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As opposed to your posting on here...

Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Yes, it was. Off ground, no contact on ball, caught Sokler high on shin. Ref's mistake was not giving the red straight away (after not allowing the advantage).

In RedTV commentary on Airdrie game, they said Heltne Nilsen was missing in previous game (E Kilbride) as he was serving the suspension from red in Norway. If that's correct, he should be available on Monday

Eh, no. I think he proved once and for all that he has no place anywhere near an Aberdeen first team (should anyone have been in any doubt after the Motherwell game).

Appreciate that's how you earn your livelihood, but if this is the case, it is just as big a problem as any Board indecision/incompetence. Anyone in the club that has sufficient clout to be that in the know, who is also providing/giving/selling info of that type to the media (or trusting others with it that are), is a HUGE issue and no amount of improvement in technical structure will change that.

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I agree with this sentiment, and I know you've said you're not interested, but Beaton gave at least 3 free kicks for similar challenges to the Miovski one which occurred outside the box, but the one in the box is a dive? Inconsistency is my issue with his decision. And I think the Roos one was a penalty also - challenged (weakly) for the ball and didn't get it. Is it soft? Yes, but it's a foul (in both cases).

Agree with this. The obvious problem with building to this style of play is that 70% of our games (the 30% being Gruesome Twosome, sometimes Edinburgh GT wannabees & Europe), we will have the majority of possession and won't be in a position to play counter attacking football. Putting all our eggs in the Teklic basket looks like it is going to kill our domestic season, because there is no-one else showing so far that they have the nous or ability to create anything. Clarkson is watching the ball sail over his head. I've no idea what McGrath is meant to be offering. And Shinnie's headless chicken act is exactly that without the Ramadani anchor giving the protection to make that workable. Barron at least looked to play simple passes and keep the ball with a Dons shirt. Start there and stop the Hollywood 50 yarders (into touch). If we're playing Rubezic (and I don't think he's a lost cause yet), give him Barron or Devlin to pass short to - every time. Jensen is not a left back, so let's not kid ourselves that is an option. Only positive from today was that Gartenmann looks like he can actually play this game - just need some of the rest of them to help him out.

Last year was 179.99 for International, according to the email receipt I just looked up. It's still a fair hike, but presentation/content has generally improved in quality over past 2-3 years and, like you say, it's the only way to see the Dandies for us that aren't there any more. Hope the stream quality increase doesn't cause buffering issues, but I'd still say it's decent value for a "captive" service.

St Mirren one was my first Dons game

One for Irvine was against Hibs in Nov '91 when Snelders got sent off for decking Keith Wright (Irvine saved the pen), so yes for that in 91-92 (as Watt played the next game). And you can add Peter Van de Ven to the other 3 in 90-91 (went in goals for injured Snelders at Easter Rd - I remember that one, as he spent a good bit of the time conducting the away end songs).

Brian Irvine played in goal, if we're adding players who went in mid-match (twice, IIRC).

I thought the first pen was soft, but Fitzwater didn't put up any complaint at all, which would tend to suggest he knew what he was doing. 2nd one, the defender clearly caught Duk's foot as he was sliding by and I'd have been raging if we didn't get the pen for it. The Stewart one would likely have been given by VAR (so we got lucky there)