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Woohoo! Happy Mathematically Impossible to Be Automatically* Relegated Day!!! *barring a points deduction for questioning VAR

Not sure some of our previous managers were even aware they had substitutes.

Fine with this, hopefully we have learned from Warnock why talking out of the correct orifice is more important than the volume you do it at.

Could be worse, are you with me?

Out, probably. Depends on what other tediously unrewarding tasks I am trying to avoid doing on the day.

To be fair, difficult to build up an exciting PR campaign when your only option for a positive message is "At Least We're In The Cup (For Now)"

Typical - every single result went in our favour, except the crucial one we actually had some say in. Next season please.* *assuming it is not in the championship

Thought we looked good for a whole 12 minutes, now we look like panicked spuggies.

I thought Al stopped going to games after the 1916-17 debacle

Before we dive into our make-or-break 31st game of the season this afternoon, I thought it would be interesting to see how we are stacking up aginst the other two years captured at the 30-game mark in this thread, which also just happened to be our best (2016/17 - 2nd place) and worst (2021/22 - 10th place) seasons in recent memory. I also ran the averages for 38-game seasons at the 30 game mark as a comparison, along with adding current end-of-season records as they stand. Some key points: Fail to win any of our last 8 games, and we will equal the all-time 107yr-old record for lowest number of wins in a season. Likewise if we lose all of those 8, we will equal the most defeats in any 38-game season (please step forward Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee). Of course if this were to happen we would undoubtedly have bigger, more downward, problems. We still need to score 3 more goals to avoid setting a new all-time record for least goals scored in a campaign. This should be easy, right? We should continue to be extremely grateful to Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee, as thanks to their efforts we only have the 4th worst goal difference this century, rather than the worst. We are almost 14 points behind the average for 30 games into a 38-game season. Fourteen. We need a minimum of 5 points from 24 to avoid equalling ll-time worst points total in a modern 38 game season (Hi Steve). Enjoy.

Xabi Alonso rules himself out of the Aberdeen job. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68692969

My level of expectation right now

Came perilously close to being burned as a witch by my fellow companions, after predicting at half time that we would concede a penalty in the final minute of added on time for a suspect VAR handball decision.

Not convinced, what use is a manager that loses the title on the final day - we want a manager that loses the title nice and early in the season, so we can get the next manager in.

Incidentally, I think we can halt these Aberdeen field trials into whether "new manager bounce" exists, it doesn't, we can stop testing now.