Millers Tache

Bet it was rubbish really. You keep telling yourself that and one day you'll get over it. Have you still got the picture of the 3 Ages of Willie Miller we got Him to sign for you...?

Forgot to add, we went to Jumpin Jaks afterwards (it was where they were heading next), and saw a very drunk Dennis Wyness. He'd just signed for Hearts that week, and spent about 20 minutes speaking to us about AFC and how much he'd have loved to come back, promised he would try not to score against us, then heard Willie Miller was in Jaks and ran off to speak to him! His bird wasn't best impressed, but her complaining was shot down with "shoosh woman, these boys are reds". I'd forgotten just how brilliantly surreal that whole night was.

I have. In the free bar of the Gothenberg tribute night. Me, 2 of my mates, the team, Jack Webster and Buff Hardie. The most surreal, but brilliant, night ever. For what it's worth, he was on cracking form. As was Mark McGhee, who got us into the free bar by drunkenly suggesting we come in for autographs as "there's only 4 of you" (see how many folk i described as being with me.....). I was there also with McGhee, Simmy, Cooper etc but don't remember anyone else being there! It WAS a free bar however and i was drunk, so maybe my memory is a bit lax But yeh... If i saw you and didn't say hi then sorry! Or maybe i did? As was mine. I remember standing speaking to Jim Cummings and saying how it was a disgrace the way "that boy Cummings" was treated by Stuart Milne, only for him to hold out his hand and say "Jim Cummings, nice to meet you..." You weren't one of the lads sitting at the back of the 3 tables, were you? Someone said they were Simmy's kids. We were too dumb/awe struck to pay any notice to anyone else, really. Indeed, we were actually too afraid to go to the bar in case someone clocked we weren't officially invited, and lobbed us out. Then Mr McGhee got us a round in, and told us to get tucked in. That was us!! I genuinely don't rememeber anyone else being there, sorry if i missed you. I was as awe-struck as you, doing tequilla slammers with McGhee and Cooper isn't something i'll forget in a hurry, despite the hazy recollection the next day! But yeh... Brilliant night! Next time i'm at one of these events i'll look out for a massive, walking, talking bristly tache Best night ever. There's bound to be a 25 year event next year, but i doubt it'll be as good.

I have. In the free bar of the Gothenberg tribute night. Me, 2 of my mates, the team, Jack Webster and Buff Hardie. The most surreal, but brilliant, night ever. For what it's worth, he was on cracking form. As was Mark McGhee, who got us into the free bar by drunkenly suggesting we come in for autographs as "there's only 4 of you" (see how many folk i described as being with me.....). I was there also with McGhee, Simmy, Cooper etc but don't remember anyone else being there! It WAS a free bar however and i was drunk, so maybe my memory is a bit lax But yeh... If i saw you and didn't say hi then sorry! Or maybe i did? As was mine. I remember standing speaking to Jim Cummings and saying how it was a disgrace the way "that boy Cummings" was treated by Stuart Milne, only for him to hold out his hand and say "Jim Cummings, nice to meet you..." You weren't one of the lads sitting at the back of the 3 tables, were you? Someone said they were Simmy's kids. We were too dumb/awe struck to pay any notice to anyone else, really. Indeed, we were actually too afraid to go to the bar in case someone clocked we weren't officially invited, and lobbed us out. Then Mr McGhee got us a round in, and told us to get tucked in.

That's what he did with my "Willie Miller Is God" T-shirt on the Gothenberg night. I hear stories that he's a bit of a wank to work for and he's a bit of a Billy Big Time, but i've never been given anything other than his full attention when i've met him. That Gothenberg night he even spoke to one of my mates on the phone to prove we were actually standing at a free bar with Willie Miller. Also, Bobby Biscuit, Dobbin? Seriously? I'd have thought he'd have been the last one to leave any sort of meet and greet with some kids. Zico was the first person to sign my autograph book. My mum's friend lived next door to him, and sent me round to see him when he came home from training. He was a very nice guy indeed then. It was not long after he signed, right enough, so he maybe felt a bit like he'd made it. Maybe i was to blame for your bad experience... Off topic altogether, Brian Grant came and spent an afternoon at my primary school, purely because he would drive a tractor past us when he was helping out his in-laws. Me and 2 other kids got to have an afternoon interviewing him for our school paper. We went out to the football "pitch" and watched in horror as Granty misjudged the height of our crossbar and banged his head with a helluva whack. He was another absolutely top guy, come to think of it.

I have. In the free bar of the Gothenberg tribute night. Me, 2 of my mates, the team, Jack Webster and Buff Hardie. The most surreal, but brilliant, night ever. For what it's worth, he was on cracking form. As was Mark McGhee, who got us into the free bar by drunkenly suggesting we come in for autographs as "there's only 4 of you" (see how many folk i described as being with me.....).

At the end of the day, you're never going to please all 10000 folk in the stadium at once. I sat up around the Ultras a couple of years ago, and the flag waving annoyed me a bit. But more because it was right beside me, and i often got a flag in the back/side of the head. But i'm not one to piss on a good idea, so i put up with it, then moved my ticket to somewhere else where i still got the benefit of their efforts, but not the bruises, and now i'm much happier.

May i just say, i thought the inflatable golf balls were inspired. You could almost see the steam of rage rising out of Morgan where he sat in the Main Stand.

So he both gets injured like AND looks like Bernard. Blimey. Hope he's fit before the return of Byrne....

