Kilmarnock v Aberdeen

[irnbru1903]

Any win will do in our relegation battle but we are really riding our luck here.

[OneBrianIrvine]

Yaaaas

Well done Jimmy and team. Wasn’t pretty and still look vulnerable at set pieces but those players stood up tonight. Love what a niggly player Marko is.

Interesting just the one sub, not like JT at all, thought it might cost us at the end but Killie finishing poor and they held out. Has JT finally lost faith in certain players?

Well done young Lobban. Hopefully first of many for the loon.

And finally a well done to the much maligned Jensen, thought he was much better tonight especially given he’s on his wrong side.

Yaaaaaaasssss

[Jormungand]

Must preface this by giving credit to the defence, who did very well. It's a win.

But Kilmarnock were absolutely battering us for that last 30 minutes. Why is that happening? And wtf is wi the lack o subs? Nae legs left in that last 15 but zero changes.

Weird stuff fae JT. Mair questions than answers.

[TheDeeDon]

Three points and a clean sheet.

Only one sub made. Interesting.

One of our young players gets a while game. That pleases me as much as the points.

Please not another false start Dons.

Life seems more bearable when the dons win.

[rico94]

Thats 3 wins out of 4 in the league with 3 clean sheets.

Did sound like we were hanging on in the end but who cares we won.

Well done Jimmy and the team.

[erchieplum]

Job done .
As others have noted sustained Kilmarnock pressure not comfortable for us but a much needed win so well done boys

[TheDeeDon]

Must preface this by giving credit to the defence, who did very well. It's a win.

But Kilmarnock were absolutely battering us for that last 30 minutes. Why is that happening? And wtf is wi the lack o subs? Nae legs left in that last 15 but zero changes.

Weird stuff fae JT. Mair questions than answers.

I reckon Jimmy has reached the end of his tether with certain players.
I've a feeling the January window might be interesting.

We may have got battered second half, but we defended well.

Not something we have seen much under JT, cup final aside.

[Jormungand]

I reckon Jimmy has reached the end of his tether with certain players.
I've a feeling the January window might be interesting.

We may have got battered second half, but we defended well.

Not something we have seen much under JT, cup final aside.

It does seem like it. That was a statement from him tonight. Unused subs: AA, Yengi, Clarky, Milano, Molloy, the Icelandic kid & Keskinen. Let the speculation begin, I suppose.

[OneBrianIrvine]

Three points and a clean sheet.

Only one sub made. Interesting.

One of our young players gets a while game. That pleases me as much as the points.

Please not another false start Dons.

Life seems more bearable when the dons win.

It does especially when Sunday was so bad. Most crushed I?ve felt over football in a long time. The realisation that he may have to go.
Coupled with a lack of appetite for the hoopla of a managerial change I feel like a bit of weight has lifted.

I so want it to work for JT, and he?s far from out of the woods yet, but weirdly winning ugly probably makes me feel better about him.

[NaeMairNeeps]

Cheers OBI for the link ..... Ah spent the first 40 mins rakin' for a stream .... Canna say Ah enjoyed the second half, but pleased tae see Lobban get a game and the changes in the line up. There's nae doubt Palaversa, Aouchiche, Milanovic an' Keskinen are skillful players, but they lack effectiveness. For all Shinnie is gettin' on a bit, he at least imposes himself on the game ... and Polvara's link up play is solid.

Anyway ... 3 points in the bag, and steamin' up the league table

[The_Moog]

First and foremost, its 3 points, which is all that matters and full credit to all for that.

First half was ok, played some nice stuff in spells, the second half however was just not good at all.

Make no mistake, we absolutely shiithoused that one.

Unlike others, I actually dont think we defended particularly well. We rode our luck a bunch of times.

Apart from a couple of their corners that didnt beat the first man, a Killie player won every single corner that came into our box.

We struggled to clear our lines and win the header nearly every time they launched it into the box.

The amount of times our CHs get beat in a 50/50 challenge for a long ball down the middle is not good enough.

Outside the box we hardly won a second ball all night.

None of that is new, and none of that is conducive to success in this league.

Sorry to appear so negative, Im genuinely delighted we won and full credit to all for that - but we really must sort this stuff out if we are going to get anywhere as we wont win many games like that in this league.

[Jormungand]

I do agree with that , Moog. What I really mean is that the effort was there. Which is obviously a positive sign and there's no 'lost the dressing room' ****e to be polluting the online space. But just generally, in that second half, we didn't look like a team who could dominate the pitch and score a goal. We absolutely rode our luck in that one.

I don't understand how we're at the stage of fluking a win against a team like that. We could go back to the Craig Brown days and see basically the same degree of progress.

[blowupsheep]

First and foremost, its 3 points, which is all that matters and full credit to all for that.

First half was ok, played some nice stuff in spells, the second half however was just not good at all.

Make no mistake, we absolutely shiithoused that one.

Unlike others, I actually dont think we defended particularly well. We rode our luck a bunch of times.

Apart from a couple of their corners that didnt beat the first man, a Killie player won every single corner that came into our box.

We struggled to clear our lines and win the header nearly every time they launched it into the box.

The amount of times our CHs get beat in a 50/50 challenge for a long ball down the middle is not good enough.

Outside the box we hardly won a second ball all night.

None of that is new, and none of that is conducive to success in this league.

Sorry to appear so negative, Im genuinely delighted we won and full credit to all for that - but we really must sort this stuff out if we are going to get anywhere as we wont win many games like that in this league.

There is no point in anyone even attempting to say anything else as this post sums it all up perfectly Moog word for fkn word 100%
Nail on the head material that one.

[TheDeeDon]

Our first win at Killie for six years I believe.

Feels nice to have sh*thoused three points in both Paisley and Kilmarnock.

We'll worry about s*xy fitba another day.

[rico94]

The reason we are ****housing these games is because the team has been made to try to play nice football out from the back.

None of our centre backs or midfielders are suited to play against the likes of St Mirren or Kilmarnock,they are all in the team to pass the ball around like Man City but these teams will never allow you to do that.

If we are going to be able to battle these teams then a whole load of hammer throwers will be needed and a Steven Robinson type put in charge, otherwise we just need to be happy when we “fluke” the 3 points in these games.