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Cinderella is going to the ball. We have acquired tickets for the home support in a part of the ground close to the away support, so will be giving it large to the sheep shagging bastards (Ovci Sujajici Bastardi) in there

The new sporting director is keen to work with Thelin. All previous predictions that an abject defeat tonight might lead to a dismissal are now null and void. Thelin will be here until *at least* December, so we may as well back the man. Personally, I'm interested to see how the partnership gets on.

Why ruin a really well written, balanced post, with this frightener? I dunno if it's different in Orlando, but Halloween isn't for another four days here. Stephen Robinson would be an awful choice. It would be us getting spooked, abandoning everything the club apparently identified in this review they did two years ago, and just hoping Robinson can have the same impact McInnes as had at Hearts without any forward thinking. Like I said in the Hibs match thread - if Thelin is deemed not to be the man to continue it, then you search for someone who can. Stephen Robinson is Jim Goodwin all over again. He does not fit the model. The players we have don't fit his style of football. I'm also not sure what is appealing about him at the moment anyway. St Mirren have won just two of nine league games this season. Getting to the cup semi has masked a poor season (not unheard of).

Biggest island of the small isles,but only about 40 inhabitants who mostly live in Kinloch the harbour village.The rest of the island probably too rough or exposed id say.Fantastic mountains.Not huge,but challenging and great views.A few cyclable tracks go to various sides of the island.Definitely going back next year to hill climb,too soggy this year.And aye theres about 1000 deer on the island.Nae good when youre trying to kip during rutting season,lol Mother and baby dolphin on the way over.Minke whale juming out the water near the mainland

Aberdeen never gives youth a chance, I fear for Jess's development

We're slowly getting closer to finding out what our strongest line-up is. Problem is, with Tobers injured and two games a week, we won't necessarily see it very often. For now, Knoester-Milne-Dorrington at the back is secure enough, Gyamfi and Devlin as the wing backs. Karlsson finally showing he's not the new Okkels, and Lazetic and Nisbet both massive upgrades on Yengi. I wonder if there's a way to get Karlsson-Nisbet-Lazetic all playing together. Biggest surprise has been Milanovic not quite cutting it yet. The midfield is still a nice problem to have due to the number of options. I like Clarkson, I always think we're better with Shinnie in it, but Armstrong has been far better than I thought he would be considering his lack of game time before coming here. Interesting that Clarkson has at times played further forward and out wide, because he's not the dynamic box-to-box Armstrong and Shinnie are - if only they were both five years younger (but if they were, they wouldn't be at Aberdeen). Clarkson is the new Jamie McGrath in that we know he's good but aren't sure where he fits in, especially in this new three-man defence formation. Aouchiche is another conundrum, and for all his critics I think Keskinen is one of the hardest workers in the team. Okay, maybe we aren't any closer knowing our best XI after all.

I'm confused by this. We put all of our effort into the league to qualify for Europe, but then once we succeed we avoid putting effort into those hard-won European games, so that we can focus all of our effort into the league so we can...qualify for Europe?

I've heard a rumour, and it might not be true, that Frame is being groomed to be next manager.

Do we know who we want? (Please don't say Robinson) Also, pretty sure Everton and Spurs have got a bit more financial clout to make light of pesky logistical inconveniences such as notice periods, compensation, and sufficiently tempting remuneration.

I keep thinking back to the fact that our season fell on its arse last year around the same time that our attacking coach left to go back to Sweden (Bajrami). Before you all scream "hemmin, correlation disnae imply causation!" at me, if we are loathe to bin Thelin (and I understand why), should we be looking at changing up (or adding to) his support and counsel instead?

Aye, that was gash again. I suspect that the last two minutes has saved JT's job. Had we lost 3-0 then he'd have been done. The European pish is an absolute disaster for us. We're nowhere near being ready for the extra games and today showed it. Several players looked knackered today, and we don't even have a settled first eleven, never mind a rotatable squad. We don't seem to be able to attack without leaving gaping holes in defence. The second half especially, when Devlin (probably the only one with pass marks, Lazetic aside) spent the entire time upfield. Dorrington and Milne were poor, with Knoester only marginally better. Karlsson very quick to berate Keskinen (which helped nobody), but didn't do a whole lot himself and gave the ball away too often. Armstrong was okay, but takes too long to shoot, and gives the ball away far too often. For all the shite Shinnie gets with the "legs have gone" pish, he covers 80 times more ground than Palaversa, who was absolutely dogshite. Clarkson was good when he came on and should be starting. Jensen pish and once again Nisbet is a waste of a shirt without a partner (which should have been obvious before signing). Milanovic probably had his best game today, positionally he was really good, working well with Devlin. Unfortunately he was terrible anytime he actually got the ball. I'm assuming Bilalovic is dead or something? Anyway, it's the shite squad building in the summer that has fucked us. Get the DOF in and put a proper plan in place and force JT to stay and get it done. Need to take a hard call on guys like Palaversa, Polvara etc and get them shifted.

I'm here, passed my morning fitness test and ready if called upon

I'm pretty nervous about it 2bh Al. A win would be massive and really gives us impetus going into the Athens game but they have a great record against us. A draw wouldn't be awful but a defeat would have a back to square one feel to it. Their form has been a bit more patchy than usual though and as long as we stick to 3 at the back I can see us coping with their physical front line pretty well. If we show up going forward like we did against Dundee in the first half we have a great chance.

