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No over reaction from me. 11 new players, ‘newish’ manager, and a complete overhaul. This will happen. Here’s what we have to learn from today though, and we need to take moving forward. Stop fucking around with the two most important positions in the team, central defensive and center mid. Develop Stewart and scales and get us strong in the middle. Mccrorie is most effective in center mid, and has influence, play him there every week. Develop the spine of the team and make us stronger in the middle of the park. Clarkson is also a 20 yr old kid who comes off the bench. Sign Ronan, an attacking mid with experience at 24. Baby steps, bump in the road. Next!

Yes, it takes time to gel. But Goodwin is making little effort to do that by firing out different selections that he likely has little interest in sticking with long term. When Mackenzie is fully fit, and when Coulson returns, McCrorie will likely be in midfield. Why not play him there now and work on that? We weren't that short that McCrorie had to be there. Goodwin will argue that having Scales at left-back led to the equaliser as it was his cross for Miovski, but he was signed as a centre half, that's where he'll be playing most of the season, so play him there and develop the Scales-Stewart partnership. It now means we go to St Johnstone, off the back of a bad result, with what will be another unfamiliar line-up.

I don't think anybody isn't going to give them a chance (although there was some booing at the game today which is very unfair so early). Goodwin has taken a risk to bring in players with zero SPFL experience and hope they gel within a short space of time. That is problematic for me, and to write off both Ramirez and Watkins so early is poor management. Both would have done better than the alternatives today and both are proven SPFL players. Taking a non league player on at one nil down is just bad management. He should be blooded in like any other young player and that should have been obvious from the past week's training. I think Goodwin is choosing to make things hard for himself, just like he did during the run in. The bumps along the road are going to be greater with this approach. I said last season that it'll take at least a season to catch up on our (Cormack's) scandalous neglect in the prior windows, and I'm convinced that'll still be the case.

I get the feeling the goalkeeper situation is similar to brendan rodgers replacing craig gordon with an ex dunferline goalie only to realise his mistake after 10games.

Maybe I’m being overly sympathetic but give these guys a fucking chance. I’ve never ever seen an overhaul like this, plus I don’t even know if Goodwin is a good manager. We’ve added so many players with so many fitness levels, from so many places. Some loans, some signings, some who’ve never even been to Scotland before, never mind Aberdeen. Have they settled in the area, families, so they even know each other, never mind how each other play, habits, strengths, weaknesses etc. we’ve even added guys with which English isn’t even their first language, so many accents in a game where communication is key. please, bite your tongue for a few weeks and see how this plays out. I’d say by Xmas we’ll know what we have.