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  1. A win for us on Saturday, regardless of results elsewhere, would leave a quite unforeseen set of results having to occur to deny us a top six place. Even if Hibs and Dundee win, we'd be 4 clear of Killie, 6 Clear of Dundee and 7 clear of Hibs with 3 to play before the split. I don't think any side has ever missed top 6 on 45 points, which is what we'd be on with a win at Rugby Park. If we manage to break the RP hoodoo on Saturday, we should genuinely only be looking at staying ahead of everyone below us rather than fearing it may all implode in the following three games.
  2. Think a few St. Mirren supporters said it, Main is a slow burner. He'll definitively be an asset to Dundee next season as he's a nightmare on his day.
  3. Happy with this given Hibs have pretty much a gimme this Saturday, was fully expecting to be fending them off come the point of the split so that is a very welcome and unexpected goal. For the first time since probably matchday 8, we now have a clear picture of the table without the games in hand.
  4. That's a potentially massive result for us. Given the choice in the 95th minute with the scores at 1-0 and 1-2 respectively, I'd have rather County equalised than Aberdeen for the reason that Hibs have got more or less a gimme on Saturday and will pick up three points whilst Dundee are more than likely to lose vs Rangers so I'm absolutely fine with Hibs dropping points tonight. Of course, we still need to do our bit on Saturday and if that happens, we don't need to worry so much about what is happening in 6th and 7th but it would be really nice to maintain daylight between us and whoever makes the last space going into the split.
  5. Absolutely love Gable's character development lately.
  6. Quick fag-packet maths actually shows sales at 2,150 or so. Each upper tier block holds 346 Each lower tier block holds 448 And we've sold the 5 uppers and one lower out (save for 40 or so).
  7. Currently <50 tickets for the away end available. Which means that 6 of the blocks are now sold and Killie will likely be opening block 9 today. We must be over 2,400 sold by now and well on the way to 3k.
  8. Fotheringham would be great. It's a stick on that somebody in Scotland is going to twist and get saddled with him eventually so Aberdeen taking the bullet for the rest of us and just appointing him now would remove that particular nagging worry.
  9. That was definitely coming. Morton looked out on their feet last 10 minutes.
  10. There's been a growing swell of interest in her health and wellbeing as she hasn't been seen in months and the surgery 'news' was very vague and glossed over. Now the photo that she does put out showing her in perfect health is extensively edited which is leading to folk now believing that there's something a lot more sinister going on and that the palace are covering it up. There's been rumours of everything from anorexic, to terminally ill, to getting divorced and ODing, to already dead.
  11. It now just feels like a big game of Russian Roulette hoping that he gets a job in the top flight very soon but desperately hoping and praying he doesn't land up at your club.
  12. Again though, if he's on £15k a week until 2028, do you take a step away for similar cash elsewhere when you already have that guaranteed and written in stone currently? Stoke reportedly offered him £30k a week to leave NI first time around. As you say, he could see that their Euros qualifying was absolutely shite and would rather jump than risk being pushed sooner. The rumour apparently all stemmed from the fact that he was at St. Mirren vs Aberdeen last Saturday but McMenamin and Boyd-Munce were both on the park so it's just as likely he was looking at them for the friendly squads and folk have put two and two together.
  13. If he was coming to the end of his contract, I'd say it was pretty much a cert. Four years left on his current deal would make it a massive shock.
  14. Looking forward to this. I always look forward to Killie away. It always ends in at best disappointment, at worst, despair. Hopefully Saturday changes that as three points coming back to Paisley would be massive.
  15. Genuine question here. O'Neill is reported as being on £750k a year with NI and has 4 years left on his contract...even if you factor in that Aberdeen may have agreed a reduced compensation package with the NI FA rather than buying out his full contract, if O'Neill sees out two of those four years before getting bagged (as he'll be given the next qualifying campaign at least) he'll still pull in about £1.5m in wages as NI gaffer. Why would he walk away from such a contract unless Aberdeen are offering him a mind-bending amount of money? Would the length and reported value of his deal not price every club in Scotland outside of the big two presently?
  16. If you're in his shoes, you're daft leaving the contract and role for anywhere given how Stoke turned out for him. 4 years as a gaffer on that wage with let's be honest, a 95% chance of a home Euros qualification at the end of it is something that I don't think any club outside of the big two in Scotland could entice someone away with. Similarly if he did go and Robinson was offered it, he'd be insane not to take it for these reasons.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. It's some laugh watching them unironically accuse us of being angry whilst churning out batshit mental posts like this.
  22. 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.
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