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The four points are a bonus in my opinion. Trust me, when you get to my age, you'll be more than happy with just the semi 😉

Being honest, if we’d been offered a semi & 4 points from the 3 games this week we’d have taken it, but that’s 2 points thrown away there IMO. Completely surrendered the initiative for first 15 minutes second half - the total opposite of midweek. The Hibs goal was coming, then Jack Milne does Jack Milne things and its 1-1. He was a very lucky boy to stay on the park, Robinson 100% right getting him off as he was a red card waiting to happen. Knoester was excellent at the back, Molloy did a good solid job, but just no more Milne please for the love of god. Aremu excellent in the middle, my MOTM & Marshall had another good game as did Nisbet. Olusanya not as much of a nuisance as usual today. Loads to work on during the international break. Our delivery into the box continues to be simply abysmal and we surrender far too much cheap possession, but hey, while its a disappointing 2nd half taking us into the break, after the start we’ve had in the league that’s been a pretty decent week overall…

Ach, not the worst result. Both teams trying not to lose for the most part, quite a cagey affair. We looked like a team at times there. Think Robinson probably got the subs wrong today. I don't think Ronan should have come off for Armstrong, and I don't think Briedl should have come on in Marshall's position. Both upset the balance a little. Milne probably unlucky for the pen, their player actually stopped running to fall over as a result of the little bit of grabbing going on. The ref gave it, and you certainly don't need VAR overturning. Correct not to book Milne as the defenders were easily clearing it. We didn't really get going in the second half, and the draw definitely the fairest result. Thought Aremu and Knoester were excellent, and Molloy also very good (he's a fantastic defender on the ground). Again, the enforced sub in defence upset the balance a bit, and I think if they'd pushed Molloy on his wrong foot they'd have got something. Mouloua never really got going when he came on. Anyway, an organised performance with some good signs. Nothing spectacular.

Please don’t ask chat GPT to compare them- I’ll miss the start of the game by the time I read the response😁

Today was really what I expect from Aberdeen this season, or at least until the next transfer window. Defend well for the most part, get the ball forward quickly, be alright but not overly impressive, and not be shite. The start we had to the season had me fearing it would be much worse than that. The win at Fir Park had me believing it would be much better. We're alright. A newish manager, a squad overhaul and just one transfer window, this is kinda where you expect to be at this stage.

Fantastic performance tonight, played like a proper football team. Olusanya set the tone by chasing down everything, and keeping us in it at times, and they started to get a little edgy passing it out. Then we got the press sorted and there was only one winner. Well done Robinson, really well organised, and finally seems to have got the midfield setup right. Not just the starting setup, but the two subs slotting in perfectly in their roles too. The back three is perfect for us, with Knoester rock solid (he really seems to be bigger and stronger this season). Again, the two defenders coming in and doing fine. Mouloua coming on was excellent, I really love him. Nisbet excellent the whole game and deserved his goal. Ronan possibly man of the match for me though, he was brilliant tonight. Covered so much ground, and used the ball really well. That three, with him and Marshall higher up works really well. I'd prefer Briedl, but Aremu did well. Fantastic result.

That's actually one thing I didn't do mate. My proposed protest against Robinson at the team bus has been postponed for just now. Suspect it won't be for too long as let's not allow this unexpected victory to disguise the fact Robinson's AFC are shite and this has merely papered over the cracks.

At least I can use the quote function....

Robinson looked pleased with Mouloua's penalty. His reaction was as funny as the audacity of the penalty.

We’ll probably sign him too.

Rumours aboubd that Palaversa is away, or just about. Didn't work out, but legendary status granted through that penalty, noising up the tinks afterwards and then his post match interview. Cheers Ante!

Enough about Mayo and Happe.

Nobody in Scottish football is quick enough to make red and white kit clash with pink apart from Olusanya and he plays for us. I have tested this with the 2026 Dulux chart ( assuming Flow colour Taupe Pink 10YR 50/101 as oor kit .

"We've won 4-0, feel good factor finally. Now let's release a strip no-one asked for or needed, and charge £122 for the full kit. Why? Just to show we're still in our banter era. "Oh, and make it pink. Find a castle we can pretend is relevant."

