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I'm all for him building his golf course, but I want him absolutely nowhere near AFC.

He reminds me of Bossu. Completely lacking in basic football ability but occasionally gets lucky enough that he can get through a match without being exposed. It's the way he does things like try to tackle someone or jump for a header, I've never seen any other player with such a complete lack of technique.

Who? Ifil? He was punted by Swindon. "Especially when he sees a national institution such as Rangers" made me boak. We might as well reminisce about stringing up darkies.

His quote about Aberdonians being cold towards him is made up too, I refuse to believe that was the truth.

Did anyone actually see anyone spitting at him? I know we have some trumpets in our support but I'd be astounded if anyone would actually spit at our manager, especially when he's one of our greatest ever players. I didn't buy his claim that the people of Aberdeen are cold towards him and unless someone can tell me otherwise, I'm not buying this either.

Something like this would be good:

After reading his quotes on the BBC site, he can shut the fuck up and get on with his job. "As a player, I would have wanted to challenge that, prove them wrong," added McGhee, when quizzed about the unrest in the stands. "But I think we live in different times and different players take different attitudes." The problem Mark is you've got a team filled with players with no bottle, no desire, no winning mentality and no pride. "You've got a player, for instance Darren Makie, who has suffered as much, if not more, abuse from the supporters than any other player. Yet, on Saturday, I was getting abuse for taking him off." So we're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Mackie has been dreadful in the majority of his ten years at the club, however, when he goes through patches of trying hard and playing well, then he does get praise and encouragement. Aberdeen fans generally give support to players who at least look like they're trying. The reason you got booed for taking Mackie off is that you took someone who was trying and looked like he cared if we won or lost and left a bunch of imposters on the pitch. "I don't go out and about in Aberdeen and get greeted with a huge wave of sentiment and warmth." I find that very hard to believe, in fact I'm utterly amazed that McGhee thinks the people of Aberdeen aren't warm towards him. Comments like that make the club as a whole look weak and disjointed. He could have said almost exactly the same thing but put a positive spin on it at the same time. Something along the lines of: "The fans are desperate for success, it's been a while for them and frustration does creep in, they're crying out for someone to stand up and be a hero for them and I truly believe we'll get there, we just need to work together and have a little patience because it'll be worth it in the end, we'll give them a team they can be proud of and their continued support will make it easier for that to happen." I'm not sure what he hoped to achieve in that interview. McKimmie can fuck off too, if Paterson and Maclean are the sort of players who'd go to a team where they aren't expected to perform for an easy life then we don't want them at the club. I'm not sure we even want them if they aren't those sort of players.

Transfer window's closed mate.

Looks like Aluko to me?

What a shit name: http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Pupils-left-stranded-as-school.6039473.jp

Both Grassi and Ifil give the impression that even though they can get through 90 minutes without doing anything wrong, a massive horrendous calamity of a performance is right round the corner. Sounds like today was that day. If we don't sign a defender of some description before the window closes, we'llbe in trouble, especially with Considine out for the season and Ross gone.

Yep, Considine out for the season, Diamond has only played 80 minutes this season, puts an end to the 'we don't need another central defender' calls.

Didn't Kerr get his ass kicked?

I wouldn't be surprised of Miller ended up at Ibrox if Kris Boyd leaves. Smith's been linked with him a few times this season, and Miller does a lot of dirty work in the middle of the pitch that would create a lot of goals for them. He doesn't score much for us, but if he left, I think we'd miss having someone with his composure on the ball up front. In fact, I don't think there's many strikers in the SPL better than him with their backs to the goal. That doesn't help much if he's up front on his own though.

Could be worse, it could be our brightest young talent we're pinning all our hopes on. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/8463106.stm Arf arf.

One of the main ports in the region for offshore supply boats is in Peterhead. The main industrial areas in Aberdeen where the equipment for going offshore is located is mostly to the south and the west of the city. That means the road will be full of HGV's taking up one of the lanes almost continuously. Aberdeen's roads are chock full of absolute morons who have no idea how to overtake or use the overtaking lane. We'll have a two lane road with traffic crawling along at 56mph in both lanes. And that's only when the HGV's will get up to top speed after the numerous stops and starts for the roundabouts and traffic lights clogging up the road. And thanks to those roundabouts and traffic lights, everyone wanting to turn right at the next junction will inevitably crawl along the righthand lane for 2 miles or so. If they sensibly had slip roads, anyone slowing down to get ready to exit the road would be confined to the lefthand lane. And you've got to bare in mind that this road will be the backbone of Aberdeen's road network for the next 100 years, so we've got to be mindful of future usage. There's no point building a road that will cope with the traffic flow today. More and more cars are on our roads every year and that trend is going to continue realistically. It tends to be a massive task to widen roads in built-up areas. As the Aberdeen bypass is being built on isolated greenbelt land most of the way round, I think it would be prudent to build it a bit bigger as it's inevitable that with it being a main road, it will attract developers to build either side of it and it'll soon end up like Anderson Drive (the original Aberdeen bypass) is today.

Wages shouldn't be a problem. His kid is going to school up here and he's been working for an insurance company up here on and off too to prepare for life after football. He's still got his house up here too. As he's been given lots of time to recover from his last injury with no pressure to rush back, there's a good chance that it's properly rehabilitated. Assuming he passes a thorough medical, I'd take him back for sure. Even half fit, Anderson's better than Ifil and Considine combined, and Diamond can't really be relied on to be fit and/or on form.

We must be more skint than I thought

Any time I've heard Calderwood speak on the radio he's always talked up the city and how he loves living here, how great he finds the people and doesn't have a bad word to say about anyone at the club. I'd tend to take that as more of a representative viewpoint on his opinion on the people of Aberdeen rather than a misguided attempt at amateur psychology by trying to link the affluence of the city with the lack of 'win at all costs minkiness' that's more common in people from his neck of the woods. Yeah on one hand you could interpret him as meaning Aberdonians don't have a winner mentality, but I don't think that's what he meant at all. I don't even think he himself knows what he meant, it was just an attempt to sound clever. That doesn't make him a bad person.

His latest gem is that Kris Boyd is better than Joey Harper was.

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