Orinoco

Going to be a tough game and a draw would not be the worst result.

A horrible night where everything fell for Aberdeen. The reaction from certain individuals, i wont call them fans, is bordering on hysterical and ridiculous. 6 games into our league season and everything is doom and gloom. Holly moses! We ask our players to be brave, yet certain supporters chose to take the cowards way out and turned their backs on our players by leaving or abusing them. The players need encouragement and not abuse. Last season the fans got the plaudits for the patience shown in accepting our style of play. This season our support is showing little patience and an entitlement that would make the city club teams fans blush. This season was always going to be difficult. Practically a new team, with a new manager. A manager who is still learning about our players and Scottish football. The club collectively will know they let the fans down last night. But today is a new day. Hopefully lessons were learnt and with hard work, belief and patience we can continue our journey of positivity and entertainment. We need to ignore the external negative noise and trolls. Stop the bickering and trust the process even with the odd blip along the way.

Thats football for you. Aberdeen winning at fir park is hardly a new thing. All them struggling teams are winning tonight. Weird. Said is another who has gone off the boil after a great start to this season.

3 shots 3 goals. They wont repeat that again this season. Longelo needs to play further forward with Williams behind him. Sparrow aint a right back. Front 3 mix is not right. To many pea hearted players who let their heads drop. We need a leader.

Give the lad time to settle.

Passed into net in paisley.

We aint scoring tonight. To many off it and hiding.

Longelo has also been very lazy.

The front 3 just dont do enough.

Cook is not a starter. His decision making is awful. We need a center forward. Seb for Cook and Said for Kanga. As for McLean. He watches simulation by Aberdeen player and nothing. Nothing game seperated by a hit that 9 times out of 10 goes wide. As half went on we lost our way. Its all gone abit flat.

Could it be because our coaches are dinasours and play not to lose rather than play to win. Football is a simple game. Pass and move into space to receive the ball. As a kid i was tought that. Yet professional players seem incapable of doing that. Another thing is that we keep hearing how our players conditioning is miles behind other countries. That surely an easy fix. Guys like Andy Murray, Chris Hoy show with dedication they can improve fitness, which improves performance. Some players cant seem to play more than 60 mins per game and more than twice a week. They are tired apparently. Sports science seems to have overseen a decline in players fitness. They also dont address the issue that all our best youth is hoovered up by English teams for a pittance. There is a danger that rather than focus on the basics, ie fitness and game education they are overthinking it and bringing in ill thought out rules that will make our teams even more uncompetitive in europe and widening the gaps between teams in this country.

Disappointing, but how many millions have they spent on their team? FFP non existent in scotland. We can do much better, but losing at Ibrox is hardly the end of days. Shrug of shoulders and we hopefully learn and move on.

Not at penalties....

Hope Longelo is still with us on Friday. He can frustrate, but when he is on it he is dangerous going forward.

Hodge was everywhere. But Lowry edges it for his overall creative play and peach of a goal. Midfield is looking strong again this season.