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Best defender we have.

Why risk the security at the back for a midfield enforcer type we play well enough without.

this morning I noticed that my nasal hair now grows faster than my beard.

Officially old.

It's obviously good news that the club are making money but the dropping crowds is a worry. It's most likely to have dropped again this year if crowds so far are to be gauged.

 

Last season we had two full houses against the dhims but this season we were 4k down for them, although we had a full house for the visit of the new boys.

 

Is the reason apathy or is the oil down turn having an effect, combination of both or something else? 

I'd guess its mainly or completely down to the current work situation in the city.

When almost 100'000 jobs have been lost with another 20'000 or so oil related jobs to go by the end of the year both offshore and in the city itself it would be crazy to think that wouldn't have an adverse affect on the crowds at Pittodrie. Obviously that 120'000 jobs weren't all taken up by people living in Aberdeen but a lot of the income generated in the city did come from those people even if they were just passing through. Hotel trade, restaurants, shops, even tradesmen are all feeling the pinch now.

When a single ticket is £20, a family afternoon is £40, public transport for that 3 is £10 minimum which makes the whole afternoon out cost a minimum of £30 for an adult and £80 (when you take juice, a pie etc) for an adult and 2 kids its a lot for those made redundant living on their redundancy or early retirement and its a lot for those that have seen their income drop because they've got less hours or less business coming in.

Yes its a worry but I doubt its apathy or people getting bored with the club. I'd say its all about how the city is economically and how much it costs to take your kids etc  to a game.

There's more chance of me donating to a roof repair fund for the rangers than there is of me douping this abomination.

I only found out about this monstrosity yesterday while reading the guardian online. They had a youtube video of her 'rapping' and I unfortunately pressed play. After reading some of the discussion on the article, people discussing the rights and wrongs of appropriating Black Culture etc I decided to troll the ultra left of the guardian with these comments.

Listening to this garbage reminds me of a drunk signing karaoke in a bar that's situated in a council estate, slurring and screaming into a mic while spitting drool all over the poor people in front of them.

If it looks like a chav, dresses like a chav and sings like a chav then its probably is a chav.

I would hate to see a black American covering Oasis songs.

 

I may even be compelled to complain vigorously to someone about it.

Some bit, one called me a modern day Hogarth. I took that as a complement 

http://www.afc.co.uk/news/8717.php#.WB2aEOCLTIU

AFC Reporting Operating Profit for the Third Year Running in Annual Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 30th June 2016.

 

Key Highlights:

Record turnover of £13.414m

Increased wages to £6.817m as the Club continues to invest in its playing staff.

Wages to Turnover remains at 51 per cent.

Planning Application for Kingsford to be submitted before the end of the Year.

 

Commenting on the results Chief Executive Duncan Fraser stated, "Turnover increased by £0.337 million from £13.077 million to £13.414 million as the Club again reached the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League, were knocked out in the third round of the League Cup and in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup and once more finished second in the SPFL. The turnover figure of £13.414 million is a new record for the Club, with commercial, sponsorship, UEFA and broadcasting revenues being higher than the previous year, while the average crowd fell from 12,750 to 12,360 and was reflected in slightly reduced gate revenues, particularly in the last four home games of the season.

More on the website

The chat was good, I'll be dropping in there for more away games. 

Hi guys,

 

Does anyone know if the shirts worn by the players tonight will be auctioned off?

 

I know lots of clubs in England do it in order to raise funds for the poppy appeal.

 

 

Cheers.

no eye deer min.

They are auctioning stuff for the cup final display on that twitface thing.

I rejected organised religion early doors. Never believed the church stuff. But I made a conscious decision to read the Bible, age 15 or 16. It was a good read actually. I thought it wise to see what the fuss was about before slamming the door shut for life. So I considered myself an atheist for 20 years, which I don't now. Still despise all "religions" but I guess when you close the door on the state-sponsored devices, it kind of forces you to create your own belief system (or religion).

 

For me, the objective of life is very simple; to die without regrets.

 

Seems that there's a lot of regret and reflecting on "the good old days" in here. That's sad.

Arent you contradicting yourself there slightly?

To live life without regrets you have to do it in a way that creates good memories, nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that jazz.

If you live your life in that way then every time you look back and remember something it will be in the good old days, if they weren't good then you may regret doing the things you did to make them not so good.

As long as your mind doesnt perpetually live in the good old days then its all good. If you do then its probably dementia.

Jakki Degg

Yes but remember this truth too.

 

It's not nostalgia making us pick footballers before this century.

 

It's simply that as Scottish football has regressed, so have AFC.

 

Alarmingly. On both counts.

Of course thats true.

If it wasnt then I would have been able to pick someone from the last 15-20 years.

In some ways you have to feel sorry for the younger guys when all they have to pick from is the likes of Stavrum as their best player when all I remember him for was being offside.

You can almost tell how old people are by the players they are picking.

Late 40's+ are going for late 70's and 80's

mid 30's to late 40's are going for a couple of the 80's and later 80's early 90's

Younger than 30 are going for players from Jess's time and later.

On one side you have a dull and heartless war mongering bitch and on the other you have a racists, loud mouthed,  tax dodging sex pest that sits on a wall between pedophilia and incest.

Shit choice, must  be even crappier than normal to be a yank.

