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I'd say players that come through the youth system, or those that we signed into the youth system for a season or two. Not Bilalovic or Kjartansson. The key is getting the transition from youth to first team. That's what the money goes into. I've said a hundred times that it needs to be enforced at director level, above the manager, with a quota that's transparent to the fans, and a request for patience while young players are integrated. Robinson's comments about them having to be better than their counterpart is unwelcome and unhelpful in my opinion. There needs to be a way to get young players bedded in, and an acceptance of mistakes and physical inferiority. We should have the experience surrounding them to cope with this. I accept that in a season of high turnover that's not that simple.

What do we class as youth? Is it players who have come through the academy or players under a certain age? Pretty sure Bilalovic, KMK, Marshall and Lobban are all 20/21? When do they stop being youths and just being young players like signings? Just interested so I know who I need to be angry about and with over the course of the season 🤪

I saw that 1% stat and you have to wonder what is the point of a youth set up. Game day, not really wanting to go, but ticket bought and being an Aberdonian, I'm not wasting my cash. Not really buying into the Robinson revolution,but I'll see how it goes this season. Hopefully the smoke off the fires, from the Cairngorms, has lifted from over the City today, was was stinking the place out yesterday. coyr

Hibs being linked with Lyndon Dykes in press. Hope they get him before we do.

FTFY

Had forgotten we had a game today. Folk thinking a manager who gave 1% of game time to young players at his previous club are kidding themselves that Robinson will give Lobban and Marshall game time. Need to score some goals today to ensure we get seeded for next round as others have said however not sure we will. Oot Stuff in house Local game maybe Musselburgh v Bonnyrigg Watching daughter in show. 3-0 Nisbet, Smith and Happe

And 29 years old. too old to be a project player, might be the French Tony Book. One for the kids. Joking aside, will be interesting to see how it works out, as he appears to have been their number one target. Maybe Open AI has went rogue on Blooms laptop.

If Motherwell progress, it will be postponed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy4kvvx28d1o

Great atmosphere at Tolcross pool last night, and brilliant to witness a couple of Scottish golds - including Duncan Scott.

Feel free to make Aberdeen your Scottish team and stick around here. You'll always be welcome on the site but he warned following AFC is a bumpy ride 😂

Thanks, I'll finally be able to sleep now 👍

I think 3 would probably be enough to not have to worry what anyone else is doing but would defo prefer 4.

That should be it fixed - it will update automatically over the next hour or so. 👍🏻

Current competition for 3 seeded places are; Montrose (+5 GD and playing Spartans at home) St Mirren (+9 GD and playing Dunfermline at home) Ayr (+5 and playing Alloa at home) Looks like Montrose and Ayr could rack up a few goals and St Mirren have a tougher game but are already 3 ahead of our +6 GD. Definitely going to need to stick at least 4 past Kelty without reply I suspect.

Couple of Queens fans I know said he got slapped a couple of times by older folk at the back of the terracing before he was led out.

Will Helsinki not have papped them out by then?

Most folk I know are never even in a ground 30 minutes before kick off. Now fine if I could go in and have a beer then saunter round to the RedShed at half two. I get it's a step in the right direction but I know a lot of folk who will drink in the golf clubs until five to three then wander over.

Although there is a point that it's possible to just have the athletic abilities in Scottish football and be successful. Olusanya, for example. It makes it hard for young players coming through. Guys like Lobban, Marshall, Stewart etc (I'd say Milne, too) have clearly worked hard on the technical side of the game, but there is no avenue for them to work on the physical side in our first team. The opposite is not true, where if you're physically good, you can get plenty of game time despite not having worked at the technical side to the same degree.

Haha, thanks for giving me a laugh you guys- especially you Mason. In reality, I'm a very lonely person and hardly sociable, so as silly as it sounds I wanted to befriend him but my lack of interaction with people let me down and I never did. It's all good though, one day I'll be watching the hell on the final day of the season go down with all the friends I'll try to make at pre-season games.

It's been changed because the site is bigger and better than before.

There's a typo in the forum title metadata, it's triggering my innate OCD in a massively disproportionate way every time I notice it. Sort it out mods.

It's not though. He's saying you need more than technical ability, not that technical players aren't going to cut it here. All the best players are brilliant with the ball at their feet, but they can also handle themselves as well. Go watch some of the tackles Sergio Ramos used to put in on Messi. Milanovic was pulling out of 50/50s with folk the same size as him.

Tony Bloom's spreadsheet disnae lie 🤔

Hearts have spent nearly a million pounds on a player from the English National League (Conference in old money).

It also sums up exactly what is wrong with Scottish football. Until that changes, the national team and our clubs in Europe will never achieve anything.