Reekie_Red

Agreed. It's all very well having the best strikers that Bosman-rules can buy. But even Henry would struggle with the lack of supply our strikers get. We've got Smith and Nicholson in the attacking midfield roles (and probably this new chappy De Visscher too, but I will reserve judgment until he's played a game for us). But when either of these two attacking midfielders is injured, we are left with next to nothing that can feed our strikers the kind of quality balls that they need to get goals with. We need a player like Jess who can take the ball from the midfield and create something upfront that the strikers can develop into a chance. I ain't saying sign Jess, cos he's retired now. But someone LIKE him.

I would say I'm gutted that he's not signed for us ... but let's be honest, none of us were really overwhelmed with excitement about this potential signing, were we? There's still a long way to go until the transfer window closes. Does this mean that there is now a free berth for a new player? Perhaps time to move in for the kill and get either Watford's Richard Lee or Man City's Kasper Schmeichel up here and make moves to punt Clanger for whatever cash we can get for him.

Haha! Nicolas Fabiano!!! I actually thought he was a decent player who never got the chance he deserved. I thought he was a bloody effective winger. We started to see what he was capable in a match at Fir Park ... it may well have been his final match for us, I can't remember. Eric Deloumeaux stole the show with two goals and an amazing performance, and Roberto Bisconti was nailing every player that dared to steal possession from him. Shit, even Patricio Billio was rattling the woodwork from what seemed like 84 yards out! But Fabiano played the first half, and I thought he was a bloody effective winger. Skipped past Motherwell's band of hackers, bullies and tykes with ease, until some unknown wanker in an amber'n'claret strip, who clearly learned all his demolition skills from the master (Terry Butcher), brought him down and he had to limp off. I liked Fabiano, and reckon he just didn't really fit in with the AFC clique that was evident in those days.

Hopefully the only one is "if I'm any good, I can listen to any offers over £3million"

All we need to do is get rid of Bonny Clangfield. With the huns sniffing around for a bargain, I say sell him at whatever price we can get for him. If he starts any matches next season, he'll get absolute dog's abuse from the red army ... to the point that Darren Mackie, Ricky Foster, Scott Manurehead, Jamie McQuilken, Bryan Prunty, Derek Young, David Zdrillic, Tommy Solberg, John Inglis, Tzanko Tzvetanov, Nicky Walker and all our previous scapegoats will begin to feel sorry for him.

What, you mean like Ireland's Celtic fans ... I mean Celtic's Ireland fans ... I mean ... same thing really! Fact of the matter is thousands upon thousands fly from Dublin to Glasgow each fortnight to watch Celtic, whilst teams like Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians play infront of piss-poor crowds.

Being honest, I think there's only one person in this thread who thinks he isn't good enough. Everyone else is singing his praises

Definitely need to improve. Although I never saw any of the matches with my own eyes, I did see most of them in video form either on YouTube or other means. And one thing that struck me was that, for once, we really had the rub of the green in a number of last season's matches. There was quite a few matches that we shouldn't have taken anything from ... but as luck would have it, we took all three points! I believe away to Killie, Hibs and Motherwell were examples. Our inconsistencies eventually caught up on us with the two matches against United that we lost convincingly. We've got a strong squad, yes. But we need to become more consistent. Injuries were our biggest downfall last season. Injuries to the likes of Smith, Touzani and Nicholson at the wrong times were very noticeable! If we can stay relatively injury-free, then I think there's no reason why we shouldn't end up in the top four AT LEAST

I see we're looking more likely to go in for Watford's now-2nd-choice keeper Richard Lee. He's only been ousted as #1 because Watford have just signed Estonian internationalist Mart Poom, and according to Vital Football, JimmyC is sniffing around. Apparently the Watford fans really rate Lee, and he wants out as he firmly believes that he should NOT be on the bench. I like that attitude!!

Aye, I did like Leon Mike. I think it was more for the cult following he attracted. And this cult following has fuckall to do with his ability ... it was more the fact that he was our first signing in about 18 months or something like that. He was a very powerfully built striker too, and I reckon he could've been quite handy given the right coaching. But, as is the case with many Dons fans, I think my vision was blurred and I believed we had an okay team back then. In actualy fact, we had an absolute rank-rotten team back then, and Mike was a mediocre player in a shite team.

No. So long as there is at least the same level of performance in the league. If there is a poor showing in the cups again, and our league positioning DROPS, then there could be pressure from Che Willie to get results sorted. But I think Jimmy is pretty safe in the job, as he's proven that he can make our squad and league-positions improve year upon year. I'd expect us to do much better in the cups. I ain't saying win them, but at least one semi-final would be an improvement.

Okay, headline stuff now: When we sign him, the headline will be "Aberdeen Get The Fik, Aberdeen Aberdeen Get The Fik" When he scores his first hattrick for us, it'll be "Dutch wizard gives Gers the Fik" And in a decade's time, the caption competition in the EE will be "What the Fik happened?"

