Millers Tache

Just a thought here.....

 

....how many trophies have we won with a completely tache-less team compared to when we have at least one moustachioed first team regular?

I think you're onto something there MBT. Bobby Connor himself said in an interview with the sun (boo hiss) earlier this season that he thought Scottish football started going down the tubes because of the dearth of moustaches in the modern game. How many teams in the SPL have moustachioed players these days? It's a disgrace.

Considine seems far more in control at the back than Diamond ever has

Up til today, i'd have agreed with you...

Rickydinho for me.

Are you retarded? 

 

We played the hibs reserve team which ended with 9 men on the park and we couldn't beat them! The result and performance was horrific! The goal by foster was good but that in no way makes up for the result.

That's kind of what i was thinking. Too many players short on form, confidence, desire and luck today. Jamie Smith is not match fit. That was glaringly obvious even before the game. He's been out with various injuries that will affect a footballer's performance, but in he goes. On the left wing, where he's always looked about as interested as our dwindling attendance.

Brewster is past it. I fail to see what good there is in playing him from the start and forcing the partnership with A. N. Other, when he'll be off to the first team that gives him a manager's job (next week if the radio's anything to go by).

Considine had an absolute shocker today. Nothing else needs to be said about that.

Severin hasn't looked interested in weeks, months even.

I thought Langfield had a very ropy first half as well. Thought he went down far too quickly for the first goal, and looked very slow to react to Shields's trundler. I'll wait to see them on tv before i'm sure about that though.

Foster and Mackie worked very hard and had good games, and Foster in particular is really starting to prove his critics wrong (especially me) now he's found a position (until the feted horse Byrne gets fit again, that is). If the whole team worked like them, we'd be fine.

I'll be there. Just have to remember to be there earlier than normal for the stupid KO time.

Not only was he shit. He was shit and had a mullet!!!

Best line of the day for me.  :D

True but our board tend to have a tendency to loosen the purestrings at the most inappropriate of times.  For example:

 

"Mr Milne, can I have 60k to spend on an amateur at best left back currently plying his trade for the Dunfermline reserve side?"

 

"No."

 

"But he has a comedy name..."

 

"Aye ok then!"

Sadly, you're absolutely right there. 

Yes, cause from Livi, if Brewster was offered the Aberdeen job he wouldn't see it as a step up...

I've little doubt that he would see it as a step up (I bloody hope so anyway). But if he was at another club, there'd be compensatory issues, and i'm thinking our board's not the most free with it's cash. That's more what i was getting at. It does open whole new cans of worms that are best suited to many many other threads when the day comes that JC does pack his desk away and head for the boot of the nearest people carrier, but you get my thinking now? 

Shamelessly pinching words from the mouth/fingertips of an erstwhile most loved/feared poster, currently frequenting another board:

This American trialist, whether he's fantastic or not, will bring some things to the club that are probably somewhat lacking.

 

American sportsmen, even amateurs, tend to be supremely fit and generally maintain their bodies as though they were meant to be athletic.

 

American athletes are generally very upbeat and have positive mental attitudes. They have a fighting spirit nd a will to win.

 

It's just the culture in the US.

 

Now I've no doubts that this dude, Joseph Lapira, takes his fitba, his training, his diet and his mental outlook very seriously indeed.

 

Whether folks think, ach he's pish, or not shouldn't be an issue.

 

American teams draft their players, primarily, from the college system. Virtually every sporting superstar in the US came through the college system. For this reason the College leagues are of a surprisingly high standard of quality and professionalism.

 

He might look like a pot-heided member of a popular 60's folk band, but I'll guarantee he's more disciplined, and has a far more professional attitude, than the majority of players currently plying their trade in the SPL.

 

Frankly, I'd be delighted to see American players come to Pittodrie.

 

And, oh look.. the sun's out and I'll be ****ed if that's no a butterfly sitting on the windae of my office.

Anyway, what a tache/mullet combo the lad's got.

I'll be really pissed off if JC fucks off and leaves us with this useless article unnecessarily.

Don't worry Slim, he'll be a key component of our future manager Brewster's defence, as he was under the previous United manager......... I really hope Brewster gets the Livi job, just to all but rule out the possibility of that happening.

David Winnie - Icelandic Player of the Year a couple of years ago.  The standard of football in Iceland must be rubbish.

Did he not get to play in a Champion's League qualifier the year after with Helsinki? And to think, Hearts got pumped at that level... 

Incidentally, i quite liked Guntveit. Thought he was quite underrated. I also thought he was signed as a winger, but Ebbe decided he would be the man to fill the holding position.

Haraldur Ingolfsson. I remember his debut. He'd been over for a visit when he was a kid of 13 or something in 1986, and decided he'd love to play for the famous Aberdeen. The papers were full of how it was a dream move for Iceland's Player of the Year (at that time), and how we were set to see left footed wing wizardry of the kind not seen since Peter Weir left all those years ago. I can't remember who we were playing (Airdrie?), but after about an hour, it was time for Haraldur. He was greeted with an ovation fitting for a new hero. After about 30 seconds, he received the ball on the wing, just in front of the main stand. He took two fairly awakward touches to control it ("it's ok, he's just getting into the game" thought i), before looking up and seeing someone screaming for a ball into the far post. A quick check of the ball, and Haraldur steadied himself for the cross. He swung his left foot at it, and sclaffed it high into the main stand.

