RicoS321

Dons legends McLennan and May link up to smash Hibs on VAR debut/massive crowd day.

What's the fucking point in VAR? You don't even need to see the incident to know that Boyle dived.

I read an article when he resigned that suggested that he planned to be back within a year, and had the right wing shite rags on his side, but I didn't think it would actually happen. The Tory members will vote him in, in a heartbeat, it just remains to be seen whether enough Tory MPs will back him. Not sure he'll have the numbers, as he's quite clearly an absolute dickhead, but I suppose we should never underestimate just how fucking moronic those people are.

Not really...

I think that's very harsh on Cormack. Richardson wasn't cheap, neither Gallagher, Bates, Stewart or Scales. Lest we forget a certain Venezuelan, airbrushed from history (hopefully). He's spent money on replacements, they've just all been pap. McKenna played as many games for us as Barron will have and Ramsay was in a different class to Barron (in terms of potential) and it would have been criminal to stand in his way. I think you're probably right about keeping Barron for the duration though. I don't envisage us getting a big fee, even in January, so we'd be better off sticking and hoping he changes his mind. A difficult one though. In an ideal world, it wouldn't ever come to this. Barron and Duncan should have been properly sorted in their Kelty and Peterhead spells, but I think we'll miss out on both signing. I suppose it's a bit like new signings, if you can get one successful contract renewal in every couple of players then that's probably a success. Ramsay a success, Barron likely a failure.

I assume he's been offered the Liverpool job like we were told would happen?

Luckily no American based businessman has ever promised a £1bn economic boost from an expensive development in Aberdeen before.

Assume the daily mail have started the bring back Boris campaign? Probably started the moment he left. Fucking weirdos. How on earth are there still people in Scotland who believe we can't do better than Westminster?

Don't think they have all gone, although it seems difficult to tell. Appears that Truss is being so hapless that the Tories can then suggest putting Johnson back in charge. They're all over the place, but they have enough self preservationists in the team that a general election seems unlikely.

It's unfairly polite, he's fucking honking and shouldn't be anywhere near this league. Decent result, but a worrying second half. Barron and Ramirez weren't the worst introductions on paper but Barron had a poor game and their changes really upset our flow. Once the goal went in we were terrible and the decision to bring on Morris for Duk was a sackable offence. Horrendous management that could have lost us the game. I don't know what he's trying to prove. Morris coming on is bad enough, a struggling Kennedy into midfield doubles the effect. Besuijen was terrible most of the game too, and the introduction of Duncan - eventually - turned the game back in our favour. He's a fantastic player who should be getting far more minutes. He's not lightweight, and is very direct. Morris needs to go to the championship immediately and stop taking minutes away from players like Duncan. It was amazing to see our transformation from playing well to being pish in such a short space of time with such a comfortable lead. McRorie, Stewart and Scales (and probably Roos) just turned to a panicky embarrassment in a flash. McRorie especially, was just turgid. He's really not that good at fitba. Stewart average and Scales just looked completely shaken by the rest of his defence's performance. Coulson was decent.

Interesting lineup. Kennedy can feel a little hard done by not getting a look in after a decent game against killie, so fine to play him. I'm guessing it's a 4-4-2, with McRorie at right back. Weirdly, this is the sort of game I'd have played Richardson in, against poorer opposition, but he does deserved to be dropped. Besuijen earned his place and if Barron is being rested then that's fine.

We're way off knowing what our best 11 is, so I think we need continuity in the side. If Goodwin now thinks that 3-5-2 is our strongest formation, then we persist with it for a few games. I didn't like the midfield yesterday for large parts. I'm not sure Ramadani is strong enough in the tackle to play that flat 3 that we did in the second half, but it was certainly better for Barron and, to a lesser extent, Clarkson. McRorie gives me the fear at the back, and I'd still like to see us try him out at right back ahead of Richardson. McKenzie as wing back didn't really work despite his best efforts either. I've no problem with Miovski starting again, even though he was poor again, but Ramirez does deserve plenty of game time when Miovski isn't cutting it. I think 3-5-2 is our only real option if we want to play the two up front (Duk definitely deserves that place, and he doesn't really work on his own), as our midfield isn't strong enough to play a two. A 4-3-3 would be the only other option, with a tight line of three. That would allow Besuijen deserved game time alongside Miovski and Duk. One of those two it is. I'd go: ------------------Roos------------------- McRorie---Stewart---Scales---McKenzie -----Barron---Ramadani---Clarkson----- -----Besuijen-----Miovski-------Duk----- but I think Goodwin may just maintain the same starting eleven for consistency. Ramadani the weak link in the above for me.

Perversely, despite it being violent and malicious, the fact that it was aimed and deliberate probably makes it less likely that Barron would have got serious injury I reckon. If you've ever kicked someone while playing fitba, which of course I would never do, you sort of know what you're doing with the stiff booting that you dish out in frustration. Those ones are the sort that give a nasty bruis or a dead leg or whatever, but not the breaks that come with a clumsy studs up or "out of control" slide. He knew what he was doing. "Left one on him" I think the dinosaur pundit would describe it.

From the RDL, looked like Roos won ball and man at the same time. Again, from RDL, Duk didn't look like he was going down until the guy's trailing leg caught him and sort of shunted him sideways before he went down. It wasn't anything like Sibbald's for Utd in my opinion. I don't think it was a clear and obvious error of course. There was also a definite clumsy handball (I think by the same player) a few minutes later that the ref was in no position to give, but had VAR a camera behind the goal, which I don't think they will, it would have been spotted and perhaps given. It would have been a shitey penalty to get though.

Yes. He had two shots off target, which is approximately 43 less than in each of his last 30 appearances for the dons.

Worse than Clarkson's. Clarkson didn't even have his eye on the player, he just threw out a leg. His was just a really shite attempt at a tackle. Grant's was deliberate and malicious. You'd probably class Clarkson's as out of control and endangering an opponent, with Grant's classed as violent conduct. Much as I love a Dons player hoofing some Hun up in the air (Clark on Hutton for example), I'd also happily take a retrospective/VAR red for it. I can also see why the ref just gave the yellow in fairness.

What would their pen be for? Duk was definitely clipped in their box in the first half (a camera behind the goal would have spotted it), but I don't remember them even having a claim. Obviously they had that sitter, but for me the next best chance before the goal was Duk's one on one. With the balance of play in the first half, going in a goal down would have been fair, but it'd be rare that a team scores every single opportunity they get.

Great win, well played the dons. Deserved it in the second half after a poor first. A little tweak in midfield, pushing Ramadani into the three, as opposed to sitting gave us a lot more of the ball. That three (including Barron and Clarkson) was okay today, they seemed to stop getting in each other's way with the change in the second. McKenzie was honking in the first and much better in the second, but isn't a wing back. He didn't give up on that ball for the goal when others would have. Duk was great. He's frustrating but people seem unable to get the ball off him, so he ends up carrying it far up the pitch making for an excellent out ball. Thought he should have had a pen in the first half too.

But at no point did they say that they wouldn't turn the country into world's biggest bin fire. I'd have said that was fairly implicit in choosing Johnson.

They had a manifesto?

It isn't though, is it? Not until the Tories say so is what England voted for.

Fuck sake Goodwin, can't even get the right match day.

My preference would be this Sunday.

It'll be a long drive back up the road for Ross McRorie tonight.

They're cutting the VAR ribbon in a game involving Porteous and Martin Boyle, so that'll likely highlight 90% of its problems. Anyone booking transport home from fir park should consider rescheduling on the assumption of a two hour delay.