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 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

Only improvement's a final? That's the words of a 90s Dons fan! We need to keep the hunger for success going at Pittodrie. I can't believe it's only been a couple of years since we were cheering on folk like Paul Sheerin, Leon Mike and believing that simply getting close to the Top Six was regarded as success. We were short of protesting at the front gates this season if anything lower than 3rd-place wasn't achieved by the end of the season! I like it!!! I firmly believe that, with the rather shite quality of signings from Rangers, and them losing a couple of VERY influential players (Prso for one!), 2nd place is definitely not out of the question. With Langfield being our only regular first-teamer from the 06/07 season who WON'T be pulling on the Aberdeen jersey in the 07/08 season, and defensive wing and attacking wing both being strengthened, I reckon we've got what it takes to finish SECOND next season. We just need to iron out those niggles like "not being up for the cup" games ... and our team actually turning up to matches against Dundee Utd.

Done!

Barthez! Now there's an idea! That'd certainly be a way of bringing the punters in in their droves. He'd probably be the most exciting player that we would sign since Champagne Charlie Nic. He'd be a more accomplished goalkeeper-cum-striker than Robbie Winters ever was too!!! I say sign him. If we did, I might even make the trip back to Scotland more often to see the Dons knowing he's playing.

Shite how this has turned out though. He was supposedly the best thing to emerge from the Pittodrie youth conveyor belt since Eoin Jess. Hope the lad does well, but I sincerely reckon he's got a bit of an attitude problem as he clearly couldnae be arse lifting his game for our reserves side.

By crikey!!! The EE are giving away a free cup of coffee??!!! Bloody hell!! Broken the bank on that promo, haven't they?!!

From what I can gather from the numerous reports in differing newspapers, he was saying something derrogatory about JC & JN whilst in Magaluf on his stag night. JC's villa is not in Magaluf, but word wormed its way to JC via several sources and he wasn't happy. When asked about it, Langfield basically confirmed what he said by apologising and using the excuse of "it was my stag night, I was pissed! Don't tell me you've not said something you've regretted when you were drunk". It must've been something REALLY REALLY bad if he's been chucked on the scrapheap! Especially since Calderwood rates Langfield so highly

Hmmmm, could do! I feel Calderwood would rather get a permanent replacement in. And with us having fuckall in the bank to spend on transfer fees, that pretty much limits us. I had a wee check on all keepers available on a free around Scotland and England, and this is the list I came up with: Rob Burch (Eng) - Tottenham Hotspur Michael Oakes (Eng) - Wolverhampton Wanderers Mark Crossley (Wal) - Fulham Nathan Abbey (Eng) - Brentford Josh Clapham (Eng) - Plymouth Argyle Stuart Nelson (Eng) - Brentford Laurence Matthewson (Eng) - Manchester City Tony Bullock (Eng) - St Mirren Jeroen Lambers (Ned) - Falkirk Hmmmmm. Not much to choose from really! Burch and Oakes are the only names I really recognise there ... and even then I only know of Oakes cos I used his name as an April Fools signing a few years ago on DandyDons.co.uk. You know .. Oakes ... sounds like Hoax! Perhaps a loan signing is the way to go, unless we look to the continent. Maybe we can pick up a keeper when we're over in Egypt.

If he's the best keeper in Scotland aftter Gordon, then the Scottish national team are royally fucked! I suppose we've got a habit of signing crap keepers with a reputation that's bigger than their ability ... of course I refer to Nicky Walker! Oh yeah, don't even talk to me about Tony Warner!!!!!! But after reading a number of articles regarding the issue, it would appear that JC/JN were not bothered about him being out on his stag night. It was the fact that he apparently said a few very distasteful things about JC & JN, and these words wormed their way back to Calderwood and Nicholl. Needless to say, Langfield's obviously said something sour about Calderwood and Nicholl because, even after apologising, JC has told him to gettae! I'm just very very wary of the fact that there is now a GLARING hole in our team ... goalkeeper. I've not seen Soutar with my own eyes in a Dons top. But I remember him from years ago, and must admit he was the worst keeper I've seen since Nick Colgan. So what now for our keeping-connundrum? Would bringing someone like Preecey back be an option? Or should we just forget about the keepers we know of and look in England and on the continent for someone else? I'm sure Calderwood wouldn't have told Bonny Langfield to gettae without having a backup plan in mind. In a way, I'm kind of glad Jimmy's made an example of Langfield. Kind of tells the rest of the squad that the Dons mean business and will put up with no shite

Is McNamara a suitable replacement? I know he's captained Ra Shellick and all that guff, but he's more suited on either one of the defensive flanks. Russell's a central defender! Have we got adequate cover in the centre if he does decide to have a crack at the big time? Is it about time Diamond finally came of age, dropped his immature side and became the player he was tipped to become some three years ago?

Was it Mido that was Egyptian then? I definitely had one player in Champ Manager a few years ago that was Egyptian ... and I'm sure he was one of those "One Name" Players.

Apparently it was his choice to go amateur whilst he sorted some family stuff out. I'm interested to see what he's got to offer. As MBT suggests, strength in depth and all that. Surely he cannae be as bad as Winter.

True. But you can't blame Russell for wondering what life is like in the Premiership! I actually wouldn't mind him going to the Premiership for two or three years and then coming back to us. It could help him iron out those occasional hiccups he has on the field and make him into the ULTIMATE defender. But then again, can our defence survive a couple of seasons without him?