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Snowing heavily in Leith tonight.

2nd round draw Dons come in the next round.

First round results Albion Rovers 0-3 Buckie Berwick 0-3 Stirling Albion Bonnyrigg P-P Bo'ness Brechin 2-3 Linlithgow Camelon A-A Brora (abandoned 0-0 at HT) Cowdenbeath 2-0 Wick Edinburgh City 3-1 Caledonian Braves Elgin 4-0 Civil SS Gala 1-2 Annan Haddington 1-2 Formartine Huntly P-P Cumbernauld Keith 4-2 Hill of Beath (aet - FT 2-2) Kelty 2-1 Jeanfield LTHV 0-3 Banks o'Dee Nairn 0-0 Broxburn (aet - 4-3p) Rothes 1-3 Fraserburgh Stenhousemuir 4-1 Preston Stranraer 5-0 Spartans Tranent 4-1 East Stirlingshire

Ethan Ross with a double for Rovers today. Anderson came off the bench at Ayr but didn’t get a goal again. Virtanen started for Arbroath and Ruth came off the bench.

Better 2nd half performance and nice finish by Taylor for the winner but still needed a good save from Joe at the end to keep 3 points.

1-1 not sure it was a penalty (okay it wasn’t ) and totally against run of play but take it.

1-0 down and it had been coming. St Johnstone player was completely unmarked at back post from set piece. Easy header into the ground and over Joe. Our front pairing offering zero especially Main who is utter shite again.

Thought I had posted this earlier but didn’t work. As Tup says was not impressed with Cosgrove and Main partnership on Wednesday so surprised we are sticking with it. Not sure if there is anyone to create in the middle with this team.

Motherwell’s 3-0 wins reversed as Killie and St Mirren have appealed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55433000 Puts Motherwell down to 10th which means we now have had run of games against 5 of the bottom 6 only winning 2.

The regression back to the eye bleedingly bad style of football we played for most of the last 18 months has been alarming. Even with Wright back fit I am not convinced Cosgrove, Main or Edmundson are capable of playing in the system we had in September and October. As Manc says above hoping it is Campbell in for the suspended McCrorie and not Ojo. Would be tempted to play McGinn instead of McLennan in the middle but given he didn’t get on last night assuming he is not fit as game was crying out for him. Oot Getting over hangover TV Working on getting another hangover 2-1 Hedges and Ferguson for Dons.

Football we are playing has got a lot worse since he and Wright got injured. Need to bring in another striker as Edmundson, Main and Cosgrove are all very similar and don’t fit the style we were playing in September and October. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dean-holden-confirms-marley-watkins-4829674

Disappointing result against a team that are in a poor run. Dropping to many points against teams like Motherwell, St Mirren and Hamilton. Really should be winning games against these teams.

Been awful 2nd half. Cosgrove and Main upfront has been as shite as expected.

Not convinced a Main and Cosgrove pairing is going to be particularly productive.

Very comfortable for first half hour but only 1 real chance which Main missed from 3 yards. Motherwell came into it a bit more last 15 but without working Joe.

Boost that Hoban is fit.

Just in case anyone missed it this is an 18:15 kick off tonight.

There were a few studies initially that said no more injuries than grass but there have been a some in the US now suggesting that long term use of the plastic pitches does lead to more knee and hip issues in young players. John Spencer said that when he was manager of Portland he noticed that the recovery time of players was significantly longer when they were training on the synthetic pitches.

We train on similar surfaces at Westhill.

Vaguely remember them saying something like that on Sunday.

Motherwell were in a shite run of form before the first meeting this season and we somehow managed to lose 3-0 so them being in another shite run does not really fill me with confidence. Saw a stat earlier that said in 11 of last 12 meetings between the sides the team that got the first goal went on to win the game. Can see that being same again on Wednesday. Motherwell stream is £12 which is decent. Oot work tv flat 2-0 Considine and Cosgrove

I see GMS has been told New York will not be taking final year option on his contract. One for McInnes to take in January?

Not reading to much in to Taylor looking good against a team that have only score 3 in their last 6 all against Ross County. Is McCrorie not got a suspension coming up soon as well? ETA - Just seen Rico says that.

Reading between the lines of this think it might be more serious than first suggested. https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/sport/football/aberdeen-fc/donsnews/aberdeen-boss-derek-mcinnes-facing-christmas-defensive-crisis-after-tommie-hoban-injury/