Bogbrush1903

Is that the cow that provides her tenants squalor to live whilst she basks in her wealth? I really wish I hadn't cheered her on in 1986 the Dundonian tinker.

We need to find a Lee Harvey Oswald* type that will permanently resolve the Kennedy issue. *If we are to believe the Warren Commission findings

You'll never see the Dons at Cliftonhill. I was at an away match against Albion Rovers in 1989 when it was moved to Fir Park.

I saw Phil McGuire's Carnoustie Panmure in the Scottish Cup at the weekend and a rotund Jamie Winter played the whole 90 minutes which, in essence, meant Panmure were playing with ten men for the entire match. He couldn't run, pass or shoot and didn't look like an ex-pro that had dropped down a few levels at the end of his career. In fact, he was the worst player on the park. At one stage, he mistakingly kicked the ball with his left foot and nudged it away from his right as he swung his leg to kick the ball and took a fresh air swipe. I thought Winter played during Skovdahl or Paterson's tenure but Wikipedia tells me it was during Jimmy Calerwood's!

If any team defends like United did yesterday then they deserve all they get. I think yesterday was less about Celtic keeping the foot on the gas and more about United standing aside and not being, well erm...united. Celtic kept attacking it's true but they were met with no resistance.* It would only happen again if the opposition was complicit in their own downfall like United yesterday and us in 2010. Their players chucked yesterday like ours did too. However, lets not pretend that Celtic were unplayable magnificent yesterday. United have performed like a kid's team for the second match this season. The concede a couple and then just give up. If Ross doesn't go before their next match then they will soon find out that a manager has no long-term future having overseen a 9 goal defeat. *However, it doesn't help when the match officials ignore an offside that looked pretty obvious.

Well it's the old warring factions of the loyalists vs rebels. Both terms play significant roles in these cartoon clubs. The loyalists accept and revel in being part of the hated establishment whilst the rebels are deliberately blind to their significant attachment to the establishment as they would no longer be rebels and be just the same as their enemy. It's getting harder and harder to separate these two entities now. Two cheeks of the same arse is definitely an apt description.

The County fans are due an explanation direct from Robertson's mouth why he deemed that Sands challenge unworthy of a second booking at the very least (although clearly it was a straight red). You would hope VAR would take the power away from these corrupt or terrified officials but we all know that it will be used in such a manner to benefit the Gruesome Twosome.

Allegiances aside, I feel that's a ridiculous price to ask fans to pay especially with the current state of affairs in the country. The club will say that if it sells out then they have their prices set correctly (or maybe even too low) but we know that they're taking advantage of the all-important aspect of football fandom, 'loyalty', alongside, of course, the prestige of the tournament and opponents. I know that they sell the Euro group season ticket for precisely this reason but there's a fair chance you'll be paying £58 (a third of the total price) for a dead rubber.

Barry Robson has all the right United credentials Of course, Aberdeen fans know exactly the pain and humiliation United suffered yesterday. Who would've guessed in the 1980s and even early 1990s that the two teams that would suffer the heaviest top league defeats over the next 30 or so years would've the two very teams that challenged the duopoly. Will United fans ever sing about a 'Beautiful Sunday' again?

What a lot of nonsense!

I agree with your general sentiment but Apollon knocked us out although we won the home leg.

I don't think we should diminish legendary status to include good servants like Grant and Connor or brief dalliances like Nicholas. Alex McLeish is a legend but unfortunately, it pains me to say that now. His post-playing career outward display of allegiances has been such a disappointment. I understand it, given where he comes from, but will never accept it. I thought he epitomised the Aberdeen team with his steely determination but then the dark forces came to the surface... We should've made him manager instead of that knob Aitken and then maybe The Big Red would've stayed on message.

That actually echoes my thoughts precisely...

Was that estimate before or after you saw the draw? If the former, do you still think £150-£165 with Liverpool in the group? That's not a loaded question, I don't know and I would be interested to know a fan's expectations compared to what they actually charge. Last season Aberdeen played the illustrious BK Hacken and we were paying about £34 a ticket if I remember correctly!

Aye, I know but Sevco's will be more expensive..they see their supporters as a cash cow that keeps on giving

I take solace from the fact they'll con their gullible hordes for about £200 to watch their three home Chumpions League matches in the midst of a cost of living crisis. They get all this money and their toilets in the 'Big Hoose' are swimming in pish... New money and all that

Whit's the rumours?

It was odd, I was lurking on Swallow Swallow and the fact that Fat Sam from Bugsy Malone was about ten stone overweight when he scored against St Johnstone didn't seem to prompt any discussion. He was fukin huge!!!

They still live in a world where Jock Wallace is some kind of bully demi-god that represents their "culture", whatever bigoted nonsense that means, so 'Tav' will be a hero throat-grabber to the hordes...

I wasn't sure, it was only my seventh time at Balmoor and two of those were friendlies against Aberdeen (including the 0-4 when Bobby Mann struck an Exocet ) and the attendance was skewed above 1000s. I've seen a couple of low 500s previously, Albion Rovers in 2016 (5-1) and an opening game fixute against Stenny in 2015 (2-2) and finally a couple with bigger travelling supports, against Falkirk (886) and Bohemian Dublin (713). It would've been surprising though if Queens had taken up much more than they did given the distance. I haven't seen Peterhead away yet but I'll aim to do that this season. Do they have a regular travelling support? It's a pity after twenty years of league football that the Blue Toon just can't seem to rally round the club in greater numbers. I suppose there are greater numbers moving up from Aberdeen nowadays as you're getting more bang for your buck property-wise in Peterhead than you are in Aberdeen. With regards the current team, I was surprised at how small some of the Peterhead team looked in comparison to Queens. I think it might be a long season for Peterhead. It's difficult to judge Queens based on the opposition. Possibly the fourth place in the play-offs and then take their chances.

Would have been the 3rd. Murray's second goal. Murray's second goal was scored in the sixth minute of injury time so was the fourth. Paton got Queens third. Why isn't there an official attendance for this match? Do Peterhead not provide attendance figures now? EDIT: Sorry I've just seen the 595 figure listed by @strichenerabove

Ah yes, my apologies, that's it, the 1-4 match

Dundee United's predicament is a good reason why we shouldn't listen to pundits. The Mellon season was all "consolidation and season won't be defined against by team x" (despite team x participating in the same league). Then the Courts season was all about how great season it was and "achievement" qualifying for Europe was despite the fact that it wasn't so much that Dundee United and Motherwell did particularly well but more about how awful Aberdeen and Hibs were. Given that premise, United and Motherwell or any other team didn't need to perform particularly well to make Europe. Then after the AZ match it was all about how brilliant United were to beat a team like AZ and how the glory European nights had returned. Well as an Aberdeen fan, I can tell you that Europe isn't that easy. For the previous seven years we had failed against teams of a similar quality to AZ and that despite having the accumulated experience of around 20 recent European rounds of football and winning about 13 of them. It was obvious that AZ were playing well beneath themselves at Tannadice for reasons unknown and United were facing an uphill task to protect a slender one goal lead. The Tannadice leg in fact represented a missed opportunity for United to establish some more substantial to protect in The Netherlands. Ross is part of the problem but the squad as a whole aren't good enough from the Aussie keeper, Smith and too many veterans that have lost whatever they had. I think United are in for a long, hard season. Consolidation one season and then perceived improvement the next means nothing if you keep changing your manager and turning the squad over.

I actually had memories of you winning 0-3 at Tannadice in the 1980s when George Shaw scored when I watched the highlights yesterday

I thought Mulgrew looked done in 2009/2010 when he 'graced' Pittodrie