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Thanks. It was about 20 years ago, but it still stings. I still carry that failure with me. I let the club down.

Robinson will be in charge, of that I am sure. A team looking for a first win in about eight games, with a new manager. I bet he's counting on his win bonus already. We've read this one too many times. Hopefully we can dig out a result and get the three points as that's what it is all about, regardless who is in the dugout.

He did get St Johnstone playing fitba when he took over from Levein. The damage was already done for them, at that point, but he took them straight back up, without too much issue and was praised for his style in the Championship, which may be handy. They seem to be holding their own in the league, despite a pumping from Newco last week. I'd prefer someone from outside Scotland, but lets be honest, whoever comes in needs to hit the ground running and work with a fairly shit squad of players. We won't be an attractive job for anyone decent. Maybe the opening post on this thread is now worth a shout. We've tried about everything else. Either the Fergie Statue or Angus the Bull. We could also create a new toppest of top, top reds, DNA Membership, whereu members can get a chance to manage their heroes. They win, they take the next game, they lose and the are out, with the next one in. The joy is, they are paying us, so no expensive pay offs. Don't think we could be any worse off and with potential TV rights, could be on to a moneyspinner, albeit in the Championship.

Going to throw a slight curveball in here and it’s probably for a different thread but I’m starting to form a view about coaching. Yes the failures of DC are evident, totally agree with Slim assessment on that (well apart from the pass marks bit 🤣). Also agree with Moog on expectation, mentioned it in the new manager thread. My concern is that since the Doc, and the guy who worked with Thelin briefly I’m not sure we have had anyone in place who can actually coach a team well. I see other guys doing it, JBA, McGlynn and possibly Pressley being recent examples, and there are rewards in this league for it. We need to focus on getting that quality in.

I’d agree he comes across well and seems to be able to adapt for the circumstances rather than these idealogues. Only risk is the ‘levels’ problem. I don’t know his background but has he got experience at a club where the expectations sit on a par with the Dons? We’ve seen in the past when you bring in a manager who’s primary objective is survival in the league and defending territory and trying to eek out victories.

PhD - I Won't Let You Down

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again Should be adapted as the new theme song chanted out from the Pittodrie Faithful

lowering the expections a bitty more for this one. 0-3 and HIbs climb off the foot of the table

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…