Dundee v Aberdeen

[Joe Soap]

Looks like our allocation has been sold out. Good effort. Anybody know if we are getting more tickets?

[Guest Ajjadeen]

Have we sold that little section to the right in the main stand?

[Joe Soap]

19 minutes ago, Ajjadeen said:

Have we sold that little section to the right in the main stand?

We seem to have sold out behind the goal but the main stand sections at the Aberdeen end don't seem to be on sale. Yet?!

[Panda]

Tickets in the main stand now on sale.

[Jute]

 

[BigAl]

If we win tonight, make this the official match thread and lose this one, there will be mutiny on here as Swaddon didn't start it 

[Guest Ajjadeen]

Big game this. Win puts us right into the mix. Dundee are a curious animal. Hard to know what we’ll face. We need to show the attacking intent we did tonight without dropping our pants at the back. Is it too much to ask to have both defensive solidity and attacking flair? 

[manc_don]

Nice to see this one selling well. As Ajja says, just hope we somehow find that balance between attacking and defensively sound football. They’re a bit hard to predict at the moment, but there isn’t a reason why we shouldn’t get a result if we play any sort of logical system and line up. I know some feel mitov is getting undue stick, but he really needs to cut this flapping out. Hes been like this all season and it has cost us.

[tlg1903]

13 minutes ago, manc_don said:

Nice to see this one selling well. As Ajja says, just hope we somehow find that balance between attacking and defensively sound football. They’re a bit hard to predict at the moment, but there isn’t a reason why we shouldn’t get a result if we play any sort of logical system and line up. I know some feel mitov is getting undue stick, but he really needs to cut this flapping out. Hes been like this all season and it has cost us.

Whether fans blame him or not my feeling was when seeing him at ft on wed that I think he defo blames himself.    What's most frustrating for me is I thought he looked far more like himself against Livi.  If he has a poor game against Dundee then you could argue he should probably be dropped for a few games as his confidence will be shot. 

[manc_don]

3 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

Whether fans blame him or not my feeling was when seeing him at ft on wed that I think he defo blames himself.    What's most frustrating for me is I thought he looked far more like himself against Livi.  If he has a poor game against Dundee then you could argue he should probably be dropped for a few games as his confidence will be shot. 

Definitely not calling for him to be dropped as Suman is not the answer. Just want him to pick his own game up again.

[Jute]

26 minutes ago, manc_don said:

Definitely not calling for him to be dropped as Suman is not the answer. Just want him to pick his own game up again.

I thought Suman looked decent when saw him play for Cove last season but only saw him once for us this season which was in KDM game against Spartans where he made mistakes to give Spartans their first two goals. Don’t think Mitov is needing dropped yet anyway but from his time at Cove think Suman would be a good enough back up. 

[Ajja]

You can be sure that Dundee will be shelling his 6 yard box constantly to put him under the pump. That ugly little bastard Murray will be all over him.  

[OrlandoDon]

Impossible to tell how this goes, and mitov symbolizes the team. Could be good could be piss poor. Results have been good for the most part recently, but I think we’ve been fortunate. At the same time I still think we can click and play well.

2-1 us, karlsson and lazetic 

[Ajja]

4 hours ago, OneBrianIrvine. said:

Simon? I’m confused as he’s 6ft?

Would have taken him at one point. Cheap punt better than Ambrose. Was also a spell there that he should have been given a shot for Scotland. He was no worse than anyone else and actually scoring goals regularly. I always admire his work rate.

This will be a controversial take, deep breath - pretty sure there’s an element of the guy getting looked down in part because of gingerism. Not all but I think it plays a part.

i mean look at this post  - “ugly little bastard”. Nae need.

That’s a fair challenge. No need for a personal insult for sure. Rash comments that are definitely born from the frustration of how he plays and the problems he causes us. Size is a relative concept, me being a tall ugly bastard. 

[TheDonbytheDee]

5 hours ago, OneBrianIrvine. said:

Simon? I’m confused as he’s 6ft?

Would have taken him at one point. Cheap punt better than Ambrose. Was also a spell there that he should have been given a shot for Scotland. He was no worse than anyone else and actually scoring goals regularly. I always admire his work rate.

This will be a controversial take, deep breath - pretty sure there’s an element of the guy getting looked down in part because of gingerism. Not all but I think it plays a part.

i mean look at this post  - “ugly little bastard”. Nae need.

Gingerism - That's a new one on me.

He's nae quite up with Davie Dodds in levels of ugliness and he's a pain in the arse on the pitch, so I would take it as a compliment if I were him. 

I wouldn't have minded him here. Could we find better, probably if we looked hard enough, but he would probably have worked in Thelins one up front role.

[TheDonbytheDee]

I was actually quite impressed with Dundee when they played us up here in September. Thought they tried to pass the ball about and play a bit of football, but just lacked the quality and experience and we were able to exploit it. Thought the scoreline flattered us a bit that day, but I wasn't complaining. 

I work with three Dundee supporters and they are actually quite sound. None of them are overly impressed with Pressley though, but I think they are more frustrated with their owners than the actual team and none of them wanted Tony D gone. 

 

[RicoS321]

Could anyone imagine Simon Murray's athletic body, beautiful hair, but with Stuart Armstrong's face? 

Tidy as fuck.

[Ajja]

The boy Congreve is a player. Is he on loan there? 

[TheDonbytheDee]

3 minutes ago, Ajja said:

The boy Congreve is a player. Is he on loan there? 

Aye, on loan from Swansea.

 

[Slim]

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

Could anyone imagine Simon Murray's athletic body, beautiful hair, but with Stuart Armstrong's face? 

 

This is the worst sentence ever to be written.

[Ajja]

50 minutes ago, OneBrianIrvine. said:

Ach sorry that was unfair of me to call you out publicly like that. Overly sensitive to the ginger thing due to a young family members life being made a misery over it. apologies 

I’ll blame Rico for setting me on edge earlier mentioning

(*TRIGGER WARNING* for existential despair)

 Mark Hateley

Not at all. As I said, it was a fair challenge. For the record, been married to an Irish redhead for 25years so I know the lived experience of it first hand. Last acceptable form of prejudice I think she describes it as. 

[Panda]

Interesting debate, is Simon Murray a handsome laddie?

Well, you can't say the Ab-Mad refugees haven't put their stamp on the forum.

[Panda]

As for the best looking team in the league...

Everyone fit except Tobers and Molloy, says Thelin.

Suggested Milanovic in contention, Shinnie probably comes back in too.

Fun fact: Kevin Nisbet has played three times at Dens Park in his career (twice for Aberdeen, once for Dunfermline) and scored on every visit.

[Jute]

As been said above we need to find a way of keeping some of the attacking playing from mid week but be less open. Thought we looked so much better with Nisbet and Lazetic up front together. Defence needs to be better than it was against St Mirren and Mitov can get back to form.
 

In

train then pub

away end

pub then train back to capital

2-0 Lazetic and Nisbet
 

 

[TheDonbytheDee]

1 hour ago, Jute said:

As been said above we need to find a way of keeping some of the attacking playing from mid week but be less open. Thought we looked so much better with Nisbet and Lazetic up front together. Defence needs to be better than it was against St Mirren and Mitov can get back to form.
 

In

train then pub

away end

pub then train back to capital

2-0 Lazetic and Nisbet
 

 

You say defence, I say our central midfielders have to do more to protect our defence.

They all press up looking to score and a quick upfield punt, usually catches us with our pants down at the other end.

Criminal how many times we have witnessed it under Thelin.

We'll get there though, that I am sure of.

 

Fitba on a Saturday though, happy days.

 

COYR