Motherwell v Aberdeen

[El Grew]

This fixture understandably has had to be rescheduled however the revised date of Tuesday 15th September with a 7.45pm kick-off makes me wonder if our football officials are trying to destroy our game.

It will be a round trip of nearly 6 hours for Aberdeen fans who choose to come down for the match. To arrive in time for kick-off, they’d have to leave around 3-4pm and wouldn’t get home until well after midnight.

Now I know it’s not easy to fit-in rearranged fixtures, but would it not have been better to have arranged this game for say a Friday night?

This might just as easily have been an away game for us so I’d be interested to know what others think.

[Happy Dosser]

1 minute ago, El Grew said:

This fixture understandably has had to be rescheduled however the revised date of Tuesday 15th September with a 7.45pm kick-off makes me wonder if our football officials are trying to destroy our game.

It will be a round trip of nearly 6 hours for Aberdeen fans who choose to come down for the match. To arrive in time for kick-off, they’d have to leave around 3-4pm and wouldn’t get home until well after midnight.

Now I know it’s not easy to fit-in rearranged fixtures, but would it not have been better to have arranged this game for say a Friday night?

I really don’t think they give a flying fruit bat  in general for the ordinary fans so I’m not really surprised, sadly.

[Jonesy]

There's not much else they could have done. We don't have any available Friday nights or weekend dates to move it to.

[MJC]

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

[Jonesy]

20 minutes ago, MJC said:

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

With the added bonus of getting a right good moan in after watching a team of youngsters and knackered senior players take a doing.

[dennyc]

1 hour ago, MJC said:

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

Garbage . The entire team needs a break. Your phobia for all things Europe is showing.

[Spiderpig]

2 hours ago, MJC said:

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

Common sense did prevail, the club decided to postpone todays game to allow the players to have a full week of preparation to prepare themselves for probably the most important game in its recent history, a chance to make the group stages of a European tournament and the financial rewards that brings.

[weeyin]

2 hours ago, MJC said:

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

The authorities often get things wrong, but allowing teams to prepare and give them the best opportunity to compete and win in their play-off rounds is not one of them.

You don't have to go too far back in time to see your thoughts about our performance against Stenhousemuir. 

[Brazilian]

Just one more variable they could have put into the fixture super computer before the season even started.

As it was agreed all clubs competing in Europe could postpone thus round of fixtures, they could have scheduled the head to heads on this weekend 

[Spiderpig]

22 minutes ago, Brazilian said:

Just one more variable they could have put into the fixture super computer before the season even started.

As it was agreed all clubs competing in Europe could postpone thus round of fixtures, they could have scheduled the head to heads on this 

So whoever programmed the "super computer" would have to correctly guess that Hearts would fail in the CL and EL, Rangers in EL, and both Hibs and Motherwell would get through two rounds in the conference, to all end up in the conf playoffs, aye ok then.

I hope he put a coupon on and is enjoying himelf somewhere warm and sunny.

[Motherwell Daft]

4 hours ago, MJC said:

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

FFS have you not been watching the games n listening to the manager in his pressers about injuries and managing players to prevent an even longer list of injuries?

Clearly you’ve had your black out shades on n ear plugs in and just want to winge about a negative again.

Cancellation was the best decision for me, every other team has done it so why should we put ourselves at a disadvantage for the Freiburg game.

CMYW!

[stv]

4 hours ago, MJC said:

If common sense had prevailed then it would be being played at 3pm today. It was a nonsense that we postponed it this weekend in favour of ‘Europe’.

Aye right we just put in a shift on Thursday playing one of the best teams in Germany/ Europe . Third of that with 10 men. It's a great idea to play Aberdeen 3 days later and have them kick and injure our fatigued team off the park.

Your taking the piss . Well done.