Comments on: Football Shorts – the midweek news roundup http://www.insideleft.net/archives/1743 the independent Scottish football blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:50:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: insideleft.net http://www.insideleft.net/archives/1743/comment-page-1#comment-367 insideleft.net Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:44:12 +0000 http://www.insideleft.net/?p=1743#comment-367 Well, the links between Locos and Aberdeen FC are not as tight as say, Cove Rangers and AFC, but still, in the interest of the survival of Scottish football (a popular topic at the moment ;-) ), why not let Locos play there? It'd be no different to a reserve game, Motherwell *might* bring more to Pittodrie and the any eventual rent paid to AFC should still see Locos come out with a big(ger) profit. Well, the links between Locos and Aberdeen FC are not as tight as say, Cove Rangers and AFC, but still, in the interest of the survival of Scottish football (a popular topic at the moment ;-) ), why not let Locos play there? It’d be no different to a reserve game, Motherwell *might* bring more to Pittodrie and the any eventual rent paid to AFC should still see Locos come out with a big(ger) profit.

]]> By: Andy http://www.insideleft.net/archives/1743/comment-page-1#comment-366 Andy Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:18:39 +0000 http://www.insideleft.net/?p=1743#comment-366 Why don't Locos ask the tie to be played at Pittodrie? Possibly because the Aberdeen board will want money for that nights rental and given that it is not their home ground they probably feel they would play better at home than a stadium that they never play at. While they may sell more tickets for the game at Pittodrie it is always better to play at home even if it is always frozen. But is that their fault or the SFAs fault for not instituting the winter break given last years debacle of postponed games left right and centre due to the weather? Why don’t Locos ask the tie to be played at Pittodrie? Possibly because the Aberdeen board will want money for that nights rental and given that it is not their home ground they probably feel they would play better at home than a stadium that they never play at. While they may sell more tickets for the game at Pittodrie it is always better to play at home even if it is always frozen.

But is that their fault or the SFAs fault for not instituting the winter break given last years debacle of postponed games left right and centre due to the weather?

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