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Richard Foster insists winning the Second Division with [The] Rangers will be just as big an achievement as helping them clinch the SPL title.

Will be? Try would be you presumptuous cunts! Also LOL!!!! 

was Megginson already away before the summer?

Think he did mention before that we'd have less players, so i assumed we'd be cutting. So long as it doesn't get used as an excuse then fair enough. Also would be really unconvinced about playing a full season with so few fullbacks (1) on the books, so as good as the business has been before we need more.

Still no ball winner to replace ozzie either. Our defence was horrific last year when nobody able to break a move up was playing.

Aberdeen: Derek McInnes demands Dons to up the ante

 

Manager Derek McInnes is emphatic in his belief that it will take hard graft from everyone at Aberdeen to re-claim their 'big club' status.

 

    The 41-year-old is preparing for his first full season as boss at Pittodrie, having succeeded Craig Brown in March.

 

    "I don't think Aberdeen have worked hard enough," said McInnes.

 

    "It came to me really clear that for us to get a label of being a big club, possibly the second biggest in the SPL, we've got to work harder."

 

However, the former Bristol City and St Johnstone boss insisted this was not a slight on any previous management regime.

 

    "There's certain areas of the football side that I know other clubs are working harder in," McInnes told BBC Radio Scotland.

 

    "The football department is made up of all different aspects; from recruitment, sports science, match analysis, training facilities - the lot.

 

    "There's other clubs who are doing their job better than us at the moment, but that'll change and I'd like to think that we'll be the best of the rest in that department as well."

 

    Nine senior players were released at the end of the last Scottish Premier League season and, to date, McInnes has boosted his midfield options by signing Barry Robson and Willo Flood.

 

Former Burton Albion striker Calvin Zola has also been added while 21-goal forward Niall McGinn and midfielder Ryan Jack, have signed new contracts.

 

    "I'm well aware of the restraints that we have to work under and we've had to act accordingly throughout the close season in terms of moving players on," added McInnes.

 

    "[The] amount of wages [paid to players] coming in will probably be half of what we moved out.

 

    "As a manager you're trying to create optimism and confidence within the support and within your team and I think that's important.

 

    "But at the same time it's tempered by the fact that it's got to be steady progress. There's been too many false dawns for Aberdeen fans.

 

    "Let's try and do something special and get other people looking and saying 'what are they doing at Aberdeen? What are they doing up there? They look bigger, stronger, faster and they're playing with confidence.'

 

    "That, ultimately is where I want us to be."

After his hopes of playing top-flight fitba were scuppered by tsmstid, Aberdeen signing the lad will surely be Law Shank's redemption.

Dare I say it, but I am being sucked in by the old pre-season fantasy that we're going to have a decent season at last... oops...

there's very little to moan about so far. Not on! DMcIMG!!!

ADJECTIVES!!!!

Good entertainment.

Dundee's ok. Hull's better. Not sure why Aberdeen was even on the longlist. It's been falling apart for decades.

Tony Soprano

this referee is worse than ukip

Lucky us.

zander must have had so many nice things to say about us.

I'm almost confident this will be a really good signing.

entering administration within the next 24 hours.

both really. It's hilarious, but brings Aberdeen (and football as a whole) into disrepute that any professional club gave someone with that level of skill a succession of new contracts.

fucking horrible. Sorry to hear this mbt.

he looks like he's never kicked a ball in his life there!!!

Also, playing at the same level as Marcelo Salas! fucking ell

All I remember is Jambos believing every word of Vlad's lies and being right arrogant cunts about it.

Hurry up and fuck off. And good fucking riddance.

My only worry would be he's bound to be on fairly high wage that is based on speculation rather than anything he's done on the pitch.

No doubt he's a good prospect though and attitude seems good too so as long as we have enough cash to get the defence sorted in particular then I'm happy about this.

Allen Johnstone and Henning Berg both interviewed by killie

Oh.

disappointed that this thread has been allowed to continue beyond the "...who is valued at £425,000."

NEXT

 

Makes a change from self abuse

not if you typed it all up one-handed

The Fall, awesome crime thriller on BBC, was the series finale last night.  Bloody cliff hangers! 

I'm sick of series that would make an excellent one off constantly being dragged out to cash in with more series. Looks as though the next series could be set in scotland tho which would be good.

Hartley, who'll do a brilliant job just to make me sick because I wanted him for ra dandies.