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.

[Great Balls of Shire]

37 minutes ago, stv said:

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.

Mjc thrives on getting bites , wouldn't put much stock on anything he posts . 

[grumpy]

5 hours ago, Spiderpig said:

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.

Except the Hearts and Rangers results were irrelevant, win or lose they were still playing some sort of European football last Thursday and next, Yes Hibs and or Motherwell could have been knocked out by now but they could still have covered their bases by arranging Aberdeen to play in Dundee and a reasonable East / West split of the other fixtures.

The big question for me is why Celtic, a full 4 games into their season, felt that a postponement was required (and allowed).

[Lobey_Dosser]

It’s been a drag of a weekend without the football but I think the option to postpone was sensibly exercised in the interest of the 5 clubs and the coefficient. 

Slight annoyance for me is that after Freiburg we have 3 league games in 7 days. I had hoped our midweek game at home to Dundee United could have been shifted to Sat 12th Sept with us both out the cup.

[dennyc]

8 hours ago, Lobey_Dosser said:

It’s been a drag of a weekend without the football but I think the option to postpone was sensibly exercised in the interest of the 5 clubs and the coefficient. 

Slight annoyance for me is that after Freiburg we have 3 league games in 7 days. I had hoped our midweek game at home to Dundee United could have been shifted to Sat 12th Sept with us both out the cup.

I would think that if both Clubs requested a change then the date would be moved. Has happened with many teams in the past but both teams have to agree. Would make good sense. 

[MJC]

19 hours ago, stv said:

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.

You’re taking the piss . Well done.

I’m not taking the piss.

They’re professional footballers, they are capable of playing a game three days after the last one. The problem we had with Stenhousemuir is that we dropped key players and didn’t take the tie as seriously as we should have done. 

If there was any game where we should have rotated the squad and played fringe players then it was the Freiburg game because we were never winning that and in the grand scheme of things the league and league cup are far more important to us.

[Great Balls of Shire]

18 minutes ago, MJC said:

I’m not taking the piss.

They’re professional footballers, they are capable of playing a game three days after the last one. The problem we had with Stenhousemuir is that we dropped key players and didn’t take the tie as seriously as we should have done. 

If there was any game where we should have rotated the squad and played fringe players then it was the Freiburg game because we were never winning that and in the grand scheme of things the league and league cup are far more important to us.

Yep, that would have gone well, Booth and Ross v Geeman internationals...id much rather have a go in Europe than the LC.

Unfortunately you're entitled to your opinion. 

[joewarkfanclub]

2 hours ago, MJC said:

I’m not taking the piss.

They’re professional footballers, they are capable of playing a game three days after the last one. The problem we had with Stenhousemuir is that we dropped key players and didn’t take the tie as seriously as we should have done. 

If there was any game where we should have rotated the squad and played fringe players then it was the Freiburg game because we were never winning that and in the grand scheme of things the league and league cup are far more important to us.

Ive tried really hard not to bite on your posts recently, but you are either tone deaf or purposely trolling and I fear its the former rather than the latter.

Football is no longer played in the 80s when the boys pissed off to the pub or the bookies after training.

They are highly tuned professional athletes pushing their bodies to the limit on a weekly basis. 

Physical load is an actual thing, otherwise clubs wouldnt be employing sports scientists to monitor and take care of players to try and prevent injury.

Unfortunately this only goes so far and cant take into account contact injuries which we appear to have had a number of this season.

The manager was on a hiding to nothing with the Stenny game. He could play a full team, risk further injury, risk losing more players for weeks of the league season and get a hiding off Freiburg home and away.

Or he could play some of the young boys, hope we squeek thru and manage the load.

It didnt come off for him, and I maybe wouldnt have played as many of the young boys, but that was his judgement.

If had followed your judgement instead of the sports scientists, there is a high liklihood we would still be in the league cup, but every changlce we would now be without a fair number of our best players for weeks.

 

[joewarkfanclub]

Glad we took advantage of the opportunity to postpone the game.

The players have been full on since the start of the season with 2 games a week, plenty travel and precious little time on the training ground.

The break will hopefully allow some of the injuries to ease / be managed and give Alfred a few more days to get some of his ideas across.

Hopefully Dundee United will agree to the midweek game being moved. Makes sense for both clubs.

Despite having had a very decent start to the season, I dont think we will see the best of Alfred / this squad until the window is closed and the fixtures start to settle down come October.

 

[MJC]

That’s all fair enough and yes, maybe I am a bit of a dinosaur and completely out of touch with modern training methods. I certainly don’t have a sound knowledge on sports science and nutrition and the like.

Simply put, in my opinion as a ‘tone deaf’ supporter, I think we got our priorities wrong. Those who are far more qualified than me to say otherwise will probably disagree.