Reekie_Red

Probably released that statement cos he doesn't have to face the fans every week. I mean, let's face it. If you were a Pars fan, would you be passionate about your club? Passionate enough to stand outside the club doors protesting when things keep going wrong? Stand outside the club doors when a manager gets sacked to see what's the latest? I mind when heaps of fans were camped (oo-err) outside the main doors of Pittodrie when Ebbe left. Eventually, Dazzling Darren was given the task of reading out the 'official' press statement, cos all the other players kept saying different things as they left. Bet he's glad he doesn't have to do that sorta stuff now! Let's face it, Pars fans winnae protest, cos Pars fans dinnae care. Enjoy Division One, Darren. Yer brother's found his level there. Maybe you should too.

Welcome back min. Hey, btw ... just for old time's sake ... wrong forum, min!

Could be a good new nickname for the hatters ... "Woolworths" Hemin, fits the latest on Woolies?

Statistics and miniskirts, eh?! Wouldn't it be cool being Dunfermline? Only losing two games throughout the whole season against every single club except Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Motherw.... We see this statistic appearing every season in recent times. Sad thing is, this doesn't mean jackshit because, unfortunately for us, this league contains Rangers and Celtic ... the two teams who we have failed to get any change from this season. If we'd managed to raise our game against these two teams like we did last term, then we might not be trying our best to brush Hearts off our shoulders. Indeed, we'd be looking far far towards the horizon and seeing a feint maroon glow way far back in 4th place! Hey, we could even still be sitting proudly in SECOND!!

Why not? It'd increase revenue from increased attendances in the bottom-half of the SPL. Currently, a match between S'murn and Dunfermline on the last few weeks of the season will attract three old fellas and one canine companion. But imagine what a playoff between S'murn and Dundee would attract ... with the KNOWLEDGE that the winner of the match would go up, and the loser would go down?!! Not only do the SPL and SFL benefit from this ... but both the winning and losing teams benefit from a day of having a higher-than-average attendance. Yeah, I know there's the slight issue of one of the teams going down ... but surely that's got to be part and parcel of having a shit season. At the moment, if you have a shit season, you've got an 11-in-12 chance of staying in the top flight. Stupid, really!!

How do you score a point in football? Is this an American thing? Or are we really, as I had suspected, not looking at an American FOOTBALL player, but instead are looking at an AMERICAN Football player (of the gridiron flavour)?

What is it with that magic FOUR-OH that seems to attract Aberdeen FC to old players? We boast all the time about the youthfulness of our squad. Then we go and sign folk who have seen all their classmates retire many moons ago. Examples? Leighton, Kjaer, Brewster. How old was Whelan? I ain't dissing their ability, as these examples have all had apparent ability over and above most of our younger players. But why do we seem to have a real knack of upsetting the youthful applecart with foaggies (sp?) ?

Bring them back, I say. Who cares about the bottom half of the SPL now that the split has happened? Seriously?!!! If the playoffs were reinstated, there'd be something to play for ... fear! At the moment, those sitting 10th and above are just playing for a little bit bigger cash settlement from the league. Wouldn't it be so much more entertaining if they knew they were possibly playing for the very existence of the club they are employed with?!!! I'm just thinking back to our days in the relegation/promotion playoff. It sucked .. but WOW what an atmosphere!!! You'll never get that in a bottom-half SPL match these days. Now that stadium criteria isn't that much of an issue, I think the SPL should reinstate the relegation/promotion playoffs.

Nah. Brewster has actually been of some help to us. Nicky Walker, on the other hand ...

You'd be right! Gould is player/manager at Napier City Rovers. And yes he is playing central defense!! Strange for someone who was an international-class goalie! When Gillies signed for Rovers, the local headline was "Rovers net Million Dollar Man". I thought "who can this be?" I read through the article, and it referred to the 300quid we paid S'murrn for Gillies. When exchanged in todays money, it equates to NZ$1,000,000. And when I saw the big picture on the back page, there he was in his crowning glory ... Jason Newstead, lol