Sadly, Jimmy's in the papers today saying that going one up top to allow us to cope with them was exactly what he did order us to do as Hearts weren't really causing us a lot of problems but were seeing a lot of the ball in midfield. Have to say, i thought Jackie Mac was one of our 2 or 3 better performers yesterday. He did give the ball away for the goal, but i thought he was being pushed as he was trying to clear it, leading to a rushed pass to Clark, who in turn also got fouled. Other than that, i thought he used it very intelligently, far better than almost any other player on the park and i wouldn't think he'll have just panicked and hoofed it up front to nobody too many times. My biggest wish is that JC would give Miller and Lovell a few games to play alongside each other. Neither Mackie nor Lovell can play well unless we're either a) playing it on the deck to feet/to run onto or b) if there's a big lumbering target man alongside them to win the aerial balls and do the aforementioned threading through of balls. Mackie's got the control of a virgin in a brothel, and Brewster's hardly the future of our team. I rate Miller, and think he's the physical presence we need up front.

Fuck, you've nailed it. Ebbe-era, that was what today reminded me of. With added tactical lucky dipping.

Pish pish pish pish pish pish pish pish pishing pish. > This is going to be a long season. Diamond, Jackie Mac and Soutar are the only ones who get pass marks from me. Foster, Clark and Mackie look like they've caught Diamond's "I've made it so i don't have to bother being any good any more" attitude from a while back. In fact, no, Foster, Clark and Mackie look to be as pish as we've always suspected they are. Why we started with 2 players who can only play effectively with either decent through balls to run onto or a target man beside them (Lovell and Mackie), then proceeded to hoof it up to them is beyond me. Then, after 10 minutes, even though we're "a better team than Hearts" (quote from every Sunday paper coourtesy of rent a gob Jimmy), we had to adjust our tactics to stop them playing us off the park, leaving lovell up on his own, with Mackie and Clark hiding from the ball out wide in case they were asked to do something with it. Finally, if you don't shoot, you don't score. This most basic of things should be drummed into our players. Clark and Mackie today's main offenders in the "lay it off to someone in case i make an arse of my shot and get booed" category.

See, the thing that annoys me most is we know how a Levein team works - 4-5-1, hoof it to the big man up top. Fuck me, JC famously told Lovell that's how he plays when he was trying to sign him. So why did we not bring on our most creative player, Jeffrey De Visscher (apparently, i've still not seen him apart from in Buckie), until it was almost do or die? The midfield was crowded, we're going to have more of the ball than them when they're down to 10, our biggest problem last season was our shocking lack of creativity, we've signed someone to address that, but left him on the bench. Why the fuck can Chris Clark not be dropped, ever?!?!?! Is he riotously funny or something?! Is he THAT good to have in the dressing room? Is Jeff not gallus enough yet?

Hart, Severin, Considine, Foster... Think Seve's got more physical presence for playing against a Levein team. Still don't especially like him playing at the back - he still plays like a midfielder but closer to the goal - but i'm happier that we've got someone in Jackie Mac who can replace him there.

Didn't know that. I'd still have put Ajax down as a glamour game if only for their name and past history.

Genius effort. Think it's a bit complicated for a crowd of 5000 to do, but the last line would work perfectly IMO.

Was that not one of the excuses for knocking back Ajax? Because we didn't sell out against Everton, i think was the justification for that thinking.

My euphoria dissapeared sometime in June. But that was more down to the fact i was bored waiting for the football to start again. I'm bouncing again now! It's so close, i can almost smell Dundee over the horizon. Or is there a northerly wind...?

Aparently the only action around our goal from the match v Locos... It's more the fact I can't really remember the last time we had a keeper who would list that as one of his skills........ Indeed! Sign him now! Even if he's pish, he could teach that skill alone to our existing custodians.

And that's 25 minutes a game of "good" more than Dung'll be. Just seen this smiley for the first time, and i like it. It's cheered me up after thinking about Derek Young again.

Positive spin? It'll never catch on. Booooo to positive spin. Egypt wasn't a disaster (could've been if that car accident went any worse), but it wasn't really a good, well planned, exercise/idea. The whole thing reeks of "it's free, so we'll have some of that", without the actual trip being researched.

MT, I'll grant you those points but wasn't he also here the last time we qualified for European play? Was the last time when we finished bottom of the SPL and got horsed in 2 cup finals, thus letting us into Europe? If so, i think he was... Edit: Just checked, and that was 99/00 season, (which led to Bohemians...) rather than the last time we qualified by finishing 4th.

Ah yes, he played in those great winning teams that we had when we finished bottom of the SPL, sometimes appeared Dunfermline's great winning team in the bottom 6, and sporadically appeared in that memorable Partick Thistle team that romped home to 7th in last season's First Division... He's a fucking loser, who should be nowhere near ANY SPL team, let alone one with aspirations/delusions of qualifying for Europe. I used to work in Sainsburys when the Dungs were in Aberdeen. You used to see them in their matching chavvy white tracksuits, dripping with "gold" jewellery, acting like your stereotypical arrogant twat footballers. They were big headed cunts with little justification for being so back then, and i'd be surprised if much has changed now. But still, at least Mackie and Hart like him. Also, Sheepheid, i wouldn't hold your breath. He's just about broken the 30 goal barrier in his career (http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=14940 - not taking into account his 7 or 8 for Thistle last season). I would think you'll get long odds on him getting half that in one season.

Modern games? I wouldn't count on it Chunk. I was in Cairo airport and the toilet was literally a hole in a wooden plank, with a hosepipe next to it. I turned and walked back out again. I wasn't dumping there.

But some of them won't go to home games as "it's not as good as the day out you get at an away game". It was a while ago i saw that, but still... The concept of stone throwing in glass houses a bit alien to them i imagine.