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2 hours ago, BigAl said:
Funny you should say that Rico, as I've been thinking for a few weeks that he could be a possible replacement for Roos.
Another possible could be the young Icelandic keeper that Elfsborg sold to Brentford for a couple of million last year. Not suggesting we sign him as won't get him on a permanent but maybe a season long loan to give us some breathing space to secure long term replacement
A new keeper is a must imo, Roos is ooc at the end of the season anyway
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5 hours ago, RicoS321 said:
Agreed. It's the usual pish, people get it in their heads that "his legs have gone" or some other shite, and then apply conformation bias to their view, ignoring all other evidence to the contrary. Polvara did okay in the first half against the Tims, but his overall coverage isn't great, neither his stamina. That second half passed him by, and it was then that we needed Shinnie's presence to do the hard work. He's easily got another season in him before any chat about legs going and the tired, clichéd pish needs to get rolled out. Also, we've seen plenty of instances where Shinnie and Barron have played well together, so there's no issue with the balance of the midfield. It really just does depend on those two turning up and playing well. More importantly, not throwing away ridiculous goals at the back.
If polvara could just inject a wee bit more aggression into his game I think he could be some player.
As for Shinnie? I think there's a fair chance he will adapt reasonably well to losing pace. You could see him playing a holding midfielder role where he doesn't have to move much quite successfully. Win the ball, move it on, jobs a good un. I'm not saying that will defo be for us as I'm far from convinced Thelin is going to be too interested in holding midfielders but he could play top flight football in Scotland for a few seasons yet.
I think we will get a really good performance at the weekend, the weekends performance gave the team it's mojo back and they are clearly enjoying playing for Leven.
4-0 dons Miovski, sokler, Duk and Gartenmann
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I couldn't find a stream of this one in the end on Kodi, hopefully can find one Tom eve
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I'm probably going to watch a fair few of these (well, have on my second screen whilst I play football manager anyway) and given some of you might be interested I thought I would post my thoughts on them here.
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I wonder what sort of markets we will be looking at this summer. It seems very likely to me at least a couple of the new bodies coming in will be from scandanavia. I wonder Thelin will raid his old club
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All I will to what has been posted before is how proud I am of my team and pleased I am that leven is going to be involved going forward. We have taken so many proverbial kickings this season I honestly didn't think so much fight was still in us.
Anyone else think Morris did alright in the brief time he was on?
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2 hours ago, wee toon red said:
What are we going to say to CAS? "Please sir, this is unfair. We want 50% of the tickets even though we can't sell them all"? We'd rightly be laughed out of the place.
A fairer mechanism for selling, ie section by section up to a deadline and if not sold out the other team get them, is the ideal but to suggest we go greetin to CAS about it is fanciful. If "we" as a club want to make a point then it should start with being able to show demand is there in the first place, which it demonstably isn't. The SFA aren't going to have seats that could've been sold lying empty if they can possibly help it and it's very difficult to blame them for that.
Oh dear lord
. We say "there is a consistently shown inherent bias towards the two biggest clubs in the country and the governing bodies refuse to give us the same opportunities as they do to them". All of this is clearly, and easily, provable and quite frankly previous ticket sales are utterly irrelevant. It's about fair opportunity not how briefs you have sold in the past (but not hard for us to show plenty occasions when we have sold huge numbers of tickets, parkred for example). If you think the CAS would "laugh us out of the place" for putting that case to them i honestly don't know what to say to you. Cases like this are literally what it exists to mitigate.
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22 hours ago, BigAl said:
It'll never change until they fuck off and leave the rest of us to get on with it.
The league would be more competitive, more entertaining and fairer.
Yes, we might all have to pull our reins in financially but over time it will sort itself out.
I fear it won't be in my lifetime, if indeed ever.
Actually, I don't agree with that. I think it just needs taken to the court of arbitration for sport by hearts, hibs and Aberdeen. It would get sorted out very quickly and the precedent would then be set.
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8 hours ago, Panda said:
If the man on the right can be as big a legend at Pittodrie as the man on the left we'll be alright.
Mal Panton gets nowhere near the credit he deserves for the work he does there.
But anyway, I can't fucking wait for the Jimmy Thelin era. Just got a feeling this guy is gonna do the business.
Mal Panton?
