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If plan A doesn't work - stick with plan A and hope it does work. edit: St Mirren showing the game on PPV for anyone that doesn't know - wasn't promoted very well. £14.99 a bit steep mind you. https://ppv.stmirren.com

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If we had played well for 90 minutes and just let it slip in time added on, I'd agree with you, but that wasn't the case. People forget we could, and probably should, have been 2-0 down after 15 minutes. We've basically sucker punched them with goals either side of half-time. Our only two shots on target the whole game. We gave them the ball after that and invited them to attack us for the last half an hour, a carbon copy of our tactics v Celtic. Connor Goldson, countless times, was allowed the stroll from his own half into the final third unchallenged. We had just over 30% possession in a home game, not much more than the 19% against Celtic. The players aren't blameless, but Goodwin absolutely did not "get his tactics spot on".

Can't be any worse than Stewart

Let's be honest, we're in a two-way fight with Hearts for third place. Should be treating it like a title fight considering the potential to get guaranteed group stage European football. Lose to St Mirren and we could be two points behind Hearts having also played a game more. That would be the early season advantage when they had injuries & European games thrown away. Lewis McCrorie Milne Mackenzie Coulson Barron Ramadani Clarkson Besuijen Hayes Duk Cat among the pigeons.

If you're going to criticise the players' bottle, then you criticise Goodwin as well. He basically drilled into them on Saturday that we had no chance of winning the game. We were time wasting in the first half in that one, made no effort to try and win it. Three days later the players aren't suddenly going to shift and believe they are good enough to beat one of the Old Firm. We were more progressive last night - they had to be - but the players going into their shell and retreating to their own box is the mentality in the team just now. The distinct lack of leaders in the team is down to Goodwin too. He got rid of Brown, rid of Considine, his treatment of Ramirez is unwarranted. He's created a young team who won't answer back to him. So you think Goodwin got his tactics correct last night?

I take that personally.

I've had a few beers. Will probably reply to myself in an hour and accuse myself of talking shite. I said to my mates at half-time "if we take Stewart & Richardson off and replace them with actual footballers we might win this". Of course they were liable for all three goals. Ramadani, Barron, Clarkson. For every good thing they'll do, they'll repay it with something poor. All three have great potential though, I tend to think a good manager/coaches would take them up a level. I don't think we have either of those at the club. Duk & Coulson kept us in the game tonight. McCrorie was the only defender who could actually defend. But again he's wasted back there. I'll defend Watkins though, who is getting a lot of stick I see on Twitter. Thought he looked rusty, but got himself involved far more than Miovski did, won free-kicks, and I'd start him at St Mirren. But we were so deep he was essentially deployed as a central midfielder. Goodwin. I'm fast losing faith in him.

Have a ticket but dunno if I can be bothered going up after Saturday's no-show. Will see how I feel tomorrow. Roos McCrorie Stewart Scales McKenzie Coulson Barron Ramadani Clarkson Hayes Duk That's how I'd line up.

Granted, he improved defensively in the second half, but in the first he was a real weak point and Jota had his number, and should have scored at least twice. Going forward he was terrible. But then McCrorie essentially plays as a DM, which we've tried numerous times before and he has little impact on the game. He's a good player going forward. Right wing back suits him as he can get forward, but also push into midfield when needed and he can generally match wingers for pace defensively. He's too good a player to be spending the game sitting deep.

Think the midfield three of Clarkson-Ramadani-Barron is fine. All three have their deficiencies but if they didn't they wouldn't be at Aberdeen. Considering they were asked to play deep v Celtic, I'd say defensively they - for the most part - did their jobs. If we're going to play 3-5-2 then the back three and the two wing backs are key. A CB is a must. Stewart needs replaced (and Hayes should be made captain like he should have been in summer). McCrorie for me should be given a chance at RWB. I don't think McCrorie enjoys it in defence. I think he wants to take the ball and go forward, that's his game. Three different Aberdeen managers now have played him either as a defender or a defensive midfielder, and he spends the afternoon making clearances. What a waste of a talented player.

Goodwin, not for the first time, showing that he doesn't know how to change a game plan that isn't working. Every Roos goal kick went to a Celtic player, which allowed them to keep coming forward. To have 19% possession at home is shocking. In the first half we at least looked through Coulson and Duk we could get at them. But on the other wing Kennedy and Miovski were poor. But we didn't change anything until Miovski got injured. -- For Tuesday, I'd keep McKenzie at LCB. How about moving Scales to the centre where he's more commanding than Stewart, and move Stewart to RCB so that McCrorie can replace Kennedy at RWB? Drop Miovski, play Hayes off Duk. And let's not launch every goal kick at the opposition defence this time.

I thought the plans for new houses at Loirston had been rejected, but I'm not a local lad anymore so will stand corrected. I'll take a drive past it when up for the game on Saturday and begin my own feasibility study.

