Lemonade Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Well at least a relegation dogfight will give us something to play for in the next few weeks. Bunch of lazy apathetic cunts. I almost fucking hope we do go down so we can bin that lot and start again from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Well at least a relegation dogfight will give us something to play for in the next few weeks. Bunch of lazy apathetic cunts. I almost fucking hope we do go down so we can bin that lot and start again from scratch.If we go down we'll be closing the doors for good. There will be no start again from scratch (which incidentally does indeed need to happen).I'm actually contemplating going along on Saturday as this game is now massive. If the Dons lose, they are as good as gone in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Kenny and Cindy Black are followed out of the Montrose Boardroom by Chairman Brian Winton who resigned on Saturday night citing "it is no fun anymore" (no shit sherlock). It also looks like John Paton is to follow, which is very worrying. Apparently the debt attached to the plastic pitch is crippling us because some idiot signed a bank loan with a silly rate weeks after telling fans it was all paid for.we are very much a club in crisis/debt etc See STV tonight for further details....Will I have a club to support next year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Chamber Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Will I have a club to support next year?Start supporting the Pars, problem solved.Joking aside, does this mean Ross County will be in Europe next season or did they change the Cup winner/finalist-gets-automatic-place thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorge Posted April 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Start supporting the Pars, problem solved.I think he's suffered quite enough...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Start supporting the Pars, problem solved.Joking aside, does this mean Ross County will be in Europe next season or did they change the Cup winner/finalist-gets-automatic-place thing?You are correct, Ross County will be representing Scotland in Europe next year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 You are correct, Ross County will be representing Scotland in Europe next year... Hopefully that will divert their attention and resources from their domestic league campaign giving the Dons an easier ride...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Heading up to Inverness on Saturday with 6 Dons fans, who are looking for an escape from their season...With Munro and Cox suspended I reckon we'll struggle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Korps Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Football | News | General news | No Euro spot guarantee for Ross - ITV Sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Football | News | General news | No Euro spot guarantee for Ross - ITV SportConsider me proven wrong.(Unless Robbie Earle or Andy Townsend wrote the piece.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 Consider me proven wrong.(Unless Robbie Earle or Andy Townsend wrote the piece.)Doubt Earle or Townsend are capable of writing although they might have got a grown up to help them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Well at least a relegation dogfight will give us something to play for in the next few weeks. Bunch of lazy apathetic cunts. I almost fucking hope we do go down so we can bin that lot and start again from scratch.You won't go down. They'll make up a new rule like they did the last couple of times you were in danger. The rule this time will just be:Aberdeen Football Club cannot be relegated. If Aberdeen Football Club lands in 12th position in the SPL, the SPL will be increased to a 16 team league the following season with 4 teams from the 1st Division promoted to the SPL, with no relegation in that season.You heard it here first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Tbh we very rarely get favours from anyone involved in Scottish football. I don't expect we'll get any this time round. In fact I bet there are hunners of folk involved in the game rubbing their hands at the thought AFC could go down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Tbh we very rarely get favours from anyone involved in Scottish football. I don't expect we'll get any this time round. In fact I bet there are hunners of folk involved in the game rubbing their hands at the thought AFC could go down.Only if Inverness don't get relegated, then the central belt teams won't have to make their fans travel allllllllll the way up to the north east of Scotland. Really looking forward to when Inverness, Ross County, Peterhead and Aberdeen are in the SPL. Then they will really have something to complain about!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Tbh we very rarely get favours from anyone involved in Scottish football. I don't expect we'll get any this time round. In fact I bet there are hunners of folk involved in the game rubbing their hands at the thought AFC could go down.Don't you remember the introduction of the play-offs? Now, my memory may be failing me here as it was a good while ago, but I'm sure it was decided during the course of the season when the Dons were in real danger, and it saved their asses in the end.And didn't Aberdeen finish bottom and were due to play in a play-off with Dunfermline and Falkirk when the league was due to be expanded, but Falkirk were just not allowed in, despite offering to groundshare or something? I'm sure that was decided after Aberdeen landed bottom.Despite the fact you think that people don't like Aberdeen etc. they are still the most recent successful Scottish club in European competition, and have never been outside the top flight (I think?) - so the SPL won't want to lose Aberdeen.There has been a lot of talk surrounding expanding the SPL