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Chasing VAR out of Scotland
Dons_1988 replied to HibsFan's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
If you can spare the time, don’t use chat GPT. Write something personal and properly. Clubs will know if they’re getting spammed with internet generated letters. It’s fine up to a point but it should be impactful. -
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Are the Media Against Your Team?
Dons_1988 replied to Darren Adams's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
The media are at least 12% responsible for aberdeens league position imo, 36% referees.- 17 replies
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Motherwell - Aberdeen 16/03/2024
Dons_1988 replied to well fan for life's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
They should just do a simple sense check at IFAB - how often do players actually deliberately handle the ball. I mean controlling with the arm, saving it on the line etc? does the game have a fundamental problem with people misunderstanding that they aren’t meant to use their hands? Are we routinely seeing players trying to con referees with use of the hand? Ok, right. Now how many penalties for handball do we see every single week? If the two answers are materially different, the rules are broken. -
Thanks everyone for the responses. I reflected on my post and felt it was a bit rambly and incoherent so glad people actually engaged with it I like the idea of finding a new hobby of sorts that is just for me. Golf is probably out, my running plus watching the dons when able takes up a lot of time as it is with a 2 year old. Plus I played golf as a younger man and my temperament for it wasn’t great…suspect I’d be too competitive and wouldn’t be all that relaxing. Meditation/mindfulness is one of those things that sounds great but I have no idea how it happens in reality. I have tried apps but they don’t do it for me. I just can’t settle the way I’m looking for. Like I say that few minutes I had last year I just stumbled across it, it came and went but it felt a bit like what I imagine actual meditation does? That may sound silly. One thing I am trying to do is put my fucking phone away much more. I don’t think it helps. And I don’t even really enjoy any of it other than browsing P&B. I don’t want to give up ‘keeping busy’ as it’s done me so much good. Just finding that balance and not having to fear what the quiet moments bring.
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Been pondering a post in here for a while now but never got round to it and frankly it felt like it might be a bit self indulgent, given right now I’m not in a bad place really. Feel free to ignore or tell me to shut up if it is indeed self indulgent. 5-6 years ago I really was in a terrible place and long story short, diet and fitness saved my life. I managed to get into a good routine, lost a load of weight, got fit, did a marathon but more importantly my entire outlook changed. I was able to see beyond the grey outlook on life and I felt alive again after so long of feeling just totally detached from the world. As a result, diet and fitness has been a staple ever since and other than a few episodes I’ve broadly remained pretty fine since. And this is where @scottsdad’s post has pushed me into this. As despite all of this, I sometimes wonder if I’m actually that happy. I am in a phase of marathon training again, which is going great, I’m motivated, focused and resilient to the shit of life. But it’s at the weekends, when there’s dead time. When I just need to relax, or be content in my own company. I can’t do it, I can’t sit and watch shit on tv. I end up working, I need to be doing something. There was a moment last year when I was on a train from Edinburgh to Dunfermline and I crossed the forth bridge with some music on. And for like 2 minutes, I felt genuine calm and peace. I’ve never felt it before or since. And I couldn’t jump on the train tomorrow and just recreate it. But it felt so good in that moment, why can’t I feel like that more? This has turned into a ramble, hopefully it makes a semblance of sense.
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Motherwell - Aberdeen 16/03/2024
Dons_1988 replied to well fan for life's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Have a feeling the shaky defending will be here until the summer. Hopefully confidence could make us a little less bombscare but fundamentally the personnel just aren’t very good. -
Chasing VAR out of Scotland
Dons_1988 replied to HibsFan's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
The ‘light touch’ comment was simply a lie, and I will be bringing it up with them again. Not that I didn’t know it was a lie at the time but think it’s evidently not now. I agree, Cormack is clearly not impressed and he’s a man who is influenced by fan opinion, let’s be quite honest. He could break with enough pressure. Fans weren’t consulted for a reason though at the outset, they knew we’d hate it but the decision had been made already, imo. And it wasn’t about fairness of decisions, it was about our standing on the continent with uefa and not being seen as a backwater league (spoiler, we still are). -
Chasing VAR out of Scotland
Dons_1988 replied to HibsFan's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
They phoned me chasing season ticket renewal in June/july and made the point then, it was prior to the vote. Response was pathetic tbh, just told me no other club was consulting fans and that it would be a light touch version of VAR. I also referenced it last summer when I threatened to cancel my AberDNA over the ridiculous colt team plan. The response then was much better in fairness and Renewed it then as they eventually came out against it. -
Chasing VAR out of Scotland
Dons_1988 replied to HibsFan's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Chasing VAR out of Scotland
Dons_1988 replied to HibsFan's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
I will happily contact my club (again) about this. I won’t threaten boycotting unless I mean it (not there yet) but I absolutely am willing to withdraw the free money I give them every month. Tbh I would do that about the broader direction of football in general, of which VAR is a symptom of, rather than a specific complaint about VAR. I feel very strongly about all of that (which possibly comes through in my grumpiness on certain threads). Not sure I could go on sportsound and keep my cool. I could already see them trying to drag the conversation into specific decisions and try and paint my views as a football fan moaning about referees. Sportsound absolutely love VAR as it means they don’t have to attempt to know things about Diddy teams. -
Sky aren’t the only stakeholders here though. The police, for example, will have resourced based on a noon kick off and I’m assuming won’t take too kindly to hold back their staff another 4 hours while the people they’re policing spend it getting more tanked in the pub. Thats possibly/probably the biggest one but there’s a lot of things in and around an event that you can’t just shift back a few hours.
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The Famous Aberdeen - Season 2022/23
Dons_1988 replied to a topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
“Though we sometimes go down, we can aye go back up” im surprised hearts don’t have a yo-yo as their mascot. -
Hope Dundee can put petty rivalry to one side and take advice from their tangerine neighbours on making rangers fans tickets invalid for the rescheduled fixture.
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Motherwell - Aberdeen 16/03/2024
Dons_1988 replied to well fan for life's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
So moving on from that techology… Was our style of play yesterday quite different, as the post match interviews would suggest? Also was Roos deserving of BBC’s MotM award? -
Motherwell - Aberdeen 16/03/2024
Dons_1988 replied to well fan for life's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
The worst thing about handball is it just feels like a total lottery, both in terms of whether they’re going to give it or not and also a defender finding themselves in that situation where a ball ricochets and their arm happens to be away from their side in that moment. Just in the last run of games we’ve benefitted yesterday plus devlin vs hibs, but suffered against Dundee and st Johnstone. None of which I really want to see given as handballs as a neutral.