Bogbrush1903

Theo Snelders all at sea for the first. His best days behind him, he was soon off to suck the teats off the Oldco cash cow... Fair play to Stenny though, this is what the game is all about (or was formerly all about)....

Ah, I never knew there were two clubhouses. A shame that they knocked the place down. I'm not sure if the place ever had floodlights. I happened to be watching an 1983 Euro qualifying match between the Republic and The Netherlands and it was played at Bohs Dalymount Park presumably because of the evening kick-off. It was insane, a huge amount of fans watching from roof of one particular stand ( a small number seen in the picture below) Apologies, this isn't part of the photographic history of Scottish football...

You might've been able to see the Accies at Pittodrie in August 1986 then? I first saw the Accies at Pittodrie on the 15th April 1989 (which was the same afternoon the tragic events at Hillsborough were unfolding although I had saw them play at Tannidice the previous November. The Souness slayer, Adrian Sprott, would return to haunt The Dons with another memorable (well not a fond memory for me though) Scottish Cup giant killing act with the toppling of Roy Aitken's Aberdeen at Ochilview in 1995...Below Aitken looks a condemned man whilst Drew Jarvie looks like he's seen a ghost (sprint coach Stuart Hogg is the third man)..

Ironically, and I didn't know when I typed his name, but the team also included Kevin McKee who I mistook for Joe Tortolano earlier in the thread!!! Here is Adrian Sprott and co celebrating with that f@cking c@nt Fergie (I jest)....Although I'm a Dandy Don through and through, I've always had a soft spot for the Accies, possibly stemming from this result in 1987. I remember the UK wide BBC News 9pm Saturday night programme showing the goals (1-2 I think) of them losing at home to Motherwell in the next round. The cameraman looked like he was capturing the action from the touchline it was so low.

...Indeed, I've no idea how I managed to miss that I wasn't aware that we once had that smashing clubhouse in the area where the Wing Stand once stood. It reminds me on the clubhouse that use to be in Landsdowne Road. It was underneath the cameras that were focused on the pitch so was rarely seen on TV

Aye, the link is to the Aberdeen v Dundee match to which we're told the picture was taken...

In case you face the same issue in the future, if you right click on the web page, and choose View Page Source, you can see the page in it's raw coded form and copy text from there... So here's an extract from the page...My first ever job was with Mr Hall and Mr Tawse at Grantiehill Road in the late summer of 1991. I made my one and only trip to Broomfield during this period to watch Aberdeen beat Airdrieonians 2-1. "Workmen engaged on the repair of the Aberdeen aqueduct, in the employment of William Tawse, Ltd saw the match at Pittodrie without penalty of dismissal after all. Some of them wanted to go to Dundee last Saturday, but were told that if they absented themselves from the job they would be dismissed. At the same time their overseer gave qualified promise that a certain number might get off to see the match at Pittodrie in the event of a replay. When this was explained to Mr Tawse he decided that the promise should be honoured, although he expressed astonishment that men who were on unemployment relief work should be so ready to sacrifice half a day's wages besides paying for admission to Pittodrie - between 5s and 6s - in order to watch a football match."

Not being a Hibs fan, I thought it was Kevin McKee but you're correct... Here he is sporting a fine East German-esque mullet with a pair of Hi-Tec Badmintons...

Oh he lives and breathes the Gruesome Twosome... His autobiography accompanied me on a trip from Helsinki to Copenhagen and everything seemed to relate back to the Uglies. I suppose they have kept him in employment for a large swathe of his working life. Ironically it was his time at Eurosport I found most interesting although I enjoyed the book. Actually, I flew to Helsinki from Copenhagen at the start, and there were Celtic fans coming through the airport as they were playing Malmo that evening.

Are you Nick Dasovic? He was certainly born in Vancouver and must still have connections in Perth. Sally McMoist pre-Sunderland switch. Unfortunately, I never visited Muriton Park although I'm fairly sure I was outside if it was in the middle of a housing estate . I heard there was a lot of trouble at the cup tie with the Dons in 1988 including an incident with a firework. I think John Pelosi played in Accies cup win at Snake Mountain in 1987, mentioned earlier in the thread. And he was sued for ending the career of Jim Brown according to Wikipedia! Brown settled out of court.

Was that Dougie McKay? I was on the bus to Ayr United a couple of years back and asked him which European tie he had missed. He thought he had been to Dinamo Tirana but I thought it was unlikely as there was a limited amount of visas handed out. He has missed a few more games than Tirana though before this season but his effort is quite extraordinary. We got speaking to him in Torremolinos in 2001 when we was over for the matches against 1860 Munich and Tunisia in the mid-winter break. In the days in between the games we bumped into him at the bar. He recounted the matches he had missed in the last 30 odd years (at that time) on one hand. Then the next day my mate and I were having drink when Uncle Ebbe, Zerouali, David Wylie and others who I've forgotten passed by and my mate and me broke into song. Hearing our refrains they came over and Ebbe informed us that the Tunisian match was now cancelled and we'd be playing 1860 Munich again at the same venue but different time. Alas, in the early days of the internet and before social media, the aforementioned McKay never got to hear about the plan change. Consequently, he missed the very next game after telling us about the 3 or 4 he had missed earlier in the week.

Whoever the manager is next season they are going to have it extremely tough. We will need to make significant changes including a new forward line, the demise of the continuity of the dressing room with the departures of long-term squad members Logan & McGinn, and continuing cutbacks on the wage bill that has been high in the last couple of years without reward. If Cormack doesn't act to remove McInnes in the summer, which I think he should and will, then McInnes would be prudent to leave on his own accord. His attractiveness to vacancies south of the border will be low, possibly non-existent, at the moment, certainly at a Championship level, and the turmoil that season 2021/22 promises to be for Aberdeen might blow any hopes of decent job afterwards out of the water.

