Johnny Mac Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/sport/football/aberdeen-1-1-celtic-dons-peg-back-a-jaded-celtic-1-2152873Shaki and I are both in the picture at the top of the article. Myself coming out of the top right of Anthony Stokes' head and Shaki directly to my left.You look cold.I was down near the front of the lower RDS and got absolutely soaked first half. Grim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 You look cold.I was down near the front of the lower RDS and got absolutely soaked first half. Grim.I was on the chilly side, but I had, on my upper half: a thermal layer, a t-shirt, a wooly jumper, a hoody and an aberdeen top; and on my lower half: thermals, jeans, kilt socks and walking boots. I don't like to get cold. I really enjoyed the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 After the Robin Reliant joke here is another one I enjoyed. 'The Arsenal store has a new best-seller, the Robin van Persie tea tray. Guaranteed to carry 10 mugs'. If he stays fit (which has done remarkably well given his injury record in previous years) I think Arsenal will hold off Chelsea for 4th. Can't see Di Matteo turning the clubs fortunes around that quickly..... unless they suddenly pull 2 decent centre backs from the youth team! The only player who has looked in form (from what I have seen in recent months, which is the odd match) is Juan Mata. If one of their strikers and Essien get back to form, it will be a close call. Essien's presence really has been missed.With RVP, it's funny how injury-prone players seem to be able to stay fit when they are really needed. Rio Ferdinand is the same, he's been in and out of the starting line up for the past 3 or 4 years with niggling injuries, but now he's been playing back to back games for most of the season. Even Saha is playing all the time now too. Play through the pain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Injections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Could be all change for the start of next season in the EPL, new man in at Chelsea, probably new man in at Spurs and possibly new man in at Arsenal. Alex McLeish is on a very shoogly peg as well. I've got a couple of mates in Birmingham who support Villa, there seems to be a a very big "McLeish out" campaign, the fans hate him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Injections.Nah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 I was on the chilly side, but I had, on my upper half: a thermal layer, a t-shirt, a wooly jumper, a hoody and an aberdeen top; and on my lower half: thermals, jeans, kilt socks and walking boots. I don't like to get cold. I really enjoyed the game.Second half was fantastic! Not seen the Dons boss Celtic like that in a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 The EE have Fallon as TopDon for Saturday!?! Even from a "made space for team-mates" perspective, I cannot see that at all!! I know it's just the EE, but i honestly think he was by far our worst player on Saturday. He has no grasp of anything football-like, what-so-ever. Surely Considine, Vernon, Rae were much better! They were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Indeed, no idea why he was selected by Charlie Allan. He wins the ball in the air, that's pretty much it.More often than not his knock-ons go to the opposition, his control and passing are about as bad as Mackies and he has no pace at all (even I'm faster...scary).Rae and Vernon were the pick of our players.Shite atmosphere again too on Saturday, which is a shame. No-one seems bothered at all these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Charlie Allan is a fat fuck who knows nothing about anything. Except pies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Fallon isn't even that good in the air really, despite being ~6'3" or so. He doesn't ever jump. Craig Brown is faster than him too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Yeah Rae was def our best player on sat, good to see he still has the legs in him despite being 34, why didnt we get him at the start of the season! Fallon puts himself about but i dont rate him much, but saying that, we create so few chances in any game that its hard to judge him as a striker overall, he was inches from getting on the end of that Jack cross in the second half, shame. Dons were good tho, we showed good fight in the second half, we just need a bit of pace about us, we dont break quick enough from defence i think, and we need Vernon in the box doing what he does best rather than trying to set up Fallon. At least we are now a hard team to beat, that is a great starting point, hopefully Broon gets a couple of more flamboyant players in the summer and we can push on a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Our players are very slow off the mark. It was quite noticeable on Saturday as they struggled to get to any loose ball first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 We've only really signed Rae because Osbourne, Milsom and Clark are injured, Arnason is almost certainly leaving and Folly is suffering from whatever lung disease it is that he's got. Extremely glad we've finally got him, though. Can't see Folly playing for us again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl PhD Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/05/footballer-sues-church-manchester-united Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 I was at the game on Saturday and Fallon was pretty pish. He wasn't winning anything in the air - Rogne beat him to every ball. I've never seen Fallon playing before so can't judge him on other performances but someone up above said he fair puts himself about. He definitely wasn't doing that on Saturday - he looked like he couldn't be arsed trying. I've seen Vernon a handful of times and couldn't understand why he wasn't playing through the middle as he's far better than Fallon looked. The Dons made Celtic look very average on Saturday to be fair - I don't think there were enough chances either way to say one team deserved the win - draw was probably about right. If Mulgrew's free kick had gone in early on instead of hitting the post, Celtic might have played a bit better with some more confidence, but Aberdeen defended really well and kept Celtic out of the box for most of the game. Fuck all in the final third though really apart from the goal that I can remember - and that was going wide!!I didn't see the Stokes incident because I looked away for a moment (very Wenger like of me I know...) and it isn't on the BBC highlights - did anyone see it properly? The crowd round about me were going mental shouting for a red card, but my Aberdeen supporting brother thought he dived in but didn't make any contact. I don't think the ref saw it actually, which meant it was weird he gave a free kick. Cheeky bastards with the drop ball though - making out they were going to play it back and then just playing on...The Malwennie incident looked like a ridiculous challenge as well - two-footed, studs up, straight legs... I was quite surprised the ref didn't pull out a red for that one actually. That also isn't on the BBC highlights which are clearly quite shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 BBC highlights are always bad. The game is in dire need of some decent coverage - they wonder why kids would rather watch MotD/the English game? Two-minute highlight reels (that you can get on the BBC website anyway) with no manager interviews or player reaction? Pish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Great goal from Rankin just now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Squiggler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Squiggler?Not quite that, still a good 25 yards though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 I believe the correct term is "howitzer". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camie Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Did anyone catch the documentary about QPR last night? Just watching the second half of it at the moment. Quite enjoyable to say the least and certainly a bit of an eye opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 I hope we can hold on to Jonny Russell for a couple more years. He's well on his way to being a very good player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 I didn't see the Stokes incident because I looked away for a moment (very Wenger like of me I know...) and it isn't on the BBC highlights - did anyone see it properly? The crowd round about me were going mental shouting for a red card, but my Aberdeen supporting brother thought he dived in but didn't make any contact. I don't think the ref saw it actually, which meant it was weird he gave a free kick. Cheeky bastards with the drop ball though - making out they were going to play it back and then just playing on... On the radio the commentators said Stokes was so late after the ball had been played that the ref and linesmen were no longer looking anywhere near Jack so he wouldn't have seen the challenge. As for the drop ball Aberdeen were in possession when play stopped (going on the radio commentary), that's why they didn't give the ball to Celtic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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