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Vilnius goalie looks like he might be at Hibs next season

KI Klaksvik come from behind to beat Molde 2-1. If they can hold on to that next week they are guaranteed a Europa League group spot. They also will get to face Galatasary (unless something bizarre happens) for a Champions league group spot. Bet the sponsors would love that Lose and is the conference league groups. Either way they are the first Faroe Islands team to qualify forthe European group stages

Hacken went out of the Champions league to the Faroe island league winners and they have aleady let an ex Don score against them in qualifying (Declan McManus - The New Saints).

That would be the same Brian Irvine who conceded a penalty for their 2nd goal? Potentially a case of the Dons team being so convinced they were through Team was Watt, Buchan, Woodthorpe, Kiriakov, Irvine, Inglis, Miller, Shearer, Windass, Dodds, Glass Subs; Grant, Kpedekpo, Craig, Darren Young, Stillie I'd prefer to say 'if it wasnt for Duncan Shearer scoring in the last minute ' in the away leg then 'we' might have gone out to our Lithuanian Friends. Billy Dodds scoring twice either side of Stephen Glass might also have helped. That 2nd leg brought back the nightmare of Skonto Riga crashing back (away goals only fun when its against Dnipro) Perhaps on the other side of the North & Baltic Seas on 'Zaliai-BaltiTALK' there are our equivalents remembering their former players being wasteful infront of goal, and having a nightmate last 20mins in the home leg? Then followed conceding 4 goals to Barry Town over 2 legs before Ebbe Skovdahk gave Aitken a lesson in how its done taking Brondby to the quaterfinals including turning round a 3-1 home leg defeat by winning 5-0 away to Karlsruhe

Hearts/ Rosenburg vs Hadjuk split/ PAOK Hibs/ Luzern vs Aston Villa Sevco/Servette vs Sturm Graz/PSV Eindhoven

Slavia Prague/ Dinipro-1 vs FC Zorya Luhansk Olympiacos/ Genk vs FC Cukaricki Union Saint-Gilloise vs Lugano Astana/ Ludogorets vs Ajax Zalgiris Vilnious/ BK Hacken vs Aberdeen LASK vs KSK Zrinjski/ Breidablik KI Klaksvik/ Molde vs Sheriff Tiraspol/ Bate Borisov Olympija Jubljana/ Galatasary vs Qarabag/ HJK Helsinki Slovan Bratislava/ Maccabia Haifa vs Rakow Czestochowa/ Aris Limassol AEK Athens/ GNk Diamo vs FC Copenhagen/ Sparta Prague

Do wonder which 'genius' came up with the draw proceedure. Dons vs Zalgris (Lit) or BK Hacken (Swe) First leg away Id say that is a decent draw especially with the 2nd leg at Pittodrie

Martindale described it as a great game of football?!

BBC say 4300 Dons fans have turned up. Memories of August 2002 when Hibs were caught out by a large away support in the days before you had to buy your ticket in advance.

Hibs off to Switzerland in next round (Luzern) Hearts off to Norway (Rosenberg) Manage to get past them and they could face the following in the playoff round Eintract Frankfurt (GER) Lille (FRA) Aston Villa (ENG) Fiorentina (ITL) Club Brugge (BEL) or KA (ICE) FC Santa Coloma (AND) or AZ Alkmaar (NED) Gent (BEL) or Pogon Szczecin (POL) Aris (GRE) or Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) Fenerbahce (TRK) or Mairbor (SLV) Omonia (CYP) or Midtjylland (DEN) Sabah (AZB) or Partizan Belgrade (SER) Hadjuk Split (CRO) or PAOK (GRE) Viktoria Pizen (CZH) or Gzira United (MAL) Bodo/Glimt (DEN) or Pyunik (ARM) AEK Larnaca (CYP) or Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) Slavia Prague (CZH) or Dnipro-1 (UKR) Olympiacos (GRE) or Genk (BEL)

Juan Cobian For one entire season I 'wondered' if he actually existed. I think I might have spotted him at Tannadice once but I can't be sure

Potential opponents list for Europa League Playoff starting to take shape Lugano (Sui) Olympiacos (Gre) or Genk (Bel) Slavia Prague (Czh) or Dinipro-1 (Ukr) Zalgris (Lit) or BK Hacken (Swe) Qarabag (Azb) or HJK Helsinki (Fin) Zrinjski Mostar (Bos) or Breioablick (Ice) Sheriff Tiraspol (Mol)or Bate Borisov (Brs) Astana (Kaz) or Ludogorets Razgrad (Bul)

Paul Reubens (AKA Peewee Herman) - 70.

SOOO we are just to ignore the existing thread then?

Looking ominuous for St Johnstone this season. 4-0 home defeat to Stirling Albion Teams through to the knock out stage Seeded Dons Hearts Hibs Tic Sevco Motherwell Airdrie Ayr United Unseeded Partick Thistle Livingston Ross County Kilmarnock St Mirren Stirling Albion Morton Last place will go to either Dundee or Raith (I think)

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Not until they are knocked out it isnt

I'm blaming the medications

Arabs join St Johnstone in the top flight teams being eliminated group. No one team has qualified for the next round yet but Airdrie and Ross County look pretty much certain

And following on from North Lanarkshire kicking Clyde out of Broadwood for signing him, glasgow council potentially terminating lease agreement with glasgow united for playing him in a friendly match

I'd blame the design of Eden Park. Terrible stadium for atmosphere compared to the 'Cake Tin' and whatever the new Dunedin stadium is called (They still had the 'house of pain' Carisbrook when I was there).

Louis Moult?

Consult AFC heritage instead (Im only going back through my lifetime) Season opening games against the tic (first home for either) 2022/23 - Tic 2-0 Dons (Welsh & Jota) 2012/13 - Tic 1-0 Dons (Kris Commons with 12 mins left) 2009/10 - Dons 1-3 Tic (Watched in Curlers on Byers Road (full of tic fans). Mcgeady (2) and McDonald made it 3-0 by HT. Aluko got one back) 1999/00 - Dons 0-5 Tic (Larrson and 2 from Viduka made it 3-0 at HT. Jess missed a penalty almost straight from the restart before Larson and Burchill fininshed it off. Shite day all round with bunch of Tic fans trying to start a fight with me and my much younger mate pre match as we were walking through Codonas, then having their away support singing 'Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Aberdeen' after the 5th goal went in. 1998/99 - Dons 3-2 Tic (Perry, made it 1-0 at HT followed by Blinker OG and Hignett. Larsson scored 2. Tic missed 2 of 3 penalties) 1996/97 - Dons 2-2 Tic (Van Hooijdonk free kick making it 1-0 at HT. Alan Stubbs sent off with Windass scoring the penalty. Shearer then made is 2-1 with 9mins left only for a sickening last minute equaliser by Andreas Thom). 1995/96 - Dons 2-3 Tic (All goals in first half. Boyd OG quickly followed by Jess. Then Collins(2) and Thom scored with the third for me being the start of the demise of Snelders) 1990/91 - Tic 0-3 Dons (0-0 at half time then Mason, Connor, & Ghillhaus came along) 1981/82 - Dons 1-3 Tic (Strachan opened scoring then Tommy Burns and Frank Mcgarvey (2) turned it round)