Couldn't agree with you more. The Catman was was superb. He was a bloody engine! Our midfield was solid as fuck when he was there. Worked as a perfect transition player to take the ball from the midfield into attack. Not many fans remember a "Cato-moment". I do ... every game he didn't play, I noticed a big hole in our midfield!!! The man was a real unsung hero from the 2001/02 season ... a season whose limelight was snatched by the likes of Winters, Mackie, Bisconti, Dadi and Kjaer. But as for the list of "Pylons": Paul Kane - what a fuckin boring player! The only thing I ever remember about him was the fact that somebody on the original AFC Chat used to go by the name of Paul Kane Ate My Hamster! Leon Mike - I tried to defend him as much as I could. He was powerfully built, and could certainly bulldoze his way into the box. From a lad who hit the crossbar with his first touch, and found the back of the net with his second ... man he did absolutely nothing in a Dons shirt ... apart from stretch that shirt from a size M to a size XXL. Rumour has it he went to Pittodrie's museum room and couldn't fit into Joey Harper's last shirt. Was probably best to stick to Coronation Street than Pittodrie Street. Jim Hamilton - the other half of the dream partnership from Tynecastle. Between him and Neil McCann, they propelled Hearts to their Scottish Cup title. Yeah, clearly the huns got the footballing side of that duo! I ain't seen such a pathetic excuse for a striker since Mike Newell. Talking of which ... Mike Newell - Shit, shit and more shit. All the hype about being "Alan Shearer's substitute" at Blackburn had us Aeberdonians soiling our y-fronts back in the day. He was about as impotent as Nevada boxing commissioner. Glad to see the (eventual) back of this waste of time and money. Tzanko Tzvetanov - The only joy I ever got out of this guy was whenever DonsTalk had a topic of "Split At Birth", I'd always place him next to Nosferatu. He was made to look better than he really was because our defence at the time was absolutely shite. Then I saw a Masters Tournament on tele, and he represented Bulgaria. He was playing the Alex Miller defence tactic all over again. Just about wet myself with the painful memories that came flooding back. Nicky Walker - aye, stick tae the shortbread tins, min! Fuckin plonker. Not only was he shit. He was shit and had a mullet!!! I couldnae believe he was third-choice Scotland keeper. Thank fuck Leighton and Goram were never injured at the same time!!!!! Lasting memory of him? Standing almost on the half way line against Brondby in the 1996 UEFA Cup. How fuckin easy was it for Bo Hansen to score that second for Brondby ... just as Scotty Booth was easing back into his shooting boots for the first time in about two years!! Tony Warner - My memory has thankfully blanked everything out about Tony Warner ... apart from that fuckin cheesy guffy grin of his. "Tony ... yer still lettin goals in! Stop grinning!". Ah shit, the memories are coming back again ... where's my medicine? John Inglis - The largest party known to north-east Scotland was held when Lefski Sofia took this goon off our hands. However, not only did we have to put up with Zeus' chizelled looks and completely inept defending for the worst four and a half years of AFC's history ... but we went and took him back a year and a half later!!!!! Clearly nobody has ever taught him how to play the ball on the ground. Ricky Gillies - "Scotland's brightest young footballing talent" was one of the most disappointing players of the nineties. I had such high hopes, and was overwhelmed with excitement when it was announced we'd beaten the Old Firm, Liverpool and Spurs to get his signature. But, apart from bearing a slight resemblence to ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, he really did do nothing. Perhaps it was "the Aberdeen effect" that hindered so many players who pulled on the red shirt in the mid nineties. But no! After watching him play three times for Napier City Rovers in New Zealand ... a part-time team who get paid about ten quid each per match, he has proved to me that he really is that bad!

Last I read about 24 hours ago was that he was "likely" to sign for the Hibees cos of the connections with Tommy Craig. We've got connections wi' Tommy Craig too. Excuse me ... but wasn't Tommy Craig that useless chappy who was assistant to Roy Aitken? Didn't Craig give the tip to Aitken to sign Haruldar Ingulfsson? Fuckin useless tosser. I mind the joke that came of that on "Only An Excuse". They showed the auld Wiseman Dairies advert wi the footballing cow, and then showed Tommy Craig walking on with a contract for the cow to sign. I think that's still the one and only time Aberdeen FC have featured on "Only An Excuse".

Yeah, when was the last time the EE wrote something credible? If everyone says "right" the EE will say "left" just to say sixteen years down the track that they were the first ones to say "left".

I'm nae talking about being injury-prone throughout his career. I'm only talking about since he arrived here. I was comparing it to Booth's second stint with the Dons. When he played, he was brilliant to watch as he was always about three or four steps ahead of where everyone else was thinking. But he was too injury prone. Brewster too has been plagued a bit by injury since arriving here.

