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I’ll bet theres a logical footballing reason for not having a man on the back post but it’s total bollocks as well I was good friends with a guy who did his coaching badge with Martin Buchan many years ago. When Craig Brown was telling him that marking wasn’t as important as having ‘numerical superiority in the box’, Buchan walked out Even if we were brilliant at defending, lining up for a corner like that is inviting trouble. You need an out ball.

Thanks, aware of tickets situation and Harper’s day which might sway me in favour of going.

Finished 2-2. Livi haven't won for 30 games according to BBC, wonder which team will break that sequence

It's the people that lap up the sort of shit he posts that scares me most. I've said it before, but his whole regime in the US are modern day Nazis.

He has finally flipped his lid. "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Draw would be a good result. Plus, for Scotland, good to see shankland back, fit, and scoring.

1-1. The Divine Foreheid with the equaliser.

Livi 1-0 up on Hearts. Hilarious as that is, hopefully it doesn't kickstart a winning streak for Livingston.

Haven’t seen an NBA thread so figured why not! Big Laker fan, lived in LA when Shaq and Kobe dominated, and when it was Kobe and Pau. Not into American sports, football, hockey, baseball, even MLS, but the NBA can be pretty entertaining. lakers had real momentum but that kills losing Luca and Reeves, season over. They were keeping me enthused with the dons being shit. wemby vs Shay should be an NBA finals match up, don’t like the east west format, although with Tatum back the Celtics are pretty decent, as are Detroit is Cade comes back healthy.

3-5-2 please and stick with it for the last 6 games. no clue why we changed keepers, stick w mitov. Milne Morrison molloy, maybe we see knoester before the seasons end. Lobban on the right, frame or gyamfi, frame is young and has shown more in attack, maybe too inexperienced, but so is gyamfi I suppose. Geiger Kjarten and shinnie, nisbet and olusanya. Not a lot of flair or width so two up top w a bit of pace from olusanya is a must. we also need a three man center mid with a bit of physicality to get us in the front foot. 2-1 us, nisbet and olusanya!

Less than 1k tickets left so hang on and the decision might be made for you. It's Joe Harper Legends Day - hope he brings his boots.

Again, I'm fairly certain that clubs have thought about this and weighed up the pros and cons. When we clear, it's heading thirty yards from goal. If we're doing our job well, it's heading wide. Someone standing on the halfway line isn't in prime position to collect, or press from there, and the ball is coming back in. Far better to be pushing out towards the ball as a team than a guy chasing back the way with an eye on attacking. If you're simply bringing back the guy you have up front for your quick break, then you're ending up with eleven back anyway. The idea would be that one charges after our clearance, whilst Nisbet or whoever resumes his position up front, to get us to a more recognisable shape. The fact that we are fucking atrocious at defending set pieces is the issue, not the ability to break or not.

It’s crazy that we are hurting so badly in center mid. We allowed Clarkson polvara aouchiche and sivert leave, all who were not long term for us, but would probably start ahead of most of what we have now. where was Geiger yesterday? Horrible to throw youth at the problem, but I’d prefer to see Kjarten over afeez, who looks like our central midfield Ambrose so far. id go w shinnie Geiger and Kjarten in there, but awful that we have no clue who to play when we have six games to save our season.

We can hope but what really concerns we is that they totally outplayed us. Nothing suggests we can win a game right now. We have no spine, no guys that will dig deep and drag us through this. Not saying gogic is the answer, but that’s the type of player we need. And a few. We have Armstrong and his hair.

He's fit, I think, but he's not very good. He was way off the pace any time he's played this season, and looks to be a year or so away from being ready for first team games. If he'll get there at all, I wasn't convinced he would have the legs for it at all to be honest. Hopefully he'll get there, but I wouldn't be risking him at this stage in the season. Especially not when Robinson seems to be in full throwing the players under the bus mode.

Is it worth risking KMK in there? Is he fit?

Fortunately Killie look as honking as us away from home

Brutal watch. It’s all been said but my god, when you know you are going to be in a ferocious battle in poor weather against hammer throwers you don’t go to battle with an old mad and a guy who has no fitness. 2 in midfield was an absolute disaster of a selection. I heard Robinson banging on about seeing something different in training. Assume all those ‘technically gifted’ players we’ve assembled are running about like Brazilians in training and then when it starts raining horizontally and that giraffe Philips is kicking you in the air the whole thing goes to shit. I’m clinging onto our 4 home games in last 6 as we looked a little more composed and able against Falkirk. Away from home we are a write off. Also Partick form is sliding. It’s all I’ve got left in the positivity bank.

Not for the first time, I had absolutely no idea what we were trying to do yesterday. You could see it was wrong after 2 minutes. The whole ground was just waiting on it happening.

You’re absolutely right. Even if it worked, the football we’re trying to play is mind numbingly dull. Saw the two defenders on the 6 yard line while the keeper had the ball and I just couldn’t give a fuck anymore. If Robinson thinks he can play our way out of trouble like that then we’re absolutely fucked

Certainly no new manager bounce, if anything yesterday was worse. Worrying for sure.

I have followed the Dons for many decades, taking in games at Pittodrie when I can and watching on TV at other times. This is the most pathetic and lazy bunch of players I have ever seen and the football is boring beyond belief to watch. Saw the Falkirk game at Pittodrie a couple of weeks ago and we almost left before the half-time pie. Scheduled to be in Aberdeen next weekend but I really don’t think I can be arsed to waste another afternoon and £100 for us to go to Pittodrie again. Might change my mind on the day but regrettably I can’t imagine that we will win or even put in a decent performance. Disillusioned and frustrated - I wish the players cared as much!

Unfortunately, our best set piece defensive header of a ball is Kevin Nesbitt.

If we leave a player up front he'll (hopefully) be able to close down the opposition if he can't get onto the ball. At the moment we clear, they regain possession, have time to control it and hoist it back into our box. Obviously it does't work the other way round - they clear, we pick up the loose ball and put it back to our keeper.

You stick a player on that last defender and I guarantee the other one is coming back too. There is no benefit whatsoever to having everyone back in the box, as so beautifully shown yesterday