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First win over United since Ambrose's late winner early in the Thelin era? Thought Gyamfi, Aremu, Geiger, Armstrong and Nisbet all had good games in the first half. Nisbet actually was playing off the left at times which was interesting, United didn't know who should be marking who and we were moving their defence about. Think all of them were a shadow of themselves in the second half though, and it took Shinnie and Frame coming on in particular to turn the tide back our way. If Olusanya can learn to finish he could be our next Shayden Morris. Can't fault his desire and willingness to run at defences. Chuffed he got a goal. Gyamfi and Frame offer a nice dilemma as to who should be playing. Gyamfi can't last 90 minutes just now though, but his physicality was a big attribute today, but Frame is a menace and is good at finding space. After the St Mirren defeat, I was genuinely worried for us, wasn't sure we had it in us to beat anyone. Since then we've taken 10 points from 12 with three clean sheets. He wasn't a popular appointment, and there's still sections of the support he has yet to win over, but you can't deny Robinson has done a fine job over the last five weeks.

I popped back into The Most Recent of the Auld Sites min, Jeff ye radgy fupper o Fupp min etc etc, to witness what carnage Mason visited on The Thickest Fans In All Fitba after yesterday’s welcome extirpation of the hoors’ abortions. The boy done good. I note that even my erstwhile raging stalker, the thick-as-stovies-in-a-flask wanker Stokiearab, has trained his pathetic peashooter fire in the direction of Dunbartonshire rather than Banffshire. I’m convinced, more than ever, that their collective IQ is not far ahead of either Livingston’s or Rothes’s points total. They still talk of some non-existent concept “the New Firm”. Ferguson 10 McLean 3. Fucking fannies.

There was a valid question asked after Thelin was bagged and Leven got nothing out of this shower for weeks as to whether we’d have been better just sticking with the Swede. Fair question then, not now. Robinson’s got way more out of this lot than Thelin or Leven ever did. He’s got them setup much better, they seem to know what they are doing, and the giving away of stupid set piece goals has slowed considerably - I must say Morrison is growing on me, had a good game yesterday. We’ll never know for sure, but I think we’d have gone down with Leven remaining in place. He got absolutely no response from them at all. I think its very likely we’d have gone down with Thelin still in place as he was far too stubborn, his style of play was completely wrong for this league, his defence was an absolute joke, and frankly I don’t think the players knew what they were supposed to be doing most of the time. Robinson’s come in and achieved his one clear target for this year - and lets be honest, after that game in Paisley that looked pretty unlikely too. Can’t ask any more than that. He’s growing on me too, be interesting to see where he can take us from here…

Kids go to Pittodrie. Not sure you want to see Judas Cunt in the program, on the team sheet, and being announced over the tannoy every second week…

I wouldn’t be adverse to Olusanya signing. From memory he’s gotten 3 players sent off, won a penalty, won the free kick at Livi for our second goal, set up at least one other chance at Livi for Armstrong or Geiger, assist and goal yesterday. His pace and physicality is something we’ve been lacking this season. He’s contributed more than Topi since he’s been here (maybe that’s a low bar over the last few months).

I watched most of the Hearts game last night and watching the jambo cunts twirl their scarves above their heads, before kick off, convinced me a bottle job is incoming. I think this would be a bigger failure than 86 was. I would take comfort from our own miserable season, that us inflicting their first defeat of the season, could cost them the league in the end. A beautiful thought and that's what makes fitba so great.

Was thinking about Robinson today too, not who I wanted but he’s passed the first test. We’re better defensively, getting clean sheets, creating chances, scoring goals, and winning games. And we’re now safe and can relax and sleep a little better. It’s by no means a great watch but it isn’t awful either. Keen to see players linked now that we’re safe, pre contracts, players being told they can leave etc. out of interest, can Marshall play in the last two games? Maybe 20 mins each game to get a look??

