Stirling Albion v Aberdeen

[ZakkTheMakk]

I suspect the financial difference would be marginal, but I don’t honestly know. As I said, I don’t think we’re ready for the Europa League and I can’t see us coming 3rd unless we got very lucky indeed.

I think we’re probably in violent agreement in many ways. It’s just that from my perspective given where we are in our season, with the players we’ve lost and our recruitment and our injuries, I’m not surprised we are where we are. And I think the Europa League is a double edged sword and that it matters that we put away Stirling Albion. I’m just arguing for a bit of perspective. We may well lose against Hacken over two legs, but the final accounting will be done next summer not in the next fortnight. It’s much too soon to be overly critical/worried at this point.

For me, our recruitment in the next 10 days matters more than beating Hacken.

Fair enough, I don't think we're ready for the Europa or the Conference at this point but if you're trying to entice players here then the dangly carrot of potentially Liverpool/West Ham would lure some players I believe. Put in a performance against them and the chance of a move down south increases greatly.

I think if we do lose against Hacken then the mild grumbles we've got currently will be heightened, hopefully not to the silly extremes but I do feel it'll be a chance missed, especially as you've got to go back to Calderwood days since we were last in the Europa League which for a club trying to move up in the rankings is terrible.

Our recruitment in the next 10 days is undoubtedly huge, considering the extra games we'll have then we don't want to do a Hearts from last season and have our league form suffer due to injuries or fatigue etc so a large squad which Robson has faith in is v!tal.