Aberdeen v Dundee (Premiership)

[RicoS321]

9 hours ago, dons8321 said:

Wouldn't disagree but what I was trying to say (I'm an old guy so try to bear with me) was that I thought Gieger gave his all today even when he was gassed towards the end and that I thought that Shinnie wouldn't have produced the same intensity today as he did in midweek.  

I think Geiger would have to go a long way to be as good as Shinnie to be honest. I think fitness will make a big difference to him though, and we'll pass judgement when that comes. He did work hard, and once fit that suggests he'll have a lot more to offer. We regularly hear that we should be moving on from Shinnie because he's not technically brilliant and he's ageing. However, we've signed numerous midfielders over the years and none have got close to offering what he does. I think Shinnie would have been fine today, but he can't play at Wednesday's level twice a week regularly, so we'd have to pick and choose which games to play him in. Anyway, I don't think Geiger is here to replace Shinnie, I think that might be what Aremu is for, but he's weeks away from playing by the looks of it. If we can get Geiger to the level that Aouchiche was at before he left, then that'd be very good. I think he has more bite than Aouchiche, so if he can do the running then that'll be excellent. However, if we don't replace Shinnie then we'll be in the same predicament we were earlier in the season, with a weak as piss midfield of similar players. Shinnie, Geiger, Cameron is definitely our best midfield at the moment, so hopefully Geiger gets up to speed soon. I don't think forcing ninety minutes out of him yesterday was a good way to go about it.

[Bukta Bertie]

8 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Totally disagree. Ridiculous today. Why was Morrison starting? He’s not shown anything to suggest he’s good enough and we had a tremendous opportunity to build on Wednesdays great result. Instead we made needless changes. That to me is criminal, go with the players that started well against  Motherwell unless we had injuries. Why start olusayna, even though he scored, why pigeon hole him at right mid? Obviously shinnie is injured so we needed one change.

Unless Milne was injured there was no point in morrison. Plus that’s two games now afeez has managed just 45 minutes. As was mentioned pregame, go with sivert, positionally and leadership. We’re at the business end of the season  and points matter, and are worth money. Very poor line up and while we started well, the red killed us. I just don’t understand leven’s approach today??

im not going to jump on VAR. we know it’s shit, and we got the benefit midweek. It is what it is. And I’m not blaming the ref. Both are out of our control, picking the team, the tactics etc are under our control.

the team and club are a bit of a mess right now and I think the reaction to today’s result is justified.

It was actually a great game of football (from a neutral viewpoint) and the Dons for the majority of the match played some good stuff. First 25 minutes was fantastic and we bossed the second half despite being a man short.

However there are absolutely some players at the club that shouldn't wear the shirt again. I personally wouldn't give Morrison in particular another appearance. Others we can cut some slack because they're clearly not match fit.

[blowupsheep]

I am all for change if that change is for the better. Have now seen more than enough of Bratveit to see is most certainly not an upgrade on Mitov.

Hopefully Mitov back in between the sticks from Wednesday at tannadump and for the rest of the season.

Nisbet MOTM easily yesterday and is most probably one of the most hard working players we have.

He certainly and clearly gives a fuk and tries his best every single week which is not a lot to ask. Sadly we cannot say the same about many of that fukin charlatans that were prancing around the pitch yesterday. Got what we deserved once again

[Bukta Bertie]

Bratveit will do as the number two keeper but we need to get a new number one.

I'm sticking with Geiger as my MotM but aye Nisbett always puts a shift in. One to keep.