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Madonna (sorry) 🤪 - Get Into The Groove

I think we might come to regret his departure. A few bad games last season, but injury might well have played a part, but no more shyte than most other players at various points last season. Someone I know just left the club in the summer, to go work down south and a lot of unhappy players at the club, more to do with the Lutz appointment and the sideshow that followed after Jimmy departed. Robinson didn't endear himself to many either, but damage was mainly done before him and hence another new team in the making. All the very best to Mitov and hope he has a great time in Germany.

So the club have confirmed that Mitov transfer is completed. Wishing him all the best for his future career and thanks again for 24th May 2025 He leaves as one of only five Aberdeen Scottish Cup winning goalkeepers and is in some pretty impressive company. George Johnstone, Bobby Clark, Jim Leighton, Theo Snelders being the others

Stiff Little Fingers - Closed Groove

Palaversa might well be shyte at football, I don't think he is. He might well have a bad attitude, I don't know. The loon did have the balls to step up and superbly dispatch his penalty against Celtic in the cup final though. We've had much better midfielders play for us, but very few of them have played such a big part in winning us a Scottish Cup. You aren't shyte at fitba if you can put a penalty away on such a big occassion.

Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors

12 months ago August 10th 2025 our starting 11 v Timothy was: Mitov Jensen, Milne, Dorrington, Devlin Nilsen, Shinnie, Aouchiche, Keskinen Milanovic, Yengi August 8th 2026 starting 11 v Dundee are they an upgrade on what took the field at approx the same time last season (Y or N) Muller(N) Cadden(Y) Mayo(Y) Happe(Y) Walker (N) Armstrong (Y)Aremu(N) Briedl(N) Yogane(N) Olusanya(Y) Nisbet(Y) So place for place I have 5 N's and 6 Y's that is obviously just over 50% Y's which is no where near enough when you take into consideration how fkn atrocious we were last season Biggest glaring problem to me is still the Midfield 💩

It's all relative. When folk start talking about combinations and transitions, I'm out of my depth. In Scottish fitba, if you get a good enough player, then most of what I'm talking about can be a moot point anyway, it's when we're in the situation we are it's important. What I'm unsure about is whether the imbalance in midfield is deliberate or not? I got the impression under Thelin that he thought he could transcend the model of two midfielders doing the work so that the other could be the creative one, but he never managed it. I don't believe that's the case with Robinson, but it all depends what the message from above is saying. McInnes always (even at hearts) had a solid two with one in front, which it seems we've been trying to get away from ever since with zero success. Maybe Robinson is trying to do that, but it's clear we don't have the players here to do that, we'd need a very mobile number six and a really good number eight. There's a pragmatism with a solid two that is very difficult to get away from and is hugely dependent on signings. You mentioned that you find it hard to believe that we've shipped out our entire first eleven and coaching staff and still end up poorer, but that isn't a surprise to me. That level of turnover rarely ends well, even if it is justified. The board will really need to back Robinson with time and public understanding if they are sure he's the guy.

Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You

Slayer - Angel of Death

And this is why I very rarely comment on players, positions, tactics etc. - because the depth of my knowledge pretty much starts and ends with 'I enjoyed that / that was pish, he's good / he's pish, I could have stuck my leg out from here and scored that, what formation are we actually playing? etc. etc. etc.' I have hoped for years the tactical insights will rub off on me - but I am now pretty much resigned to the fact I will just go to / watch games and come away having enjoyed it (or not, as the case may be), and leave (and enjoy) the comments to those with a better insight than me 🙂 I blame my PE teachers

Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning

The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down

Aye you make a lot of valid and good points there @RicoS321 pal. I know it is early days into the new season and the Robinson era so I guess time will tell, and it was clear there had to be a massive cleanout of the shite and a huge re-build. As it stands at the moment I find it fukn remarkable that we can change out about 90% of the starting line up from last season and 100% of the management and coaching staff and going by the pish on show at Dens (and against the diets the week before apart from the last 5 minutes) Have all that changes and actually appear to be going backwards. I know about giving them time and all that but the early signs are nae good 😏

Status Quo - Down Down This one is an open goal for someone

The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down

Pretty much. Although Palaversa is just another symptom of our poor recruitment of midfielders and our seemingly unending ability to misunderstand the combinations that make a successful team. It started with Goodwin. He played Ramadani in front of the back three, with a blend of Clarkson and Barron in front. Trying to play a cultured (Ramadani was never cultured, which was the issue) number six and a number ten at the same time basically. Robson immediately spotted this and played Shinnie and Ramadani ahead of Clarkson, which was a really good combination. He then decided that he could fit a cultured number six and a number ten too, by switching Ramadani for McGrath; something that anyone with any knowledge of Scottish fitba would know immediately would fail. After that, Thelin played Shinnie and Nielsen, which worked very well until fatigue settled in and we didn't have a replacement. That was then replaced with a series of lightweight recruits, leaving Shinnie to do all the work, running him into the ground. The following season, we loaned Aouchiche and proceeded to play him in some weird offset role on the right wing, when he very clearly had the legs to go box to box, and seemingly never in the same midfield as Shinnie and Clarkson - the most obvious midfield three. Subsequently, we've had six months to look at Aremu and it was very clear that he doesn't have the legs to complete a game, not generally be mobile enough for the Scottish game (similar to Palaversa in that he can be good for 30-45 minutes). That combination of holding midfielder and number 8 with legs (Aremu and Lyons) makes real sense, but not much use if we can only get half a game out of one of them. Armstrong, Marshall, Briedl are basically the same player. I think Robinson is missing a trick with Kjartansson, because he could play the Aremu role. Especially if we signed another number 8 to interchange with (replace, basically) Lyons. We could also play Lyons and the other number 8, which would work well with Briedl or Marshall. At the moment, we have to rely entirely on Lyons, which is a ridiculous situation to be in. We will end up in the situation we were on Saturday in nearly every game, where we're playing two of Briedl, Marshall and Armstrong at the same time and getting overrun. It's poor that we've come into the season with three players competing for one role, and only one (although I'd argue Kjartansson could compete with Aremu, but Robinson doesn't seem to think so) for the other positions. It shows again a misunderstanding of midfielders. Something I'd have thought the club would have learned the importance of over the last five years.

Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Don't Bring Me Down I was also trying for the Jim Diamond Hat-trick and thought I had scored with Bandit and The Healer (as in being another word for Doctor) But I thought that was stretching the rules of this thread. I hit the post there 😜

Dr. Feelgood - Down At The Doctors I tried to go for a Jim Diamond Hat-trick but couldn't think of a Gully Foyle song! 🫤

PHD - I Won't Let You Down u see what I did there 😉

Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better

so pretty much the same piss poor on the driving range as he is on the football pitch. 💩

He was in the café. Probably took three shots and needed a break.

Is he any better of a golfer than he is a footballer (canna be difficult)