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That een (central) very similar idea to the Central Cafe in Vienna, dd.

Yes sir. Topping the group means what? What happens next? I don't understand this competition. 16 groups A1 to D4. Then what?

Malky Mackay played Ryan Jack at RB at Pittodrie v. Holland. He was brilliant in that position.

OMG. Just seen McLeish's post-match comments. He is either insane or more likely, in denial, for reasons that probably include holding on to his job. It's a total shit show, from top to bottom with no way back.

GMS created a goal out of nothing, from an exceptional back heel. It's what he's got. He's a very intelligent footballer. Is he robust enough to contribute to a winning cause? Possibly. He's ageing like fine wine, the twinkle toes cunt. Seriously, it was sublime. Overall Scotland looked good until they scored. It was a bad result but not an unfair scoreline. 1-2 might have been more fair but it was 0-3 until the last move of the match. Scotland is in the toilet.

I don't get the being proud angle. It's great that Aberdeen players are considered to be amongst the best in the country but what if they're not very good, or the competition for places is particularly weak? The results over the last 20 years haven't been good enough and with the current set-up, manager and squad, it's highly unlikely that anything is going to change. Is that negative enough for you? Devlin and McKenna have formed a great partnership in less than three months and it's great that they've been recognised, by a manager who used to play in that position for the same club. They thoroughly deserve their call ups and if it were me, I would play them together, no question. Shinnie I feel sorry for. He's got an international class attitude. He's hungry and desperate to do well. He grafts and is a rare footballer who always gives 100%. But where do we play him? Even if he had been played at Left Back at Aberdeen, I don't think he would be picked ahead of Robertson (and Tierney getting a start in the same team as Robertson makes zero sense). Is he good enough in midfield to make any impact at international level? GMS is a conundrum. During an impromptu sesh in the Masada on Wednesday between 4 and 8, I ran into an old mate. We used to play together, he's been going to Pittodrie for as long as I have and still goes to most of the away games. Where he loves GMS, I don't see him as an international class footballer but given the lack of genuine talent in the competition for places, I fully understand his selection. He can make things happen and has pace and great feet but if he's not good enough for Celtic, I can't see how he's going to be valuable for Scotland. If Scotland ever do anything that anyone can be "proud of", I'll congratulate them. Whatever the composition of the squad, they're going to be nothing but an embarrassment for the foreseeable future for reasons that run deep and reasons that are fatal in my book, the neglect of the grass roots over decades being the biggest.

I'm certain that we will NOT get 2nd this year, even if we did invest that kind of cash, which we never would do under Milne. All I said was that "if we had any ambition", which when it comes to success on the pitch, we will never have under Milne. Plus I don't think McInnes is good enough, as I've posted repeatedly over many years. Opportunities come from time to time. The chance to play at the top table in Europe is one we might have thought beyond any other Scottish team. We should be doing the maths on what the return is just for the qualifying stages next July/August.

And if AFC had any ambition whatsoever, they would invest in making sure we were one of those two teams. An extra 2 or 3 million now would be returned tenfold if we could do what we've already done for four years, which we won't because where others have progressed, we are standing still at best.

That's your opinion. Mine is also that Grant and Mason were superb footballers. Strachan was infuriatingly inconsistent and like Stark, threw in some very bad days at the office. I agree that their overall contributions were superb and hugely valuable to the objective of winning the league. Simpson and Grant performed the same role, a totally different function to the other players quoted. It's harsh to rate Simpson so much higher because both were more than good enough to win major honours. Of course your opinion on anything is devalued when you fail to understand the difference a great manager makes.

I was hoping that you wouldn't tell them and I was banking on the known fact that these norn cunts don't log in here. Actually, have any of us ever met an AFC supporter from Ulster? In our whole lives? I've not.

Watched a documentary about the NI culture of punishment shootings. It's not just accepted over there, the communities support kneecappings and bullets through the ankles and elbows. Fucking neanderthals these cunts, blinded by bigotry and hatred.

