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I know, but since our last Hampden trip I’ve moved to the Shawlands area and want to avoid traipsing halfway across Glasgow if I can avoid it. Scoped out a couple of Celtic-leaning pubs which should be ***-free at least

Wonder if any of yous can help me - are all the pubs around Shawlands/Queens Park/Govanhill likely to be crawling with **** on Sunday pre match? Looking for a place that doesn’t necessarily have to be dons-friendly, more ****-unfriendly. Any leads?

Howdy - long time no post couldn’t see a match thread for the *** game this weekend. Anybody ken if any of the pubs in Shawlands/Govanhill/Queens Park area are likely to be Dandy friendly? Or is it *** central that way?

A little off topic but what’s the usual process for away fans buying tickets? Wanting to head to the Dees game in a couple weeks with some dark blue pals and can’t see anything about tickets on either website yet. Is it usually PATG? Would think Dundee would bring a big crowd.

Its Christian and its not even close - the guy is a dreamboat

I am fully aboard the Dante Polvara train - toot toot the juggernaut is coming through!

I had “He is a Belgian…..” in my head for a couple of days to the tune of Belter and I fuckin hated it. We should nnoott be adopting that tune for anything.

Sorry I’m confused about this, would you be able to explain further?

See this was what I didnt miss when we were consistent under McInnes until the last couple seasons. Incessant speculation over whether the manager is doing a good or a bad job. hes here, he aint going anywhere. Dons need to get more pace and creativity into the team. Samuels, hedges and Watkins can all provide that. Maybe he moves Ojo back into the mf three to provide a bit more creativity and drive from deep?

I think had Ash Taylor in my mind but in all honesty it was an amalgamation of twenty years worth of centre halves who fit that profile to varying degrees of success.

Sure, but we’re not in a place where we can expect our defence not to concede silly goals this season. Two very inexperienced (albeit exciting) full backs and two centre halves getting zero protection from midfield. I’d rather it was McCrorie making mistakes that he learns from than Clogger McDumpling age 31 maybe making like a quarter fewer mistakes but at the peak of his powers, plus he canna pass the ball. You’re right on 1) though, there’s a chance he won’t make the transition. It happens. We move on. He goes back into midfield next season when Fergie leaves or Broon retires. I think there’s enough evidence to show that he at the very least can establish himself at Aberdeen in the position, particularly if we’re to play a back 3 semi regularly. You need ball players in that formation, you couldn’t have Devlin Considine Gallagher there.

McCrorie has been hot and cold this season at CB but that’s acceptable for two reasons: 1) it’s his first full season in the position and he’s going to have to make mistakes and learn fro them 2) when he’s looked good, he’s looked really fucking good eg v Hearts at Tynecastle I wonder if Glass has spoken to him and talked about the likelyhood of him making it to a high level in the game. More likely to get into the Scotland team as a ball playing centre half than another centre mid imo. If he can keep developing he’ll be in contention for sure.

McGrath’s not even THAT good, penalty merchant who is FINE but not worth breaking bank for.

Aye I only listened to the game, so maybe can’t pass too much comment but from the highlights it looked like we created a great deal of chances but were either wasteful or unlucky in front of goal. On another day we take two or three there. Obviously County had their opportunities too, and probably should have had at least one more too, so the defence still needs work. But I’m fairly confident that attacking wise we have enough to pick up more goals than we’ve got over the last five games going forward. Glass needs to use the international break to get some consistency going in the team and get the attackers to gel together.

Bogbrush has a point. Not only was Watkins signed by McInnes last season, therefore making him a McInnes signing by pedantic definition, McInnes also LOVED bringing players who had previously played for us back to the club. However, I’m delighted he’s back. People forget just how good the football we played was during that very short period. The 3-4-3 with Fergie and McCrorie in the middle, Kennedy and Hayes as wingbacks and Wr*ght, Hedges and Watkins up top produced some fantastic moments of play and some good goals in good wins. The problem was it was like a house of cards, and as soon as you removed one part of it, the roof caved in. Watkins was massive in that, and should work really well in Glass’s style of play. That’s why I’m excited to see him this season.

Aye you’re right, and the English market has been later in kicking off this year due to a (relative) lack of money sloshing around. A big move like Grealish to City kicks off lots of progressively smaller moves in turn. Villa replace him with someone from the top of the Championship, they then buy from League 1, and so on and so forth. Clubs need to get their business done before they know who they can punt out on loan. Just circumstances I guess.

aye I agree, it’s just a shame that it’s all kicked up a gear after we’ve been eliminated from Europe. With these guys on board, the squad will have been in a much better shape to tackle the Qarabag games. as it stands though, it makes me much more confident going into the league and Scottish Cup campaigns.

Glass looks like an inexperienced manager, but one with a plan and a lot of good ideas. He’s also been hamstrung in the fact that our squad is paper thin. He certainly gets the season for me. Top six minimum, providing the football still looks good and we clock up a few very good, convincing wins that are a “glimpse at what could be if we were more consistent”. then next season we bring it all together and win the fucking thing.

Thought that too. Shows bottle from the lad. he was one of the players who didnt look out of place technically tonight. his touch is tight. Mackenzie not so much...

Thoroughly depressing, frankly. Streets ahead of us technically. Comms were describing them as a passing side, I thought they were more of a dribbling side, a lot of direct running, great feet, balance, quickness of thought, right across the frontline. Zoubir the obvious standout. As for us.... As defensive looking a 4-5-1 as youll see first half with Ojo and hayes pushed well back into our half and Ramirez completely isolated. We miss hedges so so much, and the sooner Watkins comes in the better. We were wasteful in possession, slack with our passing, and slow to get it forward. We look tired, and its still August. Maybe in a months time, the squad will look good, with Watkins, Samuels and possibly Longstaff and hopefully a new CB on board, but at the moment we are stretched very very thin. I wonder if the Longstaff deal hinged on tonights result...

Big Game Fergie was made for games like tomorrow. Goal, assist, booking, the lot.

The Keevins stuff was embarrassing. Cack-handed is exactly the phrase. He sounded like he didn’t have any idea what point he was wanting to get across, but felt that he had to say something and say it with confidence. Something about people of a certain demographic that not only feel a compulsion to open their mouth and let their belly rumble, but also the compulsion to double down on their ill thought out opinions if they have the temerity to be challenged. I don’t even think he knew what point he was trying to get across, but when someone says discrimination is no longer prevalent and their evidence is that job adverts no longer say R/Cs need not apply, it demonstrates such a fundamental misunderstanding of the issues at play. The guy was there 60 years ago. Cool. But none of what he said was anywhere near a coherent argument for or against anything! It’s frankly dangerous to have him broadcasting to half the country, legitimising these half-views across similar guys. It made me furious listening to it frankly.

oh man just call it a day there pal