BobbyBiscuit

Mostly played at Milton, good grass parks there.

The fact that most of us have watched the game and our club nearly all our days? This nonsense that because you've not been involved in the game at a pro level means your opinion doesn't count is exactly that - nonsense. There are plenty of pros - current and ex - who talk a hell of a lot of shite about the game. And fatigue? If that's the case then the fitness/conditioning staff at the club are clearly not doing their job properly. McInnes has made baffling selections all through his time here. His use of substitutions (or lack of, as it used to be) have been similarly frustrating. Why would the players now have an issue with it when it had taken them to the top of the table this season?

Hardly even started manc, had to play a mini league to decide which division we went into, then had the cup ties mentioned above. Only played 1 league game which we lost to Bishopbriggs. Got a load of new players in over the summer so will take us a wee bit of time to bed in but things are looking good.

Brilliant win for Red Stars today. The players were magnificent. Well done boys. COYRS!!!

I think it's the end. That wasn't a McInnes side I saw yesterday. The players are not playing for him - in possession, we're ok at times, but out of possession we are not doing what we've always done under McInnes and that is work our socks off. That's usually the first sign that he doesn't have the "staff" on his side.

We were at the opposite end of the park for the Reynolds goal so i couldn't say for certain. It honestly looked as though Jack has chucked it. I was fucking disgusted with his performance yesterday and his huffing with his teammates was just as unacceptable. I'd give the captaincy to Shinnie. Shinnie himself didn't have his best game yesterday but he never once hid. Hiding being something his captain was shamefully guilty of. Play like that next week and we'll get battered.

Bar a 20 minute period in the 2nd half we were piss poor again. There is something seriously wrong in that team - attitude, particularly when having to chase back was incredibly poor. Ryan Jack - awful. Awful attitude and a very poor performance. No drive, never looking to do anything beyond his usual sideways pass - that's not a leader. Everton looking at him last summer? He'll be lucky if Dundee are looking at him next summer if this is indicative of how the rest of his season is going to go. Rooney gets pass marks, as does Pawlett despite the fact he should have buried a great chance and failed. Ward was brilliant and got us a point at the end. The midfield is just non-existent. Powder puff. A couple of years too late but the ideal guy for us right now would have been Kari Arnason - physical presence who can play a bit too. We have nothing - Stephen Pearson strolled through our central midfield area today any time he wanted to. Putting McLaughlin on up front/wing when we needed to get a winner was just a bizarre move too. Goodwillie wonderful chance at the end as well, another piss poor touch and the chance is gone. Why do we persist with him? I could go on and on about how poor we were today but i won't depress you or myself anymore with it. Thoroughly scunnered with them. Time for a drink.

you say they don't go into it for the money so why would driving a shit car bother them? Why does the type of car you drive matter to anyone other than the person who drives it? Would probably matter to those who are so insecure in themselves that they can only measure life by such things. That to me is indicative of a sad individual, not the post code they live in or the holidays they go on. I also don't believe teachers are paid so poorly that they have to "put up with a pretty awful standard of living"... but then, I suppose everything is relative. Of course, some of them are uninspiring, and some are wankers. That's life. However, are they really deserving of the tag "Horrible human beings"? Seems to me that's just a bit of a ridiculous thing to say, I'm sure you'd agree, deep down.

So who plays in front of McLean then in the current, usual setup?

I think McInnes overthinks his selections too often. This default position of playing Goodwillie away from home no matter what is frankly baffling. In the last 24 matches he's started, he's scored in one of them. By any standards that is an appalling record for a forward. Rooney, generally speaking, should not be on the bench. When he is on the park, he certainly shouldn't be bumped out to the left to accommodate a non-goalscorer through the middle. In a season in a half, Rooney has scored more goals than some recent Aberdeen sides have scored in a whole season between them. For the majority of his AFC career, Kenny McLean has been deployed far too deep. He was sitting on top of Flood and Shinnie last night, he has to be played further forward - surely it was him playing in that position which attracted us to him in the first place? We have the best left back in the league and yet we don't play him at left back - he plays centre mid and a centre half plays at left back which immediately limits our attacking options from the wide areas. Consi does well, but he won't make forward runs as much as Shinnie would. We have to get a settled back line and certainly have to have a settled centre half pairing. For me it would be Reynolds and Quinn. Both had shockers last night right enough, but Taylor... the amount of times we lose the ball because that dumpling thinks he can play football is not good enough for the level we want to be at. The same thing can be levelled at Flood - he's great at breaking the play up but he can't pass the ball the length of himself. McGinn is our best player. Why not play him in a central position with Rooney ahead of him? No team in Scotland wants McGinn running at them and centre halves will not cope with him. The season he played through the middle he was just incredible, why we would not want to have that in our team? Last night was screaming out for Robson at half time. Someone to take a grip of the situation. Our midfield made County look like a great team and Jackson Irvine will never look a better player than he did last night and that's because we let them play. Robson would have at least kicked a few of them and gone down with a fight - the lack of which in the rest of the team is pretty worrying. Time for McInnes to earn his cash.