Willie Miller - also the best referee the league has had as well

Hewitt

Richardson/Simmie

Looks a bit like a young me and for that reason alone I'd shag the shit out of it. I am amazing after all 

C- for reasons stated in the us v tims thread with the addition of we had a shaky start to the season, the results hide it a little but the 0-0 against Hearts and St Johnstone were really poor performances. Could be clear 2nd even with the 2 celtic games.

Our transfers have been good but also slightly baffling, Lewis and O'Connor are excellent signings. I'm struggling to see why we signed Morris though when his wage could've went towards an attacking central midfielder and we've signed far too many players for the single strikers role. Burns, Storey and Stockley all in to push Rooney has left us without balance in the squad and still reliant on the creativity of the usual 2, Hayes and McGinn. As we saw against Celtic though when Hayes is marked out the game and McGinn is having a poor game we lose all ability to create and score.

I'm no shiteologist but i was led to believe it was to do with the amounts of calcium in their diets, dogs back in the day ate bones a the time, now they get chew on pretend bones that look like they are made of plastic.

Thats exactly what it was. There was a lot more bone in general in a dogs diet back then.

Different make cars that actually look different to one and other. Everything looks the same these days. Fords and Jags, every single hatchback, Audi and VW and Skoda, Fiats and Chrysers.

All identical bar a wee trim here or a slight modification there.

Gone are the days Jaguars look like Jags with Del boy like oldies getting out of them, Golfs had sexy ladies in fur coats coming out of them and Capris had slightly rougher ladies all coat and nae knickers cuming in them.

So hard she'd snap my banjo string.

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Clearly what you class as a good manager and one who is adequate, are not the same to other people. I would say finishing 3rd, 2nd and 2nd again, with one cup win and another final coming up isnt exactly adequate, I would say that’s good and I would also say it’s the best in over 20 years. I would say that has only met some fans expectations, while I feel Aberdeen fans expectations have outweighed reality since the early 90’s and despite the fact we are a big club in Scotland, with a good budget, we are not guaranteed to win everything and we have proved that.

I'd say doing what expected with the budget you have compared to others is adequate.

Doing a bit better than you should on the budget you have is good.

We've met expectations in my opinion, no more.

We've had a right to expect better than what we've been served up for decades though. No team has a right to win things but with the budget we've always had in place (between 2nd best in league and 4th) we have a right to expect more than a couple of cup finals and a run of finishing top 6. I dont think thats unrealistic, I dont think expecting Calderwood to get us to a Hampden final a couple of times was unrealistic, I dont think expecting us to finish clear 2nd and last season pushing for 1st in a league with no rangers was unrealistic, I dont think expecting us to be constantly top 3 or 4 is unrealistic.

I'm tired of hearing from fans, both our own and other teams claims of us having high expectations, too high for a club like ours. Too high is expecting to win the league, qualify for the group stages of the CL and for us to be spending £500K 3 or 4 times each transfer window on players.

Last season was our best chance in 20+ years to win the title. Last season was our best chance in the next 20+ years to win the title. Unrealistic expectations would have had people shouting for Milne to spend a couple of million in January, realistically if we had spent £250 on 2 players in the right positions (keeper and creative central midfielder for the hole) we'd have been a lot closer and probably top by the end of the campaign. It would've been a gamble but its a £500k gamble worth taking in that situation.

McInnes has been a solid manager for us since being appointed however he's made plenty mistakes as well. He isnt taking the youth through, none of our U20 development league winning team has really touched the 1st team squad and without that they will stall. We were pish in the cups last year, we stuttered in the league partly because of his tactics and partly because Milne didnt invest when needed. 

For McInnes to go from being decent to being good he has to finish 2nd this season, attack and give us a fighting chance in the league cup and get to the semi of the SC minimum. Less than that is average in my opinion and also expected on our budget.

Over and over again.

She looks and comes across as utter filth.

"There are acceptable ways of losing and I think today was one of them," he told BBC Scotland.

 

Any manager that thinks a defeat is acceptable is in the wrong job.

Correct. Incredible example of non-winner mentality.

Just listened to him and I think (hope) he's just playing the media game for the final. Give the team a bit of belief that they can win.

We were pretty poor for large parts of yesterday, completely dominated for most of the second half.

According to some Huns the board went round various banks in Edinburgh in October looking for loans and got knocked back every time.

I heard it was London and investment funds but it amounts to the same thing, no one outside the big hoose will touch them.

http://rangers.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Rangers-Reports-and-Accounts-2016.pdf

£6.2m in debt

How any club can be that far behind when they've spent 4 seasons playing part time teams while taking in £10m+ a season in gate receipts beggars belief.

My fear when they went bust and started again was that they'd come into the SPL after playing there way back up having millions in the bank from playing a team that suited each league. If they'd done the climb the proper way they'd have a bank balance that would put them in the driving seat. Instead they're on the brink.

Pleasing 

Aliens - yes. Here - no

Moon landings - of course we did. There's physical proof left on the moon.

I take fun in winding up the flatearthers on youtube and Facebook. Gullible fools that they are.

That seems whooring expensive for putting in an aerial (£250).

Thats what i thought until I started shopping around and realised compared local installers its really cheap.

Didnt see the bit about having an aerial already... Doing it yourself by just changing the aerial will be pretty easy.

I had to fix mine to the roof outside and on a 2m pole. I'm just on the edge of getting a signal from Durris so I couldnt put mine in the loft.