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https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/02/06/aberdeen-scottish-cup-tie-postponed/

No surprise there. Just looked at the forecast and it’s more of the same so if it didn’t get called off now it would have been very suspicious. again, looking at their forecast, I’m not sure when next they’ll be able to play a game there !!

Games off

He’ll have a better idea after 3pm inspection today… Falling as sleet currently

Wet pitch might not suit our style of playing. I am sure Jens has planned for the Pittodire wetlands

My mate (Aberdeen fan/from Peterhead) was talking to me this morning. He’s saying he’d be shocked if the game is on. If anything the rain has been worse yesterday and today up there and the park is a mud heep. i think I’d prefer it off as well as it sounds like it’d be a total lottery.

0630 ko on Sunday for me and it’s on Paramount +

Pretty standard for a cup game. Can you imagine Man City playing on that now?

Easy solution is for all the diddy clubs to take a leaf out of the Arsecheeks' book and refuse to play in game where David Dickinson is refereeing Rangers

Looks like how Firhill used to be most of the time..........

Aberdeen Groundsman out early this morning after 16 days constant rain with scarifier to help drainage.

A'la John Rowbotham versus Hearts playing up to the TV at half time?

The game was 6 weeks ago, best revenge would be to end our ridiculous record of not beating them at home in league since boxing day 2001

From memory, in all three the referee David Dickinson had no hesitation in giving all three decisions, to give Rangers the penalty on two occasions and to dismiss Motherwell's claim for a penalty.I don't think VAR was involved in any of the three. Interestingly in last night's Tarvenier decision, VAR did not get involved whereas it did get involved to upgrade Trusty's yellow card to a red. There are huge discrepancies in that system regardless of which team you support.

No arguments with that. VAR is an absolute scourge on football.

Just bin VAR. It's that simple. Subjective decisions in the booth are wrong just as often as subjective decisions on the pitch. If we must keep it, go with the 20 or 30 second rule. Can't see any error within those 20 or 30 seconds, no clear and obvious error, decision on the pitch stands, and we move on.

We’re long overdue a win at home against Rangers. We’ve beaten them twice away in the last two seasons but a win at Fir Park in front of the home fans would be that bit more special I think. A draw is the most likely result here but you just hope that we might be able to get the win. Another 1-1 with us bemoaning missed chances I reckon.

On the three decisions mentioned above did VAR get involved? I know they didn’t for the Motherwell game but don’t know about the others. If they didn’t then it brings into question their impartiality, not for the team involved but not wanting to disagree with the match referee - I do believe that there’s an unwritten agreement between them not to interfere with 50/50 decisions so not to make each other look bad - which in turn makes VAR ineffective. So my view is scrap it or let officials from another country with no bias to teams or officials do the checks.

I'd much rather it was off, than played on a lottery of a pitch, or abandoned 30 minutes in.

They r not as bad as they were a few weeks ago. Should be an evenish match with our silky passing winning the day.

They will give it every chance because its on Premier TV. No chance it will be on with heavy rain from now until kick off.

Don’t see how continual rain would result in anything less than the match being off. hopefully there will be some rare common sense applied to provide an early notice of the game being cancelled. If the pitch is unplayable tomorrow and further rain is forecast then call the game off on Friday, why wait till Saturday.

Can we not have David Dickinson as referee please. Not suggesting he is corrupt. But would just like to be talking about the game instead of him for a change!

From MET OFFICE - "Aberdeen has had no sunshine for the past 14 days, according to the Met Office. This is its longest sunless period since records there began in 1957." Rain today, tomorrow and Saturday. Will be surprised if it`s on.