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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.

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

Being honest, if we’d been offered a semi & 4 points from the 3 games this week we’d have taken it, but that’s 2 points thrown away there IMO. Completely surrendered the initiative for first 15 minutes second half - the total opposite of midweek. The Hibs goal was coming, then Jack Milne does Jack Milne things and its 1-1. He was a very lucky boy to stay on the park, Robinson 100% right getting him off as he was a red card waiting to happen. Knoester was excellent at the back, Molloy did a good solid job, but just no more Milne please for the love of god. Aremu excellent in the middle, my MOTM & Marshall had another good game as did Nisbet. Olusanya not as much of a nuisance as usual today. Loads to work on during the international break. Our delivery into the box continues to be simply abysmal and we surrender far too much cheap possession, but hey, while its a disappointing 2nd half taking us into the break, after the start we’ve had in the league that’s been a pretty decent week overall…

Fantastic performance tonight, played like a proper football team. Olusanya set the tone by chasing down everything, and keeping us in it at times, and they started to get a little edgy passing it out. Then we got the press sorted and there was only one winner. Well done Robinson, really well organised, and finally seems to have got the midfield setup right. Not just the starting setup, but the two subs slotting in perfectly in their roles too. The back three is perfect for us, with Knoester rock solid (he really seems to be bigger and stronger this season). Again, the two defenders coming in and doing fine. Mouloua coming on was excellent, I really love him. Nisbet excellent the whole game and deserved his goal. Ronan possibly man of the match for me though, he was brilliant tonight. Covered so much ground, and used the ball really well. That three, with him and Marshall higher up works really well. I'd prefer Briedl, but Aremu did well. Fantastic result.

That's actually one thing I didn't do mate. My proposed protest against Robinson at the team bus has been postponed for just now. Suspect it won't be for too long as let's not allow this unexpected victory to disguise the fact Robinson's AFC are shite and this has merely papered over the cracks.

At least I can use the quote function....

Robinson looked pleased with Mouloua's penalty. His reaction was as funny as the audacity of the penalty.

We’ll probably sign him too.

Rumours aboubd that Palaversa is away, or just about. Didn't work out, but legendary status granted through that penalty, noising up the tinks afterwards and then his post match interview. Cheers Ante!

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

Ach, not the worst result. Both teams trying not to lose for the most part, quite a cagey affair. We looked like a team at times there. Think Robinson probably got the subs wrong today. I don't think Ronan should have come off for Armstrong, and I don't think Briedl should have come on in Marshall's position. Both upset the balance a little. Milne probably unlucky for the pen, their player actually stopped running to fall over as a result of the little bit of grabbing going on. The ref gave it, and you certainly don't need VAR overturning. Correct not to book Milne as the defenders were easily clearing it. We didn't really get going in the second half, and the draw definitely the fairest result. Thought Aremu and Knoester were excellent, and Molloy also very good (he's a fantastic defender on the ground). Again, the enforced sub in defence upset the balance a bit, and I think if they'd pushed Molloy on his wrong foot they'd have got something. Mouloua never really got going when he came on. Anyway, an organised performance with some good signs. Nothing spectacular.

Nobody in Scottish football is quick enough to make red and white kit clash with pink apart from Olusanya and he plays for us. I have tested this with the 2026 Dulux chart ( assuming Flow colour Taupe Pink 10YR 50/101 as oor kit .

"We've won 4-0, feel good factor finally. Now let's release a strip no-one asked for or needed, and charge £122 for the full kit. Why? Just to show we're still in our banter era. "Oh, and make it pink. Find a castle we can pretend is relevant."

So things I think we learnt, or confirmed, yesterday: Muller is a reasonable first choice keeper (not just based on the pens) We desperately need pace at CH. We’re gonna get crucified in there otherwise. Someone who can make a pass wouldn’t hurt either. Cadden is definitely no better than Devlin, just a bizarre signing Obi 2 has the physical attributes to play full back / wing back, just needs to work a bit on the football side. Armstrong, Aremu & Ronan doesn’t work. No legs in there. Don’t do that again. Good cross for the goal, but Ronan just isn’t offering enough as the supposed creative spark. The McGrath decision looks worse by the week. Another poor personnel decision letting him walk. Ntelo & Nisbet, doesn’t work. Has to be Moloua or Olusanya in beside Kev & I prefer the idea of Olusanya as an impact sub as he made a huge contribution doing that last night. So where does Ntelo fit in - Nisbet back up only really as he’s not a winger either. No wingers & no width doesn’t work when you don’t have proper wing backs to offer that wide attacking threat (Obi 2 did ok, Cadden didn’t) so we really need wingers & width. Given the wingers we’ve got haven’t really delivered that yet its a bit of an issue. So whole new squad, but a large number of significant issues remain that haven’t been adequately addressed by the new arrivals. Its a big squad though, so do some of the answers sit in house? Gotta hope so. Robinson needs to work out his best most effective selection & formation PDQ, cause that last night absolutely wasn’t it. I have the fear for the semi. Let’s be honest, all 3 of the other teams will be praying to get us in the draw as things stand currently…

Mouloua though? The look on Robinson's face was priceless. Top pen.

Those pens from Killie. Holy fuck. @BigAl getting carried away at the end it seems.

