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You have to feel for Findlay, if he'd just left Olusanya alone he would've cleared the ball himself.

I’m sorry but just no. Apart from the fact signing a boy for £500k we punted a couple of years back cause he was shite would be up there with the most embarrassing things we’ve ever done football wise, he’s just not very good. Missed a pen (an absolutely shite pen too) in a cup semi. Only thing he ever did. He’s another who’s just not a footballer and looking good at St Mirren is just not the same thing as being at the level we should be looking to sign - see also Olusanya. Same question as I asked about Olusanya applies too. Would Motherwell, Hearts or Hibs ( the teams we should be benchmarking against) sign him? No, they wouldn’t so if he’s not good enough for them, he’s not good enough for us. Sorry Robinson, but get your head out your arse and get to grips with the fact you’re not at fuckin St Mirren anymore…

Thanks that saved me some time.

So the club have confirmed that Mitov transfer is completed. Wishing him all the best for his future career and thanks again for 24th May 2025 He leaves as one of only five Aberdeen Scottish Cup winning goalkeepers and is in some pretty impressive company. George Johnstone, Bobby Clark, Jim Leighton, Theo Snelders being the others

Please don’t ask chat GPT to compare them- I’ll miss the start of the game by the time I read the response😁

Palaversa might well be shyte at football, I don't think he is. He might well have a bad attitude, I don't know. The loon did have the balls to step up and superbly dispatch his penalty against Celtic in the cup final though. We've had much better midfielders play for us, but very few of them have played such a big part in winning us a Scottish Cup. You aren't shyte at fitba if you can put a penalty away on such a big occassion.

Only 2 games in but what i have seen is as entirely as i have predicted. None of these signings are good enough. I didn't want Robinson in the first place and if we don't progress in the league cup and results are poor in cominhg leage games the knives will be sharpening long before Christmas and he'll be under huge pressure, I'd love to be wrong and hope Robinson is a success. Sadly I can't see that happening. Clearly AFC didn't want Robinson at the outset either and 3.5 months without a manager shat the bed and panicked after Dunfermline.

Well, well, well - fitba eh. Positives: We’d have never ever dug that result out last year - full credit to all for that. We defend set pieces and high balls into the box much better (nae hard to improve tbf) We’re more of a threat at set pieces in the opposition box than last year (see bracket point above again). Nisbet is on a hot streak (top notch pen) so let’s hope it continues. I thought Smith made a difference when he came on. Very direct and worried them with his pace and positivity on the ball. BUT Lets be honest, that was daylight robbery. That’s not a particularly good diets team and they were in complete control in that second half. We were miles off it in terms of quality, tempo, technique, intensity etc. Constantly gave the ball away, moved it way too slowly when we didn’t give it away and delivery into the box in the main was very poor as usual. There were far too many shades of last year in too much of that performance for me. We’ll take 3 points when playing poorly every day of the week of course, and full credit for having the attitude to dig that out, but there’s loads of work needed to improve pretty much every aspect of that team. Still, GIRFUY Diets. Alexa - play Joy Division…

The loon is lined up to watch all three LOTR movies on Saturday to get him ready for his first Sevco game.

Sorry mate, much as I can see the logic and reasoning in your comment, I simply can't bring myself to want them to progress regardless of the consequences of it

