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Think we're giving the 95 team too much credit. We had only won five league games before Aitken took over as caretaker, and followed up a win over Rangers by losing to Stenhousemuir. I think, despite everything, if we're in deep shit after the split that we'd sell out Pittodrie for the remaining games and I think we'd be due Kilmarnock and St Mirren at home. I don't see us losing both those games. We're crap and gutless, but we'll scrape enough points to be safe. But we really could really do without losing to St Mirren in the next game just to relieve the stress levels.

The turncoat cunt has not scored for the huns.

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Dundee United look like they're doing a lot of research into whether their signings are a good culture fit for them, hence signing someone who looks like he already lives in a caravan.

Here's my take on it good and bad: The woman asking the questions was horrific The sound quality was hit and miss, with one minute loud and clear and the next no audio at all Robinson's opinion on the best player he ever played against was Steven Gerrard Kept referring to "the football club" as a top six club......needs to re-think that part Now for the better parts in my opinion: Honoured to be manager. Praised the fan base and the facilities at AFC Preferred formation 4-3-3 but only if he has the players to play it, otherwise happy to be flexible. Not adverse to playing youngsters but only if good enough. If he has a 25 yr old and a 18 year old both playing same position and the 25 year old is the better player then he plays. Keen to work on set pieces and may look to add someone for that to the coaching staff. He has the final day on signings but obviously others do the leg work in identifying. Anticipates a lot of movement in the squad over the summer. Absolutely hates VAR with a passion and says it ruins the game for fans in particular. I actually quite took to him and am potentially a bit more comfortable with him BUT talk is cheap and he knows he has to deliver

Another defeat to the scum of comfort, not even a crumb There’s nowhere to hide Down the table we slide The future looks right squeaky bum

They should take a break, maybe head somewhere warm to detox and refresh. There's some great training camps in Dubai.

I don't think it's that they don't care. I don't buy into that. Confidence is through the floor and the constant chopping and changing line ups isn't helping. I think we just have to pick a line up and stick with it to see us through until the end of the season, keeping changes to a minimum. I though we played well against Falkirk, not great, but solid, he then pulls out the tombola for last night and I don't think it worked at all. We are probably in worse shape now after last night and the two week gap won't be a help. One league win since December says it all.

Apols if wrong forum. Im just on quickly to share and pay respects to a Dandies die-hard Dougie Strachan who recently passed after fighting a valiant battle against cancer. He was 60. Dougie grew up in Northfield and attended the academy. Next to his family he lived and breathed his beloved Aberdeen. He waa a sparky by trade. And frequented the Marischal bar in his younger days until he got “trapped” by his soul mate of 30 years. Dougie was fun, kindhearted, funny and his warmth filled up many a room. He introduced me to the Doric, and the Dons when I was up from Embra in 91-92 - towards the end of Alex Smith era. Im actually a Hibbie but stood on the terrace with Dougie supporting the Dons. The only part of the ground that’s uncovered. In Scottish football it’s the only terrace I have or will stand on outside of supporting the Hibs. Dougie wouldn’t want any fuss. Just thought I’d post here incase anyone knew him from the town or matches. So I’m not asking for a clap - maybe just a goal against the H*NS would be a fitting tribute to the great man. feel free to share on other forums he may have dipped into. stand-free Dougie - RIP fella. Mon the Dandies!

I've seen half a dozen league 1 centre halves that are better than milne. He needs shipping out next year.

I think we knew it had happened or was happening. Some of the vitriol aimed towards him was way OTT. Was a bawhair away from getting us to the cup final in 2024, whilst interim manager and gave us a respectable end to a shit season. Looked a broken man after the Dunfermline game, just like Jimmy T did too, towards the end. All the best Peter.

Utopia's never happening. Too many vested interests and it'll skew the blessed free market. 15 minute city is a sound premise, but see the above regarding vested interests and the blessed free market. Then you factor in the usual right wing troglodytes banging on about (their version of) freedom and it's a non starter.

Every year at our place, we get around £60 a head for the Mad Friday thing, which for around 300 workers, is quite a sizeable chunk of cash for folk that can easily pay their own way. During lockdown there was no shindig and they donated the money earmarked for it to charity, fair enough. I then made the suggestion that we should do this every year and pay for our own Mad Friday. I pushed for the funds to go to schools in poor areas. To say the reaction to this wasn't well received was an understatement. The entitlement was off the scale. I was genuinely taken aback by the abuse I got for suggesting it. I don't partake in Mad Friday and I also lose 10% of my yearly bonus because I won't do the charity stuff linked to it. We're meant to do it and post about it on the internal social media thing we use. Makes you want to boak. I still struggle to see why I am sort of being pushed out, as the oil industry up here dies. Was it something I said. I'm of the opinion that Utopia isn't happening in any of our lifetimes. No shit I hear you all say. You see the money being used to blow up the middle east and think how easily most of societys ills could be fixed if they really wanted it fixed and resources were used correctly.

