RicoS321

Yep, it's really not what pens should be for, but these days - and definitely when var comes in - that shite gets given. It's anti sport.

Huge gaps everywhere. The 4-4-2 showing its risks.

Ridiculous finish, great header. Belted cross.

Or Lopes in behind Miovski. Decent team. Glad Duk is in for Clarkson and not the easy choice of Kennedy.

The good thing about the minute's applause is that you can visibly and respectfully reject it by just not joining in. It's a fairly easy compromise. This entire charade is taking place in order to be seen. It's not a mark of respect or an opportunity to grieve, it's purely to be seen to be doing something. In that regard, I find it utterly disrespectful. I'd love to see the sadness-cams on sportscene panning across a whole stand of Dons and Hibs fans just not joining in with an enforced measure. I hope every Dons fan going that doesn't feel the grief makes sure that they are in the ground and politely not taking part. I'd love it even more if the tannoy announcer said something along the lines of: "we're about to hold a minute's applause for the death of the Queen. If you don't wish to join in, there is certainly no obligation, but we do ask you to please be respectful of those that wish to.". It'd just be nice to think that people aren't just joining in because they feel obliged to, that it's a completely acceptable thing to just stand in silence (or chatting, whatever suits). The objective of the entire thing is to show a single view of Britishness. A "national mourning". The media in this country are shaping a narrative rather than reporting on it and they want football fans to be a part of their show. Any viewer of British media in the last week would assume a nation in hysterics, without exception and that really isn't the case. The people standing in 24 hour queues to view a corpse-box aren't normal and they aren't representative of Britain as whole, less so Scotland. I think it's important that football shows that whilst being respectful of those that feel differently - which in Scotland is the minority. In my opinion, booing the dead monarch would be crass, however booing that seamless switch to new king via gstk would be a completely different proposition. I don't believe Dons or Hibs fans will have that shite forced upon them today though.

They just need to show ambition. It's the only thing between that team and league success.

Looked like it came off his shin. Poor man's Josh Magennis.

If only my wife wasn't so shite at fitba.

Ouch. Gilmour is an actual footballer, unlike the boy who can run fast. I saw Burke's Scotland debut and he was absolutely honking. Clearly just an athlete. As a young lad, I expect Gilmour to be inconsistent, but he's not suddenly going to forget how to play fitba really well. Burke just needed a little tail off in his physical performance to turn him into a worthless footballer. If Gilmour can get a foot in at any club, he'll turn out pretty special. He's very talented.

I'd have Wright the rat in ahead of brown, who's clearly gash. We don't have anyone that can glide past a player in that area behind the strikers. Surprised he's not getting a look in given his involvement with the scum in Europe.

You're correct. It's the police - who are definitely not all Huns - who decided that the game should be moved. They all need to be in Edinburgh because of a delivery.

I think they'll maybe even struggle with a minute's silence. Nor should there be one anyway. The nation has its opportunity on Sunday night for those that wish to. Football doesn't need to be the vehicle for this. It's disrespectful to enforce grief in such a way (as it was to cancel games).

That's because they're being allowed to. They don't have to walk the tight rope of the tabloid press, waiting to slaughter anyone not grieving enough. A mischievous part of me hopes they play the English national anthem before the Hibs v Dons game at the weekend.

We're back on for the Hibs game. I really hope we respect the 8 minute's silence (one for each decade of her reign, rounded up).

England restarting with some games this week in the lower leagues. Sub-human scum. Completely disrespectful. How can anyone think about kicking a football at a time like this?

Can't say anything these days without some moderator banning you. Shocking.

Completely inappropriate at a time of national mourning I'd say.

Kids fitba postponed in Aberdeen (not sure if it's all teams), so you might not be able to do the last item on your list. Weirdly, nobody will be able to solve the grief conundrum that will likely say that gymnastics is acceptable, but football not. This isn't normal. Strangely, the people that questioned lockdown most vociferously will probably be the ones in favour of this particular lockdown. Blue versus red once again, as the adults depart the scene.

That's engurland cancelled. Have we ever not followed suit?

Simple enough to get round though. Just state that there will be no abandoning of fixtures, but if any individual club wishes to postpone their fixture they are free to do so. I actually have little problem with the Huns being performative Huns, but they shouldn't have their ways forced onto the rest of the league. Let them be shown up for the peak virtue signallers (the hypocrisy being huge as they'd be the first people to talk about cancel culture and so on) that they are in what is the zenith moment for virtue signalling. It would perfectly highlight the childish charade for what it is.

No thanks. It's not every 70 years though, is it (quite literally, you're incorrect). The monarchy as a symbol doesn't die with the Queen. This isn't about the minor inconvenience of missing a football game. I'd have thought that someone so willing to engage in what would be called conspiracy in other social issues would have a little bit more freedom of thought on this one.

I mean, you don't make the best arguments at times.

Do you think she'll come back and reclaim her titles?

Aye, prince Andrew is a regular poster on here and he'll be sweating with rage when he reads that post. Your argument is equally as ignorant and distasteful as the one it criticises. I'm not coerced into grief for anyone else's elderly relative, yet a heavily funded attempt is being made for me to mourn this particular one. It's sinister, crude and belongs in Iran or North Korea. We wouldn't miss a week's football - and nor should we - if Ferguson or God died, and we're right to focus on the unsuitability of that mourning period. It's disgusting.

Anyone, like me, who was attending the Dons game, is being subjected (because we are subjects) to mourning. It's being decided for us, and we have no say. He's correct to be outraged, it's a fucking disgrace, whether we have other stuff we can do or not. That you use your demonstrated vastly superior intelligence and wit to defend against, rather than augment, the criticism is rather wasteful, and a little pathetic.