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Needs some better branding. My suggestion: Ebbe Skovdahl's Miniskirt Emporium

Well the thing for me is Aremu takes the responsibility upon himself absent the responsibility being taken by the players who are supposed to be leaders. He doesn't wait for permission like everyone else, it was the responsibility of Brad Lyons to marshal Aremu and take that 'important player' responsibility upon himself, to show for the ball, show composure, show leadership and captain qualities and he didn't. So Aremu ends up the scapegoat getting hooked, Brad Lyons is the impostor in the situation, Aremu was sweeping up his and Armstrong's litter, and the manager can't swallow his pride, hook Lyons and replace him with Breidl b/c Lyons is 'his player'. I didn't take any of what you said as negative, it was good honest robust criticism which is invaluable to me. Most of what I've gotten so far is 'oh that's nice' or 'I'll get back to you' and I'm still waiting. It's really good stuff much appreciated. And I too would love to be able to back up what I'm sure I saw with my own eyes on RedTV last night with evidence and and 'if not this then that' sort of logic walk through of events. It's still, I guess, comes down to instinct where I look at Aremu and see a player worthy of the jersey, look at most of the rest of them and see a bunch of jobbers filling out their time sheet to get their wages.

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Patrick Firstly apologies for any negativity perceived - it isn’t easy not to be negative around the team right now, and applaud what you are trying to do. My thoughts or interpretation of source of truth was based on we don’t have the detail of how the club use the data / scout players and although it is all there, what is on paper may not reflect the ability and worth to the actual team. Using Briedl as an example I recall seeing stats from another source that he was the player who covered the 2nd most distance in Austrian league, made x tackles was high percentage pass rate etc- whether he has been given a fair crack of the whip or not, jury is definitely out if he is that player in the SPFL (and there may be reasons for that). Having some of the stats info available may help some of us understand some of the logic for signing/ taking a punt on players so that is appreciated but for the club that shouldn’t be the only criteria, and need to do more than use data. Your summary of last night is pretty spot on- If I had one caveat it would be around Aremu and the shape. I thought Aremu was our best player first half, but our shape was so easy to pass around- NGW was all over the place, didn’t seem to know when to push forward, when to sit back, smith and Nisbet didn’t press with Mouloua and Armstrong drifting in and out blocked space when we were going forward (but still provided more attacking threat than our so called wingers) Aremu got hooked as first 5 minutes of 2nd half as he gave the ball away 3 times and twice could have lead to goals if Falkirk had done more. However Brad Lyon’s did very little the whole game and remained on the park for the full 90 - same with Nisbet. If Briedl is the natural holding midfielder then he should replace Aremu to provide the shape and protection and either move Armstrong to replace Lyon’s or put Marshall on to replace Lyons . Sometimes it is just opinions I can’t provide the insight of the other guys of what would be a better experience on what you are building as don’t generally go into this much detail, but will keep an eye out how this develops and wish you well as you progress

I like your train of thought mate, but we are toooooo far gone for even the mere possibility of lightning striking the same place twice. Lower our expectations. Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. 0-4 the hun

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Also this is something I really want to be able to do, what makes Vitamin T's posts so engaging is that he presents this stuff on X and it feels like a real insight into different players, especially if they play the same position. I think especially in the case of Cadden and Guinness-Walker, we'd see that Robinson is committing some sort of fraud there if we're genuinely comparing them to, for example, Devlin, Jensen, Mitchel Frame and Gyamfi But the problem for me is those stats require Opta which is several hundred or even thousand pounds per month. So unless I get a corporate sponsor for the project taking it to that level is outwith the budget, but I absolutely want that too I just can't afford it. Also the Nightingale-Rose diagrams might not suit everyone's taste. I could go for PES-style spider diagrams. Vitamin T on X uses the Nightingale Rose diagrams for his player ratings, but they are a lot more jazzy. I might add some jazz or maybe a user toggle to display the user's preferred diagram.

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That's a really great way to reframe it and take it from a single page app to something with its own back end. Graph-QL is the perfect thing for that. The challenging part is that those types of queries, extending the breadth of them and the volume steps into the realms of each user requiring their own API key or at the very least it costing me more like £100+ per month for the API data rather than just £20 now. Likewise if I extend it from just Aberdeen to the whole SPFL or the whole Scottish pyramid the query space balloons exponentially. So before I go spending any more money it's important to bound the shape of it and also be reasonably specific so the costs don't go crazy and I'm not trying to be all things to all people, there's a clearly defined niche and 'unique value proposition' first. Cash flow is king as they say. In terms of Aremu I accept that he's a limited player, but he has courage and heart and he never hides from the ball nor from a tackle and he doesn't allow himself to be dictated to by what's going on around him. Same as Devlin as soon a Devlin came on there was suddenly a glimmer of actual width, he made overlapping runs, put in a decent cross at one point too. Also the reason Aremu was getting leggy imo is because he was running deep to show for the ball and provide defensive cover and that's a lot of high intensity running and running with purpose. He would run to show for the ball when Molloy or Happe looked up at a team in front of them just standing around like they're waiting for a bus on Union Street. Brad Lyons, meanwhile, was doing nothing, not impacting the game at all, and Armstrong can't run, can't dribble and his passing was just as bad as anyone else's imo. Another player who's a supposed to be a leader on the pitch he looked like he'd walked in from the pub after four pints imo. Anyway great feedback, I'd been thinking along similar lines myself and it's this sort of functionality that requires deep thought about the back end and presenting the data as a graph that's fluid and much more interactive is a great idea. Thanks.

