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34 minutes ago, tamthebam said:
My old man knew Gordon "Geebsy" Hunter's uncle. He had a bakery off Easter Road and made fantastic pies.
'Had' and 'made' makes that a disappointing story.
'Has' and 'makes' would have made it a great story.
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22 minutes ago, Bogbrush1903 said:
Billy Stark's first competitive Aberdeen goals was a hat-trick in this match; however, Eric Black hits four against a team which includes future Dons player, Craig 'Gladstone Small' Robertson and the team that night was managed by Dick Campbell!!
Andy Graham, who was on loan to us from Dundee United, saved a penalty that night as well.
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2 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:
Yes, that's what the first link is, the second link is to the Scottish Cup game later that season.
Ah, fair enough.
When you said 'this result' I thought you were referring to the 84/85 game.
Got it now.
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57 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:
This result was achieved by arguably the worst Rovers team ever (never won a home league match the entire season) and which had lost 10-0 at Pittodrie earlier in the season (https://afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=2582&season=1962-63&squad=Senior) - https://afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=2602&season=1962-63&squad=Senior
It was 62/63 that we lost 10-0 at Pittodrie.
The stats aren't good from that season, but the only mitigation is that it was in the top league (and we made the Scottish Cup semis that season).
The 84/85 vintage was basement league and to finish as low as we did with Keith Wright, Paul Smith and Paul Sweeney in the side, speaks volume about the rest and the management.
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1 hour ago, Bogbrush1903 said:
There was a lot of trouble at the game between Aberdeen and Hibs casuals I believe...
From what I can remember, Hibs had a game up north which was postponed. As a train load of their casuals were making their way back, they pulled the communication chord to stop the train and a load of them piled off and climbed into the ground (before the days of pneumatic train doors and before the railway stand at Stark's Park ran the full length of the pitch).
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One of the worst ever Rovers teams against one of the best ever Aberdeen teams.
Scottish Cup 4th Round 1985.
Aberdeen won 2-1 thanks to a double from Frank McDougall.
One of our better performances in a season where we got pumped 5-1 away and 3-0 at home to Cowdenbeath.
Not sure if Leighton is wearing trackie bottoms because of the snow or just to hide his bandy legs.
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6 hours ago, TxRover said:
Leadership is much more than playing extensive minutes and contributing directly on the pitch. Leadership is sharing experience and knowledge with teammates, it’s seeing things in practice and games that you can help the other player improve on, it’s helping the manager, it’s leading by example. See Berra and MacLean…both were still up for more games than that, but if we could find a CB who is at the end of his playing career and ready to start working toward coaching it could be a win win.
That's why we have a manager and assistant manager.
In our financial situation, we need to be signing players who can contribute regularly on the pitch.
Signing guys who are only capable of playing limited minutes is financially imbecilic. Remember Rudi Skacel?
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Given that it's been £20 walk up and £300 for an adult season ticket for the last couple of seasons, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes up to £22 walk up and £330 season ticket (given season tickets are normally priced equivalent to attending 15 league games).
The psychological thing about breaking the £20 barrier won't count for so much nowadays given the high percentage of people who pay by card rather than cash.
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Published in World Sports, November 1957
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Moving back to our Goal of the Season competition, no one can fail to be impressed by the quality of the goals on the shortlist. There won't be another team in the Championship, and very few in the Premiership, that has a shortlist of that standard.
However, it raises a couple of pertinent points. Firstly, given our poor Goals For total, it highlights our inability to score 'dirty'or 'scruffy'goals consistently where we execute a set piece or force the opposition into a mistake.
Secondly, it highlights our inability to do the most rudimentary defending as other teams aren't having to produce moments of high quality to score against us. If you analyse the goals we've lost over the season, there are very few that would make a Goal of the Season shortlist. Off the top of my head, Aberdeen's second in the League Cup and possibly Inverness' goal in the game up there last October.
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If MacDonald is keen to stay next season, we sign him. End of. Even if it means making savings in other areas of the wage bill.
You go for the best goalkeeper available to you.
Look at how Hearts have regressed since they lost Craig Gordon and look at the mess Leicester have been since they let Kasper Schmeichel go and replaced him with his understudy.
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1 hour ago, Brashy's Boots said:
IM has already intimated he knows what the problem is, or is at least fairly sure. He hasn't said but a few have speculated on medical and physio provision at the club. It'll be interesting if any of the current backroom team leave between now and next season.
We've apparently been looking for a new physio for months, but the current one has agreed to stay until we find a replacement.
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I heard he's part of the consortium.
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7 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:
The number of people who haven’t returned post-Goodwillie will be double figures. I’d guess less than 50. It’s also surely time to move on.
Correct.
And the talk was that the Dean Park shirt sponsorship was more lucrative than the previous sponsorship deal.
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To those who are at best indifferent towards Jamie MacDonald - Premiership Ross County had Ross Laidlaw in goals today and Ross Munro on the bench. If either of those two rocked up at Stark's Park next season as replacements for Jamie MacDonald, would you see it as a step forward?
Me neither.
However, if Falkirk make it up through the playoffs, I see them trying to entice MacDonald as McGlynn is a big fan and the guy they have just now looks rank rotten.
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I like Bene, but there's a world of difference between tearing it up in league one and cutting it in the championship.
Just look at Cove Rangers.
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Thank goodness for Yogi appearing in the papers.
Suddenly the last few weeks don't seem nearly so bad.
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23 minutes ago, renton said:
Dylan Easton with fully half the entries there, he'll be raging if he doesn't get it.
It's about quality, not quantity
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In terms of appeal, this game sits somewhere between root canal treatment and a stiff shite.
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3 minutes ago, foreverarover said:
I think it is about time the 200 club and other clubs linked to the fans get together and instead of handing cash to the club generate enough to purchase either a decent stake in the club or the staduim itself.
Good idea in principle, but Stark's Park properties might then start to charge the 200 club and the like for the use of the premises.
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2 hours ago, lgb61 said:
From what I recall from previous IM interviews, the money from the Rangers game allowed the club to bring in Isma, money well spent then!
That can't be true as Isma was signed before we'd made it through the previous round. He scored in that game.
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4 hours ago, GoldenNuggets_YeeHaa said:
Very poor statistics from Trouten when 7 goals have been penalties. Walls would be up there had he not been injured.
One look at Saka's effort for Arsenal this afternoon should tell you that seven successfully converted penalties shouldn't be sniffed at.
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26 minutes ago, TxRover said:
The problem with the Hybrid model is training time for the part-timers overlaps with other uses for the pitch as Starks Park. Back when we were hybrid recently, it was barely hybrid, with only two or three part-timers. I can’t see us going back to any part-time players simply because it would disrupt revenue from the pitch…although with the new “owners” not being invested in the Park…hummmm…
Apart from disrupting revenue from the pitch, the other issue is that it was mentioned before about the difficulty in attracting full-time players to train on a Tuesday and Thursday night.
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42 minutes ago, pub car king said:
See Forest Green have gone down today, serves them right for casting aside the absolute baller that is Regan Hendry.
Serves them more right for appointing that thug as their manager. Hopefully it's his last job in football.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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Livi will only be due a development fee if they offer him a contract at least equal to the terms of his current one.
If they do, I can't imagine many championship clubs being able to compete with that.