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He's replaced some young players who had potential but maybe weren't ready yet, with some young players with potential who aren't ready yet. He's replaced strikers who can't score with strikers who can't score. Our strongest defence probably doesn't include any of our new signings. Our midfield was stronger last season. Mouloua the only real upgrade I see, maybe Ronan and Smith IF he can get the best out of them, although I'd say on form Cameron better than both of them. We're talking about getting rid of players on big wages, but Olusanya has reportedly come in on big wages and now even Robinson isn't starting him much, likely due to a combination of not thinking he's playing well enough and also playing a different system than he had in mind at the start of pre-season. It's a bit of a mess. It's poor management. It's similar to the issues Robinson had at St Mirren. Rather than come to Aberdeen and sort us out, he's brought more problems from St Mirren that someone else will likely have to sort out. It's an easy excuse. We played two full backs far too high against Dundee United, shifted tactics about, took off a defensive mid, and left ourselves wildly exposed. I'm not sure the virus had that much impact. Out of interest - what have you seen that makes you optimistic it might come together?

Players that left permanently. Shinnie, Duncan, Mcintyre, Keskinen, Kjartansson, Mitov, Lazetic, Bratveit, Milanovic, Jensen, Geiger, Bwomono. Given the likely wages a lot of these players were on you can't make much of a case for keeping most of them on if you don't fancy them. You mention yourself the smaller budget further on and there was clearly a need to reduce the wage bill at this point so the players we got fees for Robinson likely didn't have a say in anyway. I was at peace with all their transfers 2bh. Shinnie would have been good to keep but he would have needed to take a wage cut and I couldn't see that happening to the extent it would need to given he would still be captain and captains are normally one of the highest earners at a club. Keskinen and Kjartansson you could make cases for but I was pleased with the fee we got for Topi 2bh as he was a frustrating player in red. I suspect the fuck off topi was probably leveled for poor decision making which plagued his game. Kjartansson is probably the one I would have liked to keep the most but he wanted to leave before Robinson got the job as I understand it. Out on loan we have Yenghi, Suman, Lobban, Bilalovic, Ambrose and Besuijen. Would have kept Lobban and Bilalovic myself but the other 4 had to go. So given all that you have about 16 players who needed to go for various reasons and I suspect the vast majority of them you don't pine for. I would say that's unavoidable myself and certainly not Robinsons fault. Could he have managed the turnover better? Maybe but he probably could have managed it worse too as it's a really difficult thing to do. As I said, I don't think he had much choice given the state the squad was in. It's not been that long since then, 5-6 games? and the squad has been seriously affected by virus and injury for at least half of those. As I said, I'm reserving judgement until the end of the year but I'm a little more optimistic it might still come together. Yeah but not conceding goals is the best platform to build your attacks on, especially when you are a work in progress. Can understand where you are coming from with your last sentence btw though I think there is scope for that to change

The Donstalk fridge has been hacked.

I think he’s also a little bit of a dick. Can’t see him rallying the troops. Sounds more like he’ll alienate himself and piss everyone off with his grumpy wee man syndrome. (Apologies, all the tactical insights have been used up by others so this was all I had to offer).

Had Como on the coupon tonight. Had some impressive results so far but nothing like tonight’s. Como use Jamestown analytics like Hearts. Hopefully Hearts are behind them when it comes to player allocation.

The Female Dons have finally got their first point of the season after a 1-1 draw with Spartans.

Clem Cattini away at 89. You might not know the name, but you will have heard his drumming. Drummed on many huge singles, since the early 60s and has played with many big acts. As drummer with the Tornados, he was part of the first British group to reach the number 1 spot in the US, with the single Telstar. RIP Clem

I don't know where the hell Como have come from, but they pumped Lens 9-1 in France tonight.

The only one on the republican side they say is DeSantis who was Florida Guvnor. Rubio and Vance have no chance as they’re tied to Trump. Democrats they reckon will ruin it by picking someone from the crazy side of them that the majority of people dispise going by their track record of Hilary and Harris you wouldn’t put it past them. If the Dens are sensible they reckon the Guvnors from Georgia and Pennsylvania will be high up. although the amount of people obsessed by US politics in the UK hopefully it’s AOC so they have get something to look at.

