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I thought Christie showed a lot of energy when he came, one fantastic defence splitting pass to tremarco that he couldn't get past the first defender and ball out for corner. agree with polworth statement. devine had a few howlers. tried to hoof the ball up field 2-3 times and the ball shot 90 degrees to the right each time. he also got a lashing from foran for another bit of play that could have cost us. think he is going to have a rough ride with rooney and pawlett if he is selected

I thought doran over stretched when going for the ball in the beach part of the pitch. looked like he had pulled something ( groin) to me. hibs kicked the ball out of play for him to get treated but doran got up and then got substituted soon after. or did I fall asleep and dream it

Aberdeen supporters living here have 3 buses going to the final from inverness. a couple of fit like loons, aul-man, bile yer tatties might get you seats on their bus. don't get bleezin though and make sure there is a chuntie on the bus. ( all words and more from google Aberdeen doric )

I left marks and spencers on argyle street on saturday at 13:15 and as I am an old git and not a fast walker was at celtic ticket office at 13:45. walked down London road which takes you direct to our end of the ground.

Brian Quinn he helped Fergus macann take over celts hours before they were going to fold. Built the wonderful stadium we were in yesterday. 20 year anniversary of take over. Wasn't a cap bye the way it was a bunnet always worn by Fergus. As a club we shouldn't have agreed to it and told them to do it at half time.

Agree with all said but...... That was 5 going on a lot more 5 is bad enough but could have should have been a lot more embarrassing

Cellic wouldn't sell me an away ticket so had to keep stum and sit in the home end with half of Ireland. Will take 5_0 as it could/should have been 8 or 9 At one stage Celtic broke away and stokes and Griffith's must have played 4 or 5 one twos in our box before Griffith's shot over. Brill had a couple of good saves before letting a 30 harder from commons right foot under his body. Ritchie had a chance at 2_0 after good work from shinnie but blasted over from 10 yards and in second half was not quick enough with his feet to score from 3yards and let the defender get a tackle in. We played a couple of bits of nice stuff but no end product. Billy and for an tried their best but the Celtic back four were too fast, too strong, too good.especially ambrose and dick van dyke. Thought hughes got his tactics very wrong today more like boo boo than yogi. Draper gave the bal away with poor passing and was rightly hooked. Meekings needs to work on his distribution which was poor also, but lucky he has pace. Shinnie was very good going forward but got a roasting from Forrest later on in the game. Ross is a nice footballer but can't go past anyone is swatted away too easily. Warren was solid Vincent too slow and tansey was playing high balls to billy against van dyke doh Hope Hughes does not come out with the injured beast, bad day at the office because it wasn't. Celtic too good I am afraid. And to think Aberdeen beat them. Ah well roll on 16 march

found a stack of match programmes for 1997 season. 4 have his picture featured on the front page and another has a q&a session with him on centre pages. your welcome to them before the grandkids start scribbling all over them

free buses for supporters who still want to attend with the cash required to pay for them taken from the gate receipts, before it is divvy'd up between the teams.

said it was disgusting

said on another thread or maybe this one before the semi draw, if we got hearts and the game was at easter road we should refuse to fulfil our commitment to play. how can they describe it as a neutral venue. ( how much did Estonia, if it was them, get fined for not turning up against Scotland) was at easter road at weekend and the atmosphere created from our support, was first class. said to my mates after game I must go to more away games. now after this decision it will be bbc tv for my party of 4 people. time to make a stand

hopefully the club told the establishment last year, in the strongest terms that if we got to a semi again we would fulfil our fixture if we were drawn to play at the national stadium. if we drew an Edinburgh team we would not play in Edinburgh. if we do draw the winner of the Edinburgh tie in all fairness the game should be played in dingwall. even then we would still have to travel further than hearts did last year

yesterday was the last time I drive to the stadium via the A9, will use alterative route from now on. I parked on seafield road yesterday as the Clydesdale bank had no spaces. my main worry is that for as many seasons as I can remember people walking from town centre direction, away support also from the pubs had the police or traffic wardens stop them at the kessock bridge crossing until there was enough assembled for the traffic to be stopped to allow crossing of both carriageways. this season, including yesterday, since the traffic lights have been installed in fact there has been no presence police or warden leaving supporters to negotiate their own way across the bridge. the speed cars come round that corner someone is going to be fatally injured. hope this is not cost cutting in any way by the club, police or whoever pays to have the area manned.

