John stevenson

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Aberdeen vs Saints
Premiership 26-27 MD9

Saints head North this afternoon as we aim to arrest a run of four consecutive defeats that has seen early season enthusiasm fade away as we've slipped our way down the Premiership table.

Here's your micro tale of the tape.

Aberdeen Form
The hosts have not exactly been setting the heather on fire themselves this term, and they currently sit two points behind us in the table with just two league wins this season to date, and only 1 in their last 7 Premiership outings.

The pressure is well and truly on Stephen Robinson, especially after a run of meek performances in front of their own fans, the latest of which was a 1-0 loss at home to St.Johnstone last Sunday.

Goal Rush
Nobody has scored fewer goals than the Dons this season, with more than half of their 7 goal haul to date recorded in a single memorable performance at Fir Park.

They've failed to net in 5 of their 8 games so far, and they come face to face with a Saints side who haven't found the net since that Agrafiotis penalty put us ahead against Celtic what seems like 5 years ago on the 5th of September.

Pittodrie Piss Takers
In years gone by a trip to Pittodrie used to be one of trepidation for Saints. I remember us going 20 odd years without a win up there, but we've fairly ripped the piss at Aberdeen in recent times.

We're actually three without defeat up there and believe it or not we've won four of our last seven visits, losing only one, and we've scored 15 goals across those encounters. FIFTEEN!

Team News
With Nick Agrafiotis ruled out for several weeks Saints are in a wee bit of a pickle up top, with Jonah obviously out till the new year, Luke Douglas just coming back from injury himself, and Jake Young so far out of favour he didn't even make the initial matchday squad last weekend.

He will be back in contention to start today, along with Eseosa Sule, with both men still waiting on their first league goals of the season.

Their cause may be helped by the return of Sammy Ramos to proceedings. With 7 goal involvements to date this season he leads the way in terms of creativity in the final third for Saints and surely we have to find a way to get him into that team today.

Marcus Fraser looks a cert to start after making his comeback off the bench last weekend and it also seems a sure thing that we will switch to a back three as we match up against Robboball.

Ref
It's John Beaton today and that is all I'm going to say about that.

Bookies
Despite their woes the Dons are odds on favs to extend our run of defeats with McBookie pricing a home win at 19/25 whilst Saints are a big 10/3 and the draw an 11/4 shot.

Killian Phillips and Calvin Ramsay will get a lively reception from the home fans and they are 5/3 and 2/1 respectively to pick up a booking whilst the big clumsy oaf that is Toyosi is also a 5/3 shot to be carded against his old team.

Fans
Saints sold out our allocation for this game.

You simply have to take your hat off to each and every supporter heading up their today. Well done all and hope you have an amazing day out!

Coverage
I'm sadly not one of those making the trip so it will be team news at 2ish then just goal updates from me today.

COYS!!!

[Daily Record Sport @Record_Sport]

Jim Goodwin to make Dundee United dugout return as boss given green light after health scare

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[SMiSA @smisatrust]

❗️Due to unforeseen circumstances, manager Craig McLeish can no longer attend the scheduled ‘Q&A Evening’ on Wednesday 30th September.

The event is therefore postponed, and a rescheduled date will be announced shortly.

Thank you for your understanding, we hope to see as many supporters as possible on new date!

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Robbie Neilson on the move again as former Hearts boss lands a new management gig #HMFC

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[Paisley Daily Express Sport @PDE_Sport]

Folks, we know one or two of you have asked about getting this as a print.

Getting 8x6 and 10x8 samples this week so hopefully by the weekend we'll know what can be offered/done for those wishing to have this as a 'Bergen before kick-off' memento.

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