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Came on to say much the same. McLean and Shinnie were constantly in Hibs faces. I'd also disagree with the comment about Hayes not playing well, he certainly tried his usual pace but just kept getting battered by the Hibs defence whenever he was looking like getting past them - I was pretty relieved to see that he made it to the end in one piece. the O'Connor sub definitely not the best decision deek has ever made - i can see what his thinking was (to play out the game), but we lost that goal straight after because our defence then didn't have a clue where they were meant to be. Difficult to tell if they would have settled as he changed it straight back again not long after, but we certainly don't look comfortable with 3 (4? 5?) at the back. When McGinn came on, went back to our strongest team and shape, was just praying Hibs didn't get a last minute number as i reckon we would have come out on top in ET because of that. Bottom line, trying to play safe ironically nearly cost us the game. Had we simply stuck to our proven winning team with like-for-like swaps (McGinn>Christie, O'Connor>Taylor probably?) we would likely have been more comfortable. The team and management need to get their heads around treating cup-ties as just another game we need to win, and not start thinking they have to do something different.

Hibs starting to come back into it by HT, but we were absolutely dominating them for the first half hour. Hopefully deek's HT chat gets a'body back in the mindset they were clearly in at the start. Back to lots of pressing please, Ambrose looks like he's about to shyte himself every time he's got the ball and there's a red shirt near him.

I hear local residents are already organising a "No to AntiKingsford" protest group

Rico - this should give you some idea of the size of the current revenue streams for AFC: Turnover 2016 (£000) Gate receipts 4023 Sponsorship & advertising 1801 Broadcasting rights 2322 Commercial 4678 UEFA Solidarity & prize money 552 Other operating revenue 38 Commercial is (AFAIK) merchandising, matchday hospitality, and corporate facility provision outside of matchdays. edit - cup/league prize money is the broadcasting rights stream

You back to trolling again then 100%AK? First the claim that the ACC would give AFC land, then birds, now "corporate facilities"? Only you are it implying would pay for the stadium singlehandedly. Only you are mentioning an "injection of big corporate finance". You're stirring for the sake of it, trying to make something stick. For someone who claimed he was going to pick his ba up and go home in a huff, you do hang around for an affy long time, like a malignant shite that winnae flush.

Yes, I believe that is the plan, although the mortgage would be approximately half that due to the sale of Pittodrie, and weekday corporate hosting would only be one of several revenue streams, the other main ones being merchandising, sponsorship, season tickets, matchday income, and prize money. What's your point again?

They announced the date changes due to Easter before the games occurred, so it's a bit unfair to say that they are manipulating the system to benefit the tribute-firm - this would (presumably) have been the case for any team appealing this week, it just happened to be Celtic. On the plus side, if it's a two game ban, doesn't that mean he misses the Aberdeen-Celtic game instead? Or a meringue?

Corporate facilities doesn't just mean matchday hospitality - Pittodrie has 9 conference rooms/suites that the club rent out throughout the week for conferences, functions, weddings etc. It's a revenue stream that provides significant additional income from the stadium outside of matchdays, and that the club are looking to maximise/expand on with the new stadium. Seems sensible to me. http://www.afc.co.uk/commercial/facilities.php http://www.afc.co.uk/commercial/conferences.php

Neil McCann appointed as Dundee interim boss. Dundee's loss is Sky Sports's gain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39635353

I didn't know that. That's a really lovely gesture by the club to support the local wildlife.

Shame that, personally think he got Dundee punching above their weight. It will be interesting to see if this makes them better or worse now.

And yet you bite every day without fail.

We ken that

100%AK, yellow card for blatant misrepresentation of the facts. Your membership of the Donsdaft "show us the facts" brigade is now being reviewed. From the summary of the document you quoted (which nobody, including the EE, appears to have bothered to read): The recommendations then go on to state the precautions that should be taken. Note that the nesting check is something that is done as a matter of course for any building work, and does not imply that there are actually nests. This is literally a storm over nothing, created by the Evening Express being incapable of bothering to read more than an executive summary before running off to print a sensationalist story. And of course, a desperately trolling 100%AK What are you going to go for next?

new 21st century record set today: Most Goals Scored: 63 - most goals scored since 1992/93 (87 over 44 games). The all-time record is 1935/36 (96).

Calm yerself. My comment was based on TenCaat's statement (we are still playing Partick away). But thanks for clarifying that the split of home/away remains even. In retrospect, it might have been a bit too optimistic to expect such even-handedness towards us. Three home games for Sevco and three away for Dons, quelle surprise.

In retrospect, it might have been a bit too optimistic to expect such even-handedness towards us. Three home games for Sevco and three away for Dons, quelle surprise.

Welcome! Always heartwarming to see a new convert.

Tomorrow, say the beeb http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39584406

That was absolute highway robbery. I guess they'll think they are world-beaters again then Still 9 points behind us.

FFS Sky, your halftime analysis is Neil McCann and Kris Boyd? Couldn't even be arsed finding a neutral, never mind someone from the NE?

Sevco gameplan of falling over at phantom challenges to get our players booked is making us more hesitant. That's no fault of our players, that's the fault of Sevco for cheating and the ref for falling for it. And it's only a matter of time before TenCaat is proven right at this rate

Well, that took a mere 5 minutes for Garner to cheat, a la Lafferty. Can't accuse the Dons of being cautious today, we are absolutely ripping intae them

nice response

inexperienced back four for the zombies again. Rip intae them Jonny and Niall.