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Just seen it. No idea what keeper is trying to do.

Pretty interesting tour and load of work that goes into a short press conference.

Saw the challenge. It's beyond reckless! Wouldn't be at all surprised to see him charged with some form of involuntary manslaughter.

Aha - You Are The One

Dexys Midnight Runners - Because of You

Patti Smith - Because the Night

Squad announcement today at Hampden which I am getting attend. Proverbial competition winner.

Them - Here Comes The Night

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing

Tenerife player Jesus de Miguel has died after a collision with the Andorra FC goalkeeper on Monday.

The Who - You Better You Bet

Won one (only after a very poor first half), lost to United despite Robinson thinking we played like Spain, and lost to Falkirk. Never mind. Well we have now lost two from three, and it could yet be three from three. Still, great group of boys who are brilliant in training.

There is a distinct lack of quality throughout this league. Think it’ll be a lottery between 4th and 12th. That will mean we are likely to feel the threat of relegation for a while but will also possibly be in reach of 4th despite how poor we are.

For me this year, more than any of the past few years, could be the one that we go down or at best face the play off. I genuinely don't see any creativity, excitement, forward thinking players in our squad and the likelihood is we'll concede most games so have to rely on scoring at least 2 to win which is beyond us. If, and I believe it's a coin toss at best, we get beat by Hibs and fall to 11th/bottom of the league then we could see ourselves stuck there even with a change of manager as along with the lack of creativity etc. as mentioned before I don't see any digging deep and scrapping for every point from this squad. That we're crying out for Devlin to play when he has been one of the worst culprits in recent years speaks volumes as to where we are currently.

John Lees on, the voice of K9 on Doctor Who alongside Tom Baker and some others after. The best Doctor Who era (well, the only one I ever watched)

We're so weak in key positions and other teams are clocking on to that, also the way the manager has handled that by playing favorites and repeating these same excuses is appalling. He had an entire transfer window to himself and for me the second half against Falkirk that was the time where the cards were face up on the table: are you bluffing or are you serious? And all the players he said we could rely upon for showing grit, character, determination and professionalism, all their arses fell out. And then obvs losing against Rangers for a genuine chance to win silverware it's 'oh well we actually tried this time but we still couldn't score'. It's very bad omens and we literally could get relegated looking around us in the league I can't honestly see a team that's objectively worse than us rn.

Totally agree with you Jute after catching up on the latest roller coaster ride that is AFC what a utter shambles we have become over the last 5 years and counting. We as a team no as a whole setup from CEO to floor sweepers we deserve to be bottom of the League. Only then will the board look at this see we have a real possibility of going down (which to be fair : WE DESERVE IT ) to actually act and get a bloody proper manager in that has high ambitions. Surely there is a manager out there looking for work that is better than what we have.

Both Rama and Shinnie could look up at a team with forward wide passing options. Put yourself in the shoes of whoever plays defensive cnetre mid for aberdeen rn. What are your passing options forward for a two touch pass? Imagine back to when we had jack mackenzie and shady mo or calvin ramsay vs now. Robinson insists on not playing mitchel frame, gyamfi, devlin was frozen out until the manager had no other choice. Now it doesn't matter if you're Rama, Shinnie, Aremu or Andrea fucking Pirlo you pick the ball up in your own half there's no wide forward pass, only ever sideways, and the centre of the park is congested so it's trying to thread the needle or play into feet where the receiver has his back to goal, and then inevitably it's hoof ball. People criticize Aremu for giving the ball away, for poor passing he's the one presenting for the ball every single time and every single time he tries to get his head up and pick a pass there's nothing on and it's just a food fight in the centre of the pitch. And it's not so much Robinson had no sense of midfiled strats it's that he has no sense of the importance of shape and the importance of developing players in clearly defined positions according to a clear identity, which is what managing a big club is about. He's about playing the averages and jobbers filling utility positions on the team sheet. That's fine if you're Livingston or Killie it's not if you're Aberdeen.

