Aberdeen v Celtic (Scottish Cup )

[TheDeeDon]

Clarkson.....dinna know what to make of him.
He's extravagantly talented with a ba' at his feet, but I am fu cked if I know his best position.
The obvious answer is "10" in a 4-2-3-1, but his eye for a pass suggests he should be playing deeper with the game in front of him.
Yet his lack of physicality perhaps inhibits that.
I think we have, potentially, one helluva midfielder.....but where?
Over to you Jimmy T.....

Last season, once we got Shinnie and Ramadani together in midfield, we saw the best of Clarkson. He was a joy to watch at times.

This season, because we lost Ramadani and didn't replace him (mind, easily replaced!), we have been all over the shop in midfield with none of our midfielders having really coveredthemselves with glory which has also had a huge impact on our defence performance.

Get the spine of the team sorted and we give ourselves half a chance and allow Clarkson and dare I say McGrath too, as he has been another player not used correctly, to impose themselves more on the attacking front.

Thankfully Thelin has the task of correcting our wrongs, whilst we snipe from the sidelines.

[TheDeeDon]

He didn't run into our crowd he hobbled and had a huge smile on his face.

Ach, long day min.

He's still a class actually though. Nae c*not telling me ony different.

[dons8321]

Ach, long day min.

He's still a class actually though. Nae c*not telling me ony different.

Not a criticism of your comment just an observation that even though he was clearly injured he still wanted to join in the celebrations.

[TheDeeDon]

Not a criticism of your comment just an observation that even though he was clearly injured he still wanted to join in the celebrations.

No offence meant. I just thought he ran upto the ultras part again at the third. But he wouldn't have been able to run at that point.

I was too busy bouncing myself and giving abuse to the septic fans to notice.

[TheDeeDon]

Just watched the highlights and the Hoilet 'penalty' in particular.

They don't even hide it anymore. If the tim was fouled in the lead up, then just pick the ball up and abody go hame as the game is up.

Haven't seen a good clip of the handball incident either.

Around 10 times our budget and still need the help of the officials to bail them out.

They have some nerve complaining about the hun and the decisions they get when they don't do too badly from them either.

They are equally as rancid as the zombie clubs and their fans are all knobs too.

Now I'm away to my bed, been a long day.

[The_Moog]

Aye its a scandalous decision - just blatant cheating.

If its a foul on the defender, what’s the ref waiting for? You just give the free kick to the defending team straight away. That’s what happens every single time. They usually can’t wait to blow the whistle in those situations.

Watch Robertson, not the slightest interest in giving a free kick at the time, not one claim for a foul either, then a good 5 seconds later (when we’ve got a stick on pen) suddenly its a free kick.

This is a big part of why I hardly go anymore. It’s just pointless & the diddy clubs just put up with it year after year.

As an aside, what the fück was Roos doing at the pens. Don’t go down in the box when we’re about to take a pen ffs - especially when you are making one of our young loons wait as a result.

Absolutely ridiculous & completely stupid. Just get rid of this clown…

[dons8321]

Aye its a scandalous decision - just blatant cheating.

If its a foul on the defender

then the ref would have given a free-kick immediately. But he moves backwards and to the side to see what's going to happen, the ball is played into the box, Hoillet get there first and the ref. gives a free-kick to septic. Possibly it was a foul in the box in the build up (it wasn't any more of a foul than the one on MacDonald for their first goal, neither were fouls), possibly VAR would have given it anyway, but that's not the refs call, he'd already decided that there wasn't a foul and because as all of us who've played any level of fitba will know "the ref doesn't change his mind", except when...(you fill in the rest)

[neilthedon]

Mind that cup final when McKay-Stecens was wiped out in the box , needed emergency treatment , and was stretchered off That was a penalty, right ???

No foul, and Ryan Christie scores in extra time while our players were still traumatised.

No fuss at all from weegia or Spirstscene.

What's changed since then ?

[The_Moog]

Nothing.

Including our (& all the other non arse cheek clubs) constant timid acceptance of this shyte.

[57vintage]

Mind that cup final when McKay-Stecens was wiped out in the box , needed emergency treatment , and was stretchered off That was a penalty, right ???

No foul, and Ryan Christie scores in extra time while our players were still traumatised.

No fuss at all from weegia or Spirstscene.

What's changed since then ?

By fúck that, and the whole establishment ignoring it, still makes my O Rh+ boil. A mistimed challenge in the air, is a mistimed challenge and therefore a free kick. In the box, a penalty.

Corruption in plain sight.