Tonight Aberdeen play the second of a run of three consecutive away games. After overcoming St Johnstone 3-4 in Perth a week ago they are on the road to face Inverness. The Highlanders have not lost in a month, and haven’t lost at home since the visit of Celtic in November, so John Hughes men will provide a stern test for Aberdeen.
Aberdeen are back on the road to Firhill on Friday night. Their season has been free of fixture congestion. This is a rare week with two games, and an even rarer one with two away games. It could be a pivotal period in the campaign.
Celtic won comfortably in the end against Ross County but confidence seemed at a low ebb until Leigh Griffiths opened the scoring. Sentiment may have swung in our favour before we take to the field at home to Inverness on Saturday.
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TOSB
Firstly, it’s good to see you posting again.
There’s a lot in your post that I’d agree with.
However, at Hampden when we went 2-1 down I turned to one of those with me and said that we wouldn’t come back from that setback.
On the Wednesday we dominated the game until their first goal. What I witnessed after that reinforced what I’d seen on the Sunday at Hampden.
We capitulated, and that’s what has had me believing that the title race would go to the wire.
Hence my huge smile tonight :-)
The Ref can interpret the rule re dangerous play as direct or indirect if you use the definition as reckless. The commentator said on the ole gogglebox that Collum had said he gave the penalty for a reckless challenge – Ash Taylor’s foot being face high. I agree with Chris Sutton that both Sheep claims were penalties but you know what? Shit happens deal with it.
What a great few days! 3 points on Saturday, a wee bonus from the mighty Alloa, absolute magic from the ole Barca last night and the brave Dons falling tonight. I’m feeling a wee bit smug and i hope Ronny is too.
Any game Collum is in charge of is pandemonium
Better team won tonight. End of. Hayes also possibly out for some time due to suspected hamstring injury.
Celtic now effectively 4points clear with a game in hand.
Aberdeen were always going to struggle if one of their key players got injured, and Hayes is arguably their most important player.
Looking more and more likely that Mc Innes will finish the season trophyless.
Manager of the year?
Kind of puts it all in perspective doesn’t it?
Dallas
Thanks for your concern for Marcus. Not looking good. :(
Marcus takes relief in the fact that he is not in the position of the best player he ever played with. He was on the pitch the day his mate Paul George got his leg snapped in two at Murray Park. He still says the sound of the break and Paul’s squeal, haunts him. We won the league that day. Marcus was coming down to Chandlers to celebrate with his family after his game. He spent the night with his mate in hospital instead.
Hash Taylor…:)
Dons set to refuse condemnation of Willie Collum in case they sound too Fenian.
TET
Ahhhh but I see Pog’s post as backing my view that even if it was a foul, which I don’t think it was, that it should have been an indirect free kick :-)
Did Yogi do us a favour tonight, excellentI. The ragtops will be beelin and maybe a few on here will not be too happy
Too bad so sad
HH
gsu
“Mayhem as Catholic ref strikes for the Hoops”
Daily Ranger
The 2 biggest sticky out for me in recent history which cannot be explained by incompetence were:
Dallas: Huns penalty after coin catching… deliberate punishment response
Gollum: Huns penalty when the incident occurred behind him and incident out of sight
neither can be explained by interpretation…
HH
Hi Ghuys, Salve salve;-
Well I guess the Dons are not so dandy after tonight. However no team should be subjected to such poor refereeing as we witnessed tonight. Yes I would like to see Celtic win the league but I wan to see fair consistent and competent adjudication for all Scottish games. BTW that is not to say ITC were handed an undeserved victory, they did what I would expect any professional team would do and that is to fully exploit their breaks.
Ronny is not so bad.
Greenwells
Post proelia praemia
The unseen fenian dug must have bitten Hayes on the bahookie.
Greenwells
At least when it happened to Aberdeen he was looking at it?
Can’t say that I’ve ever had a great deal of animosity over the past 60 years .v. Aberdeen (apart from; the Scottish Cup penalty shoot-out, them capitulating against the Huns when they only needed a draw to win the League and our Ted McDougall skelping).
For some reason I feel more ‘chipper’ tonight than I did after our 2-0 win on Saturday – maybe it’s to do with adversity (7-1 LC Final – 10 men won the League – stopping 10 in-a-row etc).
Can’t help thinking – there’s something really satisfying about a right GIRUY moment when there’s a profound ‘weeping and gnashing’ of teeth by the MSM & entourage.
Off to bed with a large grin on my chops!
H!H!
BGX on 15th February 2016 10:31 pm Now can We Just Agree that Refs in Scotland Are Incompetent….And put That Masonic Referee Conspiracy against Us To Bed….Tonight Proved it In Spades…
* and tu-bal-cain tae you brother
Delaney’s, Marcus has suffered enough with his cruciate injury and now hit with this. I’m sure his resilience will get him through this latest setback.
