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

Think we have to treat them as a really dangerous opponent and not be too drawn in by the lack of structure/confidence etc. They are starting this season like we did the last but have still got players to hurt us if we go in thinking beating Kelty comfortably makes us stick on top 4. Difference in prep for them is a couple of competitive European games will be much more beneficial. Last season we hadn’t played FCSB when we played them at what I’ll now be referring to as Vranken’sTyne Castle.

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

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…

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

Well Guinness does tend to take a while to settle.

Yes

Get yourself to Haymarket tomorrow at 10am. See you there 💪

In Robinson’s pre-match presser on Red TV, he said that Muller’s been recruited because there have been some light rumblings about Mitov being targeted by other clubs. Nothing definite, but he’s made a pre-emptive move in recruiting the Masked Man (worn because he’s had concussion issues in the past). Muller seems to be a good guy from his responses to Mal’s forensic probing questions. I was particularly pleased to hear that although he hardly kens the area yet, he’s adopted a bit of the culture, “After tomorrow’s match, it is my intention to seek out Davy’s chipper in Boxy. I have heard that their Blutwurst er….blood sausage - I think you say “black pudden”? - is particularly renowned. I am excited at the thought of hamming into one of them”.

Here's hoping one never fouls the other, the combined event horizon would drag any VAR delay out to infinity.

They're going to have to extend the pitch when we play the Huns in order to fit him and Shankland on it.

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.

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.

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.

I don't see Cadden as an upgrade on Devlin at all.

Lovely goal that.

Well that was much more like it. Significantly better in every aspect of the game. Not much in it first half, but second we were really good. Everyone played their part. Keeper good one on one save at a crucial time. Defence pretty solid overall and the full backs contributed much more at the back and going forward. Obi 2 handled Bevan much better. He was decent today as was Cadden on the other side. Only concern was we still seem susceptible to the ball over the top and they did seem to get a lot of room wide from diagonal balls, but can’t argue with a clean sheet. Midfield much more in control, thought Aremu had his best game for us, bossed the middle compared to last week & Ronan adds a bit of composure for sure. Nisbet linked the play well and can’t argue with 2 goals at any time. Oh Lasagne is a handful, especially running in behind, but as we all know, can’t play football. New boy had a quiet first half understandably given he’s just in the door, but some finish and a great step over for the third. Very promising debut. Yogane was better and contributed more going forward including an assist. Can we get that level of effort, attitude & commitment every week though please. Give us that and you’ll not get many complaints, even when we lose…

Dinnae mince your words Kow. Never said he wouldn't by playing for us but it is apparent he isn't Robinson's cup of tea, so my point stands, get 30 plus games this season for Dunfermline and come back next summer ready for first team football with us under the replacement for Robinson, who won't be our manager by the time season 2027/28 starts

Lobban has signed a contract extension until 2029 and gone out on loan to Dunfermline for the season. Think he will benefit from the playing time and come back better equipped for first team football with us

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.

McInnes will get a lot less time than Robinson will. Seen somebody wanting Russell Martin back 😂

Boooooooo at Snake Mountain. The orcs are already turning on McInnes.

Please be Stephen Robinson.

How long have you been waiting for a chance to shoehorn that one in 😂

The Italian Willie Miller.

It also sums up exactly what is wrong with Scottish football. Until that changes, the national team and our clubs in Europe will never achieve anything.

This story will end with a Paternity Test