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I think he’s a decent player who’s done ok since he came in. Im not sure how big a stumbling block the two years would be, but his wage demands might be an issue. I think we are looking for better than him long term but we have another big rebuilding job this summer so having a known quantity with bags of experience would be good.

2 hours ago, BigAl said:

Victory next saturday and we are safe regardless of what  happens in the remaining rounds of fixtures after that.

That's the positive to take from today for me 

Absolutely agree, the result was important today, hopefully takes some of the pressure off and we can just try and enjoy the last 4 meaningless games. 

Call me an optimist but I just can’t see Ross County and St Johnstone both picking up 3 wins in the 4 remaining games. 

I always thought the talk was that Leven didn’t want to be a manager. Wouldn’t be great from a continuity perspective. 

What’s happening with Mattie Pollock these days? Is he getting game time at Watford now?

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. 
 

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6 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

The board got in an inexperienced manager for our heaviest scheduled season this century and didn't get anyone with experience above him, all after the two previous inexperienced guys failed in similar circumstances. It's entirely their fault. If Robson had succeeded, it would have been pure luck. 

Obviously, you can always pick up a bad manager, or one who just doesn't fit for whatever reason, but you have to mitigate that in any way possible. Suffice to say, it's clear that there's nobody at the club capable of holding a manager to account and so any good appointment we might make will be down to luck. 

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.

5 minutes ago, Panda said:

I'n not sure we can even count it as a break for the players because they will have travelled down for it. Probably had to bus it back up then do a bit of running at Cormack Park. 

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. 

21 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Then fair isn't fair though. It wasn't fair that they got a penalty and it wouldn't have been if we got one. VAR is ruining the game, but so is the number of bullshit penalties and fouls that we see given on a weekly basis (for and against us). We don't need more of the anti-sport pish, we need less of it. I'd like to have seen the club be a bit more vociferous in their complaints about the Hun penalty and the bias rather than some sort of weird evening up exercise. 

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. 

22 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

I think the PAOK one was actually probably a penalty though. We're really arguing here for Gartenmann to engineer us a penalty to give us parity with the Hun, which I don't think any of us actually want.

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. 

1 hour ago, wee toon red said:

Exactly that. For all most people - probably justifiably - complain when players throw themselves to the ground at the tiniest of contact, they've really got to if they won't get the decision if they don't. Poor officiating is the cause but Gartenmann should have gone down yesterday and given the officials as decision to make.

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. 

4 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

The BBC have certainly got value for money from the 2014 league cup article. It's tradition to regurgitate it seems.

Robson's booze war chest

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.