Match Thread Ross County 0 - 3 Aberdeen

[aberdeen1970]

Aye a longer deal for Hoban should be tabled now.  

[DelMonte]

Ross County could be in trouble. 

They are the worst we've played this season by far. 

[Tord31]

Brilliant performance and result.

I'd like to see Hibs/Rangers/Celtic drop some points this weekend to give us a bit more encouragement.

If we could win the next two (maybe three as perhaps they'll organise the Hamilton game in hand) before Celtic it would set up a right cracker. 

[sheepcrooky]

5 minutes ago, DelMonte said:

Ross County could be in trouble. 

They are the worst we've played this season by far. 

Bizarrely, if they had beaten us today, they would have been 2 points ahead of us albeit with more games played. 
 

The league is strange this year, all the crappy clubs are picking up points and creating a logjam behind us and the spoon burners. 

[True_Don]

2 hours ago, Simply Red said:

Ridiculous fucking hairdoo and aye that wee shaved bit is serial killer stuff. He takes himself so seriously, massive ego=fuck off kettledick

A shite De Gea

[redstrummer]

4 hours ago, muttonhumper said:

Yeah, meant to add that as a caveat.

Nae shit.

McCrorie was phenomenal today. Again.
If he is moved from the position along side Ferguson on CM, McInnes should be strung up at the Castlegate.

needs cemented that midfield pairing 

[redstrummer]

thank fuck Ojo is out the picture

[Ten Caat]

2 hours ago, Durrant Dived said:

Good result and perfomances all round. Get Hoban signed up til the end of the season minimum ASAP.

I suspect we will have to offer him longer than that in order to get himself to committing to moving his young family north from the London area. We know that before lockdown occurred 6 months ago, Leyton Orient and a couple of non-league clubs in the south east were keen on signing him.

I'd hope we offer him a minimum of 2.5 years on the money McKenna was on. That would surely be enough to rule out any non-league clubs down south tempting him.

[Simosmashed my knee]

Great performance today, Tommie organised defence brilliantly and young Rory and Lewis were magnificent in midfield. Night and day from last Sunday

 

[Stoneybloke]

McCrorie could be one of Aberdeen's best deals for a very long time.

 

[G31DON]

Lewis, Hoban, McCrorie, Hedges is a great core.  Will be interesting to see how Cosgrove gets on once he's back. Are we playing well because Watkins is stretching defences or is there more to come with a goal scorer up top? 

[super_al]

Great result. One has to wonder why Hedges did not play like he has of late last season. He truly has been a stand out performer. 

[Dom Sullivan]

2 hours ago, Simosmashed my knee said:

Great performance today, Tommie organised defence brilliantly and young Rory and Lewis were magnificent in midfield. Night and day from last Sunday

 

Rory McCrorie?.

[muttonhumper]

4 hours ago, G31DON said:

Lewis, Hoban, McCrorie, Hedges is a great core.  Will be interesting to see how Cosgrove gets on once he's back. Are we playing well because Watkins is stretching defences or is there more to come with a goal scorer up top? 

It's a good question.

One would hope we continue in the same swashbuckling style if Cosgrove were to directly to replace Watkins, but don't know if Sam will be able to replicate such movement.

So, fuck knows?

[Singapore Steve]

12 hours ago, Millertime said:

Scored one and assisted one

assisted one sounds link a link up player or winger.

scored 1 in 8.  Not a great record for a striker.

I like the guy and think he helps the team. Sincerely hope he can go on and become a great goalscorer for us. My original point being after we had missed 6 good opportunities in the first half, was that we needed a recognized striker on the pitch. 

[RUL]

1 hour ago, muttonhumper said:

It's a good question.

One would hope we continue in the same swashbuckling style if Cosgrove were to directly to replace Watkins, but don't know if Sam will be able to replicate such movement.

So, fuck knows?

It reminds me of season where stevie may was playing a lot but not scoring. I'm sure we lost our way when he started being benched.

Was it not Watkins who played in mccrorie for the penalty too? Be a tough decision for Derek.. Plus Kennedy to come back too and Devlin. Exciting times. 

[alscotoz]

Fell asleep at half time. My lasting impression was how bad county were. I also watched most of huns game and Motherwell were pretty bad.

So we should finish third!

 

edit: by a fair margin

[Tord31]

5 hours ago, super_al said:

Great result. One has to wonder why Hedges did not play like he has of late last season. He truly has been a stand out performer. 

He's been 'like a new signing'. I think he was close to being written off. 

[RUL]

36 minutes ago, Tord31 said:

He's been 'like a new signing'. I think he was close to being written off. 

All the chat coming out of pre season was that Hedges had returned looking really strong.

[Tord31]

Yea I read that its very pleasing. Suddenly we could be worrying about only having him on an 18 month contract

[redstrummer]

Impressed again with Wright yesterday , brings a lot of pace and attacking intent . Hedges too for that matter 

[Sheepo]

2 minutes ago, redstrummer said:

Impressed again with Wright yesterday , brings a lot of pace and attacking intent . Hedges too for that matter 

Both doing very well although a lot on here would have got rid of them before the season started

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

7 hours ago, muttonhumper said:

It's a good question.

One would hope we continue in the same swashbuckling style if Cosgrove were to directly to replace Watkins, but don't know if Sam will be able to replicate such movement.

So, fuck knows?

Will be interesting to see. I like watching Hedges, Wright and Watkins link up... but ultimately we aren't seeing enough goals out of it. 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

45 minutes ago, Sheepo said:

Both doing very well although a lot on here would have got rid of them before the season started

And if we’d persisted with Taylor-Cosgrove hoofball they’d have been right.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

17 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Will be interesting to see. I like watching Hedges, Wright and Watkins link up... but ultimately we aren't seeing enough goals out of it. 

Yup.  Two factors for me.  Converting our better possession into goals (the fans will have patience as long as we’re still getting the wins.  The improvement in watching terms is night and day from hoofball).  Secondly how teams will adapt to our altered style and how our 3512 fares against Celtics similar style.  Will the two simply cancel each other out?

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

I'm certainly hoping we can keep getting results with the current set up. 4-2-3-1 and meaningless possession was becoming eye bleedingly bad.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

5 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Yup.  Two factors for me.  Converting our better possession into goals (the fans will have patience as long as we’re still getting the wins.  The improvement in watching terms is night and day from hoofball).  Secondly how teams will adapt to our altered style and how our 3512 fares against Celtics similar style.  Will the two simply cancel each other out?

Celtic might have something to say if we play 3-5-1-2 ?

[aberdeen1970]

7 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Celtic might have something to say if we play 3-5-1-2 ?

They already play that formation most weeks with the ref in the middle of the 5 in midfield 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Sakes.  Slow Monday!

it was the Sportscene graphic that threw me!

[WesthillWanderersFC]

27 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

They already play that formation most weeks with the ref in the middle of the 5 in midfield 

I thought with no crowds at games we’d see less “nonsense” from the refs without the pressure of the fans on their back.

Bobby Madhun dispelled that theory at Fir Park yesterday.