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On 18 October last year, we beat St Mirren 1-0 away from home. We limited them to one shot on target in that game. My point being, I don't think we've somehow got more about us this season that we're able to win games we couldn't last year. Robinson threw that line out when we beat Hearts then went quiet the following week when we lost to Dundee. Sometimes we get a bit of fortune. I think us getting the penalty was that (it was a penalty, but a silly challenge that if the St Mirren defender doesn't make then Yogane probably does little else with the chance). Would we have gone on to win it anyway, maybe. But Thelin might have won it too... I thought we were very fortunate to be level at the break. We didn't turn around a deficit v St Johnstone the previous week, so I can't say with great confidence we'd have done it v St Mirren. Our main problem hasn't been the turnover of players though. It's been a manager seemingly at a loss what to do with his team, and a glaring lack of game plan. Last season, we went in undercooked, and made a lot of signings late on. We did correct both those errors this season so it's little surprise the stats show a slightly better start. But, from the start of October until mid-December, we did only lose one league game out of 10 - a loss to Hibs days after getting the runaround in Greece. So we're really at the stage now where we should start to see something from this team. We have Rangers twice in Glasgow between now and December, and granted we're big underdogs in both, but those apart it's Dundee United (a) Falkirk (h) Hibs (h) Kilmarnock (a) Dundee (h) That is a very winnable set of fixtures. We're past the excuses stage now.

Flamengo 0-2 up half way through second half.

Bahia v Flamengo on premier sport just now. 0-0 after 30 minutes but been decent game so far.

2 things I would say there. 1. whether we could easily have lost yesterday or not bears no relation to we defo would have lost it this time last year. We were as wide open as St Mirren were yesterday playing with half the confidence and whilst we might have scored I have no doubt we would have lost by a couple personally. I think it's a bit harsh to say we got away with one. We got away with one in the first half to not go into the break trailing but the same changes would have been made if we hadn't and St Mirren still would have been wide open, they are not a team that can park the bus at the moment. It's easy to argue it would have still been one way traffic second half. 1 transfer window where a full first team and half a bench have been turned over. That's pretty extreme by any measure if you ask me and despite taking over in March in a lot of ways he was back to square one in the summer as a result. He had a league cup group stage he HAD to qualify from after a very short pre season. It's defo better than playing friendly's but only as long as you win and the manager is not going to be experimenting a lot when playing these games as he's on a hiding to nothing if Aberdeen don't win them all. Probably 2 weeks worth of pitch time as players will have been given a week off most likely. The improvement I see is we are harder to beat but that's not to say I think we are hard to beat. Our stats are better than they were after playing 9 last season, we haven't lost 6 of them with many of them being favourable fixtures, have scored 10 instead of 6 and conceded 10 instead of 11. Hardly setting the heather alight figures and with no european distraction either but still movement in the right direction from where we were. Tannadice will be a big test all things considered, would be a huge win for Robinson if he could get it and a crushing defeat should we lose.

We don’t play through midfield so their midfield will see less of the ball too!

We could get Lennon to piss his signature into the pitch at a training session.

Utd are as unpredictable as we are. Unfortunately it sounds like Cameron is coming onto a game for them and they’ve signed a couple of half decent players in midfield so expect that’s where the battle might be won or lost. Weirdly, they look more comfortable away from home and have struggled to get any convincing results at Tannadice. Hopefully we stick with the back 4 and put a combative and mobile midfield out. Id go Aremu with Lyons and Marshall. As long as Mouloua is at the heart of our attack I don’t mind who plays with him between Nisbet and Olusanya.

In the heat of the moment I have a tendency to knee jerk, but this is a well balanced and thought through post. Keep up the good work @tlg1903

I'm not really in a "Robinson must go" camp, mainly because I don't think the uncertainty of us now trying to find a manager two weeks out from a semi-final would help us. However, each week I get less convinced by him and yesterday hasn't done anything to help those concerns either. I'm not sure I agree with your line "last season we would have lost that", as we could very easily have lost it yesterday had St Mirren been at full strength and had a striker. If we play like that most weeks we won't win most of them. We got away with one yesterday. I also think Robinson has had long enough. He took charge in March, had a transfer window, a league cup group stage to work on his tactics, had nine games from then until the international break, then three more weeks to work on the tactics, followed by two favourable home games. And yet, I really struggle to see any improvement. And I think Robinson is still scratching his head how he should set the team up, and the players aren't quite sure what they're supposed to do either. Defence better? Apparently so. I don't think we've been tested yet - apart from Parkhead where we did concede a few. Let's see how Ibrox, Tynecastle and Hampden go. If we gave a better team that possession yesterday we could have shipped a few, and Müller was certainly called into action a few times. Tannadice will be interesting. Haven't won there I think since Barry Robson was manager.

Are Barcelona still paying the referees?

I said it with thelin, and said it earlier with Robinson, I think by Xmas we can start to see if Robinson is doing a good job. He needs two, ideally three windows at least to build a squad. We started back 4, then back 3, now 4 again yesterday. Chopping and changing doesn’t help but incorporating 15 new players takes time. The play of smith and yogane is a huge factor in our formation, if they aren’t productive and reliable there’s no point in playing with wingers. Robinson wanted 4 wingers, we got 2, and then eventually mahou, but it’s not really enough to rely on a formation with wingers. Their play is the main factor in going to a back 3 with wing backs. Defensively we are much better and that’s progress. Third least goals conceded so far in the league, and that is a positive step. You fix the defense first, that’s the foundation. Individually all of our defenders have flaws, but we are better. Muller isn’t an ‘attractive’ keeper, mitov looked the part much more, but while they have different strengths, muller is at least as effective. Ronan and the wingers have failed season to date, the main reason we aren’t scoring enough. That’s our creative three positions that aren’t producing. That’s not really on Robinson, they just aren’t very good, hence the change of formation. Yes Ronan was coached by Robinson at st mirren, but he’s maybe regressed since then, injuries and he’s very clearly bulked up, can effect your movement health and play. Up top mouloua and nisbet will score if given chances. If you add an in prime mcginn and Hayes to this lot I think we’d be a very different team. You may even see more from cadden and NGW if they had legit wingers ahead of them to combine with. I think lyons afeez and even briedl maybe (debatable) are good enough to do the heavy lifting in midfield. If you ask afeez and lyons to add goals and assists to their game they’ll fail. It’s a huge if, but get two legit wingers in the Jan window, I think we’d see more from this team, and then maybe more fairly judge Robinson???

7-1 now.

If he keeps Dundee progressing as they are it's not going to be too long before bigger clubs are sniffing around Pressley. Doubt he would leave on a whim though the kinda guy that he is so could be at Dundee for a while yet. When you consider some of the key players they lost last season the great start they have had to the campaign is all the more remarkable. Right now I must admit I'm genuinely fascinated to see how things work out for Pressley 2bh.

6 (six)

Have to say it looks like the only chance of a non arse cheek team winning the league this season sits with Dundee. That assumes they can fight off our approach for Pressley in January of course 🤣

Make that 5-1. Just five more for Tic and I will consider it closure on McGhee.

5-1 now.

4-1 and that means every top flight team scored this weekend.

4-1 now. Title challenge still on for them?

you can double that. 4-0.

Hearts have had a really good spell but 4-0 now What a fucking shame 😂

Victims 2-0 up on Diets early on. Victims could get a few on evidence of first 20 minutes.

Just playing at it to tick a box to say they have a woman’s team.

Can only assume it was cost cutting that led to Booth, the captain and the vice captain being shown the door. They got humped 0-6 by Celtic today - at this point I don’t understand the strategy and why they are even bothering with a women’s team.