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I think this guy is: http://www.thedandies.co.uk/messageboard/index.php?action=profile;u=562

I can't see Considine making it to be honest, he always looks like he's petrified when the ball comes near him. I think I'm right in saying that he was told he was being let go before Ryan O'Leary decided he was homesick, so he was kept on to make up the numbers. We really need some experience at the back to partner Diamond. There's too much responsibility on Diamond at the moment, and if he falls into another spell of bad form, we're screwed. Derek Whyte was fairly shite, but the help he provided to the development of Anderson was invaluable. Don't have much hope for Maguire either, he should've spent last season on loan at a first division team to get the experience under his belt. I don't think he's got the footballing brain to match his quick feet. He's got the ability, he just doesn't know what to do with it, and I doubt he ever will. Even though I can't see either making it at Aberdeen, they both could do a job playing regularly for a bottom 4 SPL team or a good first division team.

American striker, fantastic scoring record at college level, was wanted in the MLS draft by a few teams but opted to try and get a move to a European team instead. Was capped by Ireland last season in a friendly against Ecuador. Was on trial at Rangers a few months ago but injured his wrist or something and had to fly home early.

http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/clubNewsDetail/0,,10284~1222704,00.html

The weather's gash too. If I hadn't signed up for auto cup, I probably wouldn't bother.

I reckon he'd be much better through the middle, where he usually played before coming up here.

Anytime I've heard him 'take the blame' is when he's completely slagged off everyone then finished off with 'but I guess as I'm manager, the buck must stop with me...' but it's fairly obvious he never means that.

Blu Bar, just up from Paramount, assuming that's still where they hang about posing. Well I say posing, I mean struggling to stand up and leering at anything in a skirt.

That reminds me, didn't Calderwood slag him off a few weeks ago and call him a bit odd because he was quiet in the dressing room and didn't go out on the piss to Blu Bar with Diamond and co? I feel a bit sorry for the guy, whenever he's talked to the press, he's always tried to talk up the club and his relationship with the fans even though he probably doesn't want to be here, regardless what you think of him as a player, he certainly doesn't deserve to be treated like this. And if I was a footballer reading that article, there's no way in hell I'd want to play for a manager like that.

I wasn't at the match, but watching the highlights on the BBC site, some good work by Lovell put someone through on goal for what should've been a goal, and he used his strength well to get past a physically strong defender and win a penalty which should have been a goal. Calderwood's comments there are a disgrace.

You can certainly criticise him for being responsible for us being out of the game in the first place.

This is why a large amount of our players are never match fit. Jamie Smith was rushed back from injury to play against Copenhagen because we were desperate, and he's played in every game since despite looking like he can hardly stand after 20 minutes.

How long was Calderwood's contract extension?

Touzani would be a better shout to fill a central midfield slot.

Madrid was 4 days before an exam I was due to take Luckily they messed up with the paper work and I couldn't sit it, I'd have been fucked otherwise.

He's not had a good run in the team because Calderwood hauls him off whenever he goes 15 minutes without scoring. A match fit, and match sharp Lovell would be a tremendous asset to the team, but he needs a good long run of games to get to that level.

I heard the opposite

Temple of the Dog, some early 90's nostalgia. Chris Cornell is ace.

We'd have one half of the defence that almost got Dundee Utd relegated about 3 seasons in a row in our squad. For an 'ambitious' club, that's not good enough.

Did you copy and paste that from the EE site?

Nope, but Eddie Thompson slagged him off for not putting in enough effort for his 4 grand a week in the Daily Record. Presumably, that's how much we're paying him.

I like the look of Gretna's Yantorno, and he'd probably be the cheapest out of the midfielders already mentioned, although Cregg's probably a better shout.

The thing with Nicholson is, he's very much a family man, doesn't go out drinking with the rest of the players, so I'd reckon if he's going to go and play in some backwater in Englandshire for more money, it'll be for his family's sake, not his own. For someone who had no ties to Aberdeen before he came here, you can't really argue with that. And he does seem to be willing to stay if we improve our offer as I doubt he'd want to uproot his family. Seems a shame we can't find another couple of G's to bump his wages up a bit.

It took a lot of effort for me not to leave at half time yesterday, it was dire stuff. The only thing that keeps me going at the moment is that I always manage to persuade myself to buy a season ticket every summer. There's no way I'd pay £21 to watch that utter garbage on offer. Too much emphasis is being put on entertainment. Entertainment to me is playing basic football to a good standard, we're not even doing that. We're only getting away with it because most of the teams in the league are just as bad, if not, worse.

One of the worst games I've been to in my life, how we never conceded a goal with one of the worst defensive line ups in the club's history I'll never know.