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At the 2017 final, I got tickets off a lad who had something to do with Village Hotels. When I went there to get them, he invited us to stay for the pre-match entertainment. They had Cooper, Kennedy (and I can't think who the third was?). Joey Harper also said a few bits at the end; he seemed to be there with Cooper. Cooper was the entertainment, though. Had the whole place in stitches and was the highlight of the day for me and the lads I was with. Imagine everyone who met him came away with the same impression of him. 

What a fucking day. Up at 430 for flight up the road. 10 pints deep by the time I met my dad, nephew and BiL. First final for nephew and first with my dad since 90. Was close to greeting losing in 17, but fucking hell was closer today. Better not wait 35 years for another one, I’ll be 80! Wasn’t confident at all and said before I’d take a shithouse 0-0 and 9-8 on pens so the  1-1 and 4-2 on pens was even better

I blame the Irish. 

Odd one, didn't the club suggest we'd turned down a 7 figure bid in the summer?

Unless there's personal reasons. 

Did I see something on social media over the weekend that a £1.5 million fee had been agreed with an Eastern European team, for Ruby? 
 

Also can we not send Ambrose to wherever it was we sent Pape last season? 

Been turned down by Nazariy Rusyn on loan from Sunderland allegedly. 

I’ve just turned 45 and my first game was one of Fergies last. Was at SCF in ‘90 under Smith and was probably at Pittodrie for most of his reign. Ebbe was a bit of a cult hero. But after Pele, Calderwood  brought a bit of respectability back to AFC. Beating the Huns when Ricksen got sent off and going 2 up against Bayern are two of my favourite memories of being at Pittodrie (along with the Mimms, Gillhaus, Nicholas goal). The forum carry on in his last few months and when he was sacked was ridiculous and tainted, arguably, our best post Fergie managers legacy (definitely at the time).
Might dig out my old sky plus box and watch back the Copenhagen and Bayern games. 

Baffling subs, Palaversa and Keskinen off and somehow Nilsen and Okkels stay on the pitch?   

3 hours ago, OxfordDon said:

Well, it was an interesting idea while it lasted

Well he clearly likes his pints and burgers as much as I do!

On 31/07/2023 at 20:20, manc_don said:

Good ideas Panda, certainly could help increasing traffic. I “run” the Twitter, but it’s very much a side show.  Hard when I’m on the other side of the world trying to hit those peak viewing times.
 

Have access to Facebook too, but given some of the Facebook comments you see, and my very infrequent use of it, it doesn’t get much attention. 
 

merging and then advertising it more absolutely make sense. Will see what we can do.

Just start posting MAGA, right wing shit and Covid conspiracies then your posts will start appearing on everyone’s timelines.

Sidebeh's goal against Dundee at the end of March was something else. But no way are we blowing 1/2 a million on someone who, this time last year, was playing level 7 of English football.

Supposed to be signing soon. “City Group” player. Man City and loans till moving to Troyes. 
Could be absolute rubbish but thought I’d add it, just in case it’s not. As Panda says looks like the type of player we would be trying to sign. 

Ante Palaversa

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Palaversa

7 hours ago, Reekie_Red said:

Deano was brilliant. Knew where the back of the net was, and there was a period where he and Shearer were our supersubs who were almost guaranteed to roll on and score with minutes left. 

Dadi however lived off the back of one showboat against Bobo Balde. Quite rightly got ripped a new one by the Red Army when he played for Livi. 

He also led the centipede after the sna ba game... 

Massive superiority complex and misplaced arrogance. It brings out the worst in the whole population. Particularly bad are the ones who know nothing about sport. Most recently having a conversation about rugby just after the 6 nations. I made a comment which was responded to by an older English lad very confidently with "come back to me when you beat us" to which I laughed and replied "you mean like this year, or last year or the year before that." Or the dickhead my wife saw yesterday wandering down the street shouting "eng-ha lund eng-ah-lund" only stopping to stick his head in the door of the kebab shop and Turkish barbers to shout racist shite at them.  

Thankfully I married an Irish girl and have mates that treat it like a rivalry, same as we do. Cheering and giving me shit when we lose or have crap results (memorably the draw against the Faroes). I wanted to go to Germany and tried to convince one of these mates to come with me, he wouldn't, saying that he would have done had England not qualified but didn't want to go and have the Germans (or anyone else) associate him with the rest of his countrymen.

I always like to tell them that half their team should have been missing from the final in '66 had the semi been refereed correctly, having spent 90 minutes taking turns kicking the fuck out of Eusebio (something my dad goes on about), so really the goal given that didn't cross the line just typified how corrupt that whole tournament was.

