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Lost my Dad a couple of months ago and today is his birthday. Been saying since the semi that it was meant to be. Mon the fucking Dons!

Just thought I'd join to give a bit of an opinion on Aouchiche. Technically he's a really good footballer. Due to injuries he spent a lot of his time with us out on the left wing, which probably explains the lack of goals. Even when it was obvious that he wasn't going to be part of the plans, he always gave 100% whenever he was called upon and had a brilliant attitude. Probably lacks that bit of pace that can make all the difference in terms of making it at the very top, but he's a good passer of the ball, creative if given any time on the ball, and can play in a few positions. Suspect he'd see himself as a 10 but he's one of those players who you can probably use anywhere in midfield. When we sent him out on loan last season a lot of our fans thought we should have kept him in and around the squad due to being a good option who never let us down. I expect you'll find almost every Sunderland fan has nothing but good things to say about the lad and, if he feels at home in Aberdeen, I think he could be very effective. Will be looking out for him and hope he does well, even if he ends up moving away permanently. Find him a settled position, have runners around him, and you'll have yourself a very good player, best of luck

I read on here regularly but it's years since I posted. Anyway, one of the best Dons' days I've had, greetin' at the actual game along with a few other oldies and still buzzing. What a support and great to see that mainly comprising teens and kids. I hope they get to see a few more days like that, I'm so grateful that I have.

Hello Aberdonians - as a fellow Scot, living in Bucharest. I’d like to share what information I can - which I hope may be of use, and indeed make for a smooth and enjoyable trip! If anyone has any questions, about anything related to the City, FCSB, transport, nightlife, do’s and dont’s etc - please feel free to ask. Airport Arrival/Transport in City: There are 2 main options. Cheapest -Train directly outside arrival terminal to Gara De Nord (main train station in the city - and metro is linked from their too) Train is not as frequent (every 40 mins) but only 20 mins to Gara De Nord station and around 6 Ron (like £1.50) Taxi - as soon as you exit the arrivals doors from getting luggage - on the left are ticket machines to get a Taxi number (all machines in English) and then you wait outside the terminal doors (a matter of yards away) and wait for your taxi number to arrive (registration of car is printed on your ticket) These are the AUTHORISED taxi companies and all on a meter (roughly 50/60 Ron (£10/15 to city centre) - DO NOT pay anything more than roughly that - if they ask for a lot more - make a fuss! But less likely if you take a registered taxi! UBER/BOLT - possible, but not allowed to pick up outside terminal - so need to walk to pick up area outside of airport. METRO SYSTEM: It’s a good one! Cheap, reliable and frequent. Best way for getting around the city as traffic is busy in the daytime. Tickets can be bought in all stations and as it’s so cheap - good option is to buy a ‘multi trip’ ticket for around (20 Ron) £5 and gets you 10 trips. NEAREST METRO Stations to Ground (walking distance) Piata Iancului Piata Muncii Accommodation Booking.com/Air BnB etc all available. In my eyes - two options (City Centre) nearest to Old Town - most expensive. Change metro line from Blue to Yellow Or slightly out of main centre but on best link to Ground via metro or taxi, plus near main Train Station (sector 1) - Options directly out of station are Ibis Gara De Nord and Hello Hotel (both main chains and you know what you’re going to get) - simple stuff! Metro to the ground from this area is around 10 mins) (on yellow line) Old Town or (Lipscani) Romanian name for area - is the busiest and most lively - but comes with highest prices and scammers etc! Good honest bar which is British owned is called Mojo - sport on TV, karaoke etc. https://mojomusic.ro/ Option nearest the Train Station is arguably one of the best traditional Pubs in Bucharest - Dubliner Irish Pub. It’s the closest you’ll get to back home, quite a large ex-pat community of Scots too! A few Aberdonian’s working in the oil industry here. Multiple TV screens for sport - bespoke darts room (9 boards) great Irish Breakfast and pub food (cottage pie) Guinness, Kilkenny, Peroni, Ursus and Kozel on draught and then all the other usual spirits, shots etc. https://dubliner.ro/menu/ Piata Victoriei and Gara De Nord nearest metro stations to Dubliner Irish Pub and 10 mins to ground. There’s a lot more could add - but this is for starters - please feel free to ask anything you want! Enjoy your trip and hopefully you’ll be going into it with a nice first leg lead!

Four years Second Aberdeen player called Emmanuel in as many days to get that

Or we could sell Miovski to Southampton for £8m and send Soklar to them.

