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11 minutes ago, swaddon said:

I didn't know about that. Mind you, I'll be a long time dead when that gets built.

It was one of their main selling points at the beginning. Think they've slowly put it to the bottom of the list of benefits now..

2 hours ago, swaddon said:

That's precisely why I signed up.

That and the free shirt every year. And getting my name on the wall in the tunnel. I like to think it motivates the players to play well.

And the promise that we'll be first choice for season tickets in the new stadium...

21 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

He had his chance!

Time stopped at that point.

And I swear he hit that shot in slow motion.

Great game, despite a terrible referee. 

Shinnie ran midfield. Frame a delight. Topi becoming the player we all hoped he would. Nisbet again about to have a better second half of the season than first?

Obviously helped by Livingston not being particularly good.

If that's Leven's last game as interim then nice way to sign off. 

We better hope Morrison fit for the next game. No Milne, no Polvara. Devlin subbed, so Nilsen at CB.

2 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

 

Never seen milanovic give us width before..

Milanovic to score. I can feel it. I have money on it. 

2 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

Based on comments and this, could be leven until summer.

I just liked your last post, scrolled down and saw this.

I should rescind it.

One wee thing I noticed, just after the equaliser, Leven was screaming at them to stop celebrating, get back up the pitch and get another before half-time.

Just a wee thing but I like that attitude. Thelin was usually fist pumping the entire bench.

1 minute ago, Jupiter said:

You could say that about every referee

This one is extra special though.

Every time Ross Hardie referees us, there are bizarre decisions and he appears to lose control of the game.

2 minutes ago, The.Moog said:

 

Why the fuck is a ref going to the monitor for an offside call?

 

They couldn't draw the lines so ref had to make the call at the monitor.

Rumours Polvara has played his last game for the club, so that may explain his absence.

Morrison injured I think.

Leven promising Clarkson more game time then dropping him.

Lobban coming in, impressing, then barely getting a sniff since his red card is odd.

1 hour ago, Jupiter said:

They are taking far too long to pick a new manager, the penguin guy needs to get his finger out.

I'm going to defend Lutz here.

Bigger clubs than us have had vacancies at the same time, and have been happy to just appoint interims until the end of the season. Man Utd (Carrick), Celtic (O'Neill - for the second time this season) are two such examples.

Had we just said "Leven until the end of the season", would we have been happy?

It's coming up to three weeks, which isn't that long. As long as he appoints him within the next week, and the boy wins at least two trophies - at least one of which needs to be a European trophy - then I'd say the wait was worth it.

Heard some chatter about us being interested in Denizcan Cosgun, an Austrian attacking midfielder. Appears to have gone quiet though.

3 hours ago, Ajja said:

Problem with McGlynn is we are observing him years into a project at Falkirk where he has had the time to build a squad of guys who will run through walls for him. This Falkirk team/club didn’t spring up from nowhere in 3 months.

His squad building has been minimal though, it's not like this team were all with him in the Championship.

On average, they have around five players in the starting line-up who were there last season. We usually have around six who were regulars last season (and that doesn't count Jack Milne). In truth, they've just signed better than us. We've signed 15 players, and in our last four games we've named only four players in each starting line-up that were signed this season.

McGlynn has heavily utilised the loan system. They've brought in eight players across the season, and signed four on permanent deals. 

What he has done well is find gems in the lower divisions, given youngsters a chance who didn't make the grade elsewhere (a few from Aberdeen), and loaned players from the likes of Man Utd, Sunderland, Sheffield Utd, Swansea and Leicester City.

Maybe he has just hit the jackpot with his signings and that's why we're not looking his way, and perhaps there is an argument that we should wait and see if he can continue Falkirk's 'success' when all those loans return and bigger clubs sniff around a few other players. 

Or, he does say it himself - what could he do if given money to spend?

3 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

I don’t think you can say we’ve appointed worse. While McGhee was a massive failure for example, he had a better track record than Robinson. Glass and robson could have been good with time, I see Robinson not much different to Goodwin.

In my lifetime, we have appointed Roy Aitken and Steve Paterson. I'd also argue Jimmy Calderwood's track record wasn't as good as Steve Paterson's. And there's also Neil Warnock.

The club also thought Alex Miller would do a turn. Too young to remember Portefield.

Like I say, he wouldn't be the worst manager we've appointed.

3 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

with karlsson leaving does that allow us another loan? Is it 6 loaners at one time?? I 

Would appear it does, so we currently have space for three more, although Olusanya is rumoured to be one, and if Sumans is injured then a goalkeeper might be another.

1 hour ago, Elgindon said:

Ok,well fingers crossed its not Robinson,but in the event it was,do we think with a bigger budget he might be prepared/have the nous to vary his tactics with a bigger club,ie has he been using whats effective for St Mirren? 

   Sometimes those tactics might be effective for us too,but got a hunch he may be a bit of a one trick pony.......

Like I said before, I don't think he's a bad manager. He may well be a success. We've appointed worse managers than him.

It's more the fucking about with our "strategy" and "vision". We keep abandoning it every year or two, before going back to it again.

Either stick with it or ditch it. The indecision is pathetic.

1 hour ago, swaddon said:

John McGlynn has "insisted" that he has had "no contact" from Aberdeen to be our new "manager".

That's the bad news.

