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The four points are a bonus in my opinion. Trust me, when you get to my age, you'll be more than happy with just the semi 😉

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…

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.

So yet again in his interview Robinson bemoans the fact the players aren’t showing what they show in training or doing what they do in training in actual games. Er, 2 things Stephen: Maybe they look better in training because they are playing against the rest of the dross in our squad instead of actual footballers If they’re not doing what you coach them to do, that’s 100% on you. This isn’t going to end well - yet again - is it…

Enough about Mayo and Happe.

Today was really what I expect from Aberdeen this season, or at least until the next transfer window. Defend well for the most part, get the ball forward quickly, be alright but not overly impressive, and not be shite. The start we had to the season had me fearing it would be much worse than that. The win at Fir Park had me believing it would be much better. We're alright. A newish manager, a squad overhaul and just one transfer window, this is kinda where you expect to be at this stage.

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.

His birthday is the day of the League Cup final and god dammit that boy will be fit to win yet another trophy. Tobers ⭐ ⭐

Pep never won the Tennents Sixes. Debate closed.

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."

Did half the masters team get binned? Joe Lewis, Considine, Anderson, Hayes ? It’s like Derek Young was made captain and contacted folk that might ring him back

Robinson spent pre-season telling everyone the team was going to be playing four at the back and it would be a case of getting forward quickly, high pressing, lots on intensity. We didn't sign the players to play it. So, now we're back to a 3/5 man defence. We can't really play 3-4-3 because we haven't signed good enough wingers. So we're playing 3-5-2. But, Cadden and Guinness-Walker don't provide enough from the wings, and unless you play Olysanya then playing a front two appears to actually nullify our best finisher, Nisbet. But, playing Olusanya means no room for Mouloua in this system. It feels like we have a new midfield every week. We needed to sign new centre halves, but today started with three from last season because the ones we've signed aren't good enough. They weren't the main culprits today of course (handball v Milne apart) but he clearly doesn't trust them enough to play a back four. The worry is - this is very similar to Robinson's campaign at St Mirren last season. We have the same number of league victories at this stage (two) as they did, and also have a League Cup semi to paper over the cracks. We've built a counter attacking team, which is why Motherwell away was such a success. But in the league we have failed to even score at home to Kilmarnock and St Johnstone, and I don't expect a huge amount in the next two v St Mirren and Falkirk.

I think I preferred when we had our team of project underachievers under Thelin - we still didn't win anything, but there was always the potential someone would suddenly start playing football however briefly. For a worryingly high percentage of our current players, this is their ceiling right here. They will not get better.

Porto were worse, they cheated us out of retaining the ECWC. I was on holiday in Porto a few years ago and my wife and daughters asked me if I wanted to visit their stadium. They couldn’t understand why I was so vociferous in my refusal.

I wonder what they have planned for the 40th anniversary of them not winning a cup? A dinner with all the surviving players? A special commemorative retro kit for the 2027-28 season? An open-topped bus display through Dundee where the players show off their runners-up medals? I can't wait.

I would say Mouloua has the potential to be better than Nisbet but right now it's just potential for me. The thing is this 3 week international has basically been a mini pre-season for us and given all our arrivals and the fact pre-season was very short because of the league cup you could argue this has come at a brilliant time for squad. It's going to be interesting to see the effects but I think we will defo be seeing a lot more of Mouloua going forward, he's defo up to match speed now and as I said before I think he's got cult hero written all over him 🫰.

His petulance is one reason I wouldn't bracket him with the all time greats like Pele, Maradona, Messi, Cruyff, Best and Miller (Willie, not Bertie).

Sorry Sorry for your loss, its really hard and I've been through it 4 times since 2007. The wife's business revolves around dogs, (she's a dog groomer and does wedding pet chaperoning) and I cant imagine my life without any dogs in it. Someone once said that humans live longer than dogs as we have to learn to love and be nice, but as dogs already know how to do that, they dont need to live as long!

I remember being in Champers nightclub , dancing with two girls with my mate who was a Steward on the Brent Alpha . He was busy telling the girl he was dancing with that he was a big Engineer currently working in the Middle East , she looked at him and said “ Where’s your sun tan then “ quick as a flash he replied “ Oh I was on Nights “ , superb come back .

Yep, it's the other point that gets ignored when discussing the lack of fans attending a semi final. Hampden has a fucking atrocious view from half the stadium. If it was split North and South, with each team given the whole of one side, with behind the goals being sold last (and at no more than £30 per ticket), we'd sell a lot more. There's a whole section of the ends that are basically restricted view seats. The Huns and Tims get a far greater proportion of better view seats.

Aye. Fucking reject.

Spent a bit of time in Europe this summer, mainly Germany. Not my first trips to those parts by any means but for some reason this year it really hit home how much more "American" than "European" the UK has become. Shopping habits, general lifestyle, media, politics, etc etc are all so similar to America. It's very, very sad.

Think the inclusion of Brian Irvine in your list is harsh in the extreme Irvine was signed at a time when Miller & McLeish were at their peak, so cementing a place in the team was always going to be difficult initially. Over a twelve year period he went on to play almost 400 first team games for us so to say he wasn't a first team pick is unfair in my opinion.

Miller has told the BBC that Robinson has turned things around at Aberdeen. Unfortunately, it's not a proclamation from the Miller, but it's Lee. Joe, Bertie and Alex Fucking have yet to comment on the Dons this season.

