20 years ago

[zeroisgod76]

Seen someone post this with the Scottish results from 20 years ago. Right at the end of Ebbe's reign and a few weeks before Steve Paterson became boss. Noticed quite a few ex and future dons on the scoresheet across the top 2 divisions in Scotland... Jim Hamilton, Mixu, David Lilley, Dennis Wyness, Paul Sheerin, Leigh Hinds.... man we've had some shite in out team over the years,

[Poodler]

Larsson must be the best player to have played (competitively) at Pit in the last 30 years? Felt like he scored every game against us. Was always a few yards ahead 

[zeroisgod76]

5 minutes ago, Poodler said:

Larsson must be the best player to have played (competitively) at Pit in the last 30 years? Felt like he scored every game against us. Was always a few yards ahead 

Agreed, probably the best player to have played in Scotland full stop in the last 30 years. Scored 173 goals in his last 4 seasons at Celtic, thats unreal!!

[Ten Caat]

Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

[Frank Grimes]

That was a fucking grim time to be Dons fan 

[zeroisgod76]

22 minutes ago, Frank Grimes said:

That was a fucking grim time to be Dons fan 

It really was... in 2002 and 2003 we signed stars such as Leigh Hinds, John Stewart, Scott Muirhead, Jamie McQuilken, Bryan Prunty and Michael Bird. Kids supporting the dons these days don't actually realise just how lucky they are 🤣

[ericblack4boss]

Aye Larsson for me probably the best player I've seen in Scotland in the last 20 yrs, he wouldnt have been out of place in any top European league.

[Ramandu]

2 hours ago, Ten Caat said:

Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

Was waiting for that. Disappointed it wasn't the first reply tbh.

[Ramandu]

19 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said:

Aye Larsson for me probably the best player I've seen in Scotland in the last 20 yrs, he wouldnt have been out of place in any top European league.

I mean, he played in two top leagues and wasn't out of place.

At the time while he was at Celtic I remember thinking he was a diving cheat. I suspect I was not wholly objective in that assessment though.

[Yorston Vasey]

That Clyde attendance is pretty impressive, was that not long after they went to Broadwood and the Cumbernauld council or whoever were really trying to build a Livingston-type team in the town.. before it all got rather acrimonious and Clyde got shit.

[Ando]

...and if you go back another 10 years before that, we were battering Partick 7-0 in a rearranged game that was snowed off at 2-0 up. Remember it like it was last year never mind 30 years ago. Some team back then, shocking contrast to the Skovdahl/Paterson value-range austerity line-ups.

[sigh]

3 minutes ago, Ando said:

...and if you go back another 10 years before that, we were battering Partick 7-0 in a rearranged game that was snowed off at 2-0 up. Remember it like it was last year never mind 30 years ago. Some team back then, shocking contrast to the Skovdahl/Paterson value-range austerity line-ups.

Went to both games, happy days

[zeroisgod76]

20 minutes ago, Ando said:

...and if you go back another 10 years before that, we were battering Partick 7-0 in a rearranged game that was snowed off at 2-0 up. Remember it like it was last year never mind 30 years ago. Some team back then, shocking contrast to the Skovdahl/Paterson value-range austerity line-ups.

3 or 4 days after that we beat Hearts 6-2 at Pittodrie... 13 goals in 2 games and back to back hat-tricks from Duncan Shearer. I'm sure Shearer was injured just after that and missed 2 months of the season so to still end up with 27 goals is amazing. Mixu also got 20, Booth 19 and Jess 16... 82 goals between the 4 of them. Genuinely believe the team we had that year would win the league now.

Were the huns financially cheating back then?

[Dal Riata Don]

Feel like this thread could go along the lines of: has the globalization of football been good or bad for Aberdeen?

We aren't as good as 30 years ago but at the same time its not as dire as 20 years prior.  

[BaaBaaRedSheep]

Try 50 years ago being a Dons fan. Around this time in 1972 King Joey signed for Everton. 

The 8 year old me thought that it was the end of the world.

[zeroisgod76]

While 40 years ago we'd have been in the midst of out Cup Winners Cup winning season.

[ericblack4boss]

1 hour ago, zeroisgod76 said:

3 or 4 days after that we beat Hearts 6-2 at Pittodrie... 13 goals in 2 games and back to back hat-tricks from Duncan Shearer. I'm sure Shearer was injured just after that and missed 2 months of the season so to still end up with 27 goals is amazing. Mixu also got 20, Booth 19 and Jess 16... 82 goals between the 4 of them. Genuinely believe the team we had that year would win the league now.

Were the huns financially cheating back then?

That for me is the best attacking players we have had, if you add in Mason, and Bett,  I think there is an argument for saying that is as good as any attacking players we have ever had.

[ericblack4boss]

1 hour ago, zeroisgod76 said:

3 or 4 days after that we beat Hearts 6-2 at Pittodrie... 13 goals in 2 games and back to back hat-tricks from Duncan Shearer. I'm sure Shearer was injured just after that and missed 2 months of the season so to still end up with 27 goals is amazing. Mixu also got 20, Booth 19 and Jess 16... 82 goals between the 4 of them. Genuinely believe the team we had that year would win the league now.

Were the huns financially cheating back then?