Didn't see his interview but I did watch the game and it was clear that our manager hasn't got a clue. He was drinking heavily before he got the job (allegedly) so it wouldn't surprise me if his mental faculties have been drowned, not having been great in the first place. He certainly seems to have lost a lot in any interviews I've seen in recent months. Great posts about Tierney. He was pish again last night and no way should he be in that team, Robertson being the far superior LB. The promise he showed as a teenager never really kicked on. I don't watch him every week obviously but the boyfriend of one of my daughters does and even he says he's not actually that good. Beaten by Israel and deservedly so. It doesn't get much worse. We should apologise to the Palestinians. Scotland, fucking up for human rights in various and different ways. Insulting Gazza is one thing, and quite amusing since he's such a hun guffy fuck-up and he played an imaginary flute at Ibrox once, but failing to show solidarity with Gaza and Hamas is quite another.

You miss the only fucking point.

You obviously missed his first season in Scotland or you failed to appreciate how exceptional he was. If the latter, the only explanations are that you have selective memory, being as biased and bigoted as the OF are infamous for or that you know fuck all about fitba. That's an either/or by the way.

Wrong. It was stupid to nominate a non-Scot in the first place and its nonsense to even have such a thing but McCoist is absolutely right. The bigger crime is their total disregard for a human being, however fucked up he is. To say he's getting it and then withdraw it is incompetence on the grandest scale.

How can an Englishman argue that an Englishman should be in a Scottish hall of fame? Since the concept is so puerile, why even have such a thing? Do all teams who never win fuck all have halls of fames? Who's in the Hamilton or Albion Rovers hall of fame? The SFA fuck up everything they touch because they're run by total fuck-ups.

He doesn't have any intelligence and neither can he motivate, even though this is a basic, fundamental requirement of the job. It was last century when I last saw us lose to the OF at Hampden and I've never missed Aberdeen winning against them there since I was at school, well over 40 years ago. We've lost plenty at Hampden since then but I chose not to go. When I was a kid, I hated the stay-aways who only turned up for big games, filling Pittodrie on European nights, swelling Hampden for the finals but not turning up for the Motherwells and St Mirrens. I referred to them as glory-hunters. This was because I didn't have a choice. I was an Aberdeen supporter and supporting your team is what we did, through thick and thin. After self employment 25 years ago and having a family etc. I find that I do have a choice on how to spend my time and my money. I enjoyed watching live football 3 or 4 times a month back then. I don't enjoy watching AFC 8 or 10 times a year now and I make a point of going to lower league football to supplement my addiction and scratch the itch. I'm definitely not a glory-hunter therefore and I look forward to the day when Aberdeen beat Celtic or Rangers at the national stadium and I wasn't there to see it. That hasn't happened since the 70's and it ain't happening in the upcoming semi either. Gerrard wants to win. McInnes wants to be in employment. Winners go for it. Jobsworths don't take risks.

A Drew Jarvie screamer

There is an argument that rather than 50/50, the ticket allocation should be shared based on the proportion of how many season tickets each club sells.

There were 43,000 at Red Parkhead but it sounds we may struggle to see half that for this semi. I reckon the biggest factor is most of us thought we would win that final but most think we will lose this.

I must admit I didn't even know there was a "hall of fame" nor do I give a fuck about it. No shock that the authorities making an arse of it all.

Laudrup's first season at the former club known as Rangers was the best I've ever seen. Henrik Larsson was exceptional. Those two + Gazza were the best footballers to have played in Scotland in my opinion. Charlie Nicholas was class.

Gascoigne was one of the three best footballers ever to play in Scotland.

There are more footballers than managers, just as there are more "workers" than bosses. Hired grunts resent the people who tell them what to do. Labourers don't have the brains to understand.

Lauren Laverne just played this: - I reckon the first time we hear this song is like where were you when JFK got shot etc. Nina Simone was a genius, one who cut her own cloth.