Cove_Sheep

And a disaster of a start for Aberdeen...

Leigh is apparently a major doubt...

Morgan has had a decent enough games so far IMO

Massive blown to Aberdeen's hopes of qualification tomorrow. Michael Devlin hasn't travelled, so, that means there's a fair chance that Gash Taylor will start.

Indeed they are. Can't help but fear there will be at least one draw in there though.

Given the number of rounds required to get through, I'd be shocked if there were 3 or 4 into group stages. We need to have our teams starting to win both legs against teams that should be beaten in both legs, like the examples given above though.

His RedTV interview is 'interesting'. Says he initially didn't want to come up because of what some folk had told him. And that McInnes wanted to come and get him from Edinburgh in the middle of the night.

Utd ahead at Tynecastle

IS not was. If any English club were to be daft enough to make a bid for him, it should be gleefully accepted.

What's the script with Candeias being left out of the European squad? Is he being moved on?

Rangers finally ahead in Gibraltar

Really? That's a penalty all day long and has been for a fair while.

Hedges also isn't a striker. Other than one season playing for a full-time club in a part-time league, and then the first half of this season, Shankland hasn't really done much. He didn't exactly do anything when loaned out by Aberdeen either.

The SPL doesn't exist. And hasn't for years. The only clubs in the Scottish Premiership he'd likely have had much of a chance of game time at will all be easily blown out of the water financially by Utd too.

Is that the boy who was on loan at Killie a couple of years ago? If so, I hadn't even realised he'd been there until I googled his name the other week.

The players all shout "man on"

You're forgetting that Scott Bain is the best goalkeeper in the world. According to Scott Bain...

His brother is being linked with a loan move to Portsmouth with an option to buy also involved.

Would they not get a solidarity payment? Dyce Boys club, for instance, got a very large sum (for them) when Stuart Armstrong was sold by Celtic to Southampton 5% of any fee for a player transferred whilst under contract is payable, pro-rata to clubs they have been with between their 12th and 23rd birthday.

I'd imagine Utd would comfortably pay more than most bottom half Premiership clubs.

For me, it depends on what he's getting. If he's at the top end of the earners, I think it's a rather big gamble, that possibly is not worth the risk. If he's on a much more modest wage in terms of the pay structure, he's likely worth a punt.

Are entries normally allowed this late into the mixed doubles? Or, is an exception being made for two players of their stature?

I always had time for Albertz. Whilst he was at Celtic, I didn't mind McNamara, and was actually quite pleased when he eventually joined Aberdeen...

Definitely changed days that Scottish clubs will knock back sums like that. Good to see though.