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Spoft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

There seems to be a common theme that those doing media duties are not in the 11 Will see if he starts / on bench/ acclimatising to Scottish football

I’ve got a horrible feeling that there’s more chance of me playing for the dons before tobers does - and I’m 46 next week!

I do wonder if Ntelo will start tomorrow given he was put out to face the press today. Very wary of this one and no idea how it's going to go. Scoring first would be very helpful.

If he does well it's not impossible he gets recalled in January. Dare I say it but Lennon could be quite good for him as well in that he tends to be pretty attacking and likes putting crosses in the box. Agree that he needs to work on the defensive side of his game but it's no bad thing for him to get plenty crossing practice too. Bigger question for me is does this mean Devlin will stay? If not we defo need another RB unless Mayo is to be back up to Cadden with Knoester nearing fitness and Tobers also back in training last month (though no date for returning to first team duties but you would think sometime next month is not impossible) we are well stocked at CB 2bf. Obviously this relys on Tobers not instantly fracturing his ankle from kicking a ball again but prior to his time at Aberdeen he wasn't particularly injury prone if memory serves.

I think Dunfermline is a good move for Lobban. Should be playing every week in a team challenging for promotion.

Lyons too has been deployed at right-back. I'm disappointed, but I also don't necessarily disagree with it. He does need to work on the defensive side of the game and only playing regularly will he do that.

With Cadden’s arrival he was always going to have to go on loan for game time.

Cue Alex Gogic….

Lobban has signed a contract extension until 2029 and gone out on loan to Dunfermline for the season. Think he will benefit from the playing time and come back better equipped for first team football with us

He'll probably be replaced by a clogger from Kilmarnock or St Mirren

I think Shinnie is correct - and if the quality of signing that has come in is anything to go by I fear this will not end well I’m all for a clear out of the yengis and Ambrose’s but not sure the players brought in are an upgrade of what we had I suspect a number of players have not warmed to Robinson and are equally happy to get out of Pittodrie

Yeah, if it was about playing time, you'd give the new manager a chance, surely? Also "I want players here that want to be here, that will run through brick walls for Aberdeen". That's all well and good but Graeme Shinnie was that type of player, and he's just come out and suggested Robinson wasn't that arsed about keeping him.

Carpenters - Goodbye to Love

Tough gig.

Feel like the journos missed an obvious trick when Robinson said Lyons was out. Surely you then follow up with a question that refers to the post-match comments from last Saturday? Will be very interested to see how we adapt. They've shown us how they want to play. What are we going to do about it?

Del Amitri - Kiss This Thing Goodbye

Robinson brutally explicit on KMK in his pre-match presser. Not once but twice talks about how "KJ" made it clear he wanted to leave on the day Robinson was appointed. If true, that's pretty damning and suggests things were going south with the players before he arrived. I hope I'm proved wrong, but I really do feel we failed to capitalise on what looked like a talented player to me. Let's see.

You’re overthinking it The man was presented with a golden era of opportunity, assembled and maintained a decent squad throughout (to be fair) and won the same as Danny Lennon We consistently lost games we should’ve won when it counted across that period. I’m pretty happy calling that a bottle job You could actually watch his bottle crashing for a few weeks last season.

You're really just demonstrating my point, sort of! I'm not arguing that McInnes had bottle, I'm arguing that bottle is a nebulous term that you can pick and choose when to ignore it or not to suit your argument. You've discounted my examples based on flimsy pretext (we finished ahead of Gerrard's Huns who won the league the following season, for clarity), because they don't fit the point you're trying to make. I could quickly do the same with your points: the St Johnstone game wasn't the biggest bottle job I've seen, much more a case of a team who turned up thinking that they were already through to the final (made worse after we scored); the Motherwell game cancelled be entirely explained by our midfield, if you care to look it up! Again, McInnes failings as a manager are several, but summing them up with meaningless things like bottle is just lazy. I'd argue that failure to recognise McInnes' failures, his ceiling and the attributes required to move beyond the ceiling he couldn't break through is one of the reasons why we keep fucking up our managerial appointments. Thelin is the only manager since McInnes that any one of us would have jumped at as a replacement for McInnes that we would believe could take us forward. It wouldn't surprise me if members of the FMB bought into shite about bottle.

Motherwell game confirmed as being moved.

Faith Hill- This Kiss

I mind him, had to go off injured very early in the final. Think it was against Bayern they were against that day. Reserve keeper, Nigel Spink took over in goals.

Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy - Kiss Me

I would not be starting Olusanya or Yogane as Dundee seemed to have both figured out last week. Would like to see Bilalovic and Smith but given Bilalovic has not been even on the bench for a weeks now doubt we will see him in Dons shirt again. I thought Marshall played well last week so would start him instead of one of Bridel or Ameru as Dundee rang rings round both last week. Last Saturday was sadly everything I expected and feared from a Robinson team so giving this week a miss. Oot Somewhere in Capital Local game probably Musselburgh v Linlithgow Flat 0-2 no dons scorer.