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The option to rotate Tavares with Maswanhise should be to our benefit. And I very much agree with starting Moses supported by Vale.

If Kettlewell does continue to do so, which is ridiculous given the other options we now have, he’s single-handedly doing his best to stifle Miller’s development in his best position and potentially impact his financial value to the club. It’s nothing other than idiotic, but I bet he thinks he’s being clever in continuing to try this crap.

Would you have preferred if I suggested that Vale should play in the space created by Moses?!

Tavares for Robinson would be my choice. The latter has done nothing to keep his place and the former deserves a chance to impress on the wing from the start. I’d also put Vale into the hole just behind Moses.

Kettlewell’s blind loyalty to certain players like Robinson and playing Miller out of position for most of the game again is what cost us today. More worryingly he’s signed a shit load of players and I’m still not really sure what his approach and style is yet, other than to throw the kitchen sink at it once we’re losing. Changes in starting personnel and approach are required for Friday night or another cup exit beckons.

I said above that the club didn’t do its due diligence, so I wasn’t solely pinning it on Kettlewell.

Given both their form and ours, a draw would probably be a fair result for us, although a win against them at Pittodrie isn’t beyond us.

I see Kettlewell has more or less admitted that the club didn’t do its due diligence in signing the Aussie boys, which means we’re now basically paying to nurse a couple of crocks for a while. Here was me thinking we learned the lesson of the Danzaki debacle, but clearly not. It seems to be that the majority of the A-League guys available to us don’t seem to be up to it for our league when they arrive. Time will tell on these two, but it’s been an expensive few mistakes so far.

A little story with a happy ending: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl10lvz14o

I repeat. Look at how the Spanish international team isn’t afraid to blood their youngsters in the A-team, let alone the U21s. The Scottish national team has a long way to go, but it’ll continue to go backwards under the current regime. Miller not getting any minutes is genuinely ridiculous from Gemmill. Ask any fan of Scottish football and they’ll likely echo that view.

Gemmill 🤝 Clarke Two clowns.

Including the reasons given by others, I imagine the club didn't want to potentially risk losing his Scotland cap money.

The Clarke era is over. His recent shit is embarrassing and offensive to those of us who shelled out to go to Germany. It’s the beginning of the end for him now, which is a shame because he’s generally done well in terms of getting us to tournaments. Delighted for Wilson. It must feel good getting called up after all those years of not being considered for any of the earlier age groups.

Do you think that fact will get in the way of Gemmill (and Clarke) picking their favourite players regardless of their current form and minutes with their parent clubs?! I hope my cynicism is misplaced and that Wilson gets the start he richly deserves.

But Kettlewell is a genius. How dare you/we question his methods.

It is a bit premature, but perhaps the ‘rolling’ nature of the contracts suggest we can terminate them without having to pay out the remainder of a defined deal period, other than say the remaining one year guarantee they had in their previous contracts. Someone will be able to better understand and explain this better than me.

Kettlewell and Frail have signed new rolling contracts, whatever that means. Their previous contracts ran until the end of this season.

Levein (4-6-0) vs Kettlewell (3-1-6)

As someone else noted, Vale is probably here to earn himself a new contract for 2025/26, and that’ll likely be with us. I suspect he’ll work hard and we’ll get a lot out of him.

It’s appears to have been announced on the WhatsApp channel and then promptly deleted.

Kettlewell makes buck with the one hand and throws it away with the other. It’s not even a strategy at this stage; it appears to be more of a scattergun panic. He can never use the we’re skint and subject to one of the lowest budgets in the league excuse again.

I’m looking forward to January to see how Kettlewell manages to choose between fielding his MFC A, B, or C team each game.

It’s fairly obvious that Kettlewell is a good individual man manager/coach, but it’s his overall team management and tactical approach that many of us continue to question. Let’s see how he does this season with his massive squad.

A sensible assessment to counter my sarcastic post. You’re probably right.

Vale to score 10 goals from midfield. Maybe.