The excitement is building ahead of Aberdeen's return to Proper Fitba when St Johnstone come up the road on Sunday 11th October.

2 pm is the start time, and I fancy the rested and revitalised Dons to win 2-0.

Pathetic

Nothing else to say about that inept performance

Never bothered going today and doesn’t look like I missed much. Utter shite by sounds of it.

This team is shite in sheep's clothing. Never an Aberdeen team.

Just now, OxfordDon said:

This team is shite in sheep's clothing. Never an Aberdeen team.

Exactly. A team of no marks that won the lottery getting here. I barely know any of their names and to be honest that is more than they deserve. Robinson prime example.

Fire the stupid useless thick f@cking blithering idiot numpty Robinson now.

There is a long list of dross in our first team and majority are worse than what was a long list previously.

Robinson had a lot to answer for as a lot of them are his players- Lutz hasn’t provided stellar signings in his time - Geiger possibly, but the rest - meh

Be interesting to hear what Robinson has to say today and if he is questioned on their makeshift defence and how we didn’t trouble it.

I thought that they used makeshift defence in commentary a lot- at least for St Johnstone it is a temporary thing- every game we play I feel with the current charlatans we have is a makeshift defence every week

St Johnstone were very shyte. Offered nothing after the penalty.

A sore one, in a long, long list of sore ones over the years.

At least we can blame it on missing Lyons...

Even the new Street Food kiosk was underwhelming. A converted shipping container.

For the last 60 minutes St J basically played with a 1/2(half) a forward up front basically just holding on to the lead. Why the actual fuck did we continue to 3 centre halves/5 defenders for nearly all of that time and then in the last few minutes take on a defensive midfielder for an "attacking" right back. Admittedly Olusanya was unlikely to score but FFS

Another thing watching that penalty again, yes it hit Milne's arm but did it not come off his chest first??

That was pathetic. 3 weeks to prepare for a game against a team yet to keep a clean sheet and we come up with that game plan. I was never a fan of Robinson’s appointment and nothing I have seen so far has made me think that view was wrong. We have built a squad with less quality than last season’s in most positions. Even if Robinson was to leave now I am not convinced a new manger would get much more out of an extremely limited team anyway.

So yet again in his interview Robinson bemoans the fact the players aren’t showing what they show in training or doing what they do in training in actual games.

Er, 2 things Stephen:

1. Maybe they look better in training because they are playing against the rest of the dross in our squad instead of actual footballers

2. If they’re not doing what you coach them to do, that’s 100% on you.

This isn’t going to end well - yet again - is it…

On 04/10/2026 at 21:44, Panda said:

Even the tennents sixes could only conjure up one goal between the pair.

The fixture is jinxed.

One of the sides to win 1-0.

Predictable. Tough not to judge the fans who stayed beyond the 15th minute in the hope another goal would be scored.

That was less fun than my flu jag. Shower of fannies

Robinson spent pre-season telling everyone the team was going to be playing four at the back and it would be a case of getting forward quickly, high pressing, lots on intensity.

We didn't sign the players to play it.

So, now we're back to a 3/5 man defence. We can't really play 3-4-3 because we haven't signed good enough wingers. So we're playing 3-5-2.

But, Cadden and Guinness-Walker don't provide enough from the wings, and unless you play Olysanya then playing a front two appears to actually nullify our best finisher, Nisbet. But, playing Olusanya means no room for Mouloua in this system.

It feels like we have a new midfield every week. We needed to sign new centre halves, but today started with three from last season because the ones we've signed aren't good enough. They weren't the main culprits today of course (handball v Milne apart) but he clearly doesn't trust them enough to play a back four.

The worry is - this is very similar to Robinson's campaign at St Mirren last season. We have the same number of league victories at this stage (two) as they did, and also have a League Cup semi to paper over the cracks.

We've built a counter attacking team, which is why Motherwell away was such a success. But in the league we have failed to even score at home to Kilmarnock and St Johnstone, and I don't expect a huge amount in the next two v St Mirren and Falkirk.

A lot of possession and work rate but no clue how to break a defence down. We don’t seem to have any creative players - maybe Smith - but nobody that can put a killer ball through to split a defence.

