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Have we ever bottled it in Europe under McInnes? I can't think of a single one where the opponent wouldn't have been strong favourite before the game. Even Rijeka would have been favourites against us, similarly appollon. Both could be comfortably described as better teams before we played them. If anything, we've probably won more games where we weren't favourite. I'd put Viking in the same boat (pun intended) as thon Macedonian team we beat the other year, maybe about lower SPFL level. I'm surprised they're favourites, as I'd probably guage it like a Livingston away game, where we'd be favourite, but with a good chance of losing. A lot of that might be based on my ignorance of the Norwegian game of course.

That's a real tragedy. I, I, I love Macclesfield.

So free for RedTV internationalists? Think I might take a flight to Paris for this one.

If it goes downhill fae here, we're blaming you Elgin

You think? I hadn't really considered that. I assumed that he just wasn't fit enough to play professional fitba these days and we'd see him in the lower leagues or in the Irish leagues. You'd think that there'd be training and stretching methods that adapt a player's body for playing on plastic. It's not significantly different to grass. Obivously it would be hard going and take a couple of months to get used to, but surely far too early for him to write off his own chances.

It'll be available on Red TV international I'm guessing, but not sure. Doubt Premier sports would pick it up. Likely be a stream somewhere on the day though, as I expect Viking tv will have it in some fashion.

They said on red tv at the weekend that they were trying to sort something out with Stavanger. I'm hoping we get a Norwegian stream. The commentary will be far more sensible.

I like him. Did he nae get Scott Brown sent off? Good lad. It's funny, he gets a lot of abuse for the diving he does, but check the nick of all those incidents, what an embarrassment. Barely a tap between them and they've all been snipered. The boy he tapped on the back of the heid is equally as much a fanny as Neymar. It's a shame too, if the guy made a racist comment, because few would believe him (Neymar) because of his prior reputation. It would be like if Morelos accused someone of it. I'm guessing that if he did say something, then it was in the prior incident, in which case a player would surely know to report it immediately (the Logan protocol)? Or at least confront the guy at that point if it angered him that much. Overall though, I think scrapping like this definitely improves the game and it should be encouraged.

I don't think the covid thing had anything to do with getting rid of Bryson. He came on against St Johnstone (in arguably his best performance for us, which doesn't say much, but he did play a significant part in the goal), then he didn't feature anyway. I think the signing of McRorie had a big part to play, but also the change in formation (initially to match up against St Johnstone) which has allowed us to keep both Hedges and Wright in the team. Their movement is fantastic. You just have that horrible suspicion, especially with McGeouch performing quite well, that McInnes will break it up at the first opportunity because we're giving the opposition too many opportunities (even though we aren't, but they're getting a fair bit of possession in our half and there are numerous holes). Hopefully - as mentioned in the BBC article - this is where the pressure from the board will come in and McInnes will feel the need to entertain as well as get results.

Moved to Canada. The shiterag did a "where are they now" on the development league champions a few months back. https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/sport/football/aberdeen-fc/donsnews/where-are-aberdeens-2014-15-spfl-development-league-champions-now/

Yep, I suspect he's just referring to the number of possession we gave them in front of our box, number of corners etc. To be fair, I think he chose to make the subs at the right time, and Hayes still had two great attempts subsequently, which showed we didn't really manage the game too much. Even Considine was up in their box with a few minutes to go. I hope he continues with this approach as we created the better chances with Lewis not really having much to do.

Unintentional doesn't matter these days, it's hand in an unnatural position. The handball that was given was because the guy's arm was raised, the handball not given was because the guy's arm was at his side give or take. Edit: good win, some nice fitba, especially in the first. Really annoying that Wright didn't finish that one in the second, just took it a tiny bit close to the keeper and narrowed the angle too much. Our goal was great though.

No I didn't say that. I said that opportunists were taking advantage of the situation. The alternative is that Matt Hancock and fucking Deloitte have engineered a fake global pandemic in return for £250M worth of contracts. They've involved the entire NHS testing organisation and multiple laboratories and done so in collaboration with their counterparts in every country in the world. Have you ever worked with Deloitte before? You're theories break down within a second of basic thought, but you throw in known truths like Cummings' trip to try to make it sound vaguely plausible whilst going way off argument. The thing is, I may be being played like a fiddle, but the notion that you have any understanding of how and why that is being done is ridiculous. You're scattergunning the fuck out of it in the hope you might get something right so you can come back and prove your prescience. It's frustrating, because there is actual conspiring that goes on that when pointed out is thrown into the conspiracy nutjob basket that you've conveniently woven. There are investigative journalists out there who must get seriously fucked off with your unevidenced shite - the boy who cried wolf.

That is fairly pathetic then. Even the Hun Jack gave his all in the cup final for us in his final game despite being out of contract and having a deal on the table. That situation is a fairly normal occurrence I'd have thought. But surely Bournemouth or the player could have taken an insurance policy to cover that possibility?

You clearly don't understand basic statistics, which doesn't help you. You've most certainly not proven anything, other than you don't understand excess deaths and that you don't understand the effect of a lockdown on those. As we've established, you are allowed to publicly challenge that. We are gullible, which is why it's important to look at facts rather than anecdotes about yer mate's da'. In order for it to be a conspiracy, there'd have to be a motive, somebody directly benefiting, somebody directly controlling and so on. Who do you think concocted this worldwide pandemic? How many people would have to go along with it in every single nation in the world in order for it not to unravel? How many people would have to keep that secret? Let's assume you're right, can you tell us how such a simple conspiracy could be conceived?

