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This story is hilarious (although, a few months of stress for the poor bloke involved). Basically an Aberdeen fan got charged with assault for singing Stand Free. My favourite part:- His daughter Lauren gave an example of the fists-out gesture to the court and sang a line from the Stand Free chant. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm89w9yeyno

Robinson has been mainly playing 3-5-2 this season, and wouldn't be surprised if he does that in his first game. He's also played 3-5-2 in both games v Falkirk this season - a 2-1 away win, and a 2-0 home defeat (although they had seven players injured for the second one). I also think Shinnie will start as he'll want his captain in there for the first game. Olusanya is his man so likely starts too (although Lazetic did score a glorious goal against St Mirren). My prediction (I presume there's no suspensions/injuries I've missed):-

Lutz was quoted in the club's statement so he's not left, and Robinson's title is head coach rather than manager, which again suggests there'll be a sporting director above him. Leven/Doc away I believe. Just watched the RedTV piece on his first day. Appears Robinson got all the staff together - the non football side - to introduce himself and give a speech. Comes across a quite impressive and very likeable. Fuck it, I've never loved an Aberdeen manager as much as Robbo. We're gonna win everything, then win it all again.

It's true, yes, but I don't think I can say anything else, as much as I'd love to. Hopefully just a temporary thing.

If Leven & Docherty have left, be interesting to see if that was a Robinson decision, a board decision, or if they left of their own accord (Docherty was only in a temporary role anyway, so I'm thinking more about Leven).

I'm half Irish. No offence taken though as you're clearly a few fries short of a happy meal.

Not sure Lutz has been undermined here considering we were interested in Robinson two months ago, and Lutz began the process by saying he wanted someone with knowledge of Scottish football. But I guess it'll all come out over the next few months. I think we all know Robinson wasn't the first choice. Horneland obviously fell through for "unforeseen circumstances". Cormack mentioning Schwarz last week in an interview wasn't helpful, but the kind of brain fart we've come to expect from our dear leader.

Currently watching his YouTube interview and my enthusiasm for him is waning due to the amount of times he says "football club". Not a good start to his tenure. Expected better than this.

It's done, announcement coming very soon. Dave is currently writing and rewriting the statement, trying to convince everyone that Robinson fits the board's philosophy of delivering exciting, attacking football and that he was the number one choice from the very start. He's here now. Wasn't my first choice but I also don't think he's anywhere near as bad as some people are making out. The anger should be with the club rather than Robinson.

I would expect he'll be announced in the morning (presuming everything has gone smoothly, which with us recently is no guarantee). Absolutely no reason for him to have to wait until summer. McInnes left Kilmarnock for Hearts last season. Be interesting to see his managerial team. Would Docherty stay as assistant having been a manager against Robinson previously?

Is he though? Under Goodwin, St Mirren finish 9th and 7th, and although he left them in sixth he never completed the season (they finished 9th). Best they did in either cup was a semi-final. Robinson was his direct replacement, and in each of his full seasons they have finished 6th, 5th, 6th (their first top six finishes since 1985), won the League Cup and will be leaving them in the Scottish Cup semis. They qualified for Europe for the first time in 37 years. This is his first poor season in the league as manager, and can be attributed to injuries and yeah, poor signings. But they've still won a cup and did it by beating four Premiership teams on the way, including Hearts, and thumping Motherwell and Celtic. And that doesn't mention his record at Motherwell too, which ranks above Goodwin at both Dundee United and Aberdeen. I totally accept the negativity towards his appointment and that many of us expected something else, but he is a significantly better manager than Jim Goodwin.

I've nothing against Stephen Robinson personally. I think he's a decent manager, and given a good squad he absolutely can be a successful Aberdeen manager. He's also a more successful manager than everyone we've appointed since McInnes, and as of now has also won the same number of trophies as McInnes. He also led St Mirren & Motherwell to a combined three cup finals, just one fewer than McInnes at Aberdeen, which is probably a bigger achievement when you consider the budgets. My annoyance is us once again abandoning a long term strategy because we can't make up our fucking minds what to do. We also could have appointed him two months ago and potentially still salvaged the season. I don't know if the Lutz leaving rumours are true, but if they are then that's another shit show to deal with. At the moment I have little confidence in us having a squad next season that will be good enough for Robinson to get anything out of.

What has Alex McLeish got to do with that image?

Your determination to derail every thread by saying the same thing over and over again, and then insulting anyone who disagrees with your opinion, got boring a long time ago.

Typical weegie media tripe.