yesterday was the last time I drive to the stadium via the A9, will use alterative route from now on. I parked on seafield road yesterday as the Clydesdale bank had no spaces. my main worry is that for as many seasons as I can remember people walking from town centre, away support also from the pubs had the police or traffic wardens stop them at the kessock bridge crossing until there was enough assembled for the traffic to be stopped to allow crossing of both carriageways. this season, including yesterday, since the traffic lights have been installed in fact there has been no presence police or warden leaving supporters to negotiate their own way across the bridge. the speed cars come round that corner someone is going to be fatally injured. hope this is not cost cutting in any way by the club, police or whoever pays to have the area manned.

i left my house in drakies area of town on Saturday to attend the hearts game at 14:00. I eventually got into the ground at 15:20. horrendous tail back from the stadium roundabout on the main A9 was the problem. no evident reason for the delay other than the traffic lights. this resulted in hearts and the local ict supporter buses letting off their passengers at the raigmore interchange roundabout to walk to the stadium. half way down the road they then crossed the main A9, which with the speed of cars heading south was a very dangerous thing to do. when I eventually got to the stadium roundabout there were police and a council worker operating the traffic lights manually. I have noticed that this season there is no police presence to let pedestrians going to a home game cross the A9. this is very dangerous with young children, and older people also struggle to cross the road safely. is this a cost cutting exercise by the club ? I know the buses should not have let their passengers off before their destination but it is human nature to try to get to the game on time. I feel it is only a matter of time before someone is injured crossing the A9, maybe fatally. it has been a matter of discussion this season between both sets of supporters crossing the A9 of how dangerous and ridiculous the unattended crossing is.

for someone who could not kick his own erse in the high schools 2nd teams, you never made a first team i can remember, you have a lot to say for your self.pishgashtosh comes to mind

didnt need "a vision" yesterday saw it for real. he got the ball twice and fell on his erse twice. if we have to depend on him next week were doomed. heres hoping motherwell win both their remaining games

what a difference a week makes. du playing nice 5-10 yard passes all over the park, even under pressure in their own box, every thing through willo flood. didnt looklike scoring though. but 2 chances, took both. we froze today, the prize was too much. both shinnies were excellent dont know what we will do next season without andy. thought last week randolph made great save for penalty, saw on tv it was a poor hit. todays penalty to the other side of goal was perfect height for a keeper, go the right way and save that shot every time. apart from one delightful hit doran was hanging up crosses from deep that the 2 biggest centre backs i have seen this season, and the goalkeeper were dealing with, with ease. even when he was at the byeline he was still hanging up high crosses. nick ross totally ineffective and draper could not do anything right and was rightfully hooked for otj. dont know how draper will cope next week in the sandpit. needed 2-3 touches today to control the ball, when he wasnt tripping himself up, may need 5-6 next week. we had chances to win this match before they got their breakaway second, but they fell to ross, doran, mackay. none could take any. doran had a chance from around the pen spot, another ball had to be produced as he skyed his shot over the north stand into the home car park. think we will still make europe but need motherwell win both their matches.

when i was about 17, long long ago i wandered over one night to watch a welfare game at the bught. the ref had'nt turned up. i was asked if i would ref the game as each team would not let an official from the other team do it. no chance i said. come on mate we are ready to go, all you have to do is fouls, offside, we will supply a linesman each for throwins. ok i said but any nonsense and i am off. all went well for 20 mins or so and then a crunching tackle resulted in a punch up. everyone was so busy punching each other nobody noticed me legging it home. 10 years ago on holiday in ottawa i was watching my brother in law play in an over 40's league. i was asked to run a line, no offsides the ref would do that. it was the most difficult thing i did. hard enough to see if the ball was out nevermind who it hit last and which way the throw in was. and these guys were a bunch of duffers i give ref's pelters most saturdays when decisions dont go our way. but in the cool light of day it is a very difficult job and they have no way of getting all decisions right. dont know how many times i have watched footie on tv and pundit will say offside how did he get that wrong, on slow replay the linesman was proved to be correct my view ==== they do their best and all evens itself out over the year. no referee = no game = simples

scrape from tel's post match interview bbc sport. off to doncaster ??? who is the guy evans from burnley, anyone know Meanwhile, Butcher said speculation linking him with the manager's job at Doncaster Rovers was "just speculation" and confirmed Inverness's interest in Burnley midfielder Adam Evans. "We've had Adam Evans up and we're looking at him," explained Butcher. "We're looking at quite a few players so we're already building for next year.

