Reekie_Red

Willie's biggest problem was he was given the task of replacing top quality players who had been the rock in Aberdeen's game for so many years. Now, though, Willie's seen everything that's happened at Aberdeen. He's actually had the balls to stand up in a press interview this week and admit that JC is on his last chance - I'd prefer to hear that than the usual "the manager gets my vote of confidence", which is what we heard from Wiggy about Roy Aitken and Alex Miller right up until the day they were binned. I think of the options in the poll, Willie would be the best for the job, and we wouldn't have to pay any other club a fee for him either. But surely there must be other managers out there that we just haven't thought about who can do the job whilst remaining in our budget.

I don't buy into the notion that strikers aren't necessarily good penalty takers. Over the past two decades, strikers have been asked to do more work further down the field and have been aptly renamed "forwards". But the thruth of the matter is, they are the players who play at the goal-scoring end of the field. It is their job to put the ball in the net. If they are no use at penalty taking (what should really be the EASIEST opportunity to put the ball in the net) then they cannot call themselves strikers. I mean let's face it, if they don't have the confidence to hit a target that is 8ft tall and 24ft wide (with the only obstacle being a goalkeeper who is maybe 6ft tall by 1.5-2ft wide) with no defenders to deal with then the question that arises is why is a professional club that is in the top four paying clubs in the country still fielding this person on the pitch? Dress a striker up with whatever other jobs around the pitch you want to. The fact of the matter is, a striker is called a striker because it is his job to STRIKE the ball towards goal.

Is that right Willie? Think how much more depressing it is when you actually have to pay for the privilege of watching the garbage served up on a regular basis there. Now that is depressing. Hate to say it, but that headlines doesn't do any justice to what Willie Miller said. Nowhere did he say that the actual stadium or the fans are depressing. His actual comment was about the combined mental state of the club. But hey, in typical journalistic style this reporter hasn't let the real story get in the way of a good headline. We'll pick ourselves out of this mess and we'll fire on all cylinders for the remainder of the season. Then we'll all be all hunky-dorey with JC again and we'll go into the Europa League next season. Then, when European football has deserted us, we'll get knocked out at the QF stage by [pick any Irn Bru First Division team] and the heat will be back on JC again. It's all cyclical. It's one giant rollercoaster ride at AFC. Hey, just be glad you're not a Killie fan where the highlight of your season is beating Ayr Utd in the League Cup.

She was a fan, but only for Seven Seconds

I'm sure I read that too. The path into the group stages was made easier by Rangers and Aberdeen's performance in the UEFA Cup last season and Ra Shellick in the Champions League in same season. Pretty sure that kicks in for the forthcoming European competitions.

1. TheChimp (x 1000) 2. Nessie Nespa! 3. mg_don (I hate the Huns) 4. E-P-K 5. Mizer 6. wee toon red 7. topcorner 8. Drewsome 9. Shakey heid man 10. JimmyJimmy 11. Dandy_Don 12. PKAMH - Signed : i hate those evil, ugly, retarded, racist, bigoted scum bags 13. BigAl - tbh I thought abody of a non Hun persuassion , hated them 14. Penfold 15. Things 16. Mini 17.Tuuubes-first post declaring my hatred for the scum,lovely stuff 18. RealRedArmy - its a no-brainer, really.. 19. Madbadteacher 20. Craig_Don (And the Tims...and the Arabs...and the Jambos...in fact all non-Aberdeen Scottish league teams) 21. chief wiggum 22. dundee_red 23. K-9 has dog-breath because he licks dog bum 24. Sooth_stander (with a vengence) 25. Ajja - Is there a stronger word ? Hate is too tame. 26. GlasgaeSheep 27.Chubbs80s- they are scum 28.d1nk11 29.Iversen 30. Don Incognito Oh dear only 30, I thought ABODY hated the evil minks. 31. thomsod 32. LeakyLaDon 33. OCTAVION. 34. jimmythered74 the huns are dirty orange basterds !! Hate them with a capital H 35. Madre-di-dio(t) Moi aussi, justice was well-served, despite the ref's attempts at gifting them numerous free kicks for fuck all. 36. innesciver - Minky B**tards 37. Mentorred 38.Wayne'o - Dirty orange bastards 39. Sneckie 40. One Bobby Clark 41. Minky huns 42. Reekie_Red Hate Rangers 42. Manc_don - BOO to Rangers! 43. Jimmys_Gut - fucking minkers 44. Fergie83 - Fuck the huns 45. NorthernLights - We fucking hate Rangers, we fucking hate Rangers..... 46. Elgin Red 47. Don4eva 48. caledonia 49. Don of The Red - With a passion! 50. Markylanegan - soap dodgers ! 51. redenek. (anyone who can read or write should) 52. capitalsharpie -oh fuk aye. born hating them 53. Ayrdons - where i come from im surrounded by them - what i would do for a bell tower and a high powered sniper rifle !! 54. IASM - Smelly, knuckle dragging, soap dodging Bigoted b'strds 55. Bobby Biscuit - also surrounded by them, but thankfully, I'm several rungs up on the evolution ladder. Cunts to a man (monkey). 56. Scotfree - Can smell the Bastards 12000 miles away!! 57. the soof king - hun bastards 58. Shabba Ranks - No loving from me for these c*nts 59. Boboisared 60. Makaveli - Stinking hun cunts 61. Stonefish100- Scumbags to a man. If you see somebody being a cunt in the street, 90% chance he is a hun. Fucking hate em all 62. Brownie - Giro chasing minks 63. PTKDon 64. glasgowdon - cunts 65. Mentorred 66. SWA 67. Caroline B 68. Chunk - Foolishly put money on them to win the Stanley Cup. Boo for the Rangers! 69. swaddon 70. Jagerdeen - I hate the huns and tims and jutes and etc and etc 71. Andrew - Hate the ones from Alford more 72. Tyrant. - Cunts. 73. The Lurker 74. quirie - they only come out when their winning cunts 75. jmo - though I didn't have to say it 76. Funster - Just us, Greater Manc Polis and the rest of the world 77. Friedrich's Moustache (zomg this is so much fun) 78. Hunter 79. Stoney and may i just add my dissapointment at the watered down hatred we now have with them, i miss the violence 80. Bigal1903 81. Keithdandy 82. Reekie_Red - the green are fast catching them, but the hunnery still eclipses everyone in terms of inducing hatred

