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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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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.