RicoS321

Tomorrow is a huge day for us. There's a lot riding on any signings we make. I said at the end of last season that I was glad that we didn't make European group stage football, as we were nowhere near ready for it. Unfortunately our cup triumph scuppered that! Eight extra games before Christmas is ridiculous, and we could see today the toll that is going to take. We don't have the depth in quality, and we're nowhere near it either. Midfielder has to be the priority, and we have to be looking at someone mid to late twenties. With Sokler away, we could be doing with someone quick through the middle. Neither Milanovic or Keskinen are actually that quick, so someone to replace Morris (unless Bilalovic is rapid, it was difficult to tell, but he might be). The midfielder is a must, with the other two just a hope. It'll be difficult, and I suspect we might be way down our list already. There'll be a lot of crossed fingers within Pittodrie that Lazetic and Bilalovic meet the standard (I think they will). Overall though, regardless of what happens tomorrow, I think the squad building has been pretty awful. For at least the last four seasons. The complete lack of balance is frustrating. Minimal internal youth progression, no proven players that are relatively risk free from the SPFL, no proven players in the midst of their career from elsewhere, no Scottish players. With Morris gone, there is no longer a player that can single handedly allow us to change approach, and it doesn't really seem like our system changes offer too much in the way of actual change (because our players - in their respective positions - are very similar). Cormack's strategy of going for project players has worked in some senses, but it hasn't returned a particularly good team, and it's exceptionally transient in design. I don't think it's working.

Aye, that was turgid stuff. We're not very good. They were a good championship side basically. The red card was a decision that needs to be made in order to justify VAR, and the other over-officiating that preceded it. Football is a contact sport, and people get hurt in accidental collisions. Trying to eradicate all injury from the game is not the goal of anyone but the dickheads that run the game. That red changed the game. We are nowhere near good enough to beat anyone when a player down. Anyway, very little to get excited about so far this season. Our signings look very ordinary. Keskinen hasn't kicked on, with his decision making still atrocious (he is playing a hell of a lot of football in fairness to the lad). Across the front, generally, we looked very poor. Milanovic offers very little, Aouchiche was terrible when he came on, Polvara struggled. Palaversa was shite. Jensen just a very average footballer. Lazetic looked good, Bilalovic might have something about him, although he was a little 100mph in the little time he had. Otherwise, I don't think we're actually a very good team!

What are you talking about? If we've learned anything over the Miovski affair, it's that tweets mean everything.

Or BM 0.45 goals per game, Cosgrove 0.46 Cosgrove also had about 15-20 games to get up to speed too.

I suspect that it isn't strategy. If the lad doesn't want to be here, then there might be little the club can do.

I'd heard rumours last season that he was looking for a move, but thought it could have just been pish. I doubt we'd be putting him up for sale at this stage, but maybe a bit of pragmatism if he doesn't want to be here.

I'm not surprised. Looks a player. Also looks like he doesn't want to be here, and I wonder if the management see that, hence his lack of game time.

Hope he gets injured quickly. Dirty cunt. Wonder if he'll be in tears when he eventually leaves Ibrox? As others have said, probably, wouldn't really minded if it was someone like McGrath who just picked up a wage, acted very professionally and worked hard, without any playing to the fans or showing any real affection for the club. Miovski very much gave it the "club has a massive place in my heart" type shite the entire time he was here, and after leaving. If big Ash knows what it means to be a Dandy, then Miovski can't claim anything was lost in translation. It won't be long before he's talking up how great it was to play at Ibrox with the Dons and how he'd dreamed about playing there. Fucking cunt.

There is no comparison between what Snelders did and what the dirty Judas Hun cunt Miovski has now done. They shouldn't be uttered in the same breath.

Disgusting. I'm contacting my local reform MP to get them sent back to their own country.

Tweedmouth Huns? They don't sound very Scottish.

Nah. We won't get anywhere near the original fee, because it would have been inclusive of add-ons.

Aye, I forgot Hibs were on their second chance knockout. I actually do think that there's a trajectory of shiteness, and it's heading upward. There is a predefined goal, too, that us mortals are not party to. European leagues of some sort. It's all just nudging forward, little bit at a time.

Turgid league pish. Couldn't give a fuck. Hibs' run in Europe is exactly how it should be. Proper excitement and actual jeopardy. None of this "we'll get the plate tournament if we lose" shite. Like being in Primary school, where everyone gets to win.

Although Jensen does have the advantage of not having played the full ninety! Devlin ran himself into the ground last night. Jensen has actually looked less fit than last season, and he's a lesser player for it. It's a difficult role and I think they'll just have to divvy it up this season. If we'd had an established left back, I'd like to have seen Lobban get an opportunity on Sunday. We should be able to carry a young player through games, especially at fullback, so either him or Frame should be getting minutes soon. Boyd too further up the park, but obviously not all at the same time.

In Scotland, the refs were - at least a season ago - clearly told to wise up and stop giving pens every time it goes near someone's forearm in the box. I can't think of any good sporting reason as to why it would be changed - what happened tonight was clearly against basic fairness and sporting behaviour. Anti-sport, in other words. Which is exactly what VAR is (and European football I guess).

VAR checks everything, so yes they will have been checking. Nobody in the world would have thought that they were checking handball, which is why everyone thought they'd have been reviewing a foul (I couldn't hear the commentary in the boozer). Everyone watching the game will have seen it touching Jensen's arm in real time, or at worse on the replay, but nobody in their right mind would have thought they were checking for handball because it was such a fucking atrocious decision. I didn't even know it was given for handball until I saw a replay of the ref's signal during half time highlights. My mate had suggested it for a joke, but we all laughed it off. I just assumed that the non-foul was classed as inside the box.

Fairly certain the yellow is correct protocol. They hadn't given a penalty originally. However, the yellow card should be indication that the decision was stupidly incorrect. How on earth can you book a player for being hit by the ball? There's no way that the ref could have been comfortable with that.

The referee saw the possible foul, and didn't call it. There was no reason for VAR to intervene. The handball rules are awful, but they do not state that all connections with a hand are handball. Jensen was terrible BECAUSE HE'S NOT A FUCKING LEFT BACK The above is aimed at Thelin, and the numerous Dons fans that think that he might be because he did it once in primary school.

Anti football pish wins the day again. VAR will end football in a decade if this shite continues - which it will. I'd love it if we were a lot less accepting of it. Jensen kicking fuck out of the VAR screen at the side of the pitch on the way off. We just meekly accept this shite.

Seems like you've misunderstood football.

Martin will be hoping he can find some alcoves In Bruges tonight, to hide in.

Interesting signing. He's currently playing every week in the lowland league. I'm assuming he's not making the step up to our first team from there, so struggling to see the benefits of him signing for us. Then again, he could turn out to be the next Dons legend, like Adam Montgomery before him.

Liam McLeod is definitely coked off his tits during commentary.

Do they just not bother practicing penalties? Seems they're really quite terrible at them.