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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/heart_of_midlothian/7691151.stm

Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood reported that Langfield was insisting that it was not a penalty.

 

"He said he never touched him," said the Dons boss. "He did not get near him. "All credit to the linesman. He had seen it and helped the referee out.

 

"We have not been getting the rub of the green and maybe that levelled things out."

 

Calderwood, who has previously criticised some Hearts players for their theatrics, rejected the suggestion that Stewart had dived in an attempt to win the spot kick.

 

"There are a couple of other ones who go down too easy, but Michael Stewart does not do that," he insisted.

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/sport-news/scottish-football/spl/2008/10/26/hearts-1-1-aberdeen-78057-20840600/

JAMIE LANGFIELD hailed ref Steve Conroy for having the guts to reverse a crucial penalty call - and claimed Hearts star Michael Stewart had CHEATED to win the controversial spot-kick. Tynecastle went into meltdown at the final whistle as enraged Hearts players and coaches tried to get at the whistler and linesman Chris Young over the 84th-minute flashpoint that decided this game.

 

Conroy had originally pointed to the spot when Langfield dived at Stewart's feet and the Jambos midfielder fell to the sodden turf.

 

But he was big enough to change his mind after a short debate with linesman Young who had a far better view of the incident and was adamant that the keeper never touched his rival.

 

Despite the furious reaction of Hearts boss Csaba Laszlo - who later ludicrously denied trying to take issue with the officials on the pitch at full time - the whistler appears to have got the decision bang on.

 

And Langfield claims Conroy's only mistake was not to book Stewart for diving after the Jambos man privately told him he'd taken a fall on purpose.

 

The Dons No.1 said: "I didn't touch him. I knew he would get to the ball before me so I pulled my arms away.

 

"It's actually quite scary how far he was from me when he went over.

"He told me later 'I thought you were coming to hit me'. He said he'd ridden the challenge - but I was nowhere near him.

 

"He's tried a cheeky one and thankfully for us it's not come off - and we have to thank the linesman for that.

 

"He deserves a lot of credit for going against the referee but I think Stewart was lucky not to be booked for diving."

Support your own players FFS Jimmy 

Langfield is right that Stewart should have been booked, and apparently in the aftermath of the game it was Langfield who got booked along with Karipidus.

Passionate fans away from home, a fucking morge at Pittodrie.

 

We have done well away from home, we are, largely, pish at home. Connection? 

I commented yesterday that we were hypocrites singing "What a shitey home support" when all you hear at Pittodrie is Oh FFS Foster/Mackie/whoever, silence, boooooos, and collective groans when someone misses a pass/makes a mistake that go around Pittodrie like a mexican wave.

So yes, highly probable there is a connection.

Why are you posting a picture of Mackie ?!?

Is that because no matter how hard he tries, and how much help he gets, he never gets the right result? 

No!. It is apparently because if he doesn't understand a word then he will go home and look it up. He is apparently forever doing crosswords and puzzles. Teammates have suggested that as he is so intelligent he should give Diamond (nicknamed 'Badder') half his brain!

You will sleep great tonight now you know that! 

Edit: Changed my spelling mistakes before FJ noticed them 

Do we undervalue Foster?

I think we probably do undervalue him and tend to remember all his fuck-ups rather than any good play.

On a side note I read that his teammates have nicknamed him 'Google' !

Mark Kerr has man flu but is expected to be fit to give the Dons boss a full squad to pick from.

Corrected! 

Well, that's like saying we should only blame Darren Mackie for AFCs poor run of recent form.

 

Even though it isn't all his fault - if he had bagged 10 goals by now - we wouldn't be where we are.

I see no analogy between what I said and your quote above

that's my thinking on the matter as well, seems like its not a case of the club wanting to get rid of the ultras and the displays that they put on, but more of a case of being seen to take action against the person/people responsible for letting off smoke bombs

Surely it should only be the person who broke the law that should be punished, and not all of the people in the supporters club they got the ticket from??.

Is the ban just RU flag and banner displays, or are all supporters/supporters clubs flags banned too? 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm think i will give that one a miss! 

Why?! 

I don't enjoy it as much as I did in the 1980s 

Me neither Hebrew!. It was so much more fun when we were teenagers!

The length of the shorts players wore was more enjoyable too! 

Neither date suits Aberdeen fans south of Dundee 

From Redweb 061008

Polish keeper joins Youth Academy

Polish keeper Przemyslaw Luksik has become the latest recruit to join the AFC Youth Academy - after being spotted at the Shell Dons in The Community Soccer Academy during the summer. Przemyslaw was on holiday visiting his sister in Aberdeen in July and, knowing he was a budding goalkeeper, she picked up a community leaflet and enrolled him in the Academy to stop him becoming bored while in Scotland! While there, he worked with Youth and Development Goalkeeping coach Jim Phimister who was greatly impressed.