But then, certain groups of people (and not always the same groups) can look at virtually any set up with cynicism, as no matter how idyllic any system appears there will ultimately be those who get shafted In our leafy suburb I'll happily pay an extra penny or two in the pound in taxes if it means those on lower incomes have access to quality services, health care and education. Bring on Masontown (name needs some work). I'm in.

An affordable public transport system, leafy car free streets, cafes, newspapers, Gitanes, stronger community, never stepping foot in Clydebank again

Fitba tournaments should be decided on the field, not in the courts. The fair thing to do would be to replay the final.

It's the same as the Huns who will happily be surrounded by 50,000 mutants spewing sectarian bile at Ibrox insisting they're "only interested in the football" as an excuse. They'll fixate on one policy that they claim is super-important to them (border security or "trans gender for EVERYONE") as justification for turning a blind eye to the hundreds of other atrocities committed by the regime so they can avoid any kind of recognition that they may have been wrong.

I don't know, some of them would be in their 60s now.

The difference between 1995 and now is that the team back then had the desire and will to battle to stay up when the chips were down. This lot won't.

Should this be in the "Rules & Announcement" forum? As per the Rules and Regulations post in the aforementioned forum, section 8:

I was falling asleep til I saw this new message an' thought it might be interesting

Nice touch. No doubts for me he cared, shame about most of his squad. Wish him all the best. He’s well off out of this shitshow anyway..

Robinson has two weeks to turn this ragtag bunch of no-hope misfits into a football team capable of staying up. I wish him the best of luck.

This is a team missing a lot more than confidence. They are weak and spineless as well as possessing next to no footballing savvy at all. Whoever scouted them needs old yellered.

Yep, he’s stepped up & saved the day before, so its telling he couldn’t get a tune out of this shower of gutless losers, I know who I blame most anyway, & its not Leven. Turned down other jobs too while he’s been here, so while I think the time is right for him to go - for his good as much as us - as we need a complete reset at the club, he absolutely goes with my best wishes. I’m sure he’ll pick up a decent managerial or coaching gig soon enough…

"Alignment" Modern managerial wankspeak. No matter how bad VAR gets, they just want the individual authorities to parrot the same shyte, when defending VAR. The common ground should be to ditch it. It's been tried and hasn't really improved anything.

You buy tickets online for Aberdeen games and you get asked for donations too. The fans project and community trust I think. Get that shit right in the bin Our works CEO is on $20 million plus a year and likes to do his thing about serving our communities to make them better places by giving back. I have pointed out our tax planning to ensure our tax exposure is the absolute minimum in every region we work in, goes against this principle and is why I don't partake.

I did say the name needed some work

In a nutshell, why utopia will never work. The middle class should be up against the wall for shooting, along with the upper classes/super rich. I'll go out on a limb and say they are even worse than the upper classes, as at least upper classes hate the poor and don't want to mix or help them in anyway. I respect that honesty. The middle classes are patronising as fuck. They may want to help the poor, but on their terms only. They happily want to do charity stuff, like take in smart price beans, for food kitchens. A big thing at work the past few years has been giving and doing stuff for Abernecessities. Nobody asks why we have to do this. Nobody gets really angry about it or would really change how they live. Come Council Tax increases or Labour/ SNP increasing something and it's knives out against the minks and asylum seekers. Don't even start them off on what the council estate has done to Countesswells property prices. I work in a middle class profession, but I don't live in a middle class area or have middle class friends. I'm still a grade A Torry mink, through and through and proud of it. You should hear a conversation in my work, when I tell someone where I live. It's priceless to watch their faces. The idea of a 15 minute city appeals, but the reality would be very far from utopian. I mean, who delivers the takeaways? Even in Masontown. Which let's be honest, does sound very hunnish, in a role up trouser leg and funny handshake kind of way.

I don’t go around not enjoying things because of exploitation. I get the pish ripped out of me by my employers too. The boy rolling the Gitanes should join a union

Adelaide is a 15 minute city. Stay for 15 minutes and you've seen the lot!

Its an invoice from a private company, not a fine. Totally unenforceable unless they take you to court (which they won’t). They also have to prove who was driving as the invoice is for the driver not the owner, so unless you tell them who was driving they can’t prove anything. You’ll get a few stupid red coloured invoices all talking about how they “may” or “could” take you to court - they won’t. They’ll give up in a while - just don’t engage with them in any way. I’ve had a few, never paid one in my life. Just don’t tell the wife. Women are mugs when it comes to this stuff & tend to want to pay up. Fuck that, smash the system!!!

Haven’t read much on the idea since I live in a 5 minute town but instinctively it sounds like a good idea to me as well.

I think that would be a result acceptable to everyone.

