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Sorry @TheDonbytheDee but I could have given everything I own that that was the response my comment would illicit, but you're wrong mate, I was at my best mate's eighteen birthday piss up 😉

Why, were you working? 😄

And before @Jute or @Kowalski say it, No I wasn't there

On this day 60 years ago, Ernie Winchester became the first ever league substitute for Aberdeen.

I have no doubt that Dave Cormack is a Dons fan through and through, but running a football club and running whatever business it was that made him rich are two different things. And he is not very good at running a fitba club.

Dolly Parton - Baby I'm Burnin'

The strategy is get in a team and manager capable of winning games. Dave is not capable of fulfilling that strategy.

Various - Baby Come Back

I don’t want to sound like I’m defending him at all as it’s clear whatever he has tried isn’t working. With that out the way where do we actually go from here? Have we just consistently appointed the wrong manager? Are there too many foreign recruits at times? Have we focussed too little on youth development? Is it our scouting? I don’t feel like booting Robinson will suddenly solve our issues (but I’m not saying we should keep him either), I just feel a little bit at a loss for what our strategy should be.

I'm just hoping McInnes reverts to factory settings and parks the bus after the first goal.

I’m going but there is talk of everyone just staying in the pub in Glasgow. Think I’ve got two spare tickets 👀

This will be our biggest cup hiding at Hampden for two years. Probably even bigger.

I think a lot of us were keen on McGlynn for obvious reasons, he was certainly my pick of all the managers linked at the time.

Just watched the beeb interview he did there as well and completely agree.

Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come

Scorpipns -Wind Of Change

Needs some better branding. My suggestion: Ebbe Skovdahl's Miniskirt Emporium

Well the thing for me is Aremu takes the responsibility upon himself absent the responsibility being taken by the players who are supposed to be leaders. He doesn't wait for permission like everyone else, it was the responsibility of Brad Lyons to marshal Aremu and take that 'important player' responsibility upon himself, to show for the ball, show composure, show leadership and captain qualities and he didn't. So Aremu ends up the scapegoat getting hooked, Brad Lyons is the impostor in the situation, Aremu was sweeping up his and Armstrong's litter, and the manager can't swallow his pride, hook Lyons and replace him with Breidl b/c Lyons is 'his player'. I didn't take any of what you said as negative, it was good honest robust criticism which is invaluable to me. Most of what I've gotten so far is 'oh that's nice' or 'I'll get back to you' and I'm still waiting. It's really good stuff much appreciated. And I too would love to be able to back up what I'm sure I saw with my own eyes on RedTV last night with evidence and and 'if not this then that' sort of logic walk through of events. It's still, I guess, comes down to instinct where I look at Aremu and see a player worthy of the jersey, look at most of the rest of them and see a bunch of jobbers filling out their time sheet to get their wages.

Dolly Parton - Big Wind

Patrick Firstly apologies for any negativity perceived - it isn’t easy not to be negative around the team right now, and applaud what you are trying to do. My thoughts or interpretation of source of truth was based on we don’t have the detail of how the club use the data / scout players and although it is all there, what is on paper may not reflect the ability and worth to the actual team. Using Briedl as an example I recall seeing stats from another source that he was the player who covered the 2nd most distance in Austrian league, made x tackles was high percentage pass rate etc- whether he has been given a fair crack of the whip or not, jury is definitely out if he is that player in the SPFL (and there may be reasons for that). Having some of the stats info available may help some of us understand some of the logic for signing/ taking a punt on players so that is appreciated but for the club that shouldn’t be the only criteria, and need to do more than use data. Your summary of last night is pretty spot on- If I had one caveat it would be around Aremu and the shape. I thought Aremu was our best player first half, but our shape was so easy to pass around- NGW was all over the place, didn’t seem to know when to push forward, when to sit back, smith and Nisbet didn’t press with Mouloua and Armstrong drifting in and out blocked space when we were going forward (but still provided more attacking threat than our so called wingers) Aremu got hooked as first 5 minutes of 2nd half as he gave the ball away 3 times and twice could have lead to goals if Falkirk had done more. However Brad Lyon’s did very little the whole game and remained on the park for the full 90 - same with Nisbet. If Briedl is the natural holding midfielder then he should replace Aremu to provide the shape and protection and either move Armstrong to replace Lyon’s or put Marshall on to replace Lyons . Sometimes it is just opinions I can’t provide the insight of the other guys of what would be a better experience on what you are building as don’t generally go into this much detail, but will keep an eye out how this develops and wish you well as you progress

I like your train of thought mate, but we are toooooo far gone for even the mere possibility of lightning striking the same place twice. Lower our expectations. Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. 0-4 the hun

Dolly Parton - Something Bigger Than Me

Also this is something I really want to be able to do, what makes Vitamin T's posts so engaging is that he presents this stuff on X and it feels like a real insight into different players, especially if they play the same position. I think especially in the case of Cadden and Guinness-Walker, we'd see that Robinson is committing some sort of fraud there if we're genuinely comparing them to, for example, Devlin, Jensen, Mitchel Frame and Gyamfi But the problem for me is those stats require Opta which is several hundred or even thousand pounds per month. So unless I get a corporate sponsor for the project taking it to that level is outwith the budget, but I absolutely want that too I just can't afford it. Also the Nightingale-Rose diagrams might not suit everyone's taste. I could go for PES-style spider diagrams. Vitamin T on X uses the Nightingale Rose diagrams for his player ratings, but they are a lot more jazzy. I might add some jazz or maybe a user toggle to display the user's preferred diagram.

Dolly Parton - Something Fishy

That's a really great way to reframe it and take it from a single page app to something with its own back end. Graph-QL is the perfect thing for that. The challenging part is that those types of queries, extending the breadth of them and the volume steps into the realms of each user requiring their own API key or at the very least it costing me more like £100+ per month for the API data rather than just £20 now. Likewise if I extend it from just Aberdeen to the whole SPFL or the whole Scottish pyramid the query space balloons exponentially. So before I go spending any more money it's important to bound the shape of it and also be reasonably specific so the costs don't go crazy and I'm not trying to be all things to all people, there's a clearly defined niche and 'unique value proposition' first. Cash flow is king as they say. In terms of Aremu I accept that he's a limited player, but he has courage and heart and he never hides from the ball nor from a tackle and he doesn't allow himself to be dictated to by what's going on around him. Same as Devlin as soon a Devlin came on there was suddenly a glimmer of actual width, he made overlapping runs, put in a decent cross at one point too. Also the reason Aremu was getting leggy imo is because he was running deep to show for the ball and provide defensive cover and that's a lot of high intensity running and running with purpose. He would run to show for the ball when Molloy or Happe looked up at a team in front of them just standing around like they're waiting for a bus on Union Street. Brad Lyons, meanwhile, was doing nothing, not impacting the game at all, and Armstrong can't run, can't dribble and his passing was just as bad as anyone else's imo. Another player who's a supposed to be a leader on the pitch he looked like he'd walked in from the pub after four pints imo. Anyway great feedback, I'd been thinking along similar lines myself and it's this sort of functionality that requires deep thought about the back end and presenting the data as a graph that's fluid and much more interactive is a great idea. Thanks.