A Gothenburg Great and that will never be taken away from his legacy but he acted like a twat that day when Durrant was injured. He wound up Simmy and, in my opinion, I think Simmy made a wrong spy when he went in for the challenge. When he played with us he displayed controlled aggression but that day Souness must've gave him orders to intimidate and it was a different Cooper than we'd seen at Aberdeen. Cooper put that rag over his shoulders and I would've been amazed if there was anyone in the home support had a good word to say about him, and the goal celebrations left a bad taste too. But Cooper had earned his right to be forgiven for that day and for joining them if not, by me at least, forgotten...

I think there was positives with regards the display against Motherwell on Saturday. However, the Livingston games are huge. Two wins and I think we'll seal Top 4 and Europe. Two defeats and we could be in a spot of bother. Although, I think there will be one or maybe both draws. We need to try something else up front. In my opinion, forget the physicality and try McGinn with Anderson and give them two or three games to gel. It can't be any worse than the forward line for the last couple of months. We seem to be waiting for Cosgrove to find form. I think this should only be with cameos from the bench at the moment. His confidence is shot or he's lost interest and wants out.

Amen to that, their fans spout nonsense about how we're not their rivals on the pitch but it's about so much more than that anyway. The win at all costs, mob rule, bullying attitude, a club that, for the majority of the supporters, represents their deep seated bigoted hatred of another. Yet even that is just a facade as the duopoly prostitutes themselves in an attempt to attract people away from their local clubs with the carrot of tainted trophies bought with the crumpled filthy notes that they've squeezed from their moronic hordes, who gladly top up the coffers to show how 'loyal' they are to Queen and club with season ticket sales and an oversized rag of red, white and blue. Oldco and the phoenix are just a scam, a Ponzi scheme for Protestant bigots. A indoctrinated, brainwashed mass that tie their own ribbons to the corrupt institution and hope that the 'success' of beating teams with scant resources in comparison will rub off into their own pishy feral existences. And we've still won more European trophies than them. Not bad for a "Diddy" club eh?

Barrie Mitchell's only played the 1972-73 too...It's a few years too early for me, but he seems to have had a solid enough career both at Dunfermline beforehand and Tranmere after although not a prolific striker by any means.

It's the old two bald blokes fighting for a comb type rivalry between Hearts and Hibs though. I've always felt it's held both clubs back a bit, especially Hibs. You've only qualified something like nine times for Europe since 1978!

Well I hear people mention sacking him now and, in my opinion, that would be mistake. I don't think it does the club any good. However, I'm not convinced his heart is in the job like it was 3 or 4 years ago. I would prefer if he left by his own decision in the summer and we take our time from now in finding the right replacement.

Do you suggest that he's irreplaceable at present ? Just asking, I don't if you were seriously asking or if it was rhetorical? I've said before and I maintain that McInnes should consider leaving in the summer before things really start to slide.

Aye, there was a Covid outbreak but I didn't want to go down that road as there was a suspicion that it affected mostly reserves and they might have been attempting to line up an excuse beforehand because they had concerns about their match fitness. I don't think their preferred first XI that night was affected much by Covid.

If I remember correctly, the general feeling was not that Sporting were shite but they weren't match fit due to their lack of competitive matches at the time , which was substantiated by Seb Coates or whoever the big mouthed Uruguayan defender was blowin out his ass after one hour. Now, Derek had, quite rightly, used the lack of competitive action against teams whose season had began as an inhibitor to progress in the competition. But we lost an early goal and couldn't breach their lethargic rearguard action. And as a footnote, they then lost 1-4 at home to LASK in the next round who themselves were knocked out in the group stage by Spurs and Antwerp. There was an opportunity for us to at least reach the play-off round which would have been progress and an achievement of sorts. Or put another way, it's probably the best chance we'll get to knock out Sporting in Lisbon, if you consider they were a not fully match fit team (relatively speaking in comparison with ourselves) playing in an empty home stadium, and we were playing quite inventive football at the time both domestically and in Europe (with very impressive win in Norway). But the sale and loss of McKenna just before the Sporting match was a big blow to us.

Can't argue with any of that, and I agree that Forrest is a good player. I haven't seen him live with Livingston but I remember him from Ayr United...

I'm surprised the Canadian hasn't been along to inform the thread with his ITK stuff regarding this swap deal with the devil we're supposedly engaged in. I remember a few months he was font of all knowledge on here... "we don't care if its true or not, it's good to read" said one poster... My feeling is that Wright will go this window but there will be no player swap. If we get the McCrorie deal finalised then it's a good piece business. Wright can join other local lads David "Mason and Chelsea" Robertson and Union Jack as persona non grata in the City of Aberdeen. The names of Davie Robertson offspring is an example of what happens when you become one of them. You're not just signing for a club but a right-wing political institution. And that is magnified for the Scottish lads*. Make no mistake, Wright will be mason by the end of the year if he isn't one already. He'll visit dubious 'fan clubs' in both Scotland and Northern Ireland and opportunities will open for him. If he isn't a rat presently, then it will only be matter of months before he is fully initiated in that world. Let's hope we can give him a warm Pittodrie homecoming next season... *I actually think Richard Foster was an exception to this and he was castigated by their support, primarily for being shite but also because he didn't embrace the 'ethos' of the club. I don't feel sympathy for him though the rat...

Would other clubs have won trophies without Oldco cheating? Definitely

Greg Stewart isn't returning.. Thank f@ck