Bogbrush1903

A Dons Legend then..

It must be horrible for the refs to have to give penalties against the Gruesomes.

Is Martin Buchan back living in the Northeast then? I just assumed that because the local press never seem to interview him that he remained in the Manchester area. Who's on the left? I'm only born in 1975 so they're before my time

The boy appears keen to try his luck elsewhere and doesn't want to sign an extension. He's hardly played for us and if we get some dough then hopefully we can reinvest it wisely with someone who wants to be at Pittodrie. Maybe the pain will ease for you when he appears in front of photographers with a green and white scarf above his head. I think a feeling of contempt will be your overriding emotion...

What's he said? Link? I've felt since the summer that Barron didn't see his future at Pittodrie. As long as we get a decent wedge for him and he doesn't remain in Scotland then he goes with my blessing (for what it's worth). I'm pretty nonplussed about Barron, he's had a very brief first-team career here.

There's a lot of pubs on the streets that branch off from Union Street like Belmont Street and Shiprow has a bit of life about it now., and I suppose Justice Mill Lane and Windmill Brae although I tend to stay near the eastern side of Union Street nowadays.

Ryan Duncan needs... a. A new Jim McLean-esque lengthy contract and b. To be unleashed and found a regular place in the starting lineup. He's fast and direct now just needs to build up his experience.

And completely turned his back on the player for the first goal leaving the United player just to saunter past him as the Albanian looked the other way.

He was headhunted after that display of expertise and now gives people coaly bags up and down Harley Street.

I thought that too, it was quite obvious from the start that Haring was struggling. The efforts of the emergency teams around the pitch was also lackadaisical at best.

Ah right, my apologies it was FC Zurich they played rather than Grasshoppers.

That's straight out of the Souness prick's guide on how to administer the career-ending tackle. Barron was lucky he wasn't seriously injured judging by that gif.

Aye, but our 15 games include matches against Peterhead, Dumbarton, Raith, Stirling and Annan rather than Grasshoppers, Başakşehir, Fiorentina.

I've got one or two myself with Jayden Richardson at the forefront. He didn't have a clue or seem to care where Cochrane was when he missed that sitter. He contributed very little today and I would like to see Goodwin make moves to try and rectify that instead of watching him complete every minute of every game. Ramadani played a lovely ball through for the opener but overall I wasn't impressed with him. Although I'm delighted we took the three points we still look soft centered. Performance wise, was there really any difference between Tannadice last week and Pittodrie this week? I'm just not convinced by this team and have no trust in them to get a result. We'll enjoy the victory today but I'm still not looking forward to those two away games at the end of the month.

Aye, McCann went from pre-match and half-time excitement and positivity to disconsolate and doomed up at full time. I really can't think of a bigger prick on the radio (if we exclude Kenny McIntyre). It followed on from John Collins & Peter Grant both in a state of dejection the previous night. Absolute top quality radio and hopefully will be recognised as such at the next Radio Academy Awards. It is always a pleasure to bear witness to when harsh reality strikes the Gruesomes that they're just a couple of diddies like the rest of us .

To be fair, they didn't have to bung the Scottish League when they were allowed to join up in 2012 without going through the normal procedures of the day. However, I have been reflecting this week on the Gruesomes desire to play in England. We've witnessed this week that these two should be careful about what they wish for, as both saw the Chumpions League as the promised land at the start of the season and now they just want the torture to end asap.

In the week we've lost one of the last surviving stars from Hollywood's Golden Age (the studio system), I think it's fitting to reflect when Hollywood came to Scottish football. None so remarkable as when Grace Kelly,then Princess Grace of Monaco, arrived at Tannadice with her hubby, Prince Rainer on UEFA Cup business. She would die in car crash less than a year later...

I'm just reading the article and I don't see anywhere that Maxwell says that the staff haven't been trained. I also don't see anywhere that Maxwell says that they didn't bother looking at previous experiences of VAR rollouts across the world. The problem is when users are exposed to a new system. They can uncover bugs with use that wasn't accounted for during testing or they can have a lack of understanding at what the technology does and how it should be applied. The players and managers of clubs aren't staff but users. You can educate users all you want but unfortunately it won't stop initial misunderstandings. That education only comes with real world experience.

Part of the job description of a manager will be to communicate to the fans via external media. If Goodwin can't be trusted to control his emotions over that medium then it's a problem (of course, it's a problem already because he's watching the next few games from the stands).

We'll see how ready it is in the forthcoming weeks.

It's new technology to Scottish Football.

They say in the article it's a "soft roll-out". New technology needs tested in a real-world environment and there will be bugs found, that's normal.

Young Matty Kennedy in some fairly exalted company here displaying his tricks although he's uploaded the video himself...

I agree that VAR's interpretation of what constitutes handball or even offside can make a mockery of the technology. Unfortunately, that's the problem which @kingjoey refers to where it's actually humans (if referees can be classed as such) that make the final decision on what the technology as shown them. It's far easier for them to be a jobsworth and use the technology to give a penalty, for instance, for an unintentional handball by applying the letter of the law than use the technology to look at one of your own decisions and say "oh I got that wrong, I'll overturn it" as @coprolite highlighted.

Maybe I don't understand it but every decision a referee makes without the assistance of his assistant referees are subjective. However, if VAR decides that the referee might want to take a second look at that decision he's just made that may have game-changing consequences then surely that's its purpose? Whether a trumpet like Craig Thomson (who I think was the ref that sent off Devlin) would admit he's wrong of course is a different matter.