Another Donstalker succumbs to the drink....

I'm very glad that I can watch the Dons most weeks and then switch off to all other football (Scotland aside). I do watch the occasional game on the telly (rarely a whole game), mainly the BBC Friday night championship, but there's not a single game in any competition that I feel I must watch. I often think that people (colleagues etc, rather than folk on here) think that I'm pretending when I say I couldn't care less about English football or champions league pish. Because I'm a football fan, I must automatically be attracted to the biggest league or tournaments (I do watch international tournaments, it still holds some enjoyment for now). They'll reel off some name of some famous English based player, and I genuinely won't have a clue who they're talking about. With this world club pish, I have no idea what it is and who it involves (I have some idea, but it's guesswork based on the name and your post). Football mirrors the rest of the world in that it views quantity as progress. More games, more money, bigger transfer fees, fitter players, stronger players etc etc. It's safe to say that football hasn't progressed at all in the last 35 years (bookended by two famous cup wins). It's just that the measures of progress are abstract and hollow, and have absolutely nothing to do with what sport means and its enjoyment. Hopefully this shite will be the tipping point* that starts the much needed collapse of the game (again, mirroring society). The saturation point reached. *alongside VAR of course

Just had it translated. "Callum McGregors tears are sweet sweet justice"

Most of the United fans on the pitch were just kids. Had the chair hit its intended target, could have been a lot worse. Singing about hating the Huns then proceeding to act like Huns. Gads.

This was a beauty, arguably one of the best we've ever had:

£50 a ticket is absolutely fucking horrendous though.

Well if he scores against Celtic the Green Brigade are going to have an existential crisis....

At 3-0 down, he'll receive a second booking for kicking the ball away. As he walks off, he slips in the steadily forming puddle of his manager's tears, landing on a water bottle which ruptures his bum crack*, putting him out of action for six years. As he lies on the ground, Rubi commandeers the phone of a willing spectator in order to take a thumbs up selfie in the foreground of the injured Hun. The image goes viral. *I'm not a medical professional

наслади се на шофирането до Airdrie, дебела путка. I thought everyone knew that.

My thoughts exactly. Imagine a wavering Teklic comes here just to quickly check Panda is happy before signing on the dotted line, hits the profile image page, thinks "but what if I put up a poorly judged image, or its the wrong kind of sheep?", self-doubt creeps in, he's up all night researching the differences between a cheviot and a scottish blackface, and in the morning high on caffeine and sleep deprivation his normally sound judgement goes out the window and he collapses in a heap of despair on the quilted floor of his opulent first floor library screaming "I can feel the weight of my own insignificant mortality crushing me under the towering edifice of the complexity of the universe and I no longer comprehend if we have a purpose in this life or if the concept of fate is simply a random pinwheel in the blackness of the abyss, so fuck it I'll sign for Borussia Mönchengladbach instead". Manc, I'm blaming you if this happens.

Actually we can blame Clarkson for making a stupid challenge. Mackay being a fat racist cunt is purely coincidental.

It’s only one criterion on the list of things we should be looking for in a manager, the ability to build and lead a team that is stronger than its individual components. Playing style is another. If Tommy Wright hadn’t made an arse of the Killie job and wasn’t a renowned hoofball merchant then his name would probably be on the shortlist. But he did and he is so he isn’t. If Ross had a track record of playing attractive progressive football then he’d be a good option despite his track record. But he doesn’t. He’s a dour, overly conservative coward. He has lost just about every big game he has ever managed and makes zero sense as an option considering the reasons we sacked Derek McInnes. Jack Ross is basically Derek McInnes with the positive attributes removed and the negative attributes turned up to 11.

Tinpot fc strike again. The jokes just write themselves on this one.

Couldn't sleep very well last night and ended up getting up at 5 am this morning. Treated myself to watching the game, penalty shout out, presentation and aftermath in its entirety. It just keeps on getting better and better and something I will never tire of watching