So things I think we learnt, or confirmed, yesterday: Muller is a reasonable first choice keeper (not just based on the pens) We desperately need pace at CH. We’re gonna get crucified in there otherwise. Someone who can make a pass wouldn’t hurt either. Cadden is definitely no better than Devlin, just a bizarre signing Obi 2 has the physical attributes to play full back / wing back, just needs to work a bit on the football side. Armstrong, Aremu & Ronan doesn’t work. No legs in there. Don’t do that again. Good cross for the goal, but Ronan just isn’t offering enough as the supposed creative spark. The McGrath decision looks worse by the week. Another poor personnel decision letting him walk. Ntelo & Nisbet, doesn’t work. Has to be Moloua or Olusanya in beside Kev & I prefer the idea of Olusanya as an impact sub as he made a huge contribution doing that last night. So where does Ntelo fit in - Nisbet back up only really as he’s not a winger either. No wingers & no width doesn’t work when you don’t have proper wing backs to offer that wide attacking threat (Obi 2 did ok, Cadden didn’t) so we really need wingers & width. Given the wingers we’ve got haven’t really delivered that yet its a bit of an issue. So whole new squad, but a large number of significant issues remain that haven’t been adequately addressed by the new arrivals. Its a big squad though, so do some of the answers sit in house? Gotta hope so. Robinson needs to work out his best most effective selection & formation PDQ, cause that last night absolutely wasn’t it. I have the fear for the semi. Let’s be honest, all 3 of the other teams will be praying to get us in the draw as things stand currently…

Mouloua though? The look on Robinson's face was priceless. Top pen.

Those pens from Killie. Holy fuck. @BigAl getting carried away at the end it seems.

Is it fair to say we’ve way over spent in recent years and this is a cut back year? Not only with players but paying off managers. We gambled and speculated, doubled down, but then no Europe. It’s almost like a reset year, start from scratch. No long term contracts and hopefully maybe 6 or so of this group are good enough to build on next year? It’s very clear it’s been a no thrills window, very blue collar and practical. It’s been all doom and gloom. We’ve gone from the excitement of a last minute karlsson to a free agent freebie after the window closes. Club won’t say it but it’s a reset year. Not a fan of Robinson but he’ll get no love or breaks from the fans, and that’s harsh. We were perfect league cup, you can only beat who is in front of you. We played the top three teams from last year already, that’s a hard ask. Losing all 3 would not have been a surprise. We were shit last year and gutted the team, it won’t be good for a while, hard to expect us to compete with the best teams straight away, think we have to be fair and realistic. 1 pt from killie and Dundee is certainly disappointing, but throw in new players and the tough other games, were expecting the team to hit the running, and that hard. Said last season I’d give Thelin until Xmas before judging, doing the same with Robinson. Not seeing much positive to be honest, but got to give the guy a fair chance.

Hiding behind the couch is not a prior engagement. So I am told.

I predict that both teams will be badly missing Brad Lyons.

So a new keeper in Daniel Klein D Klein sums up our club perfectly.

He was at the Arbroath game last weekend, I expect that's where he'll be shortly. I wonder if we are waiting for another in the door before letting him go. I don't like to see that approach, McInnes was bad for it. We'd keep a young player for our bench for six months, giving them less than ninety minutes in total, just so that we have cover if players get injured. Then when the injuries occurred, McInnes would end up playing a player out of position instead anyway. We should be doing whatever is best for Marshall right now, not the short term interests of the club or a particular manager.

I think Docherty would be a good signing but, on the grounds he probably wont sign or end up being shite if he does, I feel it necessary to declare him a useless Hun chunt.

Other initiatives from Primary school which would benefit the Scottish game include all the players lined up before the game and the two captains get a turn each to select a player. Chances are Aberdeen will still end up with a goalkeeper called "Tubbos" with NHS glasses !!!

Kilmarnock are shite and their manager is a prick. 5-0 Aberdeen.

He's basically the only player I knew in their team, and it's difficult to hate him. He's more of a tragic figure, even hated by his own fans. A no-mark. It's one of the worst things about these Dons-Sevco games: there's no hatred any more. None of their players stay long enough for me to remember their names (and same's happening for our team, I suppose). Even guys who did stay for years, like Tavernier, like - who really gives a phvk about them? Meaningless. There's no bite anymore. Today was like losing 1-0 to Motherwell - do you really care that much? It's just not as good as it used to be.

Recency bias I hate that fat hun fanny as much as the next man but he’s not in the same league as Stench Hately

I FUCKING HATE THOSE FUCKING HUN CUNTS. That’s all. Kind regards etc…

Aremu has been tremendous Won't finish the game of course.

For any Japanese clubs looking in: イェンギを奪わないで。彼は間違いなく我々の最高の選手であり、誰かが控えめな金額で彼を奪うのではないかと心配しています。

Yet again I find myself agreeing 100% with Moog. Wee Toon Red asked a couple of pages back what made us an average spfl side with no ambition and I replied the vast majority of Robinson's signings in my opinion. I also said there would be more downs than ups this season and we would just have to see where we ended up. If we were to sign Phillips (thankfully we wont at that price), then to me that would just underline my view. I think we will struggle to make top six given what we have signed. I get we had been utter dross before Robinson came in but I feel we need to be aiming higher with our signings. If this lot get us to a top six finish which should be a bare minimum then fair play to Robinson and the team.

