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It's an improvement on the squad that turned up to start pre-season training tho

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aberdeen/7449388.stm Probably isn't too much in it other than a bit of PR trying to keep people excited to buy strips and season tickets.

He maybe didn't say quite that, but Gary McDonald was very positive about his move the other week

Absolutely true, unless the player is so lacking in ambition that he's happy to waste a good proportion of his career rotting away in the stands for relatively big money instead of playing regularly on a lower wage. Another thing I don't get is the school of thought which seems to suggest Gow and Riordan are on a similar level. When Riordan was at Hibs he was being hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread and you could see why. When Gow was at Falkirk he was thought of as quite a good player by SPL standards but not exactly setting the heather alight. I'd say we've got far more chance of getting Gow than Riordan but wouldn't be particularly confident of getting either.

From the BBC: "Meanwhile, midfielder Alan Gow is determined to stay at Ibrox despite appearing only twice last season. Gow's agent Phil McTaggart told BBC Scotland: "Alan wants to give it another go. He'll be reporting for pre-season training." Ach well, that'll be that, then.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha. What a shambles of an outfit

I'm sick of hearing all this "ultimate professional" pish about him. An ultimate professional would have moved to the Aberdeen area rather than commuting from Edinburgh

I see Gary Breen's been released by Wolves. Don't know exactly which degree of ancient he is but he might be the experienced defender we need beside Zander.

From the joys(!) of Liverpool coach to managing a team in Japan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7390493.stm

That's us sorted then and we pretty much know what needs to happen. Us, Huns and Tims all win this weekend - not impossible at all - and we go fourth, only behind Well on gd. Well have two games left, us, Arabs and Hibs all have one. Us and Well 53pts, Utd and Hibs 52. Huns then beat Well in the other game in hand, leaving 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th in the table as they are. On the last day all 4 have a chance of 3rd but we take it if we beat the Huns and Well don't beat Hibs. Simple

Go back 10 years or so and you'll probably find that plenty did. I don't agree with Jimmy that the fans get on local lads' backs in particular, but I do think we can far too quick to judge players at times, particularly those just breaking into the side like Foster a couple of years back and Maguire this season.

They give it out based on league positions tho so we'd be donald ducked regardless of how much more deserving we think we'd be. I'd have liked to have seen us apply but I'm not in the least bit surprised that Jimmy thought otherwise.

I know four reds in Stirling, although one of them may be moving to Glasgow next season. Not really sure what use that is to anyone but thought I'd add it anyway

BBC gossip column todays suggests that we're in for him along with Preston and Hearts. Hope so.

Well done bebo, he's produced the goods the last couple of games

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Took the words right out of my mouth

Fair play to the boy, he's grabbed our two most important goals this season

I had actually typed that very sentence but deleted it before posting cos I didn't want to tempt fate

I haven't felt like that since Dnipro Don't know if I can handle many more games like that this season!

I agree with this man. They either turn up and play on Saturday or the SPL tell them to sling their hook and then they (the SPL) can compensate us for the money we'll lose.

Mackie off for Walker would seem to suggest so.

Finished it now - just as well since the wedding's on Saturday. Thank God for generic jokes to be found on tinternet

Sounds like it's us who haven't bothered coming out for the 2nd half. Boooooooooooooo.

This time last week I was sitting in front of my computer attempting to write a best man's speech and here I am this week still trying Wasn't quite so gloomy about the rest of the season 7 days ago either.