Aberdeen skipper Scott Severin and defender Zander Diamond have recovered from injuries and will return to action at the weekend.

 

But Lee Mair remains sidelined and fellow defender Andrew Considine is a doubt with a flu-like bug.

 

Motherwell have a full squad to choose from for the trip to Pittodrie.

 

On-loan Crystal Palace striker Lewis Grabban will be pushing for a place after making his debut in the closing stages of the 2-0 loss to Hearts.

 

Back to normality after the Scotland madness, hopefully we can build on our shaky win at killie two weeks ago. Fuck knows what formation we will go with........

I think a 1-1-8 would reap rewards

Soutar gets the start I assume.

 

Hart McNamara Severin Diamond

 

Clark Touzani Nicholson DeVisschers

 

Miller Lovell

All i ask for is  sensible 4 4 2. with Mcnamara and Severin in thier proper positions!!!

At last. It's time to unleash "The Jeff" upon Scottish football. Be interesting to see how JDW fairs against a half-decent quality opposition. He did well against the Highland League chappies.

what in gods name is it with afc players and weird "virus" like illnesses?

anyway confident about today....which means will probably lose.....but it is these games that made the platform for our success last season and we should be going out to have a proper go at well.  Esp with thur and a trip to ibrox on the horizon

Virus Like Illness translates into "was pish in training this week"

 

Today is a Red Day everything will come together. 

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At last!!! Mcnamara id defence and Severin in midfield we may actually win today..!!

FUck fuck fuck 2-0 down 

Justa disaster.  This is Actually our squad at full strength. How very worrying indeed.

WTF is going on at Pittodrie this season, Is there unrest in the dressing room or something? I don't believe 1 player makes a team so we can't use the missing Anderson excuse.

How can a team that fought and battled last season and scraped wins even when they maybe did not deserve them be back to the dross that we were 3 or 4 seasons ago?

I agree, losing McNamara shouldn have matered. A terrible result before our biggest game in seasons.  We cant blame the fixtures either as we should be at least able to compete with the teams we have played. But hats of to McGhee for coming up to Todders and attacking.  But Jesus, this lot need sorting out one way or another.

The win two weeks ago was a false dawn as we were shite that day. We need stability in the team formation to allow players to get comfortable  - but under this buffoon we will not get it.

It seems that The Tango man is unable to motivate the players.  That to me spells trouble.  If we  do this next week, its going to be a rugby score against us.

It seems that The Tango man is unable to motivate the players.  That to me spells trouble.  If we  do this next week, its going to be a rugby score against us.

 

True but you also have to question the players if they cannot motivate themselves especially with them trying to win places for the UEFA cup game on Thursday.

Spoke to a couple of people who were at the game today all not happy at the performance. I think one text I received sums it up

 

Boo, boo, fuckin boo! Absolute disgrace, raging!

Spoke to a couple of people who were at the game today all not happy at the performance. I think one text I received sums it up

 

Boo, boo, fuckin boo! Absolute disgrace, raging!

 

Waitng for an email from my parents when they get in from the game, from what I heard on red tv it seems there were very few if any positives to be taken from todays game.

hmm. Never thought about that aspect. Does that mean we are in deeper trouble that we think?,cos that attitude smacks of not giving a toss, or are they actually not that good? By the way I reserve the right to boo my team thagt I support if I think they are underachieving.

 

So BOOOOOOO!  BOOOOOOO!  BOOOOOOO!!!!!

Fucking terrible performance, too many 'superstars' trying things they don't have the ability to pull off without putting in the effort that makes the ordinary players that they are, effective. Only positives was some good link up play between Miller and Lovell up front, although it didn't come to anything ultimately.

The question is what the hell are they all up to at training? They have had a weeks extra training to get this team sorted out, or were they all having a cheeky extra bit of holiday?

I was told the attendance was poor today but just saw it on the BBC report 10,154 

Not surprising. Its been an expensive month to pay as a football fan. Also, the rubbish we have been plying since the start of the season is hardly going to inspire people to go to Pittodrie.  Which Milne must start to realise. If he wants people to attend games, there has to be an attraction there.

Fucking terrible performance, too many 'superstars' trying things they don't have the ability to pull off without putting in the effort that makes the ordinary players that they are, effective. Only positives was some good link up play between Miller and Lovell up front, although it didn't come to anything ultimately.

 

That, almost word for word, was what i came online to say.

 

I would also add that i thought Diamond played well and at least looked like he gave a shite. Derek Young shouldn't be anywhere near a football pitch in the SPL. There's a very good reason we didn't have to beat off lots of competition to sign him. Two fuck ups, two goals against. Him and Foster couldn't decide between them who they were marking at the first, and Dung's man was left completely free to set himself up for the shot on the edge of the box. For the second, an absolutely awful attempt at a clearance let them in for another long ranger.

 

Also, too many players seem to think they've made "it". It's Aberdeen Syndrome. One good season, where something is achieved, and it's time to rest on their laurels. That approach did for Ebbe and Aitken before him, and it might end up doing for Jimmy unless he gets some arses kicked.

 

From a Motherwell point of view, obviously the result was excellent, although the performance was less encouraging. After playing some attractive attacking football in recent weeks, it was disappointing to see us revert to the hopeless long punt tactics for much of the game.

 

Aberdeen started the brighter of the sides with more pace and threat, and Smith did well to tip an effort over the bar as it looked set to dip into the net. When we took the lead it was against the run of play, and the last player we expected to score was Paul Quinn! It was his first goal for over three years. It gave us the impetus, and shortly afterwards when the Aberdeen player gave the ball straight to McGarry he quickly fed it through to Porter, who made no mistake from close range.

 

Aberdeen seemed to lose their way a bit in the second half, and although we were under pressure for a brief spell after Smith's free-kick, the result didn't seem to be in doubt.

 

But I wouldn't lay too much blame on Calderwood. He was heavily criticised when Aberdeen lost 3-1 at Fir Park on Boxing Day 2005, but they went on to secure a top six position. Last season they had easily one of the best defences in the league and were able to grind out results even when they didn't play well. It's been a slow start to the season, but I do think things will pick up soon.

is it any wonder that we lack motivation and are tactically inept when our manager is away on holiday for most of the international break. According to another site has already has plans to fuck off in October during the next international break.

 

Midfield is quick frankly a disgrace and bar Barry Nic I can't see any good reason why any of them should get a game on thur. Defence was yet again different and unsurprisingly gifted two goals to well.  Quite why we resigned touzani is a mystery to me and everyone except JC.  Why we signed 2 wingers yet play derek young, jamie smith and maguire as wingers while leaving them on the bench is equally a mystery.

 

JC is rapidly losing any lingering good will he had.

We would accept defeat (grudgingly) if the team looked interested, if we were out played by a better side, or if the team was set up in a sensible formation with players in the right position but just had a bad day.  It's not that JC made countless poor decisions yesterday, it was that he has made the same or similar decisions for months.

 

He doesn't want to be at afc and is clearly more interested in touting himself to some english division one side (and topping up his tan) than sorting out or team.  He may turn things around and we should see how we do in the next, hectic month, but if we don't beat gretna, thistle and st mirren surely that will be him

I don't think we're playing too differently to how we've played the last 2/3 years under Jimmy. The thing is, we're neither as fit nor as lucky as we have been in that time. All those games where we've nicked something in spite of some curious (i'm being kind) tactical decisions, due to our superior fitness/downright luck, we're getting nothing from anymore.