Aberdeen v Hearts

[Jute]

Meant to add had forgotten what bigoted bastards there are in Hearts support. As vile as their Ibrox based cousins. Definitely not diets as folk call them. 

[TheDonbytheDee]

4 hours ago, Blow.Up.Sheep said:

Lazetic seems to struggle in the lone striker role in the same way that Nisbet does. 

I can't agree with you on that BUS. He has to sit very deep, due to us playing not to get beat,  but he still puts in a shift and does a lot of donkey work.  

Like you, I'd like to see two up front, but just don't see us having to personnel to change too much formation wise at the moment.

If we could get out of our own half a bit more and better decision making in the final third, we may well see Lazetic and Nisbet score again.

I fell sorry for Nisbet mostly. Gets chucked on for the final few minutes to chase shadows and that isn't what he is about.

The guy who sits next to me in the South Stand goes way OTT in his abuse of Nisbet when he comes in. Just some folk you can't reason with. 

[RicoS321]

3 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Show us your formation then if going 2 up top.  

3-5-2, 3-3-2-2, or 3-4-1-2. We played a 3-5-2 against Motherwell, with Karlsson and Lazetic central, but we quickly shifted back to the 3-4-3 because the midfield struggled (that was the game that Armstrong looked knackered anyway). In my opinion, the 3-1-4-2, with Clarkson (or Polvara if we must) sitting in front of the defence, with two in front would work nicely. Similarly, two sitting, with Armstrong ahead would work fine too. I'd argue that none of these work particularly well with Karlsson in the side, but I find it bizarre that we haven't tried any of these options when looking for something to change a game, instead insisting that Nisbet comes on as a lone striker in abject failure, every single time.

Edited November 24, 2025 by RicoS321

[Brochred]

12 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

28th November 1992, or 33 years ago this Friday.

I had only just turned 19.

Our line up...
Snelders, Wright, McLeish, Irvine, Smith, Bett, Grant, Richardson, Jess, Mason, Shearer.

Subs: Booth & Kane

Scorers: Irvine, Shearer x3, Mason & Booth.

 

We'd be winning the lot with that team today.

they would have won the lot as well if the BitB weren't the BitB.I can't remember if it was that season or the season before, we scored about 70 goals in the league but had no penalties given... funny that.

[RicoS321]

1 hour ago, Brochred said:

they would have won the lot as well if the BitB weren't the BitB.I can't remember if it was that season or the season before, we scored about 70 goals in the league but had no penalties given... funny that.

Shearer, Mixu, Booth and Jess had over sixty in the league between them in 92-93. Mental. Don't remember the pens stat though. 

[tlg1903]

10 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

He'd have been a slightly better match winner if he hadn't missed the original header! As he did in the first half too. In fact, if you go through their chances, there was probably only one created from a good move (the lad on the left getting deep into our box before being crowded out). Milne got caught under the long ball in either half, Knoester did similar in the second, losing a ball he seemed to have under control, and then Devlin tried a difficult pass back instead of just clearing it for a throw. The rest of their opportunities came from set pieces (albeit there were maybe a couple of good moves to win corners).

There's been some chat online that our defence is 'sorted' because we have had a few clean sheets recently and it's absolute nonsense.  Our defence is improved but if Hearts take their chances yesterday they win comfortably.   It doesn't help that Mitov seems to be becoming increasingly uneasy at coming for high balls and we seem to be getting at least one erratic moment per game from him too. 

Yesterday was one of those games where we deserved it because we managed to score and the opposition didn't but we were very fortunate to deserve it if you ask me.   

[RicoS321]

2 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

There's been some chat online that our defence is 'sorted' because we have had a few clean sheets recently and it's absolute nonsense.  Our defence is improved but if Hearts take their chances yesterday they win comfortably.   It doesn't help that Mitov seems to be becoming increasingly uneasy at coming for high balls and we seem to be getting at least one erratic moment per game from him too. 

Yesterday was one of those games where we deserved it because we managed to score and the opposition didn't but we were very fortunate to deserve it if you ask me.   

Mitov was fine yesterday. Just like the rest of them he made a single error. Not sure his was worse than any of the others. Generally speaking, he's decent at crosses too, but we seem to face an inordinate number of them in games. Far more than we throw in. We've given up blocking crosses, and seem to prefer to defend them in our own box these days. That results in Mitov having to gamble a lot more than you'd like. Saying that, if he'd stayed on his line for that one yesterday, I think they might have scored. He seemed to do just enough to put the guy off, despite not getting to it first. 

[TheDonbytheDee]

8 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

There's been some chat online that our defence is 'sorted' because we have had a few clean sheets recently and it's absolute nonsense.  Our defence is improved but if Hearts take their chances yesterday they win comfortably.   It doesn't help that Mitov seems to be becoming increasingly uneasy at coming for high balls and we seem to be getting at least one erratic moment per game from him too. 

Yesterday was one of those games where we deserved it because we managed to score and the opposition didn't but we were very fortunate to deserve it if you ask me.   

Any team is asking for trouble, when putting so much pressure on it's defence, but we stood up to it well on Sunday and Hearts didn't score.

As I posted after the game, it wasn't pretty and we rode our luck plenty, but that made the three points even sweeter.

 

 

[Blow.Up.Sheep]

18 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Show us your formation then if going 2 up top.  

Not so sure if this is a serious question but if it is there are actually loads of formation options as RicoS321 has already pointed out, here are a few example formations for you just in case you missed it.
If Thelin wants to continue with a back three then he can go 3-5-2 or 3-3-2-2 or 3-4-1-2, if he want to change he can go with the traditional 4-4-2

Continuing with the lone striker approach will ultimately cost us more points than it will earn us, of that I am 100% sure.
With this approach at the moment then to be honest Kevin Nisbet is a complete waste of a shirt and a waste of a wage, I (like others have said) feel sorry for Nisbet, he has quality and is a goal scorer we all know that, but we need to be adaptable with our formation, and go with two strikers up top when the time is right and that should be in the majority of home games at least, but Jimmy appears to be too stubborn to change, which is a shame. 
Think I am not alone by saying I would like to see us go with two strikers (Nisbet and Lazetic) 
We have the depth in squad to be able to do that, but will we ever see it ? then probably not. Which is quite sad to be honest 

[tlg1903]

14 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

Mitov was fine yesterday. Just like the rest of them he made a single error. Not sure his was worse than any of the others. Generally speaking, he's decent at crosses too, but we seem to face an inordinate number of them in games. Far more than we throw in. We've given up blocking crosses, and seem to prefer to defend them in our own box these days. That results in Mitov having to gamble a lot more than you'd like. Saying that, if he'd stayed on his line for that one yesterday, I think they might have scored. He seemed to do just enough to put the guy off, despite not getting to it first. 

Fine? Nah, not for me.  To my eye he should have had a penalty awarded against him and possibly even sent off for dangerous play against Kabore.  I dunno, to me he just looks shaky and nervous at the moment and has done for a while.  I know goalies get extra scrutiny for mistakes but Mitov is giving me the fear a lot this season. 

[manc_don]

17 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

Fine? Nah, not for me.  To my eye he should have had a penalty awarded against him and possibly even sent off for dangerous play against Kabore.  I dunno, to me he just looks shaky and nervous at the moment and has done for a while.  I know goalies get extra scrutiny for mistakes but Mitov is giving me the fear a lot this season. 

Agreed, whilst not priority, I was wanting us to sign another GK that would genuinely provide him with competition. There is just something about him that always makes me doubt him. SC final aside obviously