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I see Gomis has been released by Birmingham. Also worth a look?

Mini skirts.

4-1! Lewandowski again! Mental!

1-1 Dortmund and Real. I do like Mourinho so would like to see him get to another final but at the same time, a Bayern v Dortmund final would be cracking. A real winner for German football.

10 game ban is completely deserved IMO. However, I would imagine they will probably get it reduced to about 8 on appeal.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker said on Twitter: "Very strong punishment. Vital now that FA are consistently strong on all issues eg racism, abusing refs etc. Also this ridiculous nonsense of 'if the ref saw it they can't punish retrospectively' has to be addressed!"

Have to say that I do agree with Lineker. They need to be consistent and forceful on all issues, not just picking and choosing which ones to be strong on (biting) and issues where they are perhaps too leniant (Terry racism row/4 game ban).

Jim Bett the last non OF player to win it in 1989-90 season. 

That minky cunt Griffiths will win it IMO, whether he deserves it or not.

The pitch is always pristine at the start of the season.

 

It's the conditions it's enduring after that that are the problem.

Aye it's always after the shite rugby and an international game on it then it turns into  midden for a few months. The worst state I have ever seen the pitch in was the 4-4 game with Celtic, absolutely atrocious. I mind (quite rightly) Robbie Keane complaining about it.

I'm seriously considering getting another season ticket next season. Despite the ridiculous prices and poor value for money, I've gone a few seasons without it and I do miss it to a certain extent. Paying £23 at the turnstiles is a complete rip off but it doesn't seem so bad with a season ticket! Stupid logic I know! If I do, fairly certain it will be in the Sooth.

Plus you never know, next season could be THE season!

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Sounded absolutely awful. How many Dons fans were there out of interest?

Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne: "If you had any idea of the compromises we went through to get to the stage where there's one plan on the table, you would understand why you can't put all this effort and compromise in, then want to pick out the bits we don't like and discard them. "It's fixed up as a plan, a whole plan. It doesn't stack up if you start to pick out the bits you don't like."

As do Blackburn. I wonder if the Venkys are aware there's also relegation from the Championship...

Car crash of a club now. Almost worth bearing in mind when I think that it can't get any worse at Pittodrie!

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For players that he should be keeping, I've gone for - Jack, Robertson, Anderson, Considine, Milsom, McGinn, Hayes, Shaughnessy, Pawlett, Osbourne and Reynolds.

Looking at that players there, you've got a good basis of a side but just needs small repairs e.g a right back, a keeper, striker etc.

Magennis can get to fuck. He's got very little footballing ability and all he has got is being built like a brick shit house and can run fairly fast. If scoring at Celtic Park is a barometer for how good you are as a professional footballer then John Stewart and Zdrillic have been cracking players for us! Using that performance as an example of why we should be keeping him conveniently hides the fact that for the most of his Aberdeen career, he has been dung.

Langfield can also go. A decent shot stopper who will give you on average of 3 or 4 howlers a season, a bottler of the biggest variety and can't kick worth a fuck. How he has managed at AFC for so long is beyond me, maybe that's an indication of the club more than anything. His command of the box, positioning and coming off his line is absolutely terrible.

Rae and Vernon are two players that if they stayed, I wouldn't be fussed but if we can get better replacements then cheerio. Rae started the season well but has started to look his age. Vernon is one that's a bit harder. Obviously a goal scorer but hasn't been able to score for love or money this season and even his other general play has gone tits up. He really has been awful this season, if he can get back to the form he showed in his first two seasons then he will be a prized asset again. If he continues with the form he has showed this season, then he is as much of a hinderance than he is helpful.

A fairly unexciting appointment. Got St Johnstone promoted and went on to consolidate them as a middle of the table team, one which ain't going to be challenging up at the top and one which isn't going to be relegated. No money to pay and I'm sure he probably 'ticked all the boxes of being young and an ambitious manager' will be the party line by Milne. Again, I'll back McInnes all the way because he has got some solid foundations and now he can assess the team before the end of the season, but it's hardly one to get the pulses racing.

[ Ross County have rejected an approach by Aberdeen to speak to Derek Adams about their managerial vacancy.

The Dons have begun the search for Craig Brown's successor, with the 72-year-old retiring from management in the summer.

County chairman Roy McGregor told BBC Scotland they had rejected Aberdeen's approach.

Aberdeen have drawn up a list of about 12 candidates to take up the managerial reins at Pittodrie.

Adams has impressed in County's debut season in the SPL, guiding the Highland outfit to fourth place in the table.

Responding to Aberdeen's interest, McGregor told BBC Scotland "it's dead" and would not welcome any further approach.

Earlier this month, the County chairman said they were keen to extend Adams's contract.

"I'm 99% sure that he'll be here next season. He's got another year on his contract and has an extension on the table," the chairman said at the time.

"It'll be down to whether Ross County are as ambitious as he is and that the board here are willing to back him in what he's trying to do with the club. I'm sure they will."

