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Fine with this, hopefully we have learned from Warnock why talking out of the correct orifice is more important than the volume you do it at.

Could be worse, are you with me?

Out, probably. Depends on what other tediously unrewarding tasks I am trying to avoid doing on the day.

To be fair, difficult to build up an exciting PR campaign when your only option for a positive message is "At Least We're In The Cup (For Now)"

Typical - every single result went in our favour, except the crucial one we actually had some say in. Next season please.* *assuming it is not in the championship

Thought we looked good for a whole 12 minutes, now we look like panicked spuggies.

I thought Al stopped going to games after the 1916-17 debacle

Before we dive into our make-or-break 31st game of the season this afternoon, I thought it would be interesting to see how we are stacking up aginst the other two years captured at the 30-game mark in this thread, which also just happened to be our best (2016/17 - 2nd place) and worst (2021/22 - 10th place) seasons in recent memory. I also ran the averages for 38-game seasons at the 30 game mark as a comparison, along with adding current end-of-season records as they stand. Some key points: Fail to win any of our last 8 games, and we will equal the all-time 107yr-old record for lowest number of wins in a season. Likewise if we lose all of those 8, we will equal the most defeats in any 38-game season (please step forward Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee). Of course if this were to happen we would undoubtedly have bigger, more downward, problems. We still need to score 3 more goals to avoid setting a new all-time record for least goals scored in a campaign. This should be easy, right? We should continue to be extremely grateful to Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee, as thanks to their efforts we only have the 4th worst goal difference this century, rather than the worst. We are almost 14 points behind the average for 30 games into a 38-game season. Fourteen. We need a minimum of 5 points from 24 to avoid equalling ll-time worst points total in a modern 38 game season (Hi Steve). Enjoy.

Xabi Alonso rules himself out of the Aberdeen job. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68692969

My level of expectation right now

Came perilously close to being burned as a witch by my fellow companions, after predicting at half time that we would concede a penalty in the final minute of added on time for a suspect VAR handball decision.

Not convinced, what use is a manager that loses the title on the final day - we want a manager that loses the title nice and early in the season, so we can get the next manager in.

Incidentally, I think we can halt these Aberdeen field trials into whether "new manager bounce" exists, it doesn't, we can stop testing now.

Hideous to watch. I've watched some shite with Aberdeen, particularly in the early part of this century, but at least then they had the excuse that the individual players were crap. This is just bewildering in how far the sum of the whole is below its parts, a team with Clarkson, Duk, Devlin, Shinnie, Barron, McGrath, Miovski as options should simply not be in this situation. I fear for us.

a controversial penalty and two red cards for the opposing team - just another normal day at the office for Sevco.

Going on that logic, I now too expect Xabi to be announced Monday. Dave, suggest we send him some rowies and point out Munich, Madrid and Liverpool don't do them.

Can't help thinking - did Warnock manage the team today? Or did we just see a Leven win.

Don't knock it, clearly some of your Warnock out rumours got through to him too.

Well, guess I got my answer. Wonder when the decision was made.

Just watching the pre-match interviews, why does Warnock never say "we" when he talks about Aberdeen? Always "they" - doesnt exactly smack of togetherness and cohesion.

Disappointed the BBC have dropped the "(formerly known as Twitter)" bit, now every statement just looks like someone forgot to update the placeholder in the draft copy with the correct reference.

On the plus side, at least it's cheaper to sack an interim manager than a permanent one.

Only fair that we draw straws to decide who can have 27.

Given the wealth of candidates for scapegoat, Miovski seems a wierd choice.

Can only assume Warnock was brought in to save us from relegation. Disaster of a game.