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4 hours ago, tom_widdows said:

Can see him making his way to Dingwall

Edit: Just realised you were taking about Yogi

 

My immediate worry would be Peter Leven being courted for the Kilmarnock job. 

Looking at who is in our European squad, happy for this to be the team. 
 

If Gyamfi isn't fit, then play Clarkson or Palaversa at LWB for shits and giggles, and play Nilsen in the middle. Or play Jensen and play Shinnie at LWB v Celtic. A shame Bilalovic isn't in the Euro squad because would have been a nice run out for him.

Go enjoy yourself lads, Prague should be nice this time of year. But it's all about another Glasgow win over Celtic on Sunday.

 

3 hours ago, dons8321 said:

Maybe you just need an appointment with Specsavers.

To be fair, the RedTV commentary team initially credited the goal to Lazetic too, so the loyal armchair fans are blameless for this mess.

2 hours ago, Jupiter said:

I see the BBC can't be bothered showing highlights of our game tonight.

It's on tomorrow night chief. The license fee doesn't cover four Sportscenes in a row.

27 minutes ago, The.Moog said:

I’ve heard something about what happened behind the scenes wi Clarkson (at the joot game at Tannadice), but I’m nae sure fit the rules are on here about spreading club gossip, even from a decent source, so dinna want to overstep.

Donstalk has some excellent legal representation so they'll be able to fight any lawsuit.

29 minutes ago, Jormungandr said:

Onybody else reminded o Hannibal Lecter by thon Karlsson?

More Percy from the Green Mile vibes for me.

 

I think that's the first time Celtic have lost two cup finals in the same calendar year since 1984, when they also lost the Scottish Cup final to Aberdeen.

By the way, we have far too many players who look like each other when watching on the telly.

Lazetic-Bilalovic.

Jensen-Karlsson

Milne-Polvara

Too many times today I praised/criticised the wrong player. It's another issue Pfannenstiel needs to sort out.

Not for the first time, Thelin names the wrong line up, but makes the changes which turn the game.

Nisbet did nothing until Lazetic came on, and then he was everywhere for the last 20 minutes. Shinnie brilliant. Bilalovic is raw, but very good. 

Aouchiche - get that £1.5m paid. Lovely player. 

This is not a game for three at the back. We've got an extra passing option in our own half which we don't need, and it means we're short when going forward.

Case in point: Jensen gets the ball wide. Fans screaming at him to pass but he's no options, so has to wait for Karlsson to come to him. He makes the pass and Karlsson then is wide with no-where to go, so he has to wait for Jensen to then overlap him. 

We like to double up down the sides but Killie are wise to it so crowd us out. We are constantly having to pass backwards and inevitably towards our back three.

 

@OrlandoDon pal, see if I go to the Brazil game, I fancy popping along to see the Kennedy Space Centre while in that part of the world.

Apparently there's no public transport and the tour buses take like two hours. Any chance you could just give me a lift?

4 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

You would think that Cormack would be willing to say how much would be needed to build the stadium

To be fair to him, he has. His last estimate was £80m.

The club need to do a feasibility study to get an accurate cost of building at the beach, but the club's issue is they keep spending money on feasibility studies that then prove useless because the prospect of building the stadium soon goes.

Ie, they did one for Loirston, then the council decided they wanted a school on part of the land instead. Then they did one for Kingsford, only for the council to approach them about the beach. Now the council have been saying up until now they aren't putting any money in towards the stadium, so the club are asking why they should spent any money on the project.

2 hours ago, Jupiter said:

Still never going to happen

It might not, but something has to happen. Pittodrie won't stay standing forever.

* Upgrade Pittodrie (likely with a smaller capacity)

* Build at the beach

* Build at Kingsford

* Build elsewhere

One of those things will happen.

21 minutes ago, tlg1903 said:

Indeed, that sounds positive.  

Oh I was being sarcastic.

