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Not at all, but the number of misplaced passes, poor touches and 'eye-off-the-ball' moments that pepper our performances all over the pitch make crucifying Langfield seem a bit extreme. If folks want to see players that never (or only very rarely) make mistakes, they will need to start supporting Barcelona and not an SPL team. At the level we are at, with the money we have and the limited cachet of playing for the Dons these days, any keeper that makes it through an SPL season without a howler or two is pretty much guaranteed to be playing (or bench-warming) in the Championship or League 1 the season after. Sad but true.

Clangers drops clanger shocker! Aye he completely missed the ball for the goal and it was a disappointing end to a fairly hard-fought game, but maybe we can be a little more realistic a few days later? Celtic were extremely ordinary against us and created few chances. We were more or less rubbish in almost every department - as usual - and lost to an unlucky goal. How that ends up in some of the vitriol that has been expressed toward Langfield on here and elsewhere is beyond me. We are crap. Celtic are a little bit better. That pretty much sums that game (and probably the season to come) up and whether the goal had come from a great piece of attacking or, as in this case, from a total defensive howler, does it really matter?! We created nothing all game and were relying on some pretty desperate defending at times. It always looked like they would manage to get one at some point. So Clangers completely missed a relatively simple ball, rather than letting one of the other couple of Commons' better shots get past him: Meh. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

It really makes me just want to say 'Fuck the SPL'. Would rather support AFC in Div 1 of the SFL than have to put up with all this financial mismanagement and bullying shite. How about this: the other 10 teams of the SPL start next season in SFL1 and the bigot brothers can have the SPL and their Sky deal to themselves for all eternity..?

See the EE is reporting interest from the mini-Huns.... Not that I care...

Let's be honest, no manager worth their salt would manage up here these days. Shite teams, shite players, shite league. Not much cop on the old CV... Only reason one would stay is for relatively silly money.

It really is remarkable how badly most players do once they leave the Dons or even the SPL. You'd think it would be a reality check to younger players, but what's the betting he's still earning twice what he would get here...?! Although they do seem pretty mickey-mouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Albion_F.C. "The Brewers finished a respectable 13th in their first campaign in the Football League, and 19th in their second campaign after a season much interrupted by the weather."

How the sufferin' fuck did Mulgrew last 70 minutes?!?!?!? It was clear after 5 minutes he was having a howler. Although he wasnae exactly alone on that count, right enough. Levein is beginning to annoy me now. He doesnae seem to have any more of a clue than Bertie did... USA look a good side, but Lichtenstein would have looked good against us the night, I reckon. Fuckin' hell. Club and country both pish. Football is losing it's appeal!

Joke players, joke manager, joke chairman, joke club. 3-0 to a club that HADN'T WON AT HOME ALL SEASON!!?!?!?! Not the slightest bit funny... Usually I'd end a rant like this with "roll on next season", but to be honest next season can get to fuck as well...

Fallon's goal was a belter and almost papered over the cracks, but it turned out the cracks were just a bit too big. (I'll now sit back and await fatjim's anal-necrophiliac-sex reference...) We still have a squad of has-beens, never-weres and never-will-bes. The quality of football is shocking and the entertainment value is nil. I just don't see what we are supposed to get out of supporting AFC these days, except an overdraft and a fucking ulcer! Sure going to the games is (well, was) a great bounce, often regardless of the result, but there has to be some element of entertainment, excitement and (pleasant) surprise every now and then, surely?!? Fans can't be expected to turn up to games just to have their worst suspicions confirmed every week?! Paying 20-odd quid to see a Don's game these days (and to pay the wages of a bunch of gutless duffers) is just guaranteed tedium and frustration. I get enough of that at home (boom boom)...

Hibs were very poor and we were worse. Their second was offisde and we might have had a penalty for the challenge on Considine... if we were one of the Ugly Sisters I rather fancy we would have... But that doesn't detract from yet another semi-final car-crash of a performance. Poor poor performances from the players and the managment team. Too many punts, too many missed tackles and half-hearted challenges, too many hopeful flicks and headers, no genuine quality, no guts, no intelligence, no sense of being 'up-for-the-cup' or giving a fuck that however many thousand hard-working fans had spent money they couldn't really afford to come and cheer them on. Getting sick of watching Broon's weepy, confused grimacing and staring on the sideline, whilst the team flounders around exactly like the most ramshackle and disorganised squads under any number of previous managers of the last dozen or so seasons. Utter shite. I won't be listening to, never mind going to, any games for the rest of the season and for the first time ever I just can't see myself getting sucked back in next. Beyond bored with Aberdeen and the whole farce that is Scottish football. Think I'll just take up punching myself repeatedly in the head instead; it'll probably be more fun.

