13 Jul 2017 21:48:42
See Ryan Christy scored for Aberdeen tonight, hope he does well this season.

1.) 13 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 22:36:59
Good to see him on the scoresheet but another shocking result in Europe from our second best team. They will go over there and that will be the end of their European run. All our countries teams out to opposition from Luxembourg, Bosnia, and Lithuania. Not even the Champions of those countries. "We're just a poor wee Country how can we compete" is no longer an excuse, there is a far bigger underlying problem to the pathetic displays in Europe by our teams.

2.) 13 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 23:31:28
I must say that's a bit worrying. Scottish teams are out of Europe so regularly and quickly its hard to gauge the standard at all. Unless, well, its sh | te, and we are already outperforming reasonable expectations. Bo || ocks to that, right?

3.) 14 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 00:06:18
That's the thing Cavalcanti, I really don't think the league here is worse than that of the nations our teams get pumped off every year in the first rounds of qualifying. It's this attitude we have, that we're nothing and deserve to get pumped, that is dragging us down. The Lisbon Lions were called lions because of their attitude, the belief they could take anyone on. That's gone from Scotland now, replaced by this defeatist mentality that losing is just our lot and to be expected.

4.) 14 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 01:19:55
The problem lies partly with the SFA or SPFL they don't seem to want to help clubs in Europe. The ties start far too early before even pre season, Lincoln Red Imps is an example of rustiness so early on. If this was 3,4 or 5 games in I am sure teams would at least reach group stages of Europa. Are we really surprised that our first games are in Europe and our teams struggle? Its not going to improve until something changes on a larger scale.

{Ed007's Note - The Bosnian league runs from July to May, has 12 teams and a winter break which nips the stupid summer football idea in the bud for a while hopefully. Apart from Celtic the rest of our league is probably comparable to the Bosnians although I did expect Aberdeen to win at home and draw away.}

5.) 14 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 08:19:45
I don't think summer football is the answer but I'd shift the start of the season maybe a month earlier.
If our teams were up to speed then they'd have a better chance.

6.) 14 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 09:09:51
Attitude is part of what makes good players and teams though. The results speak volumes.

7.) 14 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 14:21:59
Exactly my thinking on it Jim, the negativity towards our game from press, tv and the EPL know it all nuggets has been going on for yrs, Then when a team does well the press fire in with the old ( how long can they keep him mince) , Small mentality from top to bottom and the powers that be are happy with that as they think they are doing a good job.