressure v Livi as Celtic.

Are there any other kind?

Really? More often than not going into Old Firms there’s a substantial number of fans fearing the worst. can’t think of many games against them over the last decade where the support in general have been particularly confident we’re going to beat them. Surely then there’s more pressure then in games like Aberdeen, Livi etc where even a draw is a disaster.

Haven’t we been ‘underdogs’ in most Old Firm games over the last decade or so?

I wonder how many of those insisting Tav is finished now have been saying for years that he should be replaced.

And rightly so. An utterly remarkable performance in an incredible movie.

At least we know Beale can just reload the save and try again if we lose in Holland

While insisting he has me on ignore.

We’re just missing ‘the clique’ for a full house in Smile bingo.

Careful now. Don’t want him crying he’s being harassed. 😂

I hope it sounded better in your head because it’s fucking ridiculous to read.

I’m not. Fuck knows what you’ve read that makes you think I am.

Loads of them hate that David Brent-lite weirdo

I haven’t twisted anything. You’ve repeatedly claimed I’ve said things which I haven’t - the last being that ‘I want Astro at Ibrox’. If you’re too fucking stupid to understand a simple sentence, that’s not my problem.

Losing one defender - who is likely to be a backup to Goldson and Souttar - is very different to having losing pretty much out entire frontline

Colak was gone pretty early and was widely expected to go long before the season ended.

The 'play on words' is you saying I 'want astro at Ibrox' when I've said nothing remotely close.

Genuinely not. If we had a well-maintained, top level astro I'd have absolutely zero issues with it.

No it wasn't. Replacing Kent, Morelos, Arfield, Colak and Sakala was.

Funnily enough, he was identified by UEFA as one of the 'key features' of our CL campaign last year https://uefatechnicalreports.com/pdf-ucl-2023

Just based on his performances against us. Three times he's played us and three times he's been nothing more than decent. He might well walk into our team, but we've hardly got a team of world-beaters ourself.

Never going to happen unless in one-to-ones, which we only do with Sky. Even if they do, he's not going to turn around and say 'aye, my captain's finished but we've nothing to replace him with'. With him turning 32 soon, I expect we'll look at seriously replacing him from next summer, rather than bringing in guys who are clear back-ups (Zukowski, Sterling, Flanagan, Polster etc).

The assumption was Beale did, just as the assumption that how we lined up last night is how we will for the rest of tge season. There's always going to be some level of flexibility in our tactics over the course of the season - some games will see us use a narrow diamond, others with the likes of Cantwell, Sima or even Dowell in wider roles.

Yet you're still here...