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Sounds like the only positive is that it takes us a further point clear of county. Not going to say that we are safe yet but there are 6 games left and that means they would need to win 3 of them even if we don’t pick up any more points.

Feel like everyone forgot to revisit their predictions by end of January here. Might be sensible to let people do it now. Let’s face it we are not getting to 53 points this season.

Sounds like we’ve been a bit unlucky second half. But I think we can now say we are in a relegation battle.

Mackenzie on, Jensen off. We really need to get something here certainly can’t afford to lose.

I don’t think it was Carroll but I must be getting confused somewhere. I thought he’d spent a few seasons there…

I think he would be a good signing still. Look at Butland for someone who sat on the bench for Man Utd for a number years.

We should be able pick up enough points from those games to avoid threat of relegation. But I would be very surprised to see us pick up 15. We would really need to turn a corner for that to happen.

I guess I was holding on to some hope that Warnock may turn things around a little in a back to basics way. But perhaps based in n today the squad is just not good enough.

I think if we were to win here we could go onto make the top four, but I’m not confident. We have a game in hand on Kilmarnock so despite being 10 points behind we could find ourselves within four. It’s really just if we can put together a run of results and get some confidence back, which I admit I’ve been thinking since December. As much as our squad has a few deficiencies I believe it should be good enough to get 4th. Out 1-1 Miovski

I think you’re right that someone more experienced should have been operating above him. But I also wonder if that would have made all that much difference as it seems to be tactically that he was struggling and if you take that aspect away from the coach he’s not really the coach. My point was more along the lines of you can’t blame them for the appointment. I remember when he got the job there was a bewilderment that it took the board so long to give it to him on the back of the results he was getting.

I don’t have much to contribute regards who should come in. But I thought an interesting stat (that I’m pretty certain is correct) is that Robson won the same amount of league games as interim manager as he did when he got the job permanently. That number is seven games. Have to admit although I didn’t expect the good form to continue indefinitely, I didn’t see the drop off in results that occurred happening. It’s almost hard to be critical of the board when you look at it that way.

The strange thing is that there’s barely a whisper of us signing anyone. I know January is not a good time for strengthening but it’s obvious we need a couple of wingers, just to give us options more than anything else.

Didn’t watch it but it sounds like we were terrible. Doesn’t sound like any improvement to our form from before the break. I think Im letting go of the notion that we will come good now, as I just don’t believe we can catch Hearts in 3rd. Hopefully we can get into the 4th or 5th qualifying place.

I guess it's a break in terms of exerting themselves for 90 mins. But all the build up and training for the game would've happened as if we are playing. I'm not really qualified to say what the effect of that is.

Livingston's first goal in over two months.

I get what your saying Rico but I think we've got to stop being naive about this. It doesn't matter how much we complain about it fuck all is ever done. Teams have won cups leagues, qualified for major tournaments off the back of what they are calling gamesmanship and you and I might call cheating. But none of these decisions are reversed after the fact. VAR is a mess at the moment but it's here and you've got to adapt to it. If getting your shirt tugged in the box is enough to get you a penalty than players need to get there ass on the deck when it happens. Do you think Rangers players/fans give a fuck if we think they cheated for that pen. In fact I would say these issues aren't going to get sorted until its Rangers and Celtic start being on the end of them. The SFA don't give a toss about a strongly worded statement from Aberdeen.

Probably was but we should gave had one too. We have to play the same game as our opponents, if we arent going to try and influence the ref but our opponents are we will keep getting screwed over. Honestly I would have been fine with Gartenmann engineering a penalty. Fair is fair and if its a penalty to the huns a few weeks ago it should be a penalty for us today.

That's cooper sacked. So maybe still a chance for McKenna at forest.

Its similiar to the PAOK game in that sense. Our penalty wasn't given or even checked cause our players weren't kicking up a fuss and making the check happen. Then when PAOK were given there penalty its because they all surrounded the referee and got the game stopped to look at the incident. I don't know if Robson has told them not to do that but it's naivety. I know people hate it but part of the modern game is to be good at winning fouls and influencing the referee.

I agree with everyone that we didn't do enough today. But I did think there was a plan which was to hit them on the break. It worked so well at pittodrie a few weeks ago, so I think it was worth a try. It just didn't work today. Rangers weren't good, we just weren't good enough.

I clicked on the comments and they were all talking about us playing Celtic which confused me. Then I realised they are all from 2018 lol.

I read it that way as well but I assume redordead means the frankfurt game at Pittodrie. In for a shock if not.

All ye of little faith.

I doubt the money men see it that way. 430k more for a win then a draw and we've not managed a single one.

Tbf I think we started the season really well under Goodwin if my memory is correct. It was around this time it all started going downhill. So that's the context here. In my opinion some of the mitigating factors arethere have been some really difficult fixtures in between our European games. After tomorrow we will have played the both Rangers and Celtic twice in the league while most of our rivals have only done so once. We have a cup final to come and turned over about 50% of our squad during the summer. I think Robsons position depends on where we are come January now and we could go either way as I see it at the moment.