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SOLD OUT again

Surely this will be two strikers and mackie at RW? Do we have any RW in the club? Where does this Pawlett guy play, is it not worth seeing if we had someone that could play that role better than mackie, dung or foster? However good to see we're going to come out and attack again.

They'll have plenty to choose from so they shouldn't worry. I've heard the NW stand usually has plenty spare and only one guy sits in the Norrie

No

atleast have the deceny to write in a text you can fucking see, rather than the pink you chose. tool

Really need to win this one, so missing Sone could be a big blow. Certainly can't afford to play like we did in the first 45 down at rugby park last month

given that we have allowed every piece of land around the ground to be sold off over the years - timber yard, gas tower thingymajig - I would guess so. Presumably re-doing the SS, Merkie and Main would work out as not much less than a whole new stadium anyway, and wouldn't get rid of the biggest problem at Pittodrie, the atmosphere vacuum that is the RDS

I think we have sold just over 5000 and the "extra" tickets are for the enclosure at the front of the main stand, east, and number about 300, taking our total allocation to 5400. Thanks to the whining of the pars fans I presume that is far as "official" tickets will go and it will be back to the old behind enemy lines

I remember in the mid 90s the main stand was said to have a life-span of 5years. Maybe people weren't talking about a "new" stadium but they were certainly talking about ground development. 15 or so years later we're still in the same shitty situation having spent £100,000s on maintaining and patching up the main stand

My point was I'm not convinced the fact Thistle and Caley merged had much to do with their current "success", it may well have happened in any case if one club was allowed up. Folk go on about "too many clubs" but how much do the bottom 20 actually take from the game? Or to put it another way if we took all the money they currently make and spread it among the top 22 would it make a blind bit of difference. There should be a regional set up, probably below the current 1st or 2nd divisions, but this will need to involve seismic change, namely the Juniors being scrapped and amalgamated into the senior set up. Btw I see Henry McLeish is going to be heading an independent review into Scottish Football. How many years will this one take, and what ever happened to Ernie Walker's think-tank?

Apparently we've sold about 5,000 of our 5,400 allocation Wish I was going

I'm most looking forward to the car journey

You sure? or did he only play 45mins as he broke down on the way off at HT?

Reserve football used to get pretty decent crowds, but that was when games were played at weekends. My dad used to go to Pittodrie every week, 1st team one week, the reserves the next. Also seem to remember hearing there was one game (Joey Harper's return?) where the reserves actually pulled a bigger crowd at Pittodrie than the crowd that watched the first team where ever they were playing. No chance of that now they play reserve games fucking miles from the "home" team's stadium, on a tue afternoon at 1pm. Not much surprise they are scraping the league

Very much agree Jute. If you look back over the years since ICT came up into the league Ross County have actually had bigger average crowds for most of the years the two sides were in the same league. Of course there is no way of proving it but if Inverness Thistle or Caledonian came up by themselves they probably would have ended up with much the same support as the combined side has now. How far do you take the merging of clubs? Falkirk are a decent sized club now, but there are 2 other clubs within spitting distance. Do you then merge East Stirlingshire and Stenny with Falkirk or just merge the two clubs themselves and leave Falkirk? Either way it won't make a sod of difference. Equally the angus clubs, lanarkshire clubs and ayrshire. Merging clubs doesn't stop most folk supporting the old firm, and that is the main problem most of these clubs face. As for abolishing the League Cup. I read somewhere you actually get more cash from winning it than you do for winning the Scottish Cup. The League cup was a great tournament. Now we have 5 euro spots perhaps the league cup should get one back again. The biggest improvement would be if it went back to a short sharp tournament played to a finish by October or November.

2month winter break? When is the fuckpig planning on having this? Clubs wouldn't want to lose out on the larger festive crowds. Cup is first week in January then European competition starts up again before the end of February and you can just imagine the stink the huns and tims would kick up about not having sufficient match practice for their run to european glory (sic). Weather is far too unpredictable in Scotland to make this worth while. Better of on concentrating on getting decent all weather training facilities.

It's not just the loss of the OF home games, it's the loss of them AND games vs the likes of hearts and united and the fact they will be replaced with games that will be lucky to attract 10,000 punters, and to make matters even worse, even if the average crowd does hold up we lose as many as 4 home games, several hundreds of thousands. As for this amalgamating teams. I've never bought this idea. Combining Forfar, Montrose and Brechin, or East Stirlingshire, Stenhousmuir and Falkirk won't boost crowds at the resultant "super" club. You are more likely to lose fans who would rightly feel their club and their identity has been taken away. In anycase even if all the fans from the amalgamated clubs did follow the "super" teams they would still be little more significant than they are now. The problems with Scottish Football really isn't found in the 2nd and 3rd divisions anyway. Most clubs live within their means and have little in the way of significant financial worries (stranraer excepted). They don't take a significant amount of money away from the top 2 leagues either. The problems the top 2 leagues have is promoting their products in a crowded market place and the domination of the OF. Of course ham-fisted administration of the leagues doesn't help either, nor does the increasing arrogance of the Old Firm Boards and their fan base. I don't know the answer but I just can't see a top 16/18 making a difference. The last time we had such a set up the league was dying a death and the lowest average crowds for decades and beyond an initial blip in interest I can't see it being any more successful now.

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I voted maguire. Maybe not the best but a great performance from the lad, played in his correct position, and he deserves the credit for a change. Hopefully he gets a run up front over the next few games and we can see if he can deliver decent performances on a more regular basis.

Pars fans have the NW stand back. EDIT: Dig out the old panic button:

Bigger league will never happen. There aren't enough clubs of a sufficient size to have a 18 or 20 team league. A 16 team league means 4 LESS home games, ontop of this instead of home games vs rangers, celtic, hearts, united and hibs we get home games vs st johnstone, livvie, thistle and dundee. TV revenue would be less also given both the drop in number of games and drop in quantity of marketable games. Apart from the OF the league as it stands has worked pretty well in recent years (if you ignore the aberration that was Gretna). Take this season: 3 way battle for 3rd/europe, then possibly a 3 way fight for "top 6" and then a right old scrap to avoid relegation. Expand the league and half the clubs will have nothing to play for by now.

Pre-Split Games: Hearts: Dundee Utd (A); Motherwell (H); Hibs (A); Rangers (A); Kilmarnock (H); Celtic (H); Falkirk (A). United: Hearts (H); Falkirk (A); Motherwell (A); Celtic (H); Hibs (H); Hamilton (A); Kilmarnock (H). Aberdeen: Kilmarnock (H); St Mirren (A); Hamilton (H); Hibs (A); Motherwell (A); Inverness (H); Celtic (A).

7 as I fancy helen to get a point at ferguslie park If we have any hopes of getting 3rd we MUST beat killie and accies at Pittodrie

Mackie is not a right winger. Our real problem isn't mackie but that we don't have any one at the club to play in that position since we let JDV go, all we have are poor stop gaps in the form of mackie, foster and dung.

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