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One match per season for each team should be treated like The Purge, with no referee except to keep time.
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2 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Delicious.
Seeing this a lot tbh. "Never seen him play but *insert players name here* is obviously better"
Hes a 1 in 3 goalscorer in the Championship who's apparently rapid, its surely not hard to see why Clarke has called him up after, presumably, watching him a few times this year.
He's a 1 in 8 goalscorer in his championship career. And he's not even 1 in 3 this season.
I'm making no claims on his ability, cause if I've ever seen him play I'd be surprised
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1 minute ago, monthefife said:
Not to be cynical or anything but the Jacob Brown call-up confuses me. Admittedly I've never heard of him or seen him play before but he will have to be 'exceptionally good' to justify a call up to the Scotland squad. What harm could bringing a genuine u21 Scotland striker into the first team have done? Brown's goal-scoring record isn't exactly anything to be excited about. I'd have had Tony Watt called up instead.
The u21 forwards aren't good enough for the u21s
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Kevin Nisbet must be a great laugh in the camp
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97/98 Our first trophy in 36 years, but the whole season, bar a disappointing league Cup defeat,was a joy. Played fantastic football, Cameron, Fulton and McCann were dynamic and deadly from midfield and genuinely thought we were going to win the league after the draw at Celtic Park.
85/86.
I know, I know. But watching a team who had been a fixture in the first division in the early 80s go 30 games unbeaten and win at Ibrox, Parkhead, Pittodrie, Tannadice and Easter Road with Robbo and Colquhoun at their peak was incredible. The end was obviously brutal, but the journey was amazing.
05/06.
Much more mixed feelings on this season, it felt like a missed opportunity and there's a what might have been aspect but the first 3 months was unbelievable. The cup run, bar the final, was also great with the semi-final being an all time classic.
11/12
Entirely for the cup run. Almost everything else was garbage, though there were good wins here and there. The off field was a disaster as well but you'll never top the end.
87/88
It tailed off and there was a very Hearts in the 80s disastrous finish in the Scottish Cup semi, but for most of this season we played some fantastic attacking football and were scoring for fun. A run of dull draws ended what had been a good tilt at the title, but finishing above Souness's Rangers was a great achievement
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55 minutes ago, Ric said:
I don't think it would be difficult to put together a side that could win the league, I'm of an age that has seen non-OF teams win it (and, hilariously, one failed Hearts near miss), the problem is not the players.
The problem is you are fighting a duopoly, and both of them benefit greatly from the media and the officials.
When Aberdeen and United won the league, they had players who were better than what Celtic and Rangers had.
Its also apples and large Hadron colliders comparison the two eras. Budgets were much closer than they are now, if you had a good player he was basically a prisoner if you didn't want to sell him prior to Bosman and the OF were shopping in the same market as everyone else, cause there were restrictions on movement between country.
And nearly every team in the league had at least a couple of players who could easily have played for Celtic or Rangers.
I'm also chuckling at the idea that the officials now are more of a problem than they were then
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22 minutes ago, Merkland Red said:
Boyce would not stroll in to the Aberdeen team ahead of Ramirez.
Souttar, Baningime and Gordon were the only players that looked like they'd threaten our line up on Saturday.
We played shite on Saturday by all accounts. I imagine Dundee fans wouldn't have fancied too many Aberdeen players after your game.
I think you'd struggle to put a team together that you'd fancy to win the league from the ten. There's players in other teams that would improve Hearts, but not by an amount that would transform our team dramatically.
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12 hours ago, Hoose Rice said:
Even hearts fans think Boyce is shite.
Some stupid Hearts fans do certainly.
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I was away for the weekend and saw none of the game but I gather we were absolutely pish and deservedly beaten.
The lack of forward cover always looked like a mistake
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Can only see Denmark resting folk close to a suspension. So hopefully they pick up about 9 bookings against the Faroes
Edit: suspensions don't carry over so we can forget that
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46 minutes ago, Pie Of The Month said:
It's nice of the SSC to email folk with less than half an hour's notice of them going on sale.
Better than the Israel game where they emailed after they were on sale
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42 minutes ago, General dissaray said:
Tavernier was on loan at Gateshead and Carlisle at his age,pretty much the same as playing for Pollok to be kind about Gateshead
Josh Doig is a completely different player and miles ahead off Tavernier for his age
And Tavernier was hitting those figures at his age either that has been only a part of his game he developed a lot later
You seem to think I'm the one who compared him to Tavernier.
Doig, imo, is an alright full back for 19. I am baffled when there's talk of big transfer fees because I see nothing in his game to justify them, and some pretty glaring weaknesses which playing at a higher level would expose quickly.
No issue with him being in the 21s. Would be ridiculous to see him in the full squad.
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21 minutes ago, General dissaray said:
Games moved on its more about getting up a creating at left back but I'm sure his defending will improve over the years like Tavernier last year at Rangers and last few seasons over all
Tavernier still isn't a great defender but his upside is massive.
If Doig was getting double figures for goals and assists a season it would be a different conversation but since he doesn't I'll look at the fact he constantly gets caught out with high balls to the back post and his positioning seems really poor.
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5 minutes ago, General dissaray said:
Explain further what age is he 19 or something tell me the weaknesses you see in his game that experience can't fix?
He can't defend would be top of the list.
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2 minutes ago, General dissaray said:
Josh Doig is class even Steven Gerrard raves about him,hopefully he gets a big move in January he could play abroad as well easily
Josh Doig is one of the most bizarrely overrated footballers I've ever seen.
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Hickey in the 21s is purely going to be to try and improve their results. He'll learn absolutely nowt at that level from either the coaches or players he's with/up against.
And that's fine. If Tierney isn't fit though, get him straight in the full squad unless there's still folk out there who think Josh Doig is a better player
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1 hour ago, kingjoey said:
And I thought that the Aberdeen/Hibs match threads were bad. It must be an Edinburgh thing.
There's a common denominator certainly
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There's very little that would persuade me to go to Pittodrie these days tbh. Used to love it in the days when I went on the supporters buses but simply cannot be bothered now.
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2 minutes ago, Thenorthernlight said:
Aye, true… but our stadium is decrepit & ancient ya plum.
Your main stand is brand new & looks horrendous
I wasn't talking about Pittodrie
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1 minute ago, Thenorthernlight said:
They should try the outside first.
Looks like a horrendous 1970’s office block.
Like all of Aberdeen then?
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1 hour ago, Clown Job said:
Don’t think he had the best of games, subbed after 75 odd minutes
But to be fair Napoli are a very good team who are undefeated in the league so far
He played pretty well tbh. 100% pass success, was the most fouled player on the pitch and basically had Lozano nullified.
They lost 2 penalties and a pearler from 25 yards, none of which he could have done anything about
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23 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
Steven McLean's brother also played for Rangers, Motherwell, Falkirk, Dundee United, Ross County, Hibs, Dumbarton and Morton, so if you're ruling out them and their rivals too then you're basically telling him he can't have a refereeing career.I'm failing to see an issue here
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Disappointing that Dundee's defeat last night robbed us of the chance to see the all-time and current season HP both being in the possession of their rightful owner, Hibernian FCC. The symmetry will just have to wait.
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3 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
Seems a lot of our match threads these days start with someone crying about scott brown.
I quite like him tbh. Not a popular view point I'll grant you.
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Players you never quite got the hype around
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Petrov used to look like Maradona against us. A top class player imo.
From recent times, definitely Scott McKenna who I have never seen have a single good game. Getting the fee Aberdeen did seems like it should be a criminal offence.