Ya Bezzer!

Aberdeen is no picnic.

If you take our last three first pick DMs which I would say are McHugh, Gorrin and Donnelly you'll notice only one of them was an actually midfielder by trade and I know which order I'd rate them in. Sometimes football ain't rocket science. It's a defensive MIDFIELDER. Not a defender IN midfield.

Kelly is the only player of quality we have right now. We concede far too many goals though. I agree you should defend with more than defenders and you have to look at the whole team when we aren't in possession. I've not done an analysis of every goal we've lost this season but certainly the manager should be doing it and we need to look into it, identify the problems and solve them. We will go absolutely nowhere if we can't keep clean sheets against fairly modest opposition.

We've conceded against Airdrie, Queen of the South, Hibs, St Johnstone and Dundee. Our only clean sheets were against Queens Park and Annan. Pretty clear where the major problem is.

Curtis Main just missed his penalty in the Livvy v Saints shoot out.

You wanna go halfers on the 500 bottle rockets it will take to launch him out of here?

There maybe he been a clue that Watt isn't a goal scorer by looking at his 'goals scored' column over the entirety of his career.

Good news - it's not the Titanic. Bad news - it is the Lusitania.

Grimmie has played well considering he's Grimmie.

We also have the best per head football attendances in Europe.

BBC has us at a 4-4-2 but I think we'll stick with the 4-3-3 but there's a few question marks over that selection. Would be looking for Donnelly and Shields to take a step forward towards full fitness and put in better showings.

2 goals for Turnbull tonight. 1st one a nice finish, 2nd one an absolute rocket.

If we are going to go crazy with our Scottish government loan the following players are available on frees. Jerome Boateng Diego Costa Radja Nainggolan David Luiz Franck Ribery Hatem Ben Arfa Shkodran Mustafi Maicon Daniel Sturridge Get wee Nicola to start signing these off and it's a start on filling up our empty squad numbers.

The 'blend' of the midfield isn't right so I'd hold off on criticising individual players at this point. We definitely need a few in that are 'different types'. Ultimately you are probably only going to play 1 of Crawford, Donnelly, Maguire in our current formation.

Too sensible for this place.

Midfield isn't good enough. Nothing to do with bedding in. Also need defensive strengthening.

Decent away point against a team you'd 'expect' to finish above us. We definitely need to continue to look for better quality players though.

Almost as if a team that's won more cups in the last year than we have in the last 70 years and who can go toe to toe with Euro heavy weights are a bit better than us.

Only heard good things about Shields so I've been looking forward to seeing him.

St Johnstone got a roasting for the first 10 - 15 minutes but after that they settled down and I thought their performance was terrific. They are probably the best organised and best coached team in the league all things considered. They don't usually score a lot though, especially at home, so if we can get a goal you'd have to think we'll have a decent chance of getting something. Overall though they look more settled, more disciplined, more consistent, better drilled - you'd probably be happy enough with a point.

Wasn't there a lot of criticism on here towards KIlmarnock for taking a loan? Turns out we took twice as much from the government.

I'd blame O'Donnell for looking so guilty when it hit his arm! He needs to get a poker face

How many penalties do we give away? We must be about 15 in the last year. Needs to stop because it really makes a difference over a season when you are giving so many away. Better performance but losing the lead twice, and conceding three times at home is not so good. Still at least there is something to be encouraged about but we have two away fixtures coming up so it remains to be seen when our first win will come. Don't want to leave it too long or the energy will drop off.

We had 3 wins 1 draw and 1 loss in the bottom 6 last season. That's 10 of your 28 points from the post split fixtures. Overall 9 points were taken against relegated teams (you could argue both relegated teams have been replaced by stronger sides). We also only had 1 win against a team that finished in the Top 6. Our points average under Alexander was 1.4 (rounded up) pre split and 2.0 post split. So a lot of that improvement was due to playing in the bottom 6 post split. I'll also remind you that losing Campbell, Gallagher and Cole has significantly weakened our team.

Started at Celtic.