...is Niall McGinn! Well deserved

As above. Probably all Man Utd but may well be some Dons stuff in there. Had a quick peak at his "new' book in Waterstones today. His explanation to Doug Rougvie at contract talks had me chuckling although Rougvie was probably pissed off; "Think of my player budget as a cake with a cherry on top... well, Willie Miller has just taken three quarters of the cake and the fucking cherry..."

Absolutely. I'm a big fan of Darren Fletcher, but did we really need to bring him on tonight? He didn't play him against Georgia away when we really needed to play him, but tonight he got the call. Strange, to be honest. Strachan is a thrown wee bugger, and I often wonder if he just does these things to show supporters/journalists who is boss and that he'll pick whoever he wants - as is his right. I'm waiting for Scott MacDonald to get a cap in the next set of qualifiers...

A nod to the future tonight from Strachan... one player under the age of 26, with just the six players over 30...

That's Danny Ward qualified for a major tournament. Well done Danny.

6 points between us and Ireland & Poland. Any Scot tonight gibbering on about luck should look at that line above. 6 points. With one game left. We weren't even close. Strachan bangs on about being loyal to players... that is the attitude that will ultimately get managers the sack. His flippancy in the aftermath of Georgia away was insulting in the extreme. When it comes down to it, I don't give much of a fuck about the national team, but i still want them to do well. His flippancy is an insult to the thousands of folk who spend all their savings on following that team of jokers. His team of jokers, incidentally. If he stays, he has a clear choice. Pick Scottish based players - hopefully young ones at that - and lets see where that takes us. Or, he may pick the same old tired choices and ultimately he will get the sack because of it. Not sure why anyone would shed a tear over that scenario...

Sorry to hear about that, OBC. You could try SNS Pics online, they've got a good selection and while I've never used them I know others who have and they're good quality prints.

I know i'll be in the minority but why would you want Celtic out the league? Surely when/if we win the league this year it will be magnificent because we've beaten them to it? The vast majority of our big domestic wins have come against the OF and that's why we're the club we are. We are the only side in Scotland outside the OF to win in Europe. We are the only side in Scotland outside the OF to win the domestic cup double (we've done this twice, obviously). Celtic can fantasise about what they want, it doesn't change that they are a Scottish club in a Scottish league. They can chatter all they want about moving to England in the same way I can chatter all I want about going out with Jet from Gladiators... it isn't going to happen*. *I knocked her back, incidentally...

Almost 25 years to the day... effectively the game which cost us the title that season. At least we had Beano being sent off after 20 mins and the whole bus rumour to explain that one on... not sure about today. Test of character now... beaten the tims and hertz to go 5 clear and potentially lost all but 1pt of that lead now. Time to show your minerals lads and not shrink. What would Miller, McLeish and McKimmie do..? Well, whatever that was, do it.

Definite injury - he was feeling his groin as he was going off... IN PUBLIC TOO!!! The dirty git. If he was taken off for playing shite I think he'd have the right to feel agrieved considering who was left on the park. McGinn was in no way the main issue last Saturday.

Depay is the new Nani. Incredibly frustrating to watch - has the raw talent but the decision making is woeful 95% of the time.

I've just taken that as a given these days.

We were exceptionally poor in the first half - ICT were streaming through our midfield and the defence really struggled to cope. Obviously McGinn going off was a real blow as we struggled with creativity once he was off but I would really love to know what McInnes thought he was getting by playing Parker from the start instead of Rooney, in particular. Parker seems like another Magennis to me. Offered us very little. Goodwillie's finishing again let him and us down when presented with a clear sight of goal and illustrates exactly why it is imperative Rooney plays as the central striker. Our final ball is utterly shocking - Hayes being the main offender. The result isn't the end of the world especially with celtic also dropping points but we won't get away with performances like that. It was actually a game I thought Robson would have been called from the bench - we needed more presence in the middle of the park and he'd have given us it. It's situations like that where his experience could be invaluable - if DM doesn't think he's up to it then why is he on the bench at all?

Quote there from By The Min Aberdeen. Not there myself tonight, but really disappointing to read such a summation of any Dons performance. Going out the domestic cups is a sickener. Going out to lower league pish is brutal and i thought we were past all that, but if the players aren't interested (as is alluded to above) then we're always going to be in trouble. But... on to Saturday. Confident of a win though.