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The chat keeps kicking me out and nae letting me back in on both IE and FF.

I backed Don't Push It at 40/1 Only put £2 on it though :/

This made me laugh, Lady Gaga on Chat Roulette:

You think they would have been able to get someone else to cover this story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

Didn't they do a similar story 2 years ago and it led to a boycott of the EE by the club?

It's up there with 'we should keep player X despite him being absolutely awful because Russell Anderson was a bit shaky in his first season at right back'.

He has been, that's why we've been shite.

Can't disagree with anything Strachan says in that article, didn't bother to read anything that wasn't a quote.

Sore one for Jerel Ifil. Rogvi Holm was the one we binned. McGhee seems to rate Hansson, he's been on the bench a couple of times this season.

I've got no issue with him appealing against Kingston's red card on Saturday even though I think it was deserved but to claim that Fyvie was play acting is a bit out of order. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/h/heart_of_midlothian/8540733.stm "Their player might have made a meal of it since he was up and running about like a two-year-old afterwards and there might have been a bit of crowd influence too." How many 2 year olds run around football pitches?

There's often plenty of criticism aimed at how we scout for young talent, but just read this "blog" on BBC Sport and noticed we got a wee mention which sounds quite encouraging. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2010/02/keeping_the_football_dream_ali.html#196722

DNO also used to sponsor Hartlepool. I'd estimate that 75% of the corporate revenue that we earn each season comes from companies in the oil industry. Even our current sponsor exists to serve the oil industry. We've probably missed the boat with getting an actual oil company putting money into the club, the only company of any size pumping money into the area is Taqa, the rest are either scaling back operations a bit or are small independent companies where every penny is a prisoner.

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?