RicoS321

Longstaff loan terminated apparently. Not surprising. Devlin set to get another contract extension according to the record. It's always good to have a professionally injured player that the other injured players can look up to.

Beautiful. That's the kind of service we've come to know and expect.

Cool. I'll meet you there. I'll get them in.

You should. How much space do you think the internet has left? It's bloody vandalism.

Aye, I hate those odd numbers, like 17,000.

Fuck sake Jute Scotland to play Ireland, Ukraine and Armenia (for the first time) in the next nation's league.

Is that a downward taper? Looks more like an upward one with a hook on the end. Good for the rain either way.

To be honest, I'm just disgusted that we can't use the existing Calvin Ramsay thread.

Fucking maroon? Corporate view of the sea? A fucking offset tunnel? Disgusting. Great ground though.

I wonder if we'll be able to take the pillars with us from the mainer?

The main stand Edit: to clarify that was a joke.

Booooo. Fucking Hun. Should never wear the red shirt again.

But we've never had average crowds anywhere near 17K, even when we were good. Is this just realism? Should we be spending £16M to cater for the fans that only turn up for the big games (and sometimes not even then)? With the nation's league, there are going to be few friendlies and the opportunity to host a Scotland game is extremely limited (maybe once every five years?). Unless we were looking at 30K seats, there is no reason to hold Scotland games at a new pittodrie over tynecastle or Easter road. We definitely shouldn't be including that measure in our decision making. I also doubt that Elton John will be refusing a gig because of the extra 3K either, he'll either play in Aberdeen or not, and that occurs once a decade (and fuck that anyway). In both situations, we'd be paid for ground rental rather than ticket sales anyway. I get the concern about being season ticket focused, but I don't think that you're point about waiting until a Friday is an issue. Most people will know whether or not they can go to a game in advance (I'll hand my ticket to my mate if I'm not going to be at the next game for example - before QR codes of course!) and will likely want to cash in on selling their ticket early. There's an offset there. However, the biggest problem I envisage that I hadn't considered until your post was not necessarily that people can't afford a ticket, but that those who can afford tickets but don't usually buy a season ticket will buy one so that they can go to the bigger games. The option to formally sell your unused ticket, coupled with scarcity, creates an apartheid between those who can afford to buy, say, 4 tickets and those that want to go to the majority of games but can't afford a season ticket. It returns a situation a lot like the DNA points scam. I could simply buy a ticket for a decent seat and sell it every week until a big game and then go to that. I'd like to see a way to counteract that so we can prioritise fans going to games (say if you attend <12 games per season you can only buy a half season ticket or some such). It's a difficult balance between forcing scarcity to get bigger crowds and being realistic as to our average crowds. I think 16K will result in too scarce a product, but 17K might produce the happy spot of having lots of unsold tickets regularly. For some weird reason, I'd feel happier if it was 18K. I can quite believe the £16M figure, you're talking an entire deck the length of the South to get an extra 4,000 seats. It's not a small thing. A sheet of OSB is around £1M today. I don't think it'll actually go ahead any time soon anyway. Maybe the reduced capacity is just to butter us up for a reduced capacity pittodrie when this latest idea gets booted out.

Looks cool. I mean, it's no Brockville, but it's nice.

A good point. I would say that their motive is affordability - first and foremost - however. I think you'd have to offset the missed income on those attendances versus the cost associated with having empty seats for the overwhelming majority of games. The four games in 18-19 would have resulted in 9k seats of missed revenue (assuming 17k capacity). Maybe £250k? That could be recouped quite easily if other fixtures increased attendance due to scarcity as per the club's plan. I'm not convinced that the group stages would actually return us the type of crowd we think either. They would if we weren't regularly getting there of course but then if we regularly got to that stage I could easily envisage a drop off in popularity unless we get a perceived "big side". I just don't think we're that well supported. One thing that did bother me was the re-selling of tickets. A great concept, but I have a feeling that all tickets will then be tied to your electronic device, and you won't be able to pass on to a friend for nothing. I'm guessing if it's just a small admin fee that might be okay, but it's free just now.

Agree about the capacity. I think 17k would be a good size, and infinitely better than a 20k stadium in Aberdeenshire. Unless the plan was always to trick the council into proposing a better location, you have to wonder about the Westhill abomination. It really is the most deluded plan on the planet. Can't believe the number of dons fans who thought it was even remotely acceptable. The ticket thing is a bit of a non-issue these days. You just buy it on your phone and walk in scanning the phone. By 2025 it'll be 99% of purchases.

It would be disallowed, because attacking players aren't allowed in the wall.

Nah, definitely not. Going by the old, proper, handball rules it was completely fine. The new, shite, rules mean it is a foul.

Great result in a really stuffy game in difficult conditions. Good finish by Jenks, a modern day handball but he didn't know much about it. Ramirez barely touched the ball but if that outrageous shot had gone in it would have been goal of the season. Defence were decent and Ferguson and Brown good in midfield too. It just took that bit of niggly bite to build up in the game for us to wake up and win it. Good stuff.

Agreed, he's done well in possession, but he offers very little on the overlap even just to drag the defender out of position. I'd consider McLennan there in the second half if we don't score soon. A couple of decent opportunities but in general we've been short of ideas. Reminds me of many of our games so far this season where possession is easy for us, whilst at the same time being easy to play against. Hedges is struggling to find the space and not much has come off for him so far. Not convinced by their penalty shout. Bates has done alright, been good on the ball.

I couldn't be responsible for your unemployment.

No, it isn't tunnel vision, I think you're using the wrong term. I'd happily move to many different places in the world, but Vancouver wouldn't be one of them. Falkirk is closer to my friends and family, thus would win out over Vancouver. I'd be more likely to move somewhere in Finland or France than Vancouver for example. I don't particularly like cities. I think most are unnatural, unsustainable, abominations, so if I were moving to Canada I'd likely move to one of the islands or some such. If I were interested in expanding my horizons, however, I wouldn't likely move to another English speaking country recently settled by my own country's descendents.

Same team three weeks running? Crazy.

Have you been to Falkirk? I wouldn't want to live in Vancouver. I expect there are better places to live in Canada. It has nothing to do with tunnel vision. Some humans like different things to others.

I think McInnes would do a good job there, but they might want to wait until after the cup final against Celtic.