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[Murrr]

Newcastle drew with the footballing super-power that is Carlisle United last night, and Joey Barton has shown his dedication to the club by taking on the time-honoured Newcastle United tradition of being injured. Fantastic.

[Alkaline]

Bayern Munich 4-1 Werder Bremen in the League Cup

Two goals from Ribery on his competitive debut

Looked like a cracking performance from a side that was missing quite a few 'key' players and only having one striker fit (aside from Sandro Wagner, one of our youth strikers, who looks like he might be worth holding onto).

[RossP]

I'm glad i only had to travel a 12 miles to see my team play a pre-season game!

[Marsh]

This Egyptian jaunt's turning into a bloody nightmare for the Dons. Another defeat? First choice keeper injured? A car crash?

Just listened to the interview with Hart on RedTV - he's far from amused with the setup in Egypt - least of all the kamikaze driving from the locals. he has a right go at the bus driver - you can hear him saying "bloody hell."

Jimmy better decide on his defence soon. And we'd better cuff Inverurie.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by RossP

Not quite sure you are getting at with your comments at said crash, but as someone who is lucky to survive a bad crash last year, i'd be thankfull that any crash resulted in only being badly shaken by the experience.

In other news we beat Keith 5-1 yesterday and Inverurie Locos 5-2 today

The point I'm making is that the BBC used a near miss as an opportunity to post a screaming headline. What if you had been a relative or friend of an Aberdeen player and saw that?

"Aberdeen players shaken in car crash" or similar would have been more appropriate and responsible.

What did you think I meant?

That the players weren't hurt enough or something sick like that?

...and yes, I've spent several months in the hossie (3 motorbike accidents) , so I know how you feel.

[RossP]

Originally Posted by Diesel

...both were "shaken by the experience" - that's hardly "surviving" anything!

Yeah, that read to me like you were saying they weren't hurt enough; but I now see what you meant. My fault; I had one eye on the Under 20 World Cup final (Good game!), so didn't read it correctly. My apologies

[Peterhead Dave]

2-1 win over Forres on Friday followed by a 5-0 over Nairn on Saturday. We scored all eight goals, and have a couple of fantastic looking Polish boys on trial. Will reserve proper judgement on them until after the Caley game on Wednesday, but it's looking good so far.

Pity about the quality of the opposition so far, but what can you do? (Play better teams, clearly)

[Scorge]

Thistle side is now beginning to take shape, wish McCall would hurry up and get Rowson and Pierre Maximau signed......

Buchanan looks like a cracking buy thus far.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by RossP

Yeah, that read to me like you were saying they weren't hurt enough; but I now see what you meant. My fault; I had one eye on the Under 20 World Cup final (Good game!), so didn't read it correctly. My apologies

s'ok - I might have worded it better!

[RossP]

8 Tickets arrived today for the France v. Scotland game in Paris on September 12 Still heaps of tickets available on Ticketnet and Billets concert, foot, rugby, théâtre, parc, tournée, festival,... - Réseau France Billet if you fancy the trip too. There are estimations of around 15,000 Scots to be in the stadium, but i hope thats not using the Seville calculator



Ordered my tickets for the home game v. Lithuania in South Stand Upper, and away to order the Ukraine tickets when they go on sale on Aug 2nd