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Unexpected win, excellent result and spirited performance. Actually thought Aberdeen started the better team and created 3 or 4 chances to our zero. However Johnson's clinical double more or less ended the game. Two chances, two goals, three points and that showed the importance of having someone that can finish limited chances....something Aberdeen don't have. After that Aberdeen descended into a bit of a shambles and we took control of the match and looked very comfortable. Excellent team performance - Gilliespie did well coming in, I'm not a fan but credit to Grimshaw had an excellent match at right back, Mbulu looked a little nervous in the opening stages but settled in, Campbell is just an enormous step up from McHugh, Turnbull looks like a veteran, and a good one at that, and of course the cutting edge Johnson gave us has won us the match. Only disappointment was that at 3-0 up, Livingstone should be getting game time from the bench. Overall though very good performance, hopefully Robinson is slowly learning.

Two chances, two goals. The benefits of playing a proper striker.

3-5-2?

Aberdeen were in poor form then and struggling a bit. They have taken a major upswing since then. 4 wins on the trot, including Rangers, Kilmarnock and Hibs, with three clean sheets. The betting man would have us not scoring tomorrow and therefore getting beaten.

Although I don't think Carson has been anywhere near his form from last season (possibly due to this clot) this is still a massive blow. Need Gillespie to step up cos he's going to be tested during a tough run of fixtures.

Unlucky defeat. Hinged on the sending off of Mbulu immediately after our excellent equalizer. I didn't seen the incident so I'm not going to say the ref got it wrong but his overall performance was mince and I'd be surprised if he saw more of it than me. All things considered to be competitive against a strong Ross County side that might well win the Championship this season, with 10 men for almost half the match and missing our best player, Turnbull, it was a decent performance. For me, there is a lot of potential there.

More refereeing controversy!

Clearly missed having Turnbull in the middle today. Ross County are physically stronger and have probably been the better team but we've been strong at the back and restricted them to one real chance, a header at a set piece. While we've not been as fluent as against Sligo we've probably created more chances than Ross County. Hastie and Watson have caused problems when they have got the ball and Scott has put in an impressive shift. We are just lacking that Turnbull factor. Wouldn't mind Rehman coming on as I thought he looked more comfortable on the ball than Brown or Semple. Need to keep the ball a wee bit better or picked up more 2nd balls cos I think Ross County have had too much possession and eventually that will tell. Plus we've proved we can cause them problems with probably less possession. Just need to get on the ball that extra 5%.

It gives a chance to do something we should have done last year that Robinson neglected. We weren't going to be relegated but no young players were given first team exposure and there was no general development at all. We just kept doing the same old same old. We probably won't be relegated this season because Dundee and St. Mirren are so bad so we have until the end of the season to do what should have happened last season. If Robinson isn't willing to take that chance, someone else should. If we don't and we go into next season having made the same mistakes and waste that period were team development was possible 2019/20 might just be the year we go down. We've lucked out, we've been given a massive opportunity and still people don't want to take it.

I just think that we are in an extraordinary season when there are two teams in the league that are so bad, you can't judge Robinson on avoiding relegation. At this stage last season bottom team Partick had 11 points, 2nd bottom team Dundee had 12 points. Two seasons ago the bottom team at this stage, Partick again, had 13 points. This season the bottom team Dundee has 4 points, 2nd bottom team St. Mirren has 5 points. They are two of the worst ever top flight teams. Finishing above them should not get Robinson off the hook for an unacceptable level of performance.

Alternatively do we wait until two of the worst ever teams in the top flight drop out before we make a change? If you ask me we basically have a free pass this season because St. Mirren and Dundee are absolutely dreadful. If we wait, we might not have that safety net. Right now we have a potential 6 months of development time that we'll probably never get again at this level. As for signing players in January, there are different styles of player available. The players Robinson has brought in are mostly wedded to a style of football that isn't working and is awful to watch. It's a disgrace that the most technically advanced player in the squad is an under 20 with a handful of appearances. We barely have more than 2 or 3 players in the squad that can take a touch and play a pass with any fluidity. We need better players and they need to come from somewhere. So it has to be either the youth squad or the transfer market. We can surely find two players that can improve the squad in January. One can replace Sammon who should be sent back to Hearts.

Yeah, something is wrong when the same player is sent off three times for two yellow cards. And given that McHugh has got off with at least one further red card this season then maybe you need to start looking at the player rather than the referee. As for Thomson, the Kipre league match was nonsense and so was the Dunne one at St. Johnstone. Both were rescinded. The rest of them were either red cards or not clean cut. I maintain, for instance, that Carson handed outside his box while others here will say he didn't. There are neutrals who will maintain the league cup final was a penalty, when I think it wasn't. That's the nature of the game. What we need to do is control what we can control. We can't control the referee, the weather, the pitches, the number of matches played in a certain period or the fixture list. We can control what our players do in a match. Let's concentrate on that because right now we are making mistake, after mistake, after mistake. It's unprofessional and unless it is addressed there is only one outcome.

