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A match was played with much more tension than the game tomorrow, best remebered for Italia 90 qualification, two unusual goals and the beginning of the end of Willie Miller's playing career.
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On 10/11/2023 at 18:05, kingjoey said:
It would be interesting, for me anyway, to hear about the trip experiences of any fans on here who were in Greece.
The PAOK match for me was also the most attractive in the group primarily because it was in Southern Europe and the football culture is slightly alien to us Northern Europeans.
I also had a tickle at Northern European earlier in the campaign with the trip to Gothenburg and I must say that I really enjoyed both trips with the added bonus of improving my own European away record with a couple of credible 2-2 draws (and so near yet so far to a win against Hacken).
We flew to Sofia and spent only around 12 hours there, with this compressed view of Sofia from later evening/early morning made the place seem quite grim especially to my fellow travellers; however, I had been there before a few years ago and enjoyed it.
We took Flix bus down and we knew from the plane journey from Edinburgh the previous night that we would be accompanied by quite a few other Dandies. A protracted stop on the Greek border (although with perfectly aimable border guards) and a bizarre police escort involving a changeover in cars (the second driver appeared to be petting a dog for most of the journey) which suddenly ended about 30 minutes away from Thessaloniki.
On arrival, we just had three tins outside a sort of newsagent just off the main drag (and across from Hotel Mandrino) then we went to a restaurant, had another three pints and, realising it was now 19:15, asked the waiter to arrange that taxi we had requested at the beginning of the meal.
We asked the driver to drop us off at the home end because the traffic was bad, then we ran round, stopping intermittingly to check if it was our gate ("No, keep going round"), but it's now after kick-off. We finally get in but to my immediate left is the toilet and the physical activity has got my bladder weighing heavy so into the pits I go with one of my fellow travellers, whilst the other two enter pitchside.
I've just finished when a muffled cry goes up and, not being familiar with the acoustics of the stadium, my eyes flit towards the toilet entrance to see if anyone chose the post-goal upheaval to join the pit lane, two women enter (unisex toilets), what looks like a Mum and daughter, "goal for PAOK?" I ask with increasing alarm, "goal for Aberdeen!" is the reply......Aaaaaargh, I missed it!!!!!
Anyways, I saw the rest of the match and, thank the Lord for a man called McGrath, I did finally have something to celebrate with my own eyes.
Flew back home via three nights in Berlin for the Synästhesie Festival (disappointing fare this year although perked up on the second night with a great performance from The Warlocks), and two matches in the Oberliga NOFV-Nord, SC Staaken - FC Anker Wismar (84 spectators) & BSV Eintracht Mahlsdorf - SV Lichtenberg 47 (a healthy 384 although mostly for the away team).
However, returned home with an unwanted guest called Covid.
Apart from the home match with Eintracht, that's my European journey with Dons over for this season. I'll miss HJK as I'm going into the away end for Toulouse vs Union Saint-Gilloise (another team heading for a Euro exit).
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16 hours ago, Rodhull said:
No doubt but i'm sure even if it had been huge numbers they would say it was a small number to save face anyway.
I'm not sure why it's taken over three days, you would've thought that a simple database query could've found in a couple of seconds those with loyalty points beneath a defined threshold that had purchased tickets for the Final.
Indeed, it would be interesting to know the search conditions they implemented to highlight those Attila suspicious purchases.
Burrows citing "human error" in the ticket office publicly is unlikely to have created a harmonious atmosphere.
I still have doubts whether I'll get a ticket but I live in hope.
Either way, the whole thing has been a monumental fuck up
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On 12/11/2023 at 17:42, Gibby82 said:
This part is Aberdeen's fault, tbf.
Or more precisely, Stewart Milne's fault
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6 hours ago, Frank Grimes said:
Why didn’t you try and get a ticket when they went on sale?
It was pretty well publicised what the sales process was, rightly or wrongly
Sounds like some are kicking themselves for being too lax
By the time the club weed out some **** with no sales history and put the extra 2500 on sale there will be plenty to go around imo
My situation is that I attend most home matches and a few more away matches in a season.
