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9 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Curious to the optimism of this game vs Celtic. You’ve said it more than once too and, over the last week in particular, we’ve been piss poor against weaker teams. While this isn’t the best Celtic of recent years they’re still a handy bunch. Nothing in our performances of late tell me a shock is on the cards. Someone posted we’re the second worst team in the league at the moment, 3 league wins and 2 cup wins in 2024 doesn’t fill me with confidence against our league leaders. Why so optimistic?

It's all about feelings. I can feel it. Gut etc. 

In other words, shite.

3 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

SFA saying fixtures announced this week,no day given https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/spfl-post-split-fixtures-released-28995051

Working out how to give the Huns an extra home fixture.

1 hour ago, dons8321 said:

5 point advantage but we've to go to Dingwall and would you bet on us even taking a point with our scaredy-cat motley crew? 

I think Motherwell are better than us this season, but we seem to actually be able to play against them, they suit our style. Livingston will be coming here too, so it's a couple of opportunities. I'd think a single win would be enough. County won't win 3/5. 

Aye, the Huns have always hated us more than the Tims. Our relegation more important to them than winning the league. 

We could get lucky with our five point advantage. We're the second worst team in the league right now.

1 hour ago, Kowalski said:

We need a new manager in now, not June. If the club has any ambition for silverware this season they should be moving hell and earth to get somebody in asap. 

Moving hell and earth to get someone in for a few days in the hope that he might manage to get this bunch of players to get lucky in the subsequent game against the Tims? I'd prefer the club to remain on this planet in terms of realism. We might get lucky in a one off game against the Tims (I actually think that we will), but it won't be because of a new manager. 

Just back. That was absolutely honking. Again. It seems that we're just not very good at football. The conditions were terrible as they have been for some months now, and I'm wondering if the first thing that Thelin will ask when he turns up is why we aren't playing summer football. Both teams were shite today in opposing halves. 

We controlled the first half without creating any chances, and they did similar in the second. There were no redeeming features about us today, with every player being fairly pish, and the subs bringing more of the same. Duk playing for bookings in the first half was quite something, to not capitalise on any of the three players he got booked being on a booking was impressive. He just didn't seem to want to do the difficult, meaningful stuff once he got past a player or when in a good position. He then shut down at halftime. He was far from our worst performer. Thankfully we've only got three more at pittodrie to endure.

20 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

Not a good day for hoofall,blowin a hoolie.Might have to play some of that on the deck stuff..

Nonsense. Throw it in the mixer.

1 hour ago, manc_don said:

Really hope the last Dundee game was a blip for Leven. He speaks so much sense so I’d be surprised if it wasn’t. Just don’t want a repeat of said blip! 

I was impressed with Dundee in that game, tactically. They played two high pressing midfielders and sylla picking off our attacks in front of their defence. Something we'll struggle to get round with our setup. Hoping that Miovski does something good, basically.

7 minutes ago, tlg1903 said:

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/aberdeen-players-warned-jimmy-thelin-9218744?fbclid=IwAR0cAPbov1giqMrB5truCFgaQHCNFP8ja--NexiXC65Sf1jKqlTzhLWB_HY

"He also stressed a lot that we don't call substitutes just substitutes because they are decisive. And true enough, his substitutes decided many games. I don't think it was a coincidence."

I think I love him.

49 minutes ago, tom_widdows said:

In the all ireland final several years back hawkeye ruled out a point despite all 5 umpires & the opposition players giving it and TV pictures showing it went straight down the middle

Result

At halftime they checked the replays, awarded the point and decided to play the 2nd half without hawkeye.

UK seems rife with 'the computer said it was wrong' 

Sounds like they've got a weird version of football in Ireland.

2 hours ago, BigAl said:

O J Simpson aged 76.

Great American footballer and actor among other things.

1 hour ago, manc_don said:

Bahaha has anyone seen the statement from the GFA? Essentially confirming that they made it up at the time but Hawkeye confirms that it was the right decision. What an absolute cluster football in Scotland is. Couldn’t make it up. Own the fucking mistake.

https://x.com/ScottishFA/status/1778124348387103113

"The Scottish FA has today received a report from Hawkeye on the incident that occurred at Livingston’s match against Aberdeen, which confirmed that the Broadcast 18-Yard Left Camera suffered a loss of calibration and ceased line tracking on the relevant video frame. During the review, Hawkeye were able to reprocess the data through their system and draw the calibrated offside lines from the disallowed goal, which showed Angus MacDonald to be in an offside position. The VAR made the decision using the technology that was available and this decision was validated by Hawkeye's retrospective recalibration conducted as part of their review."

Christ, that's embarrassing. I hope the club respond. 

1 hour ago, Panda said:

By all accounts he's very "boring", not one to criticise referees or make outlandish statements

Fuck sake. Exactly what we don't need. A raving nutcase who throws his weight around when we lose is what the fans want. 

Can only assume Lennon was asking for too much.

10 minutes ago, Panda said:

It means Peter Leven will be the first interim manager since Valdas Ivanauskas in 2006 to win the Scottish Cup.

You can have that for your next pub quiz.

Obviously Warnock will claim it.

1 minute ago, OrlandoDon said:

Second paragraph says it all. That’s the most basic common sense to me….!?!? You only change a call where it’s a clear and obvious error and that wasn’t the case and couldn’t be verified.

It is to us, but as soon as you give these interfering cunts the power to rule, they can't stop themselves. The level of arrogance that it takes to believe that you can better make a decision from a wonky camera angle, than a linesman looking straight across the pitch (it was a freekick too, so the linesman was in the exact position required). Not just arrogance, but it shows that they don't have even a basic understanding of how the system works to overcome 2D parallax, which is the whole fucking purpose of the Hawkeye system. I'd be fucking furious if I was the linesman having his work ruined by those incompetent fuckers. 