into a 16 team league, and just about everyone can see that it's a good idea. I'm just saying, if Aberdeen finish bottom this season (which I don't think they will), I wouldn't be massively surprised if we see the league expanded in the Summer, thus allowing Aberdeen to stay up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Tonight could be the night that an incredible record comes to an end in England. League Two leaders Rochdale are playing bottom of the table Darlington and a win for Rochdale would seal promotion to League One bringing to an end 36 years in the bottom division of English football. Finally something to cheer about at Spotland.Thing that I found out today - Bury were the first football club to score 1,000 goals in each of the top four tiers of English football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 God, I love facts. Reading a fact like that just fills me with warmth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 The Question: Why is the modern offside law a work of genius? | Jonathan Wilson | Sport | guardian.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 "Just because Garth Crooks doesn't get something, though, doesn't make it a bad thing." We're off to a good start...Jonathan Wilson is great, I got round to reading his Inverting The Pyramid book while I was away on holiday last month and it didn't disappoint. I fully reccomend it to anyone with an interest in the shifting sands of football tactics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Another fact I heard on the radio this morning. Man Utd haven't won the league in a World Cup year since 1994. That might have held a bit more water a couple of weeks ago, when things were tight. Still a goodie though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 The Question: Why is the modern offside law a work of genius? | Jonathan Wilson | Sport | guardian.co.ukThat's a cracking article.My favourite part is when Scotland showed England how to play the passing game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-matthEw- Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Don't you remember the introduction of the play-offs? Now, my memory may be failing me here as it was a good while ago, but I'm sure it was decided during the course of the season when the Dons were in real danger, and it saved their asses in the end.And didn't Aberdeen finish bottom and were due to play in a play-off with Dunfermline and Falkirk when the league was due to be expanded, but Falkirk were just not allowed in, despite offering to groundshare or something? I'm sure that was decided after Aberdeen landed bottom.Despite the fact you think that people don't like Aberdeen etc. they are still the most recent successful Scottish club in European competition, and have never been outside the top flight (I think?) - so the SPL won't want to lose Aberdeen.There has been a lot of talk surrounding expanding the SPL into a 16 team league, and just about everyone can see that it's a good idea. I'm just saying, if Aberdeen finish bottom this season (which I don't think they will), I wouldn't be massively surprised if we see the league expanded in the Summer, thus allowing Aberdeen to stay up...Nahh. The play-off idea was decided before a ball was kicked that season, with league expansion having been decided months previously. This was before it was in anyway thought likely we'd finish bottom of the pack so this can't be said to have drafted to favour Aberdeen. It was always decided there would be no straight relegation that year.As for Falkirk, the rules were pretty rigid then, and ridiculous. I can't recall the exact nature of it, but weren't they told countless times to have Brockville done up to meet a certain date, or provide alternative solutions by that certain date? The ground-sharing idea missed that deadline and was thrown out the window for that. You could argue that was due to wanting to ensure Aberdeen's position in the league, but I think the argument that its because the SFA are a bunch of beaurocratic dicks who avoid extra work at all costs is a more convincing one.Also, even if the groudshare had went ahead, it would NOT have meant automatic relegation. And we had sweeped 3 1st division teams aside in the cups that year (changed days now) so we may well have been favourites for that complicated mini-league the beaks had devised, but that is all academic. Aberdeen were not granted any favours that season as far as I'm concerned, just fortune prevailed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 I don't think anyone's done us any favours in the past (and why would they? We're not Rangers or Celtic), we've just got lucky the times we almost went down. Circumstances went in our favour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Dons rule!This game is massive on Saturday. I think there will be a relatively large crowd by this seasons standards.That useless shower of cunts better not make an arse of it as usual or it's tatties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Aye - well fair enough. It was fucking ages ago, but I just remember thinking that it seemed as if Aberdeen were getting (intentionally) let off the hook to preserve their SPL status.But, that was back when I used to like seeing Aberdeen get beat, and would have gloated like fuck if they'd been relegated (due to being subjected to Celtic related abuse from all my mates my entire life...), whereas these days, I kind of half support Aberdeen in that I always look out for them winning, in games that don't feature Celtic, and want them to come 2nd in the league, do well in cups, and Europe etc. and sometimes go along to games and cheer them on - so I'd be really disappointed if they got relegated, unless it meant relegation led to a mass shake up and they pulled their collective finger out and sorted the club oot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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