Pretty sure it's Graham Potter's if he wants it, which from his comments yesterday he very much does. (He lives in Sweden having started his managerial career there). Thelin still has at least two, probably three, and potentially even four or five, more trophies in him at Aberdeen first.

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I think the more pressing question is how bad is Kowalski’s hangover this morning.

Not to be pendatic, but I believe it's Ryan Judas Fraser.

I've rewatched Karlssons second a few times I must admit. Love the twinkle toes

It was on skybet, but they've now removed it so you can't bet on the Scottish Cup at all, and refunded my fiver Think someone mixed up the Premiership and Cup odds.

All he has to give is betrayal.

Oh the grand old Duke of York He had 10,000 men He also had some younger girls but he couldn't remember them Then he went up and up Then he went down and down It doesn't matter what he done Cos he's part of the crown Oh the grand old duke of York He had 12 million quid He paid a girl the 12 million quid for something he never did

This is good, hopefully it will settle the support a wee bit. People tend to get more agitated when they think change is possible imo.

Looks like he got trapped with Neil Lennon in that machine from the Fly

I've not been so excited about the tale of a missing penguin since my first time playing Mario64

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Don't you have to start again in the lower forums and work your way up?

GoodwinGod_2022 Is it maybe the underscore you're forgetting?

Dicks obviously spent all their money on players.

That was a sore one. We were rank, but they were very good. We were just that little bit slow all over the park, and each time we were a half second too late to the ball, they capitalised. The first goal, Shinnie gets beaten, but he'd be expecting Devlin to be a bit closer in order to easily block the angle of the shot, but it was an absolute belter of a finish. The subsequent goals were all a variation on that theme. Shinnie and Armstrong weren't a great pairing, but Palaversa, Polvara and Clarkson all came on and struggled (Palaversa got walked around twice in the lead up to their fifth, making Shinnie look like a spritely twenty year old). Keskinen struggled defensively, but I think Jensen was probably worse on that side unfortunately. Dorrington didn't look great, and Milne struggled too. Thought Lazetic was probably one of our top performers, and I'd have given him our MOTM if it hadn't been for the work of Yengi when he came on. Anyway, the worst part is that we have to play again on Sunday, and Hibs are probably decent. We ran ourselves into the ground chasing shadows tonight, and that will take its toll. I expect Lazetic might be rested, which is not what we need (a good argument to say that we should have given Nisbet a run out instead, but I suspect we'd drained the subs by that point). There's nothing great about this conference league shite it has to be said!

Aye, but it's new, so we don't like to get sweat on it.

That is strict UEFA advice that Aberdeen FC suggest. You can make your own way to the stadium with the metro with any team’s shirt on as most of the people here in Athens are quite friendly towards foreigners (except certain fan groups, which are quite rare to find though)

Nevermind the game, there are bigger issues that need to be discussed.

I was gonna say this at full-time while lamenting not winning the game, but then Lazetic became a hero. I like Polvara, but I did watch today and think I'd quite happily swap him and bring Killian Phillips back. Phillips isn't a goal scorer, but that constant running, tackling and drive brings others into the game.

Yes, Aberdeen did it in 2026.

The race is in the opposite direction, Muscat is just the one running the slowest.

It's the beard. Lack of appropriate facial hair has cost our club dearly.

Is it just me that sees the irony in Gerrard being unwilling to return to the Great British institution, The Rangers of Glasgow, on account of him not wanting to pay taxes he would be due to the British government

Agreed, and I think everyone here thinks devlin is a better option than Jensen. The latter is certainly a good squad player to have with his position flexibility, but especially with tobers injured and the return of a back 3, I feel there’s plenty of devlin game time ahead which we all appreciate. Both will be on the field a lot together too. i also think second factor is Armstrong. I believe he’s better than we all expected, and with devlin Armstrong Milne and shinnie is our starting 11, I do think that Scottish core gives a work ethic mentality strength and identity that we were lacking.

Caveat: I’ve had a few beers. I don’t think there is a coincidence that when (roughly speaking) Devlin was dropped as a starter last season we’ve been shit and didn’t win any league games…..to now (roughly speaking) Devlin being back in the starting 11 and we’re much better now. Clearly one player does not make a team and there are technically more gifted players in our team however, for me, Devlin is the heart of our team and we should be building the team around him. Anyway, back to the bar.

I doubt Armstrong is on his radar 2bh given the wealth of cm's we have.

You might get to fifty percent of the roasters though, or the folk that sit next to them, who might tell them to shut it. I think the "three year project" line has helped Thelin until now, and if we can say that we're implementing a strategy to give X number of minutes to young players, then the fans will at least know the justification for playing a youth team player that might not otherwise be afforded game time.

I don't think we need to worry about a Hearts title win. They've played seven games and in three of them have needed a last minute winner. That says a lot of teams are capable of causing them problems and their run isn't sustainable. They were terrible against Hibs, and they've a tough run of fixtures now with four of their next seven games away from home (one being at Pittodrie) and Celtic visiting Tynecastle. Will be a couple of defeats in there at least.

Bad enough seeing him at Tynecastle

I've got to confess, it has been so long, I'm addicted to watching these highlights. Great to have a spring in the step on a Monday morning for a change