One Bobby Clark

maybe it's a double bluff

just reading the BBC Text "live" reports. it looks like we didn't have one shot the whole game !

I'll still keep up to date with what's happening, I'll probably still hang around on here (got to keep the average age up somehow). We'll be living in Alaska, so there won't be too much in the way of slaggings of a Monday morning, at least.

Well, last Thursday was my last visit to Pittodrie. I'm not storming off in the huff, I don't have any moral objection to the team, the manager or Wiggy's millions. I haven't thrown my toys out of the pram and I am not boycotting the place until JC is reappointed. We are emigrating to some place far far away where I won't have to endure the daily taunts of workmates and friends. I had hoped that my last game would be a memorable one, leaving me even more upset at being away from the Dons. Whilst that game will be memorable, it will be for all the wrong reasons. I'm an old git, and I do still have those rose tinted glasses I wear on occasion when thinking about Ab'deen. I watch the conversations on here talking about 4th in the league and making it to Europe or a cup final as being a successful season and I wonder where did it all go wrong. I was kid in the 70s, my first memory of Aberdeen is watching them win the League Cup in '76 as a 12 year old. From then on, it seemed a glorious time of success, cups and leagues. I was at Easter Rd in 1980 when we won the League - heck, I scaled the wall and was on the pitch at the end. I even hugged Ian Scanlon. As a teenager during the early 80's, it seemed that we only had to enter a competition to win it. ( Glossing over the Liverpool humiliation of course and all other bad results - a benefit of being old and forgetful). It felt like we were at Hampden so often, I could walk there blindfolded and was on first name terms with the chippie owner. I remember the amazing atmosphere at the game after Ferguson turned down the Huns management job. Watching the Dutch invasion, KNOWING Snelders was a goalkeeping God, and that Gillhaus was probably the best striker I ever seen, better even than Fat Frankie Mac. I was at all our cup games, all our european home games and only didn't go to Gothenburg because A. I was skint and a penniless student and B. there will always be next year or the year after. How fucking sad that I miss out on the best night in our club's lives because I thought we'd be a footballing force for ever and in reality, my last and abiding memory of Aberdeen FC will be watching them get humped, trounced and humiliated out of Europe in the qualifying rounds. Still Standing Free in the Beach End !

There will be NO entertaining football if the entire game we're being pressed back because we're worried about the ability of our defenders (or midfielders forced to play as defenders). I don't think Duff is as bad as some on here are making out. Granted he is no central defender and it is therefore unfair to judge hom on that basis. What is wrong is seemingly having only 4 defenders in the squad, and then deciding Mair is completely surplus to requirements. He may not have been beckenbauer, but he did at least have some positional sense.

why no Van Der Ark or Ten Caat if that's the standard of the list. I'm not sure Mackie should even be in the running for Greatest Ever Darren Mackie list.

Irvine used to get called Dobbin when he played for us - it's a sign of the times that someone who was as good* as Irvine was, is now considered so much better than our current crop of defenders (and I use that word loosely)

This was dire, but for me, it was the Skonto Riga game............. I still have nightmares about that.

I actually thought Sigma played alright - it was just that we were so shite that we made them look really good. I've never seen a team win so many headers against our guys, and we were far too easily muscled off the ball. It's going to be a long hard season, if this was any measure of our team.

The grass was very green

BBC saying us and Falkirk (if they survive) will be at home first leg.

Seeing as we've battered the bandwidth to death on the subject of JC's replacement and that has finally been resolved..... I've read that McGhee has a penchant for playing 4 3 3. Personally, that's fine with me, providing he is able to tell the players what he expects from them, and that they can both comprehend and carry out those instructions. Is 4 3 3 really going to work, is it just a slightly more adventurous version of 4 5 1, or should we just stick with the tried and trusted ( ?) 4 4 2? I like the look of Aluko Miller Macguire Kerr Duff McDonald Mulgrew Considine Diamond Foster (well maybe not) Langfield. If Severin were to stay, and his legs were up to it, I imagine he'd be the holding midfielder of the 3.

Cough, cough..........

Thank goodness that saga is over. Now can we get onto the next drama.

chillax dude

Why? Is he not expecting you for lunch?

Does it depend on your definition of "confirms" ? He says that our new manager was confirmed - sadly that appears NOT to be the case. So, let's say the club haven't agreed a deal, ergo he was wrong.

Well, it's now tomorrow, so yesterday was today and McGhee hasn't been confirmed as the new Ab'deen manager (YET), so Mr Allan was wrong. Unless of course he was using the old tomorrow never comes ruse, in which case every day is today, which I suppose, technically, it is. I think I have a headache now.,

Best pointless silly season thread so far.

Not much of a debate with language like that young lady !

Completely selfish I know, but I want the home leg first - will be my last Aberdeen game for years as I emigrate on 1 August. Will come home for a glory hunt if we make it to a cup final

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Such a shame. I can see the banners already........................ STiG

Hmmm, cleverly, you didn't say THIS Thursday

There's more chance of me getting the job than Alex Miller - AND I'd probably get less of a hard time from you lot than he would