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As long as it is not passing it from full back to centre half to other centre half to other full back and back again- possession with purpose is needed, not possession for the sake of it to stop the other team having the ball and doing absolutely fuck all with it, until one of said centre backs gives it away and defence is left exposed or retaining possession from a goal kick by having centre back pass the ball along the 6 yard box to Mitov, who is then under pressure to do something with it which he is not very good at If that bio is accurate, he likes possession in the opponents half, not the low block, so that would definitely be a positive

Maybe his departure from St Ettiene was hastened by him applying for the job? May never know- and still not a done deal yet if you had been on the shortlist and waiting a call following interview last week you might be a bit miffed by apparent change of direction

Guess falls into interesting but high risk category- could be a breath of fresh air and between him and Lutz overhaul the club structure- or will be a spectacular failure and both will get their jotters Strap in folks

Weather boy just said it was going to stop on Monday and start again on Tuesday Saturday night in front of the telly then

Enjoy Goldie hopefully the arena is finished on time quite jealous- always preferred the winter to the summer Olympics, and having spent a fair bit of time last few years around Milan and north of there, gutted that can’t go to these games as just love the area / food / wine etc

It has been pretty relentless since the snow melted- was starting to think I had been transported to the west coast

Fed up getting soaked leaving Pittodrie and not looking forward to this game one iota- for purely selfish reasons I hope this gets called off pissing down again looking out the window

is Robinson not European? I guess in post Brexit era he may not identify as European- regardless- surely not him

I actually think Lutz has some communication /media training- as BUS has said, he says a lot and the soundbites are what folk want to hear, but actually says very little. I am very sceptical that he is the person that will build the sustainable football structure that we need - I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now as he is only 2/3 months in to a shit show, but be interesting to look back in a year to see how well this has worked

on the recruitment, as others mentioned earlier, moving the choices from manager to DoF without checks being done is asking for trouble genuinely hope the 2 midfielders that have worked with Lutz before are decent and upgrade but apart from them not playing regularly, when was the last time he actually watched them play ? no difference to Thelin taking in Karllson Nilsen Jensen

Not at all- and he might be as big a charlatan, if not the biggest one as the others in our set up- just don’t think this one is on him Jury very much out for me on Lutz

Rumours that he may be going to a league where window is open longer- Croatia?

Not sure Lutz can be blamed for this one- wanted away in summer and when it didn’t happen he was frozen out- long before Lutz arrived with no idea who is coming in, guess Clarkson just wants a fresh challenge where he is likely to play every week can’t blame the lad and wish him all the best

The Clarkson one I find most disappointing- never fully recreated the impact he had in the loan spell- very talented player and can argue whether we didn’t properly utilise him or his standards dropped, just wasn’t consistent enough, but sorry it didn’t work out in the end feel with the right manager he could have been a cracking player for us and sure the club saw him as an investment that would bring in large sum after a couple of years

For someone that is challenging punctuation, I am still trying to decipher some of that Neeps I would argue that actual representatives from the club haven’t seen some of these boys play- there may be recommendations from a generic scouting network that we pay like a service provider, but did Jimmy, Garner, Gunn etc actually go see Yengi play or Milanovic play? I'm just interested in the level of checks and balances being done as surely if someone had physically watched these guys they wouldn’t be anywhere near Pittodrie