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The new John Fleck boy wonder now on - Dundee have no chance now
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I really like this Dundee side - especially the three wee blonde socks down clones in the middle. Loads of energy, backed up with quality.
Even though it took a game’s gone handball VAR thing to beat us a few midweeks back, they were everything this season’s AFC haven’t been in terms of what you want from your team.
Doc doing well.
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9/1 Dundee looks worth a nibble
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By the standards the rest of the league is refereed with this rule, that looked a stonewall pen against Soapy T1tw@nk there.
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On 19/03/2024 at 18:44, Bogbrush1903 said:
The owner of the account is a woman.
I don't think she particularly ITK but might get snippets.
There's no chance Thelin will want it, Rosler would be gone within 12 months, and Neil would only take the job as a second choice to his preferred option of remaining in England.
I find it hard to believe anyone actually knows what Cormack will do next, including the man himself.
Well there you go....
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Enjoyed the Burrows and Thelin interviews on RedTV.
I suppose the only concern is 'how patient is patient?'. Fitba is very short-termist these days, and Thelin getting the breathing space to implement a coherent playing style with the right players sounds great - then reality can bite.
Would our support (and board) on the whole be classed as more or less patient than average? I think we know the answer to that.
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Press Conference at 1pm today in Borås regarding their manager.
I noticed Elfsborg were horsed 3-0 at Hammarby last night, so maybe they can't get the lame duck out the door quickly enough now.
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On 07/04/2024 at 10:40, Sergeant Wilson said:
We're a laughing stock in Europe.
Normally people need to at least wait until the 7th placed team ends up with more points than the 6th placed one to come out with that one.
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Always good to be driving home from the football on a Saturday evening and getting a chance to hear Eye of the Tiger as chosen by Stuart McCall.
The fact that if I flicked over to the Spotify App on my dashboard, that there would probably be at least 200,000 tunes I would choose to listen ahead of it is neither here nor there.
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11 hours ago, BucksburnDandy said:
Genuinely thought I might be able to give Dingwall (20 minutes from me now) a miss as it would likely be a dead rubber for us. Now, there's a fear in me that not only will I have to go, I'll be watching a very nervous affair from our perspective. What a shitter of a season and I agree, I wish it would just f**k off.
There is a school of thought, that at least it keeps the season alive (beyond next weekend) - and ensures the minds remain focused from players, coaching staff and fans alike.
Wait, it's this season's AFC - half-@rsed players and a captain who has developed a self-destruct button - the 33/1 for us to be the ones going to Broomfield or wherever as condemned men looks very generous odds.
The season has become an unflushable turd.
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Hmmm, walked out of the old lady yesterday convinced I wouldn’t be back til later in the summer. Don’t do dead rubbers, especially in the bottom six.
Today’s result changes everything and maybe even delays the Thelin appointment.
Also how they address the imbalance of fixtures will be interesting, as we are due three at home, but only Livingston and Motherwell have only played once at Pittodrie already.
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Vinnie watch
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1 minute ago, The Master said:
Wasn’t the 2004 game the final day of the season, rather than the final pre-split round?
We were both bottom 6 that season, but I think our win allowed us to finish 7th.
Ah, you might not be wrong there. Getting mixed up in the mists of time. Maybe it isn't in the stars that you complete the hat-trick tomorrow then !
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13 minutes ago, Derryboy62 said:
You've got the game with Caniggia mixed up. He scored on his debut in Sep/Oct. We did celebrate like mad
You signed Billy Dodds
You signed Billy Dodds
We signed Caniggia
You signed Billy Dodds
Just looking at the teams for the 2004 game when our strikeforce was Leigh Hinds and Budgie Stewart, then I think we've had a lot worse than Billy Dodds. No wonder there was a protest at the state of that !
Dundee had obviously cooled their jets a tad recruitment wise by then, and had three soon-to-be dandies in their side - Lovell (who scored a peach of a winner), Mair and the useless soapy t1tw@nk in goals.
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Most managers are a gamble - the relatively safe option would have been the usual suspects that "know Scottish football" and how to grind out results, a few of whom are currently occupying the positions above us in the league at this time.
