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Yep. Good idea. I know it's possible to do as well. Just gotta figure out how to do it

Haha. This would actually reverse the request from last summer's close-season alterations. Last year, we had the suggestion to only quote a single message, instead of quoting what everybody had said previously. This came about because some messages were becoming absolutely huge in their size purely because of the amount of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes that showed before the actual message

I know how to score goals. Doesn't mean that I CAN score goals! Same principle applies to Duff, Jimmy!

I added them the day they were announced! You might want to do a internet cache refresh on your computer

Eddie Turnbull did a mass clearout of a very established squad when he arrived. This succeeded in weeding out a sense of comfort and happy-with-mediocrity at Pittodrie, and started the path that eventually led to giving Alex Ferguson the basis of a squad with which to build his championship side. Question is ... will Calderwood bite the bullet and get rid of the likes of Mair, Foster, Mackie and Duff?

Based on the default theme, but it's all our own CSS.

I know we seem to bring this topic up every close-season. But what would people like to see on DonsTalk? Is there something that needs improving? Something that needs changing? Should we stop doing something? Should we start doing something? Should we leave things the way they are? Have your say here, and you might just see your idea appearing next season.

I thought that also. I have a contract with my current employer. Be fucked if I can remember where it is, nevermind carrying it around so that I can rip it up at a convenient moment.

Aye, but do you mind Northsound's commentary. McDiarmid: "And it's another disastrous goal for Dundee!" Shinie: "There's no way we should be letting goals in against teams like this!"

Has Bartez retired yet? He'd surely boost the numbers at Pittodrie ... a la Champagne Charlie. Give us a big name (regardless of age) and the crowds will come to see him. Someone like Bartez would be loved at Aberdeen

Maybe he should consider changing his preferred position. Gattuso refused to believe he was a defender when Dick told him he was. But Gattuso has gone on to be one of Italy's most consistent defenders. Now, I'm not placing Gattuso and Foster in the same league, cos let's face it ... Foster would win hands down, cos he's a laugh in the dressing room. But perhaps he needs to be told he is a defender. Much like Willie Miller being told he was not a striker!

Hmmm interesting. Wonder if De Visscher has alerted Jimmy to Postma's ability and availability. Was it Villa who bought him for $2million or something like that a couple of seasons ago???

Perhaps not. But maybe running a few incentives. Remember the two-for-one deal a few seasons ago? It ended up in our biggest crowd of the season being a mid-season league game vs St Johnstone. We need to generate some sort of interest in the game again. Inviting new fans to pittodrie might be a way of doing this, just as it was for the St Johnstone match.

What's even more surprising is that Bus and Duff still have more votes each than McNamara. Bye bye, Jackie!

There's good pies in Stonehaven? Where??? Robertson's Bakery does okay pies. Everywhere else does those shitey rubbery scotch pies that you get at Pittodrie.

Wish we could've got Schmeichel when we first looked at him a year ago. We said nah. He went to Man City. And he produced some phenomenal displays for them. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with him in goals than either Bonny or Soapy.

Potential that the England setup can see ... but clearly JC cannot.

Agreed. When we signed McNamara, I was thinking that he would be an ideal replacement for Anderson in terms of experience and ability. Oh how I was wrong. All the experience and ability count for jack shit when you don't have the hunger or desire to apply your full potential ... or even half of your potential! McNamara's probably been the most disappointing signing we've made in a long long time (maybe Lovell is on a par), primarily due to the ability we all know he has, compared to the product we've received from him.

Can't believe this! The first two posts I read in this thread have seen a seething pain shoot up my arm! I'd rather inject ink into my eyeball than read those two posts again!! Darren Young, Ryan Esson, Scott Wilson AND Jackie McNamara? Does Jimmy actually want any fans to follow the Dons next season? If this is the caliber of players he's looking at, he might as well leave right now. I'd rather have Jim Jeffries' bumchum club of players playing for us than JC's lot. At least there's a few decent players in Jeffries chummy squad. Darren Young? RYAN ESSON ??? :hammer: :hammer: I might have to find something else to do with my spare time than following the Dons. Hell, I'd rather watch cricket than follow a team that has Ryan Esson AND Darren Young in it.

... and a Tim has ANYTHING to gloat about this season? Fuckin glass houses, and all that!

Might as well hire Ken Dod. I mean, he'd be a good laugh in the dressing room. And we've already proven that we've got enough Diddy Men out on the field.

I really hope McNamara pops onto DonsTalk now and then. Maybe seeing that Duff and Mair have more votes than him will make him realise that he might be best to just stay in Edinburgh for the rest of the season. Probably best for all parties involved if he just doesn't bother with his daily drive up the M/A90. You're not at Ra Shellick now, Jackie!

There's only two things left for JC to do: 1) a mass cull of the playing squad in the hope that a fresh squad will have the drive and determination to get us back into Europe for 09/10 2) Leave. Whilst he's got an ounce of dignity in him, perhaps he should cut his losses and leave. He's clearly got what it takes to get Aberdeen up to where they should be. But he clearly doesn't have what it takes to KEEP us there. Maybe last season we were punching above our weight. But JC should've built on last season's squad to ensure that a team who were punching above their weight were more heavyweight this term, and could stand firm to the task of being the country's third-top side. Instead, his critical failing is to fail to replace the one man who helped lead his team into Europe - Russell Anderson. I thought he'd done this by signing Jackie McNamara. It's obvious that Jackie just ain't up to the task of leading the defence. But the critical failure is in the fact that it's taken JC an entire season to realise this. Infact, has he realised it yet?

Bravo to that. I mean, it doesn't have to be anyone fancy. So long as they show a bit of heart and a bit of determination, that'll do for many of us. I mean, Paul Sheerin caught our collective imaginations for half a season!!!! The majority of us were a bit miffed that Tosh left us. Right now I'd rather we had Tosh and Sheerin than the big names of Severin and McNamara.

You can spray as much cologne onto a dogshite as you like. Doesn't matter how nice it smells in the end, it's still a dogshite!