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6 hours ago, Jute said:

Scunthorpe - one of three teams in UK leagues to have rude words in their name, the others being Arsenal and Fuckin Rangers 

The Sokler deal must be ahead of Duk heading out, presumably to Torino. The Doohan link must be ahead of Lewis heading out ... presumably to Killie 

If both are true, I've never heard of us signing replacements BEFORE the OG's leave 

My Aussie mate said "sure fire, Scotland must qualify for both now". Obviously he has never followed scotland before

3 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

hard to compare, is the return of Jess a decent comparison?

 

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/

On 09/06/2023 at 07:24, Panda said:

And also that we should have sacked Skovdahl and replaced him with Barnes when he became free.

 

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

On 12/06/2023 at 09:24, DantheDon said:

I disagree with this. I think you would find for most people (season ticket holders included) it is a part time hobby. Some fans will follow the team all around the country and beyond but a lot turn up at Pittodrie every two weeks or less (myself included) and entertain themselves in other ways the rest of the time.

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 

On 06/06/2023 at 18:34, RicoS321 said:

 But mainly because it would show that being successful at Celtic is a barometer of nothing, because John Hughes could do it.

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 

On 10/05/2023 at 07:19, BigAl said:

Play off first leg tonight Partick v Queens Park

Never liked thon boy Owen Coyle so c'mon The Harry Wrags.

 

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. 

On 05/06/2023 at 05:01, Jute said:

From what was said at the Q&A recently they are putting in a LED display that you won’t see from South Stand to be used as score board and to let fans know when a VAR check is underway. The electronic advertising boards are already in place and don’t think I have noticed them flashing. 

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

6 hours ago, BigAl said:

Hearts one up inside first minute 

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

On 04/05/2023 at 07:21, manc_don said:

What was the deal here? I saw the headlines but didn’t ever follow up

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

10 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

It's entirely a question of whether he's a £2M player. Quite simply, nobody would pay more and the deal would be off. He's not worth £2M in my opinion, it's a very generous offer, boosted by the reasons you give. He's had zero assists (barely had any completed crosses) and two goals all season and his spells in centre half and midfield have been fairly poor, so his utility isn't really worthwhile either (so we're really just looking at a wing back to replace him rather than a utility). We won't spend the £2M, obviously, but we could likely pay a fee for a couple of players with any money that is made available. He's only worth more than £2M to us if we replace him with another Richardson. Your ignoring the marginal gain you get from having any other player in there. Even Kennedy managed 80% of the McRorie role, whilst being better at crossing. If you got a proper wing back in you'll lose very little. As I mentioned previously, Devlin at Livi would go a long way to plugging the gap, and I'm sure the recruitment team could come up with better. 

This isn't the 16 goals from Lewis Ferguson we're missing, nor the vision and passing of Clarkson or the goals of Duk or Miovski. McRorie doesn't win us games. He's a strong, hard working professional that won't be easily replaced, but there are a lot of players out there that can give you something close and probably better in other areas of their game to make up for it. McRorie himself leaving wouldn't be the problem, rather the total turnover of staff, which his departure compounds. I'd be very happy for him to stay on those grounds. If the Dons feel that there are too many leaving, then it's not a case of asking for more money, it's saying that he isn't for sale at any price. 

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