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Sounds fair enough to me, get on with it lads!

It won't be long before someone slips of some dog shit at Seaton Park and lands on a junkie's discarded needle and gets AIDS. Maybe.

Didn't we WIN 9 home games in arow under Plebbe?

Done

Good stuff, Nicholson was the one I was worried about most, most important player in our squad for me.

John Hughes wouldn't be a bad shout, but Aberdonians in general, are a bit more reserved that other Scottish people and I can't see his 'loveable oaf' personality going down too well. I'd go with Eric Black, he comes across as very articulate and intelligent in interviews and sets his teams to go out and play attractive football. And he seems to have genuine contacts on the continent for finding good cheap foreign players. I've just got a good feeling about the guy. I'd also be more than happy with Mark McGhee as well, and also, to throw another hat into the ring, Terry Butcher.

Appalling game, Calderwood needs to stop playing Clark in the centre of midfield, it always puts us on the backfoot, and he did much better in the second half out wide. Mair is pish.

And I'll bet they'll be willing to play for less than the Scottish kids too. It's politically correctness gone mad.

Those mongos are always trying to take liberties.

That's me just in the door now. The scenes from last night are nothing compared to the scenes at Heathrow when the useless BA cunts delayed my flight back to Glasgow by 4 fucking hours.

Seems like they haven't been selling the sections wither side of the Dons fans, and will give us first refusal when they go on general sale on Wednesday, so it looks like the majority of us will all be together

http://www.clubatleticodemadrid.com/en//atleticoaldia/noticias.asp?id=1915

I don't arrive in Madrid until half 3 on Thursday afternoon, 45 minutes on the Metro to get to my hotel too, hopefully won't miss out on too much of the fun and games.

Red and green should never be seen!

Without paying any attention to statistics, in my opinion, the most productive and effective partnership up front I have seen in the last 3 years or so is Steve Lovell and Jamie Smith, both of them have excellent positional skills, and it stands to reason that they're more likely to anticipate each other more than anyone else in the squad. I think Miller could do a similar job up front with Lovell, but only if we play quick attacking football on the deck. Target man football can be effective, but we just don't have the personnel to make it work. Miller isn't a target man, none of our other strikers suit playing off a target man. For us to be at our best in an attacking sense either requires us to change our playing style, or change our attacking personnel. Unfortunately, changing to a more 'attractive' playing style would require a massive change of personnel at the back too, and we're nowhere near being able to afford the sort of players with the footballing brain to make it work. So we're stuck watching cloggers hoof the ball up to slightly built, slightly taller than average strikers with even bigger cloggers thundering against their spine.

Barry Robson went in 2 footed with his studs up, horrible challenge. Straight red card. There was a bit of a mssive ruck after that, and Derek Young and Lee Wilkie both got booked. And a few minutes later, we were defending a cross into our box, Wilkie jumped up and deliberately handballed it, second bookable offence.

Pretty much, unless you fancy going in the home end.

http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/clubNewsDetail/0,,10284~1156869,00.html 3000 tickets to go on sale 10th November. Bloody good timing cos I fly out to Dubai the next morning. This is going to be a nightmare, I can see people sleeping outside overnight and the like.

Oh for fucks sake, just let them sit out so they're at full fitness for Dundee Utd and Lokomotiv Moscow.

Everytime I read it, it just sends my blood pressure shooting up. The Dons security chiefs planning on using sophisticated computer technology to track down the fan in Dnipro with the flare, more than likely at a cost exceeding the paltry fine we may not even get from UEFA. Dave McDermid urging fans not to travel to Madrid without a ticket. What else are we supposed to do? Sit around twiddling our thumbs waiting for tickets to go on sale while the cost of flights and hotels increase and availability decreases? In other words, they want everyone to pay a well over inflated price to travel with a club charter so they can make more money off us. If they concentrate on getting us a good allocation, there won't be a problem. Alex McLeish claiming Scotland have a glut of right backs, then goes on to name Alan Hutton, Graeme Murty and Graham Alexander as examples.

At least a dozen teams got fined for the same thing last season, the average fine was about £3000, pretty much the same as one of JC's business class flights to Egypt last season, not the end of the world. Hopefully it's a case of a boy thinking it's ok to do that in Eastern Europe, now knows better, won't do it again, and now everyone knows not to do it. Nae need for anyone to be named and shamed on this occasion.

Regarding hotels, just booked Reyes Catolicos City Center Hotel, 5 minute walk from the stadium, £70 for one night for a single room. http://www.hotelroom.com/pcln/hotel/93284

Got a different flight, £164 return from Glasgow with BA/Iberia