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1 minute ago, Panda said:

Well done premier sports for their commentary on that incident.

That makes up for them literally only giving a fuck about two teams.

No disagreements there. I was genuinely pleasantly surprised by the commentary. 

2 minutes ago, Panda said:

Would he be that big a loss? 

Would he be any bigger loss than Barry Robson was to the coaching team?

He's done okay for an inexperienced manager. He still takes his share of the blame for whatever the players were being coached all season. 

 

Think as Dan said, it would be good for continuity and bedding in the new management team. He also has the benefit of not being tarnished by negativity as Robson now does. Be an interesting move for him if he does take it.

17 hours ago, Panda said:

It wasn't penalty though, was outside the box. 

Oh I know that, but the commentary claimed his hand had no where else to be which is fucking laughable. Premier sports were much more realistic about the event.

5 hours ago, Panda said:

Go on then, what was wrong with the BBC coverage?

Not the coverage, more the commentary. I disagreed with it. Scales' handball as a prime example.

Having listened to some of the highlights from the BBC, thank fuck my stream was Premier Sports. Was much better!

2 hours ago, Goldie03 said:

That was an incredible game to be at, the fans were terrific and oh my the team, so proud of them, and 3 fantastic bounces for the goals!

Sad this morning waking up and remembering we are not actually gonna be in the final, that performance deserved a better outcome. 

Credit to Leven for working so hard with these players and let's have some of that fighting spirit for the rest of the games.

 

It sounded epic on tv and I was so happy my match day guilts got me. Was worth the minimal sleep and have to say was a bit emotional when the third went in. I dared to dream (even though I knew). The noise the dons fans made compared to them, chalk and cheese. Credit to all that made the journey.

That is the level of performance we expect from a dons team against Celtic at hampden. I’ve still yet to see it in person, but it was epic to see it happen. Great to see sokler on the score sheet and that the subs actually (morris aside) all made positive contributions. Morris I will grant put the ball in for the second non pen, but that aside was hiding and actually caused issues. Regardless, plenty of positive performances from the good guys, but Roos, GTF. What the hell was he playing at when Duncan was walking up for the pen? I remember thinking at the time, there is no way he scores after having to wait. Imbecile. 
 

anyway, we turn back to league survival. Team have shown they’ve got fight and spirit, now need to show it again. Also, how we feeling about shinnie? Midfield looked pretty composed and balanced? 

Well worth the lack of sleep I’ll face in the morning. What a game. 

Well we didn’t. Not sure wtf MacDonald was doing moving his leg out the way. I get he was probably worried about a deflection , maybe got a call from Roos, but fucking get rid of it. Shite.

Celtic definitely on top on the second so far, just need to hold our nerve and not have any more brain farts like macdonald did.

Had a mare, order a vpn to watch on sportscene and everything but sportscene is working. Anyone got a stream please?

How many tickets have we actually sold for this? 

Please just make us less shit and less embarrassing. That’s all I ask for.

I will always laugh when they drop points, despite being shite for us.

Really hope the last Dundee game was a blip for Leven. He speaks so much sense so I’d be surprised if it wasn’t. Just don’t want a repeat of said blip! 

Villa up 2-1 against Lille, McGinn on the score sheet and an assist for the first.

Really has been a terrible season for Ajax.

Looks like the last time they failed to qualify for Europe was 90/91 season?

21 hours ago, Panda said:

The only game after the cup final is the relegation play-off  

I'm sure he'll be watching every game. If anything, if I was an Elfsborg fan I'd be annoyed as his focus will be elsewhere, but I'm sure he'll see plenty of the Dons. They've got dodgy fire sticks in Sweden don't they?

 

 

NB: Breaking news tonight is that Thelin is pronounced Te-leen, with the emphasis on leen. I find if you say it out loud that way you can't help but sound Swedish.

You just said it out loud didn't you?

In all honesty, I’m preparing for the worst. But yeah, I meant the semi clocks changing this week has proper fucked me in the mornings. 
 

as tlg says, nice to maybe see some light at the end of the tunnel? Please, please, please, cormack, don’t fuck this up and leave everyone to do their jobs. Apart from Gunn. Leave him anywhere but pittodrie or cormack park. Ta.

I think I'd rather he was in after the cup final but before the end of the season. We need him to see the squad in a competitive environment so he knows who to cut this summer. Waiting for the off-season is no good imo.

Think i'm happy enough with this, but i'll be honest, I don't know much about him. He's something different.

Bahaha has anyone seen the statement from the GFA? Essentially confirming that they made it up at the time but Hawkeye confirms that it was the right decision. What an absolute cluster football in Scotland is. Couldn’t make it up. Own the fucking mistake.

https://x.com/ScottishFA/status/1778124348387103113

"The Scottish FA has today received a report from Hawkeye on the incident that occurred at Livingston’s match against Aberdeen, which confirmed that the Broadcast 18-Yard Left Camera suffered a loss of calibration and ceased line tracking on the relevant video frame. During the review, Hawkeye were able to reprocess the data through their system and draw the calibrated offside lines from the disallowed goal, which showed Angus MacDonald to be in an offside position. The VAR made the decision using the technology that was available and this decision was validated by Hawkeye's retrospective recalibration conducted as part of their review."

They've got a game against the huns this week, will be interesting to see if that actually happens. At least with this game being away for them, they can't cancel it  

They're unbeaten against us this season, primarily due to the two previous postponements but they did narrowly beat us last month. Home form is better than our away for so we should be looking to get a result here. I think a win means we avoid automatic relegation?

Anyway, i'm a bit out of the loop with the team / "highlights" at the moment so i've no idea how we should be looking to set up. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of Leven's set up last time round. 

Out
Bed
Bed
4 yr olds birthday party...
1-1 - Miovski

I'd say we didn't not because he didn't want to (certainly latterly), but the board clearly didn't trust him to spend the money wisely. Milne being in charge also meant far less was being invested in the playing budget. But doesn't take away from the point, it's like groundhog day every bloody summer these days.

1 hour ago, OrlandoDon said:

Sounds like we are sitting waiting for an answer from jimmy thelin. I’m ok with him as manager but not the way I’d want it to go with this process, especially if he ends up turning us down…..and my gut says he will. Fuck knows what plan B is. I’ve defended us a fair amount but if he says no it looks awful. The only acceptable reason for such a delayed hire too is if he states that he wanted to be sure we were playing in the SPL next year. I can accept that.
this limbo has to end asap.

It's painful. I've had folk in my office here in Wellington asking me about us and our situation and it's embarrassing even talking about it. There's only one way this season could be any worse, and that's by getting relegated. For the love of god, please sort your shit out AFC. I could totally see it being your third to last sentence. I mean, why would you want to jump ship if you're playing in the league below?

On 06/04/2024 at 04:07, Jute said:

Bologna’s game against Monza on 13th being shown on ITV.

 

Looks like there will be a Serie A game a week from now until the end of the season. 

That's bloody good!

Fuck that’s depressing

Haven’t lost to livi this season, and they’ve a tendency to concede 3 goals, but that’s against the better sides. Not quite sure we’re in that category. Their form over the last 5 has been worse than ours so there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be going into this game with confidence. 
 

will be interesting to see if Leven changes much from the side that won at the weekend. 
 

out 

bed

bed

little kickers

2-1 dons, miovski and barron