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They should have a town crier delivering the latest manager news outside Pittodrie every day at 10 am. Or have a papal style enclave where they meet to choose a new manager. As soon as we see red smoke pouring out of the Main Stand, we will know if we have a new boss.

I’m pretty confident of putting Motherwell out. Fuck knows why. I didn’t get into the business of supporting Aberdeen to be afraid of a Motherwell fixture though

They should be putting out a daily statement informing us that they have no further update on the manager situation.

What are you actually expecting though? Recruitment processes for high-level roles always tend to be fairly private out of respect for the people involved and their current employers. There's absolutely no need for the fanbase to be privy to names on shortlist and the like. When you look at how people jumped on and obsessed over the throwaway comment about it being advantageous for the next manager to have exposure to the Scottish game as being an absolute dealbreaker and that he'd be doing a massive U-Turn if he brought in someone that didn't fit that profile, it's no wonder he's saying the bare minimum.

I’m president of the United States of America

This is true. I’m unsackable in my job and I do the bare minimum every single day. I’m currently trying to teach myself card tricks during office hours

Connor Barron has seemingly refreshed this thread 45 times.

Tims absolutely raging elsewhere. It’s almost as if we’ve never travelled, and found out at 2.45 that a match has been postponed. Suck it the fuck up you manky cunts - or bring soap.

At least his nieces and nephews can still call him the same name.

I'm guessing they'll factor the weight of Callum McGregor's tears into the decision too. Could potentially tip it.

Aberdeen players spotted pouring buckets and buckets of water on the pitch just to make sure it’s off.

I heard on the morning news that the Balmedie Weasel, formerly of the stinkies and Blues of Birmingham signed for Dundee overnight. This was the banner claes-pegged up on Pittodrie Street when the fucker left. As I recall, we did a deal to keep McCrorie and let the Hun join the Huns at their bigoted sash palace. I trust that he’ll get a warm welcome when we next play TMSTID?

The Clarkson one I find most disappointing- never fully recreated the impact he had in the loan spell- very talented player and can argue whether we didn’t properly utilise him or his standards dropped, just wasn’t consistent enough, but sorry it didn’t work out in the end feel with the right manager he could have been a cracking player for us and sure the club saw him as an investment that would bring in large sum after a couple of years

Aye, fair enough, my apologies. I'll explain my frustration if it helps. I have no problem with being wrong at all, but your argument, as I read it, was one of those positions that could never be proven wrong or right either way, which do get on my nerves a bit! If you'd said that there was one or two (or five!) players that weren't pulling their weight, or that Thelin's approach was too soft on the players (although even that would be difficult to verify), I could have got on board with it. It's the fact that you have seemingly identified a single cultural issue that has infected the entire club, which several managers - despite huge clear outs of players - were unable to address. At face value, it actually doesn't seem that ridiculous, and I understand why people liked the post, but I think you have to ignore, or play down, an awful lot of other factors for this pressure idea to be true. The reason it annoys me slightly is because it's basically the sort of crass analysis we get from our BBC pundits. It's like a populist position, akin to blaming immigrants for shite public services or national debt, or youth laziness for a rise in unemployment (those are illustrations, your example isn't that stupid!). It's the type of easy answer that saves us asking harder questions (or doing more analysis), whilst at the same time tarring everyone at the club - a wee bit insultingly, if we're honest - with the same brush as, say, Karlsson (who may have just been going through a difficult period himself, and struggling to focus on fitba, who knows). There was a poster on here that used to go on about McInnes not winning the league with us because of "lack of belief". A similar concept that could never be measured in any meaningful way, and allowed us to brush over the fact that when the Tims spent money in the January window, we employed Simon Church! But it was impossible to have a reasonable debate against because I could point out numerous times when we showed belief in that period, but could never disprove the overall point that if we'd simply believed (more?) then we'd have won the league. But, aye, I should be more polite in my engagement in future. My apologies.

All jokes aside, if you're in an environment where you can consistently fail and find yourself back in the fold after every fuck up then it suggests to me that there's no real consequences. Has there been pressure on Mitov to perform for the past countless weeks? No Has there been pressure on Nisbet or Lazetic to score when they were going through their barren spell? No Has there been pressure on Topi or Karlsson or Milanovic or Bilalovic to create chances for the aforementioned 2? No Has there been pressure on the defence when we're conceding from set pieces every game and hardly keeping clean sheets? No There has been an acceptance for far too long that 3/10, 4/10, 5/0 performances don't matter as they'll be playing the next game. This has been an ongoing issue for a very long time, going back further than Jimmy or Robson or even Glass and for that to be the case then it has to be a culture problem within the walls of AFC that has been allowed to continue and get worse.

Got my hands on this gorgeous bit of silver tonight.

Hi, my name is Buzz

The only potential hazard being confusing them with urinal blocks

This is the best match thread ever!! More dogs! Here's mine, his name was Wyvis and sadly he passed away a year and half ago. I'm still broken by it . Also he was an Alaskan Malamute not a fucking husky (used to do my head in when people called him a husky)

This is Jess, named after the Hun hammer

But that to me isn't a bad thing, as I fully supported us going down the Thelin road and why I argued if we were changing manager that we should be going for someone similar rather than just abandoning the plan and plumping for Stephen Robinson. It didn't work out for Jimmy because of many things - some outwith his control, which we still need to fix - but mainly due to his own stubbornness and his own failings. Pinning my hopes on Horneland being a Thelin upgrade by just bringing in the tactics we thought Thelin was bringing.

