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17 minutes ago, Coventry Saint said:

Feel this will be a step too far for our thin squad, even allowing for the obvious Curtis Main mind games. Narrow home win and Shinnie to get booked.

 

Yeah, think best we can hope for is that there's still the opportunity to take this to the last game of the season. The squad is really running on empty now unfortunately.

If Main was to be fit tonight it would be a massive boost though, he's our only out-ball now as that is definitely not something we could ask of Kiltie.

Again though, we may as well go for it. We know that we need to win at least one of the last two matches to stand any chance whatsoever of 5th (unless we draw both games and Hibs lose a 9 goal swing between Celtic and Hearts) and honestly? I'd rather go down swinging than grabbing two draws and missing out by a handful of goals.

In saying that, I'd take a point tonight if Hibs lose and come out swinging on Saturday.

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On 22/05/2023 at 09:59, tarapoa said:

Dons deserve a crack at the European groups, as we have actually managed a few decent wins on the continent in the past decade - and cannot have the timing of the new setup just landing in Hearts' lap two seasons in a row.

 

What 😂 surely whoever comes out on top over the course of a 38 game season deserves the reward that it brings?

Or what if ICT win the Scottish? Do they not deserve a crack at the European Groups because they don’t have the European pedigree Aberdeen have?

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Feel sick already.

Can only compare the horrible feeling of pressure to the 2014 LC final where we were expected to win, but even that was tempered by the joy and camaraderie that goes with being in the cup final.

Hopefully Bazza will have the boys in the right place mentally.

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2 minutes ago, anotherchance said:

Feel sick already.

Can only compare the horrible feeling of pressure to the 2014 LC final where we were expected to win, but even that was tempered by the joy and camaraderie that goes with being in the cup final.

Hopefully Bazza will have the boys in the right place mentally.

Why are you feeling sick? Worst you can finish is 4th, which is still European qualification.

If you were a Killie or United fan, i could understand feeling sick.

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9 minutes ago, Hendo said:

Why are you feeling sick? Worst you can finish is 4th, which is still European qualification.

If you were a Killie or United fan, i could understand feeling sick.

We could actually still finish 5th but having a home game with St Mirren to clinch a place in Europe is miles more preferable to the pressure that Dundee United will be under tonight.

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Aberdeen should really be wining this being a home game and a squad on a budget Saints could only dream of having . But that's been said quite a lot this season wether it's Celtic, Hearts, Rangers and Aberdeen so if St Mirren were to come back down to Paisley with points it would not surprise me . 

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16 minutes ago, Hendo said:

Why are you feeling sick? Worst you can finish is 4th, which is still European qualification.

If you were a Killie or United fan, i could understand feeling sick.

It's very unlikely that falling into the earlier qualifiers rather than the play off round will result in group stage fitba.

Missing out on the guaranteed group stage fitba would be an absolute sickener - and if it goes into the final game then our chances of achieving it are greatly diminished.

And re Dundee United, I think "levels" is what the cool kids call it.

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Never contemplated we’d be in this position come the last home game of the season and I’d have bitten your hand off for 4th after Handsome Jim climbed over the advertising boards at Hibs 

However, it would be pretty sickening to blow likely group stage fitba after getting ourselves in this position 

Nervous AF

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1 hour ago, djchapsticks said:

Yeah, think best we can hope for is that there's still the opportunity to take this to the last game of the season. The squad is really running on empty now unfortunately.

Didn't look like you was running on empty on Saturday when Main could have scored 5. Aberdeen on the other hand have been running on empty as soon as Hearts scored we didn't even create a chance after that.

We have 3 players coming back tonight which 2 won't be match fit while Duk is being risked with a hamstring injury - not a great place to be for our most important game of the season. 

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10 hours ago, DrewDon said:

Less than a minute into the game, the ball goes out of play after Shinnie's first, seemingly innocuous, tackle. The referee blows his whistle to halt the restart, much to the confusion of everybody inside Pittodrie. Then come those foreboding words over the PA: 'VAR checking possible red card for serious foul play.'

Yeah lets hope so. Or Shinne could just try not being a c**t

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11 minutes ago, gazelle83 said:

Referee is former st mirren player and weegie don robertson....terrific

Jesus….. not another one. Robertson is listed as a “former player” with Saints,Thistle and  Queen’s Park. He is not even listed in any  actual matches played for us, probably as he finished playing by 17 years old to be a Ref.

Thats some different level of paranoia there mixed in with a fair chunk of panic for this game. 

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4 minutes ago, meadowroadsaint said:

Thats some different level of paranoia there mixed in with a fair chunk of panic for this game. 

This seems to be the modus operandi for some Aberdeen fans recently.

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