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For locals, the game is on live on BBC2. This is the stadium where ICT recorded their first victory on foreign soil, a 1-0 win against Nordsjaelland in preseason a couple of years ago. Tidy 10,000 all seater stadium with beer holders on every seat, yummy yummy.

Here is the report from Official Site Chairman The Club has today (Tuesday) issued their annual accounts to shareholders announcing a loss of ?432,000 on the year's trading. The accounts reflect the increased investment in the first team squad and its support structure plus no extended cup runs last season with consequent loss of potential Sky TV income. During the period covered by the accounts, ?285,000 of new shares was issued thus reducing the effect of the loss. Chairman George Fraser said: "The club has made a surplus equating to ?490,000 in the previous two financial years and going forward we must ensure that our business model continues to be robust and sustainable for the longer term. "All clubs must be mindful of their cost base in the current challenging environment and we are no different." Mr Fraser added: "The budget for the 2008-09 season will not be impacted by the loss and we have set a football budget which has already delivered the arrivals of Adam Rooney and Andy Barrowman at the club. "It is important to note that the accounts for 2008-09 will include the transfer fee paid by Dinamo Bucharest for Marius Niculae which will positively impact our year end." The Chairman emphasised the club's gratitude to supporters and for all the assistance from sponsors, including major deals with Main sponsor Flybe and Youth & Community sponsor LifeScan, through to the local sponsors which he stressed remain the lifeblood of the club

Lifted from the Official Site:- It has now been agreed that our second round tie of the CIS Cup will be played at Gayfield Park, Arbroath on Wednesday 27th August with a 7:45 pm kick-off. Last year we faced the Red Litchies in the 2nd round however at home and came away 3-1 winners with Marius Niculae grabbing a double and Dennis Wyness also scoring. Admission prices are: ?12 for Adults ?6 for Concessions ?15 for 1 Adult and 1 Child

Phew, that was close.

This Tokely chap must really be superman after all. He is expected to be everywhere at the same time, scoring goals at one end, putting crosses into the box and being in the right place whenever the opposition attack being able to block every shot on goal. His crosses were not great on Saturday, but he did work hard and but for a wicked deflection off of the unfortunate McGuire, Hibs would not have scored, in fact Nish looked suspiciously offside. But why don't we just blame Tokely for everything, it must all be his fault. My flabber has never been more gasted in reference to Rossco's ability.

Will you be aplauding and cheering if he were to score against us Before the game fair enuff mun, during the game, I don't think I will be cheering his every move.

It was a great reaction save, he was moving across goals and had to redirect himself and threw an arm out, unfortunately for us he managed to claw the ball away. We did start the game brightly and deservedly took the lead, good counter move and a great ball by Black to Cowie. Not too significant a deflection I thought as the ball went through the defender but a goal it was. Hibs came more into it and deservedly equalised, but for all their neat build up play and quick breaks they could not get the better of us. At least we made a draw out of it, this was the type of game last season we might just have lost instead of drawing, only four draws last season.

I agree, although I personaly did not boo him, others close by were quick to boo, fair game in this workplace I'm afraid.

Excuse me young men, but was section G not the self proclaimed singing section by the singers themselves. They all gathered round the top area of section G, often sitting in my seat, and normally made noise, banged a drum and created what little atmosphere there was. I don't believe that stewards will stop you from singing/chanting, provided the language is acceptable and you are not breaking any other ground regulations. It was deathly quiet on Saturday, and Alex did turn round a couple of times to enquire where the noise was, and this did prompt him to start his own noise. No harm done. Why has the noise stopped, is there a valid reason, or has apathy taken over. You don't have to make a noise if you don't want to, it's your prerogative, but you guys did create the 'section G' myth yourselves. Lets all make sum noyz next home game, and bring a friend who is willing to make sum noyz as well.

It would appear that the only thing that will fill the Dods shaped hole in the defence is Dods. Yes please, yes please. It's a big thumbs up from me.

Whats with all the Tokely baiting. I must be missing something there. I thought our defence as a unit did well enough to keep a lively Hibs side at bay mostly. Their shooting was woeful, akin to our own cross balls. If anyone needs singled out from yesterday surely Dougie Imrie needs to take a long hard look at his input from the last two games. Unable to take on defenders and unable to make telling crosses. What has happened since the Dons game to change his performances. Lionel was also guilty of poor play as well when he came on for the reasonably effective Roy McBain. Maybe an opening for Zander as an out and out winger.

Don't forget we were going well in the first half and that shite keeper made an incredible point blank save from a Tokely header. We looked decent in the first half of the first half.......................then we came undone........ Substitute Jimmi Jabbi was not the right move to play him as a forward attacking midfielder.........taking Roy off, who had been quite effective, and the last straw was the humping of the ball up to the ineffective Barrowman and Rooney, although I thought Rooney was more likely than Barrowman to succeed. Hibees did have more attempts on goal, but by and large they were pitiful, whereas Black could have sorted it for us at the end but his half volley went agonisingly wide. On reflection, a better point for us than Hibs, but it was always going to be tight. Imrie was as last week uninspiring, and the strikers lacked the telling balls to help them. Special mention to the back line, Fraser, McGuire, Tokely and Hastings stood firm, but none better than last weeks unfortunate debutant Jamie Duff, well done son, take bow. In fact, Jamie Duff needs his own thread.............

Some great photo's in there. Photo's 35-38 are crackers, lots of happy Dons fans Mr Angry is in number 50, and Mr Happy in 51.

I certainly won't be cheering him, thats for sure.................maybe a few choice words will suffice.