Even if he can get the squad shaped and playing the way he wants them to, it’s still going to be a chore to endure. The whole point of getting a manager with a track record of punching above his weight (let’s give him the benefit of the doubt on that) is so we can compete at the top of the table with the 3rd/4th biggest budget. He seems to think the remit is to assemble a squad of bottom 6 rejects and try to sneak into the top 6.

But he didn't actually have to do that. Yes we needed to sign players, but he could have managed the turnover a lot better than he did. He appears to have escaped criticism for Kjartansson feeling he wouldn't be given a chance. Shinnie and Mitov could have been persuaded to stay and help the transition. I think we can gather from his leaked "fuck off topi" shout at the FC Twente friendly that he wasn't too arsed about Keskinen leaving. Again, not all the signings are his, but of the 13 outfield players signed, I'd say seven are considered subs, and a lot of the times because they don't fit how he wants to play. Goodwin's scorched earth policy four (?) years ago was a big mistake, and Robinson has repeated it with a smaller budget, so he didn't even have any Miovskis or Ramadanis coming in as replacements. The Motherwell game we looked good in short spells. However, we had 30% possession and scored with all four shots on target. And that is the most impressive we've been under Robinson. And he hasn't managed to get close to that level of clinical finishing since, which suggests it was a bit of a fluke rather than the beginning of an upward trajectory. The games we have won (and Dundee United), there's been little spells where we temporary rise above mediocrity. But at no stage do I think we're actually improving as a team, it's more just some individual performances ("Mouloua looks handy", "Ronan scored a good goal", "Mine defended well"). I don't think we're any better as a team now than we were on the opening day of the league season, or even in April/May when we had three wins from four. Under Robinson I always think we might pull off a few results here and there, but I really struggle to see us going up a level consistently. For example, we could have sneaked the semi-final, had a great result, but the long term prospects for the team would remain the same. If we were at full strength, maybe Milne doesn't concede a penalty v St Johnstone, maybe we defend a goal or two better in other games, but as an attacking threat I still think we'd be as poor as we have been. We've been punished a wee bit more, but we'd likely still be labouring week to week. What's interesting about Hearts, Dundee United and Falkirk in particular - they've all had their fair share of bad results this season, but you can see real improvement in them, and that's why there's belief in their support. Even in defeat on Sunday I thought Hearts looked alright and were doing the right things, they were just weakened way too much by an injury list that is a lot, lot worse than us. Hibs - it's early days. Motherwell too. But as a neutral I'd have more belief in them improving long term than us.

So who's going to be the next president? It's been donkey's years since they had a good one.

If that's the case, then Robbo must stay! 😄

4-1 now and Napoli reduced to 10.

Porto 3-1 up now and probably a fairer reflection of the game.

Porto deservedly gone 2-1 up on Napoli. Been one way traffic in the second half.

I voted go. It’s just a matter of time but knowing this club, they’ll wait it out until February. Not planning to renew my ST at this rate. Going to Pittodrie is a chore these days (and has been prior to Robinson tbf but it’s not getting any better).

McTomminay with equaliser for Napoli away to Porto. Been a decent watch so far. Porto stadium now on list of stadiums I want to see a game in.

I want to make it clear that Lurtz was the lead Uruk-Hai from 'Fellowship of the Ring' (only in the film, like - not a book character). Our AFC employee is Lutz.

He was being inaugurated into the hall of fame for watching every single game of televised fitba in the world over the last decade.

Been ages since we've heard fae Lurtz - wasn't his appointment meant to reduce the importance/everything-depends-on-this-guy factor around our heid coach?

Was a competition in one of the emails got from SFA. Got a behind scenes tour and shown press conference being set up and how they do stuff they do for comms they release on social media. Then got to sit in on the press conference as they announced squad.

Ain't a cake walk either. In the first fortnight back after the break we are away to Killie, the huns, home to Dundee, a trip to Tynecastle and then home to Utd.

I'm the only muggins so far to vote stay. Not because I'm any great fan or even wanted him to begin with, but all we would be doing is throwing everything out for the umpteenth time and going round again with the same chassis that we've been riding for years now. There's been a few fleeting signs that we could maybe be a bit entertaining and mildly competitive while we fix the underlying problem (yeah, wishful thinking) and start improving from here instead of hitting 'go straight to jail, do not collect 200' every time.

Vance now distancing himself from Trump by slating the Iran war and what it's cost the republicans. Sleekit wee fuck is after the big job, reckon Donny boy is going to get a few knives in the back from him the next two years