Tekel Towers » DUFC V Aberdeen

Tek · 20/10/2026 11:54 am

What would be your starting XI and formation for the first New Firm Derby of the season?

SuperMario · 20/10/2026 2:26 pm

Walton
Rawlins Bert Forbes ferry/kev
Zidane Tait
Randall Cameron sapsford
Rose

Snacks94 · 20/10/2026 5:31 pm

David Dickinson is ref……

FUCK

Tek · 20/10/2026 7:20 pm

Snacks94 wrote:
David Dickinson is ref……

FUCK

Oh FFS

redford_must_score · 20/10/2026 8:14 pm

I said after the last game of ours reffed by him we should have filed a complaint. I wonder if we did.

MarkDUFC · 21/10/2026 8:03 am

New on here, so hello all. Much the same as that for me, Tait has to start. I'd like to see Sapsford get a proper run of games up front though. I think there's a really good player in there if we can get his confidence up. I'll take a 2-1 if we get an even game out of the ref.

redford_must_score · 21/10/2026 9:40 am

MarkDUFC wrote:
New on here, so hello all. Much the same as that for me, Tait has to start. I'd like to see Sapsford get a proper run of games up front though. I think there's a really good player in there if we can get his confidence up. I'll take a 2-1 if we get an even game out of the ref.

Welcome to the forum Mark

dufc5 · 21/10/2026 11:13 am

Torrential rain forecast Friday and Saturday. Hopefully no issues with the pitch this season

redford_must_score · 21/10/2026 2:16 pm

I hated the way McInnes had his teams playing and I hate the anti football style that Robinson uses. Really hope we can send them home empty handed.

Tek · 22/10/2026 2:15 am

MarkDUFC wrote:
New on here, so hello all. Much the same as that for me, Tait has to start. I'd like to see Sapsford get a proper run of games up front though. I think there's a really good player in there if we can get his confidence up. I'll take a 2-1 if we get an even game out of the ref.

Welcome to the Forum mate 🤝

Tek · 22/10/2026 3:27 am

Apparently Mehdi Merghem still hasn't trained this week and won't feature at the weekend. Absolutely unbelievable how long our injured players take to recover. We always hear it's not a bad injury and yet the same players are often out for several weeks. That's 7 weeks now since Merghem got injured at Motherwell.

Lachlan Rose apparently a big doubt also as he too hasn't trained after picking up an ankle injury.

A pity because I would have started him on Saturday. Goodwin saying it 'isn't too bad', so we'll probably not see him now till 2027.🙄

Normally I would have said maybe a chance for Leiper and Sassetti to make the bench, but the Academy team is playing on Friday night which rules that out.

Feels like we are down to the bare bones up front all ready.

We can't keep going on like this all season. Or it will end up another season that passes us by and doesn't deliver.

Need two forwards in January.

MarkDUFC · 22/10/2026 6:06 am

Cheers redford, good to be on here. Here's hoping the rain holds off enough for a proper game, and we send them up the road with nothing.

MarkDUFC · 22/10/2026 4:52 pm

Cheers Tek, appreciate the welcome. A 2-1 would do me fine, especially if the rain turns it into a scrap.

RogerTheAlien · 22/10/2026 9:27 pm

With the torrential rain forecast, i fear the game is in doubt. Looks like a solid 12 hours of rain from Friday morning until kick off.

Fingers crossed our new drainage system does the business.

Shedtastic · 22/10/2026 10:49 pm

You'd think the club would be proactive and put covers down or whatever else they can do.

Tek · 22/10/2026 11:55 pm

Shedtastic wrote:
You'd think the club would be proactive and put covers down or whatever else they can do.

You would hope so.

According to the Met Office the rain stops in Dundee about 11PM Friday night until about 10/11am on Saturday, then starts up again and looks heavy around kick off time.

That is a good 12 hours the covers can come off and hopefully the wind helps dry out any underlying moisture.

First big test of the new pitch and drainage system.

Could be a late/early one for the young groundsman.

RogerTheAlien · 23/10/2026 2:12 pm

The rain hasn’t been too bad in the city so game should be fine.

redford_must_score · 23/10/2026 5:01 pm

Robinson in the press saying several players have been hit with a virus this week. Some have returned some still going down.

Oh well never mind

Stillliving · 23/10/2026 7:03 pm

redford_must_score wrote:
Robinson in the press saying several players have been hit with a virus this week. Some have returned some still going down.

Oh well never mind

JG just pointed out that Aberdeen have one of the biggest squads in the league. It won’t have any effect on the game,

redford_must_score · 23/10/2026 8:26 pm

Stillliving wrote:
redford_must_score wrote:
Robinson in the press saying several players have been hit with a virus this week. Some have returned some still going down.

Oh well never mind

JG just pointed out that Aberdeen have one of the biggest squads in the league. It won’t have any effect on the game,

He would say that. He's not gonna say yippee this is great news is he?

japanarab · Yesterday 2:29 am

Tek wrote:
Apparently Mehdi Merghem still hasn't trained this week and won't feature at the weekend. Absolutely unbelievable how long our injured players take to recover. We always hear it's not a bad injury and yet the same players are often out for several weeks. That's 7 weeks now since Merghem got injured at Motherwell.

Lachlan Rose apparently a big doubt also as he too hasn't trained after picking up an ankle injury.

A pity because I would have started him on Saturday. Goodwin saying it 'isn't too bad', so we'll probably not see him now till 2027.🙄

Normally I would have said maybe a chance for Leiper and Sassetti to make the bench, but the Academy team is playing on Friday night which rules that out.

Feels like we are down to the bare bones up front all ready.

We can't keep going on like this all season. Or it will end up another season that passes us by and doesn't deliver.

Need two forwards in January.

I think that’s near 20 years we’ve been going on about injuries!! Since the Sandaza days ffs.

kdyteejay · Yesterday 8:38 am

Rose passed fit for today’s game according to the BBC Sport page.

RogerTheAlien · Yesterday 11:55 am

I’ve criticised his work rate but i think I’d still rather Sapsford up front today than Metsoko. Won’t happen i don’t think though.

redford_must_score · Yesterday 12:55 pm

RogerTheAlien wrote:
I’ve criticised his work rate but i think I’d still rather Sapsford up front today than Metsoko. Won’t happen i don’t think though.

Sapsford gets the nod in place of Metsoko. Otherwise unchanged.

nicolalove · Yesterday 3:21 pm

Some strike from Sapsford. He needed that.

Edit: Ugh, nevermind.

Edit again: Yas.

Last edited by nicolalove (Yesterday 3:31 pm)