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Forgot they were playing Malmo today but managed to find a stream. Currently 1 up at home at HT. My very early impressions after watching the ten minutes before half time are as follows. Elfsborg are a very direct side, not in a long ball merchant way, just when they get possession they don't fanny about. I Initially thought they were playing a 433 but it was just because the camera was cutting out the right winger. They actually look to be playing a 442 that turns into a 424 the moment they get possession. Couldn't tell you what the goal was like as h/t analysis is about 2 minutes long (they like their ads in Sweden) and i missed the one replay they showed. Edit, just saw it there. Decent turn and ping from the edge of the box Stats are interesting as well and similar to the above post by panda. Safe to say Jimmy T ain't a fan of Tika Taka. As for how well such an approach will be appreciated by the pittodrie faithful? If he wins enough I'm sure it will be fine but i would add high possession stats and entertaining football are not mutually exclusive.

I would be surprised to see Hoilett stay given Thelin's reported playing style. 33 yo's are not known for their pressing abilities after all. It does feel like we are in a wee bit of a limbo until Thelin comes in with the distractions of the cup semi and fear of relegation going away. Hopefully we aren't though and Thelin will come in with a good knowledge of the squad and who he wants to bring in. He does sound the type that will be putting in the prep work 2bf so I have some optimism the transfer window will be more focused and less scattergun than the previous summers. The only thing I think we can say for certain is we will see a few players come in from the Swedish league and the rest of Scandinavia as well perhaps.

A new keeper is a must imo, Roos is ooc at the end of the season anyway

If polvara could just inject a wee bit more aggression into his game I think he could be some player. As for Shinnie? I think there's a fair chance he will adapt reasonably well to losing pace. You could see him playing a holding midfielder role where he doesn't have to move much quite successfully. Win the ball, move it on, jobs a good un. I'm not saying that will defo be for us as I'm far from convinced Thelin is going to be too interested in holding midfielders but he could play top flight football in Scotland for a few seasons yet. I think we will get a really good performance at the weekend, the weekends performance gave the team it's mojo back and they are clearly enjoying playing for Leven. 4-0 dons Miovski, sokler, Duk and Gartenmann

I couldn't find a stream of this one in the end on Kodi, hopefully can find one Tom eve

I'm probably going to watch a fair few of these (well, have on my second screen whilst I play football manager anyway) and given some of you might be interested I thought I would post my thoughts on them here. home to Kalmar this eve, 6pm KO.

I wonder what sort of markets we will be looking at this summer. It seems very likely to me at least a couple of the new bodies coming in will be from scandanavia. I wonder Thelin will raid his old club

All I will to what has been posted before is how proud I am of my team and pleased I am that leven is going to be involved going forward. We have taken so many proverbial kickings this season I honestly didn't think so much fight was still in us. Anyone else think Morris did alright in the brief time he was on?

Oh dear lord . We say "there is a consistently shown inherent bias towards the two biggest clubs in the country and the governing bodies refuse to give us the same opportunities as they do to them". All of this is clearly, and easily, provable and quite frankly previous ticket sales are utterly irrelevant. It's about fair opportunity not how briefs you have sold in the past (but not hard for us to show plenty occasions when we have sold huge numbers of tickets, parkred for example). If you think the CAS would "laugh us out of the place" for putting that case to them i honestly don't know what to say to you. Cases like this are literally what it exists to mitigate.

Actually, I don't agree with that. I think it just needs taken to the court of arbitration for sport by hearts, hibs and Aberdeen. It would get sorted out very quickly and the precedent would then be set.

Mal Panton?

Found the interview a wee bit cringe 2bh but it was always likely to be given the circumstances and it had to be done for appearances sake. At least they kept it fairly short. Welcome to Aberdeen Football Club Jimmy, here's hoping you can put the fun into the dysfunctional.

I don't think so, his post match after lafferty feigned a head butt from Mulgrew and got him sent off was nauseating. "big Charlie has come and says he's not touched him, and big Charlie... He's an honest player. Big Kyle though, he's an honest player too!" And that was the moment I went full Calderplank out

Well at least this one isn't a hun sycophant like the last one was

And, relax. What a horrible 3 months. Welcome aboard James, you've got your work cut out for you son!

What I think is interesting is Elfsborg have picked their new manager. "Reports in Denmark state Elfsborg have landed Oscar Hiljemark of Aalborg as replacement for Thelin." This whole waiting till the mid season break before making the move seems increasingly unlikely to me as a result. Players often don't respond very well when they know the manager is offski soon (not always, Liverpool seem to be doing OK 2bf) and now there are two teams with this problem. I wouldn't be surprised to see Thelin in after the semi 2bh

First 3 and half 4 mins is about the game tonight then they talk about Aberdeen.

Anything can happen in knock out football and we have a chance for sure. The tims have massively turned a corner since the draw was made though, to stand a chance I can't help but feel we would need them to go down to ten men fairly early on.

Aye that caught my eye as well Rico. I think we can defo safely say we are not getting more of the same with this guy

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/aberdeen-players-warned-jimmy-thelin-9218744?fbclid=IwAR0cAPbov1giqMrB5truCFgaQHCNFP8ja--NexiXC65Sf1jKqlTzhLWB_HY

In fine with June the 1st, it's not like he won't have done his homework prior to stepping through the door and have a good idea of what he's working with. Don't be surprised if it is earlier though, sometimes squads don't react well to the knowledge the manager is moving on soon. It may be they decide to take their new management team in a bit earlier if so. I like the sound of this guy I have to say. My suspicion is that boring is paper talk for calm and calm is good. Derek Rae was saying nice things about him on twitter last week and I see that as a fairly solid endorsement. All in though, assuming it doesn't fall through of course, isn't it nice to have a wee bit of light appearing at the end of this fucking miserable tunnel?

Fair

When was the last time we didn't have a busy summer? Must have been under Mcinnes

I've been watching a lot of serie A the past few seasons. It's such a fun league

I don't know who I ever really wanted to be honest mate. Agreed though, it's been a very grim few months