Reekie_Red

Mate, the biggest problem we face is Norway has a HUGE tax rate, like around 50% income tax or something like that. The councils pay for everything that the public need, including health, transport, education ... hell, they even pay to build football stadiums with the tax-payers money. The UK could do this, but the UK is full of whingers and NIMBYs who are so used to complaining and complaining until they get their own way. Can you imagine the NIMBYs paying 50+% tax? "So that you ruffyans can have a football stadium?? Not on my watch!" Yes, we have similar people, cultures and revenues. But we've got a comletely different mindframe when it comes to us paying tax. The Brits are hell-bent on taxcuts taxcuts and more taxcuts. And when the government make a tax-cut, it's never enough. That's why Norway's model will never ever work in Scotland.

Stavrum was our last 20+ goalscorer. Before that, I think it was Doddsy. Before that ... Shearer? Okay, that's three strikers in fifteen YEARS that have cut the mustard. I hope to fuck that Wright is all he's cracked up to be. Cos I can't imagine Mackie and Bebo to get the lion's share of those 30 goals. For all his huff and puff, I can still see Mackie scoring no more than 6 goals this season. He'll play in over 40 matches this season, but will score no more than 6 goals ... I'll hedge my bets on that figure. If he scores more, good on him. If not, time to say bubye Darren! You've had ten years to show us what you can do. When are you gonna prove to us that you are the striker you say you are?

Okay, I say they can have their £1000 per match. However, this is on the understanding that a committee of video referees gets to watch the match afterwards and, for every mistake the ref makes during that match, the ref loses £100. McCurry would be in debt VERY VERY quickly.

Players out: Jackie McNamara (Falkirk), Derek Soutar (released), Dave Bus (Go Ahead Eagles), Dan Smith, Richie Byrne (both released) Although I'm a wee bit worried by the lack of inbound players, the above list of outbound brings a wry smile to my face. Glad to see the back of these guys in particular. Now, who's interested in buying Darren Mackie?

There's been a few. * Singing "Fuck Martin O'Neill, fuck Martin O'Neill" for about ten minutes into my mate's answerphone after the 2-0 win over Celtic at Pittodrie 2001. * Same game, the snowballs. Petrov was a greetin bairn, but the best was when Alan Thompson looked up and did a "bring it on" gesture to Section Y ... to which a ton of snow was "brought on" by the Red Army in his general direction. * Preseason tour of Denmark - applauding Zerouali when he was heading for the team bus following the final game. He got sent off for sticking the Vs up to the ref, so we all stuck the Vs up to him and he cracked up laughing * Almondvale 2002 - Eugene Dadi feels what it's like to have the boot on the other foot when the entire travelling red army sang with venom "who the, who the, who the fuck is Dadi" * 3-2 win over the huns - what a Roy Of The Rovers match that was! We go 2-0 up. They claw it back to 2-2. Then PRicksen gets sent off. Then we go and score the winning goal from an absolutely sublime Jamie Smith strike! That was one of the most perfect games of football I've seen the Dons play in recent years. It had everything in it!!

What an absolute piece of straw-clutching shite! No wonder it's in the News Of The World. Only thing that paper is good for is wrapping a fish-supper (even then it tends to taint the taste of the food inside). His article is about the 1983 Cup Winners Cup team. Note, 1983!! Why the fuck does he then go on to mention an Aberdeen team from 1980, and then the one from 1984 in the same breath? He reckons the Bayern Munich team we faced was a lot weaker than the Bayern Munich that Rangers faced. Who cares? It was Real Madrid that we beat to WIN the cup, you fuckwit! No mention of that.

This video is doing my fuckin head in. I click on play, wait for about a minute, then it plays the first four seconds nice ans smoothly. The rest of it, though, is just still-shots but with sound. Been trying for half an hour to get this to work. My connection speed ain't the issue. And the version of IE I'm using ain't a problem either. Anyone downloaded the video yet? Anyone got an alternative download link so that I can actually watch it?

Exactly! He knew fine he was well past his best. He'd had his best days with the Dons many years before he moved to Iprix. I salute him because, when he was a Dandy he gave his all for the Red cause. When he moved to Iprix, he cost the huns a fortune in wages and did just about the square-root of fuckall on the park for them

Did Theo actually play any games for the huns first team? From what I remember, he signed for them, sat in their reserves for three or four years and collected a very tidy sum for doing absolutely fuckall. Still a legend in my eyes!

Does Charlie get journalistism tips from the Daily Mail? He fails to quote anyone as saying that Camero will not get a deal. But somehow, that is the sub-headline!!

My lasting memory of Theo was 1992. I went to see Del Amitri at the Capitol Theatre. The entire Aberdeen first team was there on the other side of the gangway. They were all pretty boisterous, in particular Theo and Big Eck. For almost the entire gig, Theo proceeded to sit on the back of his chair with his feet on the seat itself. Eversooften, he'd slam the seat from sitting position to upright instead of clapping.

