tom_widdows

Theres been talk of this for weeks

Apparently it is us and Hibs in for him.

Cant see our cuprinol and co getting their act together to get his signature

my stream got slower and slower till eventually it was about 10mins behind the commentary

not that I feel i missed out. Pre -season friendlies are so bad.

There was about as much atmosphere there as with the friendly with rapid bucharest a few seasons back (and only 7000 turned up for that)

Bit agrieved man u didnt at least lie down for the last minute and let us get a goal.

Recall a pre season friendly they had with Wrexham in which they let the welshies score 2 goals in the last minute to claim a draw.

BBC news keeping their up their usual high standards of research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7501848.stm

Manchester United have named top stars like Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs and Les Ferdinand in their squad to face Aberdeen on Saturday.

So her loyalty was never swayed by David Zdrillic?

The first girlfriend was a season ticket holder in the south but wanted to sit with me in the RDS which frankly was the beginning of the end as it meant my mate couldnt use my dads season ticket. Just wasnt fun anymore. She spent the time repeating comments made by other people that were funny the first time but not worthy or repetition.

Scottish cup final she spent most of the game crying which wound me up no end.

Second Girl was also a dons fan but much more pleasant to go to the games with but we only went to 1 game together. Personally id like to keep the 2 things seperate. Much rather go on my own or with the Glasgow Uni village people

Cant see why anyone would be surprised

Setanta is effectivelly Rangers and celtic TV. at least 80% of the live setanta league games feature one of the old firm because they have the most fans, ergo the most subscribers.

Ive only skimmed over the article so what exactly are fans going to be getting for all this extra cash they shelled out?

Are there going to be more live TV games?

Are they going to invest in a few thousand inflatable dummies to stick in the stadiums and make it look like there are actually people there?

Will there be live footage from inside the pubs where large chunks of the fans will be instead of the stadiums?

(anyone remember a few years back when I think channel 5 had the rights to the league cup and the crowd was so low they actually put a camera in a pub that was about 100 yards from easter road to show the celebrations when hibs scored?) 

As i recall the last deal was split 50-50

50% old firm

50% - the other 10

So the normal teams were getting £2.725 Million each and are now going to get £6.25million each 

rangers and celtic were getting just over £13.625million each and are now going to get £31.25million each 

Could have made it a level playing field and given everyone £10.416million each but nooooooooooo

In the words of frankie Boyle

'its just more money for Bastards'

What's your greatest hope for this season?

Our defence to return to the standard it was 2 seasons ago

- And your biggest fear?

Our defence to get worse

- Most important player

Jamie Smith. If he can stay fit for longer than 3days every quarter then suddenly our attack might have some structure

- Cult hero/terrace favourite

Not so much a hero as a liability but i think its Richie Byrne. One thing to surely get the adrenaline pumping is whether or not he is actually going to be risked

- Keep an eye out for. (young player)

This young boy hamill. kepe an eye out cos hes probably going to end up at hibs and be taking the piss out of us

- Player you'd happily drive to his next club.

Want to say severin but with macnamara fucking off he might actually see himself as one of the 'old heads' and start actually leading by example

- What one change would you make at your club?

id like to see a bit more sense when it comes to ticket prices and offers to get the fans back in. Bringing back the same ticket arrangement for the merkland that they had back in the early 90s which saw that stand almost always sold out. Only charging £25 (if that) for the seats in the front section of the main stand with the restricted view in the back section being cheaper than the south stand. Perhaps charging less for seats that are uncovered. Perhaps even making the main stand 'the family stand'

- Have you got the right manager?

Never really been happy with the guy. But then again the only manager ive liked since I became a fan was Ebbe.

- What advice would you give him?

Is someone is a defender then dont play him as an attacker etc etc

- Which team do you most want to beat this season?

Dundee United at tannadice

- Opposition player you despise

Either Scott brown or Arthur Boruc

- Opposition player you secretly admire

Noel Hunt

- Where will you finish?

between 3rd and 12th

See in yon video for Cove Rangers that they are getting a new community stadium with 5 full pitches + a couple of 7-as side pitches. (im presuming that at least some of these will be astroturf?) on the south side

Are these facilities up for grabs for the dons or is it to be the case that a highland league / possile 3rd division team in the same city has decent facilities and diamond and co have to continue to make do with the beach and seaton park?

http://www.coveforthesfl.com/

Andy Dows last minute extra time winner in the league cup quarter final

119mins of rangers taking pot shots at our goal only for their keeper to spill our only shot and dow to put in the rebound from 1 yard out.

