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What's the chances of Calderwood fielding a weakened team next weekend?

Foster GTF.

The first thing Calderwood said was "those were different days, mostly down to finances" and someone at the table next to me shouted out "aye that's right you useless fat bastard, get your excuses in first". Wasn't paying too much attention to the rest of what he was saying. Out of the 750 people there, I don't think a single person paid any attention to the Gordon Smith clip.

Strachan, Ferguson, McLeish, McGhee and Andy Watson were all that were missing.

I notice o2 are heavily involved in sponsoring the Gothenburg Greats weekend, might be an indicator of a future club sponsor?

Willie Miller certainly gave that impression but also said that if this was a bad season then give him a bad season every year. Maybe he was just drunk, I dunno.

That was a fantastically brilliant night. We had Bryan Gunn at our table, absolute gent, got absolutely hammered too and fell off the stage at the end taking the big vinyl banner down with him. Said he was starting a new role as a scout for Norwich next season so I helpfully tipped him off about an exciting prospect called Darren Mackie. Willie Miller said he wasn't sure if Calderwood, Nicholl and Clark would be present for the Man Utd friendly as they might be "taking a long walk". Dunno what he meant by that.... Highlight of the evening was Neale Cooper invading the stage while Willie Miller was talking to Richard Gordon and entertaining the crowd to alcohol fuelled stories filled with obscenities, which included Fergie impressions, a story about Hewitt catching him wanking, his ex-wife kept a nice clean house apparently, and when Fergie took them to Egypt, he thought it was a shithole and camels were all queuing up to ride Jim Leighton. Only lowlights was them basically forcing everyone to pay £10 to enter a prize draw where the only prize was tickets to the Man Utd friendly. Also, the Gothenburg Greats painting print, £75 for the normal picture, a whopping £400 for a signed one. When the players are all already there signing autographs for everyone, it seems a bit shitty to charge an extra £325 for a signed picture. If tomorrow night is anything like tonight, it'll be a hell of a lot of fun.

Didn't realise that was Greg Shields standing next to him.

That can't be healthy

That's an odd one, he must have been punted by Liverpool.

Same here, should be a good one

He's just bought a house in Elrick (has been renting up to now) so he must fancy staying here in the long term, especially with a 3 month old kid.

Nespa said on the Hat that he spoke to him on Saturday night and he said he was going to Germany.

Another good article in the Scotsman: http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/When-the-world-woke-up.4049319.jp

Is that someone's back garden they're playing in?

Yup, he signed for that team no-one's heard of after being released by JDV's old team de Graffschap. I don't think he gets a game for that tiny Dutch club no-one's heard of's first team either as he's listed on the A squad (reserves presumably?) on their website. He'll be a replacement for Jon Smith/Dyron Daal/et al.

We're in the final? Ace. The real UEFA Cup is for losers anyway.

Not got many other options unfortunately.

I think I've got one of those somewhere after collecting tokens from boxes of Coco Pops.

155 games for Aberdeen V 150 games for Dunfermline in which he has barely kicked a ball.

Must be Palenik: 6 foot 3" central defender, 31 years old.

Again, according to Soccerbase, not sure how accurate they are but they list every match he's played in, he's played in 22 games, has scored 2 goals and has been sent off twice. Must be someone else surely?

Well if he played here for 5 years and didn't show us what he was capable of then went to Dunfermline for 3 years and barely kicked a ball, then I'd reckon he was a bone idle workshy fop that we shouldn't touch with a shitty stick.

The difference is that players like Dixon and to a lesser extent Stevenson are young and have potential to improve quite a lot, Darren Young peaked years ago, we know what he is capable of and at his best, he was barely better than average.

He's a 30 year old striker who is 6ft 7". We're obviously planning on playing flowing passing football next season. Oh and his goal haul for this season is 2 according to Soccerbase.