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Gorrin was defintely a big miss. First half in particular, we played well enough and recovered from the flukey goal to be deservedly level. Their 2nd was fortunate too, but our performance dipped after that and Gillepsie's injury seemed to distract us even further. I thought Robinson's comments were in response to people who were saying we should drop Hastie , but I guess he might have been reminding other that they need to be performing while they remain our our payroll.

TV companies seem to delay it more than the local constabulary as they fight to give us the worst kick-off times possible on the worst days possible as often as possible.

We've lost better players than Hastie and improved the following season.

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Even if they see him as a worthy replacement, a backup would still be handy.

Thought Hibs would get their point tonight. Only real downside the is the Gillepsie injury.

Didn't look much in it on the stream - Gillespie, Tait and Cosgrove all went for the same ball. Cosgrove and Gillepsie took the worst of it. And Aberdeen get a slice of luck to score a second.

If the Hibs score stays the same, it makes no difference.

Gillepsie in bad shape after that collision. Can barely walk. Sub being called for.

In which case, Boooooooooooo!

Not a bad first half.

We have now. (and to be fair, we've looked the more likely to get that). Nicely worked goal.

Flukey goal aside, we've actually been the better team in the opening minutes, playing on the front foot.

The Aberdeen commentary is actually one of the better ones. Certainly less biased than the MFC TV effort.

Lucky, given the joke of a goal we just conceded. TBF, it was a complete fluke.

I missed the start of the stream - is that Joe Harper on the commentary, reminiscing about his games in the 70s against Will McVie, Joe Wark and Gregor Stevens? The stat they quoted was interesting. In the 8 games Robinson has been in charge against Aberdeen, there hasn't been one where both teams scored.

It's the MLS, though. It's all Conferences, play-offs and expansion franchises and salary caps - all engineered to try and maintain parity and give every team an equal chance of winning. I'd never tell a young player not to take a shot abroad, though, but not sure that would be his best move. And I think development fees are FIFA regulated - so we'd probably still be compensated.

Atlanta are the Dundee of the MLS Eastern Conference.

And from what Craigan said, replaced it without even asking the opinion of any of the U20 coaches.

This is one of the difficulties of the new Reserve set up. Some teams with larger squads are using it to keep their more experienced players ticking over. Others are using it more like a replacement for the U20s teams. While it's good for our youngsters to compete against the older players, it does lead to some mismatches.

Are they spending their spare cash on buying out Moreles' contract? (Or maybe just paying his fines) .

I think we might nick this one by a goal.

Based on Saturday's performances I'd be just as happy with Frear and Cadden starting next season as Ariyibi and Hastie. Of course, it's equally possible they leave too.

Losing in finals is good practice for playing in the first team. Shame we couldn't finish the job, but a great run from the youngsters.

It's almost like the players' agents talk to other clubs for months and keep it a secret from you so you have no idea of the timing of any of the offers our youngsters receive.