Match Thread Motherwell V Aberdeen (2 - 2)

[fine-n-dandy]

MASSIVE MASSIVE game this now.

Be a very important win if we get it.

Wonder if we'll have a certain Adam Rooney in the squad & if he'll make an instant impact?

Hope I get home for it. Might be stuck on rig. Due home on Thurs but weather has been shocking. First choppers in over a week Yesterday.

Never seen the wind up so strong & for so long from the same direction in my life. It's unheard of.

 

Edit: WTF is with the spaces between the lines? I didn't leave any.

[ChutneyLove]

Line-spacing bastard, yer just a line-spacing bastard,

Line-spacing baa-astard,

Yer just a line spacing bastard.

[Stoney]

Couldnt give less of a fuck about this game,

 

Rest key players give the kids a shotty and keep everybody fit for the semi, winning a cup is more important than the league.

[ebbe]

Just go and win them both.

[dave_min]

Couldnt give less of a fuck about this game,

 

Rest key players give the kids a shotty and keep everybody fit for the semi, winning a cup is more important than the league.

 

This.

[Dynamo]

MASSIVE MASSIVE game this now.

 

 

 

It's just another league game. Win lose or draw second place is still wide open.

 

The big games the week after.

 

Anyway, Vernon for a.n other (hopefully Rooney),

Shaughnessey for Tate

Hayes in Anderson out.

 

Clangfud

Shaughnessey Consi Reynolds Hayes

Jack Flood Robson McGinn

Pawlett

Rooney

[RTYD]

MASSIVE MASSIVE game this now.

Be a very important win if we get it.

Wonder if we'll have a certain Adam Rooney in the squad & if he'll make an instant impact?

Hope I get home for it. Might be stuck on rig. Due home on Thurs but weather has been shocking. First choppers in over a week Yesterday.

Never seen the wind up so strong & for so long from the same direction in my life. It's unheard of.

 

Edit: WTF is with the spaces between the lines? I didn't leave any.

It's not as big as the semi final so I would rest Jack, Robson and Flood and drop McGinn.

 

Start Low, Smith, Rooney and Hayes.

[tainboy]

Couldnt give less of a fuck about this game,

 

Rest key players give the kids a shotty and keep everybody fit for the semi, winning a cup is more important than the league.

While I agree with the sentiment, the reality is that there more 'continual' money in being higher placed in the league.

 

Winning this cup, although great is only just winning a cup. If it was the Scottish cup however with a European slot available for another 'payday' then yay. But the league cup where winning means you get a tin trophy.......

[StandFree1982]

Winning a cup isn't just "winning a cup" it's breaking a 20 year cycle of pish that has plagued the club. It is giving the fans something back for having to put up with years of inept performances in the cups. It is giving us hope for the future that maybe just MAYBE we'll become a force again in Scottish Football.

 

it's just a cup.....wise up.

[afcwull]

Winning a cup isn't just "winning a cup" it's breaking a 20 year cycle of pish that has plagued the club. It is giving the fans something back for having to put up with years of inept performances in the cups. It is giving us hope for the future that maybe just MAYBE we'll become a force again in Scottish Football.

 

it's just a cup.....wise up.

here here!!

[elephantstone78]

Yep agree with last couple of posters. Winning the cup means success and place in record books. Christ we have not won one for 2 decades. 2nd place means fuck all really. First loser as those cunts Nike would say.

Street parade after winning the cup. Nothing for 2nd in the league.

I can't actually believe someone thinks the league game is more important.

Final evidence is the lack of a concerted campaign orchestrated by afcwull to get various family members tickets

[StandFree1982]

Club success is measured in trophies, not coming 2nd place in a league of 12. In 20 years time when i'm telling my grandchildren about the Dons, I don't want to say "2014 was a good year for the Dons, they finished 2nd in the league but lost in the semis of the cup. It's ok though because we got plenty of money from the 2nd place and got to compete in the qualifiers of the Europa league which we lost to some 5th places Polish team"

[Dynamo]

While I agree with the sentiment, the reality is that there more 'continual' money in being higher placed in the league.

 

Winning this cup, although great is only just winning a cup. If it was the Scottish cup however with a European slot available for another 'payday' then yay. But the league cup where winning means you get a tin trophy.......

 

-1.