Dropping Aremu is an odd choice. He wouldn’t have been the difference today but still seemed a strange move.

Also Milne over Happe and Mayo tells a story!

We seem to often be poor after an International break but I was fairly optimistic going into today and with a number of home games thereafter.

Pretty dejected after that shower of sh1te today.

Unless we see some noticeable improvement in next couple of games then seriously thinking of writing off the cost of our semi final tickets and just watching at home

50 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

A lot of possession and work rate but no clue how to break a defence down. We don’t seem to have any creative players - maybe Smith - but nobody that can put a killer ball through to split a defence.

Dropping Aremu is an odd choice. He wouldn’t have been the difference today but still seemed a strange move.

Also Milne over Happe and Mayo tells a story!

It was even weirder bring him on with 5 minutes to go...did Robinson really expect him to score or create an gilt-edged chance? Would have made more sense to bring on Happe and play him up front😆.

Aye, that was turgid stuff. Was worried when I saw the line up. Lyons and Ronan isn't a midfield pairing. Our midfield three come from:

Ronan or Lyons

Aremu or Briedl

Marshall or Armstrong

Ronan is a shitter version of Clarkson and can't be relied on in the deep role. He can do the box to box part alongside another (as can Lyons, but Ronan is better). Armstrong is the most versatile, but at his age is better coming on for Marshall and getting into the box (playing like McGrath used to). It should be fucking obvious to the manager, and it should be doubly obvious after today. Lyons was utter dogshite, which is why he was a sub for Killie. He has some attributes, mainly yardage, but he needs actual footballers around him.

Milne was very unlucky with that anti-football decision, but was otherwise poor. It's not entirely his fault, but he doesn't help himself. If we're playing a back three at home against St Johnstone, then we need one of the three to be breaking into midfield constantly. Knoester is best at that, probably, but doesn't do it from the central position. Molloy was good today, but the reason he didn't give the ball away as much as Milne is because he didn't even attempt to take the ball forward. Milne's starting position needed to be much higher if he's being asked to join in midfield, as every time he took the ball forward from deep, the rest of his teammates disappeared. When he took the ball forward from higher up the park, it would draw a player out of position and he used the ball effectively.

Of course, Milne is just a single example of the lack of tactics across the team. We'd work the ball wide, and then loop a ball in. It doesn't look like we've worked on getting the ball to particular areas of the box or having any rehearsed phases of play at all. Under Thelin, you could at least see an element of instruction.

It could just be that we aren't very good at following instructions. There are far too many average players in the squad, and nobody that can create something out of nothing. Seventh will be an achievement with this bunch.

15 minutes ago, dons8321 said:

It was even weirder bring him on with 5 minutes to go...did Robinson really expect him to score or create an gilt-edged chance? Would have made more sense to bring on Happe and play him up front😆.

He was the closest player to the bench at the time Cadden signalled his injury I'm guessing! Lyons to right back, Aremu into midfield made sense if it was the 20th minute, but not when chasing the game.

A team of average players, no one with any nous or guile with the ability yo pick a pass to enable the front two to get a chance on goal, no ammo = no possibility for the forwards to score. I've read recently about the international break giving the players the chance to work together, get to know each other and how positive training has been, i saw fek all of that today. Pish.

well well well that was as bad as I have seen for a long tme.
The laddie Yogane will never be football player just never. Milne maybe was a bit unfortunate for the penalty but he is still utter mince and the fact he started ahead of Happe and Mayo has me asking serious questions of our manager.
Can't blame the keeper for their goal but, he is certainly NOT an upgrade on Mitov.
A wee glimmer of hope - The boy Mahou looked as if he might be OK but fk me any potential and any confidence he might have is soon going to be sucked right out of him playing along side that shower of fukin charlatans week in week out.

Any lingering snippets of optimism for the season that I was clinging on to have now totally evaporated. Our last 6 results (LLDWDL) is exactly the same as Falkirk and Killie who are 11th and 12th (respectively)
Buckle up it's going to be another long long dreadful fkn season.
Lower the expectations, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

Congratulations to St J, for getting their FIRST clean-sheet of the season well done.