tom_widdows

21 hours ago, Panda said:

What's everyone's views on the club World Cup? Gonna be watching it? Think it's going to be shite? Think there's a future in it? Hope it crashes and burns?

I don't think there's an clamour from fans to proclaim a world champion. I think PSG fans are happy enough to say they're the best in France & Europe, and proving they're better than some Brazilian team won't bother them.

The World Cup is special because everyone can qualify for it. This is just another competition Aberdeen can forget about ever being in.

And it's not the best 32 club teams in the world. It's not even the best European teams going.

Hope, just for Infantino, it's a disaster.

Confederations cup was fine as 'the test' for the world cup venues. 

This is pointless and I really hope it is a one off.

My favourite memory of the confederations cup 

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxHoH2kIDNSgO5BxymxLkV9q7vAGsHFo8p?si=zSS2UMO3piwKDqEH

Tic and SEVCO have had their hampden allocations cut by 500 seats each due to fans using pyros.

Id like to think the next time they play each other there 1000 seats will be unscrewed and put into storage

Falkirk sign 37 year old Brian Graham from Partick Thistle.

The rumour on 'Off the Ball' a few weeks ago his ultimatum to the thistle board possibly being true.

Personally happy he gets another shot at playing in the premiership

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg5y49zjndo

If it is indeed the case the lowest rank co-owned team gets kicked out its a further nail in the almost sealed coffin of my interest in football.

You either kick both out or neither.

Forest gone down in my estimations with their antics too.

I trust Cormack has plans in place for the 2030 world club cup when both the Dons and Atlanta qualify

On 06/06/2025 at 17:29, Jute said:

Wonder if that means Franks is going to quit Brentford to go to Spurs?

Await to see if this move destroys the reputation he built up at Brentford

God only knows what we'd be without him

Thinking about it now the laugh track is only in the early series.

Completely removed when they really started to push the Anti Vietnam message

8 hours ago, scotfree said:

M.A.S.H. didn't have a laughter track when it was shown in the U.K., but it does in the U.S and here in Australia. It's a much better watch without the laughter track.

 

Just saw this on Wiki  'The laugh track is also omitted from some international and syndicated airings of the show. On one occasion during an airing on BBC2 in the UK, the laugh track was accidentally left on, and viewers expressed their displeasure; an apology from the network for the "technical difficulty" was later released, for during its original run on BBC2 in the UK, it had been shown without the laugh track. UK DVD critics speak poorly of the laugh track, stating "canned laughter is intrusive at the best of times, but with a programme like M*A*S*H, it's downright unbearable."^[20]

I believe the laugh track was never used during the surgery scenes (no matter where is was shown).

Still the best box set I ever bought.

Think there's only 4 cast members still alive now

Think this is going to be a similar story each season.

One of the usual champions league teams will have a bad season, end up in the conference league and steam roller their way to the trophy. Before the final they will have already qualified for the following years champs thereby making the europa league place prize irrelevant and the cash wont even cover a weeks wages for their squad.

The idea this would be the tournament for 'the smaller teams' out the window.

On 25/05/2025 at 12:56, Panda said:

Currently (subject to change) these are the projected teams we could face.

 

Riejka won the Croatian title so Dynamo Zagreb now potentially in the seeded teams

18 minutes ago, Slim said:

Anywhere not stabby and ideally accessible using conventional airlines. Any ex-Soviet countries can get fucked.

Riga and Tallinn cops still not taken your poster down from reception then?

Angus Gunn currently a free agent.

Comeback to his Dad's first pro club for a bit to get his career back on track?

Of course he would automatically become invisible to Steve Clarke and Co but international football is a sideshow

Clydebank defeat musselburgh 3-1 on aggregate to win promotion to the Lowland league.

One promotion away from being Scotland's answer to Wimbledon

Should add spurs and man utd each got 7m for reaching the final. Spurs got an extra 6m for winning (plus next seasons champs league group cash)

Chelsea and Betis will get 4m each with the winner getting an extra 3m

Inter Milan and PSG each get 18.5m with the winner getting an additional 6.5m

Those sums are fuck all to most if not all those clubs whereas to the likes of Bodo/ Glimt and Djurgaden it could have been club changing

This/ last season teams in conference were given €3.17 for reaching the group/league.

Win a game €400k

Draw €133k

Europa league clubs got €4.31

Win a game €450k

Draw £150k

In contrast champions league group stage teams got €18.62

Win €2.1mil

Draw £700k

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxU2MbhunOwGCBndNpM2QKM2qjoh1ve6Wq?si=UD51KHworghFjOFi

Clipped from young lad who does match day vlogs

7 minutes ago, Jute said:

Just realised that now we are not playing in conference qualifiers in July and now in the Europa league play off in August I won’t be able to go. 

Then today was all for nothing!!!!

16 hours ago, Panda said:

I'm actually the Aberdeen fan in this that Big Dunc is bantering away with. 

He's actually a lovely bloke. The full interview - when it gets published on Iplayer - will be a fascinating listen. 

Hope another club give him a chance in management. Forest Green and Inverness CT were both uphill battles that a somewhat rookie manager (I'd still class him as that) shouldn't have taken on, and he pretty much admitted that. 

34 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

Would be nice! Illegal to catch them, kill them, or feed them i believe. Basically you have to wait until they eat your dog or kid before you can approach them. We asked for someone to take it away since it’s close to my house and I have a pool. Don’t want my kids jumping in to find him at the bottom! They won’t do anything until it ‘threatens’ us.

Gatorland no longer selling 'Gatorbites'?

Or were they actually chicken nuggets and 1980s Florida allowed them to be 'creative' in their marketing?

East Kilbride replace Bonnyrigg Rose in League 2.

VAR having a mare with the Palace 18yard box

4 minutes ago, Panda said:

It wasn't the big game of the day though, let's be honest here.

Hardly anyone was at the game, hardly anyone would watch it on TV, and hardly anyone would listen to it on the radio.

If you're claiming you turned on the radio as a neutral desperate to listen to it, I don't believe you. You wanted to know how Hibs were getting on in the battle for third, and the BBC provided you with that service.

I fear County are on a slump which might result in them going down either way.

They go to Dens on Wednesday needing a win (or at least a draw) to keep things in 'their own hands
A saints win at Tynecastle along with a County win at Dens means relegation situation goes to the final day.

Shame Hearts have finally remembered shankland is a striker

7 minutes ago, redordead said:

Website is a fucking shambles. Should've had access earlier but wasn't showing available to buy despite having the required points. Then allowed in at five and fuck all works. 

Ticket office also shut. Amazing service.

Just let me in with no issues.

Go to Afc.co.uk direct (leave out the /tickets) and follow the link on the home page