In fairness the jingoism has died down a bit over the last few years and yesterday meant I got a lovely round of golf in on an empty course while the rest of England tried to drink more than three cans of cider while comparing guts and bad tattoos before seeing their team capitulate and giving their wives a slap to reassert their superiority complex and misplaced arrogance. 

Thank fuck for the Spanish. Have endured years 31 to 58 living down here following their fixed win in '66, not sure I'd have coped starting at year 0. 

37 minutes ago, Slim said:

He seems to have turned into Donald Trump halfway through that. 

Just read that back in Trump voice in my head...

Seen Keith Wyness has been talking about the huns issues around the redevelopment of their shit hole.

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Well, I think the debacle is the right word. I mean, the stories coming out, it does appear to be a lot more than just actual delay in supplies. I’ve been involved in a number of stadium projects. I was also on the board for the building of the Hydro in Glasgow, which is the big concert venue. I was on the board there for seven years. For this sort of problem to have happened, I think, is disgraceful from the board’s point of view. They should have been aware of this. They should have had a risk register and they should have either had the right consultants around to let them know these problems because there was always going to be a risk in terms of overseas supplies coming in. That’s well known. And in all these sorts of projects, you take that into account and that goes in your risk register and you make sure it happens. What I think is particularly rich in this situation was Rangers complaining about Dundee and their ground being unavailable to be played on because it hadn’t drained properly. Rangers made a very big noise about that in terms of a club not making its ground playable. Well here we are now and Rangers are the ones who say that now they may not have their ground playable. I’m hearing a lot of rumours that it goes way beyond that. It’s issues with subsidence, all sorts of things that I’m hearing rumours on. Unsubstantiated, but nevertheless, it’s certainly worrying. There could be a lot of issues around that ground. And I’ve even heard rumours that they’re looking at potential new sites to build a new stadium. So it could go further than just a delay in supplies. But this goes right to the top in terms of this, because we’ve now got a very serious issue. We’re hearing asbestos, we’re hearing all sorts of rumours and all sorts of different things. So it’s a big issue.

 

Funny they announce Barron the same day it comes to light they can’t afford to pay their builders

Make your stadium playable/sign a player from Aberdeen

Mingin’!
Stupid cunt… 

On 12/06/2024 at 12:11, Jute said:

If it is true take the fee and tell them to ram their £500k for McCrorie. 

Fuckin' right. Barron's a decent prospect, with still a fair bit of deficiencies in his game. Won't get the game time, to develop, he needs at the huns as their followers won't allow it. IF he goes there he'll end up no more than a journeyman lower premier/championship player at best. See the balmedie hun as an example.

BUT we can present the ridiculous price they're putting on a 26 year old goal keeper with about 30 top flight games played and use it to compare it to the 21 year old midfielder with 70 odd top flight appearances for the "independent" panel that decides the fee. 

Possession is meaningless, in a way. Absolutely fine to give up possession if it's passive. A good possession team will drag their opposition out of shape and switch the play quickly. If you can engage the press in a way that you don't lose your shape, the opposition can pass it round the horseshoe all they want. Unless your playing a team like Man City, who will exploit those minor changes in shape and press. If you're shape and press is good, you're negating most teams possession as passive. Then the difference will be in the transitions and the speed and accuracy of those. 

The interesting thing for me with, what appears to be Thelin's style, is how does that work against teams that are happy to give up possession to us, about 70% of the league. Was that why Robson's team resorted to punting it up-field? "You have the ball so we can play our style".  

Harsh pen but what do you expect against the scum when they’re 0-1 down. 
Unlucky deflection for the second. Don’t think there was a great deal between the teams thought we shaded it, but probably biased . 

Last time we won it;

Mark Peat, Stephen Payne, Scott Morrison, Terry Kid, Kev McNaughton, Murray McCulloch, Darren Mackie, Ross O'Donoghue, Scott Michie, Fergus Tiernan, Bob Duncan.

Subs. Allan Carella, Duncan Jones, Murray Watson, Calum McKenzie, Calum McHattie

Last time we were there;

David Craddock, Ryan Harrington, Daniel Harvie, Dean Campbell (Captain), Joe MacPherson, Sam Roscoe, Connor McLennan, Seb Ross, Bruce Anderson, Frank Ross, Ethan Ross

Subs. Archie Mair, Miko Virtanen, Chris Antoniazzi, Jack MacKenzie, Toby Wells, Connor Barron, David Dangana

3 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

Never even heard of him Baggy but that all sounds positive. 

 

Wait, is that the same Mike duff that was an epic utility player in cm 01/02? 

Yup!