Just as important is that they lied to the BBC at the weekend too. The BBC must surely release the details of who they spoke to at the SFA and properly out them on this. There should be resignations. 

There's a fairly strong case to say that the game should be replayed. The officials haven't followed protocol. Fielded an illegible player in the offside decision as it were. If it was either of the scum, a) this wouldn't have happened, and b) the game would be replayed.

Perfect. Although he'll be disappointed not to be lifting the trophy at the end of May. 

Fucking hell that's bad. I have to say, I'm normally fairly critical of our club when it comes to statements, but this one was exactly right. No partisan pish, just sticking to the facts. It has to get canned, hopefully this is the start of the process.

1 hour ago, Panda said:

Apparently we have our man, announcement expected this week.

 

Jimmy Thel in?

And, in other news, Joe Kinnear has distanced himself from any speculation surrounding the Dons' job.

Now that Peterborough have won the English challenge cup, it'll be time for Cormack's masterstroke of bringing in Ferguson minor. Its setup perfectly for him. Holding the scarf aloft as he stands next to his old man's statue. It'd be peak Dave.

1 hour ago, Slim said:

It looked to me that someone at the other end of the “line” could have been playing him on but very difficult to see through the stramash of players, which makes it difficult to justify deeming it a “clear and obvious” error (assuming I haven’t misunderstood the VAR/offside rules again).

I should have said, it's fairly obvious why offside can't be subject to the "clear and obvious" error rule. Because it can be measured, and with a good degree of precision, you'd get a call that was 29cm off being let go one week and another that was 20cm off being disallowed the next. Unless the camera was directly in line (it wasn't today, making it seem more in Macdonald's favour), then any "quick check" by someone just looking at the footage could be wildly out. That means, in order to check offsides, you absolutely have to draw the lines (by that, I mean perform the calculation, the machine doesn't draw lines to decide), there is no other option. As soon as you involve the computer, then it can only produce an exact yes or no call. You could allow a leeway of 30cm for an attacker if you like, but the system would still have to go through the same process. 

To be honest, I'm staggered that people don't get this by now, there's been toenails offside in world football for years now. It's why there's no good version of VAR or any of the other bollocks we keep getting told. The only option is to remove it, or get more and more technical (and expensive) and change the rules of the game to fit what the computer can do. It clearly should never have been implemented in football, it's fucking pish.

7 minutes ago, STFU_Donny said:

That offside call was far from obvious and the fact they didn’t draw lines absolutely stinks. Even McFadden and McCann thought the goal should’ve stood since it was too close to call. We have VAR and they half arsed it. Fucking joke. 

That's not how it works, and it's frustrating that they don't know their job. It's never too close to call, the software will always produce a definitive result, yes or no (with leeway for the frame rate and benefiting the attacker). Although, I think what McFadden and McCann were actually saying is that they don't think calls as close as that should be subjected to VAR checks (although that in itself makes no sense for obvious reasons).

Also, the lines are just for illustrative purposes, a visual representation for the fan. They are not required to provide that illustration, apparently, but it's very much the done thing. The club should complain to the SPFL and force them to release that, it just leads to conspiracy otherwise. 

1 hour ago, Slim said:

It looked to me that someone at the other end of the “line” could have been playing him on but very difficult to see through the stramash of players, which makes it difficult to justify deeming it a “clear and obvious” error (assuming I haven’t misunderstood the VAR/offside rules again).

Yes, you have. Offside is not subjective, so is not subject to the clear and obvious condition, it either is or isn't. The only subjective part is whether a player is interfering or not, and so a ref will be sent to the monitor for those (Shankland the other week was deemed to have been deliberately blocking the keeper's view of a freekick from an offside position for example), in today's incident MacDonald received the ball and so it isn't subjective as to whether he was interfering. Ours was almost certainly offside today. However, the done thing (because there's not thousands of these incidents in a day of Scottish top flight) is to compile the results of the software and provide the illustration of the offside call with the shitey lines overlaid so that fans can at least understand the basis of the decision (despite many not getting the whole parallax effect). They've said that it was such a clear call (not clear to the linesman directly in line) that there was no need to provide this. They said that they're "not required to", which is cuntspeak of the highest order. I'm assuming that they've fucked up part of the admin, deleted the scene from their software or some shite, and we'll never know because it's not remotely transparent.

39 minutes ago, wee toon red said:

Bringing this back from the dead…

Found myself at QOS v Kelty this afternoon so paid close attention to our boy Alfie. First impression: we don’t need to worry about him being physically ready, he’s a well-built lad for someone who doesn’t turn 18 until next week.

Played on the right side of Kelty’s attack which limited the number of clear cut chances he got but he was always keen to take possession and have a go at his man. He had a couple of half chances on the angle but didn’t trouble the keeper, which I’m sure he’d have liked to have done.

It looked like he was an integral part of Kelty’s team and was fully involved in the celebrations of their goals and at full time so he really seems to have embraced the move and all that comes with it.

Whether he’s ready for top flight football (he said confidently) next season is hard to say based on 90 minutes but it’ll be a good decision for the new manager to have to make. Pretty sure that hanging about our struggling team looking for minutes here and there this year wouldn’t have done him much good so thumbs up to all concerned with the move.

Aye, he's looked good in the short bits I've seen, and my mate said he played well against Cove Huns earlier in the season. 

However, Ryan Duncan also looked physically strong and a good first team prospect with his performances at Peterhead, so it's probably not a barometer of much. I think he'll be ready for a go next season, and I'd have him in the squad.