I'm Reekie_Red. I'm 30, born in Aberdeen, lived in Bucksburn for the first few years of my life, then moved to the Hive of Stoney when I was five. Whilst there, I witnessed my first Dons match, a cup tie against Celtic in 1984. It was a 0-0 draw, but I cannae mind much about it as I didn't really care for footy in those days. I was more interested in Transformers, He-Man and M.A.S.K. My first Dons match that I cared about was a 1-0 loss to St Johnstone at Pittodrie in the midst of the mire that was the 1990s. George O'Boyle was the scorer that day, and the atmosphere contributed to the shittiest Saturday I'd ever experienced (up until that day anyway). My moniker came from the auld Granite Sheep days on the rivals network. The likes of Ebbe's Holdall and Garden Shears were running the best Dons chat site on the market, and I thought I'd sign up. Living and studying in Edinburgh was the obvious reasoning behind my chosen name. I now live in New Zealand, and listen to most matches online. In my hayday, I was a member of the Stoney Steamers, whose prime saw them embark on the now infamous Stoney Steamers OVD Denmark Tour 2002, shouting abuse at Derek Young, telling David Preece to purchase shares in Gillette, and jokingly sticking the fingers up at Zerouali after our match with Farum. Favourite match of recent times? Has to be either the 3-2 win over the huns at Pittodrie last season ... or the 2-0 win over Shellick in the snow. SULKY STILLIAN'S SNOWBALL ARMY!!!

We said that about Scott Booth as well, though. He was a model pro. Turned up for training early. Was the last one to leave the training ground. All his spare time at work was spent in the gym. But, just like Brewster, the majority of his latter days of footballing appeared to be spent on the treatment table. There's nae doubt that Brewster is a quality addition to our squad. I only wish we'd decided to secure his signature before he reached his 81st birthday! If he feels he can go another season, then I say give him another season. But he should surely bow out when he KNOWS he should. Kjaer finished his career when he felt he should've, despite most of the Red Army pleading with him to keep his gloves on for another season. I hope Brewster knows his physical limits.

Priceless post there, BobbyPeru! If Carlsberg made posts in discussion forums, they'd probably look like that!

Didn't Kerr used to play for Newcastle? Or is that a different Kerr? If it's the one I'm thinking of, I seem to remember he used to be quite handy in his day. I don't really know about Rae, though. We tabled a bid for him years ago, before he left Dens. He hummed and hawed about that move, so I very much doubt he'd be keen on a move to Aberdeen now that he's been at "the mighty" Rangers. Wage demands would be astronomical, too!

Server issues, possibly. Same as we had when we went down the "shared-hosting" route. I'd love to see how that site copes when they get excess people navigating their way around the site on a huge matchday ... especially if they're still planning on launching a news section. Good on them, I say. The more Dons sites online, the better. Nice to have some competition ... finally!!! It's only taken five years of being on our own for another site to appear!

Maybe I've missed something glaringly obvious since I left Scottish shores some four years ago ... but isn't Klos still at Rangers? I seem to remember him being EASILY the best keeper in the league not so long ago? What's happened to him? Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

Preecey was okay. Nothing more than that. As Johnny Mac suggested earlier, Kjaer has been the only real goalie we've had of recent times who's been "good". He was old and fat ... but he was phenomenally acrobatic and commanded his area well. And he came off his line, which is something that plagued Preece.

Wasn't Andrew Shinie the last Press Officer that we had? Agree that it is a role that is drastically in need of resurrecting at Pittodrie. I think we got rid of Shinie when it was clear that Keith Wyness was capable of handling just about any flack that was fired in the direction of the club. But now there's nobody to do this job. Yeah, so Calderwood is a good face for the public. He always has been and always will be. He's as press-safe as Jim Leishman. But there's only so much crap that an Aberdeen manager can deflect ... even if that Aberdeen manager is Jimmy Calderwood. A club that is at the mercy of The Sun, the Daily Record, and now seemingly Aberdeen's very own gutter-rag the Evening Depress should really be hiring the services of a press officer. If any club needs a sole individual to handly the crap, it's Aberdeen.

I remember watching that on tele. I wasn't sure what game it was, but I remember Big Brian giving someone a real clattering, and the opposition fans baiting him with "Brian Irvine, yer such a f'in penis, Brian Irvine yer a horse's arse!". I couldn't remember for the life of me who that opposition was, and just when I read your post I distinctly remember a straggley haired gimp falling over, and Big Brian just standing over him shouting all manner of profanities that I'm sure he didn't learn in church! What a player!!!

I read an article on the Dondeh pages saying that Dyron Daal had signed a contract with Dundee. What's everyone's thoughts on this? I thought he was going to be another one of these "one-for-the-future" players. Seems a strange move from the Dons, offloading a promising striker. Then again, I suppose Daal has been dicked around by the Dons for long enough on this amateur contract that he's been on for sixteen years! In the end he has to think about his own interests.