[rgudon]

Club success is measured in trophies, not coming 2nd place in a league of 12. In 20 years time when i'm telling my grandchildren about the Dons, I don't want to say "2014 was a good year for the Dons, they finished 2nd in the league but lost in the semis of the cup. It's ok though because we got plenty of money from the 2nd place and got to compete in the qualifiers of the Europa league which we lost to some 5th places Polish team"

 

This ^

[Henry]

I predict a post from Millertime agreeing with tainboy, containing a thinly veiled reference to Jimmy Calderwood.

[StandFree1982]

If some folk had their way we'd have the squad parading down Union Street with the top 6 trophy held aloft by captain Russell Anderson, who'd look ashamed and embarrassed at it all, and special "anniversary" dinners every 10 years.

 

The streets would be deserted except for tainboy and millertime who are weeping in pride at the teams "achievements".

 

Embarrassing.

[afcwull]

has to be the cup which is ithe most important match, rest key players and get to that final dont let my wee boys down they think we are world beaters COYR

[afcwull]

Final evidence is the lack of a concerted campaign orchestrated by afcwull to get various family members tickets

:hysterical:

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Stop arguing everyone.

 

Imo, a professional football team should go out to attempt win every meaningful game, using every means at their disposal. Especially when they are earning 1000s to kick a ball about.

 

Strong squad or weak squad, we have proved ourselves capable of f*cking semi-finals up regardless, even against qualitatively inferior opposition.

 

As for resting players - its only a game against Motherwell FFS, they are not storming the Normandy Beaches.

 

And about the semi: a competent Aberdeen side should be able to beat the likes of St Johnstone comfortably, regardless of the circumstances.

 

And I cannot believe that, this year, it will be 19 years since we last won a trophy. F*ck me, where has the time gone?

 

When I was a boy, we used to win trophies so often it almost seemed passé.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Don't agree with dropping players to rest them for the semi final. They are fit lads and can cope with 2 games that are 7 days apart FFS. I wouldn't like us to go into the semi final with a team that mostly hadn't kicked a ball for 2 weeks.

 

I think the Robson, Flood and Jack trio will work for our next few games. I only have an issue there in home games where we need to be more direct. Definitely drop Tate and Vernon.

[StandFree1982]

Robson should be dropped. He was shite on Saturday and he could use a rest. I'd put Hayes in for Robson and Joe in for Tate.

[zander]

Cup is more important.

But resting players is a ridiculous shout.

[afcwull]

fair enough maybe giving them a rest while games are 7 days apart is silly after all but CUP game way too important, its been long enough without a trophy.

 

COYR

[fine-n-dandy]

Dropping players is wrong imo. We're not Chelsea ffs.

 

They need to get back to winning ways & perform the way they were before last sat BEFORE the semi.

 

Hopefully sat was just a blip & they can get the confidence back v motherwell in preperation for the semi.

 

Winning a cup is massive (regardless of which one) cos we've nae won one since forever but every league position is important also in terms of financial reward for the club & in terms of what budget/backing the club will give McInnes to play with in future.

 

EVERY game is important but i'd maybe agree with resting a couple of key players before a final, or if it was a semi in the Scottish cup.

[Stoney]

More the fear of injury or suspension rather than tiredness.

 

If we lost flood or reynolds to either of the above we have no chance in that semi, so whats the point in taking the risk?

[zander]

Think we need to find a balance between both.

[starryfish]

Would think Tate would need to play somewhere as looks like he will be at right back in the semi final with Joe suspended.

[StandFree1982]

I hope he isn't playing at RB in the semi, he looked clueless. He needs to either be in the middle or on the bench.

[V for Vendetta]

No reason to sacrfice effort in one game just to focus on another.

 

In fact losing badly to Motherwell would be a poor preparation for the St J game.

 

I'd have no problem with a couple of changes to rest a key player or give a new signing some game time but otherwise I think we should just keep the team settled.

 

Also I don't think we should be dropping McGinn IMO just needs a bit of a word from the manager and to get his focus back. Motherwell game would be a good place for him to start that, maybe goal would lift his confidence in advance of St Johnstone too.

 

Defence seems the most difficult are to pick at the moment IMO, Tate hasn't quite slotted in and it may need a reshuffle if he's going to be more comfortable at CB than FB?? Do we rest or play Anderson? Reynolds at CB or FB? etc.

[a don in oz]

Tate is no full back. We're in trouble if he gets played there again... unless he wakens up to how to play in that position from the last game.

 

I don't think we can afford to or even should be "resting" players. Not for more important games. Resting them because they were shit, maybe. Even there our squad isn't massive enough to rest every player that was crap the last game or few.