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Celtic want a draw to determine which Scottish League Cup semi-final is moved to Murrayfield, if plans to play both matches at Hampden are scrapped. One of the games will have to be played first for live TV. Is this another ballot.

From Twitter: The Dons have been offered an initial allocation of 15 thousand tickets for their semi final against Rangers at Hampden. Rangers have been allocated 25 thousand with the promise of more if Aberdeen cannot sell all of their allocation. I really hope this tweet is a lot of shit, most likely it is.

Talks are to take place over a potential rethink of Scotland's League Cup semi-finals. Police Scotland and the SPFL are expected to reopen discussions over the ties, which are due to take place at Hampden on Sunday, October 28. Rangers are scheduled to play Aberdeen at 12pm, with Celtic due to face Hearts later in the day at 7.45pm. https://stv.tv/sport/football/1431496-rethink-over-plans-for-scottish-league-cup-semi-finals/ Mmmmmm

Also notice that the SPFL has set up new overseas TV deal with Qatar-based beIN SPORTS. Neil Doncaster said: "Work is continuing to ensure as many fans of Scottish football around the world are able to watch matches from the Ladbrokes Premiership, the Betfred Cup and the Irn-Bru Cup this season." No figures have been revealed on how much revenue the new the overseas package will generate for the SPFL.

SPFL strike £700,000 deal with BBC for Championship games... but most of the cash will go to top-flight clubs. The winners of this season's SPFL Premiership stand to earn 13..4 per cent of the overall prize pot - meaning they could earn almost 12 times what some Championship sides make. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6229327/SPFL-strike-700-000-deal-BBC-Championship-games.html All the money generated from these matches should be shared out to the Championship clubs only. Why should the winner of the Scottish Premiership get the extra cash.

Chief executive Duncan Fraser expects Aberdeen to get 50% of the tickets for the League Cup semi-final against The Rangers on 28 October. Really have my doubts that Aberdeen will sell 50% of the tickets. A 50-50 allocation to start with but eventually Sevco will get the remaining unsold tckets.

Police in Livingston are treating an attack on a football official in West Lothian as assault. They also asked anyone with photos or footage of the incident to submit it to police. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45706749 Sky TV have all they need on video to catch the idiot.

Aberdeen V St Mirren 6th October 15.00 According to DM Wilson will be back for this match. Needless to say 3 points a must for this one before the International break. Aberdeen 3 St Mirren 0 P.S.....For folk unable to attend the game it is live on RED TV International.

I want a Scottish Premiership without Celtic and Sevco anywhere near it. Really hope they both get their wish and move out of Scottish football taking their Colt clubs with them. What a great Premiership it would be with all teams on a level playing field competing for all competitions. The SFA/SPFL would then have to represent all the clubs in Scotland and not just two. The Scottish Media and TV companies will need to have something else to write and speak about in Scottish football apart from the Glasgow Two. As far as Aberdeen are concerned, when they move into a new stadium we will see a new force emerge in Scottish Football..

How old is Scott Brown... five,. It's like something from a primary school playground.

Assistant referee Calum Spence was hit by an object thrown from the crowd. The incident happened in front of the Rangers fans in the early stages of the second half and play was stopped while Spence received treatment. This is how the BBC reported the incident on their website. thrown from the crowd in front of the Rangers fans The culprit is clearly seen on TV video and should be easy to arrest.

Bored today so watched the Livingstone victory over Sevco. Livingstone played very well and fully deserved the 1-0 win. Aberdeen will have their hand's full against them. Wonder what sort of punishment the huns will get for one of their supporters throwing a missile at the linesman's head and drawing blood. Time will tell.

With the recent fiasco regarding match times and venues what would be the best way for the Scottish Football authorities to listen to the views of Scottish football fans. The powers to be are running on the assumption fans would do nothing to hurt their own club so a boycott would not be supported. In my opinion a boycott IS the only solution to the problem. Clubs put statements out now and again supporting their fans but soon forgotten about until the next time a problem comes up. Something has to be done.

Yesterday proved that Wilson is our best choice of striker. He has a great first touch and not afraid to have a shot on goal. He is obviously not 100% match fit yet. Hope his sub was nothing more than a precaution. Celtic fans going crazy on the McKenna challenge claiming a penalty and red card. Only seen it on RED TV International as it happened hard to tell but the tackle looked high. Once again another must win against St Mirren next Saturday to get much needed 3 points.

Slack passes up front were the reason we did not have more shots on their goal. GMS is a great player and did well today missed a few passes but hey ho. Please stick May on the bench for a while, he does nothing up front. No complaints from me on the effort from the players and on another day we may have won it.

Great first half from the Dons. Don't know if it because Celtic were flat in that half. Get Anderson on to partner Wilson and go for the win. Someday DM will realise that May is NOT a hold up ball player.

Wilson and May playing up front means one up front.

May on from the start...That's my prediction fucked then.

I am changing my prediction to Celtic 0 Aberdeen 2 Wilson with a brace

Derek McInnes has ruled out a move for free agent and former Manchester City midfielder Stephen Ireland. Was he ever in DMs thoughts in the first place or just paper talk.

Kris Boyd on League Cup semi final arrangements : “Aberdeen, especially, have a cheek. It’s the police who want their match with Rangers done and dusted because a minority among the Dons fans cannot behave themselves. Their hatred for Rangers is truly staggering.” https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/3277362/aberdeen-rangers-kris-boyd/

Not a great fan of Craig Levein but he makes his feeling known about this debacle. "It's the craziest thing I've ever experienced in football". https://stv.tv/sport/football/1431381-in-full-craig-levein-rails-against-spfl-and-neil-doncaster/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stvnews Well said my man

We have to give our team the best backing we can. The 12.00 kick off will not bother our players one little bit. The only thing we all want is a win against Sevco. The SPFL have never cared about any other clubs other than Celtic and Sevco so it is no surprise to me that our kick off time is 1200. The silence from Sevco and Celtic is deafening.

An AFC spokesperson commented. “As a club we have repeatedly asked that the authorities stop giving us kick-off times which, for our large travelling support, are completely unacceptable, but yet again, what should be a showpiece occasion, is scheduled to start at a time that does not take supporters into account. “While we appreciate Police Scotland was insistent that our game was played first for operational reasons, we believe, and stated along with others, that having both games in the same stadium on the same day, is inappropriate. There are other options that should have been investigated further, including staging the two games on consecutive weekends or using two different venues which would have allowed kick-off times more suitable for what are hugely significant occasions in the Scottish football calendar. Contesting the two matches on consecutive weekends would be an alternative surely worth investigating, particularly as Celtic are due to face Heart of Midlothian in the Ladbrokes Premiership the following weekend, while also fulfilling the contractual obligations. “We appreciate the authorities have a difficult job to schedule games in what is an extremely congested calendar but to yet again ask our supporters to be in Glasgow for a 12 noon start on a Sunday is, quite frankly, appalling.”

SPFL....“We’ve had to have the games staggered a fair way apart and we understand that will create some inconvenience for supporters travelling, but that unfortunately is the price we pay for having two teams in the Europa League group stages this year.” The price we pay to have Celtic and Sevco playing in Scotland.