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Thains in George Street [insert rowie emoji] But I'm always open to suggestions.

Aye. Could call it "stuff"

Good to see you Blin, been a while. Just don't ask me to clean any ashtrays

I'm up in Aberdeen this weekend, and one of life's great pleasures is getting a proper fresh rowie. I have to make do with the Asda or Morrisons ones down here and they just don't quite hit the same.

️ Warning: Really boring answer coming up. ️ There's been a few articles on this. Typically, a player is entitled to five weeks paid holiday a year. They can't always get those five weeks in pre-season. And I think they get public holidays added to that too as they work Christmas etc. If Aberdeen had lost the cup final, the early European fixtures would have meant we'd probably have started back 19 June like most clubs did. Can't be arsed working out how many paid holidays days that is, but it would fall well short of their entitlement. And then you had Keskinen playing at the U21 Euros and, I can't remember, but Mitov probably playing for Bulgaria etc. The holiday allowance actually starts 1 July, so the longer summer break we had this season doesn't actually count towards this season. So basically, in short, without a winter break, we need to use the international breaks to give them their days off. Woke nonsense etc.

I'd say the majority of this site were the same. I think he's here until the end of the season anyway, unless something drastic happens. We're not going to get relegated. Yes we're close to the bottom, but I don't see it ever being a real threat. Likewise, finishing third isn't the big deal it has been without the group stage football on offer so I don't think the club will panic about that either. Likely, the board will be quite happy to go along with Thelin's plan, and see what the new sporting director brings, all rather safe in the knowledge that qualifying for Europe (fifth might be enough), another Scottish Cup run, bringing through some younger players (Milne and Lobban), recruiting well in January, and the often said "moving in the right direction" are all still very achievable aims this season. I don't think he would survive a bottom six finish though (unless he leads us to Hampden again).

With Tobers confirmed to be out for the rest of the season, be interesting to see if we look to bring in another defender in January. I guess with Devlin and Dorrington we're okay for cover for now, but we saw last season Devlin have a big drop off in form when overplayed, and although Tottenham will be happy with Dorrington getting minutes they won't want a young player overplayed and picking up injuries either.

Thelin is actually beginning to remind me of McInnes in his final three seasons at Aberdeen. The football is boring, there's no real zip to our play, and very much like McInnes he loves a pointless late sub (or three). One thing I'll say though. He often gets accused of not being animated enough on the touchline. However, every time the camera panned to him he was deep in conversation with his coaches, clearly annoyed at something. Would love to know what he was actually saying as his discussions didn't really turn into any action.

That was really boring to watch. Very little movement from back to front. Polvara and Shinnie sat on the half way line when we went forward, so we were always trying to break Motherwell down without enough players to do so, and if we didn't catch them on the break, then plan b was to lob it into the box and hope it fell for us. Polvara and Shinnie were both okay defensively - Polvara won headers that probably none of our other central midfielders would. It's not that they had particularly poor games. But if they're sitting deep then someone else needs to go forward. The 3-4-1-2 / 5-3-2 (whatever you want to call it) would work better. So often we look a man short in midfield. I know Thelin came here with a reputation for his Elfsborg team winning games while not having much of the ball, but it's not a pretty watch.

Shinnie and Polvara an interesting one in the middle. Armstrong further forward again which is good, Lobban and Gyamfi at wing back. As others have said, would like to see more of Clarkson, but little to complain about with the line-up. Also good to see Bilalovic on the bench. Was beginning to worry he'd gone missing.

Aye David Begg is quite a prolific poster on X/Twitter and doesn't hide his Dons leanings. Jock Brown - I met him a few weeks ago when he was in to do the Sportscene anniversary show. Lovely bloke. Hopefully it's just a "you need to slow down" advice from the doctor and not anything too concerning.

There's a username from the past. Good to see you posting here Mason.

Nah we played a lot of good football, but a lot of poor decision making at the crucial moments is why there are a lack of stand out chances. Notable examples: Someone passing to Milne in the box when they should have taken the shot on themselves, Keskinen passing to Milanovic just outside the box when he should have kept on dribbling, Karlsson inexplicably flicking the ball rather than just making a normal pass that would have got us in behind quicker.

Would like to see Shinnie and Clarkson in midfield, and Gyamfi starting. Other than that, same team as Thursday. With Dorrington and Tobers injured, Devlin will be at RCB for the foreseeable.