ABERDEEN v Hibernian

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75 minutes of game management coming up.

Take Wright and Hedges off and bring on Ojo and Leigh. Kill the game.

[57vintage]

Did I hear that Alistair Mather is the South Stand side linesman?

If so, I hope he slips and ruptures his foreskin after the December 2006 Harlot Park Offside Scandal.

W@nker. ****. Prick. Rotter. Wrong ‘un.

[mondo_notion]

It must eat away at blowupsheep when his donkey scores a goal like that.

[blowupsheep]

It must eat away at blowupsheep when his donkey scores a goal like that.

haha, nice to see that my opinion of Sam has a lasting effect on people and when he does score I'm the first thing that you can think of cheers
As i've said time and time again i will give him credit when its due and he took his goal very well so fair play.
Other than that he contributed fk all else all game, folks may argue that his goal was enough contribution as in effect it killed the game, i don't see it that way. I still think he is a lazy tw@t of a player with limited footballing ability, goes down to easy and we have far better starting options than him.
But hey ho lets hope we sell him in the next window and make few quid and to me that will be his best ever contribution to the dons.

[mondo_notion]

haha, nice to see that my opinion of Sam has a lasting effect on people and when he does score I'm the first thing that you can think of cheers
As i've said time and time again i will give him credit when its due and he took his goal very well so fair play.
Other than that he contributed fk all else all game, folks may argue that his goal was enough contribution as in effect it killed the game, i don't see it that way. I still think he is a lazy tw@t of a player with limited footballing ability, goes down to easy and we have far better starting options than him.
But hey ho lets hope we sell him in the next window and make few quid and to me that will be his best ever contribution to the dons.

Well said Mavis.

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Blowupsheep is spot on with his assessment of Cosgrove. His strike at goal was decent but only that. He just hit it with the outside of his foot (nothing spectacular about that) and it hit the net....it’s what he is paid to do. The rest of his time on the pitch was dreadful. He will need to up his performances a notch or preferably two if he wants to be taken seriously. Now Ferguson is on the penalties it will be interesting to see how many Cosgrove scores in a season.
For what it’s worth I don’t dislike the fella....I just think we as a club try to make him sound better than he actually is. He is a donkey but he has scored a few goals. The penalties will be an issue though.

[Don_Corleone]

haha, nice to see that my opinion of Sam has a lasting effect on people and when he does score I'm the first thing that you can think of cheers
As i've said time and time again i will give him credit when its due and he took his goal very well so fair play.
Other than that he contributed fk all else all game, folks may argue that his goal was enough contribution as in effect it killed the game, i don't see it that way. I still think he is a lazy tw@t of a player with limited footballing ability, goes down to easy and we have far better starting options than him.
But hey ho lets hope we sell him in the next window and make few quid and to me that will be his best ever contribution to the dons.

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

He does however seem to have a nack of scoring. When I saw him running through on goal the other night it felt like he was running in slow motion and took the ball away from goal - watching back the replay some of his touches look clumsy and he could very easily have overrun it with any one of them - then the finish goes flying into the roof of the net - I can only imagine it caught the keeper off guard because most players would have taken the shot with their left foot from that position.

If he keeps scoring you can’t complain too much, but I’d still cash in it we get an offer of £2m or more.

[Aldo1983]

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

He does however seem to have a nack of scoring. When I saw him running through on goal the other night it felt like he was running in slow motion and took the ball away from goal - watching back the replay some of his touches look clumsy and he could very easily have overrun it with any one of them - then the finish goes flying into the roof of the net - I can only imagine it caught the keeper off guard because most players would have taken the shot with their left foot from that position.

If he keeps scoring you can’t complain too much, but I’d still cash in it we get an offer of £2m or more.

He looks awful but the goal sums him up. He's slow, looks like he's made a **** of it then scores with a stunning finish.

[blowupsheep]

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

Aye DC you are pretty much spot-on with that and the reason that thankfully we have not reverted back to long hoofball so far this season is that thankfully big Sam has not been playing.
His first touch is worse than dreadful and his second touch is normally a tackle, and not a very good tackle either ffs

[WeDontNeedEusebio]

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

He does however seem to have a nack of scoring. When I saw him running through on goal the other night it felt like he was running in slow motion and took the ball away from goal - watching back the replay some of his touches look clumsy and he could very easily have overrun it with any one of them - then the finish goes flying into the roof of the net - I can only imagine it caught the keeper off guard because most players would have taken the shot with their left foot from that position.

If he keeps scoring you can’t complain too much, but I’d still cash in it we get an offer of £2m or more.

Watkins is a good outside the box, but does he score goals? No. And whatever you do, don't credit Cosgrove with a brilliant finish, you must have been spewing when that went in.