I'll wait and see what comes of this before getting excited about anything.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yddkkl0wdo
 

Well that's nice, I guess.

 

As for the team, Armstrong sacrificed as a front man, but will be interesting to see if him and Aouchiche can work together in the middle. Keskinen has probably earned a start.

That's two or three times now that Aberdeen's social media fella has interview Shinnie ahead of a European game, got him to say how excited he is about playing in it, only got the poor fella to be on the bench.

21 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

We should be calling out Cormack for even suggesting moving OUR club outside the city boundaries. 

But he's trying to keep it in the city, and seems a lot more keen on it staying there than the council are.

If, ultimately, he can't get the council to agree to help, then he has to look elsewhere. Pittodrie is not going to stand forever, and any upgrades are going to reduce the capacity.

If Aberdeenshire council approached him and offered him the same deal he's trying to get the city council to take, then would we turn that down?

Many Aberdeenshire sites are practically the city anyway. Like I posted on the previous page of this thread, back in 2012 the club were offered a range of Aberdeenshire sites in Portlethen, Balmedie, Blackdog, Blackburn and Westhill. Blackdog especially, you may as well just call it Bridge of Don.

2 hours ago, Panda said:

We didn't bring the guy on just to he a stop gap for a year. 

This should say "We didn't bring the guy in just to be a stop gap for a year."

Apologies to anyone affected.

I am again asking for this forum to employ a proofreader.

Dave Cormack and Alan Burrows to meet the council on Friday. Comments from Cormack here (courtesy of EE/P&J):-
 

I was approached when I took over from Stewart as chairman six years ago by the council to say they would really like for the club to consider staying in the city centre, and the city can’t afford to lose the club and what it brings to the city centre.

That journey started, and obviously there’s been a change in the administration as well, which can happen, and we continue to have a number of discussions.

We jointly did an economic report with the city council through the chamber of commerce.

It was a well-known economist close to the government that did the work.

After that was done, the council kind of pushed back on the validity – or bias, if you like – of the report.

So far forward two years to where we are maybe now, and we had bigger economists who are actually used by the SNP government, Westminster, some top companies around the UK as well, independently to do a report.

They basically said the economic upside of Aberdeen staying in the city centre in the next 50 years is £1.6 billion.

If we move to a new community stadium as an anchor tenant, therefore attracting other sports/businesses to the city centre, that would double to £3.2 billion.

That report and update was presented by Alan and myself to the four leaders of all the major parties about two months ago.

We agreed we’d try to put heads of terms together.

I asked everybody: ‘Let’s put our swords down. let’s think about Aberdeen’, because boy, with the challenges we’ve got in a high taxation for oil companies, importing £50 billion of oil, including from the North Sea, from Norway.

You know, I worry about my family that’s in Aberdeen and my nieces, nephews and their kids. And I’m sure you worry about your families – where the jobs are going to go.

I think it was a free vote in a council of 45 seats, it would get passed tomorrow.

So what we’ve got to continue to do, and they’ve asked us to meet on Friday again, is to see whether we can get them on board to really evaluating this.

There’s no point in us pushing a heavy trolley up a steep hill for another three or four more years.

But make no mistake that if the city lost the club in the city centre, it would be pretty catastrophic.

On the infrastructure investment, there are councils all over Britain getting this money – going and borrowing this money at low interest for capital investments.

This isn’t about building a primary school. This isn’t about putting the trash out or the rubbish out. This is about a significant project that will attract and retain jobs in Aberdeen.

Because these renewable energy jobs… If we are going to attract them to Aberdeen, these companies are saying, what is it for them to do in Aberdeen?

If you go down to the council, the chief executive there will tell you that if you want to go to a decent leisure centre, you have to drive to Dundee now, because of the demolition of one that’s there (at Aberdeen beach). That’s pretty kind of tough to attract companies here when there’s nothing for them to do.

And we’ve got a beautiful asset at the beachfront to build all sorts of sport, integrated sports, leisure, coffee shops.

