Ajja

Not every fan of a football team would die rather than do anything that didn't end up as the best for his/her team. Its the usual childish and myopic view on forums to assume that the minute you lay claim to being an Aberdeen fan that you should never take any other route in your future than to support/play for/manage/invest in your club. Maybe he felt that there would be too much pressure on him to deliver at the team he supports, maybe he felt that the small investment he had to offer would do little for us, maybe he wants to be a big fish in a small pond, maybe he offered us something and was knocked back but doesn't want to upset the club by going public, maybe he believes that a club who are debt free is a better financial investment. Who knows, I still say good luck to the man whatever his thinking.

You have to wonder why the SPL holds such desires for a club at present. Its hardly the pot of gold to be won. Fair play to Dundee if they have managed debt out of their business and are cutting out some shrewd deals with a new director who wants to invest in their future. Good luck to them I say. If they can oust some shitty west coast hole out of the league and I can get another couple of away days to Dundee with 3-4000 Dons fans then it works for me. Sheeeeeeeet, it may even enhance the value of the SPL. Fuck knows it needs it.

Indeed. Wise to send this message to any would be beneficiaries of our new manager's strategic plans. Good move to make I'd say.

As BB says its all about their net current assets position. You would need to know their current liabilities and their current assets to understand if they are in a position to meet any likely short term demand on debts/liabilities by liquidating any short term assets. In the case of Hearts, as has been said their current liabilities are mostly in the hands of UBIG so are not likely to be called in and so their ability to repay makes them 'technically' insolvent but not in reality.

Without Setanta it may well be.

I'm sure it used to be called the 'first round proper' up until last year, or at least referred to as that. New league set up, new names.

No fuckin' dolly mixtures in 'ere poofter

I fear this will bring out the genetic bottleneck in our support. I may have to go to boost the IQ averages at least.

I'd rather see Klimpl than Hughes. Is Hughes not similar to MacDonald and Klimpl more of an engine in midfield ? I might be spouting pish but he would be my preference.

Indeed, the Brandywell. Utter shit hole of a stadium but great atmosphere.

What about this one (to European song, bear with me on a few lines): He is a Don, he's Mark McGhee He's not our first choice, but neither were we He's gonna do it, we hope like fuck he'll do it He's gonna do it for you.... He told the Jambos to fuck off He begged the tims for a job When the light of day showed there was no way He was a Dons man through and through. Ohhhhhh.... Or we could just go with: aberdeen aberdeen aberdeen. aberdeen aberdeen aberdee-een. aberdeen aberdeen aberdeen aber-dee-en A-BER-DEEN !

Would he have to attach an image with that ?

No mention of Paton or Pawlett or this Fyvie character that Barca, Real and Brazil have been tracking. Surely we will see young blood in the team next season and the likes of Duff, Young and some other random punter who should be criticised despite me not knowing who he is, will never grace the Pittodrie surface again.

I reckon its quite pish and when ZD models it, it doesn't alter my opinion upwards.

I'm hoping to see the Dons fans here: Their fans at Pittodrie would be a cracking atmosphere also.

Not the best news. If he is only offering around half of the cash required to save them then he is obviously hoping to screw current creditors into accepting reduced amounts as a 'better than nothing' offer. Sounds like the kind of guy who will come in and take ownership at a knock down price and then fuck some shit up for his own gain. Struggling to see what gain there is though. Setanta is not a viable proposition no matter how you cook it. They were late into the market with their product and BSkyB, with an early entry have established the platform that makes all the cash. Any PPV set up who are hoping to use their platform are going to struggle to offer the same product (in this case EPL football) at a competitive rate. Its a shit business model and it will eventually fail. I'm fucked if I know why anyone would invest in it. Much better to wait until they go to the wall and pick up their packages in the resulting fire sale as the rights resort back to the client. This is going to go South. ND.

The good old days when resorting to 4-4-2 against the hun at Ibrox was a defensive move

My sources tell me it will either be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or sunday.

Is that 3 or 4 Thursdays in a row you have made this bold prediction ? Its a 1 in 7 chance I guess. Looks like it might be announced today and you can tell us all you knew it would be Thursday all along. Genuis.

BBC radio saying today will be the day.

Unless its down the local golf club

Ditto

Unfortunately, this is yet another example of why there is almost no point in time horizons of more than one season for fans of non-OF teams in Scotland. If you manage to secure a manager that can deliver any form of 'success' like 3rd place, cup win or a European run then you have very little possibility of keeping him. Thats why I am all for McGhee, he will give us a good season next year and beyond that is a lottery.

Sure we had this discussion last year as well. I seem to remember that 50% of seeded teams are home first and 50% are away first. No pattern, just a random 50/50 split. Guess that means we have a 50% chance of getting away first