 

Subsequently, Luksik has now relocated to Aberdeen to stay with his sister and the Dons have cleared all the paper work, enabling him hopefully to join the U19 team full-time when he leaves school, having enrolled as a fifth year pupil at the city's Harlaw Academy last week.

 

Jim, who played in the Highland League for many years with Deveronvale, works full time at the club as part of the Youth Academy set up. He told RedWeb how he came across the young Pole who is away with the Poland U17 squad next week.

"Normally the way we find players is if they play for a club and we spot them. However there is also the route through the community coaching programmes. As well as the development coaching I still help out at the Soccer Academy every year.

 

"He is an outstanding prospect. He has done some shooting exercises with the first team and did not look out of place.  

Sound's a great signing for AFC, albeit saying he did not look out of place during shooting exercises with our first team ("strikers") disnae say much 

I never said it was

My reply to mizer had fuck all to do with you, as well you know.

On a negative note, not great being out and being ripped for being bottom of the table 

I totally empathise mizer!. I just can't wait to go back to work on Tuesday for even more comments extracting the urine! 

My usual euphoria from the huns losing was curtailed due to us going bottom of SPL, but not to the degree I would have expected 

Listening to the game on the radio I was willing St M to hold on to the win in the agonising last few minutes   

Is that you Aberdeen Ladette voting for Maguire again?

, it definitely wasn't me!.

I haven't been online all day and this is first I've read this thread. I don't vote on these threads if I haven't been to the game or watched the full match on TV.

If I did vote after just listening on the radio, it certainly wouldn't have been for Maguire!. Sounded like he played shite!.

Apparently he was out of position again though??.. moved to left wing and Aluko up front??.

I still would though! 

Daylight fucking robbery  

 

I'm not making excuses, but when are we going to get some decent refs in the SPL?  Mockery shouldn't be allowed to referee in the SPL, especially when people's jobs are at risk.  He failed to send the Hibs player off when awarding us a penalty (it was clearly last man and Miller would have been through on goal).  For their penalty, it was an accidental hand ball by Mulgrew and I thought the penalty and red card were harsh, but the radio was talking about a clear offside leading up to the handball and there was apparently no way it should have been a pen.

 

FFS, I was raging with him. 

 

It sums up our luck at the moment.

I thought we were by far the better team and created a lot of chances.  Some very good performances from us - particularly Hodgkiss, Mackie, Mulgrew, Miller and Severin.  Unfortunately Mair seemed to be at fault for their opening goal.

, at last!. Someone who see's the wider picture like me, and isn't blinkered to 100% of the blame being JC's every week!.

(Anyone who knows me will confirm I am definitely NOT in the JIG club!)

If we were doing better in SPL there would have been outrage at McCurry's decisions today 

Could it be that the team is just settling and we will see dramatic improvements in the next few games, the passing/movement for our first on Saturday was excellent.

We can but dream Hunter, .... touch wood, not stand on a cracked pavement slab and avoid walking under ladders 

Hopefully you are right though, I'm just in glass half empty mode as been here so many times before!.

After ICT game I was devastated at how shite we were. M'well, huns then St M games gave me a false sense of security in that I thought the "team" were starting to gel. Hamilton game blew that theory out of the water!.

For the stattos out there... how many changes in the team have we had game by game in our starting line-up this season so far

I'm all for being realistic rather than the hysteria that has been seen on here in recent weeks.

 

However, I'm not in favour of this argument anymore. Just because we were subject to (and accepted) utter rubbish in terms of management and performances in a ten year period prior to JC arriving does not mean we should be 'grateful for what we have now'.

There has been a sizemic shift in Scottish football in the last 5 years as budgets are reigned in and player standards across the board have eroded in the face of financial crisis. A large number of SPL sides are now shopping in the basement and are unable to pay anything like the money they previously did. At the time when we were playing utter horse we were cutting costs out of line with most other teams. We are now, relatively speaking, better off than most with regard to available budgets and spending power.

 

My rather laboured point is that we should be expecting to be top 4 and semi-finalists minimum with our resource. If our manager is not able to do this then he is not utilising that resource as effectively as clubs who are poorer than us. The benchmark is not how we were 5 years ago, its how other clubs are now.

 

Lets stop thinking things are great because they were so utterly pish before.

:clap:

Jimmy: I will bring a trophy to Dons

 

Swaddon: No, ye winna.