Instead of closing down when the Inversnecky Cafe closes at five or six at night, it could be living, breathing til midnight – coffee shops etc. in a village environment. Things like a Top Golf would come to Aberdeen.

There are people, operators, that want to come to Aberdeen and get involved in this project. But they won’t talk to anyone because they don’t believe anyone’s got the vision to do it.

It’s not up to the club, right? It has to be the council and the vision and leadership of the council that says: ‘we want to do this or evaluate this fully and go to the Scottish government in Holyrood and go to Westminster to raise or get funds made available.’

What really probably got us, that it came out in the local paper, was that all we were prepared to do was give them a land of Pittodrie.

That’s never been the case. That’s not been the case for the six years of discussions we’ve had where they asked us to be a tenant in a multi-purpose facility.

“What we would be doing over the term of the least 50, 100 years is paying 10s of millions of pounds in rent and rates, providing income.

I don’t know what anybody thinks of that play park that’s out there for £55 million.

But I know it will bring zero income in, and it will be a maintenance cost each year to run it, which is fine.

Our project will generate £3.2billion over the next 50 years and employ another 600 or 700 people in this area.

So what we need to do, to answer the question properly, is continue to try to meet and get an honesty from them.

Do you really want to do this? If you don’t want to do it, that’s fine.

Of course, there’s elections coming up. In Scotland, the local elections.

These elections that come up could determine some changes as well.

And I’m really trying to be absolutely non-political with this – this is about Aberdeen. This is about the future generation way beyond us of Aberdeen and having a city to be proud of.

I never would have thought I would have sat here in Aberdeen and said Dundee’s got way more attractions than Aberdeen City in spite of 60 years of oil coming in here. And that’s pretty depressing.

So, at the end of the day, people vote.

And maybe instead of 22% of people turning up to vote in the local elections, there might be 80%. But that’s down to the populace – we’ll continue.

I believe, we believe in this project of a community stadium – 6,000 square feet of community social access. There’s tonnes that we can do.

But anyway, I’m a cup half-full kind of guy, and I’m going to continue to stay positive.

We probably need to give that about another 18 months to two years to see it through.

If that’s not going to happen, we need to look at an alternative.

Covered training pitch timeline looks like it'll be next winter. Also looking to extend the changing rooms at Cormack Park.

Jimmy Thelin on the transfer window:-

“We have a clear idea of what we want to do – as little as possible, but strengthen the squad.”

It will be “super-good impact” they target in January.

He adds: “We have a good squad, but we need to adjust some parts.”

3 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

He's not as good as Clarkson. He's not as good as Ramadani was. We could probably pick up similar or better for half that.

We didn't bring the guy on just to he a stop gap for a year. 

We're either expecting more from him (and I do think the jury is still out on him), or we think he fits into the team well, and the amount of games he is playing suggests we do.

On 07/12/2025 at 15:12, OrlandoDon said:

So aouchiche is 1.5m. Unlikely we’re doing that. 

I dunno, if (IF) he can continue his current form long term, then £1.5m for a 24 year old (he's 23, but will be 24 next season) is not bad value. 

Two good seasons at us and there's every chance you recoup that outlay.

Sunderland saw enough to offer him a five-year deal two years ago.

This is a game I would have suggested resting Aouchiche, but then he's French so probably wants to play against his fellow countrymen, and after two goals on Saturday he'll be high in confidence. So really he has to stay.

Lazetic looked like he was hobbling off on Saturday, and with Nisbet scoring I think he might be the only change from Saturday.

 

Was at the game, some atmosphere in our end. Fair play to all the young lads that have got the ultras going - great variety of chants now. Even Jesper Karlsson has now taken the Peter Pawlett one.

I don't think - from his time in opposition and playing for Scotland - I really appreciated just how good a player Stuart Armstrong was. Not always flashy, but when you're under the cosh give it to him and he'll go on a run with it and holds onto it so well. So unlucky not to score from that free-kick too.