A bottom of the table clash awaits us at Pittodrie on Saturday 7th November, with the excitement beginning at 1745.

Hibernian are bottom of the league, but they won't be when they beat us comfortably by two goals to nil.

5 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

You'll be back.

It's an addiction you can't fight.

Genuinely thinking after sixty plus years I have finally scratched the itch mate

5 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I actually feel sorry for Robinson.

Should never have been given the job in the first place and was always going to end badly.

Way out of his depth.

He was never coming back from signing Olusanya and Brad Lyons.

I don't, he's clearly a bellend.

Mahou, Mouloua, Ntelo, Briedl, Aremu, Muller are not his signings in fairness, and you'd have expected both Olusanya and Lyons to be backup to those guys (Mahou aside). The scouting has been fucking woeful again.

I don't know how they turn it around after tonight. Robinson needs fired into the sea, but we still seem very short in the overall running of the club, and the answer can't be just to let another manager come in and tear everything up again with a clean slate and zero strategy. Cormack correctly highlighted transitioning between managers as a big issue seven years ago, and since then has fucked up every single footballing decision. It'll be deeply uninteresting to watch him not learn from this one.

Milne with pass marks tonight. The rest were terrible and the subs a sign of a guy who not only doesn't understand his own side, but football generally.

13 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

💯

Absolute charlatan. He can GTF, and Robinson simply has to go this weekend.

Fuck me we’ve got a dreadful squad. And we need another DM - it’s the same story every match when Aremu is hooked: you can drive a coach and horses through our midfield without a holding midfielder on there.

It's no coincidence that once Aremu was hooked the opposition scored and we still couldn't score. Many such cases and it shows Robinson is fundamentally out of his depth

13 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Genuinely thinking after sixty plus years I have finally scratched the itch mate

One thing I’ve learned over the last few years is that lower league football is much more fun. Suppose I could kill two birds with one stone next season

Something poetic about McGrath pinging one in the top corner to kick start our total arse collapse when you look at the shite we’ve replaced him with.

No way he’s surviving this. We are in a relegation fight for certain. Killie next game after the break could see us bottom.

Stayed until the 4th. On the plus side, traffic was a breeze on the way home.

3 minutes ago, PatrickM said:

It's no coincidence that once Aremu was hooked the opposition scored and we still couldn't score. Many such cases and it shows Robinson is fundamentally out of his depth

Aremu was dogshite tonight, but that position is absolutely crucial, and having him there is significantly better than not. He genuinely thought that a 4-4-2, with Lyons and Armstrong was going to work against a three of Mulligan, Chiawa and McGrath. Absolutely fucking bizarre like.

18 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Genuinely thinking after sixty plus years I have finally scratched the itch mate

That is fckn sad if you are at that point

We have all said it but have seen a few that have turned their back for good

23 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

💯

Absolute charlatan. He can GTF, and Robinson simply has to go this weekend.

Fuck me we’ve got a dreadful squad. And we need another DM - it’s the same story every match when Aremu is hooked: you can drive a coach and horses through our midfield without a holding midfielder in there.

Surely Briedl ? But wasn’t a Robinson signing so he is not willing to work with him to get him to do what he needs him to do

See Devlin/ Frame etc

Robinson is a fckn clown

Whether Briedl is actually good enough is a different story but we may never know

Lowlights

42 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Genuinely thinking after sixty plus years I have finally scratched the itch mate

“Plus” is doing some heavy lifting there though 😉

23 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Aremu was dogshite tonight, but that position is absolutely crucial, and having him there is significantly better than not. He genuinely thought that a 4-4-2, with Lyons and Armstrong was going to work against a three of Mulligan, Chiawa and McGrath. Absolutely fucking bizarre like.

Guard dogs tend to produce dogshite a lot but they also prevent theft and robbery. It is what it is.

6 minutes ago, PatrickM said:

Guard dogs tend to produce dogshite a lot but they also prevent theft and robbery. It is what it is.

He gave away the ball in dangerous positions and let players ghost past him. He was particularly poor tonight. Bradley next to him was equally pish of course, but appears to be consistently shite across 90 minutes, as opposed to Aremu who seems to struggle to complete 60 minutes. Were you at the game today? It's very noticeable at the games how positionally suspect Aremu is.

12 minutes ago, DonsTalk Admin said:

Completely clueless

Get him to fuck

Surely one of you cunts in The City can bundle him in the boot and dump him on the roadside south of Laurencekirk please

15 minutes ago, DonsTalk Admin said:

6 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

He gave away the ball in dangerous positions and let players ghost past him. He was particularly poor tonight. Bradley next to him was equally pish of course, but appears to be consistently shite across 90 minutes, as opposed to Aremu who seems to struggle to complete 60 minutes. Were you at the game today? It's very noticeable at the games how positionally suspect Aremu is.

No I don't live in Aberdeen any more, so I am restricted to TV and radio. And I get it with Aremu, Aremu is a limited player and he needs to be told what to do, he needs to play pivot or double six and sit and hold and be an old fashioned sort of player. I can't image we signed him to be anything else, problem is the team has no shape so he wanders outside his remit and ends up being a headless chicken chasing shadows. That's what happens when that type of a player is poorly instructed in a team with poor communication and poor leadership. Poor Aremu feels responsible, he's a warrior, he's like a big loyal Cane Corso that wants to bark at everything, chase everything, but he gasses himself and looks clumsy when he does. I will always defend Aremu b/c he's a good private in the trenches and I'd want to be in a trench with him beside me, but never Brad Lyons nor Kevin Nisbet nor Stephen Robinson nor Jack Milne, nor Dan Happe, nor Cadden nor Obi Wan nor any of the rest of them pretty much.

