Ajja

Pretty damning when your top performer is a striker who has scored 4 goals (3 of which were penalties)and that this far into the season the non-strikers have scored more goals than all the strikers put together.

It must be the luck o' the Oirish for good ole Shauney O' Luko. I just wish the club and local media would stop fucking dangling him like some piece of fresh meat on a market stall. He's only been at the club for 5 mins, let us enjoy it for one season at least

I'd take mister bump for that physical presence in midfiled and mister strong for some steel at the back, mister tickle wouldn't be much use but he'd be a hoot in the dressing room.

Seems pretty obvious what has happened here. Fuel bills are rocketing for everyone at the moment so you can bet that diddy clubs like Killie and Motherwell who can barely muster up 5,000 fans a week are going to avoid turning on the heating as often as possible. So when there is a minor drop in temperature they will have taken a risk and not bothered with the heating or at best turned it on low power to save £. Pity they have given no consideration for the fans who have spent money they can ill afford.

You have thought far too much about that.

Sheeesht. I hope they edited my comment if they used one, don't think any of mine were able to be read out on TV

Mr Ben Brown 3 Hearts City 0 Ben gets a hatrick and saves a penalty

McGhee on the radio blaming 'global warming'. Fuck me, what a muppet. Warming=frozen now does it ?

Yeah I read that one. They must have neglected to turn the heating on and whether this is due to forgetfulness/it being broken/noise pollution laws/deliberate sabotage they need to be taken to the fucking cleaners. ITS JUST NOT CRICKET and its ruined my fucking afternoon

You would be surprised how many companies actually have agreed policy to avoid paying ALL bills until they have been pursued to a fairly serious level. At my work there are several respectable businesses who are debtors of ours and do not pay on time. We normally extend 15-30 days credit and some companies will not pay inside 90 just to protect their own cash flows. Others will try to push it well beyond this and it takes several solicitors letters to get payment. It amazes me.

Thats a total disgrace. A wee frost comes down in the early hours of the morning and an SPL club with undersoil heating can't fulfill a fixture. They should be fined for that shit and made to pay expenses for Aberdeens costs incurred preparing for the game.

We can only hope they are made to suffer in every way possible.

The point is not that they must have played in Scotland the point is that in terms of being established players who Aberdeen fans would have thought 'thats a great signing' I don't think Chris Porter, Anthony Stokes, Adam Hammill or Marius Niculae fit into that catagory. They may have turned out to be good signings but then if you are extending the decision making criteria out then our list also gets bigger with the likes of Mulgrew, Aluko and Kerr. My original point was about players who are widely known as being established players by football fans in Scotland. I still stand by the fact that we have signed more of them than anyone else in the last 4 years outside the OF and Hearts (I'm not even sure they have signed many more!). Thereby, we have established ourselves as having a competitive advantage through budget. These guys are not coming to Aberdeen for the sun and multi-culturalism thats for fucking sure.

Thats a pity as we could have done with Aluko being fit for this game.

37 pegs will do nicely

My rational mind tells me that it would be a bad thing for football. My irrational mind (and as a football fan its the one I occupy 100% of the time when I think about football!) says I want to see them fall to pieces in as embarrassing a way I could ever imagine. I have no doubt that Hearts will always be around, they are too big a concern for too many people to go away completely. A short jolt and a 'taking down a peg or two' after the way they have conducted themselves in the last 3 years would be nice.

There is genuine worry among their support at long last. The idea that Romanov will make some sort of sacrafice for the good of the club is laughable. He has never shown any genuine concern for the management of that club and he has carefully crafted a position where the debt is being heaped in a corner of a room in someone elses house. Meanwhile his company are benefiting by being the providers of that debt and gaining interest on it. The problem is that his own little empire that allowed him to carry off this charade has collapsed in the last 6 months and he can no longer bank roll the pantomime that is Hearts. Cash flow is almost always the thing that kills a business and when there is very little liquidity in the financial system and lending has frozen up then cash flow comes to bear on a lot of businesses who are run on credit. Good bye Hearts and we look forward to watching your progress in the 3rd division in about 2011.

I have a feeling that this thread is going to be up top for a while When I spoke to him three weeks ago my 'source' had said that this Friday was likely to be breaking point for the club. Will be interested to find out what happens with this weeks £200K wage bill

Walk away dude. You will never have a reasoned debate with him. It will only make you angry and that can't ever help you unless it causes you to stab him in the neck with a biro at least 28 times.

Even if I accept all of these (which I don't) its still only 3 players to one club at best. I'll see that with at least 5 at Aberdeen - Severin, Miller, Nicholson, MacNamara, Lovell......that's without mentioning Smith !

Well, there is a problem there as the whole idea of this list is that its based on the perception of the person compiling it. Its immediately a subjective exercise which gives it very little value. Hence the reason why I am allowing you the opportunity to expose my own opinion as rubbish knowing I can immediately counter you with the same weight. So best not bother, anyway the lack of a single name to refute my claim has me claiming victory already

I didn't discuss a 'third force' in my opinions (which I am assuming you are responding to) but the wider debate may be down that line. I would disagree with Jamie Smith as he was a pretty accomplished player with Celtic before progressing his career in Holland. You can't include players who turned out to be good, I must insist you apply the discipline of your initial gut reaction when compiling your list. Are you going to do one ?

Who traditionally gets the win bonus ? Do you have to have played in the game or is it paid to the entire squad ?

Only if they keep winning

Or Woolworths