I was going to start this thread last week, then thought I'd wait and see if there was any movement on the manager front. But here we are with the growing possibility that Robson will still be in charge.

Win and we're four points off third and it's game on in the race for the Europa League spot. Lose and it's a 10 point gap and surely over. A draw doesn't do us any good either.

I'm heading up for it, and despite being at Aberdeen games at Tynecastle frequently, the last Dons/Hearts game at Pittodrie I made it to was the 2-0 Scottish Cup win in 2010. 

Team - I wouldn't be against the same one that beat Livi & Dundee United, although maybe drop Ryan Duncan just because of the size of the fixture and he's not been great in the past two games. Perhaps time to start Watkins and put him up against Stephen Kingsley, who recently has looked a shadow of the player he was last season.

Hearts have a lot of injuries so we're getting them at a good time, but I suspect Robbie Neilson will be cautious and quite content with a point so could be a horrible game.

After this it's yet another two-week wait for a game. Thankfully we've got loads of enthralling manager chat to keep us going.

Well that was awesome. Wasn’t sure what to expect today but we totally dominated them. I haven’t seen us start a game so aggressively for a long, long time. 

5 hours ago, Jute said:

Fantastic first half from Dons. Hearts are  hopless. Only downside is it looks like rain.

Thought we were fantastic for 30mins and from then on we were merely excellent.  How we didn't score 6/7 is beyond me.  We seem to be getting the ball wide quicker then getting crosses into the box quickly, keep that up and Miovski will soon be getting his share of the goals. Ramadami was immense today along with Shinnie (but then we expect it of him), Clarkson was also excellent until he began to run out of steam.  The 2 CBs are exactly what we were missing under Goodwin, if you are in any doubt just belt it up park/head it away, don't try anything fancy.  

Made a rare appearance to attend today with my 6 year old son who is on P2 W2 for his first two matches at Pittodrie!

Really enjoyed that, played some great stuff particularly in the 1st half. 
 

Whats the story with Markanday? I’m not sure why we’ve taken him in. Blackburn Rovers fan mate of mine rates him quite highly. 

Really enjoyed watching the first half back (haven't had time for the second yet), but what a difference to the last few weeks let alone rest of the season. Aggression and drive was there for all to see. As others have said, really liked seeing the midfield trio working really well and hard for each other. Thought it was a bit harsh on Gorter but Roos seemed to be fine and he is actually our no.1. Always great to get one over them. Crowd sounded good too.

27 minutes ago, manc_don said:

Really enjoyed watching the first half back (haven't had time for the second yet), but what a difference to the last few weeks let alone rest of the season. Aggression and drive was there for all to see. As others have said, really liked seeing the midfield trio working really well and hard for each other. Thought it was a bit harsh on Gorter but Roos seemed to be fine and he is actually our no.1. Always great to get one over them. Crowd sounded good too.

Gorter wasn't on the bench so guess there was some other issue.

Think it was international duty for Dutch U21s?

3 hours ago, dons8321 said:

Gorter wasn't on the bench so guess there was some other issue.

According to Robson on the radio pre-match he had been ill all week.

Thought his partner was giving birth ?

45 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Thought his partner was giving birth ?

That's what I heard too. Let's just say he was on a three day bender and he turned up at pittodrie at 14:47 with Tuesday's training kit still on.

On 19/03/2023 at 10:54, Kowalski said:

Made a rare appearance to attend today with my 6 year old son who is on P2 W2 for his first two matches at Pittodrie!

He's the team's lucky charm ... get him along to every game from now til 2067

On 20/03/2023 at 02:17, Reekie_Red said:

He's the team's lucky charm ... get him along to every game from now til 2067

Aye, 2068 is when the stadium is being delivered and the 8,000 capacity in order to save costs will make getting a ticket difficult.