I was at the 6-2 game sat in south stand and was right behind Masons strike into the top corner as soon as he pulled back his foot to hit it , it was a goal.

[NEM]

2 hours ago, Ando said:

...and if you go back another 10 years before that, we were battering Partick 7-0 in a rearranged game that was snowed off at 2-0 up. Remember it like it was last year never mind 30 years ago. Some team back then, shocking contrast to the Skovdahl/Paterson value-range austerity line-ups.

 

The peak Stewart Milne years.  

[zeroisgod76]

2 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said:

That for me is the best attacking players we have had, if you add in Mason, and Bett,  I think there is an argument for saying that is as good as any attacking players we have ever had.

Agreed, best group of attackers i've seen in my time following the dons thats for sure. Still can't believe we didn't win anything with that team.

1 minute ago, ericblack4boss said:

I was at the 6-2 game sat in south stand and was right behind Masons strike into the top corner as soon as he pulled back his foot to hit it , it was a goal.

I was there too, in the Merkland. Pretty sure the RDS was being built at the time.

[zeroisgod76]

5 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said:

I was at the 6-2 game sat in south stand and was right behind Masons strike into the top corner as soon as he pulled back his foot to hit it , it was a goal.

Did we not play Hearts again towards the end of that season and their goalkeeper (Nicky Walker i think) got injured in the warm up and they had to play an outfiled player in goals for the whole 90 minutes? Remember thinking we'd easily put 6 past them again but the match was a lot closer than it should have been.

[Ten Caat]

1 hour ago, zeroisgod76 said:

3 or 4 days after that we beat Hearts 6-2 at Pittodrie... 13 goals in 2 games and back to back hat-tricks from Duncan Shearer. I'm sure Shearer was injured just after that and missed 2 months of the season so to still end up with 27 goals is amazing. Mixu also got 20, Booth 19 and Jess 16... 82 goals between the 4 of them. Genuinely believe the team we had that year would win the league now.

Were the huns financially cheating back then?

They weren't using EBT's at that point. They started around 2000/2001

But the man who authorised their use.....Sir David Murray....was their chairman at that point....a position he relinquished fairly soon afterwards whilst remaining their largest shareholder. By the late 90s, oldco's debts were certainly spiralling out of control. So you can surmise that what had gone on in the preceding years was that they were slowly living outwith their means (whilst continuing to hoover up domestic trophies)

Naelegs is currently the subject of legal action due to leaks made to the media regarding what happened around the time of oldco's administration/liquidation prior to which he'd sold his shareholding to Whyte for £1...with promises supposedly made that oldco's bank debt of £18m would be settled by Whyte as a condition of the sale

[maryhilldon]

2 hours ago, Ando said:

...and if you go back another 10 years before that, we were battering Partick 7-0 in a rearranged game that was snowed off at 2-0 up. Remember it like it was last year never mind 30 years ago. Some team back then, shocking contrast to the Skovdahl/Paterson value-range austerity line-ups.

Was at both those games as well. End of an era, it all started going downhill the following season.

[BaaBaaRedSheep]

51 minutes ago, zeroisgod76 said:

While 40 years ago we'd have been in the midst of out Cup Winners Cup winning season.

Yep the 18 year old me was so pished I thought it was the end of the world. 

By far the most surreal time I will ever have as a Dons fan.

Only period where I watched games expecting to win as opposed to hoping to win, even when we went a goal or two behind. Happy days. 

[ericblack4boss]

4 hours ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Did we not play Hearts again towards the end of that season and their goalkeeper (Nicky Walker i think) got injured in the warm up and they had to play an outfiled player in goals for the whole 90 minutes? Remember thinking we'd easily put 6 past them again but the match was a lot closer than it should have been.

To be fair how would you know the difference between butter shortbread fingers Walker and a total amateur in goal.?

[WesthillWanderersFC]

4 hours ago, zeroisgod76 said:

Did we not play Hearts again towards the end of that season and their goalkeeper (Nicky Walker i think) got injured in the warm up and they had to play an outfiled player in goals for the whole 90 minutes? Remember thinking we'd easily put 6 past them again but the match was a lot closer than it should have been.

April 1993.

3-2 win at Pittodrie. 

I think we were 3-0 up 

[sigh]

5 hours ago, maryhilldon said:

Was at both those games as well. End of an era, it all started going downhill the following season.

I lived in Great Western Road at the time, above Wintergills so only a short walk 

[zeroisgod76]

22 years ago today... still i think the last game i left early... baltic November afternoon in the South Stand at Pittodrie, left a few minutes before Di Rocco's first and by time i got back to the car in Seaton it was 3-3.

 

[Andy_123]

On 11/24/2022 at 12:45 PM, ericblack4boss said:

Aye Larsson for me probably the best player I've seen in Scotland in the last 20 yrs, he wouldnt have been out of place in any top European league.

Came on and was Barcelona's best player in the champions league final v Arsenal when they came from behind to win. He set up both goals.

He should never have been anywhere near Scottish football. Dread to think how much Celtic must have been paying him.

[maryhilldon]

On 11/24/2022 at 10:58 PM, sigh said:

I lived in Great Western Road at the time, above Wintergills so only a short walk 

Not been in Wintergills for a few years. Proper old school boozer. My old dear used to live across the road from it.