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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😁

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

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.

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...

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

Fantastic for Milne. A brilliant pen. I really like him, he's a great lad.

fify

Can I suggest that you reread the names of the teams mentioned in the title of this thread

Club are now looking at a site on the outskirts of Stirling. This is to help cut down on the exhaustive travel.

The P&J should livestream a rowie to see which has the longer shelf-life.

Mayo is like a shite lee mair

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.

Reckon if allow myself a dram for every shot we have on target, I'll still be legally fine to drive by the end of the match. edit: looks like you were only 4 minutes out BuS

Came across far more as just being a bit heavy on the hyperbole to me. I don't think he actually thinks he would get that. I think he was laying it on thick to imply he thought we had been robbed by the referee. He's been trying to create a siege mentality since he came, how many times has he said everyone else wanted to see us go down last season for example. Today he got to add "the refs are against us" without actually saying anything uncredible about the game that would have earned him a slagging. It also can't hurt to try a and create a increased feeling of injustice within the fan base to deflect away a bit from losing the game.

OK, Ah'm a bit late wi this one ... but .... 😆😄😂😆😅

Been meaning to ask for a while. Could we get a down-vote button?

Dolly was one of the very best. RIP Quine