Is it fair to say we’ve way over spent in recent years and this is a cut back year? Not only with players but paying off managers. We gambled and speculated, doubled down, but then no Europe. It’s almost like a reset year, start from scratch. No long term contracts and hopefully maybe 6 or so of this group are good enough to build on next year? It’s very clear it’s been a no thrills window, very blue collar and practical. It’s been all doom and gloom. We’ve gone from the excitement of a last minute karlsson to a free agent freebie after the window closes. Club won’t say it but it’s a reset year. Not a fan of Robinson but he’ll get no love or breaks from the fans, and that’s harsh. We were perfect league cup, you can only beat who is in front of you. We played the top three teams from last year already, that’s a hard ask. Losing all 3 would not have been a surprise. We were shit last year and gutted the team, it won’t be good for a while, hard to expect us to compete with the best teams straight away, think we have to be fair and realistic. 1 pt from killie and Dundee is certainly disappointing, but throw in new players and the tough other games, were expecting the team to hit the running, and that hard. Said last season I’d give Thelin until Xmas before judging, doing the same with Robinson. Not seeing much positive to be honest, but got to give the guy a fair chance.

Hiding behind the couch is not a prior engagement. So I am told.

I predict that both teams will be badly missing Brad Lyons.

So a new keeper in Daniel Klein D Klein sums up our club perfectly.

He was at the Arbroath game last weekend, I expect that's where he'll be shortly. I wonder if we are waiting for another in the door before letting him go. I don't like to see that approach, McInnes was bad for it. We'd keep a young player for our bench for six months, giving them less than ninety minutes in total, just so that we have cover if players get injured. Then when the injuries occurred, McInnes would end up playing a player out of position instead anyway. We should be doing whatever is best for Marshall right now, not the short term interests of the club or a particular manager.

I think Docherty would be a good signing but, on the grounds he probably wont sign or end up being shite if he does, I feel it necessary to declare him a useless Hun chunt.

Other initiatives from Primary school which would benefit the Scottish game include all the players lined up before the game and the two captains get a turn each to select a player. Chances are Aberdeen will still end up with a goalkeeper called "Tubbos" with NHS glasses !!!

Kilmarnock are shite and their manager is a prick. 5-0 Aberdeen.

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.

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...

Someone's been on the cans.

Sadly it is. My daughter has hated first two strips this season so thought I was getting away with it this season but she has generously announced I can buy this for her.

Appropriate night to be facing the zombies.

Told you it would be 4-0 😂

Not bad going at his age.

Think it’s a lot to do with what Killie do. They’ll likely play a different game at home and having seen how ineffective we are they might think to have a go. Could be a very different game than at Pittodrie and that might work better for us (also, it might not 😕). Have a feeling SR will put his cup football pants on and get us through the tie, just. @Jute get those straw clutching GIFs at the ready 😜

A lot of rewriting history with Glass. He had absolutely no idea how to implement the ideas he had, or said he had. He wasn't a good manager. What I would say was it was the right idea to employ someone like Glass, but probably the wrong guy, and most certainly within the incorrect structure. All of this was, and continues to be, Cormack's failure. The correct approach, and not in hindsight, would have been to keep McInnes for a bit, whilst implementing the strategic changes around him, running down his contract, whilst being entirely transparent with the fans. Before McInnes left, we should have had the technical director and recruitment director in place with a complete strategy on data collection, what it was being used for, and the balance identified between signing known/low risk SPFL quantities, project players and managerial accountability over youth minutes. All recruitment needed to go through the chain of command - you can't just sign Greg Tansey or Brad Lyons, you've got to show why you're signing them and why and how they fit in. If McInnesinson says that Greg Lyons is ace, but the data shows that he only covers 8K in a game, then he doesn't get to sign Brad Tansey. If the data says that Ante Briedl is fantastic, but the manager points to the fact that he doesn't fit the 4-2-3-1, and we already have three players that can do the same, then the data is overruled. The recruitment director remains agnostic on the actual player, but signs off the signing based on the case presented. At no point do we rely on contacts and word of mouth (see Lutz and the weird and worrying signing of Germans recently), as these contacts and "players we've seen previously" have a very short shelf life and leave you with virtually nothing after a year away from that previous club/country. Again, all this should have been in place before Glass entered the building, and refined under McInnes previously. It shouldn't have wavered over the years, and should have informed every single managerial appointment. That hasn't happened, with nothing in place for Glass, no sporting director until the end of Thelin, and Thelin seemingly being given recruitment and basically being a Swedish McInnes (which I'm not convinced he signed up to) prior to that. Now we've got a sporting director, he seems to be far too involved, with players coming in from Germany, rather than him being part of a recruitment process, which seems to be an extremely short term approach. Again, there seems to be no real plan and balance between what the manager is allowed to do and what the recruitment team do with regard to signings this season. It won't be long before we hear Robinson complaining about "players he didn't sign". The managers themselves are a perfect illustration of the mess, with Robinson just another symptom. There is no world in which Robinson fits the strategy originally laid out years ago by Cormack. He's just a shitter version of McInnes. I'm trying not to be too critical of him, as this isn't his doing and my expectations of him are massively tempered by knowing the type of manager he is and why he is here.

Fucking hell min Hud me back No sure I can handle the heat here and I his level of excitement at my age.

If it’s less than 5, I’ll be protesting outside the main stand at full time.

At least it is over now 4 games 3 points ( including playing Hearts and those two) is pretty much what I expected ,the surprise being getting the 3 points against the tarts not Dundee. Kllie game through to Falkirk game at end of October will give us a much better indication of where we are as a new team

You think I'll make it to kick-off? I might turn the car around when the line-up is announced.

Sorry, not an AI post, but just a quick... Heid first in tae these cunts! COYFR

It was the basketball part I was concerned about