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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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

It was me trying to be funny about him telling the clubs how many minutes they need to give youngsters. I'll work on my delivery. I actually met him yesterday and got to see the presentation he did to the clubs. Was interesting.

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

4 HT Subs is the manager admitting he fucked up big time. 3 of them are spot on mind, the 4th is harsh on Mouloua getting taken off though, one of the few who showed anything first half…

From the Press and Journal, June 2027: Aberdeen head coach Stephen Craigan believes Kusimi Yengi can help fire the Dons to the top six after being impressed with him in pre-season.

New era. Back in the right forum too.