I’ve watched the penalties at least once a day pretty much. Cannot tell you how proud of the team I am, what a game. But what gets me going is the fans. The noise, the passion, the red army. What an amazing support. I’m assuming it was a 50/50 split but the noise doesn’t suggest that, our fans were outstanding. Congrats to all of you. Don’t take seeing us live on a weekly basis for granted! i was finishing my 6th year at lanark grammar in 1990. Worked in John Menzies all Saturday and taped the 90 final, managed to go the whole day without hearing the score, only for the video to run out midway through the second half of extra time. can’t believe that was 35 years ago. This one has been amazing, never got to see the 2014 league cup final live, watched this one on red tv with my 88 year old dad who was over here visiting. been over here full time since 1995. Ive been to pittodrie 4 times in my life, last time I think it was dean windass scoring the winner against Dundee utd in 1998. Freezing that day, surprisingly. As a fan went to most away grounds, Aberdeen when you’re a kid in lanark was a little challenging to get to. When I come home I usually see us at Motherwell, Hamilton, falkirk, killie, livi, hearts, hibs etc., been a few times to parkhead and was there when Eric black scored his hat trick, and saw us win a few times at ibrox. Very jealous of you all who get to see us in the flesh regularly, never expected to live here and be a ‘foreign’ fan! Amazing the optimism now with a cup win, keen to see if jimmy can move us forward. the Aussie winger is intriguing, very excited to see us pick up a 9 and 10. can’t wait for signings and the new season!

Nisbet or miovski and you choose nisbet. Apparently Ferguson is home sick and weve been offered him on a free. I say no, let’s get Funso Ojo back.

Haven’t posted about Saturday until now as I don’t think I could get my head around it. An incredible day with an incredible performance by the entire team. And a tactical masterclass from Jimmy. It was clear from the start that the plan was to sit in and deny them space in the final third and other than one lucky break it worked a treat. The subs were spot on and totally changed the flow of the game, to the extent where we created the better chances in extra time. The composure of the boys on the penalties was first class and what can you say about Mitov? Absolutely brilliant gesture from him at the end of the lap of honour, giving his gloves to a young lad who had a flag with Mitov’s name on it on show all afternoon. A hero amongst heroes. I was just about to turn 10 in 1990 and Saturday was my 10yo’s first cup final, which really did make the day even more special. I’ve warned her she might be approaching middle age by the next time we win one but let’s hope not!

Way off topic lads but before thread hopefully goes back to it purpose of laughing at the Gorgie Huns I would say only reason we need Scottish players is the rules to play in Europe. Outside that as long as a player is good enough then it doesn’t matter where they come from and to claim you need a core of Scottish players to succeed is plainly wrong.

As pointed out by the Here we go podcast. Here's John Beaton putting Aberdeen down to 10 men in a semi-final. And here's us winning it anyway.

There should really be a separate thread for each of those contract expiry points.

All sorted and available for the Hearts game

That was unreal. What a fucking block from Duk. He can take 4 months holidays every summer. What a performance.

Massive superiority complex and misplaced arrogance. It brings out the worst in the whole population. Particularly bad are the ones who know nothing about sport. Most recently having a conversation about rugby just after the 6 nations. I made a comment which was responded to by an older English lad very confidently with "come back to me when you beat us" to which I laughed and replied "you mean like this year, or last year or the year before that." Or the dickhead my wife saw yesterday wandering down the street shouting "eng-ha lund eng-ah-lund" only stopping to stick his head in the door of the kebab shop and Turkish barbers to shout racist shite at them. Thankfully I married an Irish girl and have mates that treat it like a rivalry, same as we do. Cheering and giving me shit when we lose or have crap results (memorably the draw against the Faroes). I wanted to go to Germany and tried to convince one of these mates to come with me, he wouldn't, saying that he would have done had England not qualified but didn't want to go and have the Germans (or anyone else) associate him with the rest of his countrymen. I always like to tell them that half their team should have been missing from the final in '66 had the semi been refereed correctly, having spent 90 minutes taking turns kicking the fuck out of Eusebio (something my dad goes on about), so really the goal given that didn't cross the line just typified how corrupt that whole tournament was. In fairness the jingoism has died down a bit over the last few years and yesterday meant I got a lovely round of golf in on an empty course while the rest of England tried to drink more than three cans of cider while comparing guts and bad tattoos before seeing their team capitulate and giving their wives a slap to reassert their superiority complex and misplaced arrogance.

I wouldn't say we missed Shinnie v Celtic, but have read some nonsense about the game proving we're a better team without him in it. If Shinnie plays and Barron and Clarkson play to the level they did v Celtic, Motherwell won't be able to live with us.

The football equivalent of voting for Trump because he was funny in the primaries debates.

