OxfordDon

this game

Morris for Miovski.  Not really the words I was hoping to hear in this semi-final.

Yaaassss!  Sokler finds his inner Miovski.  2-2.

not sure I can take much more of the BBC "wow, just how amazing are Celtic and their Scottish Cup record" commentary.   Although, fair play, to have achieved all those trophies without some kind of enormous financial advantage over 95% of the other teams...

4 minutes ago, manc_don said:

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

check yer PMs

4 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

No need to rub it in. Absolutely hating that I'm missing this one now. My daughter will be being driven home soaking wet from swimming in order to make the kick off on the telly. I'll probably get held up and it'll be 3-0 by the time I get in. I hate watching on the telly too, always showing close ups of players and replays when the ball is in play. I'd be far more relaxed at Hampden.

This may seem harsh, but can you please drive slowly until we get the other 2

oh my word.

21 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Anthony Stewart is out of contract.

Worth a look?

2 minutes ago, DonsTalk Admin said:

 

Giant Pa Broon poster on the wall behind him, clearly was a closet Dons fan already.

Woohoo! Happy Mathematically Impossible to Be Automatically* Relegated Day!!!

*barring a points deduction for questioning VAR

Not sure some of our previous managers were even aware they had substitutes.

22 minutes ago, Panda said:

By all accounts he's very "boring", not one to criticise referees or make outlandish statements.

Fine with this, hopefully we have learned from Warnock why talking out of the correct orifice is more important than the volume you do it at.

6 hours ago, Jute said:

Stop it. It’s not funny. The thought of a team of “guid honest laddies” getting trotted out at press conferences fills me with rage. 

Could be worse, are you with me?

Out, probably.  Depends on what other tediously unrewarding tasks I am trying to avoid doing on the day.

On 04/04/2024 at 11:11, Panda said:

Have to say, Hearts' promotion has been night and day compared to Aberdeen's. Loads of videos from previous semi-finals to get fans in the mood and excited about going.

It's been six days since Aberdeen have even mentioned the semi-final, and that was just to say they were on sale. In that time Hearts have made six posts about their semi-final, including video content.

To be fair, difficult to build up an exciting PR campaign when your only option for a positive message is "At Least We're In The Cup (For Now)"

Typical - every single result went in our favour, except the crucial one we actually had some say in.  Next season please.*

*assuming it is not in the championship

Thought we looked good for a whole 12 minutes, now we look like panicked spuggies.

29 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Wow, we were quite the team in 1935. What was it like watching those guys play @BigAl?

I thought Al stopped going to games after the 1916-17 debacle

Before we dive into our make-or-break 31st game of the season this afternoon, I thought it would be interesting to see how we are stacking up aginst the other two years captured at the 30-game mark in this thread, which also just happened to be our best (2016/17 - 2nd place) and worst (2021/22 - 10th place) seasons in recent memory.

I also ran the averages for 38-game seasons at the 30 game mark as a comparison, along with adding current end-of-season records as they stand.

Some key points:

• Fail to win any of our last 8 games, and we will equal the all-time 107yr-old record for lowest number of wins in a season.  Likewise if we lose all of those 8, we will equal the most defeats in any 38-game season (please step forward Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee).  Of course if this were to happen we would undoubtedly have bigger, more downward, problems.
• We still need to score 3 more goals to avoid setting a new all-time record for least goals scored in a campaign.  This should be easy, right?
• We should continue to be extremely grateful to Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee, as thanks to their efforts we only have the 4th worst goal difference this century, rather than the worst.
• We are almost 14 points behind the average for 30 games into a 38-game season. Fourteen.  We need a minimum of 5 points from 24 to avoid equalling ll-time worst points total in a modern 38 game season (Hi Steve).

Enjoy.

Xabi Alonso rules himself out of the Aberdeen job.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68692969

On 21/03/2024 at 20:40, RicoS321 said:

Aberdeen are set to announce the appointment of up and coming young manager, Peter Leven Neil Warnock, with a contract until May March 2024.

My level of expectation right now

Came perilously close to being burned as a witch by my fellow companions, after predicting at half time that we would concede a penalty in the final minute of added on time for a suspect VAR handball decision.

7 hours ago, Panda said:

 

Stop pissing about and go get him.

Not convinced, what use is a manager that loses the title on the final day - we want a manager that loses the title nice and early in the season, so we can get the next manager in.

Incidentally, I think we can halt these Aberdeen field trials into whether "new manager bounce" exists, it doesn't, we can stop testing now.

Hideous to watch. I've watched some shite with Aberdeen, particularly in the early part of this century, but at least then they had the excuse that the individual players were crap.

This is just bewildering in how far the sum of the whole is below its parts, a team with Clarkson, Duk, Devlin, Shinnie, Barron, McGrath, Miovski as options should simply not be in this situation.  I fear for us.