rocket_scientist

Winners don't lose focus when the target is in sight. Lennon made a great tactical change. McInnes made an awful one, yet again, but got lucky this time. Too many of our players never showed up in a big game, yet again. There was nothing between the teams. Neither deserved to win nor lose. Extra Time would've showed who wanted it more.

By implication, I'm guessing you reckon AFC are the second best team in Scotland. Pretty difficult to argue. The table doesn't lie. We are clearly the closest to the clear best. But I'm not really interested in looking over our shoulder at who's behind. I'm more interested in looking at us, where and how we can improve and looking up to see how far we need to go. If Lennon is saying Hibs are no. 2 in the country, he clearly has no respect for AFC. That's ok. Neither do I. It could be good motivational management as they prepare for life in the SPFL but he's not a million miles away. The only thing that separated the teams on Saturday was a fluke deflection. I reckon if popcorn teeth was Aberdeen manager next year, we would be clear second again and much closer to Celtic. McInnes has a big recruitment summer coming up and I'm losing faith in his management skills. Utterly absurd subs on Saturday, again, and he still doesn't know his best team and formation with the limited squad that he's got.

Any of yous with an architectural bent (I'm not), this hit my inbox today: - https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/page/architecture?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=View%20full%20programme%20-%20button%20link&utm_campaign=MAR_Architecture%20Summer%20events%20launch%2024.04.17&emailcode=#events

I'm not talking about the Stewart Ritchie McCloy swinging fae the crossbar final so maybe got the date wrong. I was at that one with my da and brother. It was maybe just after that. The whole final, it rained bottles to the right of the catholic end. Might have been a semi but it was a beautiful sunny day and I'm sure it was a 3 pm Saturday. Just googled it. Was the League Cup final 78-79.

I had to think about it too. It started early, in 2000, *shudders* The one I remember vividly was the Pomagne bottles final about 1978. Why there were huns at the kafflick end, fuck knows.

And the last time we played Hibs, Arild 2-1, they had the catholic end.

Looks like you and I are the minority. I think Hibs will win. I've been known to express pessimism to hide optimism and guard against disappointment. I think we will know from McInnes' team selection how it might end. We "should" be able to beat them but should've, would've and could've are the most destructive terms in sport.

That's going to an extraordinary amount of effort to attempt to discredit someone... and failing to. Do you have any opinion of your own? Big picture only.

If you want to: - sell more corporate, and sell more tickets, and sell more shirts, and make more in broadcasting etc. and therefore make more money, it's quite simple. Create a good enough product that the demand for it will be high. Over TWENTY years ago, our chairman (who was then sitting to the right of our then chairman) said that "the product would always be the priority". He lied. It wasn't his priority before he seized power with less than 30% of the shareholding (that he paid less for than the rest of us), it hasn't been his priority for the last 20+ years and it will not be his priority in the future.

Giants Causeway is a must, one of the significant wonders of the world. Don't go there expecting to be wowed. Just go with your senses wide open and your brain activity at a minimum. Feel the place. Taste it. Don't try to analyse anything. Spend a good hour just wandering about then make sure to view down on it all from the top of the cliff, making sure to walk past the cliff face to feel (in your spirit and your soul) those hexagonal shapes too. Thereafter when your brain is blown and you can't make any rational thoughts whatsoever, go to the Harbour bar in Portrush and blow the rest of your brains out with draught Guinness. One of my fav places in the world that coast.

We went to Spain Park last night to see Bunks beat Hive 3-0. Given the importance of the match and its potential on the season run-in, what a damp squib. It's not just professional football in this country that serves up dross.

The problem with quoting McInnes on this subject should be obvious; he's paid to manage the football side of the business. He doesn't have any qualifications or experience in business to business nor does he have a crystal ball to predict the value of corporate hospitality packages at a new stadium/venue/location. He has seemingly done his due diligence and conducted a full review of another club's commercial activities... or he's a typical human being and offering rhetoric that his boss would be proud of. They call it arselicking.