Didn't see this posted anywhere else... "Aberdeen striker Rory Fallon has been voted the William Hill Scottish Cup Player of the Sixth Round by fans of the Scottish Cup Facebook page. The New Zealand internationalist scored in the Dons' 2-1 victory over Motherwell in the last round to help seal a place in the semi-finals. Fallon will be presented with his award later this week. Poll results: Craig Beattie (Heart of Midlothian) 159 vo...tes (33%) Roy O'Donovan (Hibernian) 16 votes (3%) Rory Fallon (Aberdeen) 273 votes (56%) Joe Ledley (Celtic) 40 votes (8%) Total votes: 488 Thanks to everyone who voted." http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/scottishcup Whoop?!

So it turns out Fallon isnae as bad as I may have made him out to be. Those last 20 minutes were dire but! Have we no heard of retaining possession?! Through though. Cool.

Good work fellas. I don't post all that often, but DT is my first port of call for Dons news and paedo-, copro- and necrophilia references and jokes about disability.

Went with Arnason, despite the fact that he may be buggering off. He is the class act in a fairly classless side...

Mawene did look better in that role than he often does at centre-back, but his tackle was definitely a bit on the reckless side and could have seen us down to 10, with a more card-happy ref. Especially against the OF. I know Megginson hasn't played much but didn't think he did very much in either of the positions he played in. Would like to see Chalali and Uchechi at some pont this season (I don't mean as a partnership, just would like to see them given some game time).

Not sure what Brown sees in Fallon. He is slow, doesn't seem to know where the goal is and doesn't seem to hold the ball up particularly well, as far as I can see. Get Vernon up front with someone with pace playing off him. Please. Still decent result, although Celtic were piss-poor the day.

I honestly don't know what any manager could do with the quality of players that we can apparently afford... We are where we deserve to be. Bah.

With almost everyone having a cameraphone these days, how come not one single, solitary shot of this 'terrifying' 'orgy of violence' exists?! Did anyone who went to the Rock or the game witness any of this?

Was always a decent player, from what I can remember. Could do well, if fully fit (don't know his recent history and can't be arsed googling him).

Jesus wept; had a quick scan through that and almost every post is mispelt, illiterate bullshit. Glorying in an imagined rampage of casual violence, which not a single one of them seems to have actually witnessed first hand. I knew they were kuckle-draggers, but fuck me. Just a bunch of retarded haters, hating. Hun cunts

Welcome back Russell. I for one am delighted to see you. Get this shower organised

All fair points. I guess the gulf between the EPL (Divison 1 as was) and the SPL didn't use to be of quite so massive proportions 'back in the day', when really good players would stick around with the likes of Abderdeen, United, Motherwell etc. for years before even considering a jaunt down south. Now it seems like all any Scotland-based player wants is a move away... Ach, I'm getting auld!

Good stuff. I had forgotten how young Considine is, to be honest! Let's hope he continues to progress... And that Arni signs on for another season...

I was always crap at fitba' so never faced the kind of dliemma this young dude apparently is. I can never understand though, why a 17 year old with barely a handful of appearances would think that going to a club that can spend millions on transfers is ever going to be the best career move. If he believes he is good enough for the EPL now, then he will still be good enough in 2 or 3 seasons, once he has played a good 60 games or so, no? How many players come through the youth ranks at the likes of Fulham and go on to have make many EPL appearances? What odds that if he does go he will spend most of his time on loan at lower league clubs before being permanently shipped out to League One or back to the SPL any way? I have barely seen the boy and good luck to him whatever he does, but it always frustrates me that not playing for an EPL/Championship club is seen as a better option than playing in the SPL for the Dons... Aye the wages and perks are better, but does no one care if they actually get to play anymore?!?!?