However, I don't normally purchase a season ticket although I did this season.
Therefore, I only have 180 'loyalty' points.
Consequently, I wasn't able to purchase in the nine hours those with 200+ had.
Anyway, on Monday, I was travelling back from the PAOK trip (I went to Berlin for a music festival afterwards) and wouldn't have been aware that I had to purchase anyway even if I did have 200+.
I'm not a diehard, if there was allocation of say 2000 then there would be far more deserving cases of a ticket than I but I would fancy myself being in the top 10,000 of regulars so with an allocation of 19,000, and with a loyalty system in place, I believed that I would get an opportunity to buy before the Oi Polloi got carte blanche.
But it isn't too much to ask, give 200+ a couple of days to buy, then those between 100-200 a day if you want, then a day for 0-100 before putting them on general sale.
I don't think it was lax, I wasn't even aware that the 200+ tickets had gone on sale. The first time I realised they were on sale was when the uproar started.
This was the reason the old voucher system was in place after the Liverpool fiasco when all these big time Charlies came out of the woodwork to snaffle up tickets and deny those that turn up at the less attractive games the opportunity to watch the big match.
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31 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
That does seem a little petty. the club made a mistake, have apologised for it and there is likely plenty to go around. No real cause to spite them.
I don't think "plenty to go around" is correct at all. I think it's extremely unlikely that I'll be able to get a ticket from the remaining 2500 tickets.
What's the point of a 'loyalty' points system if you're going to do a fire sale after nine hours and completely disregard those in the 100-200 loyalty points category?
The apology doesn't really meaning anything, they perfectly understood the outcome of their actions because that was the whole point of introducing the general sale to snap up four tickets per person and sell them quick.
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20 minutes ago, STFU_Donny said:
You can email the club and get put on the list for the next batch of tickets.
I did send them email but it wasn't to beg for a ticket.
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18 minutes ago, kingjoey said:
Not sure how serious you are here, but we are getting a further 2500 tickets. The club have asked anyone who has missed out on a ticket, to send an email to AFC with their details.
To be honest, their disregard for the regular support has left a sour taste in my mouth (or maybe that's the Covid that I got returning from PAOK).
I hope all the Attilas and Christmas Trees on their annual visit to the football have an enjoyable day in the Aberdeen end.
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Ah well, looks like I've missed out on a final ticket.
I still am mystified who the 17,000 were that snapped up the tickets so quickly.
Probably the first time back for many since we took 44,000 at Parkhead.
It's no surprise though that the club has allowed this to happen.
Unfortunately, we've got bunch of idiots at the tiller. They've allowed this to happen in order to prove a point to Sevco and the governing body and to hell with any of their regular attendees that weren't quick off the mark.
Or maybe it was just me and my cohorts that missed out.
C'est la vie as our French counterparts say...
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I remember supporters on here and elsewhere after 0-5 trouncing on the last day of last season, saying that it didn't matter.
Whether it's the first, last or anywhere in-between and whether it's a dead rubber or for a European place, it matters.
Celtic do not have a ounce of fear about us, we set up for 'damage limitation' and bend over for them, we write off the points and the fans have no expectations other than being well beaten.
We embrace the mantra that "our season will not be defined by what we do against the 'Old Firm'.
We've become a tinpot club over the last thirty years. If Cormack really wants to change that status quo then he needs to sack Robson, get in a manager of substance and experience that won't write off points against any team in our league.
In the meantime, we'll travel down to the League Cup Final in December in the knowledge that our chances of victory are extremely slim.
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Just crossed the Greek border on a Flix bus from Sofia. The bus is probably 75% populated with Dandies and the Greeks made a longer check on UK passports. We were held at the border for nearly 1 hour and a half.
We're now under police escort for the remaining 60 odd miles to Thessaloniki!!!
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3 minutes ago, glasgow-sheep said:
Been here since Friday
Place is cracking. Can't quite believe the shit we have to deal with pre-match. Can't quite believe it, the city seems full of trendy bars and cafes everywhere yet we get told to go to a shit square then herded to the port and onto buses 3 hours before the game.