Barry certainly is the millenium man. He scored the last goal in the last millenium and the first goal in this mellenium. On the back of this game the Liverpool X1 played a Hamilton X1 last night, here is the news from the Hamilton website. http://www.acciesfc.co.uk/ HAMILTON 1-2 LIVERPOOL Accies fielded an extremely experimental side for this game and it was the Liverpool Reserve team that came away with a victory. Manager Billy Reid played no fewer than 5 trialists from the start, with another coming into the action after the break. None of the team that won at Inverness started the game, although several of the top team squad were involved. The good news for Accies was that David Elebert played the full 90 minutes as he continues to gain fitness. Liverpool opened the scoring with a first half header from centre half Ronald Huth that looped over Accies 'keeper Sean Murdoch. Accies equalised in the second half with a smartly taken goal by Joel Thomas and he nearly scored the winner from a tight angle after rounding goalkeeper Martin Hansen but his shot hit the post. Accies spent the bulk of the second half on top of the game, but it was a Liverpool substitute who won the game for his team after rounding Sean Murdoch near the end. This was a good exercise for Accies and a chance for several of the fringe players and trialists to catch Billy Reid's eye. Bear in mind, we also played plenty of part time players and youngsters at various stages of the game.

Lets hope we can control this fresh air swipe before it starts an epidemic. I wonder if Jimmy-Jabbi will start this weekend after Hastings exertions last night and all the travel that goes with it.

Scotland U21 have beaten Lithuania 0-3 earlier ***Scotland's win was soured by an injury to Aberdeen's Charlie Mulgrew, who was stretchered off in the 28th minute after challenging for the ball.*** Scotland U21: MacDonald, Caddis, Wallace, McArthur, Cuthbert, Considine, Lennon, Arfield (Robertson 64), Ross McCormack, McDonald (Dorrans 82), Mulgrew (Elliot 28). Subs Not Used: McLean, Mitchell, Darren McCormack, Conroy. Booked: Caddis, Considine Goals: Arfield 4, Ross McCormack 39, McDonald 60. Att: 1,000 --------------------------------------------- I don't see Marius starting for Romania tonight against Latvia, unless he is on the bench, 0-0 just now. Streaming that game just now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So far Albania 2-0 Liechtenstein R Belarus 0-0 Argentina R Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-2 Bulgaria R Denmark 0-3 Spain R England 2-2 Czech Republic R Joe Cole equaliser in 92nd minute. Estonia 2-1 Malta R Finland 2-0 Israel R Germany 2-0 Belgium R Hungary 3-3 Montenegro R Iceland 1-1 Azerbaijan R Italy 2-2 Austria R Japan 1-3 Uruguay R Kazakhstan 3-0 Andorra R Lithuania 3-0 Moldova R Luxembourg 1-4 FYR Macedonia R Norway 1-1 Rep of Ireland R Portugal 5-0 Faroe Islands R Russia 1-1 Netherlands R Romania 1-0 Latvia R Saudi Arabia 1-1 Paraguay R Scotland 0-0 Northern Ireland R Mcgregor saves penalty against 10 man NI. Slovakia 0-2 Greece R Slovenia 2-3 Croatia R Sweden 2-3 France R Henrik Larsson scored the first Switzerland 4-1 Cyprus R Tunisia 1-1 Angola R Turkey 1-0 Chile R Ukraine 1-0 Poland R Wales 1-2 Georgia R

There is no more of him, that was yer lot.

That was the real disappointment last Saturday, playing for ninety minutes without creating any clear cut scoring opportunities, and that against a team tipped along with us to be relegationn candidates. Stark contrast to the incisive play of the week before when we played well on the counter, and defended well when required.

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Having regained my sight and swam home....................In hindsight, maybe I should have cleared it myself....... All good and well saying someone should have been covering, but we can only field eleven players at any given time. Lets say we play Duff at the back, he is taking care of things while we get a corner or free kick near the box, the big guys go forward, we lose the ball, it gets humped up the park........................inexplicably, our man asked to guard the home goals duffs up big style, (no pun intended)...............................so, what is the answer, do we need someone to cover the last defender. If so then he is not the last defender. Who then covers the last defender who is covering the last defender in case he also makes a mistake...................the list is goes on. Lets all make Jamie feel better at the expense of a couple of easy targets, Duncan and Hastings, christ McGuire is even getting dragged in as well. While we are at it, why not undermine his confidence by placing three or four defenders behind him in case he makes a mistake, vote of confidence not. This only became a problem because he missed the ball, not tackled and lost it, not under any great pressure, he missed it. I am sure he will go on to become a decent defender, it's a steep learning curve, and the process has begun. ajs, you can focus all you want, but mistakes cost points at any level. Agree about our physical presence in the heart of the defence. Bottom line and answer to the original question is Duff looks very assured, he played very well, made a great tackle early on, distributed the ball neatly and made one mistake which we never managed to recover from due to the whole teams lack of urgency.

aaaaarrrgggghhhhhh OK OK OK I submit, you are saying the same thing and I am giving the same answers, therefore I am going to jump off the Kessock Bridge. Corcorran did not connect with the shot though. Offiong did and from Duffs error. Please don't reply I have gone blind.

good point well made.

Sorry captain, we are going round in circles. He was allowed to run 40yds in on goals because Duff did make that mistake, end of story. Do I think Duff was at fault, yes. Do I blame him, yes. Should he play again , yes. whatever.

Duff did well enough to merit more games. But the point about nobody being behind him............we did not need anybody behind him, he was there, he was that man, he missed the ball completely, not caused by a physical challenge he simply missed the ball and as we had been attacking prior to that and he was the player mopping up nobody else was required............unfortunately he fresh aired and put Duncan and Hastings in touble. If we keep making comments about players not going forward we will never threaten the opposition goal. We had guys forward for a free kick or corner, but they hoofed the ball forward. Duff made an error simple as. Nobody died so we/he just have to learn from it and come back stronger.