And in that same article, here's the fucking terrific news*
 

*For the avoidance of doubt, I'm being sarcastic.

15 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

do we know what we’re getting for Barron???  

Was 600-something for Barron.

1 hour ago, Goldie03 said:

They can fuck right off with any more tickets 

They wouldn't get more tickets anyway as we're unable to do so. Sure Rangers should have been entitled to 20% in the cup a few years ago, and Aberdeen explained they couldn't do it.

I was suggesting cutting their tickets from the usual 1,600 they get now, because the 600 allocation we get down there is dreadful.

Was talking about this with Hearts & Celtic fans the other day. Let's say Hearts can win the title and Aberdeen make the top six. Hearts would likely want as many tickets as possible for Pittodrie. We might have nothing to play for.

Is it wrong that I really want us to finally give Hearts the same allocation they give us for Pittodrie?

"Your biggest game for 40 years is it? Here, have 600 tickets."

Aberdeen v Motherwell a 7:30pm Saturday night kick-off, live on Premier Sports.

Good kick-off for those in the city. Not so good for those travelling - including the Motherwell fans - as the SFA/Premier won't have bothered factoring in there being no trains going to the central belt after the game. 

4 hours ago, Slim said:

BBC saying that all candidates on the shortlist have been interviewed. Presumably we would need to ask permission from current employers before interviewing Robinson/McGlynn which usually gets out into the public domain one way or another.

Far be it from me to direct you from a BBC article to a Daily Record one, but Scott Burns saying:-

Also dismisses Robinson & McGlynn being preferred candidates, as per those tweets yesterday, but crucially doesn't rule them out being on the shortlist.

My guess would be if we do approach them formally, then a deal has already been agreed informally. We all know how it works now, none of the youngsters even know the term "tapping up" these days, everyone has given up policing it.

For now, until another name emerges that makes me go "Oh fuck aye", then I'm hanging my hat on Robert Klauß or John McGlynn.

2 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Just don’t see it with Robinson. It doesn’t add up. We’ve done much to mold ourselves into a bigger and more ambitious club in recent years, major business focus, investment, improved game day experience, bigger squad, player trading model, planning around playing in Europe, director of football etc. Dave is also, like myself, living in American sporting culture, and Robinson isn’t his type. We are a bigger and more professional club now, with bigger goals and ambitions.
Robinson is a step backwards. He’s had a little success, and I could be wrong, but I don’t see a progressive coach there with modern methodology. Does he even have a style of play that matches what lutz and Dave want? Both have said an appealing brand of football is required.
It would almost be like hiring Goodwin again. But with a little more experience.
It makes no sense to hire Lutz with his more world game experience, then hire from Dow the road at st mirren.

I agree with pretty much every word. But we have previous form for this. McInnes-Glass-Goodwin-Robson-Warnock-Thelin. Every man so different from the next. There's no consistency there in selection. We abandon the plan, try short-term success, then go back to the plan again. We can't make up our minds.

I can't help but feel Cormack is again looking enviously at Hearts. McInnes - experienced, knows the league, good at motivating the squad, has had some success before, and having a poor season at Kilmarnock hasn't stopped a very good league campaign so far at a bigger club. Who is the most similar type of manager in Scotland for Aberdeen to recreate that - Stephen Robinson.

I also think it's personal for Cormack. He got rid of McInnes, and yet this will be the second time in four seasons in the top flight that McInnes has finished above Aberdeen. Hearts finishing above Aberdeen with McInnes in charge is a big problem for Cormack, especially if he does the unthinkable and wins the title.

2 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

 

 

The Motherwell checks the boxes, this guy does not. Neither does mcglynn.

Why does Askou check the boxes but McGlynn doesn't?

If McGlynn was Portuguese, 20 years younger and in his first season here, we'd be raving about him.

2 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

I expect Robinson to get the slightest of glances before we hire a more glamorous coach and vision aligned coach.

It's not the slightest of glances. He has his fans in the boardroom, has been considered before, and is being considered now.

Robinson is a good manager, that's the thing. He could actually be a successful Aberdeen manager. We would likely have to accept a horrible style of football, but let's not pretend there is not a very competent manager there.

But, if we go with the - as you put it, the vision aligned coach - we're asking for time to get it right. We wanted to give Thelin time, and we did until we couldn't any more, but it wasn't all his fault, but will Cormack and the club accept their share of the blame?

I think Cormack wants instant success this time and thinks Robinson will come in and lift the place (yes, just like that McInnes character) and paper over the recruitment/structure cracks we have.

But here's hoping Lutz has others ideas. 

14 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

I think there’s absolutely nothing to Robinson or mcglynn. Is lazy and boring journalism, nothing to report so make shit up for attention.

There IS something to the Robinson links. Again, I don't know if the boy tweeting it is right that he's now the front runner, but he is on the club's radar and has fans in the Dons boardroom. 

And to be fair to the guy who tweeted about Robinson today, he broke the Olusanya story hours before it, which other media are now reporting. (although, granted, he hasn't signed yet, but it appears he's been first to an exclusive there).

McGlynn sounds more like a guess, and I say that because the site posting it (footy insiders) has form for being way off the mark with things. But as is often the case when there's a vacancy, it's about timing, and McGlynn is very much the in-form manager just now, so I'd be surprised if he wasn't in the conversation.