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We've aimed for better before and ended up with Sokler, Yengi, Ambrose, JET and all sorts. Olusanya isn't the greatest footballer in the world but we know what we'll get from him and he's undeniably effective. As long as we get another striker in to backup Nisbet - or Bavidge gets a chance, which seems overly-hopeful - then Olusanya is an absolute no brainer of a signing.

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Kids go to Pittodrie. Not sure you want to see Judas Cunt in the program, on the team sheet, and being announced over the tannoy every second week…

In true Gothenburg Day fashion, I got soaked in the pishing rain when I was out earlier.

Best day of the year guys. Have a good one

Neil Simpsons autobiography is released tomorrow Looking forward to reading this one. Launch do at Pittodrie on Thursday night. Details are on his website neilsimpson8.com

There was a valid question asked after Thelin was bagged and Leven got nothing out of this shower for weeks as to whether we’d have been better just sticking with the Swede. Fair question then, not now. Robinson’s got way more out of this lot than Thelin or Leven ever did. He’s got them setup much better, they seem to know what they are doing, and the giving away of stupid set piece goals has slowed considerably - I must say Morrison is growing on me, had a good game yesterday. We’ll never know for sure, but I think we’d have gone down with Leven remaining in place. He got absolutely no response from them at all. I think its very likely we’d have gone down with Thelin still in place as he was far too stubborn, his style of play was completely wrong for this league, his defence was an absolute joke, and frankly I don’t think the players knew what they were supposed to be doing most of the time. Robinson’s come in and achieved his one clear target for this year - and lets be honest, after that game in Paisley that looked pretty unlikely too. Can’t ask any more than that. He’s growing on me too, be interesting to see where he can take us from here…

Are you asking for you, or the entire BBC?

I'm happy for them to go down as they have been our bogey team, particularly in Paisley, for about 5 years now

3 clean sheets on the bounce at home. Robinson undefeated at Pittodrie. What’s not to like. Get them pumped.

That's all very good, in theory, but the reality was that every time we tried to replace Langfield and Mackie, the replacements ended up being significantly worse. Some of the atrocious goalies we got in to replace Langfield especially. Olusanya is a much worse footballer than Mackie was too, as is Yengi, Ambrose and many others. Mackie actually made intelligent runs, watched his striking partner and made space for them. He knew how to play fitba, he just wasn't very good at the bits involving the ball. Olusanya basically gets ordered around by Nisbet and plays on the shoulder as instructed by the manager. The problem that we've got, is that we've got Darren Mackies all over the pitch that need replacing, so we're going to have to be a bit pragmatic and take in guys that aren't good enough for the long term and give them simple instructions with limited scope. Something Steve Clarke was excellent at with Killie. Robinson's style of fitba can easily cope with a player like Olusanya and utilise him effectively as a bit part. Get a proper replacement once we've sorted out defence, midfield and wingers.

A fair point. I guess Olusanya is proven chaos, whereas those two are unproven chaos! Olusanya has the physique (height, basically) that Keskinen lacks against big centre halves, and Bilalovic seems to be quite weak and lacks the diligence to even do the forward role. Bilalovic looks like the type that has the potential to be good, but will probably never fulfil it. Unless he has an amazing preseason, I'd like to see him go somewhere in Scotland on loan for six months to sharpen him up and get him putting the work in. What's most frustrating about the Olusanya situation is that he, and none of the other options, are actually as good as Esther Sokler. With a bit of work, he could have been a great asset when playing two up front.

Olusanya should be trying for a different career after his attempt at Livi The standard in the league is shite. Surely we’ve got a youth player who fancies scoring a few