Jute

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

Tony Pulis sacked by Middlesbrough following them not making the play offs. Had them playing some awful football as well.

Cosgrove’s 7 penalties out of that total and the gaps not that big. Big punt in hoping that we get two good seasons from Cosgrove when we only really got him scoring between December and February this season. I don’t think we will get an offer for Cosgrove this summer as he is yet to show he can score consistently and his failure in lower reaches of English pyramid is still to recent.

Joe Lewis voted player of the year and Lewis Ferguson young player of the year. Max Lowe was players player of the year and Ethan Ross got development player of the year. Goal of the season was Lewis Ferguson’s goal against Burnley. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/aberdeen-fc/1750730/goalkeeper-joe-lewis-crowned-aberdeens-player-of-the-year-for-2018-19/

Fact Rotherham don’t think Ball is worth keeping for league 1 campaign speaks volumes about Ball’s ability or lack of. He is an extremely limited player and not one we should be bring to a club who are looking to challenge at the top end of the league. Would rather we used young players to plug gaps in the squad than journey men like Ball.

I was at the Sunderland v Man United game in 2012 so got to watch the hope building in the United support as the game went on only for it to be crushed right at the end. As a neutral it made great viewing however as others have said on a footballing basis the level of consistency show by both teams in the run in has been unbelievable so this season wins it for me.

Rotherham have confirmed that Ball’s contract will not be renewed following their relegation to league 1.

Shinnie now 90 minutes away from being a premiership player after Derby best Leeds 4-2 at Elland Road.

It was mentioned by a few of the Cove fans at their game with East Kilbride. Apparently he has been told latest injury means he is no longer able to play full time so is dropping down to play part time. No idea if that is true but what they were claiming last week.

Dave Cormack saying McInnes has said not interested in the Scotland job. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48285052

Think McIntyre made a fine job of ruining his career himself. Dundee fans I know had been saying for months he was a disastrous appointment and would take them down.

Opens at pictures of new strip for me. Looks like the strip from 2 seasons ago. Not a fan of stripes on the side either but at least it’s red and white.

New home strip launched today. https://www.afc.co.uk/2019/05/14/2019-20-home-kit-pre-order-now/

McIntyre punted by Dundee about 8 weeks to late. Was a very odd appointment in the first place.

Chris Hughton sacked by Brighton after keeping them up for 2nd season in a row.

Cove won first leg of play off with Berwick 4-0 today. Looks like City of Aberdeen will have two league teams going forward or at least until the Dons fuck off to Westhill.