McGowan and Erskine the stand outs for me, all of defence and goalkeeper were good I thought, not much from Dixon going forward.

Spittal very good first half, didn't notice him second half.  Thought Telfer, Rankin and particularly Souttar were poor, as was Bilate. Bodul, Murray and Dave were anonymous.

Second half was pish, shite goal, roll on next week.

From listening to the radio analysis afterwards you'd think we'd been horsed 18-0. But what can you expect from two Aberdeen fans and a boy with a chip on his shoulder who doesn't like the manager because he punted him?

For what it's worth I thought we were poor in the second half and it mainly came from taking Bilate off. Without him there was no focus to our play whatsoever. It looked like Bodul was out wide and Telfer was up front on his own at one point, which was madness. If he didn't think Bilate was any good (and to be honest, miss aside I thought he was fine) then Muirhead should have been the replacement.

First half though we matched them. Erskine, Spittal, Bilate and Dixon all played some part in an attacking sense and though we didn't score we had chances.

Defence look decent, though Donaldson maybe isn't the best person to start passing moves.

Souttar I thought was very poor in the second half, playing without any urgency and Telfer generally isn't quite there yet.

Bodul was anonymous but so was everyone else for the first 20 minutes of the second half.

I'm not convinced Sneijder is best played in Rankin's position either. He said himself he's a left midfielder.

So we've got some work to do, but there are signs to be positive about as long as the manager doesn't make unreasonably daft substitutions.

Zwick did ok, should only get better definite potential there

Defence looked better organised most of the time hope there.

Souttar had a spell 1st half where he ran the show, but faded out of it badly, ranks gave his all but really offered little to help going forward.

Spittal did well 1st half as did Erskine. Telfer wasn't in it at all really.

Bilate is ok when knocking it in to his head/ chest, but really poor on the deck, 2nd touch is a tackle.

Bodul/Sjnieder too early too tell/ not ready to play yet clearly.
Murray made some good runs tbf, our long passes/punts were way off the mark tho.  Did he touch the ball yet?

If Muirhead is 4th pick striker behind Murray, an unfit Bodul and Bilate then God knows what he's done to piss Jackie off, can't work this out at all.

Biggest disappointment to me was that a lot of the same problems are still there, no cutting edge/ lack of fitness and too many pussies shirking out of tackles. 

1st half showed promise, 2nd half was abysmal.  Jackie really needs to show he's got it and quick, don't think he can tbh.

Andy wrote:

Bilate has a shite touch for a big man

Also heard he fucked his hamstring again hence why he was pulled at half time. Surely no?

Fucking joking?
 

Pretty much agree with most of the comments. The defence looked solid and restriced them to very few chances. Durnan should be happy with his debut. Telfer had no impact on the game, he should have gone at half time  not Bilate.
A lot of patience will be needed this year, however we looked a better team than we  were at the end of last season.

I want to see Durnan's determination throughout the team. We are a smidgen short in closing down sometimes and lack fight.
To me it's an absolute necessity to aggressively close, block and limit/panic the opposition when they have the ball.
When we have the ball we need to be braver. Anyone can play an easy pass back, back and back to the keeper. Zwick's kicking was fine but we can do better with the ball.
Rankin may be doing what he's asked to do but I want a better player in his position as that role dictates a lot of the match and he's OK but we don't want OK.
I see a future in Muirhead and Erskine. Darko and Sneijder are not fit so shouldn't judge and if Murray can get a goal or 3 his confidence will help his all round game. He's a good impact sub to tire out defence late on just now.
Get Davie Bowman to have a chat to the midfield about attitude at St Andrews next fuckin week.

I was happy with our 1st half showing apart from Bilate's sitter.2nd half shooting up the hill i thought they 14 mile journeys to ST Andrews caught up with us. 

We were predictable pedestrian and the folly of letting butcher go is now coming home to roost could have done with his aggression today

Shed57 bus had broke down in Glasgow it appears, so it was a dash for the Stirlingshire folk, but we all got there.

Don't like to name and therefore damn players, but found it strange the range of opinions of our forward options. Some fans had a very negative view of our lone, isolated striker, whilst I thought he was a menace to the Dons defence. 

What I will say, as a view, is that we've sold 5 players who had the ability to go wide and get by defenders, and we now do not appear to have one player who can do the same.
'He plays on the left, he plays on the right' played through the middle as well.

Certain things need addressed.

Sadly, we're predictable.

Absolutely no penetration. Jmac has to show that he can change tact or he will be a gonner. No doubt about it.

Play 2 up front ffs.

Oh. . . And buy a goal Scorer or its gonna be a long long season.

Zwick -i'm liking this guy

Bilate needs to go.

Sneijder -miles off the pace but i don't think he has it -id love to be corrected

Bodul-there is a player in there

Durnan-well impressed ,great player

Donaldson-impressed , a bit raw at times - a few more games he'll be fine.

Murray-Usain Bolt is shitting himself,Lionel Messi isn't

Got a good drink on me so wont bore you with my usual speel. Theres not a lot that others havent left unsaid.

Shagatron should have started, possibly Muraymints an all, however, 1st 10 minutes we were spot on, The better team. 2 missed opportunities. The rest of the 1st half it was even-stevens. Marios nearie was a sickener - should have toed it to Arklay Street. Not surprised he was subbed at half-time but sorry if it's his hammers again.

Re-Erskine. he made a chunt of it 2nd half when he took the ball up the right-wing. Murray was in the box in lots of space unmarked screamin for the ball, but Squidy tried to play thru to the goal all by himself, and it wentbout for a goal-kick. Ranks did the same a but later. Murray runs into box in loadsa space in the middle and Ranks tried somethin clever and we lost possession.

Amother dafty was bringing on Darko for Mario halt-time. He was upfront as a direct replacement for Mario. Then Murray comes on and we're all thinking - great 2 upfront - whereby he moves Darko back to mid? Doh.

Far too many backpasses to the keeper esp. from Donaldson.
Their goal wasna the keepers fault. Far too much time for them in our half.

As I said earlier, a game of missed opportunities.