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What utter drivel.

Aye you're spot on.

Nothing hunnish about it at all.

Absolutely nothing Hunnish about it - take the blinkers off.

Anyone who says the first thing they think of when they see that isn't RANGERS are in absolute denial. It's a ballhair of darker blue off their home top this season with the pattern as well and identical to the one from the season before.

As has been said, the main issue is who the fuck is going to actually buy that. Any plain white kit whatsoever would outsell that at least 10 times over so what are they thinking? Meanwhile complaining they don't have money.

Boyce and Rooney similar? Can someone point me to Rooney even controlling a ball like his 2nd here?

All this fucking about and the training ground has to come with an approved stadium in a stupid location is going to cost us our manager and players.

Seriously, another year if this is approved in October for our own pitch and couple of rooms? 

By the time the stadium is built McInnes will 100% be away as well. I still can't believe how many support this.

We were also completely fucked by not having someone up front who could hold the ball up for 3 seconds. Any breather at all before another Celtic attack or to get it further up the field. Rooney and O'Connor was a death wish. It was a mullering. Storey, if he'd done nothing but chase the ball down and stop them choosing their next avenue of attack, would have been better. Pawlett could have done it. Wright could have taken the ball for as long a run as he could every time it came out. End result was Rogic going past a team with no coordination left.

The reason we didn't go 2-1 up in that move was 100% down to McLean.

 

What was he thinking? Did he want to knock it in from being even closer to the keeper? He forgot to stop running. He had already created enough space to be found and he was found, in the tolerance of space where he should have been.

 

 

I would say 'forgot' as well if I hadn't been standing in the lower section of the away end at Parkhead on more than one occasion looking at McLean standing directly behind the defender, then the attacker (Rooney/Hayes) hasn't passed to him and he screams as if he was desperate for the ball. Must have done it elsewhere too, but I specifically remember going ballistic at him at Parkhead for it.

Knew what was coming when I saw it was him in the middle at the game.

He narrowed the angle for Hayes from about 45 degrees to a frame on the video you can spot a metre behind a trailing leg. Not getting over that for a long time.

Bollocks. Your images above miss the key moment. The first shows McLean when he receives the ball, your second shows a jumpy image when he was square and then when the ball reached (behind) him. Show the video in real time and you can see there was a gap for the pass. Hayes does hesitate as TheDeeDon says. It's just a slight misunderstanding between two players who've run the length of the park to get on the end of something. Your nonsense about McLean doesn't stand up to even simple scrutiny. He had two or three attempts on goal, coming to meet at least two corners with his head. Neither of which he hid from, clearly, or else he wouldn't have got the attempts away. You can accuse McLean of lots of things (being a fanny in the tackle perhaps), but he never hides. He's constantly shouting for the ball and making himself available. If anything, he has too many attempts on goal too.

Right against Brown's heel? Still would have been behind McLean running flat out when Hayes isn't moving forward.

He gave him no angle whatsoever. It wasn't even a square ball. Even if Gordon saves a Hayes shot he's running way past the rebound. Pretending to do something as if you wanted it. The Darren Mackie.

Full sequence here. As I thought, hiding. Not a thing Hayes could have done more, and nothing McLean could have done less.

Thanks to the internet. Great ball from Hayes.

He had 10 yards to play it into and as you said McLean gave him 1 metre while running flat out. He was running so fast if it had been 2 yards forward he still would have had to hit it with his right. Rubbish from McLean. He pointed to where he wanted it and still ran ahead of it, as well as speeding up.

Cannot believe anyone is saying McLean isn't to blame for that chance when, to play the only ball that would have ended up in the back of the net, he gave Hayes about 2° to aim for at the exact pace it needed to be.

Typical McLean hiding.

The new TA is up.

The average car share was 2.9 which is fair enough and I now accept although where these 42 cars of 6 are coming from I don't know.

Parking spaces reduced to 1350.

For those who scoffed at the numbers I said would have to travel by bus, they've now confirmed nearly 5000 from Union Street. No, really. That is the plan.

We also have 9631 season ticket holders, 372 in Westhill and 160 in Kingswells, so it's clear to see why we're basing the club there.

