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In Footy Manager you can only recall players on loan during a transfer window? Not sure if that's applicable to real life too?

I think it makes sense to let him go for the rest of the season if his contract is running out. We're unlikely to renew it. And it means we can take someone else like Marshall in who's running out of contract on a 'try before you sign' basis. I'd assume there's a few young-ish players out there not quite good enough to break into Premiership first teams but could do a job for us.

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Am I the only one who thinks Rutkiewicz wasn't that bad a player? He did well when thrown into the team at short notice to play at right back in Berlin and captained the team to a win at Parkhead. Don't recall him having any bad games when played in the middle, although wasn't great at right back. I rated him higher than I currently rate Considine.

To be honest, I like to see the mental footballers who inject cocaine into their eyeballs and set fire to taxis off the pitch and drop kick opposing players then start fights with the opposition mascot on the pitch. Far more entertaining than boring drones like Alan Shearer. Who gives a fuck about being sensible when you're getting paid 100 grand a week?

McGhee in the EE saying he's not interested as he already has enough central defenders. Unfortunately, the ones we have are pish.

If he's available then I'd snap him up ahead of any other player we've been linked with in other positions. Ifil looks like a younger blacker Bobby Mann which is alright for teams that just want their defenders to hoof the ball into the stands, Considine can be knocked off the ball if you stare at him hard enough and Zander is never fit. We've had to put up with Foster, Duff and Mulgrew in central defence this season with little to shout about so it would be easy enough to justify. Considine could be pushed out to provide cover for Mulgrew if necessary. That would remove any need to sign Jim Paterson who I don't rate whatsoever. A central defensive partnership of Anderson and Bamba could be the best in the league.

Another plus for the Ultras then. Good player, absolute cunt of a man.

I was amazed and bemused at the same time when I read that the bypass is going to be littered with traffic lights and roundabouts. What morons are responsible for planning this? It should be a national speed limit trunk road with flyovers and slip roads. And it should be 3 lanes wide, not 2. Give it 20 years and it'll be like Anderson Drive is today. One lane with Asco lorries nose to tail and one lane where everyone's following the moron doing the same speed as the lorries but feels he has to be in the overtaking lane anyway. If they're not going to do it properly, they would be better off spending the money improving the current road infrastructure by resurfacing roads instead of filling pot holes with loose gravel and wondering why they keep reappearing. Any money left over can be spent on public transport, for example, introducing a shuttle train service that can use tracks that are already in place from Inverurie to Stonehaven with stops in places like Kintore, Blackburn, Dyce Airport, Stoneywood, Bucksburn, Woodside, Kittybrewster, Denburn, Aberdeen Station, Tullos/Torry, Altens, Cove, Portlethen, Newtonhill and Muchalls. A lot of those places already have stations/platforms and the others just need a simple concrete platform and a set of stairs going down from street level. No houses need to be demolished, no schools or businesses need to be relocated and it can smash the monopoly the taxi drivers have on the airport. They can even use the spur that goes from Kittybrewster down to the beach too if they wanted to be even more ambitious. It'll never happen, but as most of the infrastructure is already there and in use, why not?

Best Aberdeen Player of the Decade: Russell Anderson Best homegrown player: Kevin McNaughton Best signing: Markus Heikkinen Best goalkeeper: Peter Kjaer Best defender: Russell Anderson Best midfielder: Markus Heikkinen Best forward: Arild Stavrum Best manager: Jimmy Calderwood Pick an XI from the decade: Kjaer Hart Anderson Diamond McNaughton Nicholson Heikkinen Severin Aluko Stavrum Zerouali Game of the Decade: Copenhagen Biggest single disappointment of the decade: Queen of the South Best opposition player of the decade: Miroslav Klose

It was more that the loud singing then mayhem with flares and toilet rolls, etc, happened at a football tournament for 10 year old children than 'wow look at the display ooooh it's so pretty'.

Polish Ultras at an Under 11 tournament: Gets good from 1.20 onwards.

I don't care who Dundee Utd appoint as their manager as the only way Dundee Utd are a threat to us is if we're well below where we should be.

He reckons McGhee can turn Mackie into a decent striker by teaching him how to make best use of his pace. Shouldn't this have been done 10 years ago? I'd rather give someone like Paton or Maguire a shot through the middle instead of sticking them out wide. Hopefully the reported signings of O'Brien and Marshall will help this.

Either that or it was evident that he wasn't very good when we had him on trial.

That's the end of that then: http://www.honefossbk.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1585:lynspiller-til-honefoss&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=88

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Fair play to him, would be all too easy to fall into a pit of bitterness and blame everyone else, hope he does manage to rediscover the form he once had and get back to a higher level.

From what I heard, he was far from match fit. We should probably be addressing why some players are being criticised rather then why some aren't.

They are, this is over and above existing commitments

Nah, the match ball is only available to corporate guests, it's a strip or something that goes to the punters in the stands I think.

It's more the glaring holes in his story that is creating this reaction. He's said the club have been back in touch with him, but makes no mention of what they said. From personal experience, we had a table last season at a corporate function in the RDU, guy at our table won the raffle for the match ball. When his ticket was pulled out, he went up, got a picture taken with a player, then the ball was placed in a carrier bag and handed to him. Before this guy had his picture taken with the ball, it must have existed at that point and he's failed to explain how the ball came to be removed from his possession.

Gary Caldwell's Twitter, worth a chuckle: http://twitter.com/GaryCaldwell5 "Gary doesn't shower in the morning. I wake up smelling of success, why wash that off? Straight to breakfast." "Not many people have a carvery for breakfast...Not many people are Gary Caldwell." "Off to China Buffet King; "eat what you like for £9" - Gary Caldwell's going to eat their cutlery"

Ifil sent off for a stupid kick at Samaras after he'd won a free kick. He lost his markers for both goals too. Not a great display.

This guy does a daily blog of what he's had for lunch, some of it is hilarious, some disgusting, some both: http://pretaranger.blogspot.com/