Aberdeen v Dundee United

[irnbru1903]

Holy fuck! Miracles do happen.

[tlg1903]

Delighted for him, he's had a great game 

[The.Moog]

And there we are. Mathematically safe with 2 games to go. Some achievement. Go us.

That game had distinct end of season vibes. A familiar recent pattern too, decent first half then a rather ropey second. Fitness is clearly an issue, Aremu being a glaring example. Second half he ran like he was towing a caravan and was breathing out his arse - again.

Fair play, Olusanya had a good game today and deserved a goal (even he couldn’t miss that). He does cause problems and offers a physicality we’ve been badly missing, but surely we can sign a striker who offers that and can also play football. 

While I give no credit to that bin fire of a squad after the shit show of this season, full credit to Robinson for getting enough out of them to get us safe.

Fucked over the buds by coming here when he did which helped us out & got some structure in place at last to at least make that lot difficult to beat.

Now, bin at least 80% of that squad, do recruitment this summer like the diets & well did last summer & lets never talk of this season again…

[swaddon]

Please tell me that nobody invaded the pitch to celebrate our safety being confirmed today.

[The.Moog]

1 minute ago, swaddon said:

Please tell me that nobody invaded the pitch to celebrate our safety being confirmed today.

Only Cormack…

[Kowalski]

21 minutes ago, tlg1903 said:

Delighted for him, he's had a great game 

He sure did. 

Wasn’t a great game and I’m surprised Nisbet lasted so long, he wasn’t at it for most of the match. 
 

Aremu and Geiger did well today i thought. 

[swaddon]

6 minutes ago, The.Moog said:

Only Cormack…

I meant proper fans of the club.

[RicoS321]

Just back. Good win, and once again just a hard fought, direct, pragmatic victory. Well done Robinson. We deserved the win, although they had a good 20 minute spell at the start of the second and we took too long to make changes again. I can understand why, when you look at the options, but not subbing Geiger could have cost us, and Aremu too, and Milne was poor. I think he would have happily subbed Nisbet or Olusanya had he not been forced into the other changes, which is fair enough. Shinnie good when he came on, Geiger half decent, the back three played well and Olusanya just caused them problems all day despite being terrible at football. Gyamfi and Milne not great, Devlin and Frame much better when they came on. The ref was new, and was actually quite good. However, there is zero point in VAR if neither of those pens is given. I'm happy to see it ignore handballs and trips where the player has gone down quite easily, but then you leave virtually zero decisions where it is actually clear and obvious rather than subjective. We don't have goal line technology because it only covers one goal a season, VAR is the same if we apply the subjectivity shown today. A complete waste.

Anyway, chance we could be bringing home silverware for the second season running if we can get another couple of wins. The bottom six trophy coming to Pittodrie would be massive.

[wester_ross_don]

1 hour ago, The.Moog said:

Only Cormack…

He'll have thanked the football gods too

[blinlemon]

I love beating those deluded arseholes in a fixture that is really their cup final. 

Their manager is a fraud, and their Funso Ojo-assaulting numbskull Fair Play award-winning losers-at-life supporters are fucking morons.

I despise them almost as much as I hate those cocksuckers from Glasgow. 
They’re Grade A fannies.

Apart from the foregoing, I have no particularly strong feelings on the matter.
Yours in sport etc

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by blinlemon
Not enough hate in the initial draft.

[STFU_Donny]

3 hours ago, swaddon said:

Please tell me that nobody invaded the pitch to celebrate our safety being confirmed today.

No but one of the PJMs had their shoe thrown on the pitch and when the steward was refusing to return it, it looked like it was going to kick-off in the away end. 

[Panda]

First win over United since Ambrose's late winner early in the Thelin era?

Thought Gyamfi, Aremu, Geiger, Armstrong and Nisbet all had good games in the first half. Nisbet actually was playing off the left at times which was interesting, United didn't know who should be marking who and we were moving their defence about. Think all of them were a shadow of themselves in the second half though, and it took Shinnie and Frame coming on in particular to turn the tide back our way. 

If Olusanya can learn to finish he could be our next Shayden Morris. Can't fault his desire and willingness to run at defences. Chuffed he got a goal. 

Gyamfi and Frame offer a nice dilemma as to who should be playing. Gyamfi can't last 90 minutes just now though, but his physicality was a big attribute today, but Frame is a menace and is good at finding space.

After the St Mirren defeat, I was genuinely worried for us, wasn't sure we had it in us to beat anyone. Since then we've taken 10 points from 12 with three clean sheets. He wasn't a popular appointment, and there's still sections of the support he has yet to win over, but you can't deny Robinson has done a fine job over the last five weeks.

[OrlandoDon]

17 minutes ago, Panda said:

First win over United since Ambrose's late winner early in the Thelin era?

Thought Gyamfi, Aremu, Geiger, Armstrong and Nisbet all had good games in the first half. Nisbet actually was playing off the left at times which was interesting, United didn't know who should be marking who and we were moving their defence about. Think all of them were a shadow of themselves in the second half though, and it took Shinnie and Frame coming on in particular to turn the tide back our way. 

If Olusanya can learn to finish he could be our next Shayden Morris. Can't fault his desire and willingness to run at defences. Chuffed he got a goal. 

Gyamfi and Frame offer a nice dilemma as to who should be playing. Gyamfi can't last 90 minutes just now though, but his physicality was a big attribute today, but Frame is a menace and is good at finding space.

After the St Mirren defeat, I was genuinely worried for us, wasn't sure we had it in us to beat anyone. Since then we've taken 10 points from 12 with three clean sheets. He wasn't a popular appointment, and there's still sections of the support he has yet to win over, but you can't deny Robinson has done a fine job over the last five weeks.

Was thinking about Robinson today too, not who I wanted but he’s passed the first test. We’re better defensively, getting clean sheets, creating chances, scoring goals, and winning games. And we’re now safe and can relax and sleep a little better. It’s by no means a great watch but it isn’t awful either. 
Keen to see players linked now that we’re safe, pre contracts, players being told they can leave etc. out of interest, can Marshall play in the last two games? Maybe 20 mins each game to get a look??