Reekie_Red

I remember that close-season. I was working in California at the time on one of those Camp America gigs. the local library got copies of Scotland On Sunday a couple of days late, and me and my mate were rubbing our hands with glee at the thought of Jess being back, Kiriakov (the guy who once played Gazza off the park), Ricky Gillies (the nation's most promising youngster) all playing for us. Oh how that optimism didn't last

All the papers are running with a "heres a list of Aberdeens most expensive signings", which makes me wonder just how much we paid Liverpool for him.

Some sources saying Clarkson is coming back to us instead of Reading Although their source is the Record https://the72.co.uk/2023/06/13/aberdeen-agree-deal-to-sign-reading-transfer-target/

Oh you had me til the end. I am one of the few who actually liked Ebbe. I could see the vision he had, the Brondby Blueprint looked to be just what we needed. Plus he was a bloody good laugh when he did his supporters club roadshows

Agreed. I got to most games (home and away) between 1999 and 2003. I was in my early 20s, single, earning a full time wage, my disposable income was off the charts. Fast-forward 20 years, I live on the other side of the world, have teenage kids, and would only consider travelling for a cup final TBH. I have a RedTV subscription and whilst I won't normally get up in the middle of the night to watch a run of the mill league match against St J, I do get up and watch the bigger games or ones that have more on the line, such as the last St Mirren game. So my circumstances mean I hardly go to any games, and I watch far fewer than I would've if timezones were better. But I consider myself to be just as much a Dons fan now as I was when I was going to most games 20 years ago

I was sure in the early 90s when it was us and Motherwell for 2nd place (back when Celtic were a mistable mess under Tommy Burns). Tommy Coyne was up there each year as the leagues top scorer. but upon checking Google it looks like Owen Coyle joined them late 90s. Coyne and Coyle were definitely a decent partnership at motherwell tho

Literally anyone can be a celtix manager and win the league with the resources available to them. Its literally like putting aberdeen in an amateur league, but aberdern get to spend the same money as they do today. Which makes me wonder just how shit John Barnes really was

He was a cracking player in the day. The partnership he and Tommy Coyne had at Motherwell was something else - back in the days when it was us and Motherwell battling it out for 2nd place

You could always support USA who are probably more likely to win than England. On second thoughts, John Lewis might have a sale on soon

2002/03 season when we travelled to Partick. It was a bloody cold midweek game, and David Lilley was just another one of those players who picked up a wage with us for doing absolutely heehaw and then came up against us and played a blinder to beat us 2-1. Same category as Curtis Main, tbh. It was my last Dons game before leaving for NZ, and it really was a fkn boring season, especially given how much fun it was being on the road with the red army the previous season

Our attendance has averaged somewhere between 13-15k throughout the past 3 decades (COVID seasons aside). The club has a pretty solid backbone of supporters who stick with them team regardless. But as with any team, success brings certain types of fans back through the turnstiles that may not necessarily go to every game.

So, much of the crowd will know what the score is without checking the Beeb web app? It'll never catch on

We have had the wettest summer on record here in NZ. You can see it on people's faces, everyone is just glum and fucked off now that its coming into winter. Not to mention the sheer amount of damage the country has seen from successive cyclones every 2 weeks. So I'm taking my sorry ass to Scotland and Ireland in July in search of a bit of sun Got two weddings to go to at either end of a 1 month holiday, one in Drogheda just outside Dublin, and then one up in Dornoch. Cannae wait to get "hame"

I heard Pollock and McRorie came back out onto the pitch topless, singing with the fans "Hearts, Hearts are falling apart again"

Clarkson to the Red Army on twitter "Thank you for your support this season. It's been incredible. We'll see you in Europe." read into that what you will

What a cracking watch. So sad to see all the boys welling up when they mentioned Cooper. But i loved the bit about "oh we had the players, we had the experience and the youth ... we just needed someone to gel it all together" ... in walks Fergie

Very glad to see them not win. Adding the Hibees win against Celtic, Hearts could even finish in 5th if results go the right way on the last day. Oh that would be glorious - I fkn hate Hearts

Tough week for Old Firm fans as Rangers mourn Tina Turner, whilst Celtic mourn Rolf Harris

Cause of death hasn't been revealed, but there are suggestions he'd been secretly battling bowel cancer

I was not in favour of Robson at the time. Too inexperienced, and the job wouldve completely chewed him up and spat him out, just as its done to every manager since Fergie in the end. I was still concerned that we would give him the job but lose out of Agnew who is clearly the experienced head he is leaning on. But getting both of them is a sound piece of business, particularly as they've done the business with the results, albeit many of them have been ugly wins ... but wins nonetheless.

Australian Masterchef host Jock Zonfrillo. Scottish chef, aged just 46. He was a good lad

He's like a Cato Guntveit. Difficult to pin down what he does for the team until he is out or underperforms. You need the star players like Clarkson, Duk and Miovski who appear for 2 mins very game and do something brilliant. But they are underpinned by the grafters who just do the normal stuff well

That's what they said about Beto Carranza and Claudio Caniggia

Agreed. Trips to Snake Mountain and the Tattiedome are probably gonna be losses. But visits from St Mirren and Hibs should see 6pts which is probably enough to secure third place. That trip to Tynecastle could really go either way though

Beyond Killie being a #shiteclubnofans, we seem to get way more than our fair share of mid-winter mid-week trips to Rugby Park. Waaaay more than any other team, it would seem. I know there's a sizeable portion of the Red Army based in the central belt. But for those travelling from the northeast, a February midweek trip to Dingwall is waaaay easier than to Kilmarnock