Our previous managers were capable of a "rocket up the backside". Scott Brown and Graeme Shinnie have been in that dressing room. Our issues I don't think are down to a lack of work rate. Tactically is where we've failed. As for "sticking it" to Rangers and Celtic. First of all, he adores the pair of them. Secondly, what actually is sticking it to them? Is it attacking football? That's not generally Warnock, I'd be surprised if he doesn't go defensive on Tuesday. Is it getting fired in? He'll soon learn that you can't get away with that v the Old Firm in Glasgow. Will he be outspoken and call out decisions? Probably. But so are Derek Adams, Craig Levein, even Derek McInnes. What difference does it make? I actually think it's a big risk we're taking. The whole "safe pair of hands" line people have been trotting out, what does that even mean? Has he never been relegated before? Has his side never been on the end of a scudding? Think a lot of people are being bought in by the name and the celebrity. I've yet to see a good reason as to why Warnock stands out as the right choice other than wishy washy platitudes like "experienced" and regular showings of a documentary he did 20 years ago.

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Apologies for the rotten title but it’s was a rush job to get a thread going as Manc is an idle cunt and Big Al is slumped in the corner of some Greek Taverna looking like a sunburnt Father Jack.

No one has told anyone to go away. I'm locking this thread however before it spirals completely out of control. A shame really, as I'm sure I wasn't alone in being interested in finding out alternative ways of allocating tickets.

On a much more positive note, using less than 50% of the money I have saved through not drinking since my relapse in January, I bought this today

Did Robson and sheerin not get a crack previously and do terribly? Can that and also the " knows the Scottish game patter" Neil lennon knew the Scottish game, McCoist knows it inside out. Didn't help either as a manager. Big Ange and Gerrard hadn't set foot in the country. Introduced new ideas and both got good results. Let's be honest, most dons fans would have chosen Goodwin over Ange at the time We need to look for a winner that plays football. I don't even care if they're not a top league guy. Let's spread our net properly instead of taking in the next punter that believes the old firm can never be touched. That punter usually being chosen from a West coast media's list of their unemployed pals. Let's look around Europe, Scandinavia etc and take a punt on someone up and coming. It can't go worse than the last pair of safe hands.

Leon Mike-Mike-Mike

Aye.about as successful as the Sheerin/Whyte combo

Think folk are being bit unfair on McKenzie . I don’t think he looks like a full back but still a decent defender and would like to see how he does at centre back maybe as left of a three. Definitely worth keeping. Also Lewis is getting a lot of unwarranted stick. He might not be playing as well as he has in previous seasons but he is still a decent keeper by SPFL standard and there are only 3 or 4 in the league better than him in my opinion.

The notion that we'll get a more committed, intelligent and good left sided defender - on top of all the other vital signings needed in the summer - to challenge for a place in the first team is ridiculous. I'd have him in the current team ahead of both Bates (who still can't take the ball properly on his wrong side) and McKenzie. He's not ancient for a centre back and keeps himself fit. He's not injury prone, with both his injuries being severe "one off" type injuries, so can generally be relied on to be available too. At best this is a naive decision, at worst a fucking honking one.