Aye, he's flying through the various stages of "manager on his last legs". I think he might have moved into the final stages when fans start to feel sorry for him, and grasp at any reason to keep him for a few more games just to make sure that we've given him what is seen to be a chance. That lasted a while with Thelin!

too lazy to search mate. A bit like most of our players, just too fukin lazy Fkn sick to the back teeth of this crap that is getting dished up. for me colgate is 100% to blame As the "chairman" him and his merry men (the board) are responsible for ensuring that they appoint the correct manager for the club. And ever since the appoint of Glass and every other appointment since the have been nothing short of fkn woeful. Rant over for now and maybe next time before starting a new thread I might use the search function (if I can be arsed) edit to say that the last post on that other Cormack thread is actually by me and this is it September 3 ah fuk When I seen this thread getting bumped back up again I opened it hoping to read that the egotistical maniac had decided finally to do the right thing and take his mates with him. Sadly for now it is not the case but I can carry on living in hope So that will be the reason I coodna be arsed searching for it as I continue to live in fukin hope 🥺

Sounds good! I agree that you don't have to be part of the club, and that it is best not to be. I like the idea that saying "Brad Lyons is shite" is both tedious and unhelpful! How you work that into an app, I'm not sure, I think the visualisation of that is very difficult - it doesn't fit into the standard scrolling webpage, or the forum/thread style. I imagine an overlay of player(s) on a pitch, where you can click on one or two and see their heat-maps, passing ranges etc to see where they overlap or compliment. I always found the player wheel graphics a little ugly to quickly decipher. I can't think of a visual that shows how players compliment rather than compete/compare; that might be worth inventing! As an aside, as a single source of data, I find afcheritage both useful and frustrating. In order to get users to your platform, you may want to build a better version of that. It has a huge amount of data behind it, but it presents it badly, and is too static in that presentation. In my opinion, it'd be better held in a graph style database (or just a better database!), where relationships and questions are the driver. For example, I want to be able to ask a question like "who was that defender that Calderwood signed?", "how many caps did Lee Miller get while playing for Aberdeen?" (which would require related Scotland data), "how many Danish players have we had?", "how many players did McInnes sign from England?", "how many players have we signed from Motherwell?" etc. I know this can be done via AI pish these days, but it'd be far nicer in a Dons-specific format, using well-researched data. In terms of increasing traffic, you could be well served by providing something along those lines, although I appreciate that it would increase the workload significantly. A small piece of unsolicited advice: when you're building your various tools, make sure they are not Aberdeen specific, and can be expanded to include other teams. Concentrate on a format that is team-agnostic, and make sure that data that crosses teams isn't held under "Aberdeen" (or whoever). For example, data on Cadden is held against the player, with his time at Hibs, Motherwell etc held in their data, "viewable" by the Dons. If you get your data right from the beginning, and your visuals are useful, it is something you might be able to expand to other teams in future as a licensed product/service (even if it is just ad revenue). Best of luck! In regard to last night, Aremu's position is very important, but I thought he was unreliable again last night, with many misplaced passes and sloppy positioning. In my opinion - which I'm sure your software would backup! - Briedl is the best backup to Aremu in that role (Kjartannson would have been also), whist not as combative, he holds the position, covers fullbacks and retains possession. The latter being such an important part of the role of the player in front of defence, which Aremu fails at badly. In Robinson's defence, Aremu was also very visibly tiring as usual. PS: Lyons is shite

I somehow know two Falkirk fans and there was chat last year relating to McGlynn’s health and whether he was on the verge of jacking it in. That seems to have come to nothing though.

As was I. However, I'm led to believe that McGlynn was never on the shortlist or seriously considered.

Dolly Parton - Some Day It'll All Make Sense

Just watched Robinson's post match interview. Pretty obvious he knows he's on borrowed time and looks a broken man Wouldn't bet on him being in the dugout for the Hibs game, unless we somehow miraculously pull it off against the Huns and even then it'll only paper over the cracks.

