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Didn’t think McKenna played that badly. McLean and Fraser were probably Scotland’s best players on the night. Scotland were out classed by a superb Belgium team. Still cannot believe they failed to win World Cup.

Being reported in the press that Ball has rejected contract with Dons.

Preliminary Round Draw Progrès (LUX) v Cardiff MU (WAL) La Fiorita (SMR) v Engordany (AND) Sant Julià (AND) v Europa (GIB) Ballymena (NIR) v NSÍ (FRO) Prishtina (KOS) v St Joseph’s (GIB) Tre Fiori (SMR) v KÍ Klaksvík (FRO) Barry Town (WAL) v Cliftonville (NIR)

Well new manager same Pish performance. Actually I thought we were slightly better in Nations League home games under McLeish. Positives were Fraser and Robertson on the left and a wonder strike by Robertson for the goal. Oh and we won. Just. Desperately need to find a right back and a striker. Also Clarke needs to stop playing McLean as a holding mid.

England beaten easily by Holland tonight thanks to some defensive howlers. If Dutch can find a natural finisher they could be frighteningly good. Only reason it got to extra time was down to poor finishing by Dutch.

Signing an awful lot of squad players then. We are going to be brutal to watch next season.

Don’t even joke about that. Step backwards that he is back.

Soccerbase website has him playing 59 times since joining Barnsley in January 2017. 41 of those from the bench.

Mate who is a Barnsley fan described Hedges as “not a bad player, wasn’t a regular starter for us but good impact sub”. Played for Wales in recent friendly against Trinidad which I watched and cannot say that I remember him from it but he was apparently man of the match.

Additional games against ICT announced for the 6th July in Elgin. https://ictfc.com/pre-season-friendly-v-aberdeen

Chelsea brushing aside Arsenal 4-1 in Europa final. Very easy win. Hazard scoring 2 on probably his last game for Chelsea. As an aside venue looks horrific to watch football in. Pitch miles from the stands. https://mobile.twitter.com/englidsaway/status/1133832292022005760?s=12

Frank Ross signs a new 1 year deal with option for a further 12 months. https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/aberdeen-fc/donsnews/aberdeen-midfielder-ross-pens-new-deal/amp/

Think it’s 8 group winners plus best 4 second place and 4 euro qualifiers that make up 16 second round teams.

Dates for the league cup for 2019 season now confirmed as follows: Betfred Cup group stage MD1 Weekend of July 13/14, 2019 MD2 Midweek of July 16/17, 2019 MD3 Weekend of July 20/21, 2019 MD4 Midweek of July 23/24, 2019 MD5 Weekend of July 27/28, 2019 Betfred Cup round 2 Weekend of August 17/18, 2019 Betfred Cup quarter-finals Midweek of September 24-26, 2019 Betfred Cup semi-finals Weekend of November 2/3, 2019 Betfred Cup final Weekend of December 7/8, 2019 Draw for the group stages today. Thank fuck we are not in it. League Cup Group Stage draw: Group A Hearts Dundee United East Fife Stenhousemuir Cowdenbeath Group B St Johnstone Ross County Forfar Brechin City Montrose Group C Hibs Alloa Stirling Albion Arbroath Elgin City Group D Dundee Inverness Caley Thistle Raith Rovers Peterhead Cove Rangers Group E Motherwell Greenock Morton Queen of the South Annan Athletic Dumbarton Group F Hamilton Partick Thistle Airdrie Queens Park Clyde Group G Livingston Ayr United Stranraer Berwick Rangers Falkirk Group H St Mirren Dunfermline Albion Rovers Edinburgh City East Kilbride

4 Killie players and no Tribute Act players. The blue bigots will not be pleased.

Union Berlin hold out for 0-0 draw with Stuttgart to win promotion on away goals (2-2 in first leg) to top flight in Germany for the first time in their history.

Aston Villa win promotion to premier league after beating Derby 2-1. John McGinn now a premier league player. Probably good news for Shinnie as more likely to get game. Not sure what it means for our chances of getting Max Lowe again next season.

Can only be because he is the cheap option. Most victims I know did not want him to get the job.

Neither Taylor or Main are the type of player that is going to help us on progress to be become a "Challenger club" or whatever corporate pish they released last week. Main is not even the best player at 8th placed Motherwell and Taylor was a fucking bombscare when he was with us before. If this is the level of player we are looking at then I can see me regretting the purchase of a season ticket before the season has even started.

First batch of pre season fixtures have been confirmed Fixture Date Aberdeen FC Squad Opposition Venue KO Additional Notes Friendly 29/06/2019 First Team Connah’s Quay Nomads Fota Island 1400 N/A Friendly 03/07/2019 First Team Peterhead Balmoor Stadium 1945 N/A Friendly 04/07/2019 Aberdeen XI Elgin City Borough Briggs 1945 Elgin City 125th Anniversary Friendly 09/07/2019 Aberdeen XI Deveronvale Princess Royal Park 1945 James Blanchard Testimonial Friendly 16/07/2019 Aberdeen XI Inverurie Loco Works Harlaw Park 1945 N/A Friendly 20/07/2019 Aberdeen XI Keith Kynoch Park 1500 Cammy Keith Testimonial Friendly 23/07/2019 Aberdeen XI Huntly Christie Park 1945 N/A

Graham Potter appointed as Brighton manager.

Lowland league runs with 16 teams. With Berwick dropping down they are back up to 16 following demise of Selkirk. Non promotion of Bonnyrigg who had licence rules changed on them after they had submitted application will save Whitehill from relegation. Fact that Whitehill don’t have lights the reason that Bonnyrigg weren’t promoted is farcical.

Glad this season is over. Most of our games have been a chore to attend and today was no different for large spells. Some of our football was eye bleedingly bad today. We will need to to vastly improve the quality of player in the squad if we are to challenge next season. Ability to pass the ball to a team mate more than 10m away should be a prerequisite. As Manc has said Killie deserve to be third.

Cove won 3-0 today to have a 7-0 aggregate win over the 2 legs. That’s them promoted to league 2 and Berwick Rangers relegated to league 1. Takes the Highland league down to 17 teams. No word on if they will look to go back to 18 teams by inviting applications or if they will run with an odd number of teams.

Not looking forward to this one as we have been awful to watch for a while now. Hopefully a couple more of injured players are back and Shinnie will have had a week extra training. New manager bounce seems to be over for Leith Spoon Burners so hopefully we can get the win. Early goal would put a bit of pressure on Killie. In Flat for beers then 30 second walk to away end Away end Flat for more beers as off on Monday 1-0 Ferguson