In consideration of our failing season, thought an update to our contract situation might be worthwhile. Apologies for the length. GK 2023 Woods (31) - Is he Injured? noticed the boy Ritchie was on the bench Sunday. 2024 Lewis (34) - Been off form but capable of getting that back made some good saves yesterday. No real issues here. Lewis has been out of form, but not really a problem for January or even next summer. Defence January 2022 Devlin (28) - Injured needs to be released. Summer 2022 Considine (34) - Injured and aging but should be given another year extension. Gurr (26) - not of the required standard. 2023 MacKenzie (21) - Injured will be fine once he recovers from injury. Gallagher (30) - Injured looked off form when he has been fit. 2024 Hernandez (24) - Loaned out hopefully Atlanta repay us for the fee paid out on their behalf and the whole sorry mess can be put to bed. McCrorie (23) - arguably a midfielder been OK at the back and we have had little option. Ramsay (18)- Injured could end up receiving offers for him, maybe his current injury will delay them till next summer. Bates (25) - improving. I'd hope we are looking to start next season with MacKenzie, Gallagher, McCrorie (is he a midfielder), Ramsay (unless the right offer comes in) Bates & Considine (depending on his recovery). In January, Devlin must be off the payroll, attempts made to get Gurr off too, and fingers crossed Atlanta buy Hernandez (for everyone's sake). Should be planning on 4-6 of the current lot being here next season. Assuming recovery from injuries and no more occurring; MacKenzie, Gallagher, McCrorie, Ramsay and Bates till end of the season, that are good enough, scope for additions. Midfield Summer 2022 Hayes (34) - can see him signing an extension if offered but is he as effective as first time around? Can we get better and younger for the wage? Hedges (26) - will be off, decision is balancing any money offered and what player(s) can we bring in against what little Hedges playing within himself brings for the remainder of the season. McGeouch (28) - Injured? (again) imagine he's looking to see what offers he gets and will be trying to minimize injuries to his fragile body in the meantime. Ojo (30) - Also seems to be looking to see what offers he gets and we should be able to do better. McGinn (34) - Past it. End of Loan Summer 2022(If possible cancel them all in January) Jenks (19) - Not good enough Samuels (21) - Not good enough Longstaff (21) - Not good enough 2023 Campbell (20) - Doesn't appear as if Glass rates him that highly. Kennedy (27) - Injured (allegedly) tried to get rid of in the summer depending on how true the back injury is, will likely try again. McLennan (22) - Injured he's got strength, pace, skill all let down by decision making and consistency. Should be at a higher level if he's going to make it at his club. Brown (36) - Injured? Will give his all and probably been our best player, but he's 36. 2024 Ferguson (22) - doesn't want to be here will push for a move to england again in January. Next season would be planning on Hayes (to sign a new contract), Campbell, Brown, McLennan maybe Hanratty. Potentially for remainder of the season we have; Campbell, Brown & Hayes who will give their all all, albeit Brown is 36 and probably will need a rest at some point some & Hayes who is 34 and has 6 months left on his contract. Hedges, McGeouch and Ojo who will be playing with one eye on a signing on fee elsewhere, won't care where we finish and play accordingly. Jenks, Longstaff and Samuels none of whom are good enough and none have a vested interest in our success. Kennedy and McLennan who are not good enough and Ferguson who is trying to get a move elsewhere. Forwards 2023 Watkins (31) - Hopefully stays injury free for the remainder of the season. Ramirez (30) - Possibly Glass's singular piece of good recruitment JET (30) - wrong type of player for battling at the wrong end of the table An aging strike-force. Can't see any of them being here after summer 2023. JET too much of a luxury but can't see anyone taking him off our hands in January. Ngwenya to join them next season? Youth on loan Ngwenya (18) - contract till 2024 Ruth (19) - contract till 2022 Barron (19) - contract till 2022 Ritchie (18) - contract till 2022 Duncan (17) - contract till 2022 Hanratty (18) - contract till 2024 Mykyta (19) - contract till 2022 McIver (18) - contract till 2022 Gallagher (20) - contract till 2022 Milne (18) - contract till 2022 As far as I can find only Ngwenya and Hanratty signed for longer than the end of the season? Following Sunday it appears we may only have 15 fit outfield players fit. 3 defenders (1 is Gurr and McRorie will be banned for hibs), 9 midfielders (Longstaff might as well not be here, Jenks and Samuels aren't good enough, McGinn has made 2 starts from 7 appearances ), 3 forwards (1 is JET). 7 games till the break and opening of the window. Recruitment has been a shambles for a while now, nothing we saw in the summer points to improvements and this must be the most unbalanced & incoherent (almost as bad as this post), uncommitted and aging squad we've had in a long time. Hopefully our DoF has been making several plans based on any number of scenario's. We have to; Mitigate the effect losing Ferguson and/or Ramsay would have Take into account the lack of commitment from the 8 midfielders with no contractual obligation beyond the end of the season. The imbalance inexperience and decimation through injury of our defence. The age of our attack. And the lack of players in their "prime years" throughout the squad. And this has to be balanced against; how shit January is as a transfer window that we have enough to ensure we don't get dragged into relegation worries not make rash decisions that fuck up future season with more aging or not good enough players all playing the same positions on high wages.

Started his career at Bristle Rovers

There's only 1 Calvin Ramsay thread. 1 Calvin Ramsay threadddddddddd.. There's onlyyyy 1.......

Just because you hear it everyday does not make it right. Mackay is not the victim of anything. He is a racist who got outed for his backward views. Nothing more.

Never in doubt. Shat myself when I saw the former England striking coach giving advice on penalties though.

I moved away from other Aberdeen sites to avoid petty bickering, point-scoring, numbnut shite and now it's creeping in here. Mods, please kill this now or I'll probably slowly lose interest if I have to keep trawling through this shite.