Edited Saturday at 21:335 days by PatrickM

I expected Robinson to be a failure but he is exceeding even my low expectations. Abysmal for huge chunks of the game today and soundly beaten by a shite Hibs side. Only Jack Milne and Devlin got pass marks today and no surprise they were not signed by this fraudster. We need rid or he is taking us down. Thing is I do not think our Turkish teeth chairman or penguin thief of a sporting director have any idea how to fix this.

A 4-0 defeat at home and we are saying Milne and Devlin only ones to get pass marks - when did we sink that low?

I agree though - they were my pick of players in red. Ronan at least tried but he was a poor mans McGrath all told.

To have forced out Shinnie as a captain to hand it to Nisbet - holy shit- I get that Shinnie wasn’t as mobile as he once was but Nisbet as Captain? The other option Brad Lyon’s? 🤣🤣Devlin showed more leadership when he came on against Falkirk than Nisbet has shown all season.

I actually think you will get more out of Nisbet if he just concentrates on his own game

Just sick of the leadership at the club from Cormack all the way down to the wifies team

34 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

He gave away the ball in dangerous positions and let players ghost past him. He was particularly poor tonight. Bradley next to him was equally pish of course, but appears to be consistently shite across 90 minutes, as opposed to Aremu who seems to struggle to complete 60 minutes. Were you at the game today? It's very noticeable at the games how positionally suspect Aremu is.

In terms of being positionally suspect McGrath received the ball in complete isolation in centre mof the pitch, had time to control, stroll forward and shoot without any Dons player within 10 yards of him. There are a few people wh should be castigated for a deriliction of duty but Aremu is the person who should have been there.

On a seperate note, maybe we look good in training as we are playing against our defenders

10 minutes ago, Brochred said:

In terms of being positionally suspect McGrath received the ball in complete isolation in centre mof the pitch, had time to control, stroll forward and shoot without any Dons player within 10 yards of him. There are a few people wh should be castigated for a deriliction of duty but Aremu is the person who should have been there.

On a seperate note, maybe we look good in training as we are playing against our defenders

I think he was covering on the right, but he was knackered by that point anyway. A minute or so before being subbed, he let a player stroll past him with the ball in the box because his body position was so awful (because he was tiring). It's a shame for him, he could probably do a job with a very disciplined role. He doesn't read the game particularly well and is careless with the ball. That rules him out of the role sitting in front of the defence, in my view, which is frustrating. He's just a poor version of Shinnie. Chaiwa was significantly better for Hibs today.

2 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

I think he was covering on the right, but he was knackered by that point anyway. A minute or so before being subbed, he let a player stroll past him with the ball in the box because his body position was so awful (because he was tiring). It's a shame for him, he could probably do a job with a very disciplined role. He doesn't read the game particularly well and is careless with the ball. That rules him out of the role sitting in front of the defence, in my view, which is frustrating. He's just a poor version of Shinnie. Chaiwa was significantly better for Hibs today.

Tgere weren't many hibs players who weren't better than their opposite today. Devlin and GW would probably be the only ones who werent bested

Always hoped that Robinson and his players would turn it around but that was it for me tonight (and I realise I am late to the party but) he has to go now.

Noted that Devlin was the only player not going off to a chorus of boos .

I suppose the next worrying thing is how will we convince a decent manager to come to us and risk his reputation at our current sh1tshow of a club

Was at the egg chasing today so just saw the score.

Love of fuck.

How long will Cormack let this absolute shit show continue…

Agree with the comment above - a striker can never be a captain. Disna work.

Aremu should be further forward contesting the ball in the opps half; need a ball player deeper (shout out to whoever mentioned Andrea Pirlo earlier this week because Aremu is clearly in the Hun Gattuso part of that AC Milan 2007 midfield equation, being the physical presence forward, while our playmaker should sit in front of our defence).

I don't blame Robinson for everything but I do blame him for our midfield problems.

57 minutes ago, Brochred said:

In terms of being positionally suspect McGrath received the ball in complete isolation in centre mof the pitch, had time to control, stroll forward and shoot without any Dons player within 10 yards of him. There are a few people wh should be castigated for a deriliction of duty but Aremu is the person who should have been there.

On a seperate note, maybe we look good in training as we are playing against our defenders

All the Hibs players looked so much more comfortable on the ball, than any Dons player on the pitch tonight and this Hibs side is nothing special.

I'm not exactly sure how high up the leaderboard tonights performance was in the all time shitshow performance awards, but it was up near the worst.

Every fucking time a team needs a result, during a poor run, they must relish a game against the Dons. You could stake your kids life on the outcome.

37 minutes ago, Jormungandr said:

Agree with the comment above - a striker can never be a captain. Disna work.

Aremu should be further forward contesting the ball in the opps half; need a ball player deeper (shout out to whoever mentioned Andrea Pirlo earlier this week because Aremu is clearly in the Hun Gattuso part of that AC Milan 2007 midfield equation, being the physical presence forward, while our playmaker should sit in front of our defence).

I don't blame Robinson for everything but I do blame him for our midfield problems.

Think Alan Shearer and one or two others might disagree on that score.

I think a player makes the captain, not their position.

We hounded out Shinnie because his legs had gone, but would still be our best player if he had stayed.

Brad Lyons getting the armband tonight, when Nicky 'Cafu' Devlin was on the pitch, really fucked me off.

Devlin is far from our best ever right back, but the guy is a battler who at least gives the impression that he gives a shit.