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My worry there is Sokler's lack of goal threat (I know he scored last week). Hopefully an early goal to settle the nerves (mine).

Palaversa, Duk and Sokler all start, Shinnie & Clarkson on bench, Nisbet misses out. Dons social media fella hasn't got the memo yet that you need 20/20 vision to read those subs.

Sold out. Club now have opened their season ticket exchange so some single tickets are up for grabs. That's 3,000-4,000 fans who are going who would be locked out if we build a 16,000 capacity stadium.

The prices are wild. £320 for a very average looking grey tracksuit. The only thing I would have considered buying was the trainers, but not at £110 a pop. Make sure you've got your TV licences paid before splashing out on any of that.

I'm more of a Puma suede man masell like. But I do quite like those trainers so might get them. I'll wait and see the extortionate price then hope one of the dodgy online retailers stock them.

Either merge the threads or delete the other one. They haven't been known as Aberdeen Ladies for years. Anyway, welcome home Scott Booth. I don't cover the SWPL much these days, but was involved heavily when Booth was winning the lot with Glasgow City. Was always a wee thrill interviewing a guy I'd queued up to get his autograph when I was a kid.

You never know, he might take the same approach he did when he was Aberdeen manager and be soft as shite. I knew there was something different about you. You don't live in New Zealand, you live in the year 3000, with Busted. Sad to hear that means the new stadium hasn't been built though.

Not entirely sure what they think these "increased tensions" would lead to, but unusual to see an official club account have to clarify their allocation in order to quell an uprising. In addition, Rangers tweeted that 13,500 fans applied for tickets to see them play at Pittodrie (1,674 the allocation). Everyone wants to see Jimmy Thelin's red machine.

Thing is, I do rate Clement as a manager. I think their squad is poor though. If they stick with him they'll likely improve eventually. Removing him and potentially appointing an inferior manager would do more harm than good to Rangers. But if they lose at Pittodrie the pressure on him would be enormous.

Who would have thought, on a weekend where we were away to Celtic, that we'd actually increase the gap on Rangers.

I thought he was really poor in the second half against Dundee, a lot of poor clearances, struggled physically that game against whoever it was he was up against. Agree though Thelin clearly thinks MacDonald isn't quick enough for how he wants to play.

Molloy - to be fair to him, he improved a lot in the second half (as did many). But it's big errors. Penalty v Dundee, Vargas of Hearts (although he missed), second goal yesterday. I get the whole "he's young, let him learn from mistakes" etc but soon it's going to really cost us. Maybe I just quite like MacDonald and want to see the fella get a game now and then.

Wish I was going to this, but have to pick and choose the games I get to and I'm going to the following two after it. Going to be another sell out. Dundee United also sold all their tickets in two hours apparently. Evening kick-off under the lights, a wee derby feel to it, two in-form teams, Goodwin's return to Pittodrie to add some extra spice. To be fair to Goodwin he's doing well. I think he's learned his lesson from what he tried to do at Aberdeen and is managing United the way he managed St Mirren, but now with a bit more experience. Only Rangers have beaten them in the league. We're now at the point where we likely need to rotate the squad, would be a big ask to play the same starting XI for three games in a week, especially with two against Rangers and Celtic. I was suggesting even before Celtic that MacDonald should replace Molloy, who has had three poor games now. Have Duk and Sokler played their way in after Celtic Park - Nisbet just been off it a little in the past two games. Palaversa likely starts one of the upcoming games. Don't think Thelin will go wild though, probably two changes at most, so I'll guess Palaversa for Shinnie or Nilsen, and Duk for Keskinen.

First time since March 2013 I think since Celtic have let a two-goal lead slip. And it's all down to our manager. First half: We made so many errors and were fortunate Celtic didn't punish us more. Rubezic dragged out of position, Molloy poor again (third game in a row), Nilsen looked a little overwhelmed and was careless both in and out of possession - giving the ball away and coughing up cheap free-kicks. Everyone on Sportsound were saying "Clarkson off for Palaversa, shore up the midfield and make Aberdeen more defensively solid." But instead Thelin was only thinking about how Celtic's high line was there to be exploited. The subs worked. Second half, as the graphic I posted showed, we actually had less possession, but we were more dangerous. We had a manager brave enough to give up the ball in return for having three to four players able to race forward when Celtic lost it. We had Celtic spooked, and really they only regained their composure for the last 20 minutes. Very few teams outside the sides they face in the Champions League will do that to them.

It's handball but it isn't. As in, it's been headed onto his arm, but honestly who gives a fuck? The handball rule was invented in the 1800s to stop those who were not very good at it from picking the ball up or punching it into the net. The guys who invented the game would have been watching that today from up above sickened at that goal being ruled out and what our game has become.

Thelin ball Effective.

Noted

Gavin Molloy and Sivert Nilsen. Both been poor.

"Strolled into the Scotland squad" He was a late call up to the last one and only because of an extensive injury list

Are you the same fella that never rated Miovski?

Saw the team bus earlier, applauded them proudly as you should. Surprised at same team being named but Thelin obviously heard about our last title decider in May 1991 and decided against making the same mistake.

Made a video jinxing Aberdeen. But any excuse to post the king Andrew Considine.

Forgot about McGinn. Him over Christie in my team.

Well it's @Reekie_Red thread so he can make the final decision, but if Pawlett is kicked out so some jobber from Norwich can get in, I'll judge you all silently from afar.

Are we not talking about their performances here? I've already acknowledged Pawlett fell off, but at the beginning on his day he was a terrific player. Never felt the same with McLean or Ramadani.