RicoS321

It could be that the repair borders on his land or something, and the land was owned by him but a public right of way or some such. There's a road that goes behind my hoose that is owned by the neighbour, thus he is responsible for cutting the grass, yet I own the bit that goes beside my hoose and so am responsible for that which I didnae know until recently. If someone had taken an illegal shite on that part, I would have been none the wiser it was mine until I checked my deeds. Given it's a public path, it'll be an embankment or something that belongs to the property, but the cooncil probably cut the grass or whatever so it is legitimate that thon cunt Young might not have known. Going by the last paragraph, it suggests that he wasn't involved in the decision. Mine, he wasn't getting a hot-tub put in or anything (although at 200K I'd be expecting one) so I can't imagine it'd be a profitable venture.

Fash?

Is it a bream? Or is it a snapper?

That would ignore the overwhelming evidence of where Taylor loses concentration when we aren't 2-0 up. He just loses concentration regardless of scoreline. In fairness to him though, I think the first goal was poor decision making rather than concentration (as well as a very good run and cross). In other words, it was pishness rather than focus.

It wasn't that bold a move considering they were 2 down in a cup game. In fairness to McInnes, the difference is that we generally have our best 11 on the park. The obvious example would be the last cup final where we didn't make a sub until 65th minute, but we could only bring on Stockley anyway. If we'd been 2-0 down early doors at the weekend, I suspect we'd have seen McGinn on pretty sharpish for example (at worst half time). McInnes is actually quite quick to make a change if one of his favourites isn't on the pitch. How often have we seen McGinn playing poorly for 80 minutes before being subbed, but Pawlett have an okay game being subbed before 65th minute for example. McInnes' biggest problem is his predictability. That said, I'm not convinced anyone would have predicted that atrocious sub he made at the weekend in bringing on O'Connor. There was simply no need, and it was obvious to anyone who's ever seen us play football that it was a bad sub. It wasn't even in hindsight after the goal either, everyone round me was shocked when O'Connor came on for Christie. I've always known McInnes was cautious, but that was taking it to extreme. If he felt he needed a back 3, then he should have just moved Considine over a bit and played Hayes wing back. I'd love to hear why he thought O'Connor was required at that stage in the game. Was it a loyalty (to O'Connor, who he may have felt deserved to be involved) thing? Extreme caution? McGinn's fitness meant he couldn't come on? Christie's fitness meant he absolutely had to come off? Formation struggling with the width of pitch? Practice for the final? It's annoying we don't have proper fitba journalists/interveiwers in the game, as that question should have been top of their list. To say he got away with it is an understatement. I hope we never see 4 centre halves on the pitch again, it was embarrassing.

I want to know where to park at Hampden and which end is the most sectarian.

So, Farage versus Clegg in the French elections. Should be an interesting one in a couple of weeks. Le Pen will be hoping for a few more shootings between now and then to help her cause. Very interesting political times in the world. Every country experiencing a distinct lack of options and complete voter disenfranchisement. Can see our own election having a very low turn out.

Aye, should be a decent game. No dicking about from McInnes hopefully. McGinn back in (if fit) and take the game to them. Then give Hayes a couple of weeks off, he looks tired.

The hardest one for us to get to. Obviously.

Not an issue really is it? He'll go back to the tims after the last league game. Up until that point, any tactics etc. will be obvious from how we approach the league games up to that point. I don't imagine McInnes throwing up any tactical shocks in the final anyway. However, I don't see the benefit to him being here beyond finishing second in the league, unless we can get an agreement to sign him permanently, so I'd send him back if we win our next two games.

What the fuck are you on about? We're discussing the ends. The parking was resolved ages ago.

But is it easier to get to the Tim end for Hibs or not (actual trafficwise)? That's what I wanted to know. If not, then that's a pretty big thing I'd have thought. Easier to police perhaps, in terms of getting folks away from the ground without overlapping/clashing? I'm just thinking of any good reason that they could possibly use to justify it.

Aye, I never even thought. Do the Hibees actually have a specific side of the ground? I just assumed we'd be at the most logical side of the ground for transport for dons fans (before I picked up my tickets). Weird that the club didn't make a thing about it. Stupid kick off time, and further to travel.

We've got a fully functioning existing stadium. We've got the option of a 12K stadium. We've got the location, we could easily sit tight and see if building materials, techniques and options begin to change (do the architects in the audience genuinely not believe we'll move into a completely new era in building design with additive manufacturing and material science within the next decade or so - i.e. whilst we're still paying off a mortgage?). Pittodrie will easily last ten years or more. Accept that we don't need to go full steam into a project for a new stadium just for the sake of having a new stadium if it's nae in the right place and doesn't make us better off in the long term. Have the balls to say it's not the right move and we're not just going to do it because it's been one man's vision for the last 20 years. In the meantime, go full steam ahead with the training facilities and start churning out the next Willie Millers's and such like.

