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? You're bat shit crazy mate. But I love it.

Interesting choice, though he'd be the first Aberdeen manager in my lifetime that was younger than me and I'm still trying to deal with the fact the playing squad are younger than me. But, he'd be interesting, different, and as you say he has a vision how he wants his teams to play.

It's bad enough opposition fans believe this without Aberdeen fans believing the same. How many times? Bottom of the table that season would have went into a three-team playoff with the sides finishing 2nd & 3rd in the first division. We knew for months that play-off wouldn't be taking place so the threat of a play-off, never mind relegation, was never there.

That would only be if McInnes (and Docherty) demanded a full pay-off. I'm completely guessing here, but I have a feeling McInnes' plan was always to leave at the end of the season, which was when his contract was originally due to expire. Had he not signed a new deal it'd have caused a lot of problems in that he'd constantly be getting asked about his future, new players signing would be reluctant if the manager was leaving, etc. But with Milne stepping down, I think McInnes will see the season out and then look for a fresh challenge. Of course, I could be wrong, because there's little reason for McInnes to go anywhere. He's well paid, is in a good job at a big club, and isn't as under pressure as he would be should be move to say an English Championship or a top League One club expecting instant results/promotion, so I wouldn't be too surprised if he's still manager next season. But, I just have a hunch he's already made up his mind, and that Milne/Cormack both probably already know this.

Knee injury.

Devlin is off form, I wouldn't say he's a bad player. We're better off trying to help him get his performances back up rather than getting rid of him which not only leaves us with Ash Taylor as first choice, but unless we can find a *good* defender in the next nine days we'll either be chronically short in defence like we were last season when Dominic Ball was playing CB, or we sign another stop-gap of the standard of well, Dom Ball.

McKennan is younger than Anderson, so also falls into the best of persevering with him to give him a chance to develop and grow in confidence. It's how a club like Motherwell have been able to develop a good young team as they've kept faith with them even when they have a horror show.

No. Had the stadium been in Portlethen when I was growing up, we'd have made the same number of journeys there too. I would guess it's not impossible to set up a traffic system that doesn't just drive all traffic towards the city centre. As cities expand and the city centre becomes more packed, new infrastructures generally have to be built elsewhere and traffic systems adjust. I've read many people say the new stadium should have been in Dyce. Well taking the new TECA as an example, how many people walked to the Gerry Cinnamon gig from union street? Did Aberdeen City Council not put up considerations for new bus networks recently that would link Dyce railway and Kingswells P&R, which looked like pre-planning for Kingsford. Here's a link here, though I do remember reading something that had more ideas in it but can't seem to find it:- https://news.aberdeencity.gov.uk/transport-schemes-identified-for-aberdeen-cross-city-connections/ Will it all be adequate? Who knows. They won't eradicate car use but at the same time it's not going to be 100% of fans using cars either. Like I say, Kingsford wasn't my first choice and it was never the club's either. But I can't see it being the disaster some seem to think it'll be. I'm more concerned about the standard of stadium that actually gets built there. What can I say, I like seeing Aberdeen playing in Europe, and a group stage of Aberdeen, Brondby, Rijeka and Maribor might not have the glitz and glamour of the Champions League, but it'd be enough to pique my interest.

I wasn't really suggesting that should be the formation, more just listing the three attacking players and three midfielders. I'd go probably 4-4-2, maybe with Ojo drifting wide. Or drop Ojo altogether and keep McLennan in the team.

Watched the Dundee-Motherwell game. Motherwell were terrific in the first half, absolute gash in the second. Are we better than them? I think they're more attacking and easier on the eye which can sometimes make it feel like they are, but confident when it comes down to it we should be able to take care of them. Presume at least one will be dropping out from the Dumbarton line-up to accommodate Ferguson, but hope Anderson keeps his place despite his misses. The important thing was he was involved in the game rather than being anonymous, was getting into the right areas. Stick with him and keep giving the young lad the encouragement like we did with Cosgrove rather than dropping him back to the bench and hurting the guy's confidence. I'd go with:- Lewis Logan Devlin* McKenna Considine McGeouch Ferguson Ojo McGinn Cosgrove Anderson *It'll be Taylor obviously, I just can't bear to accept he's currently first choice.

Obviously I'm not going to even attempt a proper reply to any of your posts because it'd give me a headache trying to work out what's genuine and what are coded cries for help, but keep them coming as they are thoroughly entertaining reads. Especially the suggestion I'm part of the stadium build.

But how many are walking or using public transport to get to Pittodrie now? I'd guess the majority still use car. It's an Aberdeen city problem that the transport options are so poor, rather than an Aberdeen FC one. The club have to do what's best for them and Kingsford was £1.1m to purchase compared to the extortionate costs of building in the city centre, or the £15m shortfall of staying at Pittodrie. I grew up in Westhill and made that Westhill-Pittodrie journey every second week for the best part of 15 years. Not once did we consider not going because of the distance and I'd be surprised if that many are put off making the opposite journey. Like I say, the location doesn't concern me. It has it's flaws of course but they don't keep me awake at night. The important thing is it's a Groupama Arena or Euroborg being built there, and not a Brentford. Different topic, but I'm looking forward to the new conference League ?. Brondby are around fourth or fifth at the moment in Denmark. Would be a decent fixture that.