Any tips from hearts fans appreciated
I'll be there on Wednesday and certainly won't go to any square or shoved on a bus.
They tried it in Rijeka and Dnipro and we just refused.
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5 hours ago, Stylish Kid said:
Or is this a Rangers/Sevco joke that is clearly too subtle for me?
Glasgow Rangers 1872-2012
Sevco 2012-
That's not a joke, it's a fact.
It amazes me how many fans from other clubs, including my own, persist with the myth that Glasgow Rangers didn't die in 2012 by calling the new entity, 'Rangers'.
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It's a bit confusing beacuse Panini have messed up the names on the stickers but here's a picture of Archie Gemmill...
....and here's one of Maurice Gibb...
...and, of course, you'll spot the error here, it is not Queen but the Bee Gees...
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14 hours ago, O_Kahn said:
AFCHereWeGo mentioned recently that the Liverpool coverage had been uploaded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY9GzAoYTZs
Whooooaaaaa!!!!! Amazing!! Thank you for directing me to this..
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2 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said:
There may well be plenty footage in BBC or STV archives; supposedly there are also literally stacks of material in Hampden that SFL (presumably now SPFL) and/or SFA have never catalogued, or certainly made available.
Oh that's a positive that footage may exist but why would not make that available? My dream job would be to trawl through all that material and catalogue it...
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All this talk for TV footballing schedules in the past makes me reflect on the frustration of having practically no existing footage of Aberdeen playing at Pittodrie in the 1970s.
Scotsport & Sportscene or similar named programmes must've been on every weekend in the 1970s?
I know the master tapes might've been reused but surely some footage must exist somewhere.
For instance, I've seen Joey Harper score against Juventus but that's only the goal. Where's the rest of it?
In fact, I've only ever seen the Liverpool goal of the 1980 match at Pittodrie! I've never seen footage of the rest of the match and that had the English branch of the BBC present!!
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12 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:
He didn't exactly make it difficult for Shengelia to finish, but I think it's fair to say that Messrs Miller and Hansen played a bigger part.
Fun fact: Shengelia died the day before the 30th anniversary of that match.
I did not know that Shengelia had died!
Really it was all Hansen's making, he was lucky to get 20+ caps, absolutely rotten for Scotland.
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We're going through another bad spell and I find it hard to believe that a midweek in Lanarkshire will be the match that turns it around.
Besides, I've got a feeling that we'll hit the nadir of the Robson reign on Saturday night.
Either a horrible eye-gouging 1-1 or a narrow 1-0 win for the Steelmen.
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Robson needs chased out the door.
The McKenzie one was right in front of me and it certainly didn't look like a penalty from my angle.
The end of the day, fans looking for someone else to blame for the fact we shat it when we had the victory comfortably in our grasp.
Robson decides to change the midfield all at once and before Miovski has a chance to reach the bench they're back in it and we wait for the inevitable to happen.
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These 'dumps' that people are mentioning have been left to rot by successive Tory governments as well as the pseudo-Tory government led by Tony Blair.
Although, it doesn't help when the people that live in these places then go and vote for the f@ckers...
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A 37-38 year old Ian Archer during his glory years when he briefly presented Scotsport in 1981.
He would pass away 21 years later of cancer.
He always gave me the impression that he was having the delirium tremens every Sunday although I only remember him when he had been shuffled to the side in favour of the returning Arthur Montford.
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With Glasgow's favourite son Mo Johnston in the team, Partick Thistle took drastic kit measures to ensure young Mo remembered which Glasgow team he was currently playing for.
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35 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:
Wayne Rooney turns down Sevco.
Sevco are too young for his tastes...
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Euro 2024 Draw (Saturday 2nd December 5pm)
in Tartan Army Ramblings
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I don't know the format or if it's possible but I think the likely outcome is that we finish 3rd but aren't one of the best placed finishers.
Perhaps with the first round now offering more opportunities for those that finish in third place we can sneak through to the last 16 like Northern Ireland did in 2016.
However, I don't see much of a change in either skill or attitude that suggests we'll make much of an impact at Euro24 than we have at any other finals that we've reached.