Paul George was expected to be the one to make it with us until that injury, the foul was commited by a now Brentford player who has rarely played for them.
I read a bit from the defunct club’s match report of that game. It basically said our players showed no concern for Paul as we scored after he was injured.
It sums them up, having a go at us for a serious injury caused by their wonderkid.
Paul’s back in Belfast playing for Cliftonville now.
Good night all and sleep well.
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 15TH FEBRUARY 2016 9:44 PM
Sean the Sheep, Dolly the Clone, Mary and her little lamb, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Old MacDonald, Aries, Shepherd’s pie, Shepherds Bush, The National Sheep Association, Mutton dressed as Lamb. Your boys took one hell of a beating tonight
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brilliant , kiss my arse right enough,
sheeps get it up yeese
Neg
I only know what one referee in Scotland does for a living outwith reffing.
Why do you think I know what Willie Collum does, and the school he teaches in??? :)
Boaby Madden, Steven McLean, and Craig Thompson all now better than Willie Collum.
IRestMyCase CSC
Watt goes around comes a round; )
Karma ain’t my favourite ( prefer a kohlapuri ) but I just love it when it bites a zombies ass .
Wullie is a terrible ref but because his honest mistakes usually cost celtic … the smsm accept his errors and tell us they even out over a season.
If that’s so … the dandy sheep best get used to some baaaaaaad decisions against them
Colum was awful tonight and had those decisions happened against us two servers would not be able to cope.
Hayes is a very important player for Aberdeen. Remove him and you remove the equivalent of Brown or Griffiths or Commons.
That’s what the higher wage bill brings. Contingency when best players are missing.
Always remember the John Greig handshake photo. Also ask Mike Delaney,
Kevin O’ Donnell or Jim Callaghan about the refereeing supervisors and the SFA refs committee.
I wouldn’t be doing my on line check in for flights to euros just yet if I were Willie Collin.
In defence of Oor Wullie, he made some correct decisions tonight.
The main one was in awarding the third goal.
I reckon most refs would have gone with the flag man and disallowed the goal for offside.
However, our hero saw the touch that MOTM. Taylor got on the ball to play the man onside.
Also, how he kept 22 men on the park took a bit of doing.
We should be proud that we have refs of that calibre.
To be fair.
Willie Collum has helped us out tonight.
Well done Willie….yer mask slipped.
Hee, Hee
Makes a change.
Huns will hate Willie even more now.
Im sure he will be really bothered:)
HH
HT
I think there will be a lot of Tims smiling tonight. I’d raise a glass to Willie Collum for doing what I would do if I was a referee :-)) but I’m off the booze for Lent. I’ve never done it before but hope to give it a real good go.
JOHANN MURDOCH on 15TH FEBRUARY 2016 9:56 PM
I sense a strange disturbance in the farce ..
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your not posting enough now adays bud
Collum
TBJ @ 11.15
Sock on
BGX
I agree that their is no grand masonic conspiracy against Celtic, however what does exist is a culture, within the refereeing fraternity, of incompetence and personal bias going unpunished provided it is Celtic who ate most disadvantaged.
The referees do not all sit around a table discussing how to screw over Celtic but they do know that if they make a mistake or act out of malice against Celtic then there will be no consequences for them to worry about, no adverse press reaction etc. However make an error elsewhere and all bets are off.
G’night trhoops, goes to sleep with a smile on his face.
Bournsoupe, Salve salve;-
Well his heed was pointed in one direction but where were his eyes?
All I can say is that tonight was a credit to Development officer Dougie MacDonald. We may be small footballwise but we can still show the world’s football community leadership.
Greenwells
Ne humanus crede
Delaneys Dunky..
Just wanna say your posts Regarding Your Neph and PaulGeorge Make CQN..
seem a lot More Human
….Bless To You and Yours….Just Saying….Funkin in Jamaica….:).
bournesouprecipe on 15th February 2016 11:15 pm
Boaby Madden, Steven McLean, and Craig Thompson all now better than Willie Collum. Speaks volumes
Oh how the MSM are ah HURTEN. Scottish Football in my lifetime ( 70yrs ) has always been run By Masons, for Masons, and the like, Mr Stein sorted it out for a 10yr spell, MON ditto,Wee Strachen gave us good times as did Niel Lennon, THE RANGERS UR DEED I will Die a Happy TIM thank God for this Blessed Blog.I hope RD Tenure is a success.
awerabest PJ
OWEN
If its all above board…and it is just honest mistakes.
Why the need for a secret brotherhood within refereeing Scotland?
I mean….what could possibly be the agenda eh.
Ive seen enough honest mistakes over 45 yrs….to know that, that wee fraternity….dont like Celtic.
How you can conclude otherwise…I dont understand.
HH
garygillespieshamstring, he sure did.
OWEN…agreed 11