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Looks good, no complaints here

If we're looking at wild card free transfers, how about Michael Ball? Been without a club since the summer, might fancy a low-wage gig just to get fitness levels up and back in the shop window.

Still haven't seen any cables that are politically damaging to the US that they definitely wouldn't want in the public domain. The list of critical national security facilities across the globe is basically a shopping list for terrorists to target. None of them are on US soil. Striking a wedge between Saudi/Iran and China/North Korea is to the advantage of the Americans too. Undermining political leaders of other strong countries makes them look weaker and by default, makes the US look stronger after the Bush years. Good way for the Yanks to get rid of Wikileaks, feed them some stuff, they think they hit the jackpot, then use the scandal to turn the public and corporations against them and everyone (including the Russians) go back to thinking the USA is not to be fucked with.

I don't understand the hate he gets. I wasn't a huge fan of his personality, some of his signings were terrible and some of his teams were dire to watch but there were plenty of great moments and at the end of the day, the guy loved the club and the city, and still does. There will always be debate about the rights and wrongs of sacking him, but he's done enough to deserve the respect of each and every Dons fan. "I told Stewart Milne to sort out the contracts for myself, Jimmy Nicholl and Sandy Clark although he did say he'd put the matter before the other directors. " ^^^ This confused me however, didn't we just give him and his team 3 year contracts 6 months before we sacked them or am I getting mixed up with Mackie?

I'd take him in a heartbeat. He done fantastically well to take Hull from absolutely nowhere to the Premiership then keep them up and he did so on a tight budget. It was only when he started throwing money around that the shit hit the fan and he went a bit mental. Whoever we get is going to have some sort of flaw, I'd rather the manager we get has a flaw like having a screw loose rather than being terrible at managing a football team like Stark's track record suggests, at least we'll get some entertainment out of it if it fails.

I did the same every winter when I lived in Aberdeen, put on a set of smaller wheels with narrower winter tyres to run Oct/Nov to Mar/Apr. Never had any troubles in the snow apart from dodging other dickheads on the road, usually driving a rear wheel drive car with wide summer tyres. Some of my friends who had fancy powerful cars would tend to pick up a cheap small car for a couple of hundred quid to run over the winter. £400 for a 1.2 Clio with 6 months MOT works out cheaper than buying a set of winter tyres and saves your car getting all rusted because of the salt on the roads.

At home to St Johnstone in the mid to late 90's. I think it was so cold that none of the players could be bothered trying to score. I left at half time. Final score was 0-0.

I'd rather have someone with a different mind-set to your tried and tested SPL managers, maybe someone who's been out of work for a while and would be willing to take a job like this for less pay to get themselves back on the radar down south. While that may sound depressing, I'd rather our next manager left us after being poached by a bigger club after doing well at Pittodrie than having to sack another failure. I think someone who's used to working with better players will be better suited to getting rid of the dross and getting the most out of the players who have ability but don't use it as often as they should.

What about Phil Brown, ex-Hull manager? He's a bit of a lunatic and would be a gamble if we could afford him, but I reckon he'd either do extremely well... or relegate us. At least it would be some excitement.

I didn't expect that when I woke up this morning! Not sure who I want to replace him, there's not one stand out candidate and don't really fancy any of the names suggested so far. I said Eric Black last time, there's the Gothenburg connection again, but that doesn't have to be a noose round his neck. He's young, he's intelligent, he's articulate and likes his teams to play attractive football and sign players who can play football. IIRC Coventry fans petitioned for him to be re-instated after he was sacked, and I think since then, this season is the only season where they've done any better since Black was in charge.

Looks like the Daily Record have taken this interview and twisted the words a bit: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2017864

Japanese cars are for people who don't like cars.

Aye, the news was making a big deal out of her parents being self made millionaires. "Oh how quaint, they actually had to earn their fortune, guffaw"

I'd rather have the baldy gene than the ginger gene!

Just back from the race, I was wanting anyone but Vettel to win so wasn't overly happy with the result. Big lack of action too other than the Schumacher crash.

That'll be Maguire back out to playing on the wing then.

Might be an English Aberdeen fan, might be a fuckwit trying to wind up Tims, who knows? I've seen plenty of red and white saltires, could just be someone trying to do something similar with the union flag. If it's meant to be a wind up, I think it's only succeeded in winding up Aberdeen fans.

I don't have any feelings towards it whatsoever, if someone wants to celebrate being British as well as being an Aberdeen fan, I don't have a problem with it. Assuming that's what it is.

I don't understand the Billy Stark thing. He's not got a great record at club level and as U21 manager, he's beaten teams you'd expect us to beat before losing to Iceland. Derek Adams and Jocky Scott would be mistakes. There's not really any standout candidate. I thought Hibs were silly to go for Calderwood over Steve Clarke, so he may be an option, and there's Eric Black as usual who I think would do a good job, but I think if we were ever going to appoint him, we would have done it by now. There's not really anyone else in the SPL that I'd fancy. Maybe someone like Alan Curbishley, someone that's got a good reputation but has been out of work for a while?

I see Maguire's been left out of the latest U21 squad. I wonder if that means he's getting called up...

He clearly wasn't match fit. But, the only real way of getting match fit is by playing competitive matches. Once he has a few matches under his belt, I'm sure we'll see the best of him. I'm more concerned that if he's played up front with Vernon, there's not a lot of pace and the only attacking option we have is punts up the park.

I hope Webber can hold on, he's always had terrible luck over the years. Got pit straight tickets for the Abu Dhabi GP so should see the new champion cross the line whoever it is.

What's the difference between a kangaroo and a kangaroot? One's a marsupial and the other is a Geordie stuck in a lift.

The reaction on Follow Follow was quite amusing, one can only imagine the sort of things they were saying during the Pope's visit.