Ya Bezzer!

Everyone does it in the modern game but it's another total failure for VAR.

So pleased about this win because I'm one of those people who thinks we are genuine challengers for the league, but we had to bounce back after that midweek set back and we did with gusto. We've been the best team in the league over the last 20 or so matches, we now have the joint best goal difference in the league. If we keep this form and performance level going this team could do something amazing but are of course going to have to beat the teams above us.

OK I know we should all move on but I wanted to know so I couldn't help it. Excluding the Old Firm, since 1990/91, trophies lifted by Scottish Premiership sides Hearts - 3 x Scottish Cup, 2 x Scottish Championship Motherwell - 0 HIbs - 2 x Scottish League Cup, 1 x Scottish Cup, 1 x Scottish Championship, 1 x Scottish First Division Falkirk - 1 x Scottish Championship, 2 x Scottish First Division Dundee United - 2 x Scottish Cup, 2 x Scottish First Division Aberdeen - 2 x League Cup, 1 x Scottish Cup Dundee - 2 x Scottish Championship, 2 x Scottish First Division St Mirren - 2 x Scottish League Cup, 1 x Scottish Championship, 2 x Scottish First Division Kilmarnock - 1 x League Cup, 1 x Scottish Cup, 1 x Scottish Championship Livingston - 1 x League Cup, 1 x Scottish First Division ALSO Raith Rovers - 1 x League Cup, 2 x Scottish First Division Ross County - 1 x League Cup, 1 x Scottish Championship, 1 x Scottish First Division St Johnstone - 1 x League Cup, 2 x Scottish Cup, 2 x Scottish First Division Inverness - 1 x Scottish Cup, 1 x Scottish First Division Partick Thistle - 2 x Scottish First Division Dunfermline - 2 x Scottish First Division Hamilton - 1 x Scottish First Division Gretna - 1 x Scottish First Diviision Have a nice day! 🤣

Aberdeen have now conceded in 13 straight league matches, 26 goals in total and I'm sure you can work out the average. [EDIT} Make that 27.

St Mirren's away form is catastrophic and has put them in relegation danger but their recent home form is actually pretty good, only 1 defeat in 6 in the league. St Mirren have kept 5 clean sheets in those 6 matches and we've failed to score in 4 of our last 6 away matches if you include the midweek cup match. We also failed to score there earlier in the season. I think this will be a very tough match for us and very much a potential banana skin. It's important we don't lose two in a row as once you start to lose matches it can start a more serious rot.

The bigger picture is Rangers and Celtic will never field poorer teams than this season and we are better than any other team in the league if we field our strongest eleven. Load management? Hectic schedule? We never played a match for weeks. The whole point of this season is we'll never have a better chance to win a trophy and we've fucked it with a very poor performance against St. Mirren and a crazy selection by the manager for this match. Obviously Askou has done great things but he's not infallible and he got this completely wrong. Trying to make out like there is some mysterious greater purpose to the season that we mere mortal don't understand is just feeble apologia.

Rare to play a team 5 times and not lose one. Also thought Aberdeen gave us a harder match at the weekend than Rangers, Hearts or Celtic at Fir Park. And again our away record is not the best. Still, this feels like a big opportunity thrown away. You wonder if foreign coaches maybe don't understand the importance of cup competitions in this country.

Most of the time we've not had a team that, in all honesty, was capable of winning a cup. This season we definately have.

Even his comments before the match were weird. The semi final was a 'healthy defeat' that would be 'worth more in the long run than a League Cup win'. What?

It's up to the individual club to pay for VAR in cup games.

Too many mistakes from guys that shouldn't have been on the field in the first place.

Basically 5 first team players have been left out tonight. I think Welsh is cup tied but I assume the rest are just changes. If so that's a lot of big calls by Askou.

Went for McGinn. Has been a great servant for the club and yesterday was a really good performance from him when we were under pressure at the back in spells.

Always think inactivity is bad for teams and that could explain our really poor start to the match that's possibly cost us 3 points. Rangers goal was poor from our point of view, Rangers player has ran 50 yards without a challenge. Overall we deserved at least a point and for me dominated the first half bar the first ten minutes. It was all half chances though we never really created a big chance and at times our final ball could have been better. Maybe Jens needs to look for someone that can hit good corners. Second half it was more even but I don't remember Ward having any serious saves to make, unlike his opposite number. Got to give the team credit for hanging in there after the red card and winning the point cos we absolutely deserved it over the 90 minutes.

I'm panicking about catching bubonic plague walking up Airbles Road at about 7.30pm.