Reekie_Red

Half-empty attitude, min! To belittle the UEFA Cup and SPL because we ain't gonna win it is ridiculous. If that's the case, the UEFA Cup might as well start at the last 16 ... cos the previous rounds are just a waste of time. And the SPL? Might as well have a one-off match at the beginning of the season between Rangers and Celtic, where the winner gets that season's title. There's a hell of a lot more to a competition than just winning it! Celtic are in the Champions League. Who the hell thinks they are honestly going to win it this side of the year 4000??? But at least they're there!!!! Just like we are in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup. Hell, a few years ago I wouldn't have given 32-1 odds of us winning the CIS Cup, nevermind the UEFA Cup! But hey, those are now our odds!!!! And the SPL? Whilst the league title may be ever so slightly out of our grasp this season, who's to say we cannot get third place and have another season full of glorious trips to Madrid and Munich?? Look again at your beer glass, min. It's actually half-full if you look at it from our perspective!!

It's nae like any football gets played on the Tynecastle pitch these days anyway!!

Trying to think of the last striker we had who had a bullyish physical presence about them. And no I ain't talking about the cat scratches that Berra got from Lee Miller. I'm talking about a no-nonsense striker who does one job and one job good ... smashing his way into the box and taking a few bruises in the process. Am I seriously looking all the way back to Big Dunc? Surely we must've had this sorta striker since then?!

Jess hung up his boots two years ago, didn't he? He belongs in the North-East, and it's only a matter of time before he returns tae "Grumpian".

Aww jeez min. Get wi' the times. Talk aboot finger on the pulse! Or not as the case may be! Been livin under a rock for a whiley, min?? Abiddy kens fit a habbo is. ... a little help here? Fit the fuck is a Habbo? I see adverts for it all the time. Fit the fuck is a Habbo?

I reckon the bus operators should crack down harsh. They're pretty quick to clamp down on people lighting up on public buses. And they can be pretty friggin scary too when telling someone to put their fags out. Same should apply for roudy fans who have sneaked booze onto the buses. Sure, the odd tinny quietly is no problem. But when you get idiots jumping around the bus and causing concern to the driver, he should have the balls to tell that supporters club that there will be a fine involved if the driver needs to get involved.

No doubt it'll be announced that Mackie is back in action after his long layoff, which the management always say is "as good as a new signing"

I'd rather we had too much football than too little. Despite all the "glitter on a turd" comments, we're still in with a shout in ALL the competitions that we were in at the start of the season. How many clubs in Scotland can say that?

Who chooses the fans' rep anyway? I mean, I've nae seen any of the reps since Alan Duncan was the rep. But I didn't meet a single person who liked Alan Duncan. Only decent thing he did was gie us a crackin song to sing when he and Keith Wyness were almost cuddling each other in the promo to have huns and reds mingling in the same stand! "Who's that sitting at Pittodrie? Who's that sittin on the floor Looks like Alan Duncan tae me, with Keith Wyness on his knee Oh Claire won't be getting it any more!" Fans' reps are consistently wankers who couldnae gie a flying fuck what the fans think. Only one I ever knew who gave a toss was Chris Gavin.

We only get paid if you click on the ads. Fit's wrong wi the adverts on here anyway? Just do fit i do now and then, and go on a clicking frenzy for about 20 minutes a month.

Hehe, I was gonna say Cato Guntveit.

There he is!

Anybody ken fit the fee will be that we receive fae Preston? Cannae find it anywhere. Everywhere's saying "fee agreed", but nobody says how much

Drew must've seen him a few times, having played for Toronto FC. Drew, fit's the loon like?

I saw Scott Wilson in Edinburgh near the old Honeycombe night a few years ago. I saw him, shouted "HUN FUCK" and couldnae see him for the dust trail he left behind. That cunt better nae sign for us

Stability? If there's one team we RRRRRREALLY need to be beating, it's United. It's all very well beating the Smurrens, Invernesses and Falkirks. But the one fixture outside the Rangers matches that captures the Red Army's imagination is the United match at Tannalice. There's something really special about that match that has the dandies headin down the road in their thousands for this fixture. To lose two on the bounce so convincingly is sore! And I think there'll be a lot of fans looking at the league matches coming up and saying "ach, I'll miss this one cos we'll probably lose it anyway. I'll save my money for the cup and Euro ties". And THAT is where it will sting the club in the coffers. To be so boring in the league matches is fatal from our point of view. Matches against Bayern will always be sellouts regardless of how we are fairing. But the league attendances (our bread and butter) are really gonna suffer with results like the one this weekend.

