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He's was on a reported £800k a year when he left for Stoke in 2019. Meaning you'd imagine he'll be on at least the same again. Given he signed a 5 and a half year deal in 2022, it would need to be some settlement for O'Neill to feel £3m is worth walking away from and Aberdeen would need to be 100% certain they want him as their man. I can't see it. The money changing hands here is too big. If O'Neill was walking into the last year of a deal, Id get it but there's no way is anyone settling in advance on a contract like that.

The only saving grace really would be O'Neil being under contract for another four years with NI (could Aberdeen afford to buy out a 4 year deal for an international manager?) and the presence of Neil Lennon, who is higher profile in general management terms and has a higher level of success to his name than Robinson - you'd think he would most likely chuck his hat in the ring too.

Elvis is defensively fine in a positional sense. He has been very poor at stopping his winger though if I'm being critical. He isn't great in the tackle at all.

Grieve is absolutely fine but you are probably right. He's got a great knack of grabbing a late goal but he doesnt influence games enough to ever be a starter. Olusanya has picked up his role 100% and as Coventry Saint said, rather than just hanging about and maybe getting on the end of something, he's a game changer in that he drags defenders all over the shop in a way that Grieve can't.

It's some laugh watching them unironically accuse us of being angry whilst churning out batshit mental posts like this.

Agreed. We don't play well on artificial surfaces, Killie have had our number for the last couple of seasons, Derek McInnes has had our number since basically day one of being a manager. Kilmarnock are dangerous and I expect them to be dangerous all the way from now until the end of the season. They also have this fucking annoying habit (for us, not for them) of not even being able to write off games vs Rangers and Celtic as a gimme. Currently I'd probably take a point if offered, three points would be massive. However, I don't agree that it's our last chance to open a gap. I feel that Fir Park and Hearts at home are also both individually winnable given we have won both of these fixtures in the first round of games, albeit with Motherwell and Hearts being in different places to where they are now.

Are they? They look like the fourth lowest scorers in the league to me so what metric are we basing this on?

If you're in advanced talks with a replacement as is being suggested then it's somebody currently out of work. Somebody who knows Scottish football. Somebody who has manged here recently. Lee Johnson, anyone?

Quite the opposite. Aberdeen are 15 points behind us and 17 goals worse off with 5 (for them) to play. If they fancied getting a new manager bounce against Dundee I'd be rather pleased with that. Edit: Sorry, I'm guessing you mean Robinson. Nah, reports saying Aberdeen already in 'advanced talks' with someone which suggests it's someone out of work currently.

Looks like they have his permanent replacement lined up and ready to go.

Read somewhere that full stand is just under 4500. Top tier is slightly smaller than bottom due to exits so I'd imagine about 2000 so far

We'll be doing something very, very wrong indeed if we end up with a trip to Tajikistan.

Brown, Hemming, Kwon aren't out of contract, they are returning loans. Flynn, in all likelihood will also call time on his playing career to go full time on coaching. The club retains the option on Elvis and CBM has an appearance based extension that has not yet been triggered.

If that's the case, he will still have left us in an exceptionally strong position squad wise with not very many players left out of contract and two players already signed up for next season.

The factor - the only factor really - that would concern me is the presence of Alan Burrows. Without him, I don't think Aberdeen look twice at Robinson because of how badly it went with Goodwin...with him though, I reckon he'd make the argument and make it a compelling one to both the Aberdeen board and Robinson himself.

I think it'd weirder picking one of those as they generally bear no relation to St. Mirren, to be fair. The context of my initial reply was that ZM should bear no mind to Mair trying in national press to link Robinson (and McInnes) with the Aberdeen job as he's generally full of it.

Yeah that's exactly what I said there... You do know blethering idiots can be right about some things and it doesn't mean you have to give them the time of day over what they are saying. Mair is one such person, a pyramid hawking, Joey Barton loving dafty who has gone off at the deep end. His opinions on St. Mirren, positive or negative should be paid no mind whatsoever. Talk about starting a fight in an empty house FFS. Go have a lie down.

Correct. If Lee Mair told me water was wet, I'd dip my toe in to make sure.

Gogic now putting feelers out to clubs in Cyprus, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan....anywhere to avoid going through that again.

Any article that starts 'Lee Mair reckons' should be given no credence whatsoever given he's a pyramid-scheme punting oddball who goes into 100% 'yer da' mode and posts memes about how 'back in the WWII days, men were real men' shite.

Think there could be a shout of most of the top tier being sold out. Just bought 7 tickets there .

Funniest part is that if MacDonald even somewhat held his run, Olusanya would almost certainly strayed offside. What was he thinking running into the net?

Whilst on the subject of WCW. Absolutely amazing stuff. Catch part 2 as well with the focus on Scotty Riggs. He genuinely doesn't look like the same broken person by the end.

He was told upon his return to get his shit together and keep it simple. Stop trying to play football like you are the only man on the park. The difference between now and his debut then reintroduction against Hearts just over a year ago that led to him being loaned out is unreal. Even at the start of pre-season, several of us were wondering why he was getting so many starts as surely he'd be on his way very soon and Robinson told him as much but as Robbo said in his press conference on Friday, the guy is a fantastic listener who loves a verbal kick up the arse and we've seen that. Neither of yesterday's goals happen without him on the park and another forward in his place. Nobody else has that pace to nick in before Devlin. Nobody else has that pace and drive to win the ball 80 yards from goal, start the move and be there on the end of it when it comes back in. Not Grieve, not Nachmani, not Curtis Main, not Van Veen. Guy is as raw as thry come but definitely an asset and a total wild card and it's a good option to have.

Going 1-0 down at Starks Park on 86 minutes and thrn scoring on 89 and 90 was the only comparison I have. And that was 24 years ago.