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I posted ages ago about everyone getting it in the neck this season, from cormack and burrows all the way down, but Fergie catching strays now is wild, wild stuff

Not sure if our new “ticketing and fan experience platform in association with Jump” deserves a thread if its own so sticking it in here: https://www.afc.co.uk/2026/02/26/aberdeen-fc-sign-exclusive-deal-launching-with-innovative-fan-experience-platform-jump/ Generally sounds like a load of waffle although this excerpt from Jump’s website isn’t great.

Another interim assistant appointed. Ian Burchnall. https://www.afc.co.uk/2026/02/26/burchnall-added-to-coaching-staff/

So why weren’t they off against Motherwell in the league the week before when we were rotten? Absolute havers!

Why on earth are the “shackles off” tonight but weren’t on Saturday? Mental.

We're so goal shy, despite Nisbet being a decent player at our level, that the only sane conclusion for us being so impotent for going on 18 months is a poor midfield and wingers. I want Keskinen to be good but he's really been a constant for the last season and a half so all evidence suggests that he isn't, and neither are any of the alternatives. Dire.

We'd have been better keeping Jimmy, that's how bad Leven's caretaker spell is going.

We've got 12 league games to play. Over the last 10 games (maybe more) we've been the second worst team in the league. How on earth anyone can stick their head in the sand and say that isn't going to leave us in big, big trouble is beyond me. What or who is coming in to change anything? Horneland could be the second coming of Fergie but I'm really worried that we don't have time to wait for the resurrection.

Hearts away Falkirk home Huns away St Mirren away Hibs home I'm not seeing many points in that run.

Moot point I'm afraid old chap. The fears continue.

We're the worst team in the league bar Livi. I don't think anything should be taken for granted in terms of avoiding 11th.

Are approaching Warnock territory where the caretaker is going to have to be taken care of?

Nisbet? Or Olusanya? Either way, yaaaas.

Milne and McIntyre were alright the other night, whereas Morrison has looked dodgy so far. Bold call.

Maybe, all else being equal, Armstrong might work better at 10 than Cameron but I’d like to see Armstrong on the right given our lack of other credible options.

The P&J guy has since clarified - or been forced to clarify - on X that "no" is an out of context quote and "no, not yet" is more accurate.

It’s laboured and “careful” because the team is completely lacking in confidence. Whatever happened towards the end of Jimmy’s time, or really since the end of our good spell in the autumn, has sapped all the belief out of the entire squad. Hopefully the new signings and the return of the doc can make a difference, alongside results like tonight.

As slim says, you’d go mad if that was against you. However, the keeper was well off his line so olusanya wouldn’t have had to run all the way in, all he needed to do was get to the ball to have a scoring chance.

Motherwell doing a bit of squad rotation tonight? Bold…

I sure hope the cup game(s) are our only big games of the season but our form gives me the fear that the league isn't quite as finished for us as we'd like it to be. Worst away form in the league, 10th overall for the last six games courtesy of what looks like a bit of a fluke win against Livi and second bottom for the last 10 games is very worrying stuff.

Doesn’t that contradict your point about St Johnstone and St Mirren’s success? And we won the cup last season despite being mince in the second half of the league season, which also doesn’t stack up with your argument. Without having the stats to hand, I’d imagine that over the period you reference we’d have gained the third or fourth most points overall, which is a much more reliable measure of league “success” for our budget rather than just looking at Motherwell. Plus, we have done better than Motherwell in the league and won two more trophies so it’s not really the most relevant comparison anyway, which was kinda my original point.

Nah, I’d rather judge my club on trophies won as those are the days and moments that I’ll remember and tell my grandkids about, not the day we finished the appropriate number of places above Motherwell in the league per pound spent. However, I would very much agree with a wider point about underachieving in terms of trophies won, especially in the gap between old and new Rangers.

I guess I'd just like us to have more than one u21 player and an ex player in the u19s. The number of players in and around the full squad who have played for us is actually quite impressive but it's hard to see where the next lot are coming from.

How many trophies have Motherwell won since 2010/11?

If you go with three as a minimum, then you’ve got Milne and Lobban as you say, who each still have plenty to prove. Ryan Duncan was given a reasonable number of chances but doesn’t seem to have “it”. Then there’s those who fucked off for a better offer like Boyd and a couple of others. There’s also the out on loan crew, out of whom it sounds like Marshall might have a chance. That’s not a great return but similarly it isn’t nothing and suggests we do try to give out young guys a chance. At the risk of repeating myself, it isn’t necessarily the lack of chances for our own youth that’s worrying me, it’s why our own youth aren’t good enough. Look at the Scotland youth squads and we don’t feature anything like as strongly as I think a club of our size should strive to. If they’re at Aberdeen and not good enough for Scotland at age group level then that’s a real concern.