Scottish Cup 2020/21

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

6 minutes ago, RedRichard said:

See this as another Queen of the South moment where we have thrown away a cup. Anyway, bring on the radical personnel overhaul!!

Lets be honest, we would have shat ourselves and Rangers would have raised their game and comfortably seen us off in 2008. 

That's what I tell myself.

Also we'd have shat ourselves against Dundee United in 2014

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Reminds me a bit of Yogi in his pomp.  Plays the idiot laddie card a bit and doesnt hesitate to throw in a few "here to make up the numbers", "massive disparity", "hopefully we might do something" type comments.  But you can tell his teams believe in what theyre doing, can achieve what theyre doing ie the system suits the players and, lets be honest, he has that vital bit of luck with him at the moment. 

Like others wish him well particularly now the cheeks are out.  St J cup double would be a hell of an achievement.  Thank christ we've played them in the league already.  

[fine-n-dandy]

2 hours ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Reminds me a bit of Yogi in his pomp.  Plays the idiot laddie card a bit and doesnt hesitate to throw in a few "here to make up the numbers", "massive disparity", "hopefully we might do something" type comments.  But you can tell his teams believe in what theyre doing, can achieve what theyre doing ie the system suits the players and, lets be honest, he has that vital bit of luck with him at the moment. 

Like others wish him well particularly now the cheeks are out.  St J cup double would be a hell of an achievement.  Thank christ we've played them in the league already.  

They won’t be giving a fk about their league games. Cup is 100% of their focus now for sure

[aberdeen1970]

16 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

They won’t be giving a fk about their league games. Cup is 100% of their focus now for sure

They still have designs on catching Livingston to get 5th just in case Hibs win the cup. 

[fine-n-dandy]

28 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

They still have designs on catching Livingston to get 5th just in case Hibs win the cup. 

Yeah suppose that’s right right enough 

[Joe pike]

2-1 Killie at H/T.

Nice PC correct panel on the BBC.

[Henry]

What are the Killie defence doing there, just clear it.

Think the ref got it wrong though. 

[Studebaker-90]

1 hour ago, Joe pike said:

2-1 Killie at H/T.

Nice PC correct panel on the BBC.

Too many birds involved. What the fuck is that about? 

[Henry]

Three women and a black chap.

No white men allowed.

BBC Scotland.

Dundee United vs Hibs

St Johnstone vs St Mirren

Dons would’ve been pumped by Hibs .

 

 

[Henry]

11 minutes ago, Millertime said:

5 euro spots for a 12 team league is surely unparalleled 

Like it or not, it's down to Celtic and "rangers", eh?

Unparalleled if you ignore Denmark and Austria, who also have five spots for 12 team leagues. 

[Yorston Vasey]

23 minutes ago, Millertime said:

5 euro spots for a 12 team league is surely unparalleled 

Like it or not, it's down to Celtic and "rangers", eh?

Did we not have 5 teams in Europe when we had a ten team top division back in the mid 1990s? One of them would have been in the Intertoto right enough..

[Scotty_Toronto]

I seem to remember we had 5 teams in Europe in a ten team league in the early eighties.

[maryhilldon]

Does it matter how big the top division is?  European places are determined by previous combined performances in Europe.  We just happen to have a 12 team top division ,  we'd have the same amount of European entrants if we switched to a 30 team top division so it's irrelevant. 

[Scotty_Toronto]

4 hours ago, maryhilldon said:

Does it matter how big the top division is? 

Only if we're bragging that we were the first league to have half it's' teams in Europe.

[Scotty_Toronto]

1982=83

European Cup	Dundee United
Cup Winners' Cup	Aberdeen Rangers
UEFA Cup	Celtic St Mirren

[Lencarl]

Watching two clubs in the bottom half of the Scottish Premiership last night and thinking these two clubs play more entertaining football than Aberdeen.

How the mighty have fallen.

[The Gee Man]

1 hour ago, Lencarl said:

Watching two clubs in the bottom half of the Scottish Premiership last night and thinking these two clubs play more entertaining football than Aberdeen.

How the mighty have fallen.

But then weirdly we sit very comfortably in 4th, it’s been the worst season in ages but we are still easily in the top 6.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

27 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

But then weirdly we sit very comfortably in 4th, it’s been the worst season in ages but we are still easily in the top 6.

Aye absolutely everyone has been shite this season. Apart from the new team. Very bizarre season.

If we had any of our sides from 13-14 through to 18-19 we could easy be at least 2nd with a couple double!

