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If you have more information, you could always explain and put the usual suspects right?

Heading out tomorrow afternoon from Edinburgh via Palma! Overnighter in the Shamrock Bar on the Paseo Maritimo, incoming!

Im generally a supporter of the Bois as I do like the colour and noise they bring to the stadium, and I was young once myself! But, there does come a point where they need to wise up and take some responsibility for their actions, or at least reign in their behaviour. Id prefer if it was self policing, rather than enforced, but its costing the club serious money now, and although they have payed off some of their own fines in the past, there is no way they can afford to pay these! Its not just the €100k to UEFA here though, the club have agreed to cover the €74k for the digital advertising hoarding that was damaged in Helsinki. We all love our team, and we can all lose the run of ourselves at times, but you can still make a decision not to go over the wall or to take pyro into the ground. I hope these conversations are taking place within the various groups involved, as Id hate it to get to the stage where people are being banned from the stadium.

I think we have another year option after the end of this season.

Id bite your hand off for €7m. I would imagine if the rumour had any credibility it would be a done deal. Cant imagine the club haggling over much at that fee. Happy enough for Maswanhise to still be here after the window closes. Would surely be a motivator for him to get a move in January?

Not sure how much knowledge you need to have to form an opinion, and I wouldnt want to stop anyone from having theirs, or indeed offering it up. But I do think you should be willing to consider changing your view in the face of information that may cast doubt on your own. Debate is good, or so they say! 😍😍😍

On what basis? They were both reported to have muscle injuries. If they are back training, they are maybe ok for light running, but not contact training with the squad? I think most of us expect Stama to return to Australia at some point, but its surely too early to be calling time on Eythor.

This appears to be a great signing. A bit like Hodge, probably a bit more money than we would ever have looked at in the past, but with many more multiples possible in sell on fee if all goes well. Like all transfers, its a bit of a risk, but he looks an exciting prospect, so we need to trust the process. Think that will be us done now unless Fadinger, Longelo or Maswanhise go out the door. Hopefully not though. Would be nice to get the squad settled down at last.

There is nothing wrong with having the opinion that the League Cup should be a higher priority than a European tie. Im torn on that, as Id love to see us win another trophy in my lifetime, and I actually agree with you that we only have 2 realistic shots at that every season. Its the ignoring the circumstances that the manager and the players have found themselves due to the turnover of staff at the club over the summer that I have an issue with. I dont think Alfred didnt want to win the league cup. He was just in a difficult situation with fixtures and injuries.

Glad we took advantage of the opportunity to postpone the game. The players have been full on since the start of the season with 2 games a week, plenty travel and precious little time on the training ground. The break will hopefully allow some of the injuries to ease / be managed and give Alfred a few more days to get some of his ideas across. Hopefully Dundee United will agree to the midweek game being moved. Makes sense for both clubs. Despite having had a very decent start to the season, I dont think we will see the best of Alfred / this squad until the window is closed and the fixtures start to settle down come October.

Ive tried really hard not to bite on your posts recently, but you are either tone deaf or purposely trolling and I fear its the former rather than the latter. Football is no longer played in the 80s when the boys pissed off to the pub or the bookies after training. They are highly tuned professional athletes pushing their bodies to the limit on a weekly basis. Physical load is an actual thing, otherwise clubs wouldnt be employing sports scientists to monitor and take care of players to try and prevent injury. Unfortunately this only goes so far and cant take into account contact injuries which we appear to have had a number of this season. The manager was on a hiding to nothing with the Stenny game. He could play a full team, risk further injury, risk losing more players for weeks of the league season and get a hiding off Freiburg home and away. Or he could play some of the young boys, hope we squeek thru and manage the load. It didnt come off for him, and I maybe wouldnt have played as many of the young boys, but that was his judgement. If he had followed your judgement instead of the sports scientists, there is a high liklihood we would still be in the league cup, but every chance we would now be without a fair number of our best players for weeks.

All well and good. But their players were constantly grabbing shirts, coming thru the back of their opponents and committing technical fouls and went largely unpunished. If the ref gave all of those and booked their players as well, Id have no complaints.

Im going with Moorman. He was absolutely solid right up until the penalty and the red card, and Im not having it that it was anything other than simulation. Otherwise the next time someone taps me on the shoulder I might just throw myself to the ground......

Really proud of the team tonight. We scored a great goal, defended for our lives and worked our socks off. We limited their chances from open play so its disappointing to concede to 2 set pieces and a penalty. Freiburg are a very good side and deserved to win the game. But........ The officials were absolutely honking. Maybe its just how it is at this level, but the amount of shirt pulling, technical fouls and other dark arts going on was ridiculous. Even more gauling then when we concede a penalty and get a red card for clear simulation. Folk can blame Moorman if they like, and I agree he shouldnt have touched the guys shoulder with his hand, but that doesnt cause the guys legs to collapse. Its blatant cheating and leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Thought our response to going down to ten men was good, albeit reduced to long balls in Sebs direction (he looks handy). Overall, we lost a game to a good team. But, I would really love it if we could bloody their nose over there.

Lucas Fadinger.... Hopefully not until next season though!