I actually feel reasonably optimistic about Robinson. He wasn't my first choice, not sure he was anyone's bar Burrows 2bf. That said I always thought he spoke well and his teams punched above their weight consistently so I wasn't dead against it. All things considered I actually think he's done pretty well. 6 wins out of seven ain't to be sniffed at and, sure, you can say 4 of them were again lower league teams. You still have to win them though and do so after a very limited pre season. Add in the huge turnover in squad you could argue there was banana skins everywhere. Go ask utd how they dealt with that with far more stability going into the group stages. Really, all anyone has to reasonably moan about, is the shit show at dens and that's fair. Unfortunately it seems that dens was just what those who didn't want him as manager were waiting for and some have got a bit carried away. The win and good performance yesterday seems to have turned the volume down on that and I think seeing the likes of Aremu, Yogane and Cadden justifying their fees brings a little more confidence to us all that maybe they do know what they are doing. I don't see the point in getting too critical at this stage myself. The die is cast and Robinson is manager. It's hard to dispute that so far he's pretty much done as well as could be expected of him bar a poor performance against Dundee. We are all, obviously, going to offer our thoughts as to tactics, strategy and performance for every game but realistically we won't see what this team playing Robinsonball looks like until the winter when the squad has properly gelled. What that version of Robinsonball looks like potentially could be what makes or breaks him at pittodrie. If he's able to adapt his play to be a bit prettier and still get results that would win over most fans I suspect. If it's just like what was served up at St Mirren then that negative undercurrent will continue through the support and that usually only ends one way.

Gave me one of my best moments of my life. You deserve all that the Reeperbahn can give you and more.

He was in the café. Probably took three shots and needed a break.

Well I doubt Inverness are paying him more, and I think he was always going to leave anyway, but it was more a comment that I doubt Robinson was that arsed about him leaving. The thing is - I look at the squad and it's average. I think I said before the opening day, that last season the squad had too many guys who were there based on potential, and this one generally is proven at this level, so in the short term at least you expect an improvement. That's fine. People are suggesting Robinson won't last until November - so you can't blame him for only caring about results in the next three months and ensuring his job isn't under threat. However, if we get to the end of this window and have moved on Frame, Kjartansson, Keskinen, Bilalovic, and Lobban is being kept out of the team by Cadden, then our model isn't in great shape. We're selling players for peanuts just now who could be worth something in a few years. I also keep reading about players wanting to leave. You have to question why that is. That worries me.

2 days after they turn down 22 million for him, oh ma sides 😂😂😂😂😂

The din of the Jambo’s teeth gnashing When the dandies their hopes were a dashing Drowned out chants of “Braga” Instead they looked Gaga As they shat it in classic Hearts fashion (Variation on a theme by Erchie)

I very near choked on my dinner When Nisbet scored the match winner As Hearts fell apart I let out a fart And now I’m a tiny bit thinner

Never in doubt. Minimum skill and effort got us over the line.

Hearts have Hibsed it

He's basically the only player I knew in their team, and it's difficult to hate him. He's more of a tragic figure, even hated by his own fans. A no-mark. It's one of the worst things about these Dons-Sevco games: there's no hatred any more. None of their players stay long enough for me to remember their names (and same's happening for our team, I suppose). Even guys who did stay for years, like Tavernier, like - who really gives a phvk about them? Meaningless. There's no bite anymore. Today was like losing 1-0 to Motherwell - do you really care that much? It's just not as good as it used to be.

Recency bias I hate that fat hun fanny as much as the next man but he’s not in the same league as Stench Hately

I FUCKING HATE THOSE FUCKING HUN CUNTS. That’s all. Kind regards etc…

Aremu has been tremendous Won't finish the game of course.

Bit late gettin this wee spot o' season long entertainment, but here goes ....

For any Japanese clubs looking in: イェンギを奪わないで。彼は間違いなく我々の最高の選手であり、誰かが控えめな金額で彼を奪うのではないかと心配しています。

Yet again I find myself agreeing 100% with Moog. Wee Toon Red asked a couple of pages back what made us an average spfl side with no ambition and I replied the vast majority of Robinson's signings in my opinion. I also said there would be more downs than ups this season and we would just have to see where we ended up. If we were to sign Phillips (thankfully we wont at that price), then to me that would just underline my view. I think we will struggle to make top six given what we have signed. I get we had been utter dross before Robinson came in but I feel we need to be aiming higher with our signings. If this lot get us to a top six finish which should be a bare minimum then fair play to Robinson and the team.