As one who has slated Robinson and who after Killie at home could see us getting nothing at Motherwell or yesterday and who would have taken 2 draws, I have to say a big well done. I think we would all have taken 4 out of 6 points from these 2 fixtures. Just as perhaps we get a little bit of momentum we now have to wait 3 weeks to face saintees. Would far rather play them next week. Plenty of time for Robinson to work with them all now though.

Not much to add to what’s been said other than I thought Aremu was excellent today on the whole.

Really hoping Milne has a good game today. Got a lot of stick last season, some deserved, but some well OTT. Come on Jack, show you can play.

Someone's been on the cans.

Did you ignore the part about cost? It's bloody expensive to go. For a lot of people, a trip to Hampden will be a once a season affair, and you'd have to choose whether to go to this one and forfeit going to a final, or semi/final in the Scottish cup. I can see why folk would give it a miss. You've also got the family angle. Both kick off time, opponent and Hampden layout work against bringing kids <10.

Smart girl, played you like a fiddle🤣

I'm argue 13,000 is an outstanding effort for a semi-final, and that's before you consider the distance to travel, the lack of public transport options, the price of travel with high ticket prices lumped on top, unfavourable kick-off times, and the general poor experience of going to a game at Hampden. You can't compare us to Hearts and Hibs because distance, public transport and price of travel doesn't affect them. We'd sell 20,000 regularly too if we only had a short hop to Dundee for a semi. And even then, both have had their fair share of poor semi-final crowds. They've struggled to sell 10,000 tickets for semi-finals played in their own city before.

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.

Well, well, well, my gast has never been so flabbered. Think i’m in shock, only able to post now. That was simply excellent. Once we settled down after the opening spell, we absolutely bossed it. Forget possession stats, we nullified everything they wanted to do and took full advantage of the opportunities our setup created. System, formation, tactics, personnel all worked a treat. The right players, in the right positions, in the right setup following the right game plan, it worked perfectly. They all seemed to understand exactly what their role was so full credit to Robinson, that was top notch last night. Press, aggression, appetite, energy, solid defence, hard working midfield (thought young Marshall was really good, lot to work on but a great prospect) and clinical up front. As others have said, we need to build on this on Saturday, but that’s fair put down a marker for this squad as to what they are capable of doing and the rest of the league as to the fact we might not be the pushovers they thought we’d be. Very well done all. COYR…

Told you it would be 4-0 😂

I agree with you 100% on this. People need to think for themselves or we will all have custard from brains. I hope you're right. Looking at everyday life, my work and my wife's work have changed at an unprecedented rate over the last 6 months, and we're both starting to see the trimming down of the workforces. it makes me wish I was 10 years older and approaching retirement. Whoever wished to be older! When our respective companies, in different industries, started using AI a year or so ago it was pretty basic and had no real serious impact. The speed it has progressed is mental. Our marketers no longer write copy, our designers no longer design, our L&D team no longer write training courses and create materials. I am getting over long reports of unchecked, contradictory bollocks landing in my inbox from people who think they are being smart. But it's level of smartness is improving nearly daily, and what was nonsense 6 months ago, is now pretty passable. My wife's work no longer recruit junior coders as it is all written by Claude. It's all generic AI slop, but so many people are looking past that and marvelling at the fact something that took them a day, has just been done in 2 minutes. People who's jobs were creative are finding themselves to be writing requests rather than using their creative minds. And people think who the fact something else can do it or us in a fraction of the time is a good thing, are missing the point of what it means to be human and the satisfaction that comes with using your brain! I don't seriously think we will end up controlled by machines like in the Matrix (but you never know), but I do fear for future generations and their prospects, and think we are sleep walking into this in the name of better profit margins whilst ignoring humanities true role. I hope for a push back, but I don't think the kids have it in them to resist the easy life - they will realise when it's too late! But I hate people and hope we wipe ourselves out. The planet is in much better hands when looked after by nature!

If there was, they would probably sign up Ryan Jack and Anthony Stewart.

How could you not remember Walker. Match v Bayern, 14th Feb 2008 😉

Glad he's had such a solid career, always had a lot of time for Magennis

Struggling with today's BBC Brainteaser. Any ideas?

Bevington MIGHT be a good CEO, and I'm not going to judge a man who I know little about. However, he has got the job because he is Cormack's mate...

Yeah just came to post that. Gutted!

Aberdeen, Falkirk, Killie. Nobody's coupon is surviving that. Sportscene to be making a rare appearance on my telly tonight. ...postponing those games really worked out well for the European representatives 😄

Wasn't expecting that Great strike from Molloy

So I see the all knowing Trump is now saying AI safety fears are a hoax being spread by "the radical left dumocrats". Apparently he's the "hoax buster". Call me skeptical, but I am more inclined to believe the cofounder of Anthropic on this one, and the developers who are saying they go to work everyday in fear of what they are doing to the future of humanity (which makes me question, why are you doing that job?)! And I have seen Terminator and The Matrix. I know exactly how this ends.

Ricky Foster and Mark Kerr are selected for our Tennants Sixes squad! Might go along just to boo them.

Agreed and as I said post match on Saturday evening, don't let the result kid you. Merely papered over a few cracks Performances and a minimum of four points in the bag by 5pm on Saturday and I might admit we're progressing.

Imagine me nae kenning that Oh boy, do I feel like a prat The embarrassment's real I must be a feel I might go and post on the Hat.