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By any measure, Aberdeen are in miserable form.  They have not scored a goal in 192 minutes football and have won only three of 17 league games since Christmas.  In the middle of that spell, they kicked off a crisis at Celtic, when a draw at Pittodrie was one of only two from nine points Celtic took in a month which saw the pendulum swing across the city.

Just days before that draw with Celtic, they sacked manager Barry Robson, who was only in the job a year.  He followed Jim Goodwin, who survived just less than a year.  That appointment came after Stephen Glass was dismissed 11 months after his appointment.  Since Barry left town, the club has made interim appointments of Peter Leven, Neil Warnock, then Peter Leven again.

In the three years since fans and major shareholder decided they could do better than Derek McInnes, the football public of Aberdeen have been taught a harsh lesson.  McInnes was in the job 8 years, won a trophy and had a percentage win rate unknown elsewhere by Aberdeen fans under 40.

They have a budget and squad superior to most  clubs in the league, but are a shambles of a club.  Search ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ and you are bound to see photos of the Aberdeen chief exec and fans, experts all on things they have never done.  Mount Stupid is in Aberdeen, not far from the beach.

Instead of the third place they should be, they are ninth, but for what it’s worth, the pending appointment of Elfsborg manager, Jimmy Thelin, should improve things next season, especially if Jimmy brings in his own people – like a CEO and fans.  I don’t think the current crop are going to make the cut.

When we dropped points at Pittodrie, we suffered from the managerial change bounce, Robson was sacked immediately before our game.  Coincidentally, tomorrow’s Scottish Cup semi-final in Aberdeen’s first game since Thelin’s appointment was announced.

Expect Aberdeen players to care more about this one than a normal fixture.  They also have the incentive of European football to play for, which would be theirs for reaching the final.

Hampden, though, is our place.  We have a better record there over the last eight years than we do at Celtic Park.  22 wins and a solitary defeat after extra time is testament of how Celtic have repeatedly raised their game when it really counts.  Expect the champions to continue their recent good form.

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  5. Melvin Udall on

    AN TEARMANN on 19TH APRIL 2024 3:43 PM

     

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    Cracking clip AT.

     

    What a goal from big Tam. One of my favourite players during his time here and a real hun-skelper into the bargain. 😂👍

  7. Melvin Udall on

    Carpe Diem 63, that’s Paul67 confirmed that he’s sent you my email address.

     

     

    Can you email me when you get that and we can sort out meeting up tomorrow at Kitty O’Shea’s?

     

     

    Cheers. 😃👍🍀🏆😃⚽️🍻

  11. An Tearmann on

    Jackiemac

     

     

    Re Usara @4.47

     

    Bonus cyberpint if you name the band/track that the sample used in track is from? :-))

     

     

    HH

  12. Saint Stivs on

    Given that could Broony or James be the Celts who appeared the most at Hampden?

     

     

    Excluding our season there

  13. jackiemac on

    New gold dream / Jim Kerr et al AN T

     

     

    bloody brilliant – keep going back to the album

  15. An Tearmann on

    Melvin Udall

     

    A memorable goal,watched it in CR7 in Lisbon,over there with a mob from here,epic 4 days,Tams goal the cherry on the cake

     

     

    HH

     

     

    Clunks,

     

    Glad you got in touch,i didnt think he would be back,but he has had a few extended breaks.hope all well wi his Mrs at the cave.

     

     

    HH

  20. Melvin Udall on

    AN TEARMANN on 19TH APRIL 2024 5:29 PM

     

    Melvin Udall

     

     

    A memorable goal,watched it in CR7 in Lisbon,over there with a mob from here,epic 4 days,Tams goal the cherry on the cake

     

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    Sounds quality AT.

     

    Yup. A goal worthy of winning any final and set off an unbelievable and unparalleled period of dominance the Huns could only dream of.

     

     

    Makes you recall how lucky we are to have lived and continue to live through it.

     

     

    Considering my first game v the Huns we got pumped 4-2 and they were winning trebles or doubles almost every year.