I had Thelin pinned as the new Kjetil Knutsen, in terms of the leftfield choice for cooler people - but provided we don't get relegated, it looks like it will happen.
Some will put this as a last chance saloon for Cormack and the board, but considering most fans seem to be onboard, hopefully they are not all revisiting this with a large dose of hindsight-based revisionism a year down the line.
I was dead against Glass and Warnock, but will admit I was happy enough at the time with the Goodwin and Robson appointments. The natural comparison on this one is Skovdahl (who did manage some relative success after the start from hell, but soon tailed off).
This one seems worth a try, but I think it's important JT gets players that have the character and adaptability to buy into him and his coaching team's way of thinking, as we are traditionally a dressing room that is easy to lose if not.
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There is an element of deja vu around this fixture.
If I am not mistaken, Dundee have twice clinched 'top six' at our place.
One of the times, I think Caniggia was among the scorers, and the Dees celebrated like they'd just won the Champions League. That may sound snide, but it's not meant to, those were bizarre and exciting times at Dens.
The other game was more infamous in the Granite City for the planned walkout in protest at the shambles the club was at that time on and off the park peaking with Pele P's car boot exit. In the event a few folk did exit stage left around 4.30 and got absolute dogs' abuse from others for doing so.
I always found that rather strange, considering there were only around 7K home fans in the ground - and if people cared enough to turn up at the ground for a dead rubber (for the home side) and then walk out in protest, then they clearly cared about the club.
As for tomorrow, I think it suited Dundee to have their midweeker called off, as the three points they need are clearly much more attainable here, then they would have been against Sevco. Coming off a midweeker on a heavy pitch wouldn't have helped.
We still need a result or two to ensure we avoid the abyss and a sudden u-turn from a nordic management team that don't fancy trips to Airdrie and Greenock next season. One thing is for sure, we will need to play a lot better than we did at Dens recently, and also this time the borderline VAR call that seems to happen in every one of our fixtures goes for us.
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What is ‘elite level’ in this context, and is there any relatively recent examples of a Scottish club (outside the cheeks) hiring someone of that status?
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6 minutes ago, DukDukGoose said:
I was sure they were supposed to go with the onfield decision if VAR can't help them come to a conclusion.
I had been a seething mess at the club's lack of statement on this one since the bizarre decision not to 'release the lines' to the broadcasters.
Breaking our 'never been relegated' record has never been so appealing, such is the ruination of our game by VAR.
It has just made the corruption/incompetence worse, after the the foolish notion of thinking it could put an end to that - not to mention killing those spontaneous moments of joy that are the reason many of us watch football.
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Pat Bonner saying that Butland save from O’Reilly could still be a defining moment for sevco in getting back into this.
The penalty came from the corner.
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Let’s see if the Belgian is the genius we’ve all been led to believe.
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We seem to have endured this period of Tavernier getting smoke blown up him from all angles.
Nice of him to give us a rest from it.
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11 hours ago, LiviLion said:
Perfect, if you can point me to a couple of these passes I'd appreciate it
Cheers
There was an all too rare bonnie through ball from Clarkson midway through the second half where Duk looked like he was in and the ball bounced up and hit him on the coupon.
Whether that was the pitch or poor control is up for debate.
AFC need to demand in the strongest terms to that the offside line that was used to adjudicate that decision is released to the broadcasters. At first it looked a no brainer, but that Livi guy on the far side look suspiciously like he played everyone in red onside.
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I had been swithering about not renewing DNA as some kind of mini-protest at the current clusterf**k.
However, I have now seen that DNA members get £3 off the £18 they want for a Q&A with Eugene Dadi, so that'll be me signing up again.
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Hearing AFC ticket sales very poor for this so far - will be lucky to reach five figures.
I do recall only around 8k went to the Sunday 1230 semi v Celtic in 2011 and it might not be much more this time.
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Dundee v Whoever They're Playing This Weekend (Or maybe that should the the other way round)
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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There’s a fine line between clever man management and delusional pish that means the men in white coats need to be put on standby.
Will give Clement the benefit of the doubt, but that interview !