Absolutely. I try to think of this at a human level first of all, but the financial implications of 'man's' obsession with constantly prolonging life (for the benefit of the receiver or not) are huge and simply cannot be supported. Especially given, as you point out, the dropping fertility rate that will further contribute to a shift in age demographics with more pensioners to support. And as people live longer (either naturally through medical advances, or artificially through machines) there simply won't be enough in the pot to support social services - so we get to that survival based on wealth (which you could easily argue we already have - but that gap will just widen). What's the answer when, through medical advances, we all live to 150 (compos mentis or not). Make us work to 120 to keep the pot topped up. Fuck that. I would rather be dead at 80 than work for 100 years. Now, I am not suggesting we take a Logan's Run approach and vapourise people at a set age. But bodies have a natural shelf life. When that is reached, let it be, and let us slip away in comfort when there is no more quality of life. Keep the population balance at a more sustainable level, and allow people to fully enjoy the finite time we have on this planet whilst accepting it is not forever. And when we are proper fucked got absolutely no life to look forward to, why is it that can we decide a dog or a cat will have no quality of life, therefore it is better for them if they are 'put out of their misery', but we can't do this for a person - instead we need to keep them going for our own selfish wants. It's just wrong. There is no humanity in that. "I'll make you suffer in pain or in a vegetative state because it would be really sad if you weren't around any more and I' not ready to say goodbye" (slightly over simplifying things, but you get the gist). Our bodies, our choice. And I am genuinely sorry if I offend anyone with my belief that we should be allowed to die our own way. I have seen a lot of unnecessary suffering and can see no good in blocking assisted dying.

Just one of the many things that shits me about the anti assisted dying religious argument - when they say ending someone's life peacefully and with dignity is playing god, all whilst the patient is hooked up to machines, being artificially kept alive; all because someone decided we need to preserve life at all costs. It's the most valuable thing and not for us to decide when to end it! My folks were (mum) and are (dad) of the mind that they would rather be allowed to pass peacefully with assistance at the point they become unaware and there is no realistic hope. I share that view - but I do understand the emotive nature of this and how people disagree. I see this from three key points: If I am going to have no quality of life, and going to be a burden who needs constant care, I don't want that. As soon as I lose my faculties I don't want to be a burden to others. There is a great cost to prolonged life when there is no hope (mostly emotional but to an great extent financial too). I don't want my family to have to suffer while I suffer. They still have lives to lead without worrying about my constant needs (my mum hung around for 2 weeks before she slipped away and we all agreed it was best for everyone as she had no hope of recovery. My dad could never have coped if she had gone home, and she wouldn't have wanted to be cared for 24/7. She was 'lucky' to go so quickly and peacefully) It puts a massive burden on our care services to keep people hanging on. I don't think we should be able to choose willy nilly when we go - but if we have made our wishes clear whilst compos mentis we should be allowed to go when we are in a position where we will have no quality of life and need support to be kept alive. Even the god fearing USA has assisted suicide in certain states. I want that choice. My choice. Not some god fearing politician. And not only within 6 months of dying - I don't want to be shitting my pants in a home for 10 years. Let me decide what's best for me.

Possible - I personally know very little about Scottish football. But Peter Leven was the one the agent meant. No idea what the players think of the Robinson guy but I can ask next time we speak.

This is the concerning bit, which is why the club's strategy needs to set the targets. A 25 year old might be a better player, but an 18-20 year old might have the potential to be significantly better than the 25 year old if given the freedom to develop. It's the easy option to go out and buy a new right sided defender, rather than get Jack Milne to be the player we should know he can be, for example. The 25 year old he speaks of, won't be a player that's already in the squad and has patiently waited their time to play first team football, it'll be a player that we've only just signed to replace the need to develop the young player already available in that role.

Or relegate Hearts?

MSPs vote against the Assisted Dying Bill I personally believe things like this should be decided by a referendum and not by at shower of shyte in Parliament. The result may have been the same or worse, but shouldn't be decided by politicians. I know it's an emotive subject, but I do believe you shouldn't be allowed a vote on the matter if you believe death by suffering is Gods* will. I remember someone said that to me whilst I watched my mother dying. I am not a violent person, but I really wanted to kill that woman that day. *For the benefit of doubt, the god in question is the fake one who supposedly bides in the heavens above us and not the real one, who wore a number 6 AFC jersey with such aplomb.

It is frowned upon to drive in either but whats life without whimsy?

Good idea. It's my wife's car, so it's her that they'll go after. I'm contemplating going full gaslight and asking her how she doesn't remember the day out she had in Dunfermline only a week ago. Maybe hide some of her things and remind her about the great time we had at various events we never attended.

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Intae them! Not sure if I still have my earlier optimism but fuck it would be great to wake up to a positive result. No basis for it, just hope.

Just on the subject of charity, I don’t want to make a donation when paying for my shopping, I can pack it myself and I dont want to chip in on my way out to the poppy foundation either. Fuck right off.

I do like the idea, but I can't fathom why the conspiracy theorists are getting so worked up about it.

If that’s actually the case; then bullet well and truly dodged.

This is all on me it has to be. There is no other logical explanation. Was down with my Sunderland supporting mate at their game on Saturday and they lost only their second home game of the season to Brighton. Further evidence that it is me. Oh and San Jose lost 0-1 last night.