I believe Boyce's 2 goals today takes him to the same minutes per goal in the league as Sinclair.

Sign him, ffs.

Labour/Tory/independent council?

Non penalty goals per 90 mins.

Nice stats.  Whats the minutes for Rooney's 8 goals in 13 appearances in the cup competitions, compared to Stockley's 1 goal in 11?

6 in 990 and 1 in 531

Overall 14 in 3685 and 6 in 1340.

Actually worse NPG/90 than Stockley. 

Because he has credit in the bank - he is a proven goalscorer. If you genuinely think Rooney would have missed the header Stockley did then fair enough, but to me that was an awful miss and if Rooney was on the park we were right back in that game at 3-2.  But Stockley missed it, 6 yards out, no one near him and pretty much the whole goal to aim at. He missed the fucking target. Just as he did at Ibronx.  Dress it up how you like, but the game is about scoring goals. In two big matches now he has been presented with easy chances which could really have changed the course of the games.  He missed both of them, and missed by miles in relative terms.

 

Rooney isn't a brilliant footballer, but he is, in Aberdeen and SPFL terms, a brilliant striker. By his standard, I would agree he has had a disappointing season, but i would still play him.  A disappointing season which has still yielded 20 goals.

 

If we get the ball into the box for him, he will get us goals.  I see nothing in Stockley which would prompt me to say the same.

 

Stockley will cause teams problems and on the law of averages will get a few goals, and I would love it if one was the winner on the 27th, but i don't think we're giving ourselves the best chance of winning matches with him in there instead of Rooney.

The still scored 20 that everyone says is as dressed up as it gets.

8 non penalty goals in the league in 2695 minutes compared to 5 for Stockley in 829.

I wouldn't back Rooney to be in the position Stockley was in to score that. I can't actually remember Rooney getting into positions for sitters of the same kind.

I like it and thought this year's top was ridiculous. Can't wear a collar like that in the gym, or public.

Stockley... people will say he led the line well etc, all of that is useless if he misses a header like he did a minute after Hayes had scored. Coupled with the header at the Bronx that he missed at 0-0... it matters not a jot if he leads the line well if he misses clear cut chances like that.  Say what you like about Rooney, but I would have bet my right arm on him scoring on both occasions.

 

McLean... playing well, dominating midfields... absolutely no end product. Rarely assists, even rarer he scores. In fact, it's rare the cunt even troubles the goalkeeper. Two chances tonight, no one near him, from at most 16 yards out, didn't even come close to making the goalkeeper work. We can't afford that against a team like Celtic. Both times was just piss poor technique, which, for a player who is so obviously blessed with good technique in terms of passing, positional play etc, is just mind boggling.

Compared to Rooney who came on and did nothing again. Nothing. He also misses chances and isn't scrutinised anything like anyone else is when he does. It's a missed chance forgotten about straight away.

Agree completely on McLean and said this during the game. Hardly contributes. The odd Hollywood pass... so what?

Maybe supreme silence for 87.5 minutes. I remember stand free being sung 5 times during the game and that was it.

Must have been a different League Cup Final to the one I was at.

 

I would have quite liked to sit down.

I went to the few thousands empty seats in a huff after getting a tap on the back from a family as soon as the whistle went, and that was more than half way up B5.

From my new vantage point I had a good view of how shite everything was.

Total shite about the team being to blame for the atmosphere at the League Cup final.

2/3 sat down as soon as the first whistle went and there wasn't any singing at all. Like someone turned off a switch from the pre match singing. It was dreadful. Even before the match outside the ground and in the pubs was shite.

The fact everyone was split up on points and ticket sales restricted helped fuck it as well but there's no doubt our support is largely shite now with hardly any songs.

I thought AFC were going to come back with an improved transport assessment but no sign on the council website?

The one there just now has no hope and would be rejected straight away.

The stuff against the huns is information straight out of a police report as anyone familiar with their language could tell, and true, so I wonder how they got that.

At least if it's at Kingsford the 8000 that go will get some good battles with huns on the way up from town, especially on a 100% capacity Yule bus.