Aberdeen v St Mirren

[RicoS321]

14 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

Give in to what? Winning games? Like it or lump, we're winning more than we're losing now so any expectation that the system will change is very misplaced.

I guess it's how this system might evolve then. How does it move from cagey, luck-riding, low chance creating, 1-0 wins, to something exciting? Or more exciting, at least. McInnes played a 3-4-3 for a bit, with Watkins, Hedges and some other cunt leading the line, and it was the most entertaining he had been for a few years. It's often a setup that trades excitement for pragmatism though, which isn't the club's strategy, so one way or another Thelin will have to change. Personally, I'm happy enough with short term pragmatism until the personnel are in place, however I'm not sure that we'll ever really get the personnel to perform a 3-4-3 consistently well in our league. I think you could get that with a 3-5-2, or derivative of that setup. 

[Ajjadeen]

When I’m in my rational brain, not easy with Aberdeen FC, it feels like we will be in attrition mode through to the turn of the year. Volume of games, rotations of squad with Europe etc and too many players playing out of position it’s not going to be free flowing and pretty but points on the board and being in the mix will be priority. We made 5 changes on Sunday and had played midweek so it was never going to be swashbuckling. It’s a hard watch though. Lots of hope pinned on Pingu’s black book

[Jute]

4 minutes ago, Ajjadeen said:

When I’m in my rational brain, not easy with Aberdeen FC, it feels like we will be in attrition mode through to the turn of the year. Volume of games, rotations of squad with Europe etc and too many players playing out of position it’s not going to be free flowing and pretty but points on the board and being in the mix will be priority. We made 5 changes on Sunday and had played midweek so it was never going to be swashbuckling. It’s a hard watch though. Lots of hope pinned on Pingu’s black book

Surely it’s more the contacts in your two heads of recruitment’s black books we are going to be relying on not the DoF’s book of penguin pick up joints. 
 

Yeah think I have sort of accepted we are just going to have to shitfest our way to January with squad deficiencies we have. In January we need to get in players in to allow us to create more chances and be a bit easier on the eye. 

[Ajjadeen]

Agree on recruitment structures but his contacts book has been much lauded, we would be foolish not to lean into it. Out with the Scandi Dandies and in with the Deutsche Dons. 

[wee toon red]

3 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

I guess it's how this system might evolve then. How does it move from cagey, luck-riding, low chance creating, 1-0 wins, to something exciting? Or more exciting, at least. McInnes played a 3-4-3 for a bit, with Watkins, Hedges and some other cunt leading the line, and it was the most entertaining he had been for a few years. It's often a setup that trades excitement for pragmatism though, which isn't the club's strategy, so one way or another Thelin will have to change. Personally, I'm happy enough with short term pragmatism until the personnel are in place, however I'm not sure that we'll ever really get the personnel to perform a 3-4-3 consistently well in our league. I think you could get that with a 3-5-2, or derivative of that setup. 

I think you and others are right: it only changes when the players change. So hopefully January but it likely won’t be great until the summer at the earliest.

Pragmatic results beat sacrificing points for pretty passes.

[Ajjadeen]

12 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

I think you and others are right: it only changes when the players change. So hopefully January but it likely won’t be great until the summer at the earliest.

Pragmatic results beat sacrificing points for pretty passes.

Impressive alliteration 

[Panda]

[manc_don]

Surprised that Milanovic has dropped out completely, but I guess he’s got to make room for nilsen somewhere…guessing we won’t see Bilalovic with that bench tonight? 

[RicoS321]

I wonder if we'll see Karlsson on much quicker than our subs have been being made of late? I'm surprised (and pleased) he's not starting, but wouldn't be surprised to see him on at halftime, despite other players not being afforded that in recent games.