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18 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:
It's easy to weedle out the xenophobes on this thread.
It's abundantly clear that for some small-minded types only a Scottish manager will be welcome.
Wanting your local side to have a Scottish core is only natural, it is, in my view, what identifies them as YOUR team. I don’t think there is anything particularly xenophobic in that attitude. In the same way, I’d like to see Real Madrid with a Spanish manager and mainly Spanish players.
The abolition of the three foreigner rule is when football started to become shit and the European cups lost their magic because it was no longer nation against nation, just 11 random players against 11 other random players. Your view may differ, but I would prefer a Dons team full of Scots that finishes fourth in the league than a team with nine foreigners that goes on to win the Champions League for us. For me, that is Hun behaviour and akin to cheating.
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3 hours ago, Slim said:
I meant the right thing morally.
If we have mutually agreed that he is the right person for the role and he's keen to take it and we have been progressing on that basis, then an "unforeseen" medical issue has arisen, I am comfortable that giving him the time and space to deal with whatever it is, is the right thing to do, even if it impacts on short term results and performances.
Yes, absolutely I know you meant morally but I totally disagree. Sounds heartless but his medical issues ain't really our problem. Horneland is not a long serving Dons employee who we should feel like we have some kind of obligation to. We should just be moving on to the next person down the list. It's not exactly Carlo Ancelotti we are talking about here.
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Next four fixtures:
Hearts away - gubbed
Celtic home - gubbed again
Falkirk home - probable win
Rangers away - gubbed once more
Edit - If correct with these predictions, I would make that 8 points from a possible 42.
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On 26/02/2026 at 10:29, Slim said:
If true, it puts a lot of the howling at the moon going on into perspective. Club would then appear to be doing exactly the right thing. If true.
I am not sure why it is the "right thing" to be waiting for this dude. As things stand, form suggests the club is sleep walking towards a relegation play off. We don't owe this guy any kind of loyalty or sentiment. Just get someone else FFS.
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On 23/02/2026 at 08:28, Bukta Bertie said:
Celtic were also denied a stonewaller. Scales manhandled in the penalty box by a cabbage.
It was a dive.
On 23/02/2026 at 08:18, Bukta Bertie said:That rangers penalty claim. Stonewaller. Yes the defender's slide started outside the box but the foot only made contact with the Hun once it was over the line and in the box.
Just had a chance to watch this back. It's actually not a foul. If you watch the angle from behind the goal, Mikey Moore only falls over because his right foot kicks the Livi defender. Very deceptive unless you watch about 40 slomo replays.
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18 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:
On its own, hearts winning the league does nothing for Scottish football.
No, but it makes the here and now a lot more interesting. Fitba is becoming stale and stagnant, the same teams winning season after season all around Europe. Sport is pointless when you can award the trophy before the competition even starts. It would just be great to see something different and a few old firm tears.
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11 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:
Anyone that thinks hearts winning the league would be in anyway good for Aberdeen and ultimately that's the only club I care about are very naive.
It would only be good for hearts.
So you’re basically just scared of a bit of healthy competition in case your team does not win.
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2 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:
A black day for Scottish football.
It’s a fantastic day. Great to see the old firm squirming. Hearts have given our league the shake up it needs. Would you prefer another 40 years of the same sides winning the title? This is the most exciting title race in decades. Supporting the old firm just because it would take away the fact the Dons are the last other side to win the league is just sad, bitter and pathetic.
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8 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:
Obviously I'll be wanting the Glasgow pair to win their games
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Liverpool goal disallowed v Notts Forest. Oh my god. The game has officially died.
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3 hours ago, Panda said:
Such as?
There are plenty of options. From the more experienced like Stevie Clarke, John McGlynn or Michael O'Neill. A current SPL guy such as Robinson, or someone lower down the chain like Scott Brown or Gary Naysmith. I'd argue that any of the above would stand a better chance of success than taking in someone from Norway that knows very little about either our club or about fitba in this country.
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3 hours ago, Mason89 said:
A well run Aberdeen should be the club best positioned to scoop up anything not won by the smellies
A well run Aberdeen should be able to give both smellies a game when we play them, especially at home
Finishing in a European place should be achievable every year
The "strategy" that Deadly Dave has implemented makes all of that very difficult to achieve on a consistent basis. We want to sell on all of our best talent so as soon as we produce a few decent players they are offski. It means you will have one good season followed by one shite season and so on.
You are never going to get consistency if you are changing out half of your squad every season. Even just the loans make consistency a problem. Think I am right in saying we have signed seven players on loan this season. How can you get any kind of cohesion going when you only have players for six months at a time? You can never build for the long term.
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His CV is very underwhelming. Must be about the equivalent of if Callum Davidson were to get the Rosenborg job.
Pretty obvious Horneland would be nowhere near the top of the list if Lutz had not been around and it makes a mockery of the whole recruitment process. Said it before on here but Lutz may as well manage the team himself. He's now on the bench at matches, he has already told us how we are going to play, we are signing the players only he has seen play and now about to appoint a manager because he has been trailing him for ages.
Really hope this falls through and we revert to someone who has experience of managing in Scotland.
