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Saturday 30th  March 2024:  kick-off 3pm

Scottish Premiership - Aberdeen v Ross County

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bland_flabbis

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  1. Punishments like this shouldn't be used to compensate for the referee making a mistake. It's also not much compensation for the team that have been hurt by the decision. Imagine for instance if Rangers won a game against Hibs with a dive, then the next game Rangers were playing Dunfermline (who Hibs are in a relegation battle against) and they have one of their players suspended. That doesn't actually help Hibs at all, it just makes it worse. As far as I'm concerned it's completely unworkable to dish out punishments based on the consequences of cheating, as opposed to the offence itself. If you take that principle to its logical extreme then where does it end? Should players be banned for minor fouls that they get away with in the build up to a goal? Or a handball (like Henry against Ireland)? A very minor offence can have huge consequences for a match/season but that doesn't make the offence itself any worse.
  2. Was a bit of a howler by Gonzalez today, but to be fair to him when I saw the replay it was a bit more awkward than it looked at first. It was one of those hideous shots that you can't really palm away from the danger area as it's coming straight at you, but is also pretty hard to take in as well due to the pace on the ball. Still should have done better right enough.
  3. It was a good performance in the second half, but to be honest almost any time I've been there recently I haven't come away from it thinking we've been outplayed. It's usually a tight, nothing game that they scrap out a few sh*te goals in and win regardless. Just never seems to happen for us there, even when we play well and create chances it falls to bits at the crucial moment (a la Foster today).
  4. Even the thing about signings happens every year. Strangely enough if you look at it quite a few of the teams that make loads of signings in the summer end up having bad seasons (Falkirk a couple of years ago, for instance). I remember us doing something similar in the late 90s - think it was 97 when Aitken spent about £2 million in the summer and then got sacked before Christmas. It's a bit of a cliche, but doing nothing really is better than making a load of bad signings for the sake of it.
  5. Got to admire the creativity of journalists in Scotland. No quotes, presumably nothing to write about, so just make something up that's vaguely topical. They didn't even need to hack into anyone's phone.
  6. We could do better than Langfield and it would be silly for me or anyone else to argue that we can't, but we could also do a lot worse. Every keeper we've brought to the club since Langfield became our number one has been worse than him. Bossu was a joke. Nelson looked worse when given the chance (Falkirk 3-1 game). Soutar, despite a strange bandwagon that got going at one point, was worse and as much to blame for QotS as anyone. Howard was given a chance this year and looked worse. Youngsters like Bain and Bateman haven't pushed into the first team. Granted you can blame the managers who signed these keepers for that, but it also tells you that in amongst the kinds of keepers we're in the market for, Langfield is pretty decent. He's not the best we can get, but if you used that standard to judge players then nobody in our squad would meet it - I'm sure there's a better midfielder out there than Milsom on the same wages, a better striker than Vernon on the same wages, and so on.
  7. You would have thought so, but then look at the likes of David James (still starting for England at last year's World Cup at 39) or Jens Lehman (seemingly going back to Arsenal at 41). Both known for making gaffes and mistakes, but they've still had successful careers. Reckon Lehman will be due at least one horrendous title ruining error if he plays for Arsenal.
  8. I agree that he's still inconsistent, but I'd also say there are some things that he's improved a bit. His distribution is actually a bit better now in my opinion - it's not good because it was almost ridiculously bad to start off with, but it is better (his slip against St Mirren excepted). You could say the same about taking crosses - it's still a weakness, but do we remember how bad it used to be (e.g. flapping at a cross in the last minute against Caley Thistle a few years ago and leaving Barry Wilson with a tap in)? I think the efforts of the coaching staff in those areas have paid off to an extent, but the one thing you can't coach out of someone is random lapses in concentration.
  9. Yeah, that's my understanding of it. If Celtic won the cup and the league then the losing finalist would get into Europe. If Celtic just won the cup and didn't win the league then the losing finalist wouldn't get into Europe. All irrelevant to us now in any case so we'll just have to win it.
  10. Can see what you're saying, but I'm having trouble getting past "fuck sake" myself. If we'd lost to them in the final we'd at least have got into Europe (if Celtic win the league).
  11. Not saying he's good or bad here (because I don't know enough about him to have an opinion) but I watched the highlights of that game and I'm not sure what was on display really classed as football. It was more rolling around in the mud with a little bit of action here and there. The pitch was an absolute nonsense.
  12. That was priceless. Poor performance, but you can't beat a scrappy, undeserved equaliser in the 4th minute of injury time to stay in the cup. My flatmate is a St Mirren fan and as soon as the ball hit the net he just quietly got up, walked out the room and is now presumably sobbing under his duvet.
  13. Percentage of Shots Which Are Scored 07/08 + 08/09 Darren Mackie - 23% Lee Miller - 19% Sone Aluko - 17% Jamie Smith - 12% Chris Maguire - 10% Mackie is the best finisher at the club. FACT. END OF. etc.
  14. I thought he played well against Caley, but I was more impressed with him today than I was with him last week. He was really comfortable on the ball, had a couple of good runs and was very composed when asked to defend - almost the anti-Foster.
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