Dave Cormack to the BBC yesterday: "Why would we build an £80m, £90m community stadium when we could build a stadium at Kingsford for £50m?" If (IF) those numbers are correct*, and the council are not going to budge on contributing funds, I can't see any justification in building at the beach. Especially if it's going to be a miniature 16,000 capacity bowl with a flooded pitch. I still argue, and will continue to do so even if I'm in a minority of one, that if the SNP push ahead with plans to rebuild Cove train station that we should build at Loirston. Easy access to the AWPR, the motorway, a train station within walking distance, not in the city centre but closer than Kingsford and with the train you could drink there or Portlethen until an hour before kick-off, and you can still lay on shuttle buses if that's what turns you on. It beats Kingsford in every category. *My scepticism would be that the price breakdown for the beach is £60m construction, extras making it £74m, optimism bias up to £92m. I would suggest Dave is ignoring the latter two for Kingsford in order to make it sound cheaper.

Are we complaining about a Saturday-Tuesday turnaround? Did we not have a free week before we last played them while they were in Italy - fat lot of good it did us.

So Aberdeen are keeping quiet until after the full council meeting next week. What's the best case scenario now? That the council at least give them the land for free? However, the noises coming from the council that they're demanding to know how Aberdeen plan to fund their part of the beachfront plans suggest they're in danger of being ditched from the plan altogether (as in my previous post, not the worst news). Whether it's the beach, Hilton Hotel site, Kingsford, Loirston or somewhere else - I don't see how Aberdeen get close to the £80m needed. Even with Dave's rich mates, a share issue, naming rights, Pittodrie sale and net zero government grants, it looks to be too high a figure. Even little things like ground sharing with a new Aberdeen rugby team or hosting concerts is a mere drop in the ocean. Dundee are building a 15,000 capacity stadium - I imagine quite basic to keep the price down - and that's all I can see us doing.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5131300/new-aberdeen-fc-stadium/ Council announcing they won't be putting a penny towards the new stadium at the beach. Which was predicted by everyone. Good news in disguise to be honest. The beachfront plans look shite and building that close to the sea on that particular land was surely going to add extra millions to the cost. And I wouldn't want the club being involved with the council on anything that they don't need to. Perhaps a chance now to look at building where the old Hilton Hotel site was, which was originally muted a year or two ago.

Club saying they've sold 12,500 tickets but say: We have been informed by the SPFL that total ticket sales by Tuesday will determine how much of our initial allocation of up to 20,000 we will receive. We were never going to sell 20,000 to be fair. Now this will be painted as "Aberdeen hand back tickets as Dons fans stay away" rather than acknowledging we've actually sold a very large amount of tickets with well over a month until the game, despite train strikes that day.

I'm heading up for this. Going by the available seats on Thursday when buying our tickets, it looks like it's going to be a big crowd - was only upper deck, uncovered south or the pricier tickets in RDR available. We could be going into the World Cup break as high as third, or as low as seventh. We could be seven points off a Champions League spot or seven off bottom. Defend well and we should win. Forget the Tannadice debacle, this team has lost 9-0 and 7-0 this season. Get them pumped.

He had a hold of his shirt and handled the ball at the same time. He should have been booked, which would have meant his later booking would have been his second.

On the contrary, the third penalty was a stonewaller. But I do agree VAR is shit.

I grew up next door to his mum, who was best mates with my sister. You see, you won't get that sort of thing on soccerbase. Remember when Ramirez was a sclaffing chance after chance in the League Cup group stage, and we all agreed when Miovski eventually arrived he should replace him in the starting line-up? Actually, I'd say VAR was the winner tonight. The farce was the referee (who missed all three incidents) and the handball rule which penalises you for any handball, when the sensible thing to do would to only penalise for deliberate handball or when it's created an obvious advantage. McCrorie should have gone to right-back and Richardson should have gone back to Nottingham Forest.

They are fourth on merit. Having beaten Hearts, Hibs and now Aberdeen this season, and drawn at Ibrox, I think they deserve a little bit more respect than that.

It's not pedantic to say that results and performances 10/15/20 years ago under different managers and players is irrelevant. In the past five and a half years we've won three, drawn twice, and beat them at Hampden. Seven days previously Livingston drew there. It's not unrealistic to have expected us to have gone there and competed. Had we gone there, put in a performance, but just been outplayed by a good team, then I would take your point. But we were so poor that most teams in the Premiership would have beat us comfortably. That's the point I'm making. Putting Rangers on a pedestal and saying "we'll take it on the chin" to quote Jim Goodwin infuriates me, because it's making excuses for our own inability to play better than we should be. Goodwin's post-match interview smacked of a St Mirren manager talking. Saturday was completely unacceptable for any Aberdeen team. I can accept losing to them. But I can't accept that meek performance. And Rangers bought their right back from Wigan reserves. Let's go through the Dundee United squad and all their multi-million pound players since they skelped us 4-0. Or Hibs, since they rather easily beat us at Easter Road. We've won at Tynecastle three times in 12 years if you want to talk about records. We were shit on Saturday. Rangers summer spending has nothing to do with that. Historic results from the Dick Advocaat era are irrelevant. It's on Jim Goodwin and the players. You're correct on one thing though, I am an eejit. Can't help that I'm afraid.

As critical as I was of our performance on Saturday, I do think we're not far away from being a good team. We need two defenders (you know Michael Hector is still a free agent? Criminal really) we could go with the below line-up and I'd be confident we'd finish third, win the League Cup and bottle the Scottish Cup semi to St Johnstone.