Dunno why everyone is making a big deal of the celebrations tbh. A last minute winner is always orgasmic.
Was really impressed with the two youngsters Ralston and Johnson on Saturday, they fitted in like they had been playing first team football for years. Johnson has today signed a new deal with us despite interest from Chelsea.
Ryan Dow's signed a new two year deal at County, he's fair come onto a game the last few weeks. Think he's either shacked up/was shacked up with one of JMac's daughters, so maybe that swayed it.
Boyce is the big one and we'll do well to hold onto him. I think he may be eyeing a move down South at some point to cement his place in the NI squad. Other than that, the big players this season are all signed up (Davies, Fraser, Naismith, Fox, Chow, Routis, Curran). Just Schalk, Woods and Quinn who might be on the way out. Woods and Quinn I don't mind if they go, but we lack pace without Schalk.
Aberdeen after Shaun Maloney apparently. Rumours that we are after Dominic Solanke of Chelsea. Maloney would be a good signing for Aberdeen. Still has good ability. Haven't seen the boy we are after but only 19 and would apparently cost English clubs a few million if they wanted to buy him, so it would be a similar type swoop to the Dembele one it seems.
Only 400k compo so not a risky signing, we can probably expect more of these sort of signing off the back of the success of Dembele. He is supposedly a natural goalscorer but lacking in the effort department, Rodgers is the perfect manager to turn that around.
Mentioned on here weeks ago we were heavily interested in Solanke, don't know if we'll get it done but it's one of the few the papers get right for a change.
Good game last night. It looked like we were going to blow Aberdeen away, but after they scored the game was even and they gave us food for thought for the cup final. Their defending at times is horrendous, but going forward they can cause us problems. With Scott Brown back for the final we should have more control of the game than we did last night.
The Brown thing is a myth. He would contributed the same as our other midfielders. As in he would have watched the ball flying over his head for large parts of the game.
In the parts of the game where the ball wasn't in the air his presence would have resulted in us having more of the ball in midfield. Having him in the team for the final will definitely make a difference.