Think the inclusion of Brian Irvine in your list is harsh in the extreme Irvine was signed at a time when Miller & McLeish were at their peak, so cementing a place in the team was always going to be difficult initially. Over a twelve year period he went on to play almost 400 first team games for us so to say he wasn't a first team pick is unfair in my opinion.

Not much to add to what’s been said other than I thought Aremu was excellent today on the whole.

Really hoping Milne has a good game today. Got a lot of stick last season, some deserved, but some well OTT. Come on Jack, show you can play.

Smart girl, played you like a fiddle🤣

I'm argue 13,000 is an outstanding effort for a semi-final, and that's before you consider the distance to travel, the lack of public transport options, the price of travel with high ticket prices lumped on top, unfavourable kick-off times, and the general poor experience of going to a game at Hampden. You can't compare us to Hearts and Hibs because distance, public transport and price of travel doesn't affect them. We'd sell 20,000 regularly too if we only had a short hop to Dundee for a semi. And even then, both have had their fair share of poor semi-final crowds. They've struggled to sell 10,000 tickets for semi-finals played in their own city before.

Appropriate night to be facing the zombies.

I agree with you 100% on this. People need to think for themselves or we will all have custard from brains. I hope you're right. Looking at everyday life, my work and my wife's work have changed at an unprecedented rate over the last 6 months, and we're both starting to see the trimming down of the workforces. it makes me wish I was 10 years older and approaching retirement. Whoever wished to be older! When our respective companies, in different industries, started using AI a year or so ago it was pretty basic and had no real serious impact. The speed it has progressed is mental. Our marketers no longer write copy, our designers no longer design, our L&D team no longer write training courses and create materials. I am getting over long reports of unchecked, contradictory bollocks landing in my inbox from people who think they are being smart. But it's level of smartness is improving nearly daily, and what was nonsense 6 months ago, is now pretty passable. My wife's work no longer recruit junior coders as it is all written by Claude. It's all generic AI slop, but so many people are looking past that and marvelling at the fact something that took them a day, has just been done in 2 minutes. People who's jobs were creative are finding themselves to be writing requests rather than using their creative minds. And people think who the fact something else can do it or us in a fraction of the time is a good thing, are missing the point of what it means to be human and the satisfaction that comes with using your brain! I don't seriously think we will end up controlled by machines like in the Matrix (but you never know), but I do fear for future generations and their prospects, and think we are sleep walking into this in the name of better profit margins whilst ignoring humanities true role. I hope for a push back, but I don't think the kids have it in them to resist the easy life - they will realise when it's too late! But I hate people and hope we wipe ourselves out. The planet is in much better hands when looked after by nature!

If there was, they would probably sign up Ryan Jack and Anthony Stewart.

fify

Take your pick Yengi, Palaversa, Frame, Bilalovic, Ambrose etc etc.....

Can I suggest that you reread the names of the teams mentioned in the title of this thread

The P&J should livestream a rowie to see which has the longer shelf-life.

Food for thought that performance- Mayo, Lasagna, Müller, Nutella and Guinness, you couldn’t make it up!

If it’s less than 5, I’ll be protesting outside the main stand at full time.

Yeah suspect he's still on deluxe paint on the Amiga

I didn't want Robinson as manager. I wanted Robert Klauß (our loss is some Slovakian club's gain - he's won his last three games 6-0, 5-1 and 13-0). However, I'm not a "sack the manager after 18 games" kind of guy. And I don't think Robinson is a bad manager, but I do worry he's a limited manager, and the early signs are this is a limited team. I don't think top four is realistic. I'm not sure we have it in us to be top five. We may have a fight on our hands just to be in the top six. We have had no momentum from the League Cup group stage, mainly because we've yet to play well in any of the four league games. Robinson was asked if he is getting closer to realising what his strongest XI is. He mumbled something about foreign players not yet knowing the league. Listen pal, stop the excuses. Find a way to get Armstrong and Smith into the starting line-up and into their best positions. If it was Klauß, he'd play a 4-2-2-2, and we wouldn't have to worry about having no wingers. If we had waited for Horneland, he'd have a 4-2-3-1 that morphed into a 4-1-3-2. But, we didn't. We appointed Robinson, and he needs to give this Aberdeen team an identify that is more than 'works hard but doesn't create anything' and playing Olusanya in every game.

4 HT Subs is the manager admitting he fucked up big time. 3 of them are spot on mind, the 4th is harsh on Mouloua getting taken off though, one of the few who showed anything first half…

You think I'll make it to kick-off? I might turn the car around when the line-up is announced.

Meant to upload some pics of my boy ages ago. He's no longer with us now sadly, 2 years now and I'm not even remotely close to being over it. His name was Wyvis after the mountain that overlooks Inverness and he was just the goodest boy in all the land. Hug them tight folks, we can't protect them from time however much we want to. Oh, one last thing, he was an Alaskan Malamute not a fucking Husky 😂😂😂