 

Prove me wrong, JC.

What odds do I get for a pound on you being right swaddon ?!

a tad harsh?

 

It could have been worse

I concur 

Are you trying to seduce me? 

No. 

See you, Jimmy…

ON THE SPOT: Michael Grant

 

THIS WAS exactly the sentence Jimmy Calderwood came out with in one of his newspaper columns last week: "Now it is time to stand aside and let somebody else take centre stage." Was this the bombshell revelation? Had he finally succumbed to the will of a huge section of the Aberdeen support? No, not so fast. He was giving his advice to the losing Ryder Cup captain, Nick Faldo. It wasn't a column about Calderwood himself standing aside to give someone else the reins at Pittodrie, although if he ever writes that it will be the most popular one he has ever done.

 

Calderwood telling anyone else to clear off and let another man take over met with incredulity and hoots of derision from supporters, but then again he can barely open his mouth these days without his observations being treated with scorn and hostility. And it is fan power which dictates that the clock is ticking.

 

Director of football Willie Miller appealed to supporters to give him time in the aftermath of the inept Co-Operative Insurance Cup defeat at Kilmarnock in midweek, but that was a plea which will fall on deaf ears. Calderwood has lost the fans. Sooner rather than later that will cost him his job at a club which cannot afford to ignore them.

 

Whether he limps on for three games or three months, he is a dead man walking at Aberdeen. Privately he knows it and so do senior figures at Pittodrie. Enough of the support has made up its mind about him and the coming weeks will see dwindling attendances and a widespread desire for change. Home games will feel as though they are taking place in a half-empty morgue. Another couple of defeats and demonstrations are likely. The point will be reached at which chairman Stewart Milne and his board of directors will be forced to act out of financial necessity.

 

Some have said that Calderwood will be spared because Aberdeen cannot afford to sack him (along with coaches Jimmy Nicholl and Sandy Clark he signed a new, three-year contract in January). The more significant fact is that no club can afford to prop up a struggling, unpopular managerial regime. Aberdeen were bundled out of the Co-Op Cup before they could make money from a single home tie. Crowds are down to the extent that barely 11,000 turned up for last weekend's home match against Dundee United and if live coverage on Setanta was a contributory factor then so, too, were the previous home losses to Caledonian Thistle and Hamilton and the general mediocrity of Aberdeen's play this season. Calderwood has been living on borrowed time since the day his team conceded four semi-final goals to a First Division team, Queen of the South, and pitifully skittered away a golden chance to reach their first Scottish Cup final in eight years.

 

Calderwood has been a good manager for Aberdeen, the first appointment they got right since Miller himself in 1992. Having survived for more than for four years he is the longest-serving of Sir Alex Ferguson's eight successors. In the SPL only Jim Jefferies and John Hughes have held on for longer. He has established them as a top six club again - although it was an affront that they were below that when he joined - and taken them on a memorable run to the last 32 of the Uefa Cup last season. There have been exciting one-off results against the Old Firm. He has made Aberdeen respectable and will be able to look back on his time with satisfaction.

 

But managers have a natural shelf life and results are showing he has run his course and taken Aberdeen as far as he can. When he criticises his team it is for the same failings time after time: sloppy defending, individual mistakes, a lack of character or communication among the players.

 

The message doesn't get through where it matters: on the training ground and in the dressing room. What are the chances of that changing in the weeks and months ahead?

 

Those who defend him claim the club will sink again if he leaves. They ask if Aberdeen want to return to the days of Ebbe Skovdahl or Steve Paterson? But a club's standards are not set by the worst appointments in its past. Those two helped Calderwood by dragging the club to such depths that he arrived when there was plenty of room for improvement.

 

The question Milne, Miller and chief executive Duncan Fraser have to ask is whether a new manager would transform the fans' morale, improve attendances and gate receipts and, crucially, get more from the current squad than Calderwood. And they will know the correct answer.

:clap:

(what is the link/tabloid Big Al?)

Aye, that was a bizarre reply. 

 

Bloody hell though, nowt much to smile about just now. Just watched the "high" lites. (Me, with a grimace). Absolutly no organisation on the pitch. making Severin captain was one of many, many mistakes.  Apart from Diamond and Aluko, there is not one of that sorry bunch I would be dissapointed to see go. Rebuilding doesnt quite seem enough somehow.

bump

our last visit to rugby park

It's like one big echo.

Definite deja vu!.

Well remembered and/or researched GS 

at how accurate capitalsharpie's post is 7 months later!

I didn't hear JC take any of the blame/responsibilty for yet another embarrassing cup defeat. Did I miss that bit