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It's really galling that the SFA try to justify decreasing our allocation on the basis of how many semi tickets we sold. Especially when you consider the travel involved for our fans to get down to hampden for the semi. Rangers will likely always have a bigger support then us but I would argue that a lot of them wouldn't turn out week in week out either if they were in our position. Its just another factor that entrenches the status quo in football.

Not convincing in defence. Thank god we scored four already.

It didn't seem as though it was checked. Usually when the play has stopped which it had the ref will stop the game for a moment to allow the VAR check to happen. It's what happened for the PAOK check. The BBC team were also reporting that they understood it had not been checked.

I do hope that privately Robson has the introspection to realise he fucked up tonight. Nothing wrong with making changes but bringing 3 subs on at once was baffling. If he spreads them out 1 by 1 it also has the advantage of slowing the game down which is what you want when 2 goals to the good.

That was absolutely criminal. That's two European games in a row where crucial moments haven't even been looked at by VAR. That said we were our own downfall in the end. The goals we conceded were really poor.

Probably need to be taking the 3 points here if we are to have any chance of making it through the group. I actually thought PAOK beating frankfurt was a worse result for us than drawing against HJK. If nothing else need to get a few results in to improve our seeding for next season. I'll be positive and say 2-1 us Miovski double.

If this does go ahead we could catapult ourselves up to 4th with a 2 goal victory. Wouldn't be bad considering where we where during the international break. That said I'm not taking anything for granted.

Yeah he was good tonight at holding up the ball and a real nuisance for them but the goals just aren't coming for him.

Well that was a bit disappointing in the end. I thought we were building up a nice head of steam until Duk took that elbow to the head. The guy getting away with that was baffling, but ultimately I feel a bit like I did against Hacken in that we probably had the quality to beat them but couldn't make it click.

I tend to agree that reinforcements would be nice. As I said above I think we've missed Ramadani in there. That said I do think it will improve as the team play together and gain a bit more coherentcy. Three players that started tonight have barely been in the door for more than a week, so I do think there's some excusing the errors. We weren't terrible tonight and I think Hacken (with Sadiq) where a fair match for us. We just weren't clinical enough for me.

Also something that nobody seems to have mentioned is that hacken are half way through there season. We are half way through a squad rebuild and few players are definately a bit off the pace. At least there no chance of us losing Duk or Miovski tomorrow based on scouts watching tonight.

It was a pretty even game in the end. I think if we took either the Duk or Miovski chance the momentum swings in our favor. Ruby didn't fill me with confidence but he was left horribly exposed at times. I actually wonder if the main miss was Ramadani tonight tracking back and breaking up play. I think the team has a lot of potential so hopefully coherency will come in time. Notice Robsons post match comments suggesting we may not be seeing any more transfer activity, not sure how I feel about that to be honest. Squad is still pretty threadbare but we all want to see some youngsters getting into the team and maybe this is there chance.

Tbh would be good for Bavidge to get out on loan. As much as we will need to do some rotating of the squad having 3-4 senior strikers in front of him means his playing time is likely limited.

Really means we have to take our chance to start building our own coefficient so we are seeded for these games. Hopefully all scottish clubs do a bit better in Europe this season but its tough if Rangers and Celtic end up in the champions league. Realistically they can't compete with teams at that level.

Good to get off the mark and get a win, but sounds like improvement is required. Didn't make it comfortable by conceding. I'll leave it to you folks who were down there to give us the proper analysis though.

Nobody about tonight? 0-1 Miovski.

No reason to sell him on the cheap though. If we do sell it's likely benfica will take a hefty chunk of it. He must be worth 5 million+.

Rico I agree with what your saying. It just doesn't seem like there is enough of an appetite for change at the moment. I'm sure plenty of people don't go to games for the very reason that football is a business rather than a sport. But as long as a reasonable amount of people continue supporting the current setup I dont see any reason why it would change. Hence why I say its a conundrum, you want to support a team then you are also supporting the current setup.

It's one of the conundrums of supporting a football team nowadays though. I don't speak to many people who don't agree with the sentiment that money has ruined football. And yet if your a supporter you know that the only way for your team to get any level of success is to make lots of money. What is achievable for a team like Aberdeen? Maybe if we get into the europa league on a regular basis we would make enough money that we might be able to challenge the old firm. There is no other way, it's all about the money nowadays. If you want to support your team you just have to accept this unfortunately.

Everything has gone a bit quiet. Was hoping we might be getting close to concluding a few more deals. No more word on that kiwi lad either.

Sounds like a rumor in the same vein as the one that Kieren Tierney would be going back to them. Scott Mckenna starts every week for a pl team when fit. Generally that means his value is £20 million+ at his age and there is no way Celtic will pay that for him.

I think this is an excellent draw. It's not going to be easy but it's winnable. The best draw would have been KSK Zrinjski/ Breidablik probably but looking at the teams we could have drawn this must be the second best outcome?

Good from a business perspective but not so much in terms of our squad.

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Yeah I agree. He came ok towards the end of last season but he wasnt good enough to merit a large fee. If it were not for the fact that hes a known quantity of a reasonable standard (and maybe also because he's left footed) I wouldn't even be interested in having him back.