But then, it was only a few seasons ago we were selling out 20,000 for big games in Europe and v the Old Firm. If they build it to a smaller capacity it's almost like they're saying they don't feel we'll get back to that level again. Think we have a certain ceiling for most League fixtures certainly. But if they are serious about this Uefa 100 thing, then that means regular group stage games in either the Europa League or this new conference thing, and would imagine the potential is there for regular 20k sell-outs in that stage.

I know you're being sarcastic, but the location of Kingsford has never really bothered me. I'd have preferred Loirston, but Kingsford really isn't Outer Mongolia. But my fear is we build a small, shit, basic looking stadium - something that we would have if we ever redeveloped Pittodrie. And funnily enough, that appears to be what Brentford are putting together.

He posted on Instagram at the end of October a photo of him playing for Aberdeen and said "soon be back out there", so don't think he's done for just yet. He may have had a set-back since then mind you or is just following a strict plan that doesn't see him back playing until summer. But, and here's putting two and two together and getting yellow. He was liking all the messages anyone posted saying "good luck", "hope to see you back playing soon" etc, yet if anyone posted anything about coming back to Aberdeen (and plenty of Dons fans were doing just that) he peculiarly didn't like any of those posts. Yeh I know, I know. I'm gonna guess he will play again, but not for Aberdeen. Probably at a very low level in England.

The capacity of the Merkland is apparently only 2200 or so for this one. Something to do with one of the sections being closed (MK1?), and capacity being restricted due to safety regulations when having unallocated seating. Think that's what the limited tickets is about. RDU is shut though. 11,000 expected according to Cormack on Twitter.

Yeh someone was posting his stats on twitter from wyscout. He's been playing predominantly right-back, and is number one in the Championship for tackling and interceptions. Has also won 62.5% of defensive duels. With Logan out of contract in summer, good to know we may have a decent right-back option for next season.

The problem Hearts have is they need players now to stave off relegation, while St Johnstone need to keep players to stave off relegation. Not sure Hearts will want him on a pre-contract because what if they offer big money, get relegated, and are left with a player on a hefty wage in the Championship? Preferably we'd get him now too but think we'll settle for a pre-contract.

Based on who I grew up on - Jess, Joe Miller, and Hans. Honourable mentions for Rico and Shinnie.

No Alex McLeish, yet Gary Smith gets in? No Hans Gillhaus? Scott Booth? Joe Miller (loved wee Joe as a kid). Stephen Glass?

Would like to see us set-up similar to Hibs when he was there - the midfield three of McGeouch, McGinn and Allan on their day was fantastic. Can we replicate that with McGeouch, Ferguson and Ojo/Bryson? Probably not, but be interesting to see who plays when all four are fit (plus Campbell too). It's nice to have some midfield options. Hopefully some defenders in the door next.

If the Merkland thing works out, then what? They had a singing section thing in the European games in the normal away end. Doesn't matter how big a success it would be as in league games that section isn't available, same with the Merkland, and Cormack appears to have already come out and pledged the south stand will be a standing/singing area next season. I applaud Cormack for having ideas and not being afraid to try things, but it's a bit of a scatter gun approach - not much thought going into it. A bit like his hastily deleted tweet that got him a written warning off the SFA.

Aye right enough, Ferguson has only worked out because he's a Rangers man. ? So was Daniel Harvie. What's he done since leaving? Currently smashing it at *checks notes* Ayr United.

Dean Campbell has made 19 appearance this season. Connor McLennan 16 Bruce Anderson 8 Scott McKenna became a regular at the age of 20. Sam Cosgrove's debut was at 21 It's a bit of a myth that he doesn't play young players. The only one I think could have featured more is Anderson. I wouldn't say there's any others in the youths who should be playing - unless there's a cracking right back that we're ignoring, is anyone an upgrade on what's ahead of them?

I voted for the 2-1 win at Celtic Park in the Scottish Cup. We'd just won the semi with St Johnstone, were on a high as cup final fever started to break, brought a big away support down the road (the whole corner was full - somewhere between 2500-3000), then fell behind to an early goal and it seemed a typical Aberdeen thing that our bubble was away to burst. Instead it's probably the only time I've witnessed us dominate a game at Parkhead (even more so than the cup final weeks later). The bounce at Pawlett's goal was great, could have been 3-1 within a minute when we hit the post. Missed another huge sitter towards the end. Really could have done a number on them that day. It felt like we were finally back. Winning semis, going to Glasgow and actually attacking and beating the Old Firm, and it was fun going to games - you felt on our day we could turn anyone over. Miss those days.