Still the only time ive seen us beat rangers in person

Chris Clarkes 97th minute winner at easter Road on the opening day of the 2002/03 season. About 1min b4 Kjaer had kept us level with an unbelieveable save and then I think Young hit a random shot come cross and clarke stuck his foot out.

About 3000 dons fans there filling the whole stand which apparenlty no one had anticipated.

Darren Mackies winner at Parkhead just for the ceebrations. Plus id never seen us beat either of the old firm away from home.

Andy Dows Free kick against the arabs way back in 1999. Our first league goal and the way it went in was almosted scripted.

Eoin Jess's (im not a fan of him in the slightest by the way) last minute free kick at tannadice in the 5-3 win. Leave it to Aberdeen to go 3-0 up, then  4-1 with 2mins to go only for it to end up 4-3 with united pushing an equaliser. jess finally ended it as a contest.

Darren Mackie putting us 2-1 up against rangers 5mins aftter Leon Mike had equalised. A real slow motion moment when you saw mackie completely unmarked and sticking his napper on the ball.

season 1993/94 in a 4-1 win over Raith Rovers at Pittodrie

Mcleish had possession of the ball close to the touchline and sidestepped a tackle at the last second that sent the raith boy sliding into the south stand boarding. He then hoofed the ball up to shearer.

Some guy behind us shouts

'Alec, fuckin brilliant big man!'

to which mcleish turned round and said 'Aye. it was magic wasnt it'

As you can tell, pittodrie was its usual cauldron of noise

strathclydes finest will be sweating over August 30th

Potential for Rangers, celtic, Aberdeen and hearts fans all to be in Glasgow City centre on the same day

Said strip was also worn by a member of the GUASC on 3 occasions

Hearts 4-1 Aberdeen

Arabs 4-1 Aberdeen

QoS 4-3 Aberdeen

Notice a pattern there?

How does a keeper look good in training ? I'm interested...no, really.

Hes training against the likes of Mackie, Bebo etc

I reckon even I could look at least average against them

6ft7 eh

Hope hes a better keeper than Lubomir Blaha was a striker

BBC website

Mark McGhee has been widely tipped to take over at Hearts after leading Motherwell to third place in his first season at Fir Park.

who the fuck has tipped that?

Lets forget the whole TV replay stuff. Thats just asking for trouble

Last year the same people that do the touchline technology for Tennis had worked out a system for football in which if the ball crossed the goal line then a signal was instantly sent to the referee. It was going to be tested in the u19 world cup (or some other similar tournament) but out of nowhere either FIFA or UEFA suddenly turned their back on it and started to back having extra referees on the pitch.

Personally Id prefer the system they use (or at least used to) in NHL Ice Hockey which was as soon as the puck crossed the line a light lit up on the net and a siren was sounded.

I trust hes now waterproof

I was sat on the touchline at ibrox tonight (first aider) and i must say that it was highly enjoyable watching the huns having hissy fits and getting on the teams back till spongebaz squarepass poped up.

Then watching them squirm as well suddenly started to play a bit

schadenfreude etc etc

I just hope we can avoid scenes like 1987

3 sides of pittodrie full of rangers fans

It could almost be like 1991 again except this time we have home advantage and  A DRAW WONT DO!'

 

 

Assuming Motherwell lose their game in hand against the Huns before the last set of fixtures then we would go into the last day as follows:

 

I believe said game in hand is against St Mirren at home

Just cant see them losing that one

are we not maybe jumping the gun in our possible suicide

Darren Young may just have been re-newing his season ticket. After all he seemed to be spending the majority of his weekends at dons matches this season.

Falkirk not exactly loving john stewart either and he did rip us apart 2 weeks back

So lets start the list of the 12 that are probably in JC's sights

Darren Young

Ryan Esson

John Stewart

Stevie Crawford

Scott Morrison

Phil Mcguire

Paul Sheerin

Scott Muirhead

Steven Payne

Ivo Den Beeman

Guido Van der Camp

Lindsay Hamilton

Scott Thomson

This could actually be true