If he does get the top job in world football, he needs to be told that Scandinavian managers at Aberdeen are expected to reach the Scottish Cup final in their first season.

If we did, I'd be more worried about our pitch being able to cope with more Callum McGregor tears. Fuck the lot of them.

Game off

Let’s get this unpinned and summer one to the top if only to watch Rico’s meltdown.

Aye, that has formatted so badly it actually resembles our team defending a corner.

Or we could get the ground staff to block up all the drain and with another day of rain get the pitch unplayable.

The Dandies were battered by Killie It's starting to get a bit silly If we beat the Tic Then I'll cut off my dick So I'm sure I'll be keeping my willy

Really should have built a team around him. But we've fucked everything up over the last season and a bit.

It's all moot anyway but we wouldn't have had to pay £1.5m for Aouchiche, we could easily have said to Sunderland "nah, not paying that but we'll give you zero pounds instead" and got him that way. A decent player but we seem to have been clearing out the old loans to get the new ones in so on that basis it's no surprise he's away. On paper, a midfield of Aremu, Geiger and Cameron should be an upgrade on what we had before but I'm not sure a better midfield helps our inability to defend set pieces... maybe we're planning on 100% possession every week so that the other team can't even get a corner.

Nice of Dante to leave his haircut for the loon to inherit.

He’s getting a regular game, but still coming off the bench quite often. He’s doing fine, not amazing, but pretty decent and offers an attacking threat with his pace and ability to hit the byline that they are not getting from elsewhere. Sound familiar…?

No you're not. You can string together a sentence. He cannae.

The like button doesn’t do this justice

Oh, I don't think anyone would ever say 'Trump is to blame'. The States, like the UK, has suffered for generations under right-wing, short-termist, free market socio-economic models. These models need poverty to function. Generation on generation poverty leads to a sizable disenfranchised percentage of the population. Because society is so completely under right-wing control, they can misdirect elsewhere. They're hardly going to say 'yeah our policies have fucked you up but deal with it cos enough of us are doing OK'. They need a distraction. Immigration, 'woke' minorities....all fair game. This creates the environment for self-serving grifters to attain power. It's happening all over and the genie's too far out of the bottle to stop it. In the States, factor in the obsession with their particular non-Christian version of Christianity.......

I think any Dons fan that travelled a minimum of 16 minutes to the game should be fully reimbursed by the club.

We seem to be all over the place with these loan signings, with no consistency and players in and out of the team barely given a proper chance. The lad was starting to look like a half decent player a few weeks ago. The fact he’s going to Schalke suggests he is still sought after.

You have to keep things moving in windows, it's a disaster not to. Whilst quality has clearly been an issue, imbalance is the real problem. Why on earth it's taken us until January to recognise the need for a strong midfielder is beyond me. We should have been getting much more from guys like Aouchiche, and Clarkson by just playing them correctly and understanding the roles they can play in. The idiocy of signing Cameron when we've got Armstrong and Clarkson was on full display today. Even Shinnie has been hung out to dry this season by still expecting him to do the work of two midfielders. We've offered zero platform for any of the signings - shite as many may be - to give their best.

It’s a yellow at least, need to see it again but, intentionally or not, it’s a high tackle, studs up, and contact made. You can throw in persistent fouling, although while not persistent, he may have been warned that he was close. Shinnie can’t avoid tackling, that’s where leven has to have the stones to sub his captain. Agree shinnie was the only midfielder on the park, but that’s where leven earns his paycheck. It’s defeatist to say leave shinnie there cos the rest are shit, solve the problem. Put lobban to right back, devlin to center defense, and sivert at holding mid. That’s one suggestion. Far from ideal but sivert is experienced and can sit in that position, huge hole in there all day, bigger as a result of going down to 10. Not game to throw on Kjarten either when down to 10. That’s piss poor management.

The new boy sounds like what we need, a wee terrier, somone to hound the opponents.3 points today are Mastiff Oot - Killie 0 - Dons 3 Nisbet x2,Bilalovic

Harley was a regular up the hills with us,Ben Cruachan in this case.Getting on a bit now

I saw him as a bit of a lightweight initially, and wondered if he had it. He proved that my doubts were misplaced in the cup semi-final, and the final, as well as being handy in Europe. He’s the kind of player that from now until summer, in dour struggles with those fuckwads with whom we share a league, we’ll be saying, “Ach, if only the yankee boy wis here”. Good luck, Dante min, min

All the best Dante min. Some thought you were too lightweight for Scottish football, but you had more balls than most, when you stepped up and put away that penalty last May. Regardless of what anyone thought of him, he will always be known as an AFC Scottish Cup winner. Not many can claim that.

You could call it DogsTalk.

If we’re doing dogs, meet Lyra.

They all say the right things like "I'm buzzing to be at a big club" and "I want to do well for the fans". I would be more endeared to a player who told the truth when they joined us: "I've never heard of Aberdeen FC until now". "I'm only here until I can find somewhere better".

Tommy McMillan passed away last night after a long illness. Older Dandies will remember Tam as a fine centre-half and a Scottish Cup Winner in 1970.

I hope you're right and we're not left looking like pedigree chumps.