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To be fair, Uefa rules say you can't charge away fans more than €25, so Frankfurt fans will also pay £21.50 at Pittodrie. But still, they're charging £13 for the standing section. Our unofficial standing section is £28.

Prices for Frankfurt away. Seated £21.50 Standing: £13

That's how they do it, threaten to cut your legs off so when you only lose your fingers your think you were lucky. Or something else less traumatic...

Nice and cheap ticket prices from Aberdeen for the group stage. If anyone from the club says they've had to put the prices up to maximise income due to a lower capacity for European games, just you remember that Dave Cormack wants to build a 16,000 capacity stadium.

So was I. But again, what was the reason for signing players late? Did they miss out on first targets? Did it take time to negotiate with clubs, players, agents? Did Robson perhaps want to delay in players (maybe he was waiting on Scales and Pollock, and only when they couldn't happen could we move for Jensen and Gartenmann)? If you're going to criticise them for not doing a good job, then you need to know why they couldn't do it. And none of us do. I wasn't meaning you, but many Dons fans have been criticising the club for either not getting the deal done or for "throwing all the eggs in one basket". Burrows was hitting back at fans criticising him and the club about it on Twitter.

Unless you've been shadowing the recruitment team for three months, then no-one can answer this as we have absolutely no idea if they messed up on transfers, didn't do their due diligence on players, and if everything else that goes into making a transfer happen was "amateurish" or not. At the beginning of summer we were praising the club for getting MacDonald, Devlin, Clarkson, Shinnie and (I think) Sokler all signed up before pre-season started, while clubs such as Hearts hadn't signed a single player. Then as soon as Teklic didn't happen, suddenly the recruitment team were getting criticised.

Should also be said, Gartenmann can also play right back if we wanted to play a four.

Or Dadia?

Just like they did in the first leg aye?

A diamond midfield is very much a thing. Especially when you lack wide players and want to play two up front. So play Clarkson as a 10, which Goodwin tried to do and failed with?

I'd say at the very least a draw and extra-time would have been fair.

I think Robson's problem is he's trying to play last season's 3-5-2 with a different set of players and isn't getting the same success. At the moment (and it's early and these things can change) Scales > Jensen Pollock > Rubezic Ramadani > Polvara McCrorie - Devlin Hayes - McGarry Devlin the best of the new signings, but I don't think 3-5-2 is working for him. Because if he plays RWB, we seem to lack a lot of pace down the right. If we play him in the three to play Morris, then we play a guy who can't defend as a wing back. I'd play a four at the back with Shinnie and Clarkson as a two in midfield, get McGrath in front of them, and play Polvara as a defensive mid who can drop into defence to make it a three if need be. Means the team lacks width, but Hayes and Morris appear to be the only wingers anyway.

This one? "That's not how we want to play. That was the frustrating part. We are building a new team. We've got all these players that have just come in the door. They've hardly introduced themselves to each other. "We will be fine. We've got real speed, we've got a good group, we've got some really good players and once we get going, we'll be fine. I'm really relaxed about that." I'd say a lot of what he says there makes sense. That doesn't make him immune from criticism, but we've had good performances that deserved more (Celtic, arguably Hacken) and we've had poor performances where we've dropped points in them all, when maybe last season a good defensive performance or an on-form striker bailed us out. Next four games after the international break will tell us a lot. Hearts away Frankfurt away Ross County home Ross County away (cup) Frankfurt is a free hit (unless it's an absolute pumping), but I'd be looking for a semi-final spot and a home win in the league. I'd also like to think, especially since Hearts have lost to Dundee and Motherwell, that we can improve on the two abject performances at Tynecastle last season.

Need to get McGrath more central. Rubezic probably needs subbed before he gets a second yellow. I'd bring Polvara on for him. Dare I say it, if it's gonna be a game of little creativity, put Geye on and see if he can get his head on a set piece?

Excellent that Celtic are continuing to develop him before we buy him in January.

Clarkson has a calf knock apparently, hence him being benched.

That's probably our strongest XI bar Clarkson. Have a feeling McGrath and Duk will score today.

I was only in Helsinki for about six hours two months ago so don't have an extensive knowledge of the place. However, near the ferry terminal down at the harbour, there's loads of food markets where you can have a meal for much cheaper than the normal Finland prices (which ain't cheap as you can probably imagine), and the portions were great too.

Booked up for Frankfurt. Going by West Ham's allocation when they played there, we should expect 2400 tickets. Maybe we'll get more if the interest isn't there from the home support, but we're the Dons min, their biggest game of the season, so can't see why they wouldn't sell out.

This game is on PPV for those without dodgy firesticks who want to watch it. I think we may see the same team that started v Hacken, unless MacDonald is fit (I presume that's why he didn't start on Thursday), then he'll either replace Rubezic, or Devlin will switch to RWB.

This is an important point. He's a young lad, has made a step up, has played some big games already, and is being slaughtered for a few mistakes. I hope all these defenders signing is Robson wanting to look after him, and Mackenzie, and let them learn from more experienced heads in the coming months.

Aberdeen have signed 13 players this summer, a year after Jim Goodwin promised we'd never need a window like that again. Are we weaker than last season? At the moment, it's hard to argue against it. Pollock goes straight into that team. Scales maybe but let's see how Jensen turns out and I thought he looked okay on Thursday. Ramadani is replaceable, but unfortunately we don't appear to have replaced him. Ross McCrorie also gets into that team. Maybe Devlin takes his place at RWB but I'd have loved him in midfield on Thursday. We'll see how it goes in the next few months but we need McGarry, Jensen and Gartenmann to all turn out to be great, MacDonald to find consistent fitness, Duk to come back from this extended pre-season he appears to be on, and Barron needs to step up because we're short in midfield. I'm not sure either where McGrath fits into a 3-5-2. All these defenders suggest we're not going four at the back any time soon. Over to you Robson.

Aye, fun fact, but I used to live in Germany (near Monchengladbach) and been back so many times for football; Dortmund, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Cologne. It's just an amazing county, brilliant for football, and it breaks my heart that we're going to make the people of Frankfurt unhappy by pumping them.

Was waiting for you to post your thoughts first. I know nothing about any of them except Mario Gotze plays for Frankfurt, and Hearts were unlucky not to beat PAOK at home so let's not be scared of them. Plus when we play them in Greece it'll be a lot cooler weather wise. Now, where's good to stay in Frankfurt?

Have they not done away with the direct Aberdeen to Frankfurt flight? I was in Helsinki in July (albeit briefly, was staying in Tampere 90 minutes north of it). They like their reindeer meat over there.