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How does the defence look without Anderson? I ken Cove ain't exactly a good challenge for them, but did they look comfortable?

Vice-captain of a reserves side that includes the likes of O'Donoghue, Tiernan, Michie and Mark Peat is not exactly something I'd be happy to boast about.

Paying someone like we did with Billy Dodds to get rid of Stewart would've been a fantastic piece of business. I'm glad we're rid of wasters like Stewart, Muirhead, Morrison, the Young brothers and Rutkiewicz. We've been churning out real shite for a few years now, and like shite to a bear's fur, they tend to cling on to us for ages.

Stewart was just too lightweight to get past anyone. His finish at the Tattiebowl was sublime! But far too featherweight to be an effective SPL striker.

Yeah. He was an awesome striker! Seriously, he holds the record for being Australia's top international scorer by scoring 8 goals in one match. Yeah, okay so this match was versus American Samoa, but still! A goal every 11 minutes ain't bad by anyone's standards. And I remember Oshor Williams speaking to DandyDon and saying the management team back then had kept faith with Zdrillic because he was easily the most clinical striker the club had ... he was just quite depressed with the way his Aberdeen career had gone, and that had a knockon effect upon his footballing ability

Hmmmmm, might have to steal some of those smileys for DonsTalk. And of course, alter a few of the animations to suit us too!!!

Another David Zdrillic, perhaps? Too good to be bothered applying himself in a league like the SPL ... so he just winnae bother.

Dinnae fuckin mention Michael Bird's bush!

He competes with Terry Wogan for most ridiculous tan in showbiz

Nah, definitely Ronnie O' Sullivan

Talking of auld scrotum sack, we don't really hear much from John Viola these days, do we?! Back in the day (early 2000s) every player he represented seemed to be "on their way to huge clubs on huge wages" ... only for Fergushun to go to Blackburn, Winters and Charlie Miller to go to Brann, Dadi to go to Livi, Whyte to go to Partick, and Adamczuk to languish in the Rangers reserves for five seasons. I take it by the lack of updates on his website (www.violafc.com) that things ain't going that well down ViolaFC ways!

Aye, but ye dinnae get a tan like Jimmy's fae playin Huntly six times! Toppin up the tan, an' all that crap, ye ken?!

Aye, but unless they sell Naismith, they're skint for the rest of the summer

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Agree 100% with the red card there! Holt was a middle-of-the-road SPL player when he was at his peak. And that was about five or six years ago. Too old and slow for us now (says me who's a fan of a club who are currently singing the praises of Craig Brewster!)

Rangers have signed former West Ham and Manchester United goalkeeper Roy Carroll on a one-year contract. I guess this means we'll be stuck with Langfield for another season, then!

I have never been a fan of him either, mate. I've only seen him a couple of times for the Dons, but remember him well from his Dunfermline and Dundee days. And I don't like him. But if Alex McLeish sees fit to nominate him as Scotland's backup keeper, then surely that's got to add a bit of value to him ... regardless of how shit he really is. £300k ain't a bad asking price for Scotland's Number Two! ("number two" is a pseudonym for shite. Funny how things turn out, eh?!)

Hope we're not in the final at that stage, cos we'll be flying back to Edinburgh to face Hibs two days later!! I reckon the Ettehad website ain't quite right, cos all the fixture dates say August.

DT now has the copyright to publish the fixture lists. Woohoo! I've posted them in a new feature of the site ... look at the "Fixtures" link at the top for more info

http://www.footballtransfers.co.uk/transfers/released.php

Soutar probably the only one we can afford to let go. The rest? Sign them up on 5-year deals and have everyone on at least a £300k get-out clause. Do what Hibs do. I'm sick of us losing half-decent players for peanuts (and less sometimes). Everyone in our senior squad aside from Derek Soutar is worth at least £300k. If we can get near that for any players leaving to Barcelona, Sunderland or St Johnstone, then I'd be a wee bit happier.

True. The name Colin Woodthorpe springs to mind!

Dinnae care what people say about him, he was a class act. To many Dons fans who were too young to experience the Fergie days, Jess is the only legendary player these fans have seen in an Aberdeen shirt ... Russell Anderson aside. The notion that Aberdeen only ever raise their game against Rangers is probably never a truer statement when Jess was at the club. He was infuriating when we played the diddy teams of Scotland. But against Rangers, he was always magnificent. He was the sort of player who could do nothing for 88 minutes, and then just turn the magic on for two and win the game for us. He could play as a VERY effective striker or midfielder and is probably the last player we had who could effectively take the ball from defensive midfield and create something out of it.

I just think football "State Side" will never become as big a game as it should be for a nation with that kind of population. I can fully understand your excitement at the way the game is heading over in the US and Canada. I have the same sort of experience down-under where I regularly watch cracking games from Australia. New Zealand is shit at football (finally, he says, a sport that NZ is shit at!!) but the Aussie game has come on leaps and bounds. The Australian game has only really been around in international terms for a couple of decades, and with a population of 21million, they're only now starting to show their worth. But the US game has been around for a lot longer than that. With a population in-excess of 302million (!!) surely they should be producing a dozen teams that can be world champions!!! Instead, the US seems to be stuck in their ways of playing games that no other nation plays (baseball, gridiron and basketball, for example). If they ploughed as much effort into the world's top sport as they do their own sports, they might actually be a force to be reckoned with ... and not the 29th place that they currently occupy (might've changed by the time you read this cos those rankings change more often that I have hot dinners). Don't get me wrong, I think the US MLS league is great. It's got a lot of innovative ideas that the rest of the world could well do with adopting, such as wage-capping, winning-draws, etc. But for a league that is supposedly almost perfect in its structure and organisation, it still produces poorer quality teams than a corrupt, biased and financially crippled league like the SPL.

Aye, but he's captain Manure for how long? It's nae like he's brand-new to the sport! He's been around for a long long time as a player. He more than most people would've had to get the measure of players pretty quickly to suss out how to play against them. He proved at Manure that he had this capability in abundance. Now I'm pretty sure he'll take this trait into his managerial career. Good luck to him and Russ. I will wait with anticipation for the day the Sunderland fans are made to eat their hats. Right now, they can go and eat their own shite for all I care. They've taken our captain and most valuable player for a pittance, and they dinnae even like him!