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I also thought we played better than the two shots on target/possession statistics would suggest but I'd say across the last two games Goodwin probably got the balance right for about 45 minutes out of the 180+. The balance was almost absurdly wrong against Celtic and clearly wrong at the end of the Rangers game. You could throw in the 4-1 game at Ibrox before that which was shockingly bad. By the law of averages you're bound to get it right at some point I guess. I'd also accept the analysis would be completely different if Roos had just held on to a pretty middling shot but I judge Goodwin on his decision-making overall and there are just far too many red flags now for me to think he's actually a good manager. We look very much like a squad with some half decent players and a mediocre to poor manager that's holding everyone back rather than making them better. I actually think his limitations as a manager are making our squad look worse than it is. We have holes in the squad, which is why we're playing Richardson every week, but players like Miovski, Duk, Ramadani, Barron, McCrorie, Scales, Besuijen, Ramirez, etc. have at least some talent/pedigree that's above what most of the teams around us have. We're not getting the best out of them as a collective, all we're seeing is flashes of it in moments of individual brilliance from Duk or someone else. This is what happens with genuinely bad managers, they drag everyone down around them and you start thinking the quality of the squad is much lower than it is in reality. Good managers do the opposite and get the best out of what they have. So far Goodwin has shown little ability to do that, even if you put to one side the frankly amateurish looking alpha male stuff/obsession with culling everyone associated with the former manager.

So if that’s right, then protest. Fine. there’s a massive difference between protesting though and invading the field and smashing a flare bucket into the face of someone who has done absolutely nothing wrong.

Goodwin absolutely got the tactics wrong in the last 15mins. he took players off on mass that had given us an outlet to get the ball up the field. Once that was gone, we just invited rangers on to us. They kept coming, we kept giving them the ball back because Goodwin had made the wrong choices with both his subs and his use of them. As a result of that the team couldn’t deal with the pressure and the relentless onslaught of rangers and we got beaten. It’s that simple. Forget the fact it was in the last few minutes. It was a matter of time and could easily have happened in the 85 and 87 minute. He chose to put Morris on, not besuijen, a lad that he knew wouldn’t have the footballing intelligence to run the ball into the corner and keep it, instead of giving rangers the ball back. The team defended well for 20 mins. But there was no one to carry us up the field. Roos made some good saves, stewart cleared a lot of balls and others harried and chased but, it was all in our final third, and a matter of time before they broke through. Once the second went in, I could see the 3rd coming. When a team can’t get the ball up up the park and keep it in the oppositions half for periods to help stem the bleeding, there’s only ever going to be one outcome, and if that’s not the fault of Goodwin for his terrible plan and lack of foresight, then I don’t know what is. The one person he brought on that could have helped us was Hayes as he has an engine, can carry the ball and knows game management but instead Goodwin deployed him sitting deep and just exasperated the situation. That loss lies firmly at the door of Goodwin. No one else. I have never been so dejected, leaving Pittodrie as I was on Tuesday night.

Would that be one of your mates you did the huddle with?