You are right that he shouldn't be fired over one result. But a 25% win ratio over a calendar year means that any manager at any club would be under threat and at most clubs would probably been fired already. Robinson's league record is atrocious and that's not even taking into consideration the entertainment value, style of football and poor quality players he'd leave behind. Out of 62 league matches, Robinson has 20 wins, not great in itself, but 10 of those wins came in this first 22 matches. Since then we have 10 wins in 40 matches and that is very poor.

He won't be fired this week. A heavy defeat by Aberdeen and it becomes a possibility. With the run of games coming up, I honestly can't see him lasting into 2019, but as I've said previously I don't see much point in changing the manager right now as we need to give anyone coming in the chance to bring in new players and fixtures that we have a decent chance of getting a 'bounce' from. Bringing in a new manager now and I don't see how things are going to change much. Get these tough fixtures over, grin and bare it and we'll see where we are at the end of December.

For me 5 of the 6 goals from open play were avoidable by even competent defending. Agree with Hartley. He's slow as treacle and his positioning for the first goal was deplorable yesterday. Clearly not even paying attention to the game when he's about 5 yards behind the rest of the defensive line. And that's one of the most infuriating things about this team. Time and time again we can't even play in lines like a half decent school team. Players just don't have any awareness of what's going on around them. There is no excuse for it and the manager should be on top of that. If players don't know where they are on the field and where their team mates are they shouldn't be playing. It's the most basic element of the game. Perhaps if we ever master that we can move on to controlling a ball and then passing.

As I said previously, now is a tough time to bring in the youngsters. Not only do we have tough fixtures, the team and manager are under pressure and the fans are not happy. We had three quarters of a season last term when relegation was at best unlikely and fans were onside due to the cup runs and he didn't give these guys game time. We started the season playing League 2 teams and they still didn't get any game time. These players should have been brought through last season. Bringing them in now might improve us but you can't really expect more or less totally inexperienced kids to get us out a 3 wins in 13 sized hole. Robinson has completely mismanaged the side.

Watching Sportscene. Wish me luck.

I always give a MotM even though sometimes its hard to come up with one. This time it's almost impossible. Went for Bigi as the best of a bad lot.

Leadership? We needed a 19 year old to come in and run the game for us against two of the worst sides in top league history.

The positive today is that it wasn't a record club defeat. At one point it looked like it might be.

Needs a big performance against Aberdeen to get the taste of that defeat out of my mouth. The fixture list goes thus.... Aberdeen (H) Livingston (A) Celtic (H) Hearts (A) St. Johnstone (A) Celtic (A) If we can't get points out of the next two I don't see us getting any out of the next four.

I was there today and I've no idea if it was a penalty or a deliberate hand ball but it doesn't matter. McHugh is rash time and time again and it was almost inevitable that he was going to get sent off as soon as he got the yellow. The guy is an absolute clown. The manager should have hooked him as soon as the card came out and should do the same if he ever plays and gets booked again. I genuinely hope he never plays again though. We were rotten in the match, gave away a terrible goal with 11 men on the pitch after only a few minutes and hardly strung two balls together all match. The one good move we had resulted in an equalizer despite us being pretty poor. This Rangers team was not a great team. At 11 v 11 we could have come out much better composed, instead we were a shambles. At 2-1 down we should have kept it tight and hit them on the break - we did neither - and gave away another terrible goal, a free header for the shortest player in the box soon after. We got pumped today because we were rotten. We've been rotten for over a year now but today was perhaps the nadir of a sustained period of dreck. Meanwhile Livingston get a clean sheet and a point against Celtic, St. Johnstone break the clean sheet record and Kilmarnock become the first team to win at Tynecastle in donkeys ages. Don't talk to me about budget. Robinson's legacy will be the non league clogger football he leaves behind him when he clears his desk.

As I've been saying for some time it's not budget, it's lack of ability and a defeatist attitude. We've got two players who are comfortable with the ball being played to them and one is a 19 year old rookie. Our manager is happy to do enough to stay up and nothing more. Maybe we can now drop this pish about Robinson not giving the Old Firm respect. Never beat either of them in a league match when both teams have been historically mediocre. Imagine that lot had been up against Larsson or Gascoigne.

Might as well stay and see our record defeat.

Absolutely cunted off a slighly above average team. Not sure why I'm still here. Now 7.