Great post, and an illuminating one for me. I know you've said it before but I'm beginning to think that this is the nail on head. I was fuming that Taylor got recalled for the final after FIVE weeks out. I was fuming that AOC got dropped for Ibrox the next game. Because we went into the final on the back of two consecutive away wins where Shinnie played LB, it didn't occur to me that AOC's performance would have been so influenced by who he was playing alongside and where relative to him he stood. In this regard, I think you've seen something way before the manager who gets paid a lot of money to know shit like this. AOC was never a concern for me. He was getting a good run of games and he was solid at the back. I don't recall him having a particularly bad game in the final. Yes the penalty was a cumbersome lazy mistake but the horse had bolted by then and he would have been as defeated as the rest of us. To have then been dropped for months thereafter was pathetic management in my book, particularly as he stuck with Taylor who just isn't good enough. You were wrong about Kenny Mc. You're spot on about AOC. Maybe there is a worthy footballer in there if he was managed correctly. I fear because of his dreadful errors on Sunday, we may never find out as he may be scapegoated again. This all boils down to recruitment inadequacies in midfield and having to play Shinnie there. He's a natural LB and Consi is CB.

I wasn't there despite being less than 4 months younger than you. The only final win I've ever missed in my lifetime. I have a reasonable excuse though. Was living overseas at the time.

Maths not your strong point then? I specifically wasn't talking about 1945, which is outwith the last 70 years. You do know where the Americans poisoned people using nuclear weapons since the Second World War yes? Excuse me? Who did I vote for?

The BBC are insane, as is Boris Johnson and the Westminster establishment. Their reporting on the Tillerson summit is madness. And the yank who said Hitler wasn't as bad as al-Assad is a fucking unbelievable gaffe. In the last 70 years, the Americans have killed more people with chemical weapons and radioactive fallout than the rest of the world combined, by an incalculably massive factor. And they sold these weapons to the middle east. The fake news, the hypocrisy and the propagandist lies can only be believed by the stupid. Britain and the US patently believe that we are all stupid and unfortunately, many of us are.

Especially if he pronounces it "isss-e-yews" like the boarding school politicians do. Ed Milliband did it the worst.

Tonight's Channel 4 News had a feature about boarding schools. We are governed in the U.K. by a "bereaved" class of people. Scotland on the other hand is so pathetic - this wasn't in the news feature by the way - that we consent to be governed by these psychologically-damaged children who grew up into dysfunctional adults, employed by the system to serve the system.

I meant does anyone negotiate with dealers any more. I went to Bolton to pick up a new car last September. The internet is a wonderful thing. I offered the same deal locally but they couldn't get within a grand. For a couple of hundred quid fine but I'm not pissing away that much. Don't know if it's true because I've never actually bought from an Aberdeen dealer ever but with the amount of money in the city, I get the impression they have been used to getting maximum premium margins. The NE public have been paying over the odds for years.

The specific reason why they're sick in the head is they spend every minute of every day trying to rip money out of the pockets of the public. A by-product of John Clark's mental illness manifested/manifests itself in an extraordinary case of OCD. Does anyone still deal with car dealers any more? Certainly never for new cars.

No, never bought from them. I did some recruitment for him back in the day and got to know his joint MD very well, a good guy who retired 20 years ago and lives/lived close to your neck of the woods actually, in Stewarton.

The man was utterly insane in my opinion. His wife was officially a starter motor short of ignition and he had her locked up, their son died of sexual asphyxiation but he was a sad old man, married to the pursuit of the dollar and a creature strangled by routine and devoid of any fresh thinking.

The difference between the two teams yesterday was defined by the mistakes made. Absolute defensive howlers by AFC. Note to Logan; consider the width of a shin on a human leg. Multiply by two and compare to the width of the goal. If you find yourself bearing in on goal, you don't need to do the geometry to factor in the acuteness of the angle, just fucking blast it keeping below thigh height somewhere on target.

No no no. We didn't play well. We didn't score any goals. We got humped. You miss his point. We fail in big games. We beat shite. We don't win big games. If we get to the final... if, then we will be horsed. For the precise reason he said, that you missed. Rangers are a shit football team but they fucked us, right up the arse. The boy's right. McInnes has been incapable of producing a big game mentality. We beat shit but we don't beat bigger team shit, cos we are shit, as we proved once again. The fact we are clear 2nd is embarrassing for Scottish football. The league was over in March.

Today was a shocker but it proved some things, not that they weren't obvious already. If the plan is to win things in the future, there is no room for Taylor, O'Connor, Rooney and Stockley. McGinn was useless today as well but he's offski anyway.