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My mate and I did spend a large portion of the first half double-checking Young and Duff weren't actually on the park. I notice our local sports media have gone down the 'brave man admitting he got it wrong', 'experience able to turn things round' narrative - nope, sorry - this was an unnecessary binfire that Stevie Wonder could have told him had no chance of working. The race to be 9th hots up with such a hard-earned point. ........as for the 'thrown under a bus' nonsense used to defend certain players. Even allowing for bizarre team selection, there is Morris (who can run fast in a straight line). Just some basic intellect and spatial awareness could presumably still mean you could give the wing-back position half a go? He really is one of the worst players I have seen at AB24 and that is a low bar.

Three of our five league fixtures since the break have ended 1-1. I am almost conditioned to accept that is probably the most likely scoreline this evening.............with the team giving the impression they're not that disappointed with it, despite injecting a little more urgency into the aimless huff and puff during the last ten minutes.

Administration is an interim step that clubs with dedicated fans who will pull enough will help the club find a way out of. Liquidation, however? That is accepting the end of the club and its history, with potentially having to start again as a mickey mouse phoenix club.

We had just got back from an emotionally draining energy cities derby victory against Viking Stavanger in the Europa League. To use Robsonspeak - "I'll not use the excuse that the players were tired, but...." Robinson clearly enjoys scudding us 3-0.

"Are you with me?"

Bring back replays - many of my best 'domestic fitba match' memories are Scottish Cup replays under the lights. Penalties in early rounds are for the League Cup. ps unless it's Celtic or Sevco who should be given a bye in these circumstances.

Possibly the main reason I have DNA is this event - and to be fair to Warnock, he'll be a bit more comfortable in front of an audience than the lug-howker.

Only the third Sat 3pm k.o. of the season at Pittodrie - looking forward to our first ever meeting with Bonnyrigg Rose, following the (cough) joyful experience that was our first ever meeting with Annan last season. We should win comfortably, but have a habit of making these things stickier than they should be. Still recall after their late equaliser, being happy to draw with Stenny at home a few years back in the days when we had replays (which IMO are part of what the Scottish Cup is all about). Nice to hear Bonnyrigg are taking a good crowd up - more than the Edinburgh clubs sometimes do for league fixtures.

I think one of the pods made the point that when he came back in around March last season, he was very good, but had genuine competition in Gorter. The rest of his time has been fair to middling at best, with shot-stopping one of his strengths in amongst some clear weaknesses with crosses, erratic kicking and diving the wrong way at penalties. I agree the first Sevco goal last night was a much bigger rick than the second, but a top keeper deals with both better.

I’m still bitter about it.

Boyata did that to GMS in the LC final a few seasons back. GMS carried off, no pen awarded and then that classless p***k Christie runs up the other end and scores the only goal. Rules yet again applied to differing standards in this country.

Would love to know what Samson is doing - particularly if the alternative still isn’t going to get a look in. Devlin caught on his heels twice when he could have bailed the clown out had he just anticipated the ever more regular incompetence.

Have stuck on Sportscene - and instead am being given a tour of a place called Loch Snyzort.

Considering Goldson got away with a rugby tackle in the box in this fixture last season, there was no way a couple of “game’s gone” handball shouts were going to go against him - that’s seemingly reserved for half the other players in the league right now. How bad must Ross Doohan be if Roos continues to get away with costing us points as often as this?

Interesting take it on things, when one place the civilised world has largely left behind is west central Scotland. Prediction: yet another draw for us.

Jesus - I was hoping this was just clickbait media nonsense - the FMB really have the lost the plot if they think this circus is the way forward. Too early to tell, but Leven picked a sensible team and also clearly addressed a few things positively at HT. Maybe a calm sensible head is all this team needs for now to get more out of them.

He's also got previous with McInnes (who apparently dislikes him a lot).

I'm sure the right decision will be reached...........what could go wrong?

There must be some nordic hipsters' choice that's currently tearing it up for Boldklubben Trellaviking or the likes that's a good outside shout.

Now it's done - and the toxic cruelty towards the guy is thankfully over before it got out of hand. There are around a dozen games that will leave positive memories - with the trip to Thessaloniki in particular being a lifelong AFC highlight for myself. For that thank you Barry and good luck in whatever you do next.

His interviews are a hard listen. He’s thick as mince and says nothing of consequence, or that should be taken seriously………….and he likes to remind us of all these big stadiums he’s played in etc I used to think (10/11 months back) that they were a smokescreen for some well thought out masterplan behind the scenes - but it’s now more evident than ever that the stars just aligned a certain way for a couple of months, and just not being Jim Goodwin was enough to get a tune for a wee while.

I actually think we could be on to something here - this has been the Cormack and FMB strategy all along.

Heard this - McLeod also stated that the club are working on getting another 1 or 2 players in ahead of Thursday’s deadline.