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Nope, not since the 70s! We have a good team this year that play some incredible football at times, but a very small squad and unfortunately we are up against a Dundee United side that are willing to spend whatever it takes to get promoted. i would take a Promotion Playoff spot like last year but don't think we have enough to get over the line.

A lot of people say that it's a shame he never built one for us but to be honest, given that there is now no requirement for an all seater stadium to be allowed into the top division, I am glad he didn't. Somerset may be a toilet, but it is at least an atmospheric toilet.

So promotion for his much beloved Aberdeen resort then? Probably more likely to be a desperate attempt by Aberdeen FC to acquire themselves a celebrity fan.

Absolutely, those at the top level during that period have a lot to answer for. It's sad to see crowds of only 700-800 turning up now at a 10,000 capacity stadium, you are still paying for those people's mistakes now in that respect. As an aside, when I heard about Bill Barr's death this morning, I looked back at news reports from that time and was reading about the day a section of Airdrie fans invaded the pitch at Somerset. The reports stated that the away following that day was around 800.

Nah it's an Aberdeen shirt. The shirt is from about 8 seasons ago I believe.

Well, actually...

Understand Airdrie's gripe with Bill Barr but the root cause of that whole episode was whatever nugget decided that you needed a 10,000 (TEN THOUSAND) seater stadium to have any chance of entry to the promised land of the SPL. Absolutely mind-blowing stupidity.

FAO anyone going to Berlin https://www.dw.com/en/germany-escape-tunnel-under-berlin-wall-opens-to-public/a-51157303 An escape tunnel from East to West Berlin has opened to the public for the first time. Looks excellent.

Blind

And yet you still sing songs about us every weekend xxx

The Berlin derby has potential if Union can retain Bundesliga status beyond this season. Certainly seemed to be a reasonable degree of animosity between both sets of fans on Saturday with Hertha fans launching a rocket into the Union dugout among other incidents. The 'friendly' relationship between the two seems to be eroding.

If Saturday's absolutely gutless derby performance is anything to go by, then they might want to do that sooner rather than later.

Could do worse than this fine fellow

Logged into P&B this morning and saw I had about 8 pages of unread content in the Ayr v Thistle thread, Thought I was in for a delightful hour of chat about Ian McCall's fizzing coupon and the absolutely orgasmic display of Kerrball. Instead, I get this absolute pish. F*** off.

GK - Lee Camp RB - Phil Neville CB - Dedryck Boyata CB - Jason Denayer LB - Luke Shaw RM - Stewart Downing CB - Kleberson CB - Bebe LM - Laurent Robert ST - Francis Jeffers ST - Fred

I attended a Hallowe'en party a few years ago dressed as a priest, and received an evening full of sectarian abuse for my troubles.

Dynamo Dresden set to take around 35,000 fans to Berlin tonight for their cup game at Hertha. Absolutely ridiculous numbers.

Greenock born Luke McCowan once again dishing out a 'swording' to his local team. Delicious.

What was the rough count of away fans, do you know? Looks like there were very few.

Another opportunity to go top spunked up the wall. A draw possibly fair but we definitely didn't deserve to win. Luke McCowan, as bright a prospect as he is, really needs to learn to use his right foot.

Ignoring the lunatic posters may seem like a good idea in theory, but imo you're shooting yourself in the foot by doing that. Take Magee as an example. An absolute mess of a poster, but by ignoring him you are simply risking losing out on the (very) occasional highlights, with Tony's Thread being a prime example. Best just to tolerate the dross in the hope that, one day, you will be rewarded.

Dundee to Ayr can be done in about 2 hours, maybe 2 and a half, Dunfries is probably 2 and a half to 3 hours... people can finish work at 4.30 and still make it to Ayr, but not to Dunfries I'd imagine? About half an hour of a difference, so aye. Of course we aren't taking into account that Dundee FC are absolutely massive with supporters in all corners of the nation.

Realise there's a bigger distance to go, but I think Dundee only took about 70 to Dumfries on a Friday night a few weeks ago.

Much like yourselves, I think we'll see a couple hundred less from Dundee than we would have on a Saturday. I'd say the home crowd will probably be roughly 100-200 less as well. ETA: Our only home Friday night home game so far was Dundee Utd at home in January, so the crowd was pretty reasonable as the title was still up for grabs.

He's said he is done with coaching though, so it would be a bit of a gamble...