[Lencarl]

The winners of this season's Scottish Cup will bank a minimum of £3m from European football next term as they go straight into a Europa League play-off with the safety net of a place in the new Europa Conference League.

 

Why should the Scottish Cup winners get this..

Third place in the league should have this as a reward.

Scottish cup winners can still get a Europe place.

 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 minute ago, Lencarl said:

The winners of this season's Scottish Cup will bank a minimum of £3m from European football next term as they go straight into a Europa League play-off with the safety net of a place in the new Europa Conference League.

 

Why should the Scottish Cup winners get this..

Third place in the league should have this as a reward.

Scottish cup winners can still get a Europe place.

 

I agree.

You can fluke your way to a Cup & not have to play either set of the filth.

Four games?

Should go to the team who are better over 38 games.

However, either way, it’s not us.

 

[pocrawred]

3 hours ago, Lencarl said:

Watching two clubs in the bottom half of the Scottish Premiership last night and thinking these two clubs play more entertaining football than Aberdeen.

How the mighty have fallen.

They both had poor starts to the season. Exactly where we would be if we had a shit start..

[strachanmcgheegoal]

To flip that the other way though.  We had a good start but the evidence of Oct-Dec indicated the manager had no idea how.  Or why.

[The Gee Man]

2 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

To flip that the other way though.  We had a good start but the evidence of Oct-Dec indicated the manager had no idea how.  Or why.

100% agree DM had again assembled a squad over 2 years that was totally imbalanced with no leaders in it! For that IMO you should not be rewarded with. 6 figure pay off. Manager contracts need to be the next thing looked at by football authorities too many managers being rewarded for failure, but get bonuses for doing their job!! I wish us normal workers got the same at our work.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

37 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

I agree.

You can fluke your way to a Cup & not have to play either set of the filth.

Four games?

Should go to the team who are better over 38 games.

However, either way, it’s not us.

 

Easier to finish top 3 than win the Scottish Cup

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Lencarl said:

Watching two clubs in the bottom half of the Scottish Premiership last night and thinking these two clubs play more entertaining football than Aberdeen.

How the mighty have fallen.

Thought the same, especially St.Mirren. Zipping it about quite well and some quality crossing too.

[thedandydon]

Its depressing to look at the semi line up and know one of thise teams will be adding a trophy to their cabinet. This was great chance to take a run at the Scottish Cup and we went out with a whimper. It should have been expected though, given we've not scored more than 1 goal in a match (in 90 minutes) for months and laboured through the first 2 rounds. Glass said all the right things before the tie yet we looked both mentally and physically weak throughout. Is it the manager not getting his point across or the players just not putting in the effort? We know most of them are capable but they've been playing with rocks tied to their boots. Hard to pin pinpoint what has caused the malaise in our form since the end of last year but Glass has to rid us of this hangover quick.

[Granite95]

7 minutes ago, thedandydon said:

Its depressing to look at the semi line up and know one of thise teams will be adding a trophy to their cabinet. This was great chance to take a run at the Scottish Cup and we went out with a whimper. It should have been expected though, given we've not scored more than 1 goal in a match (in 90 minutes) for months and laboured through the first 2 rounds. Glass said all the right things before the tie yet we looked both mentally and physically weak throughout. Is it the manager not getting his point across or the players just not putting in the effort? We know most of them are capable but they've been playing with rocks tied to their boots. Hard to pin pinpoint what has caused the malaise in our form since the end of last year but Glass has to rid us of this hangover quick.

Think it's due to the lack of intensity in training and the general decline in form last year or so. Outiwth a 3 month period we've played rank rotten football for at least a year and a bit.

Think too many players have got far too comfortable with training and what-not. Doesn't help we keep re-signing utter dross

[GreenLisbon25]

Bad result at the weekend....

In your opinion, is Derek responsible for the bad season that Aberdeen is having?

[GreenLisbon25]

1 hour ago, Lencarl said:

The winners of this season's Scottish Cup will bank a minimum of £3m from European football next term as they go straight into a Europa League play-off with the safety net of a place in the new Europa Conference League.

 

Why should the Scottish Cup winners get this..

Third place in the league should have this as a reward.

Scottish cup winners can still get a Europe place.

 

Unfortunately, countries cannot change that ... it is UEFA's decision.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

30 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Easier to finish top 3 than win the Scottish Cup

Not sure about that.

Hibs could win the cup having beaten QotS, Stranraer, Motherwell, Dundee Utd & one of the Saints.

I’d say that’s easier than finishing 3rd over 38 games