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Hopefully Hibs come up with a false confidence taken from a humbling of the Jambos at Hampden and we catch them out with a thumping 3-0 win.

Thoroughly depressing day out despite the ‘plucky’ efforts. Agree Milne did well but in a 3 he is less exposed. Devlin was a welcome addition but he hasn’t got the legs to play the heroic defender week in week out albeit he might need to now. We were so weak in the middle of the park today. No composure, nothing sticking and stray passes all the way through the 90. Thought NGW struggled today, he always looks to cover the inside channel and regularly got done for pace wide as a result. He plays with enthusiasm and battles but he is a poor defensive option. Thought Ntelo was shocking, reminded me of Lazetic. His instinct was to stick to the CB and try to bully them but came off second best almost every time. Nisbet shrinks more week to week and Mouloua seems destined to follow him. It’s really hard to see a match winner in this squad right now.

Our transformation is complete, we are now St Mirren.

Only good thing about tonight was the half-time sing song. 🎶 Other than that, we're all relieved we didn't get hammered by an average Rangers team. What a sad state of affairs. Robinson using the "their players cost millions" defence - you just lost to Falkirk a few days ago. Working hard is the minimum to expect so I'm not handing out too much praise for that. Built a team to throw themselves in front of shots and hit it long. No-one on that team capable of getting down the wing and taking players on, holding up the ball or getting us up the pitch to relieve the pressure we were under. I'm not having the praise for Guinness-Walker either, only once did he not waste a ball into the box, everything else is shite crosses over the head of everyone. Turning around and constantly demanding more noise from the Aberdeen - mate, your part of a team that is tenth, I expect more from you first. And our noise levels were just fine. Milne I thought had a good game though, as did Devlin. Mouloua wasn't good but at least he had energy and pace, everything Ntelo didn't, so that sub had no thought behind it other than Robinson trying to make a point to Mouloua. The triple sub with three minutes to go should have been made 20 minutes earlier. But we'll spend a week using that performance as some sort of sign that the players are behind the manager and we should all be very proud.

Just back. Agree with this. It's not to criticise Aremu either, he put in a good shift, it's just that despite his huge effort, he also gave away two or three chances with really simple passes going astray (including the one that resulted in his own booking, which meant he couldn't take down the player on the break for their goal). He lacks quality, but plays in an absolutely vital role. Anyway, the defence were really good. Milne should play for Scotland, because he's fucking ace at Hampden. Devlin good and Guinness-Walker really good. I thought Nisbet was okay in the second half, he started making runs into the channel and actually getting the ball. Ntelo isn't someone who plays football for a living, I think there's been a misunderstanding somewhere. Ronan makes a huge difference in midfield, adding effort and balance and a bit of a press too. Robinson very unlucky as the injury to Gyamfi meant he probably couldn't make the subs he wanted to in the second half. Their goal was coming for about fifteen minutes prior to it happening, so it was ridiculous that it took a further five minutes to make the subs we needed to chase the game from a goal down - that should all have been prepared by the restart. Anyway, it wasn't a horrible day out, and we weren't terrible.

Sorry for your loss mate

Watched second half of Milan derby on train back from Glasgow. Which means I missed all 4 goals which were in first half. Second half was still decent watch with Inter creating a few chances but unable to reduce AC’s 3-1 lead.

Thought Aremu put in a good shift

Aremu was on the end of GBH tonight.

We’re everything we feared a Robinson team would be. We actually competed all through that game because we’ve got physical players who are well-drilled for games when we won’t have much of the ball. We still lacking any kind quality all through the team when we have the ball, and we’re so slow to make decisions and get it moving. That then renders us hopeless in the other games where we’re expected to dominate. If you need a physical embodiment of the issue, it’s aremu.

That’s my point. Yogane and Smith take people on and are more natural wingers. Sterling on a yellow card should have been targeted for the second half. Putting Ntelo on was a horrendous decision.

Jack Milne was good, Nisbett wasn’t and that’s the worst Huns team I’ve ever seen at Hampden. They are fucking gash. It’s a free hit for Hearts in the final

Well certainly not the hiding all the pundits were predicting. We could have snuck a 1 0 win had we been sharper and more clinical. Interesting to hear one of their fans saying we always raise our game against them on the walk away from the stadium which pretty much tells you they are not much better. Hopefully Robinson will see we are a much stronger unit with Devlin on the pitch ( doing the captains job)

The only thing not humiliating today was the scoreline. It could and probably should have been a lot worse. It is very rare you win a game with 26% possession. I do agree that Cormack won't act though hanging his hat on the "effort" angle. That should be a given though, every game. Unfortunately our players are all substandard so any effort is cancelled out by being piss poor.

Good point. Leven is going to have his work cut out for this one.

I never won the Champions League with Aberdeen in Championship/Football Manager. The closest I got was the final in CM4 when we lost 2-1 to Arsenal. Jeppe Lund Curth scored twice for them, and I have hated him ever since. I always tried to be a harsh disciplinarian in those games, like Fergie. For example, if any player said they wanted to move to a bigger club, they were withdrawn from training and never picked again. Good luck finding a bigger club than Aberdeen. You don't want to play for me, then fuck off.

To be fair, Yogane actually offered something today when he came on. Got us up the pitch a few times and he was taking on, and beating his man a few times too. Need much, much more of that though. The effort today will buy Robinson some time fae the board, but another shitebag performance against the spoon burners and he’ll be back to square one and the pressure should become terminal…

They won't have a new manager in place by then. It usually takes them a few months and several "fuck offs" before they finally get their tenth choice of manager.

New manager is going to have his work cut out for this one.

The fact that any of the aforementioned are at our club is a sacking offence.

That was a game we could have won. Can’t forgive him for putting on that useless chunt Ntelo before Smith or Yogane though. That’s a sacking offence for me.

A bottom of the table clash awaits us at Pittodrie on Saturday 7th November, with the excitement beginning at 1745. Hibernian are bottom of the league, but they won't be when they beat us comfortably by two goals to nil.

Well they didn’t embarrass themselves or us, which at kick off was all I hoped for really. No faulting the effort today, but there is just zero composure or quality in that team. There were loads of times in that 2nd half when a bit of composure and good decision making could have given us a good chance to hit on the break - but they were all far too interested in blootering it as far as they could and that was it. And Nisbet now apparently can’t hit a coo’s erse wi a banjo. The strikers all really let us down today tbh. Moloua was really poor, Ntelo as bad if not worse, looked like a competition winner when he came on. Obi 2 our MOTM, had a great game. Devlin better stay in the fuckin team now inna. CH’s did fine, though Molloy was sleeping at the goal. That game reminded me of the league cup final we lost to them - a hun team there for the taking but we lacked the belief or quality to do it...

Given the state of our team just now I can't really blame any player for jumping on the injury bus. It keeps them out of the firing line. Ask Tobers.

I see Lyons has got himself injured as well. It's like an episode of Casualty at the AFC just now.