Worst game of Cluedo ever

Rico's already said it but expectations over who we should sign and who is currently good enough for us. And that we should somehow expect to be playing a type of football that is somehow "better" than Robinson's. I've said it on here already but we were absolutely rancid for 18 months, near enough the worst team in the league over that period. Signing solid, effective players is a sensible first step towards stabilising what was a rapidly sinking ship but that isn't good enough for some of our fans, even if it's quite possible that this is only step one of the journey. That being consistent top six finishes leading to higher placings and cup runs.

I'm sure even the hardy seagulls of these parts, would turn their beaks up at feeding off that lot.

I wouldn't take any of them back. Unless, on their first game against them at Ibrox, they bring their old hun top onto the pitch and set fire to it in front of the Rangers supporters.

A happy pisher...

In the space of a short period we went from faith in our long-term strategy with Thelin, to bringing in Tony Docherty to support Peter Leven while we publicly courted Horneland to appointing Robinson. That's quite a cast of characters leading training with different approaches over a couple of months, you could forgive some players for thinking we're completely lacking in direction. I'm none the wiser on what our strategy now is, have we gone from aiming to be a top-100 European side to aiming to be a top-6 SPFL side? We paid a lot of money to those German consultants to do a detailed review of our football operations and hired one of their consultants to implement their findings. Are we still doing that? In the same time frame, we're going through apparent turmoil with the ladies team and likely taken a huge commercial hit because we moved from a very popular kit manufacturer to a less popular brand who have still to date not supplied home kits for sale, missing the entire summer holiday period. The whole operation seems like a mess with no direction.

Last week we were much worse than poo When Dundee hit us for two But imagine my glee When we beat them by three What a difference that one week can do

How about that moment when Cadden was possessed by the spirit of prime Javier Zanetti? Racing back to catch up wi his man, superb sliding tackle wins the ba, directs his team-mate where to go for the counter, and splits the defence with one pass - pity the new loon wisna up to speed to make anything out of it.

I meant it was a load of pish he was being sent out on loan in the first place. Cadden is no different upgrade on either Lobban or Devlin so far IMHO.

Pretty sure in my day 5 and 6 were centre backs, with 4 the holding mid. I get lost these days I have to say.

We’ve been a relatively shite club for the best part of 35 years so I’m not convinced you’re barking up the right tree by trying to pin it all on Cormack. Off the pitch the club seems to be massively improved from where it was 10 years ago; we’ve been shite on the pitch for most of my life so again, not solely a Cormack issue. Edit: that’s not to say that it isn’t Cormack’s job to fix the problems or that he’s doing it particularly well, but the rot set in long before he got here so I don’t think it’s fair to say that he’s the cause of problem.

And this is why I very rarely comment on players, positions, tactics etc. - because the depth of my knowledge pretty much starts and ends with 'I enjoyed that / that was pish, he's good / he's pish, I could have stuck my leg out from here and scored that, what formation are we actually playing? etc. etc. etc.' I have hoped for years the tactical insights will rub off on me - but I am now pretty much resigned to the fact I will just go to / watch games and come away having enjoyed it (or not, as the case may be), and leave (and enjoy) the comments to those with a better insight than me 🙂 I blame my PE teachers

Mitov away to St Pauli in Germany on a three year deal. Medical to be completed later today. Source Anthony Joseph I just have a sneaking feeling we might regret this one.

Be interesting to see if we have a game plan for this, as we've lacked one in the first two games. Dundee beat us by playing the kind of football I thought we'd be playing under Robinson; high pressing, quick balls forward over the top of our defence, energetic midfield, pace up front. Instead in the first half we attempted to play it out from the back, were too slow and created nothing. Second half we went 4-4-2, stretched it a bit and moved it quicker, but had two guys who aren't wingers playing as wingers. If Robinson thinks all we need to do is get Lyons and Ronan in the team and start the same formation and tactics again, and it doesn't work out, then don't come out and claim the players just didn't have the desire. He has a week to think of an actual game plan.

