Well massive week coming up with three home games in eight days.

Everything about the club is on a downer right now and really need three victories to get the season back on some kind of track. Would love three comprehensive victories, but realistically will take three scrappy 1-0's right now and the nine points in Santa's sack.

 

We hit the skids in late Sept/Oct last year and then picked up again thereafter. Can't afford the malaise to fester and more dropped points so lets fucking get in there.

 

Killie seem to have got their act together abit since our 4-0 going on seven or eight earlier this season, so doubt it'll be easy or straighforward.

 

Out

Work

Listening/Watching online

Bed

1-0 Storey (boy we apparantly signed from Swindon in the summer, but rarely seen the light of day)

Did you see O'Connor the last time he played in midfield? He was woeful. Too slow on the turn, couldn't cope, but did manage the occasional hard challenge which meant some people probably overlooked the fact he was pish.

 

I did, but that was him just arrived at the club, was it not? And I think it was a European game also? Could be wrong, but the point I make with him playing in there is, that he's now probably found his feet, and would be ideal in there for a game like tonight's. Just my opinion, but more to the point, we don't really need 2 sitting midfielders for a game such as tonight's.

Has to be:

 

Lewis

Logan OConnor considine Shinnie

 

Hayes Maddison McLean Burns (switching with wright)

McGinn Stockley

 

Play that and we will win about 4-0

We can't continue with Taylor in defence. Has to be Logan O'Connor Considine Shinnie.

 

Anything else is putting us in a position of weakness from the start. The last two matches alone show this, as if the rest of the season hadn't already.

 

Absolutely this

I think it's the left side that is the issue not Taylor (although Taylor is a horses ass, and pish and shouldn't be near the team). Has to be Considine in centre and Shinnie at left back. Couldn't care as much about Taylor or O'Connor after the cup final debacle.

 

But that leaves a decision in centre midfield, which McInnes will not make. We have Storie, Pawlett, Hayes or O'Connor as realistic possibilities (he's nae - quite correctly - going to play Maddison in there as part of a 2). He's clearly going to play Shinnie ahead of any of those. Flood would have solved this problem. So would signing a fucking midfielder.

Reading through the thread again it's evident that folk are pretty much stressed about every area of the team.

 

Debates about what the centre back pairing should be, the two season long debate about the midfield continues and now that Rooney is off the boil we're not sure who should be playing up top....

 

Who'd be a fitba manager? 

A couple of match stats nicked from the Beeb site

 

• Aberdeen have won their last 11 matches against Kilmarnock, all league fixtures.
  
• Kilmarnock beat Dundee on Saturday but have not managed back-to-back victories this season.
  

 

Obviously if one of these sequences change they both change, will that really set alarm bells ringing for us or will it just be a sign that Killie are improving?

Reading through the thread again it's evident that folk are pretty much stressed about every area of the team.

 

Debates about what the centre back pairing should be, the two season long debate about the midfield continues and now that Rooney is off the boil we're not sure who should be playing up top....

 

Who'd be a fitba manager? 

 

I don't think there's much debate, I think everyone agrees that our back 4, let alone the CB pairing, should be Logan, O'Connor, Considine, Shinnie

 

I only suggested tonight's line up due to Jack being suspended, or he'd be in the sitting CDM role with O'Connor replacing Taylor. And I maintain that we should never have 2 CDM's, we are good enough to allow for 1, be it Jack, Storie or O'Connor. Possibly on a bigger pitch it makes sense to have 2 ( Parkhead, Ibrox, Hampden ) But in all our home games, and majority of Away games, excluding above mentioned venues, we should not be set up as defensive as we are.

 

 

A couple of match stats nicked from the Beeb site

 

• Aberdeen have won their last 11 matches against Kilmarnock, all league fixtures.
  
• Kilmarnock beat Dundee on Saturday but have not managed back-to-back victories this season.
  

 

Obviously if one of these sequences change they both change, will that really set alarm bells ringing for us or will it just be a sign that Killie are improving?

 

Not if it's a draw. One changes, the other doesn't.

Not if it's a draw. One changes, the other doesn't.

 

DOH! 

 

That's me leaving to make the first of my pick ups for tonight.

 

COYR

 

McGinn, Pawlett & Rooney all starting tonight.

I think it's going to be

 

Lewis

 

Logan

O'Connor

Considine

Shinnie

 

Pawlett

McLean

 

McGinn

Maddison

Hayes

 

Rooney

I stand corrected, Jonny Hayes is actually playing at Left Back, despite us having a natural Left Back in Shinnie and a Centre Back in Considine, who can play Left Back.

 

Absolutely fucking perplexing.

Anybody going live chat?

Will be there for a few mins

Do i smell or smothing

 

Do i smell or smothing

 

Didn't want to say

 

I can't tonight sadly, off to the pub!

Ok, so Hayes is a little off form too but he's arguably our best attacker and POTY last year!! Left back?

http://chat.donstalk.co.uk/example/default.html

 

 

Get involved guys!

 

Keep Málaga company

Didn't want to say

 

I can't tonight sadly, off to the pub!

 

Cheers Manc

 

1-0, Pawlett?

allegedly so.

Turned in a miss-hit Shinnie shot

2-0  O'Connor

 

Seems the counter attacking tactic is working

2-0

 

O'Connor

2-0 O'Connor

 

 

There's some affy strong reverb in here