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My wife's brother met his now wife through an online dating agency. He's only 7 or 8 years younger than me but apparently the stigma attached to using them has disappeared during that age gap as he assures me it's perfectly normal these days.

Then again he would say that since he couldn't get a bird any other way 

In all seriousness, so much of our lives are lived online these days that it's understandable that "romance" has gone that way too. It probably does make it easier for people to be a bit economic with certain truths but as a way of making intros it surely can't do too much harm.

Specifically referring to Wiggy & McInnes. You could throw RFC 2012 and the South African tax avoider into the equation but then they dont actually possess a reputation to tarnish in the first place.

I'm going to speculate then that the rumours of this being previously discussed are true then and it's been in negotiations for weeks, even though we had two games to play against them. If so, I'd be waaaaay more pissed off at Milne than McInnes although obviously not happy with either of them.

Is correct on all points.

No one is going to come out of this with their reputation intact

Assuming you mean McInnes, Milne and King at least, what about our other board members/investors like Yule and Cormack? Are they implicated too?

Anyone else still gagging to know what it was that Big Al posted last night and then had to take down?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42231445

They must have gone full circle of bitter hun bastards so we're back to Monster Munch's turn 

Have had to remove a post I had up just before 5pm.

I stand by the contents of it, but have had to take it down.

All will be revealed shortly.

Donstalk does clickbait 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Potter

 

The fact that Potter has a massive (but small in height terms) Hun as his assistant is enough to rule him out.

I see Kyle McAulay, formerly of this parish, is one the coaching team too.

I looked Graham Potter up and thought it was a picture of Kirk Broadfoot so for that reason he's not getting any jobs from me 

The media have driven this, they appear to have acceptance from a lot of supporters that if the one of the cheeks wants a player/manager (or even FFS the media speculate that scenario) then said player/manager has to clearly lay down his response, intended response if offered or respond to the speculation.  Does he have to wear a suitable scarf depending whether he's staying or leaving as well?  What pish.  We've been sold a dummy over the years by these weegie driven copy and paste artists.  If anyone (except my wife and that's not a definite either) asked me to comment on whether I was leaving to take a new job I'd tell them to fuck off and mind their own business.  And as for commenting on speculation, just no.

Rangers may make an offer, DM may or may not go and that's it.  Feeding the hun media is not the Aberdeen manager's job. Every player/manager outside the mega euro teams is up for a wage increase move and they can all get by without "losing the dressing room": that's another myth.

There isn't half some amount of shite posted in internet forums. I'm not sure I've ever believed anything written on a forum if I haven't seen it backed up elsewhere. There's no way that it's already been agreed that McInnes is away. If he had agreed a deal he wouldn't take them team tomorrow even if the board would let him.

Got to laugh at the usual McLean haters on here. Of all the things to be worrying about in the last hour or so, McLean's performance isn't even remotely important.

The ire should be deflected at the fucking nonsensical decision to again fuck about with the formation. We've got the players for 4-5-1, Sunday proves it works, so fucking well stick with it. Fucking nonsense to not even give ourselves a chance tonight.

And a wee bit of consternation for the fucking halfwit of a ref, who isn't even half the official his old man was and that wasn't particularly good either.

Aside from the various merits of their play, when Ryan Fraser came on last night there were five former or current Dons on the park. Must be some time since something like that happened. Two of them even came through our youth system which is pretty surprising.

In terms of performances, I thought Jack was the best of the newbies, McGinn and McGregor did well enough but gave possession away quite cheaply at times. I'd definitely prefer to see them being given continued opportunities rather than Fletcher, Morrison, McArthur etc being brought back in.

McLean gave a typical "minimalist" performance and his failure to track the runner for the goal was pretty shocking. He did come into the game a bit more in the second half but was basically picking the ball up from the defence and shuttling it to the wide men.

Christie will be some player, his passing wasn't quite sharp enough in the first half but that'll be over-enthusiasm or nerves. He showed touch and movement that was superior to probably anyone else in our squad and on a par with the best of the Dutch. The one in the second half where he picked up a cut back was interesting; his first touch wasn't great but he still managed to keep hold of the ball. If that had been most other Scottish players the ball would've bounced off him and out the park after his miscontrol but he was good enough and sharp enough to get it back under control.

And Tierney was our best player on the night, his reading of the game and ability to make tackles was superb. He's definitely a better left back than centre back at the moment but who knows where his career will take him.

Being reported this morning that McLean and Christie will start tonight, as will the snake.

Celtic had the luxury of changing their team by leaving out Griffiths, Sinclair and Roberts, replacing them with Dembele, Rogic and Forrest. We had to leave out Christie and replace him with Considine.

They're operating in a different stratosphere and the fact that they haven't lost a domestic game since whenever proves it. It isn't worth stressing out over tonight's game, we're still in second, that's where we'll finish the season and probably every other one in the foreseeable future.

The under-rating of McGinn on here is chronic. When you look at his goals and assists over his time here then the accusation of being mediocre in half the games doesn't stack up.

With Stewart and Christie only here temporarily then it would be a major bonus getting McGinn back.

It's all academic mind you as it'll never happen.

I think this is the game their run ends.

3-1 Dons, May and Arnason put us two up just after half time, they pull one back but we seal it in the last five mins through Rooney.

It's to aid the pretence that the Champions League is good for all of football and not just the big boys, so that the smaller clubs and associations don't put up too much fuss as the ladder to the top gets pulled away from them more and more each year.

But McInnes never gives youth a chance etc 

Great to see another youngster sign on for the long term and hopefully he can keep this form up for a few more games yet and, when the inevitable dip comes, the majority of the fans can take that for what it is and not get on his back.

If I recall, he played well the first 2-3 months of the 2016-17 season, scored in Europe and early league/cup play. Other than that he's always been considered 'off form.' He's been average at best for us. Doesn't score much, assist much, isn't strong in the tackle, doesn't win many headers, and isn't a defensive player. Much like Jack, a very over rated player who we won't miss. No clue why DM persists with him.

This isn't specifically related to McLean but more in relation to your commment about Jack. It's fair to say that Shinnie has had a pretty poor start to the season by his standards; perhaps Jack brought a bit more to the team than some people give him credit for and it's taking Shinnie a bit of time to get used to playing without him?

Internet rumours abound that the player involved here is one of ours:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15498525.Emergency_services_rescue_top_flight_footballer_from_Glasgow_river_in_early_morning_dramatic_rescue/

He's guaranteed to lose the number one ranking next week regardless. Either Nadal or Federer will replace him.

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Would expect the team to be:

Lewis

Logan O'Connor Reynolds Consi

Shinnie Tansey

Christie McLean Stewart

Rooney

Which isn't bad at all, I reckon Christie could be more useful than McGinn, although Stewart not as good as Hayes, so we're probably about as strong in the front four as last season as things stand.

Aye, he pointed out that some mob that knocked them out a few years ago were also miles better technically. Surely he should at least have attempted to do something about that since then?

Halliday..... Jesus Christ no. Stereo typical Hun wank.

Quite. And he isn't a wide midfielder either, he's a stand in the middle of the park kicking anyone who he isn't too slow to catch, and that isn't many.

O'Halloran, I'm not so sure about. There might be a player there but it may just be that he's quick but no great ability to back that up.