tom_widdows

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

Just seen the line up Lewis Shinnie Considine O'Connor Reynolds McLean Stewart Rooney Mackay-Steven Arnason Ball Subs: Rogers Maynard Wright McKenna Harvie Ross Campbell May & Logan injured apparently I'm certainly no expert but for me the very best we can hope for is a draw

Car manufacturers no longer providing spare wheels as standard on modern cars. Have a 2011 car and one of the reasons I picked it over the slightly new model was mine has a space saver spare wheel in the boot. The newer one only came with this 'type repair kit' shite and they were quoting some staggering amount to have a spare wheel installed. Last wednesday 4 of my 5 a side team failed to make it to the game because of a serious puncture and the type repair kit (think it was a Nissan qashqai) wasn't enough to fix it. Don't know which genius decided on the removal of spare wheels as standard but personally I think this should be illegal. In addition those who do have a spacesaver spare and will leave it on their cars presumably until their MOT comes up rather than bothering to get their proper wheel/tyre repaired. Side note: once had someone tell me they were worried about using their space saver as apparently it would only last for 50miles and then they would have to change it. They looked really confused when I said the 'max 50mph' label on the wheel meant speed.

Another one bites the dust http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42434802

Someone actually typed that with a straight face? In other news the majority of my first class air fares around the world is accounted for through winning the Thunderball at sometime in near future

I only caught a little of sportsound (poor reception up north) but from what I could make out through the crackles & static Boyd's attitude seemed to be that Mcinnes didn't take it because Aberdeen refused to let him speak to Sevco.

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4439&season=2000-01&squad=Senior

I believe it was Goal difference that put them through. Celtic -13 Anderlecht -15 2-0 and the tic would have gone through on goals scored.

3 actually Thats enough to switch the goal differences which takes precedence over head 2 head

I fear the bridges are already on fire nearing collapse at this stage. I'm fairly apathetic towards the dons now but I was concerned back in the summer when Sunderland were sniffing about. However this charade has now reached my Giveafuckometer. Listening to the commentary last wednesday night I found myself REALLY thinking for the first time 'what the fuck is McInnes doing?' and 'Would it actually be so terrible if he left, after all this is the Scottish premiership where for 83% of the teams, second place is the ultimate prize?' I don't recall Skovdahl or Calderwood randomly deciding to experiment at Ibrox, it was just expected we would probably lose, the key was by how many and I felt a large part of that was the player mentality. There was some aura around Ibrox & Parkhead that made those in red shirts assume they were beaten from the beginning. Then last season Shinnie & Christie popped up and I finally saw a dons team win at ibrox. In my head the Ibrox spell was broken and given I have seen two fairly recent victories at parkhead and the team actually putting up a fight on occasion I thought a corner had been turned. On Wednesday I found the conspiracy demons entering the fray when I clocked that 2 sevco wins would mean they moved into 2nd place. We have players who can beat this lot but the manager has set them up to fail. If McInnes genuinely wants nothing to do with SEVCO at this exact time but wouldnt mind heading there later, it no longer matters as for me anyway the loathing towards that team in blue and all they stand for is poison and anyone showing even the hint of sympathy towards them loses a bit (sometimes all) of my respect (not that most (if any) would give a fuck about that). I don't think I am alone in think that amongst the Aberdeen support. Someone posted the other day that they would take 8th place if it meant youth players were pushed into the team and given a chance. Right now I agree with that person. Signing players like Zola, Maynard, Stockley, Ball etc instead of looking to the youth is a real bug bear for me. I feel any 'mercenary' from the english lower leagues will never have the same hunger or desire as the 16 year old who has been working their nuts off since they were 12 just for the chance to play the last 2mins of an SPFL match. The hope that in those 2 mins you will 1) touch the ball and 2) somehow score a goal, or make a goal saving tackle, or give someone like Scott Brown something to really think about. I just don't see McInnes ever being able to do that and for that reason I no longer think the club can move on to an even healthier stage with him in charge

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/spfl-sponsors-ladbrokes-draw-criticism-over-derek-mcinnes-tweet-1-4629849

Really worthy of such enthusiasm for getting 1 goal back? Or are you cheering Maynard coming on?

Fuck sake ya Jonah!

Helicopter ya fucking jessie If ya climb them you get to chat with the locals Did you manage to take in the wonderful' atmosphere of the Lake mahinipua hotel (about 5km south of Hokitika)? Ceiling was decorated with hundreds of old bras when I stayed there but probably been 'gentrified' now

Actually Manc Bungy jumping as a 'sport' was invented by Oxford Uni students. Mr Hackett just hit on the idea of making money from it. Sky diving is ok pretty much anywhere in NZ as long as you do it with a company that is based at an airport rather than one that an old crop duster in a farmers field. Hang-gliding, Para-gliding, Luging, sky swings, white water rafting, river boarding all crop up in Queenstown which for me is an bid to hide how dull the place actually is to stay in especially given how expensive and/or restrictive some of the accommodation was when I was there (you want to stay longer than 5 days sir? well you will need to check out and go somewhere else for a couple of days then come back...or use BASE/ YHA on the high street which are twice the price) Blackwater Rafting in the North island (Waitomo) would be my recommendation followed by walking the Tongariro crossing near Taupo (mid-early spring) and experiencing a proper Mauri Hangi. South Island is the Milford Sound but at all costs avoid Dundedin & Invercargill.......grim.

Welsh Dragon bar probably the closest thing to it.