Nah. It's a shiny new thing. At the very worst, the first season is going to be packed. Good performances on the pitch will see another couple of seasons of crowds that exceed the current crowds. I think you're underestimating the fickle pull of a new thing. I think the 40K cup final crowd is an indicator of how folk get on board for something different. I think there's a good chance that we can keep a healthy portion of fans if we play well in our first few years. However, I don't believe that's a good method for basing a decision to move from a city centre location though. We need to be thinking longer term than 5, or even 10, years. I think losing a city centre location should be an absolute last resort. It currently isn't.

The warden kindly showed me to a spot where they don't charge folk last time I was there, which was kind of her (and she wisnae lying). Very close to the grun, but the wrong end this time roon.

Looking forward to the game. Just picked up my tickets. I don't think we've gone into this game in the best frame of mind, especially the way we finished the game against Saints. That said, McInnes has surprised me in the past, with just as many unexpected wins as unexpected losses. Don't know what to expect from the hibees at all, so should be a great game. We're good at fitba, and hopefully that'll get us through on the day. Only changes for me would be Reynolds back in for O'Connor and McGinn for Christie. Back to the winning team that started the year.

Fuck, just as well you mentioned. I'd have felt like a richt tit walking through the hibees with my full strip and shin guards. Think I'll go for the train then, Mount Florida it'll be. Fucking rip off trains these days like.

Fit's wrong wi' hibs like? Also, is that nae the end we're supposed to park at, or have I got it wrong? I haven't actually organised transport there yet. Was thinking of bussing it or taking the wife's car as mine een's brakes are fucked.

Aye, you missed the most important one there Tom, and that's the dons. Re-developed RDS, no relegation, no liquidation, no admin. Of course, there'd be St Mirren and St Johnstone who have been relegated since moving stadium. There's probably no useful evidence either way if we're honest. I suspect most admins were down to huge overspending on players rather than stadium repairs. But I realise you were just responding to a ridiculous suggestion from 100%AK.

No, I missed some words. I meant to say 3K+ for a start tailing off to about +2K after 5 years. I think it'll be heavily front loaded, but I think we'll get that 20% target over ten years. I think we'll regularly sell out in our first 2 seasons and tail off after that. A lean period (on the pitch) after the first 5 years will really see how the location works out.

The question is, is this indicative of the long term natural trend of corporate at AFC? Beyond the initial surge created by a new stadium. I suspect it is. I think we get a good return on our corporate facilities for a city our size.

Nae sure like, probably miss our game, or they'll downgrade to a booking because it's Scott Brown and the ref didnae ken the rules. I was wondering if it was normal though? I'm not suggesting they changed the rules afterwards, I was suggesting that when deciding to re-schedule their easter meetings, they looked at the fixture list and saw a cup semi final weekend - including a scum game - and thought it might be easier to postpone the appeals process so that any team (including Aberdeen and the HIVs) could avoid having an important player missing for such an important weekend. For what it's worth, I don't think league suspensions should carry to the cup (but cup should to league if the team gets knocked out).

Because yer nae really supposed to kick people in fitba.

Cheers. So we're pretty hefty already? My question/point was, perhaps badly put, have we already reached the limit of what we can earn from corporate? In order to answer that, it'd be useful to know the maximum we could earn from matchday corporate and the occupation percentages of the existing non-matchday corporate. I suspect we're pretty close to saturation point as it is based on my experience of the current RDS corporate. I'd doubt we get the RDS and Main Stand facilities used 5 days a week either. I've been to a few seminars and the like at Pittodrie outwith match day and it's been pretty quiet generally, but this obviously entirely anecdotal. To answer 100%NK's concerns, really we just have to determine whether or not the additional corporate, ticket and prize revenue the club feels is possible would cover the cost of the mortgage. We'd probably be looking at about £1M per year over 35 years or something in mortgage. I doubt our prize money is going to increase significantly from the last couple of years. I don't believe we'll get Europa league anytime soon. Sponsorship and advertising should increase, but that may depend on any deals on stadium naming rights, which might prevent other advertiser getting involved (lets say 10% increase for first ten years). Lets say gate receipts 20% (extra 3K fans??) and corporate get 10% increase over the first ten years. That's around £1.5M of increased revenue. Those figures would be heavily loaded toward the first 5 as the shiny new thing becomes less attractive. I think they're ambitious like, but nae impossible. Obviously, there'd be significant reductions in cost too. That'd easy cover the mortgage. We'd really be looking at player sales from our new training improvements to remain competitive and properly improve, which is no bad thing.