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The cunt shouldn't have been talking about winning it at this stage. Simple as.

 

 

JDV should have started that match on the right wing. In fact, I'd go as far as saying, had he done so, we would have won the match easily. He is the only wide player we have got who knows what he is going to do with the ball before he receives it, and that's an ability that should be inherent in any football player playing at this level.

I agree. At times Foster was just watching the game. The main difference is that De Vischer is a football player and Foster isn't.

Ach, it was waiting to happen. We've not really played well all season. I think today sums us up for where we really are. Can Calderwood rebuild from that minus Miller, Aluko and Nicholson? Should Lovell and Walker been involved? Many more questions...

I concur old bean, min!

He shouldn't even be talking about the cup final.

If I had the choice, I wouldn't. In fact, if someone gave me a a choice of doing something that would ensure that I could do nothing - or more accurately, that would see me free to do whatever I choose, then I'd bite their hand off.

 

It's just a job for the vast majority of them. They may start out as fans like the rest of us, they may even go back to being fans when they finish playing, but ultimately it is work and people work to get paid. I had great ideas about a sparkling career when I started out, but things change, work is less important than my personal life, and while I still want to do well professionally, my main concern is getting paid well enough to enjoy the other things life has to offer. Ok, there are status things that come with winning trophies and competing in Europe, but when it comes down to it, it's a living. Playing in Europe could amount to going out to a Scandinavian/Eastern European nobody, and lets face it, we don't exactly have a heaving trophy cabinet at the moment.

 

Agreed min. That's the pragmatic view. Also the difference in money moving to the English Championship is vast.

Peter Pawlett picked a peck of pickled peppers,

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Pawlerr picked.

If Peter Pawlett picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Pawlett picked?

I need to get myself one of those. 

Alex Di Rocco did well for us I thought.

 

Euegene Dadi - first player to get the better of Bobo Balde in that specific season, again not a bad player, not a quality player either though.....

Aye, Dadi played a part in the team that won 9 games on the trot. He was a real handful for opposition defenders but sadly never found the net enough.

How the feck did his reputation get built up so big? Good agent?

On a serious note this is blatantly in breach of condition three of site useage

 

3. Don't post links or ask for links to download illegal copies of copyrighted works, including AFC footage, movies, books, software, mp3s, etc.

 

Will leave it up to site admin to decide if it should or should not be removed

 

Ach, we'll keep quiet as long as you will. 

My view is the opposite. I'm quick to blame the English for their constant negativity towards Scottish football, there's always a sly dig here and there, and Scottish pundits are just as guilty. It was refreshing to see Mark McGhee on Sultana a few months ago commenting on how surprised he was at the standard of football up here, and that it was much better than he was expecting. Yet another example of someone who had been brainwashed by the constant denigration of our football down south.

 

 

That is life. The Scots and the English are like jealous cousins and have been having digs at each other for thousands of years. It is up to us Scots to rise above perceived negativity. You can't go around blaming others for your ane piss poor performance.

There was an interesting article in yesterday's Guardian by none other than that famous football fan Germaine Greer

 

Anyway, the gist of what she was talking about was the Government's attitude towards popular pastimes like football.  Her argument was about the dept of Culture, Media & Sport ploughing millions into opera, dance & the arts, refurbishing run-down theatres etc etc, and that these "arts" have only a very limited following compared to football.  WHereas, the implied large following of football fans means that the Govt turn a blind eye to funding football with the attitude "ach the fans will pay for it with their blind allegiance".  Her point was that the Government should be doing more to encourage the more popular pastime.

 

Moral of the story could easily be applied here:  clubs going out of business in the most widely supported pastime in Scotland, but run-down white elephants being funded all over the country to serve a minimal spread of interest among the more affluent.

 

The SFA needs to take control of the whole Scottish League and get proper support from the Scottish Government as to how to sell the game properly.

Vive le revolucion!

I don't think it's an excuse, the pitch doesn't help us at all.

I agree. The pitch will be a hindrance when trying to break down stuffy defensive sides like St. Mirren. In all the other games Tommy mentions, bar United, we were underdogs.

Fair do's min.

 

 

He honestly believes AFC should be a bigger club than they are, he honestly believes that AFC should be competing for at least SOME of the honours each season and fnds it frustrating when his aspirations are not met by some aforemetoned board members.

 

Nae different than most Aberdeen supporters.

Between 90 & 94, Irvine was one of the best central defenders in Scotland & international recognition proves this.

 

Diamond has only recently become the best defender at Aberdeen & is nowhere near the Scotland squad.

 

Similar types of player, but in terms of stature, no comparison.

 

I think it was Ally McCoist I once read as saying something about Irvine being so deceptive, that he was such a nice guy but was the toughest tackling centre-half he'd come up against.  Not an all-time great, but a fine old-fashioned centre-half nonetheless.

I wholeheartedly agree with that.

He does, aye.

Miller speaks to a mate of mine in Perth and suggested to him that he is more than likely to stay at the Dons. A possible stumbling block is that Calderwood is demanding that Miller moves up to the Aberdeen area.

Which is what exactly?  Fair enough DUFC are in a final, but none of them have achieved anything yet.  Most of them are doing well in the league because us/Hearts/Hibs have struggled.

Totally. They are all much of a mediocre muchness. We are struggling to attain mediocraty.

How often does he mention the chief upstairs in his biog?

Ooft! Everysingle chapter the dude gets a hefty mention.

That's a lie to be honest.

 

Diamond or Irvine?

 

Diamond every day of the week for me.

Irvine for me. When he broke in to the Scotland team I thought he was doing very well. Good for 5-10 goals a season as well. I think your assessment of Irvine could be turned the other way in that he wasn't as good as those who came before him but still better than what we have now. He wasn't feart to tackle, was good in the air but was let down by his passing inability and lacked grace.

Somebody mentioned Considine in this thread but he couldn't lace big Dobbins boots.

I wouldn't recommend Irvine's autobiography to anybody though...

DEVO - We are not men. This album should really have been up there in the polls.

Good shout.  He's got to be better than Lee Mair.

Lets be honest, he'll be joining an English Championship side.