Reekie_Red

Credit where credit is due. Milne is not a chairman with a footballing brain. He's a chairman with a construction brain who just so happens to run a football club. The fact that he fucked up so many times with his managerial selections tells you heaps about his footballing knowledge. But then that's why he has hired two Directors Of Football in his time ... namely Willie Miller and Keith Birkenshaw. Surely it should be the job of the DoF to advise the chairman of all footballing matters that concern the board. In my view, BOTH of these DoFs have failed enormously. Milne has trusted these two men (albeit about a decade apart from each other) to look after the footballing side from a directive point of view. Both these men have fucked up. He gave Birkenshaw the boot for doing sweet fuck all. Now I think he should really be turning the screw on Willie Miller because it is Willie who is the Director of footballing matters, not Stewart Milne.

It's not always all about the money, scotfree! Of all the clubs he could play for, why do you think he is currently with Hull City? For money? No! For the love of the club? Yes! It's no secret that Deano loved his time with us. He was a solid fans' favourite at a time when we also had the likes of Duncan Shearer, Billy Dodds, Eoin Jess and Scott Booth on our books. He's had some bumper payday deals with some half-decent English sides, and has been to Wembley a few times too on cup-final duty. Ever thought he might want to come back to Pittodrie to rekindle his relationship he had with the Red Army?

Harper, Windass, Jess, Booth, Shearer and McDougall in the same team? I'd go for 30 goals per MONTH with those players together!!

If Aberdeen can't afford to pay Jimmy Nicholl out of his current contract, then Dundee sure as hell cannot afford to buy him either!

WTF? I was ready to rip Smith a new arsehole in response to that. But then I read beyond the headline. Where the fuck does he blame anyone? He simply states the fuckin obvious about how our home form needs to improve, and the Pittodrie fans cannot expect to put up with what they've seen so far. I'm sorry Jamie. I will not rip you a new arsehole today. I shall save my ammunition for the wank who wrote that headline!

Mate, it's not a corner. No corner can last this long without being a continuous, infinite corner. My verdict? We're stuck on the fuckin Haudig'n Roundabout! Seriously though, I thought we'd seen the last of "have Aberdeen turned the corner yet?" three years ago. I thought we'd been pretty solid for the past three seasons with gradual progress being made in the right direction. Then half our squad disappeared and got replaced with a group of players who are STILL not confident in playing alongside one another. Of course, I speak of the Kerr/McDonald partnership. When is this midfield partnership gonna finally click? Until it does, I think we seriously need to look at consistently playing Seve in the midfield. Stop juggling him between defence and midfield and just sit him in the position that he's most comfortable in. And Smith? He's just come out saying "I want to play in the middle, I'm most comfortable there". On his day, he's probably our most dangerous player. So why not give him his wish and let him play where he is most comfortable.

This is a very gray area. AFC cannot copyright the fans that the fans do not belong to AFC in any way whatsoever. But AFC can claim that each photo taken inside Pittodrie of the fans contains little bits of Pittodrie (ie the seats, etc). This, they DO have copyright on.

If it was the Winters we saw tear us a new arsehole when he played for United, I'd gladly take him back. If it was the Winters we saw in the final year of his contract, I'd gladly take him back. Unfortunately, we all know it'll be the Winters were stuck with for three years BEFORE his final contract that we'll see instead.

are they actually videos of the Dons? If it's just videos of the red ultras fans, then this is okay as Aberdeen FC tend to let this slip. But videos of the games? either they have an arrangement with AFC, or AFC can't be bothered logging on to the Red Ultras site to check it out

Well, I've been very neutral in my opinions of JC since he arrived. From the moment it was mentioned that Willie Miller wanted JC & JN to be the next Aberdeen management team, I wasn't thrilled to say the least. Jimmy Nicholl, I've got a lot of time for. But Jimmy Calderwood just doesn't get me excited. But I'm always willing to give any Aberdeen manager his fair crack at the whip (I even gave Alex Miller about five minutes ... which is about four minutes than most gave him). I gave Skovdahl a hell of a lot of time because he tried and tried and tried and really felt the pain of each defeat. Paterson, not so much, as he was about as animated as yer average morgue regardless of whether we were winning or losing. He had a bunch of players trying to punch well above their weight, and both he and they failed miserably. JC however shouts and swears from the touchline. He gets himself in a bit of bother from the refs for doing so. And I like that in a manager. It shows he actually cares. But from what I've seen on Setanta since January, he shouts and shouts and shouts, but none of the players seem to care about what he's shouting about. Yes he gives his all, but his players just don't seem to care. It's a hell of a lot easier to pay off one manager's contract than cancel a whole stack of players' contracts. Which is why I think we should be getting rid of JC now, and not waiting til Xmas. It's been mentioned that we are only five points off third place. I can't see the players responding to JC's rallying cries between now and Xmas. If all we can hope for is a win against St Mirren at the end of November, then we are in a shit shit state and something needs to be changed NOW. The players need a rocket up their arse. They need to be known that they are not indespensible and that they can be replaced. I'd like to see JC given his marching orders and JN given a crack at the whip. He seems to have a good footballing brain on him and knows how to get the best out of the players ... it was his direction that masterminded the defensive showing vs Dnipro. I think change is needed NOW. We need to be proactive and try a different manager. Too many clubs ditch their manager when it's too late. We need to act BEFORE it's too late.

