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    stick your censorship where the sun dont shine

    in Support

    Posted

    I do not like censorship but realise it has to be used on some extreme occasions.

    But a link to a single post making fun of rangers is taking the piss

    A lot on here think the same thing but none will say in case they upset the mods but if you want the site to go down this route say nothing.

    I am out of here  :wave: 

    Censorship

    in Support

    Posted

    You've got a fucking cheek, we let all your shite about immigrants etc. slide and you're greeting about a link being removed. If you actually read what I said all your questions would be answered. You're either trolling or extremely dim.

     

    Why dont you answer the question "are you now not allowed to link to other football forums"

    If the answer is yes its censorship

    If the answer is no then you are the fucking moron

    And if you dont know the answer well that says it all

     

    ps its not as though i was promoting the other site i only linked because it was taking the piss out the huns

     

    Testing with this link to the BBC website just to see if its on your approved list  (checked and do not see to much green or blue)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scottish-premier

    Dons to vote no to Newco

    in Aberdeen Football Club

    Posted

    well since northsound have more or less said we are saying no, kinda scuppers that idea.

     

    TBH, if all the clubs got their act together and said, Yes, newco heres the SPL, you can go right in there play next season, but hey we are all resigning from the league. Any club wishing to stay could form a 4 team league of bigots

     

    :lolabove: :lolabove: :lolabove: :lolabove: :lolabove:

     

    You can have newco, st mirren, kilmarnock and possibly motherwell (depending on how they vote)

     

    the rest of us can go back to the SFL and form a new league

     

    Today's Daily Retard says Killie manager wants the vote a secret ballot maybe they saw my post  :thumbsup:

    Censorship

    in Support

    Posted

    What is the policy with regards to Censorship on this site.

    Some jobs-worth mods can delete links to other football sites (celtic) but at the same time put their own links in (huns)

    DT Politics Thread

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    You should all be happy with your politicians. The ones here have made all the nightclubs close at 3 instead of 3, and the one that has refused to close before 3 now has police at the bar to make sure no-one can buy alcohol after 1am  :hammer:

     

    They also think the partitian of scotland is a good idea and have recently accused the scottish government of discriminating against northern irish protestant university students. They really make the tories look like a great choice ???

     

    That does sound a bit irish  ;D

    Dirthy Filthy Hun Scumbag Vermin (deceased), liquidated & Green abondons ship

    in Football Chat

    Posted

    Just seen this it has a lot of good points

    DST issued the following statement earlier last month with regards to the ongoing situation with Rangers FC.

     

    DST views with increasing concern the possibility that SPL clubs will vote to allow direct entry of a newco to the SPL with minimal penalties. The overwhelming opinion of supporters in Scotland is that a newco should enter senior football by applying for admission to the SFL 3rd division and working their way up again in a sustainable and honest way. Rangers like all other member clubs must be seen to comply with the rules and honour their debts, otherwise why should fans ever bother to turn up again, knowing for sure that the league is permanently rigged in their favour.

     

    The mantra being repeated by most pundits and the officials of the SPL is that it is in the member clubs’ financial interest that a Rangers newco is immediately admitted to the SPL. The purported

    grounds are that Rangers along with Celtic bring about £700,000 a year to the other clubs by their fans attendance at matches and the TV deal. The message now being put about is that integrity and fair play is trumped by the financial imperative to survive since Scottish football will supposedly cease to be viable if Rangers are not in the top league. How can this stance be squared with Rangers and Celtic’s insistence in recent years that their departure to England/an Atlantic League would not be detrimental to Scottish football?

     

    These assertions must be strongly challenged by the SPL club chairmen. Firstly, who are making the assertions? Many of the proponents of the “status quo” being essential have a vested interest. Media  pundits and the press pack know that there will be far less appetite for their blanket coverage of the Old Firm if there is a transfer embargo and Rangers are facing East Stirlingingshire twice a season rather than Celtic. Their jobs hang in the balance. Clearly Rangers officials and supporters want their club at the top table winning trophies every season with guaranteed European football. They also have a vested interest for either financial or emotional reasons.

     

    Now for the financial reality. In the case of our own club, in a season when AFC is in the top six, Rangers will normally add about 8000 over 2 games to the overall attendances for the season. Including

    programmes, food and other ancillary sales, the annual revenue is therefore about £200,000. Rangers’ fans represent about 4% of Aberdeen’s gate revenue in an average season, and if we have a good run in Europe, such as 4 seasons ago their effect is reduced to 2% of gate revenue.

     

    Should Dundee (probably the best supported club in the SFL 1st division) be promoted into Rangers place, they have historically brought at least 2000 fans to Aberdeen matches, so the Rangers effect is reduced to £150000. If only 300 AFC fans fail to renew their season tickets and walk away from the club next season as a result of a misguided vote to allow a Rangers newco direct entry to the SPL, the  effect of any Rangers support attending Pittodrie will be cancelled out. This is an entirely plausible scenario, which may well be repeated across all the SPL clubs given the strength of feeling being

    demonstrated across Scotland on this issue. SPL club chairmen will only finally count the cost of their decision when season ticket sales fail to materialise, by which time it will be too late to persuade the fans that the SPL is not permanently rigged in favour of the “too big to fail” clubs. The SPL chairmen should indeed “be careful what they wish for” if they vote for finance over integrity.

     

    The TV deal melt-down scenario must also be challenged. If imaginative thought is applied, an alternative TV deal could be put together which would replace the current tired format. Rugby Super League in England has a £90m 5 year deal with Sky despite having lower attendances than the SPL. That is a better deal than the SPL had, so why can a minority sport with lower support do it and the SPL can’t? Probably because we are competing with the EPL and UEFA games, and therefore get less money and the lunch-time, Friday and Monday evening kick-offs to fill in the TV schedule gaps. If we go for summer football, we would be the only show in town for several weeks of the year and our product would be much more valuable. We could increase the league

    size as the customers want, have bigger play offs to keep the end of the season alive, and if OF games are actually essential to the deal, re-introduce the old League Cup qualifying groups at the start of the season with Rangers and Celtic in the same 4 team group to start the season with 2 OF games before the league starts. Overall, a revised programme for the season could easily generate the same cash as before from a TV deal, whether Rangers are in the SPL or not.

     

    Finally let us address the potential absence of £500,000 a year income from TV. This could be replaced by increasing the average home gate by attracting only 1000 extra fans to every home game. The latent support for a successful Aberdeen FC is there to be had. 18,000 made the long trip to Glasgow for a 1215 kick-off only last month. If the AFC product on the pitch was more attractive and marketed as enthusiastically as a certain well known North-East house building company’s product, a target of 1000 extra season ticket fans to replace the TV income could easily be reached.

     

    In summary, AFC like all the other SPL clubs does not need Rangers in the SPL to survive and thrive, and must vote for integrity in our national game.

     

    shirts

    in Football Chat

    Posted

    I have.

     

    They'll be genuine shirts, but you should have ordered them about a month ago if you want them to wear during the Euros.

     

    hmm at some of the prices I think some will be well dodgy but if good quality fine by me

    Pre-season

    in Aberdeen Football Club

    Posted

    Did they not change the rules to allow teams to take a week 'off' so they could participate in glamour friendlies?

     

    Elgin and Arbroath just do not fit the glamour bit but the SFA wont notice they will be to busy trying to find a way to help the mighty Gers (maybe a little Scottish cup ban)

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