Totally agree mate. No desire to see him wearing the colours of any other team in Scotland. On the assumption he is wanting a move away, hope he gets a decent one and leaves as a member of a small group, an Aberdeen FC Scottish Cup winning goalkeeper

From chants of abuse and derision To Nisbet’s penalty precision Is there anything sweeter in rhyme Than a winner in injury time? Alexa….play Joy Division 💪

One of the funniest games of football I can remember. Not fussed how we played

Just back. Piece of pish, never in doubt. Not a terrible first half, fairly even, and probably unlucky to be going in one down. A new defence can probably be cut some slack for their goal. Thought Happe and Mayo looked fine together and Cadden was decent enough. Guinness-Walker not brilliant, but offered no support from Yogane. Thought Lyons was poor today, and Aremu had a good first half, but faded badly. Olusanya terrible at football. Smith played well when he came on. Nisbet okay, and sublime when required. Mouloua not so good. Armstrong good, and Briedl not. We're going to have some serious problems with a goalkeeper that can't even attempt to kick it with his left - that just shouldn't happen in the modern game. They were well ahead of us in the second half, and controlled the game entirely. Worryingly we took ages to make subs, and then threw on four at once, which took ten minutes to recover from, and nearly cost us - poor management that was eventually rewarded. Our strengths are set pieces, and form the majority of our chances. Crosses are coming in very early without looking to see if anyone is there, and result in several miscues. A lot of cracks papered over, but hilarious to do it in such a fashion against them.

For as long as we have lasagne playing in our starting line up we will be crap. A huge statement of intent from the club.

Be as well forfeiting the match then.

Pretty much. Although Palaversa is just another symptom of our poor recruitment of midfielders and our seemingly unending ability to misunderstand the combinations that make a successful team. It started with Goodwin. He played Ramadani in front of the back three, with a blend of Clarkson and Barron in front. Trying to play a cultured (Ramadani was never cultured, which was the issue) number six and a number ten at the same time basically. Robson immediately spotted this and played Shinnie and Ramadani ahead of Clarkson, which was a really good combination. He then decided that he could fit a cultured number six and a number ten too, by switching Ramadani for McGrath; something that anyone with any knowledge of Scottish fitba would know immediately would fail. After that, Thelin played Shinnie and Nielsen, which worked very well until fatigue settled in and we didn't have a replacement. That was then replaced with a series of lightweight recruits, leaving Shinnie to do all the work, running him into the ground. The following season, we loaned Aouchiche and proceeded to play him in some weird offset role on the right wing, when he very clearly had the legs to go box to box, and seemingly never in the same midfield as Shinnie and Clarkson - the most obvious midfield three. Subsequently, we've had six months to look at Aremu and it was very clear that he doesn't have the legs to complete a game, not generally be mobile enough for the Scottish game (similar to Palaversa in that he can be good for 30-45 minutes). That combination of holding midfielder and number 8 with legs (Aremu and Lyons) makes real sense, but not much use if we can only get half a game out of one of them. Armstrong, Marshall, Briedl are basically the same player. I think Robinson is missing a trick with Kjartansson, because he could play the Aremu role. Especially if we signed another number 8 to interchange with (replace, basically) Lyons. We could also play Lyons and the other number 8, which would work well with Briedl or Marshall. At the moment, we have to rely entirely on Lyons, which is a ridiculous situation to be in. We will end up in the situation we were on Saturday in nearly every game, where we're playing two of Briedl, Marshall and Armstrong at the same time and getting overrun. It's poor that we've come into the season with three players competing for one role, and only one (although I'd argue Kjartansson could compete with Aremu, but Robinson doesn't seem to think so) for the other positions. It shows again a misunderstanding of midfielders. Something I'd have thought the club would have learned the importance of over the last five years.

It'd been a while since we had an injury, was starting to get worried Tobers would have nobody to talk to.