we played very well and could have been more than 3 up. about 5 mins before motherwell scored we started to get ragged. could not keep ball etc game changed for me when meekings meet i think hammil in a 50/50. i was in the north stand and i could hear the thud of both players meeting the ball at the same time. looked like a good old fashioned tackle by both and the ball went out for a throw in to us. referee collulm gave a free kick to motherwell which had butcher raging on the side line. only thing i can think of was that meeking had both feet off the ground. would like to see it again on sunday night. from the free kick motherwell retained possesion and scored. at half time thought next goal was crucial. motherwell got it and it was game on. they were now playing like us in first half and could have scored more than the 3 they got. billy's pen was the chance to kill the game at 4-2 but i dont think he missed, randolph is by far the best keeper in the spl and it was a super save. could only see motherwell winning when it went to 3-3 , but ojamma sent off was the luck we needed and we got another chance to win the game which billy took. motherwell did not look like they had only 10 players as they created chances. looking back a great game (but not during the game when you are holding on for the win.) we were superb first 30 mins, and motherwell showed why they are 2nd behind cellic.

Not disagreeing with everything you say, just cannot see what you're on about here. How is anybody getting 2 cracks? You lose a playoff, that's it. No second chance. But how can a playoff work anyway if its 2 clubs from each league? There would be no need for a final in that case. The current system means one div 1 club and three div 2 clubs all fighting for one spot in div 1. The div 1 club has to win both to stay up, no second cracks as you seem to be saying. the way i read it from the bbc scrape spl 10 v 11 11 wins and stays in spl. 10 moves on to play winners of 1st div playoff. 1st div winners win game so 10 relegated looks like 2 cracks to me for spl side i may be reading it wrong wouldnt be the first time. That makes more sense but the first time you said the winners would meet in the final. So in fact the SPL team has to lose to get to the final! i just scraped from the bbc sport page. sorry for any confusion this playoff scenario was seemingly one of 4 discussed today

Not disagreeing with everything you say, just cannot see what you're on about here. How is anybody getting 2 cracks? You lose a playoff, that's it. No second chance. But how can a playoff work anyway if its 2 clubs from each league? There would be no need for a final in that case. The current system means one div 1 club and three div 2 clubs all fighting for one spot in div 1. The div 1 club has to win both to stay up, no second cracks as you seem to be saying. the way i read it from the bbc scrape spl 10 v 11 11 wins and stays in spl. 10 moves on to play winners of 1st div playoff. 1st div winners win game so 10 relegated looks like 2 cracks to me for spl side i may be reading it wrong wouldnt be the first time.

i know this isnt speaking directly, but here is your first contact, i am against play offs. seen them before gash games, end of season on bumpy rock hard pitches. neither team wanting to lose. scraped from bbc sport "Some clubs would like a play-off between the clubs finishing 10th and 11th in the SPL and another between the clubs in second and third (or possibly second, third and fourth) in Division One, with the winners meeting one another in the final." same arguement from me as before ----------- finish 10th in spl say 10-15 points in front of 11th. lose play off and you get, wait for it, another play off against 1st div play off winners to try and stay up again. so spl teams gets 2 cracks at staying up. how is that fair cant see many fans of any spl club finishing 10 th out of 12 and getting relagated being happy with this crock of sh1t. football is played over a season where you determine your fate good or bad. we have cups to allow smaller teams to giant kill the better teams. we have done it a few times ourselves over the years leave it the way it is for me this isnt about the better of scottish football. various chairmen have remarked it is all about money. they need these games to generate cash. teams like sj, du,hearts, aberdeen, killie have all come to our club offered our players better wages and taken them. get their houses in order and live within their means and we wouldnt need any change from the status quo

well said on last point mr jobby. i am more worried the post split results so far team played for agin gd pts motherwell 2 6 2 4 6 ross co 2 3 2 1 4 st j 2 3 2 1 4 celtic 2 5 4 1 3 du 2 2 3 -1 0 ict 2 1 5 -4 0 as nick knowles says on that useless quiz show perfection, "you know where this is going dont you"