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I'd say the majority of this site were the same. I think he's here until the end of the season anyway, unless something drastic happens. We're not going to get relegated. Yes we're close to the bottom, but I don't see it ever being a real threat. Likewise, finishing third isn't the big deal it has been without the group stage football on offer so I don't think the club will panic about that either. Likely, the board will be quite happy to go along with Thelin's plan, and see what the new sporting director brings, all rather safe in the knowledge that qualifying for Europe (fifth might be enough), another Scottish Cup run, bringing through some younger players (Milne and Lobban), recruiting well in January, and the often said "moving in the right direction" are all still very achievable aims this season. I don't think he would survive a bottom six finish though (unless he leads us to Hampden again).

With Tobers confirmed to be out for the rest of the season, be interesting to see if we look to bring in another defender in January. I guess with Devlin and Dorrington we're okay for cover for now, but we saw last season Devlin have a big drop off in form when overplayed, and although Tottenham will be happy with Dorrington getting minutes they won't want a young player overplayed and picking up injuries either.

Thelin is actually beginning to remind me of McInnes in his final three seasons at Aberdeen. The football is boring, there's no real zip to our play, and very much like McInnes he loves a pointless late sub (or three). One thing I'll say though. He often gets accused of not being animated enough on the touchline. However, every time the camera panned to him he was deep in conversation with his coaches, clearly annoyed at something. Would love to know what he was actually saying as his discussions didn't really turn into any action.

That was really boring to watch. Very little movement from back to front. Polvara and Shinnie sat on the half way line when we went forward, so we were always trying to break Motherwell down without enough players to do so, and if we didn't catch them on the break, then plan b was to lob it into the box and hope it fell for us. Polvara and Shinnie were both okay defensively - Polvara won headers that probably none of our other central midfielders would. It's not that they had particularly poor games. But if they're sitting deep then someone else needs to go forward. The 3-4-1-2 / 5-3-2 (whatever you want to call it) would work better. So often we look a man short in midfield. I know Thelin came here with a reputation for his Elfsborg team winning games while not having much of the ball, but it's not a pretty watch.

Shinnie and Polvara an interesting one in the middle. Armstrong further forward again which is good, Lobban and Gyamfi at wing back. As others have said, would like to see more of Clarkson, but little to complain about with the line-up. Also good to see Bilalovic on the bench. Was beginning to worry he'd gone missing.

Aye David Begg is quite a prolific poster on X/Twitter and doesn't hide his Dons leanings. Jock Brown - I met him a few weeks ago when he was in to do the Sportscene anniversary show. Lovely bloke. Hopefully it's just a "you need to slow down" advice from the doctor and not anything too concerning.

There's a username from the past. Good to see you posting here Mason.

Nah we played a lot of good football, but a lot of poor decision making at the crucial moments is why there are a lack of stand out chances. Notable examples: Someone passing to Milne in the box when they should have taken the shot on themselves, Keskinen passing to Milanovic just outside the box when he should have kept on dribbling, Karlsson inexplicably flicking the ball rather than just making a normal pass that would have got us in behind quicker.

Would like to see Shinnie and Clarkson in midfield, and Gyamfi starting. Other than that, same team as Thursday. With Dorrington and Tobers injured, Devlin will be at RCB for the foreseeable.

Might not work in your region, but...

After the draw with Larnaca, we are no longer projected to finish last by Football rankings. We are, however, still big outsiders to reach the knockout stages. Beat Noah though, and we've two chances to try get another three points which *might* be enough. A win and draw would definitely do it.

Credit to them for that. That's a team that has beat Crystal Palace, and hammered AZ Alkmaar and Brann. And yet, away from home, I thought we were better team. You can see how distraught Milanovic is at the end for missing that chance, but it's actually a tougher chance than it looks. Difficult to shape your body to direct it in. Jack Milne excellent. Not just for the headers he won, but also the way he steps into the middle of the park and links the play. Still need two wins at least to qualify, potentially two wins and a draw, but I think at the moment it's more about taking confidence from these games after the poor start rather than stressing about getting through. Unbeaten in four out of six, clean sheets in four from six, unbeaten in three away games in a row (all with cleans sheets).

I think we've been the better team, and just some poor decision making has meant we're not ahead. Huge last 15 mins though.

To be fair, as the half has gone on it's become more noticeable. Think it's affected Larnaca more than us though, they've had more misplaced passes. As for the first half. Polvara and Aouchiche moving it about well, Armstrong's late runs are causing them issues, and Lobban continues to impress. Their chances are long range shots. They've been quite good at them though!

Have you checked your WiFi?

Exhibit A. Apparently the queues to get in are also horrendous.

Really poor there's half a stand empty next to the Aberdeen fans, considering the amount who are there without tickets.

Dorrington out for 3-4 weeks. Palaversa & Nilsen also out. Gyamfi back

It was on skybet, but they've now removed it so you can't bet on the Scottish Cup at all, and refunded my fiver Think someone mixed up the Premiership and Cup odds.

They're writing off our chances of winning it again...

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To be fair, if Aasgaard was a red card (it was) then there was a case for Trusty going as well. I was at the game. Wanted Miovski to score simply because it would have meant he'd likely have had to come down to the media interviews afterwards, and I wanted to ask him about his Aberdeen betrayal. But he didn't. He couldn't even give me that.

Familiar face when we play them.

I don't think the European games are affecting us this season. I don't think there's been a game where you say "if it wasn't for the midweek European game we'd have won that". Yeah, we looked a bit knackered v Hibs, but they just outplayed us and tactically we got it wrong. I'd say we'll take more positives than negatives from the experience. The money, that it's attracted players to the club, players and manager gain experience from it. I think Shaktar gave us much needed confidence when we badly needed it, and when the players are maybe struggling mentally it's not a bad thing to be flying off to Greece and Cyprus for a change of scenery.