Electric Blues

I hope this is some sort of cunning rope-a-dope tactic. No shots on target in the first half is not unprecedented this season, but I'm fairly sure that no shots at all would be a new development.

That plastic shit-tip would not be my first choice of park on which to relaunch the newly-bionic Mr Turnbull.

BBC News: sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests...

Gillespie would have saved it anyway.

The Dons fans over on the P&B match thread don't sound confident at all. There's a real battle of negativity going on there. In related news, MJC predicts a 3-0 home win. Sorry, did I say "news"...?

Be an awful shame if they went straight back down again, eh?

Rather than wait for nature to take its course we need to get 6-0 up at some point, and then win a penalty. This Saturday might be a possibility, I hope.

My first impression was that it was going in already, and I still think it might have. However, in the moment Chris Long doesn't have a protractor and an action replay, and I agree he did exactly what you'd want him to do. On balance it's far better to have a hungry striker on hand for these opportunities than stood buffing their fingernails on the edge of the 18-yard box.

Has that SquirrelShagger chappy not been on yet? It's unlike him to miss a Kilmarnock thread.

If only I'd lazily typed "& Killie" instead of "and Kilmarnock".

Aberdeen and Kilmarnock both 2-0 down now

On a slightly tangential note, today was my first visit to Fir Park for a while. How long has the stadium announcer been coming out with that “the mighty” pish? It was jarring enough the first time, and by the tenth I was ready to go full postal.

Score first, go behind, game over. Again.

Much as I hate to sound negative, we haven't taken a single point from a losing position so far this season.

I suspect my only chance of a happy ending today is if I buy the wife a really big bunch of flowers.

Do you have a link to that pig video by any chance?

Aye, Les might be a prick, but he's OUR prick. (For the avoidance of doubt, I don't know Les from Adam. He may very well NOT be a prick at all.)

Frear scores for FGR.

For comparison, across their entire professional careers to date, Carson has saved 13 out of 48 (27%), while Gillespie has saved 11 out of 46 (24%). Samson saved 9 out of 35 (25%). Hard to get a fag paper between them on those stats alone. Fraser Forster is often lauded by the fawning Scottish press as a master of the penalty save - to be fair, he's saved 13 out of 34 (38%).

According to transfermarkt, while playing for Motherwell in all competitions, Carson has faced ten penalties and saved none of them, while Gillespie has saved four out of eleven. That's a reasonably impressive 36%. On a cautionary note, however, Craig Samson saved two out of five, a 40% success rate. Lies, damned lies, and statistics...

We've reverse-jinxed him, Excellent!

I take your points, chaps, especially the Craig Moore one, and would merely point out that the comment was made before Cole spectacularly missed an open goal from about a yard out.

Apropos of nothing, that punt that no premiership outfit was prepared to take on Shankland is looking increasingly like it might have been the wrong call.