Brown, who will take up a seat on the Aberdeen board as a non-executive director in the summer, will have a say in appointing his successor. /quote]

If it came down to a straight choice between Adams and ...(wait for it...) Terry Butcher, who would you all prefer?

 

 

My gut instinct is to go for Butcher, as suggested by Joey Harper in the EE, despite him clearly being an unpopular fucker amongst the fans.

 

 

He's more experienced than Adams, clearly has an eye for a player, knows the Scottish game, gets his teams punching above their weight, speaks well to the media, and has an obvious passion / commitment for whatever he's working on.  I know all about his hun history etc, I am of that generation, but I think I could tolerate him for a couple of seasons to see where it takes us.

 

 

Thoughts?

Yes. This. I was at the County v Caley game last weekend due to being up their for a piss up anyway. The way Adams conducted himself and the way Butcher conducted himself was night and day. Adams was shouting to the crowd, the police getting involved etc. And the shite he did at the end with Butcher where he barely shook hands, said something and stormed doon the tunnel was absolutely pathetic. Butcher was livid and had to be held back from storming after him. It was like a spoilt bairn. Butcher then shook every single County players hand and celebrated with the crowd.

Adams really did conduct himself in a terrible manner and without his two sidekicks Neale Cooper (whom I got a picture with later on in The Den) and his other assistant (can't mind), I got the impression he was a bit lost. He didn't seem to be able to even shout at his players without speaking to them first, instead standing there with his hands in his pockets like a fud!

It should be said though that I'm not advocating Butcher for the job, just not impressed from what I see of Adams.

Collins for me.

McInnes, meh. As Bobby says, underwhelmed is how I would describe my feeling on him.

Spurs making a proper fuck up of it so far. Livermore gets booked for time wasting in the 13th minute. 

Aye that interview is brilliant. I respect Levein for that, the only manager to really come oot and give it tits to something so plainly obvious for years. And as you say, he clearly has an eye for a player (United - Conway, Swanson, Bauben, Gomis, Daly etc). Plus he also overhauled United's youth system and was a member on their board.

However, he clearly lost the plot with Scotland. Wouldn't be a very sensible appointment and would drive away more fans IMO.

None of the names on that bookies list is exciting me. I'm not on the Derek Adams bandwagon and certainly agree that Hartely wouldn't even be mentioned had he not played for us.

What's folks thought on John Collins? Won a cup for the Hibees but soon there were rumours of a player backlash against him. I would have thought he would be quite hard on the players (not a bad thing) and maybe bring something different to the job. Fresh ideas, new methods and all that jazz.

Bournemouth have to play most of the bottom 6 on their run in, so on paper they should be beating these teams however they'll all be fighting for their L1 survival. Probably not the best environment to be developing a young player. I also wonder if they don't go up now, how much interest the Russians will have next season.

Looks like they have vastly overspent and are already starting to cut costs with backroom staff going in an apparent 're-structuring' programme and David James not getting played and then going. Looks to me, like they are getting ready for the possibility of not going up.

I think Hughes was coming on even before Fraser got injured - maybe just as well he did, because personally I thought Fraser was the weak link. He was just ........ small.

Must admit I got fed up with some guy behind me slagging Fraser off and cheering when he went off - labelling an 18 year old a waste of space and f.......ng crap who we should never have bought was well out of order for someone who has only played for about an hour in our shirt.

Oh dear.

Unfortunately, especially for foreign owners, the crazy money in/being thrown at the EPL (5 billion due to come in over three years or something like that) makes it absolutely essential that they try everything in their power to stay in the EPL. This means that managers such as Adkins and McDermott will always be favourites for the sack despite what they have already achieved. With only 10 games to go, I can't really see the sense in sacking McDermott.

On what grounds 

 

How many game minutes has he had since he left for the lofty heights of Bournemouth.......fucking joke.

 

This coupled to the continued selection of the likes of Kenny Miller for the full squad just goes to show what a joke the national team actauly is, and Strachan setting out his marker that nothing has changed

By my rough calculation, he has managed a whopping 65 minutes since he left us. Just shows that playing in the SPL for anyone other than Celtic will nearly gurantee you of getting a nice long rest come international breaks.

Simply don't care now, just said to padre already got plans for Saturdays that don't involve Aberdeen FC.

 

7 day membership at the golf, a few comedy gigs (aye, I know, no much difference). All much better ways of filling my time. Fuck it.

Aye, very much my feelings. I'm no going to another game this season, I've got far better things to be doing and far better things rather than spending my money on that shower of shit. Although saying that, I have provisionally planned going to the United away game on the 6th of April, but that's as much to do with the day oot and drink rather than the football I'll have to endure for 90 minutes.

At the minute, I'm struggling to tell you who we're playing each weekend such is the level of my apathy.

Just looking at the lack of updates from BBC Sport suggests that to me, it is awful as per.