And that's about all he did in a red shirt.

David Winnie was the first player to sign my autograph book, incidentally. He lived in the same street in Westhill as my mum's friend, and i went to get it after he came back from training. Proper gent he was. A truly awful player. But his status as a nice guy couldn't be faulted.

That's the thing BB. With all these countries getting EU membership, we should be horsing in there trying to get in ahead of anyone else for any half decent talent out there that wouldn't have got a permit before. Instead, we're stuck with the usual hit or miss Dutchmen and cheapo Dunfermline journeymen types, except now it'll probably be United. Lee Mair is quite possibly just the start of that particular trend (unless you count Brewster). I don't agree with it, and i don't think you do either. Personally, i'd like the 11 best players we can get on that pitch every week, and i just do not think we do enough to find them.

I know the Irish League's not the best, but you hear about Levein trekking over there to find players this week, then off to England to find more players. He might not find anything, but at least he's looking. Meanwhile, Jimmy's giving interviews at Pittodrie about how he's used 58 players in 3 years. I'd like to think there's at least somebody out there looking for new talent, but i'm not sure if there is. There was that infamous story that JC sacked the scounting team because he could find players himself. And thus we got Langfield, Nicholson, Byrne and Dempsey (FTR, i like Barry, and Dempsey's not a bad squad player) from Dunfermline. There's better out there than what lies at the end of the A90, but we'll never get them if we're just waiting for a "contact" to ring up and tell us about them. Chances are, they've already been identified by someone else with much more money and an actual scout looking for players and we'll miss out.

Personally, i liked Ebbe's method for finding new players - get a train load of trialists in, and see how they look. If an agent'll pay his players' travel expenses, there's not much that could go wrong there surely?

The much maligned (and more expensive) Lee Miller did more in his 20 minutes on the pitch today than Brewster. He's got quicker feet, a better touch and can win high balls.

 

ha ha! well done, great gag. although april fools day was last week.

 

i'd agree that brew did next to nothing on saturday, but to suggest that the lumpen, extraordinarily limited and clumsy oaf that is lee miller is a better player is the most ridiculous thing i've read on this board since it came back.

 

 

I think Miller gets an bit of a raw deal from a lot of folk. Fair enough, it's just our opinions, but i just think Miller offers us more than Brewster does. Brewster's looking more and more like a 40 year old who hasn't played football for ages trying to get into the rhythm of a game that's just too quick for him now. If he gets time and space on the ball, he can hold it and play a pass in (like in the Hearts game). But defenders know this now, and just don't let him get the time his legs need to keep up with his undeniable football brain.

Miller's limited by his horrific lack of pace, and an almost magnetic attraction to the ground near the opponent's box, but i think he offers more than Brewster does. It's not often he doesn't control a ball, his hold up play's good, he's strong and wins things in the air. I thought, and still do think, that we look a better all round team with Miller leading the line.

What?!?!? A new deal for the old man of Pittodrie? When did he win a high ball other than vs Hibs in the cup? How many moves has he linked up other than the goal v Hearts? The much maligned (and more expensive) Lee Miller did more in his 20 minutes on the pitch today than Brewster. He's got quicker feet, a better touch and can win high balls. The fact he has the pace of a cruise ship goes against him though. I just can't see Brewster being much worth to us as anything other than a coach or as an example to the younger players. He's past it IMO.

They're welcome to him. What the feck was he up to on that 4th goal?! I'll probably have to see it again, but it looked to me like he thought Hunt crossed it and it was going nowhere, then was surprised when it went on off the far post.

Even if he thought it was a cross, it was that close to him he should've caught it and got a quick counter going with some of that great kicking of his. Oh, hang about...

Pretty pleased by this piece of news tbh, but to be honest I do worry about his apparent lack of fitness at times. The little he has played that i've seen he looks extremely comfortable on the ball and certainly possesses a footballing brain.

 

Would really like to think that we've yet to see the best of him in a Dons shirt.

 

It does however start to pose questions as to who is on the way out the door in the summer, particularily with the impending capture of Mair from the Arabs. If someone is going from the back line, hope its Zander rather than Cadger or Hart.

 

Could be Foster being pushed into midfield?

Everyone seems to be forgetting Richie "I'd kick my granny" Byrne. To be fair, that is an understandable attitude.

Hello to you.

I'm Millers Tache. I'm 26, from, live and work in Aberdeen. From time to time i like to rant about the general uselessness of a Chris Clark and the growing levels of illiteracy/retardation amongst the people inhabiting the world today.

I'm indifferent to cheese. I do like boobs though.

Have a nice evening.

I've always rated that Foster lad. I've never thought he was a waste of a fancy pair of boots.