I've never heard of Simon Jordan, but he sounds like one of those cunts that is paid to be controversial. It seems like there's a fact or two missing somewhere, but I could be wrong. Is it really the case that the only reason he didn't sign a short term contract was incase he got injured? That doesn't seem likely to me. That would seem completely ridiculous. There must be more to it.

No we were not promised bodies in the street. We had 60K deaths inclusive of a lockdown. The suggestion was that it would be closer to 500K without one. The infection rate and death rate was doubling every four days in the early part of lockdown until measures were taken. That 500K seems reasonably valid. The nightingale hospitals were a show pony from an insipid government built on PR. The chief medical officers were human beings who made mistakes like the rest of us. The point is to limit those mistakes, not eliminate them. You've nailed it with your last sentence. The scale at which you'd have to engineer something like that makes conspiracy impossible. There are plenty of opportunists in the UK government and their close mates who are directly benefiting from this crisis, but opportunism is exactly what it is, they've not conspired with the rest of the world to fake it. So, no, I don't even have the slightest inkling that I am being lied to. If I was, then it would be at such a mind-blowing level of conspiracy that I would be completely fine with it, as there's no chance I'd argue with someone who could pull off something like that.

But it's not both of them though, that's the fucking point. It's the person behind them in the shop or next to them on the bus. Then the unsuspecting relatives of those folk. Were you fucking asleep when 60k people died because the government tried herd immunity? And failed. Of course individual people don't get to choose herd immunity, it's all or nothing. That's why it's herd immunity. Your arguments are circular, you must realise that?

Fuck me. Can we assume that the virus is real, that the infection rate doubles and that it kills 1-2% of people or 5% if hospitals get overwhelmed for the purposes of this discussion? Those will be roughly the figures that the government is working to, so for our understanding, we can use those figures. I am not asking you to believe them. Assuming the above, do you see the issue with allowing a stadium full of people and businesses to not follow the rules? Or do you think that 20k people at pittodrie could avoid contact with people who might also be in contact with someone who is in contact with someone at high risk of death from covid?

You're not saying that anyone should be free to hold their own opinion. You're saying that people should be allowed to act on that opinion regardless of its effect on others. Corybn has not been prevented from exercising freedom of speech. He could easily have made his points in a group, maintaining social distancing etc. You also seem to be mixing fact with opinion and belief in some bizarre fashion. They're not interchangeable. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and nobody is attempting to prevent that. Just don't be surprised if someone calls you out for being a dick, like in Corbyn's case. Denying covid is very similar to denying the Holocaust, that's why. You'd have to be a fucking moron to believe that either didn't occur. Again, if that's your belief then you're free to hold it, but just expect to be ridiculed or treated as a bad actor for having those views. It's quite acceptable.

What part of climate change is a matter of opinion? I've never seen him in the media until recently, I've seen his presentations on YouTube though, the boy's a cunt. You're not a stupid though, are you? You must see the difference between potentially spreading covid and being free to think covid is a hoax? You can freely do one without the other.

Holy shite, you don't believe that do you? That's fairly warped logic. If I believe that anthrax will heal cancer (I suppose it would!) and I set up a stall handing out leaflets talking about this new wonder drug, I think that would be endangering the public, in spite of my retarded opinions. Piers Corbyn has exercised his right to free speech by lying about climate change for the last 20 years without being arrested. The man's a fucking cunt who deserves a fucking hiding. Bought and paid for little charlatan.

Watching Damages at the minute, been good. Not sure what planet I was on when it first came out that I hadn't seen it, but been worth a catch-up so far.

Because they knew that it would go down well with their fans and the rest of the clubs would ensure it was happening without them anyway. Basic politics.

I'm being informed, not dictated to. That seems like an irrational response based on the person talking, I'm not particularly AFC partisan, but I think she got it completely wrong on the AFC thing. That's acceptable though, it's okay to be wrong. She's done a lot more right than the cunt down South, and communicating with the public daily is one of those things. There has been a local lockdown in Glasgow since September 2nd, I'm not sure where you're getting your info from? My sister in law said similar to you and it turned out she was getting her info from Facebook. The difference between the Weegie lockdown and the Aberdeen lockdown was that the Aberdeen one affected pubs and people travelling in and out of the city. Aberdeen's well publicised spreadings occurred in pubs when they opened. The Weegies were having house parties and spreading the virus that way, so they were restricted on 2nd, with nobody allowed to visit one another. That seems quite similar to the Aberdeen one, just affecting a different area. Like the AFC case, there is a lot to learn with how you deal with these things and Stugeon is also learning on the job, so I can cut her a bit of slack. I don't think cafes needed to be shut in Aberdeen to teach pubs a lesson for example, but it was likely important to come down reasonably heavy handedly so that pubs like Soul don't allow giant queues to form outside again. I expect the Weegie pubs quickly learned from that too, and most pubs seem to have got themselves sorted out in terms of protocols and arrangements (certainly the ones I've been to in Aberdeen). Similarly the Weegies not being allowed to visit one another will cut down on house parties. Finally, you say that you have lost your civil liberty? That suggests that you want to be able to go out and do the things that you did prior to the pandemic (roughly speaking)? Coronavirus spreads quickly, in about 10 days, 1 person could indirectly infect between 8 and 1,000. Within 20 it could between 64 and 500,000 assuming no restrictions are placed on people's civil liberty (based on 2-3 days infection doubling). Either we all get coronavirus to maintain your liberty, which is fine. Or we try to eradicate it with strict measures and then deal swiftly with individual cases, restricting those who test positive before the doubling becomes unmanageable (as is clearly happening in the UK and elsewhere already). You're saying that you want everyone to get coronavirus to maintain your civil liberty, correct?