tom_widdows

Irn Bru (Challenge Cup Final) like watching astro turf grow. Best chance so far was Caley missing a penalty - a terrible effort fitting of the game Started off hoping Dumbarton would win (121 years since they reached a cup final) then the camera panned to their bench and focused on their assistant manager......

Am I the only one who when the whole Moult 'courtship' was in full flow could not help but remember Nick Blackman. 10 goals in 18 games for Mortherwell, Signs for Dons and it drops to 2 in 15. Few years down the line hes supposedly worth transfer fees of £1.2m & £3m but for me that is merely a sign of the sickness in English football. A possibility is Moult fitted in with Motherwell's style of play (and Wrexham's priot to that) but no guarantee he would have clicked with McInnes's tactics, or for the supserstituous types he could have been another victim of the what I call 'The Aberdeen curse - where good people come to either die or walk in limbo until rescued'

Seen 'highlights' of their game with Killie today. Clearly the defeat to celtic last week struck a chord with their 'loyal' fans. With about 15mins to go and Killie only leading 1-0 an exodus appeared to happen and by the time the final whistle went the Broomloan stand was deserted. I think they all drove away though rather than walked. I think if they lose the semi final Ibrox will be a Ghost town even if they are still pushing for second

The sad part is it is not just the ugly sisters. They have the majority of the blame put on them (rightly so IMO) but sectarianism is still rife in Scotland and it is all too easy to pigeon hole it into football. Some of the worst sectarian bile I've heard actually came from a couple of Aberdeen fans who had also adopted the 'holly willies prayer' attitude of 'We're Aberdeen so its not sectarian when we say it. A quote from a book springs to mind (think it was an Ian Rankin or maybe Christopher Brookmyre). 'Scotland wasn't a racist country. It was too busy concentrating on sectarianism & bigotry'

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Soooo No Shinnie No Logan No McLean Be an interesting line up in a couple of weeks

Given the gate reciepts are split 50:50 Killie would be stupid to make this ticket only. But then again logic was never a strong suit of Scottish football

Dear god I only got to see part of the second half but it was more than enough to make me lose whatever 'guilt' I had for not going to what is essentially a home game for me. At one point I found myself almost screaming at the laptop for any player on the field, partick or dons, to actually take control of the ball and play it on the actual ground. I used to put up with is in my blind loyalty days but football in general now is daylight robbery on all counts. I don't know what the ticket prices were but I can now see why so many fans are get hammered before going to games.

One trick is to ensure you put glazed panels in the stand roofs to allow more natural light (See Amex Arena, Aviva Stadium etc). You also take sun paths into consideraiton when working out the orientation/ final position of the stadium. The stands at pittodrie really don't help with its orientation. The monolith RDS blocks the sunlight from the East, the South stand roof blocks a large part of the pitch for most of the day and by the time the sun is going down you have the merkland roof playing its part. Now if you played summer football the pitch may stand up a little better given the different sun pattern (and of course longer daylight hours). Respond to the planning conditions and get them cleared whilst also proceeding with the building warrant/ construction drawings/ specifications. Thats the point the safe standing etc will materialise (if it is indeed to be part of it).

Whoever said Scottish Football was rigged Celtic v Greenock Morton Aberdeen v Kilmarnock Motherwell v Heart of Midlothian Rangers v Falkirk Couldn't have at least given them away ties

I thought the 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' was very entertaining. Supposedly it has taken some liberty with the original storyline (as with the previous two) however still good stuff and given current affairs, it is quite frightening.

His record with the Dons (according to AFC heritage) Played - 6 (I sat through 4 of them) Won - 1 Lost - 5 Goals Conceded -17 He kept 1 single clean sheet (against St johnstone) HOWEVER I recall him fumbling the ball on the goal line in the 90th minute and the entire RDL going into meltdown. All the while he played Leighton was sat on the bench.

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Stokes just left Brazil 1970 by 'mutual consent' I wonder if he will end up going the same way of Riordan or Garry O' Connor?

Think it was standard end of season lower league english football....2-1 win against blackpool which meant absolutely nothing in terms of league placings. Our History teacher was a big fan and decided to show us the video over a few lessons at the end of 3rd year.

Personally I'd hope they would do what Huddersfield town did when they left Leeds Road. They recorded the final match at the stadium and broke it down to extended highlights which were then split into 3-5min segments. These were then used as a break between chapters of a detailed history of the stadium which showed old footage, classic goals, newsreels and interviews etc.

Out of interest has anyone seen or heard from 100% Anti-Kingsford?