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2 hours ago, Panda said:
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5 hours ago, Slim said:
Hasn't played much in last 2 years.
Alarm bells are ringing already with that line.
Are we just writing off this season? If not, there must be a hell of a lot less risk playing someone like Polvara/Shinnie/Nilsen for the last 15 games than taking some dude over from Germany that has barely kicked a ball all season and never played in this country before. He got his sole Nigeria cap aged 17, nearly 9 years ago.
He sounds like the latest in a loonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng line of players we have signed because he was once promising and was signed by a big club so that automatically must mean he is good......Palaversa, Lazetic, Karlsson, Aouchiche, Gyamfi...................
Remember this:
On 09/10/2025 at 11:18, Reekie_Red said:EE has a video claiming Karlsson is the most gifted player in red since Hans Gilhaus.
Starting to wonder if someone in the recruitment department is on the wacky backy. We all know deep down this boy is gonna be shite. Going throw this out there but is there any less risk in the transfer market by just asking Peter Leven if he has seen anyone in the Championship that he thinks can do a job at a higher level?
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Hearts pretty direct at times. Not hearing too many moans from the fans about their playing style
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15 hours ago, wee toon red said:
Not making signings just because we don’t have a head coach doesn’t make sense. But then not a lot is making sense these days.
I think signing players without a manager just brings more potential problems. For starters, what kind of player is signing for a club without knowing who his boss is going to be? More importantly, when the new manager comes in, what if he just does not rate the guy? We are unlikely to win the league
, probably won't get relegated, just hold fire for a minute and wait to get the new guy's opinion before signing anyone - even if that means waiting until June. No one really wants to qualify for Europe anyway.
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56 minutes ago, Ajja said:
He definitely has lower league vibes
Maybe Cormack does not intend to employ him til the summer
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McGlynn is the sort of guy I think we should be appointing. He's kind of done the hard yards to move up the chain and be deserving of the chance to work at a bigger club which was always the way it used to work. I get the clamour for Eskou but we would be appointing him purely on the basis of six good months at Motherwell which sounds very knee jerk. If he stays at Motherwell it is a safe bet that they will be fighting relegation a years time. A McGlynn type has a proper body of work over a sustained period. I'd be stunned if it happened though.
My money is on Ian Cathro or the German or American equivalent.
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12 hours ago, Panda said:
I definitely disagree with his last line where he says Miovski is in a good place right now.
He looks miserable, isn't playing, and has had to delete his social media due to abuse from his own fans. I think if he's being honest he regrets ever making that move.
Say it quietly but he looks miserable.............we need a striker....
Bung the huns half a million, get Bojan to make a grovelling apology. Fans are fickle as fuck. Once he bangs in a few goals we all move on.
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14 hours ago, The.Moog said:
zero physicality
Exactly the words that were going through my mind watching the game yesterday. We play like a bunch of wifies (if you can still get away with that saying). Allowing somebody like Raskin to be winning headers speaks volumes about what is wrong with the team.
With each game that passes it actually makes me think someone like Robinson is exactly the kind of manager we need.
....and the director of fitba should be absolutely nowhere near the bench. Like watching Cathro and Levein all over again.
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2 hours ago, Panda said:
I'm sold. Gisdol for 18 months to help smooth the path for Peter Leven to take over permanently. Teach him how to implement his gegenpress then hand over the reigns.
(I'd suggest, if no approach has been made at this stage despite Lutz and him knowing each other, there probably won't be one. But then I don't know how Lutz works.)No doubt a bit of tongue in cheek in your post but in all seriousness, a few folk have been touting Leven and I think his very brief spell in charge when Robson left has clouded people's views. He was in charge for just 11 games after Warnock left when the season had basically petered out anyway and there was nothing to play for. Have to remember that he has been a main part of both Robson and Thelin's reigns as manager.
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11 hours ago, Jute said:
Decent first half in rain between Arsenal v Liverpool. Entertaining game for a 0-0.
I thought that game was absolutely horrendous last night. Liverpool getting a lot of praise from Neville and Keane in the Sky Studio but my god, I was barely awake by the end. If was basically 90 minutes of Van Dijk and Kerkez passing it back and forth between them.
If you are into stats, Liverpool had an XG of 0.36. They made 509 passes and only 150 went forward. Arsenal made 459 passes, 108 went forward. That kind of stuff will get the game stopped.
Wenger's Arsenal team of Vieira, Pires, Henry and the like would have ran over any of those two teams last night.
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1 hour ago, OrlandoDon said:
Very normal with any team, shit defense is more pressure on the keeper, and he comes off his line more since he knows defenders won’t win headers. As a result he makes poor choices. You’ll see him in no man’s land and not get to crosses. Was the case with Lewis, when we had a shit defense he got worse.
^^^^^^This, absolutely.
Dealing with corner kicks is primary school stuff. Again, all the new age laptop boffins will try to convince you that you need some set piece coach with a PhD in fitba tactics. Jist heed the ba awa. Nay difficult.
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Said by the man who has basically been cheerleading them on to win the league this last week.
Bet you’re sitting at hame wearing your brown brogues with your flute in one hand, signed photo of super Ally in the other whilst listening to Tina Turner full blast.