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Found the interview a wee bit cringe 2bh but it was always likely to be given the circumstances and it had to be done for appearances sake. At least they kept it fairly short.
Welcome to Aberdeen Football Club Jimmy, here's hoping you can put the fun into the dysfunctional.
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1 hour ago, STFU_Donny said:
Bit harsh on JC that. Gave me some of my greatest memories following The Dons - including proper European football. Had a pretty good record Vs them at pittodrie (3-2 Jamie Smith anyone?) Not so much at Ibrox mind you.
I don't think so, his post match after lafferty feigned a head butt from Mulgrew and got him sent off was nauseating.
"big Charlie has come and says he's not touched him, and big Charlie... He's an honest player. Big Kyle though, he's an honest player too!"
And that was the moment I went full Calderplank out
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1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:
Welcome aboard Jimmy. Has the potential to be one of the best Jimmys to manage our club this century.
Well at least this one isn't a hun sycophant like the last one was
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And, relax. What a horrible 3 months. Welcome aboard James, you've got your work cut out for you son!
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What I think is interesting is Elfsborg have picked their new manager. "Reports in Denmark state Elfsborg have landed Oscar Hiljemark of Aalborg as replacement for Thelin." This whole waiting till the mid season break before making the move seems increasingly unlikely to me as a result. Players often don't respond very well when they know the manager is offski soon (not always, Liverpool seem to be doing OK 2bf) and now there are two teams with this problem. I wouldn't be surprised to see Thelin in after the semi 2bh
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First 3 and half 4 mins is about the game tonight then they talk about Aberdeen.
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8 hours ago, RicoS321 said:
It's all about feelings. I can feel it. Gut etc.
In other words, shite.
Anything can happen in knock out football and we have a chance for sure. The tims have massively turned a corner since the draw was made though, to stand a chance I can't help but feel we would need them to go down to ten men fairly early on.
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23 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:
"He also stressed a lot that we don't call substitutes just substitutes because they are decisive. And true enough, his substitutes decided many games. I don't think it was a coincidence."
I think I love him.
Aye that caught my eye as well Rico. I think we can defo safely say we are not getting more of the same with this guy
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In fine with June the 1st, it's not like he won't have done his homework prior to stepping through the door and have a good idea of what he's working with. Don't be surprised if it is earlier though, sometimes squads don't react well to the knowledge the manager is moving on soon. It may be they decide to take their new management team in a bit earlier if so.
I like the sound of this guy I have to say. My suspicion is that boring is paper talk for calm and calm is good. Derek Rae was saying nice things about him on twitter last week and I see that as a fairly solid endorsement. All in though, assuming it doesn't fall through of course, isn't it nice to have a wee bit of light appearing at the end of this fucking miserable tunnel?
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7 hours ago, Jute said:
Did think I should have said again when I posted it.
Fair
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On 06/04/2024 at 23:12, Jute said:
Poor performance today. Created very little all game. Thought we were fine defensively in first half but once McDonald came on at start of second half we looked very shakey. As well as he did as sub last week Duk was poor this week. Really don’t see what Hoilett does to keep starting. Thought he was really poor again.
New manager is going to have a busy summer.
When was the last time we didn't have a busy summer? Must have been under Mcinnes
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I've been watching a lot of serie A the past few seasons. It's such a fun league
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1 hour ago, manc_don said:
Funny how we seem to be going round in circles. I thought this one was dead in the water? I don’t even know who I want anymore, just want them to stop the rot.
I don't know who I ever really wanted to be honest mate. Agreed though, it's been a very grim few months
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Apologies for the source but Scott Burns is usually well informed.
Sounds like Thelin is the man they want and aren't letting it go
Summer 2024 transfer window
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I would be surprised to see Hoilett stay given Thelin's reported playing style. 33 yo's are not known for their pressing abilities after all.
It does feel like we are in a wee bit of a limbo until Thelin comes in with the distractions of the cup semi and fear of relegation going away. Hopefully we aren't though and Thelin will come in with a good knowledge of the squad and who he wants to bring in. He does sound the type that will be putting in the prep work 2bf so I have some optimism the transfer window will be more focused and less scattergun than the previous summers. The only thing I think we can say for certain is we will see a few players come in from the Swedish league and the rest of Scandinavia as well perhaps.