DantheDon

Just to put a little bit more perspective on the stats last 32 league games we have won 5, drawn 8 and lost 19. That’s 23 points accumulated which is most definitely relegation form. It’s not like we are getting lots of draws and just struggling to break teams down as we did under Stephen Glass, and during that time the performances have been pretty poor. I don’t want to just shout sack the manager, like a lot of you I’m really willing Thelin to succeed but I’m not sure this can go on for much longer. Lose or even fail to win one of Motherwell or Dundee prior to the international break and it might be time to make a change.

It’s starting to get a bit worrying now. Obviously confidence is low and if we had a little luck maybe that’s all we need to get back on track, but on the flip side maybe Jimmys system is just not destined to work in the SPFL and things might not get better at all. Three home games against Livingston, Falkirk and Motherwell and we haven’t managed to score a goal…

I agree a few wins are needed and I think (hope) they will come, but I do think we are going to struggle when it comes to challenging in the league while juggling European Football.

It’s a bit of a double edged sword. Nobody can argue that Thelin has not been backed as this is the most expensive squad we have ever assembled, but getting a team and culture established within a short time period is challenging in itself. Although Jimmy is definitely under a lot of scrutiny, I think as long as we are not threatening to get relegated by Xmas he will get the time. We have spent too much to just abandon this project and the players we have signed are to fit Thelins system. I also don’t think the fans expectations will be too high, realistically I think it’s going to be hard to compete with Hearts and Hibs this season while we have European football and they don’t (I think we could still pip Rangers though). So as long as we can achieve a top six finish and maybe sneak a euro qualifying place with progress on field that would do most.

I do think this is somewhat true, but is it not a bit of a catch 22 situation now.

Thing is having a youth setup costs us a good amount of money. Not sure the exact figures but I thought it was something like 2-3million a year. So the fact none of the players are breaking into the team and anyone half decent is leaving as soon as there is interest from down south is going to make our whole strategy of youth development untenable in the long term. I see it’s being reported Man City are looking at Cooper Masson one of our 16 year olds that I haven’t even heard of. If he goes it’s unlikely we will receive enough to cover the overall cost of the youth development for the year he comes through.

Club statement makes it clear that he was pushing for a move. Don’t know what he has been promised at Aston Villa but will be interesting to see if he ever gets a sniff of first team action there.

BBC reporting we have a potential interest in Lyndon Dykes.

Pape Gueye…

Like I said I wasn’t at the game. What worries me is we’ve had a whole half of football being the better team before the red but we haven’t got anything to show for it. It’s not too dissimilar to last season, we’ve never looked terrible under Thelin, we just don’t seem to be able to grind out results.

Wasn’t at the game, but seems like we had our good stages and again failed to capitalise. You can only read so much into the red affecting the game, I was expecting us to get a reasonably comfortable result today. Not winning games like this is extremely worrying.

I know nothing is confirmed but if true he doesn’t want to be here its just getting to point where it’s impossible to bring young players through at all. We might aswell bin our youth setup as anyone who looks like breaking through just gets poached for peanuts. None of them seem to want to be here, which is bizarre when you look at guys like Lennon Miller, who just got his 5m transfer to Udinese. I mean realistically what’s going to happen with Fletcher Boyd at Aston Villa, he gets the odd run out in the FA cup fourth round?

Very disappointing news. I get the whole it is just a job spiel, good money and all that but I do think there is a bit more to it when you’re a public figure. A lot of us wishing him the best when he went to Girona looking for their results to see how he was doing. Even recently with his comments about possibly returning, although most understood that was unlikely in the coming years hinted that there was a mutual respect and affection. To then just disregard that and sign for them is a bit hard to swallow. I don’t know what other options he had but his statement (while it may just be playing to the crowd) certainly doesn’t suggest any reluctance. I honestly don’t know if he will do well for them or not. Can’t see Martin turning things around and he’s already lost the fans so it’s a bit of a mess he goes into. Hope it continues to be a disaster…

Not too many names to fear. I reckon aside from teams at the top of pot 1 we give any of these sides a game.

It’s frustrating as while I don’t think FCSB are a bad team they looked like a team struggling for confidence and we weren’t able to capitalise. I hope that it’s just the amount of turnover in the squad and little time to get familiar that is leading to our impotence up front and mistakes at the back. We have three games at Pittodrie coming up in the next few weeks with the international break sandwiched in between. Falkirk Livingston, Motherwell all games of which we should be looking to win. Hopefully we can look to get up and running and build some momentum.