Yeah, but if what I've read is true, part of his new contract with the Dons was a clause basically saying the Dons cannot fire him if things take a turn for the worst this season. Fuck, that's basically him sweet for the remainder of the season. He can do what he wants. And then if we want to fire him for going ten games without a goal or a point or a clue, then we have to wait for next season. And then he's tied up for three years afterwards, so there's the good ol' release clause that sees us fork out another mill to ditch another useless manager. The United match is not the whole story. The United match is just the weight that finally tipped the scales for me. I've had enough of the "Boring Dons" headlines, and the "too many of our boys didn't show up today" quotes. How many of these headlines and quotes do we have to read before Calderwood actually does something about it? Willie, time to ditch yer loyalties to yer mate. If McGhee is willing to listen to the SFA about the Scotland job, I reckon he could be tempted by the Aberdeen job. McGhee excites me! Caldo does not.

True. I've sat and watched the Hyundai A-League quite a few times this season. I'm quite shocked at how bad some of the matches really are! If that's supposed to be Australia and New Zealand's best, then the SPL ain't so bad afterall. Honestly, I've seen better stuff going on down at Mineralwell Park in Stoney! That's the fucker!! Chris Katongo

... and then there's our glorious tie-up with Melbourne, or was it Brisbane? Or perhaps it was Perth? Keith Wyness used his contacts in Australia from his "Olympic Company" days to foster ties to bring Australia's best talent over here. Who did we get? David Friggin Zdrillic. If that's Australia's best ... how come they made the World Cup finals and we didnae??? Melbourne? Paff!! Brisbane? Haevers!!! Perth? Dinnae make me laugh! We might as well have official ties with the Rabbit Flat Creek in Aussie's Northern Territory. Cos that tie produced the square root of fuckall for us. Whatever did happen to "Captain Africa", thon chappy who demanded that we sign him or he'd take his services elsewhere? You remember, the guy who seemed to play for every team we faced in our South African pre-season? The guy who couldnae afford an agent so just used himself as his own agent? The guy who whored himself to us, Dundee Utd, Livingston and Luton Town? I still think he's looking for a club ... but I cannae find his name

Just read this on TribalFootball Anybody know anything about this loon?

All very well. But Hibs are now running at a complete profit! They have NO debt. This is a direct result of them selling their best assets for ten times their value! Us? We're the first non-Old Firm side to see European football past Christmas in God know's how long. But all the financial benefits from our most successful season in aaaaaaaaaaaages will still mean squat when we are still in the red and still servicing a huge debt. We desperately need a spin-doctor at Pittodrie who can up the value of our players using words alone. I'm of no doubt that the likes of Hart and Anderson are inifinitely better players than Murphy. Yet I was gutted when Anderson went for 1million. He was a player that we did NOT want to lose, a huge Aberdeen fan, and by a long long way our most consistent player. Yet we lost him for 1million. When Brown left for Ra Shellick, he didn't want to be at Hibs. Hibs didn't want him. And Hibs fans didn't even rate him as their best player. Yet how much did he and his mate go for? And don't even get me started on Craig Gordon. Yeah he's good. But 9million good? When we were looking to offload Langfield to Rangers, we were hoping for a ballpark figure of around 150k for him. For all his mistakes, I'd probably rate Langfield in the top three keepers currently playing in Scotland ... perhaps top two after his display against Dnipro. If both JC and WM have stated that we now need to be a selling club in order to operate at a profit, surely we should start actually SELLING our players instead of giving them away (a la Hart). We should not be waiting until 5 months before a player's contract is due to expire before we start talking to them. We should be speaking to them AT LEAST a year before their contract runs out. That way, if they do not sign a contract extension, we can place them on the market without fear of them signing a pre-contract agreement or losing them to the Bosman ruling in the summer.

You'd look twice yer own age too if you'd been forced to live and work in Dundee since 1999!

But he already charged about and gave 100% in his initial stint with us. Of that there was no doubt. But it wasn't his commitment and effort that made us nae too fussed to lose him. It was more the fact that, no matter how much effort he put into his game, he was still lacking in the quality required to play for AberdeenFC.

Is this the same Chris Clark who, during our 3-2 win over Rangers a couple of years ago, was in full knowledge that Rangers had just clawed back a two-goal deficit to draw level and looked the more capable side of scoring? We had a rare counter-attack and had men flooding forwards into the box. He had a choice of about five open players to pass to so, in his infinite wisdom, he punts the ball into the Main Stand thus conceding possession back to Rangers. Maybe Sturrock is getting CC mixed up with ZZ or Cisse, cos I'm one of many many Dons fans glad to see the back of Chris Clark. Only thing is, who is JC gonna pick first in the team now?

This is the best news I've heard since Dunfermline took BOTH Young brothers off our hands