Ramadani would stroll into my most overrated Dons XI Bisconti would be captain

Aye, that's reasonable. I thought we got rid of kjartansson too quickly, and always wondered if he could sit behind Aremu and Ronan, tidying things up and making good use of the ball with his very careful style of passing, whilst the other two pressed high. We need another player, basically, that can cover for Aremu, and we probably don't have that, unless Briedl can do it. A good comparison for Aremu might be Ramadani then? Goodwin spent six months shoehorning him into that position that Aremu is playing and he was very average. As soon as Robson put him further forward with Shinnie, Ramadani was excellent. I don't think Aremu is anywhere near as good as Shinnie or Ramadani, but could do a job.

Talking Heads- This Must Be The Place

Still to hard on Aremu. We didn't sign him for his footballing brains we signed him b/c he's a unit and a warrior and can follow instructions. All his inconsistency is down to being poorly utilised and managed. View him as a like for like Shinnie replacement where what you loose in some areas you make up for in raw physicality, height, muscle speed etc then he's done nothing wrong. What's wrong is he's asked to be more than that b/c the manager and the players around him aren't pulling their weight properly. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

It goes wrong several times a game. He constantly gives away the ball when trying to make a simple pass. He got booked in just such an occasion at Hampden. Agree about the lack of roles being problematic though, I've mentioned it numerous times. Aremu, for me, would suit sitting in front of the defence in a 4-1-4-1, or in a two with Ronan and to a lesser degree Lyons. A bit like when Shinnie provided the legs for Nilsen under Thelin. Nilsen a significantly better passer than Aremu. I think Aremu's issues arise when he tries to do too much and tires, but I also don't think he reads the game that well horizontally and lacks discipline and quality on the ball. He's a frustratingly in-between player I think. Someone like Jack, who was able to do both horizontal cover and move the ball efficiently and reliably is what would be ideal, or a player who could provide the aggressive press through work rate like Ramadani. I'm singling out Aremu, not because of him, but the position(s) that he is expected to play. It's such a key role, and I thought it was fairly clear last season that he wasn't going to be able to do it, and I don't think anything has changed even though his performances have improved. Ronan and Lyons have been equally poor this season but have less impactful roles that can be largely papered over with work rate. When GW or Cadden vacate the space and Aremu doesn't come across, we have immediate issues, but perhaps your point about clear roles is relevant there. It was noticeable how much better Briedl was at that reading of the game in his brief poor appearances. Instinctively I feel that has to be Aremu's role, but maybe it's being left to any one of the three as you suggest. In terms of Armstrong, it should have been clear within five minutes of him joining that his days as a number 8 were well behind him (if they ever existed), and that his role was no 10 or 11. Robinson clearly doesn't see it that way. He switches off back the way, runs out of steam and then as a result misses opportunities to deliver in the forward areas too. He had a great chance to hit it first time against the hun on Saturday but was shattered from a run he'd made ten minutes before and did a ridiculous pirouette before giving it away. We're definitely missing the best of Armstrong by expecting a level of fitness of someone five years younger. It's effecting his ability to play multiple games in a week too. We're probably largely in agreement though, Robinson is a clueless midfield tactioner.

Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

I disagree about Aremu, you stick Aremu in a double pivot and tell him to win the ball, control the ball and play a short pass, do the David Batty thing, I don't think it's possible to go wrong. Problem is everyone in centre mid ends up being a water carrier and has no clearly defined role. Same with Armstrong, ideally you'd want him to be a number 8, 10 or 11 in the classic sense, in the end he's shovelling shit no matter where he plays. The root cause of this is no width, and particularly no attacking threat from the full back and wing back positions this is how Robinson gets away with this fraud of 'looking nice and compact and battling' against Rangers but then to break effectively you need shape and width, no just balls over the top and channel balls, especially when playing Nisbet. We rely on the other team fluffing their lines, like St Mirren and Motherwell did. Not even our set piece conversion rate and defending are good when Robinson said that's the main thing he's going to turn around. So we're just a team of try hard jobbers. Up until the Falkirk game I was optimistic still, but I'm looking at a defence that Robinson had every opportunity to put together and make coherent it's not, not in a 3, not in a 5 not in a 4 and then b/c of that neither is the midfield and then b/c of that neither is the attack especially when our club captain and main striker is a ghost and also fat.