... yes! Believe it or not, a firm known as the Football DataCo have the copyright to all SFL and EFL league fixtures. There's a big civil court wrangling going on at the moment between them and a couple of English footy fanzines. The fanzines are claiming that the fixture lists should not be copyrightable, since they are simply significant dates plotted against a calendar ... NOBODY can copyright a calendar. They can copyright a picture on a calendar, but not the calendar itself since this was originally the works of the ancient Egyptians. A second argument that has come about is that football and horseracing require paying fans to exist as a professional sport. Without a fixture list, fans have no record of where and when the matches or races are going to be held and thus cannot attend. Until this legal wrangling is resolved, we still need to pay a company their levy.

Mate, when I come back to Scotland, that fiver will buy me the best pint I've ever had.

Yes. I've got a fiver riding on this one

Yes. If JC is no longer the Aberdeen manager by 23:59 on 24 December 2008, then that crisp five pound note is mine. If he is, then a bluey is on it's way to ST. Deal, ST?

Aye, but Tannalice officials check this board maybe once in a blue moon. Pittodrie officials are on DonsTalk at least once per day. YouTube is difficult to police, because so many people are doing it, and Aberdeen FC have so little muscle to do anything constructive about complaining to YouTube. However, clubs like Arsenal and ManUtd do have a hell of a lot of muscle. Try searching for an Arsenal or Man Utd clip on YouTube ... chances are it's been taken offline or replaced with a still-image. Aberdeen FC would love to have that sort of power. But they'll just be done with monitoring this board for illegal activity. As for the league table thingy, you only need permission from the participating club that you represent to display the league table. Aberdeen are pretty good to deal with on this front ... I just can't be bothered updating a league table every week. The fixture lists, however, are a completely different kettle of fish (where the fuck does that expression come from?). We have had to apply for permission every year to some firm down in Basingstoke to be able to get a licence to display fixtures. It costs us, but nowhere near as much as it would cost us if AFC hadn't agreed to nominate DonsTalk as their nominated fanzine. All the others who want to display the AFC fixture lists have to pay a very healthy sum indeed.

Okay ST. I bet a cool fiver (sterling) that JC is out of the Pittodrie hotseat by Christmas Day

Aye, all the best Stevie. In many a Morayshire man, your playing days earned you the nickname Pele. And your managerial days may well have been blessed with such brilliance, providing you hadn't taken arguably the hardest job in the Scottish leagues ... a club with the demands of the Old Firm, but with the money of Inverurie Locos. He's not the first ... and certainly will not be the last Aberdeen manager to depart in shameful circumstances. I foresee your predecessor being bundled into that boot in less than two months ... although with his size, it may need to be a transit van rather than a car boot.

It's not just any side, bobo. It's Hibs ... you know, Scotland's only team capable of playing "total" football. To be honest, I'd rather this match was at Fester Road, cos we seem to have a better record there over the past 7 or 8 years.

That's enough to get anyone pissing themselves with laughter.

I give him 14 minutes before Jackie "Superstar" McNamara sneezes in Smith's general direction, causing him to pull his groin/thigh/calf/cock and be out until Christmas.

I'm with you there, BB. When Preece arrived, he was a crock of shit. When he left, many of us had warmed to him because he developed into a handy keeper. When Clangfield arrived, NONE of us were happy. Yet, a couple of years on and he produced one of the best goalkeeping displays we've seen from an Aberdeen goalkeeper for many a moon to keep Dnipro at bay. There's no doubt that he's been given absolute shite to work with over the years. However, Bandy Jim has managed to polish a few turds along the way ... given time. Sandy, though? He's done fuckall. I'd rather see someone like Scott Booth, Duncan Shearer or Craig Brewster hired as a striker coach

Still a cock though. I met him in some (cough) wine bar off Golden Square a few years ago. Arrogant piece of crap of the second-highest order. The article itself, though, is pretty much exactly how I feel. Why do we have to give him til Xmas? What's the point in that. We've been cursing Calderwood since February. Since then, we gutlessly got dumped out of the Scottish Cup, League Cup (twice), scraped into top six on the final day before the split. He also said "we need at least ten new players to be able to compete next season". He's still only on nine so, by his own estimations, he's working with a smaller and weaker squad than last year. In his favour ... he has stabilised us. No more guaranteed thrashings from the ugly sisters. And some of the players he's signed have been of a high standard - Severin, Nicholson, Mulgrew, Miller, Brewster, Jamie Smith, Aluko, Ferne Snoyle, Noel Whelan ... If these guys were our team, I don't think any of us would complain at all. However, one of the most irritating things is that he then goes out and gives the likes of Maguire and Foster new lucrative contracts, and then signs shite like Bus, Mair, Duff, Soutar, Bossu and Hodgkiss (a player he didn't even know existed until the loan contract was finalised!). JC has been below par for a lot longer than just six matches. He's been below par since he signed his new contract. He has taken Aberdeen as far as he can. Thankyou Jimmy for bringing a bit of respectability back to Aberdeen Football Club. For that, I take my hat off to you. Now, though, we want more. You are not the man to give us more. Therefore, your time is up.

WTF? Keevins at his best, as per usual. Where in this article does Jimmy say he's despised because he's Glaswegian? When have we ever said that? We despise him because of his crazy tactical choices. We despise him because he'd rather give chances to the guys who are a little bit way and a little bit wow in the dressing room, rather than favouring the guys who have genuine talent. We despise him because of his decision to play an untested keeper in a cup match against one of the SPL's form teams. Incase it had escaped Keevins, the most successful Aberdeen manager of all time is proud to call himself a Govan loon. Wisen the fuck up, Keevins. We couldn't give a fuck where a player or manager is from ... so long as they give their all for Aberdeen.

I see a worrying trend. The more illegible your signature, the worse a keeper you are. There's no fuckin way any of those three signatures say either Bossu, Soutar or Esson. That last signature of Esson's actually looks more like a first-draft Rofaroo.

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