As a well know miserable bastard (even more reason to be so at the moment) I for some reason am looking at the potential positive aspects of this development The current transport plan looks a bit ropey especially given the love in Aberdeen has with its cars and unsubtle approach to negative public transport conditions however at the moment it is just 'a plan'. I am under no illusions that it will have teething problems possibly even be a complete disaster in the beginning but at the same time it is in the clubs and both council's interest to make this work and after a couple of seasons a system will be in place and/or improvements will have been made or planned until things run smoothly and it reaches the point where people occasionally say 'remember how bad this was when it started' and kids look at them in bewilderment. They will have test runs (reserve games, friendlies etc) well before it formerly opens to see what they are up against. It isn't going to be a case of 'new season, sold out first game against yon tic, lets just wing it!' With this new stadium comes hungry developers and/or hungry delboys seeing an opportunity to coin it in. Possibility of up to 20000 people on your doorstep every second week (or on rare occasions 3 times in the same week) from July - May each year. Restaurants, pubs, shops etc could (and probably will) start to appear and with them comes improved road infrastructure (planners will insist). Downside of this is what the people of Kingswells & WestHill fear IE their 'semi rural' homes will be swallowed up by the buzzing metropolis of Europe's oil capital. Infact this stadium actually falls right in with a proposed development & transport strategy that was presented to my Uni class (think it was by ACC) back in 2003 or 4 which I believe was based on a plan from before the Beeching cuts took hold in the late 60s. Aberdeen as a city would take on the appearance of a stretched human hand reaching in from the North sea with each finger being a transport/ circulation 'corridor' leading in and out of the city. Theses 'green' corridors (I imagined tree lined motorways while sat in the lecture hall) would be proper highways or perhaps even new railway/ tram lines (yes, we as early 20s students scoffed at this too) and was supposedly a plan to remove the problems of the choked A90 & A96s. Funnily enough though I don't recall this plan ever showing the Bypass. IF it actually gets past the scottish executive and is finished before the 2022 Scottish elections the emphasis should be on the city to make a success of it. Maybe being able to watch the game without having to sit in a wind tunnel getting rained on, or having to stand on tip toes to see the corner flat over a fence, or to crouch down / stand on your seat to see the goal line at the beach end, or having to peer around several pillars or stand up every 5mins for someone needing to get past, being able to get to the toilets without fighting through the pie stall queues etc, will make going to AFC games that little bit more attractive. Can't get on the first batch of shuttle buses you say? why not head to the stadium bar, or (and I think the club would be stupid not to do this) have a coffee in the stadium concourses while the queues clear? or just bugger off 15mins before the end like folk already do except this time a large chunk are onto the bypass rather than eve :wave:ryone heading to a gridlocked King street & shiprow. Or perhaps think of it like this At least its not another shopping mall, or glass office block

Can you elaborate on this please? My understanding of the Loriston screw up was the newly elected council either blocked or worse revokes the approved planning permission for the training ground + Cove Rangers stadium park of which formed one of the access roads to the stadium. Not only that, they re-zoned the land (for residential use only) meaning there was no ground for appeal. Without that access road the consent for the stadium was technically invalid and the proposals would not have obtained a building warrant. Strangely enough the 2017 City Development plan has the access road ear marked for housing use. However you are one of several folk I have now heard stating it did not happen because the club refused to pay for the land.

Draw has been made for the Nations league League C Group 1 Israel Albania Scotland I can't say I'm confident of winning that group and booking a back-up playoff spot for Euro 2020. Other 'home' nations were as follows League A Group 4 Croatia England Spain League B Group 3 Northern Ireland Bosnia & Hercegovinia Austria League B Group 4 Denmark Rep. of Ireland Wales Only the English have a chance of winning the 2019 Nations League. Welsh, & both sides of Ireland will have to wait till 2023 at the earliest. Scotland will have to wait until 2027 at the earliest. That is of course if this little experiment survives. Side note, one of the following teams is now guaranteed a spot at Euro 2020 Finals Andorra San Marino Kosovo Gibraltar Kazakhstan Moldova Malta Liechtenstein Latvia Luxembourg Faroe Islands Armenia Georgia Belarus Azerbaijan Macedonia

Season tickets aren't valid for cup games?

Nadir Çiftçi just emerged from Celtic's broom cupboard and got shipped off to Motherwell. His stats since leaving the Arabs are a disaster

The way things seem to be going this will be done at half-time and the second half will be dull as fuck.

1.Jamie Langfield - St Mirren 28.Alan Maybury - Falkirk U20s Coach 5.Zander Diamond - Mansfield Town 21.Andrew Considine - Still here 18.Lee Mair - Retired: Now an entrepreneur and allegedly applied to go on 'the apprentice' 8.Barry Nicholson - Fleetwood Town Development Manager 6.Scott Severin © - Retired: Now an Assistant Well Test Technician at Expro 27.Josh Walker - Edinburgh City Captain 26.Sone Aluko - Reading 10.Darren Mackie - Retired: Until recently was a Sales Executive for Nixon Hire 16.Lee Miller - Falkirk

Gary Monk punted from Middlesbrough after 6months in charge English football is a joke