Lets face it, the matches against the likes of Hamilton, Killie, Motherwell and co are never going to be spectacular events! But three points in the bag whilst our two rivals above us both drop three points? Can't have asked for much more this weekend in terms of the results. Throws us right back into the hunt for 3rd place. Looks like we're going to have another one of those seasons where everything runs right up until the last day of the season. I'll not complain about that, so long as we get into Europe. Out of interest, does 4th place get into the Europa League too?

The site was whizzing through everything yesterday. But it's ground to a halt today. We're currently trying to get to the bottom of the problem ... bear with us!

Radical thinking from Soccerbase, eh!

Excellent move by the club. Instead of outpricing many fans and making it "just another boring midweek game", this could be a real blockbusting crowd to see this game. Well done AFC

actually, just checking through some matches, it appears that Soccerbase does actually noted penalties by placing a (p) next to the scorer and time. Needless to say, I've gone right back to 1994 and still can't find any Aberdeen penalties at either Ibrox or Parkhead. The matches prior to 1994 don't have any details on the scorers. There's PLENTY of Celtic and Rangers penalties, though! Ranging from Gascoigne and Negri to Larsson and Weighorst.

Don't think Soccerbase distinguishes between penalties and goals from open-play, though

... and that SPL team will figure out what's wrong with him, sort it out, and have him start every single fixture.

Rangers will get the TV tie, without a doubt! Lets face it: (a) it's Rangers, and (b) they play the team that knocked Celtic out Nobody EVER does a double on the Old Firm, which is why Rangers will be in the final against ... I hope ... Aberdeen. And let's face it, there's no better fixture in Scottish football than an Aberdeen vs Rangers Scottish Cup final!

We're gonna go out to Falkirk. McNamara is gonna score, I have seen it in a vision. I just know he's gonna come back and haunt us ... as if sitting on a handsome wage and doing fuckall for it wasn't enough to kick us in the nuts!

Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts

... and wearing speedos, drinking Bundaberg lemon-lime-bitters, and referring to cookies as Afghans. Not to mention referring to football as "sokkah", cos "footy" is already reserved for both Aussie Rules AND Rugby League (wtf??)

Hmmmm. Maybe that game wasn't a penalty afterall. I googled "rangers aberdeen irvine dodds" and one result shows both goals came from open play for the Dons, with Irvine scoring from a volley and Dodds netting after a knockdown from one of the huns. Gazza played, but there were debates regarding whether he'd play or not cos it was just after the allegations of his wife-beating shenanigans were made public.

There's got to be something lacking in the Aberdeen training and physios somewhere. To me, Smith's injuries are mirroring those of Scott Booth. Scott was a fantastic player for us (I'm not going to talk about the 2nd time he played for us, as I'm more concerned about his exploits first time around). When he played, he was a real breath of fresh air and a genuine footballing brain that knew the route to goal. But he just couldn't stay away from the injury table. It seemed whenever someone sneezed in Montrose, the effects rippled their way up to Pittodrie and Scott would become injured. When he moved away from Aberdeen, the Dortmund specialists quickly realised that he had one leg longer than the other, and designed special boots for him. Hey presto, he went on to play like a normal footballer should do for clubs like Dortmund, Twente, Uttrecht, etc. As soon as he came back to Aberdeen, though, he started making regular appearances on the injury table again. It seems to me to be the same with Smith. I don't know his injury history pre-Aberdeen. But how can one man have such bad luck with injuries? Surely there's something wrong with the physios / training at Aberdeen. Surely!

Kelt gets a semi every time he listens to the Dons on the radio.

Guns n Roses - Since I Don't Have You

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Right on!

Ooh ooh! Think you might be right. Probably about 1997-ish. Dobbin scored the first, if I remember rightly. Unbelievably ... Snelders was in goals for the huns in that match!

An Old Firm fan who knows there are more than two teams in the SPL? I reckon your mate is just too ashamed to admit he's actually a Partick Thistle fan!