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I'm not sure the game I watched on Alba last night is the same one that some of you were at. I thought we played pretty well for the most part considering we are still missing at least three first choice players. You can see the influence McGhee is having as the players were attempting to keep the ball on the floor more often than not until St Mirren scored, when the lumping it forward started. Totally agree with Glasgow Sheep though, we were (are) crying out for a striker who could have caused a bit of bother once we got to the penalty area. I thought Kerr had a pretty good game and opened the play out well on a few occasions. Ok he doesn't find his man with every single pass but if he did he wouldn't be playing for the Dons. And Ifil is exactly what he was described as in the summer. I'd rather have a defender who is decent at the basics of his trade and who isn't much of a passer ahead of someone who is comfortable with the ball at his feet but doesn't win a header or get many blocks in. Very, very frustrating result last night but hopefully Zander and Sone coming back, along with Miller and hopefully a new striker, will get us back on the right road.

That other hun cunt Bougherra will be going as well. Sone if he gets his finger oot?

Is that the one where the extra income from the rearranged game is meant to have kept them in business?

This thread is braw. A car crash from the first post onwards

Done. Some interesting ideas in there.

Young player of the month for November: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aberdeen/8400503.stm Pawlett, not Messi

They're living outwith their means at the moment anyway so I don't see why relegation would make much difference. They'll be in business until Romanov walks away so I suppose relegation might make him do that and speed things along a bit. I can't see any way back from the debt they've got unless there is a Romanov II to take over when Mad Vlad gets bored.

I think a lot of it has to do with so many relatively young and inexperienced (you could take that as a euphimism for shite) referees are working in the SPL these days. They seem to referee by the letter of the law and don't seem willing or able to use common sense.

Maybe McGhee doesn't feel that the strikers are to blame for the lack of goals and thinks that it's the supply that's the problem? If that's the case then signing wingers makes plenty of sense.

How come you can get booked for lifting your shirt after a goal but you can bare your arse cheeks and not be punished?

Oooooh you've got a source The situation as you describe it probably sums up the shambles of Paterson's tenure mind you.

I'm not having a go at yout but I find that totally unbelievable. I appreciate the Pele was a mess but not talking to a player that he put in the team most weeks even tho he thought he was "shit"? Would love to know how you know that.

Not an ideal draw but I fancy we'll take them out.

Indeed. What a fucking stupid thing for McGhee to suggest.

Tokyo isn't too nice at all. The lager isn't bad though and I'm quite partial to the Punk IPA.

Might not be. I doubt very much if there will be interest from any other Championship clubs so we should have half a chance.

That piece makes no sense whatsoever. Just "chico" trying to do his usual and sound clever. Empty vessels make the most noise right enough. However, AFC have gone well over the score on this. Maguire's tackles were both worthy of bookings so he'd have been off anyway and we shouldn't really be complaining about those. Ross's second booking was wrong though, but still hardly the injustice AFC are making it out to be. Likewise with Murray's tackle, which was never deserving of a red card. It seems to me like McGhee and Miller are taking a leaf out of their old gaffer's book and trying to deflect attention away from our decidedly average start to the season. I've got no problem with that and it might even help to fire the players up if they think they're being hard done by

Anyone else getting terminally fed up with so many threads descending into these mind-numbing arguments? On one side, Jimmy's gone, get over it. On the other, McGhee isn't the saviour (or a naughty boy), so deal with it. What we have is pretty much a similar standard to last season, which is what I'd have expected given we were swapping one SPL manager for another. It would be much the same if we swapped about half of the players around between us, Hibs, Utd and Motherwell so why should the management be any different?

The only bit I don't particularly like is the "manipulative scum" bit. Bit over the top and isn't really in keeping with the tone of the rest of the article. Good piece overall though.

As did our previous manager. The one before him didn't. The one before that definitely did.

I didn't realise that Preece had trained with any other goalkeeping coaches in the SPL to be qualified enough to make that judgement. Sad to see a legend leave the club but like others have said, if McGhee thinks it's for the good of the club then that's how it has to be.

Don't agree at all. Did you see the game against Chelsea at Old Trafford last season, or the Champions League semis? Fletcher's absence was a big reason for Utd's poor performance in the CL final. What Utd need is a creative, goal-scoring player to play alongside Fletcher. Or get in a time machine and go back 10 years for the old Paul Scholes.

Yeeeeees, he "accidentally" let Zander heed him on the back of the napper. FFS fuck sake, KMG must go.

Do you either watch or type with your eyes shut? To claim anyone in a red shirt today was "superb" is ludicrous. On or two were half decent but none of them were any better and to suggest otherwise is insanity.

It's all sounding quite positive but I'll no be getting excited til Phil Schofield and Gordon the Gopher are elbowed out for a photo or two tomorrow.