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I thought there were a lot of positives from yesterday. Yes, we gifted them a couple of goals - but none of us can have a go at our defence, which has been immense this season, setting a club record. Warren, Meekings and Draper have all been superb. We looked sharp going forward, but I was bemused by the tactics to go more narrow in the last 15 minutes. A couple of well-taken goals for us, and on another day we could have won this. I reckon a draw would have been a fair result.

The whole Europe factor brings out the crowds because it is a novelty and something new compared to the same old of the normal season.I am sure our crowds would go up and may be close to full if we had a small run in Europe as it is new for us. I believe most sides in the premiership have enough supporters to sell out week in week out. Aberdeen 40000 v us last season, Dundee Utd sell out derbies plus 25-30,000 at cup finals, Dundee have decent crowds and could sell dens, St Johnstone sold out McDairmaid in the past and almost did it for European games, Partick got 9,000 for a decider v Morton a few seasons back, Motherwell in Europe, Hibs and Hearts both have enough to sell out each of there grounds and more but more often than not no ground is full. All these show though that it is one off events and it brings the crowds. The league set up is overpriced and has no novelty left. But i'm not going to open that can of worms up again so we have to try to do the best we can as a club on the issues we can control. Although there is no massive world class talents i still think the standard of football is entertaining even if it isnt of high technical quality. We lost 3-2 to Aberdeen today in a game that could of gone either way with chances for both sides and we have lost it is still decent entertainment. We just need to get more people to see this entertainment and take pride in their local team which is easier said than done

We were by far the better team today, and bossed the majority of the game with our 'passing' style. I understand the need for getting something out the game late on, but do we really expect to alter something that served us so well for the previous 85(or so) minutes, and to start lumping it forward? I share the frustration of the backward passing late on, but we played very well today, and had we not given two cheap goals away, we would have been celebrating a deserved victory. In short, if we play like we did today, we will win far more games than we will lose. Disappointed with some booing at ' laboured' build up later on, performance deserved better IMO.

It's all about the ball retention ⚽️⚽️⚽️