I love beating those deluded arseholes in a fixture that is really their cup final. Their manager is a fraud, and their Funso Ojo-assaulting numbskull Fair Play award-winning losers-at-life supporters are fucking morons. I despise them almost as much as I hate those cocksuckers from Glasgow. They’re Grade A fannies. Apart from the foregoing, I have no particularly strong feelings on the matter. Yours in sport etc

Neil Simpsons autobiography is released tomorrow Looking forward to reading this one. Launch do at Pittodrie on Thursday night. Details are on his website neilsimpson8.com

2-0. Barcelona on fire tonight. Cannot find the article on Rashford but basically it was saying even though Barcelona have a £26m option they cannot afford it and his current wages.

Fantastic free kick from Rashford to put Barcelona 1-0 up.

They should have stuck with Russell Martin.

well well well First time for everything I suppose. I might not have predicted the correct score line but I did predict they would end the game with ten men I am nae getting over excited or caried away yet, but fair play to Robinson, it does look like he is steadying the ship and making us a bit more difficult to play against and beat, so well done on that front SR. Still a helluva long way to go tho. COYR

We're all getting replaced by AI soon anyway. I might replace myself with AI on this forum.

Are you asking for you, or the entire BBC?

I'm happy for them to go down as they have been our bogey team, particularly in Paisley, for about 5 years now

Fucking hope so or I might need to emigrate.

That lad Barron looks decent and isn’t getting a game. There’s also the striker that isn’t playing regularly, what’s his name again? Macedonian I think?

No but one of the PJMs had their shoe thrown on the pitch and when the steward was refusing to return it, it looked like it was going to kick-off in the away end.

If we buy them, there's rarely any issue at all. Nobody has complained about Frame because he came from the Tims, nobody would have complained had we signed Christie or Scales. Very few complained about McRorie because we had an option to buy. Nobody batted an eyelid when we signed McGinn either. If we signed Cameron from the Huns, the only issue would be that many would think he's not good enough. I don't know who else they've got that's available to be honest, so can't think of an example!

And there we are. Mathematically safe with 2 games to go. Some achievement. Go us. That game had distinct end of season vibes. A familiar recent pattern too, decent first half then a rather ropey second. Fitness is clearly an issue, Aremu being a glaring example. Second half he ran like he was towing a caravan and was breathing out his arse - again. Fair play, Olusanya had a good game today and deserved a goal (even he couldn’t miss that). He does cause problems and offers a physicality we’ve been badly missing, but surely we can sign a striker who offers that and can also play football. While I give no credit to that bin fire of a squad after the shit show of this season, full credit to Robinson for getting enough out of them to get us safe. Fucked over the buds by coming here when he did which helped us out & got some structure in place at last to at least make that lot difficult to beat. Now, bin at least 80% of that squad, do recruitment this summer like the diets & well did last summer & lets never talk of this season again…

If you read Private Eye, they give a fortnightly round up of the shit Reform councillors get up too in England and how many have stepped down. Some PE readers think they are being unfairly victimised! I know there are gluepots in all parties, but it's the norm for Reform.

Aye, it wasn't a great game. Didn't see much in Marshall again. He looks to be quite strong for his age, but doesn't seem to cover a lot of ground. He was okay in the forward midfield role, but it's a decent step up to the SPFL and he wasn't a stand out. He did do a lot of the side to side stuff fairly well when he dropped deeper, and I wonder if he might fit in with us there. Often difficult to tell with midfielders on the telly though, as they do a lot of work just out of frame. I think pace might be an issue for him, but he looks better than Kjartansson. Will be really interesting to see, and I think the direct physical approach that Arbroath takes will have done him a lot of good. Hopefully he gets a good chance with us next year.

Jackie Baillie getting back in feels like Aberdeen giving Mcinnes a contract extension to me mind boggling stupidity

You're quite right to pull me up about that. I meant to post it in the match thread.

Everyone knows that the real Israeli beef with its middle Eastern neighbours is chippy versus chipper (Israel incorrectly landing on the side of chippy of course). Edit: the Kurds are rowie lads, with the Turks insisting on buttery.

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