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Why is Zdravkoski not playing? He does all the donkey work in the midfield and allows Spittal to play further forward. Spittal is ineffective the way we are playing.

When I saw the starting line up today I did raise an eyebrow with the changes made and can only presume some players were unwell or carrying knocks. The back line seemed particularly negative with no Gent or Devine and the midfield too attacking with no Davor. It also left the bench looking like it was all eggs in one basket, with plenty to shore it up if we were ahead and not much to change it positively if we got behind. Thought we started slowly and let Aberdeen get the better of the early exchanges, but we seemed to grow into the game and it felt like another act of self harm when we gave up the opening goal. After that we had some good chances and should really have got level, even before VAR conspired against us. Second half, I couldnt really understand the substitutions. I can accept Gent being brought on to give us more width but he was largely ineffective and Im not sure what the purpose of bringing Halliday on was. I can only think SK thought we needed more control in midfield and maybe Davor wasnt fit. Otherwise its a mystery. We did play ok for the first part of the second half and created a few chances that were spurned but the rest of the substitutions were baffling. Taking Lennon Miller off was madness as we effectively gave up the midfield at that point and bringing 2 youngsters on when we were chasing the game was not fair on them. If Moses hasnt shown enough in training to get 15-20 mins in front of them at this point, Id question why we have given him a contract. Big Theo had a poor game and had run his race by then and should have been replaced before Vale for me. Need to see the Shinnie hand ball again, but it certainly looked a lot clearer than the Bair decision. All said and done though we didnt lost the game because of VAR. Bad finishing and poor in game management did that.

We play our most attractive and effective football when its an open game and we're counterattacking. Our defence is shaky at the best of times and needs serious attention, as does (to a lesser extent) our midfield. When teams score first against us and then sit in we struggle. We obviously got it wrong on so many fronts today, but it was still a close game and there's no need to panic as long as SK learns lessons. He watched Aberdeen on Wednesday and so knows how they play so its his reaction to that, that was remiss.

As said elsewhere, fielding a 17 year old, albeit a very talented one, behind 2 attacking central midfielders was a huge risk. Also I thought the McGinn at LWB, was a failed experiment that had been consigned to the dustbin of history. SK does half overthink things at times.

Put your dick away.

He'll be miles off it. Look how bad we were today with a week off. He's not played in 2 months. And you need to give kids a chance to learn and gain experience. Ferrie wasn't any worse than anyone else. Bair was straight through on goal today if he didn't have the first touch of a pregnant hippo.

There have been one or two but many more have commented that he's nowhere near ready. We saw a few cameos of him early in the season and quite a few thought that he wasn't ready. At that time he looked to be way out of his depth. He then went out on loan to a lower league club at Stenhousemuir but failed to make any impression and hardly got any game time. He then returned. Now I don't understand why Moses wasn't given any time today like 15 or 20 minutes. Although he hasn't played for some weeks, he's played more than Mark Ferrie. I'm all for giving young lads gametime but it has to be in the right situation. Today only served to prove that young Ferrie should be nowhere near the first team squad for his own good. He needs time in the gym and a loan spell at a lower league club where he can get playing time. I don't know about Dylan Wells. One of a number of odd decisions from SK today.

We were rotten today, but again we are talking about VAR, if they give the Bair handball they have to also give the one against Shinnie at the end, inconsistency in our official’s is what’s killing the game, I think they all need to be made accountable and explain their decisions

The gaffer says

Fair play to whoever selected Mugabi... Comedy gold 🤣

Can't understand why we brought on 2 kids when we're trying to save the game. One maybe, but 2? Especially when we have Moses sitting on the bench. I thought he would have been the obvious choice to see what he could do.

Other than everybody saw Shinnie’s and no one saw Bair’s but yet one is called and one is not. Would at least be good to have the officials explain the different outcome for the two instances

Agree - other than vale I thought all forwards were poor Changing wingbacks didn’t work today either - no real pressure from anyone 1-1 would have been fair - should never have been ruled out

Only people who had issue with the goal was VAR 3 officials, players and managers all fine. But even after looking at it, how can that be deliberate hand ball the guy is up against Blair heads the ball off his hand. Ridiculous hand ball decision by the officials.

Miss Davor or Paton . Nicholson isn’t the grating type - Don’t think it works with 4 attacking players and only miller working in midfield Equally McGinn isn’t a left wingback - poor to play him there

Its gotten to the point where players dont even celebrate now after scoring. They just look around concerned to see if someone has their hand or a flag up

It’s been depressingly predictable so far. After beating Rangers at Ibrox the other week following that up with a dismal performance and a loss at home to a poor Aberdeen side was always on the cards.

Why would or should anyone spend money to watch football live in the stadium now with VAR.

Thought if it was handball by someone other than the scorer it didn't matter? That was the justification for one of the goals that Ross County scored against us anyway

Kelly, SOD, Casey, Mugabe, McGinn, Blaney Miller, Spittal, Nicholson The Bair and Vale

You are wrong, as we have beaten many teams that were on a bad run - the most recent being Livi, and a few games before that, we hammered Ross County. You (we) just tend not to remember them. Doesn't mean we won't have a tough game today, because Aberdeen are going to be fighting for their league survival (or at least they should be). So we need to make sure we are on it from kick off.

Absolutely. As a fan owned club, its not unreasonable for members to be told if we have a CEO and if so, who it is.

Turns out a professional football manager knew more about coaching players than random punters on a message board.