I watched the game last night on PPV and I can't defend that performance and I can't defend Robinson. I thought Aremu was holding the team together, he gets subbed off. I thought the team had no shape, the movement off the ball was poor, I had absolutely no idea why Brad Lyons was there, I thought Lewis Smith was static and posed zero threat, I have no idea why Olusanya was brought on and not Ntelo when we're chasing a goal, I thought we had very little width, and I lost count of the number of times we tried to play balls back to front with a Falkirk player intecepting. Falkirk were by far the better team who played the better football and with a clear identity of the way they play and why. We looked like a team full of jobbers who couldn't string four passes together. I think you're right on the 'single source of truth' piece. It's very difficult to source club news, team news in an automated way b/c injury announcements and other important announcements are made via the P&J or the BBC and it's against terms of service to scrape those. For it to be what I want it to be I'd need an RSS feed from the club or something like that plus the Opta-grade enterprise level API, but that's hundreds of pounds a month, right now I pay twenty for api-football. Where I disagree is that I have to be employed by the club, maybe the the club has a representative influencing the direction of it, but what I want it to be is a platform where the fans and club can agree on what the club's identity is, what football we play, what an Aberdeen player looks like, where the squad needs strengthened etc and instead of saying 'Brad Lyons is shit' or 'Chris Cadden is shit' saying 'Brad Lyons doesn't have the attributes to be an 'important player' for Aberdeen, he's average and saying he's not is wrong' or 'Chris Cadden doesn't go on the overlap and deliver any byline crosses and doesn't do enough to support the forward wide players and defensively he's slow'. Anyway I can't defend Robinson nor even Cormack after what I saw last night. What concerns me the most is that the team were so lacking in character and leadership. No one took ownership, took the game by the scruff of the neck and imposed their will on it, except Aremu but he got subbed off so...

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I asked AI what the protocol is regarding starting a new thread, and it said that if there is already a thread titled Dave Cormack just a page away, then it's probably best not to start another one. Personally, I found that a rather tetchy and rude response. Interesting stats though, although I think @The.Moog covers it. The most interesting are the amounts spent. I suspect that Robinson's side are on the end of significant budget cuts. Not the type of manager you really want in that scenario. Of course, Cormack only produces strategy documents rather than actual strategy, so it is unsurprising.

Despite promises to the contrary from certain posters, we didn't win. It was a very unenjoyable game. A few things of note: We switched the midfield three times, with Armstrong, Lyons and Smith all being shifted with zero intent and zero effect. It is very clear that Robinson doesn't really understand combinations of player in the midfield. Aremu provides an absolutely key role in midfield, but he's unreliable. His passing is very slack, and he'll often forget his job of tracking back. He had a fantastic spell at one point, then gave the ball away several times in a row. At the same time, when he was subbed, we completely lost the midfield. Again, down to Robinson not understanding midfield roles it seems. We massively tired in the second half, inclusive of making five subs. Guinness-Walker, Armstrong, Molloy, Nisbet and Lyons were all struggling, with Smith, Aremu and Happe already shattered before being subbed. That may have something to do with the illness that was going round, but it doesn't bode well. We're not getting three games in a week out of Armstrong, and Lyons has struggled since returning. The 4-4-2 wasn't necessary last night, it requires a lot of work. Robinson should have been more aware of the schedule. I suspect Cadden's injury will be as a result of the amount of work he has put in and number of games played. Poor squad management. Individuals aside, the lack of tactics is very apparent when you watch a well coached side like Falkirk play. Their movement was excellent throughout, and they quickly moved the ball into space, in clearly rehearsed moves. Robinson brings nothing in that regard. I was keen on McGlynn when Robinson was being rumoured, it was fairly clear he was a better coach and also a known quantity. Maybe he didn't want it, but the disparity in approach between Robinson and other managers is clear, and it would seem strange that we were interested in such hugely different types of manager.

I’m not defending him, but that’s just not apples for apples as a comparison. In the 7 years prior to Cormack. The hun died Hearts, Hibs & Utd were all relegated and out the league for periods of at least a season if not longer - some at the same time. The fact we only won one trophy in that time was also a massive failure. Cormack’s management of the football side has been a massive failure and the stats are damning just looking at his 7 years in charge - we don’t need to reference the previous 7 years to know that…

Hi Dave Is this a way to try to justify how we came about our manager and our signings? Sorry Patrick Not meaning to dismiss your work, but while not anti~Cormack I am very much in the anti-Robinson camp after watching that last night Whatever scouting methods are used, anyone with working eyes will know that the majority of players recruited over the summer are a downgrade on the limited set of players we had previously, so know matter what data suggests, we must be using the wrong algorithms. Any scouting actually done should have those reporting hounded out of Pittodrie as they are also stealing a wage. Only had a brief look at your platform but classing as single independent source of truth is stretching it unless you are fully employed by the club to know what actually is taking place on every transfer target. Hope I have not misread your intention and genuinely wish you well with your endeavours- as you can appreciate it is sometimes hard to be positive when the Dons have sunk to the depths they are just now Oh for the halcyon days when goalkeeper and centre half’s were Doohan, Polvara and Nilsen

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