Hmmm. I'll take a look. Nothing's been changed on a configuration level. I know the guy who owns our server was looking to upgrade the memory on the server reasonably soon. Wonder if this had anything to do with it

An elderly woman stopped me the other day because I'd parked my car in a handicapped space. She started moaning cos I was a perfectly able person taking up a space. She said "if you're going to park there, young man, you'd better tell me what your disability is or I'll have you reported to the local constabulary" to which I replied: "Tourette's Syndrome, you bitchy fuckin cunt"

Goram was good. He singlehandedly saved Rangers' dirty asses on a number of occasions in the mid 90s. It was good to see two of the world's best keepers vying for Scotland's number1 jersey. But there's no way he was even close to Leighton in terms of brilliance.

Using bloo's analogy, I'm assuming that Man Utd was the preverbial marathon. I wouldn't expect us to win that with no preparation. But sticking with yer analogy, surely Peterhead should be classed as a one-lap jog around the park. We clearly failed to do that! 4-0?? That's a shocking result for any SPL club, nevermind one that's gunning for a top-four position this term.

Well, I dunno. When Preece arrived, he was shockingly poor. But by the time he left, he was a pretty decent keeper. Esson was and still is shit. But one thing that he has developed well over the years is his ability as an effective shot-stopper. Leighton couldn't do anything with Kjaer, cos lets face it Kjaer is the best keeper we've had since the Bandy retired. But all the other keepers have learned a shit-load from Scotland's Number 1

Anyone who remembers him from his Dundee days will know that, with the right players around him, he WILL do damage. I fear that someone like Hibs or Falkirk will snap him up and he will really really punish us.

I know I'm in a minority, but I still think this is a bad bad move from us. He's lethal when he's given a chance. Easily the most clinical striker we have on our books BAR NONE! He's gonna haunt us BIG STYLE!!!!!!!

Agreed, Bobby. Just because this topic has been brought up before, doesn't mean we're not allowed to bring it up again. Fact of the matter is, time and time again the topic of Mackie being as much use as a chocolate fireguard has been brought up. Yet, the fucker is still on our books! He's not a striker. He's not a footballer! He's an athlete who can (once upon a time) run pretty fast. With the amount of chances that boy has had each time he plays, he should be into the 20s each season! To me, he's the last piece of the poison that brought Aberdeen to its knees in the early 2000s. We got rid of the likes of the Young brothers (albeit we took one back), Ryan Esson, Kevin Rutkiepish, Jamie McAllister, etc. These boys were a cancer upon AFC, as all of them just sat on a pretty decent wage and did next to fuck all because they were local loons who thought they were big fish in small ponds. They were more about the Saturday night on the town than the Saturday afternoon on the pitch. We managed to weed them all out, except for Mackie. It's about time we got rid of him. I'm certain Inverness, Killie or Dundee would love to grab him for their squads. They're welcome to him, as far as I'm concerned.

Dunno much about this Lescinel chap, apart from a couple of things: (1) When he turned up for Falkirk, he was pretty solid and decent (2) He kept going AWOL at Falkirk ... firstly when he buggered off to a funeral in France without telling anyone at Falkirk, and then secondly when he failed to turn up to a meeting with the manager to discuss a permanent deal. Bit of a worry that we've got a wanderer on our hands here. But if he's more solidly built than yer average paper-weight Ricky Foster, then I'll at least be a wee bit happy

And to think there was a time we could sit 1-0 down with five minutes to go against ANY Scottish Premier team. We could look to the bench and see Duncan Shearer and Dean Windass sitting there, scratching their nads. We could call either one onto the pitch, and there was a strong likelihood that we'd WIN the match. Cannae say that about any of our subs these days. I certainly would never say that about Mackie! He had his golden year in the 2001/02 season. We should've flogged him the following season when Cardiff came a-knocking.

A bit mouthy at times which can get him intae trouble wi' the ref. But he has a crackin right-foot on him. He scored more goals vs Danish team Farum than Aberdeen did!

Could be Eddie Thompson for all I care. At least he'd splash the cash, lol

Agreed, GS. In that cup semi against the huns, Jess was all over the huns, taking the piss out of Gazza et al. Why? Because Bernard had such control of the midfield that Jess had both the time and the space to display his talents. I've still got very very fond memories of Colin Cameron's "Comeback Match" at Tynecastle in February 1999. It was all over the back pages of the Evening News for weeks how Cameron was going to destroy the Dons on his comeback. They cleanly failed to realise that this match was also Bernard's comeback match. Bernard completely stole the show and outclassed every player on the park, with probably the only exception being Thomas Flogel. From memory, Bernard scored the first of two goals. If it weren't for the hype the loon got in the days building up to this match, I wouldn't have known that Cameron had even played in that match.

Yep. There was an issue with our URL redirection process at our domain name registrar who, if you've visited us in the past 48 hours, you'll know are 123-reg.co.uk. It should be all sorted now. But any changes we make to the domain registration generally take 48 hours to populate throughout the world, depending on how often your Internet Service Provider updates their Domain Name Servers. Should be all good now, though