     

     

    Remember an Italian guy (Juve fan) that ran a chippy near me when he found out I was a Tim saying,”there’s only one team in Scotland and that’s Rangers.”

     

     

    Oops! How did that one end bawbag? 😂👍

  22. Saint Stivs on

    Scottish Cup: When Aberdeen & Celtic have met down the years

     

    When Aberdeen & Celtic have met down the years

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Scottish Cup: When Aberdeen & Celtic have met down the years

     

    Close

     

    Watch the best moments of Aberdeen v Celtic Scottish Cup finals from through the years.

     

     

    Subsection

     

    Scottish Cup

     

    Published

     

    57 minutes ago

     

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/68858045

  24. An Tearmann on

    Melvin Udall

     

     

    Ibrox meltdowns says it was after there Seville defeat but i seem fo recall first seeing it after we pumped der hun in League Cup final,big Christopher Julien being marginally onside scoring,3 chin Morelos missin a pen,wee Ryan greetin,it was great haha

     

     

    Re Juventus

     

    In season 95/6 you may recall the now deid club played Juventus twice in Champions league,loosing 4-0@ £1park and 4-1 in Turin.

     

    Juventus were in their pomp,Del Piero etc,you may recall him sendin Alex Cleland out to get cigars as he turned and ‘megged’ him at the corner flag.

     

    Well it was early days of mobi phones,hard nokias etc,and as you know when you go from 1 country to another your phone provider changes.

     

    A friend was in doing legal work with there then head of security,he was sayin he received over 200 complaints from fans who travelled to Turin,wondering why their phone provider changed from BT or whatever the provider was here in UK.Both were guttin themselves as the italian provider was made known.it was Telecom Italia Mobilia which meant all hun phones had it abbreviated to T.I.M :-))))

     

     

    Silly silly buns :-)

     

     

    HH

  26. bigrailroadblues on

    Good evening all from the Victoria Bar. Good read back, some cracking posts. That’s why we are Tims. And they are smelly hun.

  29. leftclicktic on

    CLUNKS 5:21

     

    Thanks for your efforts in contacting TET.

     

     

    I was worried we hadn’t seen him for a while. HH

  30. Melvin Udall on

    AN TEARMANN on 19TH APRIL 2024 6:21 PM

     

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    😂😂😂 Brilliant!

  31. jackiemac on

    Is it ok to be worried about the last 20 against the mediocres at CP –

     

     

    calmac said they know that if they get at rangers, they can’t cope. It feels like they know that if they up the ante with 20 to go, we can’t cope.

     

     

    However, a full squad against them is a different prospect to the savage injury shite we’ve had this year.

  33. Saint Stivs on

    History

     

    The tag originated from the early days when match-ups between the two became the biggest draw in the club game especially following the decline of Queen’s Park. With the overtures inherent in the match-up reflecting the chasm between the two in terms of ethos, loyalty, politics, religion, society and wealth, the matches between the two could be a powder keg.

     

     

    The earliest reference to the tag is pointed to a satirical cartoon by The Scottish Referee magazine in 1904, depicting a dishevelled man carrying a message board with the tag ‘Patronise the Old Firm‘. This was actually a dig into what was the increasing hegemony of the game by the two Glasgow giants, yet in time the label won favour and became part of the footballing language. The label may actually have been in use beforehand but this is probably the first recorded evidence of its use.

  40. Turkeybhoy on

    Bye the way,I did not get my bet up for the other night.I saw Tom Mc Laughlin’s,and thought”Thats what I have on”,sadly,a senior moment,2 of the results were different, DOH !!!!!!!!!!!.Too much alcohol after the Dundee result,did not help.

     

    Anyway,are we playing in the Cup tomorrow?.You know,the holders.After watching the tartan news channels,you would not know.So much rage coursing through them,they can’t hide it.

     

    Wee Greg was very good,but no idea what our PR do.Most of the questioning,should have been nipped short.Not interested in tomorrows game.

  42. Turkeybhoy on

    Melvin Udall,

     

     

    That video like me when I realised I had made an arse of my bet.

     

    :-(((((((((

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