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The Sushi Box in the Market is fantastic too if you like Japanese food. It's run by actual Japanese wifies. The pork ramen is highly recommended. If only all those people queuing for a table in Wagamama knew what was a couple of hundred metres up the road. Also had a great lunch at Castleton Farm near Fordoun last week. Peppered steak baguette was sublime.

Would certainly be interesting to see the numbers of people who live in the city and work in Westhill. Wouldn't be surprised if there were more cars using the dual carriageway during rush hour 10 times a week than there would be for a football match.

Jeffrey Monakana on the bench for Sutton Utd tonight. Seems about his level right enough.

Taylor was ok, but every single one of his clearances went vertical and ended up putting us back under pressure.

Video of McGhee getting sent to the stand, from the Main Stand. Watch to the end.

Unless you're running a restaurant, or inviting round people native to the country whose cuisine you're making, it doesn't really matter a toss how authentic it is, make it how you like it.

My usual method: Fry onion and garlic until onion starts to brown. Add pancetta/chopped bacon, continue to fry for a couple of minutes. Add mince (seasoned with salt/pepper/mixed Italian herbs) and fry until browned. Drain off any excess fat (or don't if you prefer). Chuck in a glass of red wine and let it bubble away for a minute or two. Add in a jar of passata (or large tin of crushed tomatoes), a tablespoon or so of tomato puree, a good glug of Worcester sauce, more salt, pepper and mixed Italian herbs and let it simmer away until it gets to your desired thickness, usually about an hour or so. If I can't get a large jar of passata, I'll use a small one and top up with some beef stock or more red wine.

Looks like the stadium objectors have got themselves a new logo (from their FB page) This is some stunning self-awareness from someone most likely typing that from inside a Stewart Milne house once sat on rural green belt:

If he adopted her when she was one day old and brought her up, is he not entitled to call himself her father? If a non-interracial couple have a kid using an anonymous sperm donor, does the male in the relationship have to forfeit the use of the word "father"?

Where does he play? I seem to remember him playing behind the striker, the role McLean is best in. I'd hate to see McLean pushed further back where he often struggles just to accommodate Christie. I wonder if we'll see Pawlett leaving before the end of the month.

Unless my memory is failing me, we paid an external party about 600k to produce a feasibility study into the location of the new stadium, including redeveloping the current site. Presumably there's a big binder sitting somewhere in Pittodrie with all the information inside. Has any shareholder tried requesting a copy, or just even read it?

If it's a 6 month loan with a view to signing him in the summer, then it's a good move I reckon. If he's just here as a squad filler to take over the 15 minute cameo role that could be utilised by players that are already contracted to us (Storey/Wright/Stockley), I'd rather we concentrated our resources on a central midfielder.

If your average Westhill resident is to be believed, Merkland Road must currently resemble downtown Aleppo.

Alternatively we could just send Wes Burns back to Bristol. I assume we were not planning to loan a player in that position when we signed Storey. Or we could get rid of both and place some faith in Scott Wright.

Short corners, especially when we do it. We seem to have no better than a 50% success rate of the ball actually entering the box when we do it. Throw ins not being taken by the player who gets to the ball first. Unless you have a player with gorilla arms that can launch the ball right onto the pen spot, the throw in should be taken as quickly as possible by the player closest to the ball before the opposition have a chance to get into position and pick up all their markers. Or when the next guy comes jogging down the flank unmarked with his hand in the air signalling that he will take the throw in, take the opportunity to throw the ball to him instead of handing him the ball to try to throw it to someone who's fully marked. Again, it's something we've been terrible at for as long as I can remember.

Is this boy a real referee or is this some kind of Jim'll Fix It/Make A Wish type thing going on?

Made Beef Pho for the first time last night using my Vietnamese brother-in-law's mother's recipe. Tasted pretty good.

Surprised Jack and McGinn have 6 months left, our business model in the last few seasons has been to tie down our best and most valuable players on long term contracts. I wouldn't be surprised if both have already been offered extended terms but are either stalling or have said no. I'd keep Considine. He's a known quantity, is usually dependable, can play in a couple of positions and probably isn't paid top dollar. Presumably if we let him go, we'd replace him with a gamble on an English League 1/2 player or get in an untested English PL/Championship player on loan who'll either be good and leave us with a gaping whole when they leave after 6/12 months, or shite but we need to keep playing him because we promised his parent club that we would. In both cases, we'd be better off keeping him. I like Pawlett, but I don't see him ever taking that next step to become a fixture in our starting 11, and for his own sake, he'd be better off going somewhere that gives him that opportunity.

Steve Clarke would be a good option. There's no-one in Scottish football currently that I'd be happy with.

If I'm going to pay for it, I'd want someone who knows what they're doing.

Heart doesn't cost any money. Did any of our players even get frustrated enough to get a yellow card? What is the purpose of Wes Burns? How can you go home and face your wife after she watched Scott Brown make a mockery of your manhood?

Does Scott Brown have Kenny McLean's testicles in a little velvet purse? One of the most gutless performances I have ever seen from an Aberdeen player.

1. Most of our best players (McGinn, Hayes, Rooney, Logan and probably Jack and McLean) are in too much of a comfort zone where they've accepted there's probably not a big move around the corner and are content with their lot which means the ambition and will to win that is required to give us a serious chance of challenging for titles will always be lacking. 2. Most of us (myself included) deep down are ok with that if it means regular 2nd/3rd place finishes, Europe every year and the odd cup final.

There's usually a bunch of German and Italian teams over there at the same time, good chance for a glamour friendly.

To be fair, there was a 2/3 month period where he was brilliant in every game once he had settled. He never really re-captured that form after a bunch of injuries though.