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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.

Are they still shifting the AECC to a new site? Last i heard the cooncil had their own plans for redeveloping the current AECC site (although i'm nae very up to speed on it tbh): click this link and put "150824" in the reference search box while muttering "fecking Idox" under your breath

Boo for Kilmarnock, patronising "well done" for the rest. Sevco now closer to 6th (11 points) than 2nd (12 points), and their GD over 4th-placed St Johnstone has been cut to +4. Good stuff.