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It's a weird one like. I was reasonably positive/hopeful when he was appointed until I heard his first couple of interviews. It was like he had completely forgotten why he wanted to be a manager. He's never been the most articulate, but there was always a visible confidence and determination about him and that just seemed to have gone. To the extent that if you'd interviewed him there's no way that you could have looked beyond it. Nothing like the manager that we had first time around. Shame like. His approach to playing players from Scotland was refreshing (and exactly what many fans have been crying out for) and, annoyingly, the next manager will revert to championship subs further distancing the national game from the league game. A better manager would have managed those SPL players to a far better standard, so it's frustrating that playing SPL players will be the easy target. I think Strachan will get the gig again. I fucking hope not, obviously. You could be right with Malky though Rocket, but I don't see him as any better a manager than some Owen Coyle chunt. But that is based on very little evidence whatsoever, I've never paid that much attention to him.

Indeed, it's almost exactly what you would have expected his national manager to say.

It strikes me that McInnes might want a player who feels he has something to play for in his remaining games. A bit of encouragement/psychology or whatever you want to call it. Good management if you ask me. If he gets 16 minutes between now and the end of the season but we still sign him, then I reserve the right to retract that comment.

Maybe just a bit nervous playing out of position....

So what percentage of violent extremism is Islamist led?

Just caught the end, it looked good. Did you continue on to watch Storyville's Silk Road/DPR documentary? Seen it before like, but a good watch. Anyway, a great point about the phones Seabass: "Just bloody LIVE THE MATCH rather than becoming desensitised to it with a concrete memory of some play on your phone". Great quote sir, nicely put. I genuinely believe that people like Milne think that they are pulling in the same direction with regard to the new stadium. I don't think they appreciate the plastic environment they're creating for plastic fans. A manufactured day out in the car. I suppose that when you spend your life building soulless housing estates with zero redeeming features, perhaps you begin to believe in it.

It's not practically on anyone in Aberdeen's doorstep though, that's the thing. It is the very definition of soul destroying. It's a fucking trip to Ikea. If Ikea was a lot shitter. Sheddocksley number 2 would retain the soul of a city club. I'd move there no bother.

The "I pay my money, I can be a dick" attitude that surrounds life in general is a bad thing. It's not just football. Entitlement at its worst.

To be honest, it's the market we should be operating in. If we can find a talented and proven SPFL player then we're onto a winner. Not sure it's this guy like as I don't remember him in the two home games. Hopefully he's more McLean/Shinnie/Ferguson than Tansey.

Could have been in the World According to Truth thread, but it's a book, so it goes here. "33 myths of the system", Well worth a read, and not that long, and also free to download in any format: http://expressiveegg.org/portfolio/33-myths-of-the-system/

My mistake. I'm not asking you to "buy" anything, I provided you a fact and a link that corroborated that fact. Again, you seem to be mistaking ignorance and evidence. In fact, you probably still think that your "pretty much 100% Islamist led" figure is still correct even though it's in your own head. Maybe you should grow up and take some responsibilty for what you post? Admit you have absolutely no idea what percentage of violent extremism is "Islamist led".

You're mistaking political correctness with ignorance*. Political correctness is a myth perpetuated by fuckwits like Donald Trump to disguise his fucking idiocy and the fact that he's just wrong all the fucking time. It's a way to lie and then accuse folk when your completely wrong. Take your comments above for example. It's just ignorance. I have no problem with you not knowing what the fuck you're talking about, but your presenting it as fact. Not just fact, but fact that people are preventing you/others from publicising and discussing. Read back through your comment and then present us with the evidence for your claims. There's nothing in your paragraph above that suggests that you've even looked at any documented evidence or even attempted to. Furthermore, you're not asking people if you're right or not, you're unapologetically being wrong. It's not political correctness that is your issue, it's incorrectness. You'll then counter with some shite about "not being able to express an opinion". First, you haven't given opinion, you're stating fact. Second, nobody is preventing you, they're (me) just calling you out for it. Those two things are present in just about every accusation of "political correctness gone mad" - the person being apparently "shouted down" is a) completely incorrect in their text/speech presented as fact, b) not being prevented from saying anything, just called out and unable to cope. Most of the time, as in this case, the person is saying something that is contentious, zenophobic or racist and usually targetting a minority. There are some intelligent folks (Jordan Peterson as an easy example, Nicholas Taleb on occasion) who are perfectly able to make very contentious comments in public without issue because they provide evidence for their comments and back up their points. They receive abuse, but they've all got a platform they can talk on and a huge audience. You can disagree with them too. It's yer fucktards like Tommy Robinson who claim "political correctness", because he's evidentially talking shite and usually with a lot of deliberate hate baked in. Basically, the rule of being an adult human being is that if you're going to state something controversial then check yer facts or expect to get abuse. *over 73% of deaths by extremism in US were right wing: https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018 Do your own research.

Aberdeen have what money can't buy: a sole, a team spirit built in a family tradition

His footwear seems to be holding up okay for now.

In defence of McInnes, he has been able to counter it in the past few seasons. Our record against the bottom 7-8 under McInnes has been phenomenal. It's really this season that I was referring to. To me, it's the weight of two seasons of poor signings that is finally having an effect on our squad. We simply cannot afford to have such a bad 3-4 windows and not see an impact on the pitch. As mentioned, our first 11-13 are all decent on their day (good enough to finish third), but any time we look to the bench we're screwed. There is/are basically no mitigating options when a player/players is/are having an off day/days. I think that there has to be a huge caveat too though. We're actually producing/buying/playing players who people want to sign too and that has to be credited to McInnes. We've never replaced Hayes, Jack, McLean, Rooney, McGinn Mk1 and Shinnie will be another. All of those have been replaced by slightly worse players, in a slow depletion of our squad. I feel a bit sorry (I don't really) for McInnes, because the margins are so fine. If Gleeson and Wilson had turned out to be even 15% better than they actually are we'd have been in a far better place. But they're both pap.

It's interesting, I just don't think we are that good a team. I think in the games against the hun (and even Hibs, Killie and Hearts) we've just raised our game and played better. For the first time in a few seasons I don't think we've got the squad to just turn up and beat teams in the bottom end. Teams have worked out how to - quite easily - keep us quiet. More worryingly, they've also scored a few too as we keep switching off. It comes down to poor signings for me. Cosgrove is a young lad, who's had a good run of form, but we can't be relying him 100% of the time, which is what we seem to be doing. It then comes down to the bench and that's where are problems lie. We've got an horrendously expensive, shite, bench. Wilson, Gleeson, Stewart (he's been okay) just aren't doing it and that's a hell of an outlay when you consider that's after getting rid of our other duds in Forrester and Tansey. When you consider that May has been pish for a long time (apart from in games where we need someone to run around a lot) and McGinn is so hit or miss we really can't afford these mistakes in the rest of the squad. We can say what we like about Dom Ball but I was happy we re-signed him this season because he was a good squad player that we could call on when required. We don't seem to have that in the forward areas (otherwise they'd be starting!). To me, McGinn is at that stage where he should be benched and be the reliable sub, but he's playing better than some of the others (Stewart, May, GMS etc). We're just not creative enough to win against teams who sit in.

Ahhh, of course. Sectarian? The orange order is not a religion. Maybe I'm missing something. Can't think of an equivalent. Like singing about the Muslim Council of Britain?

I'm guessing it'll be a handful of folk rather than full scale chanting. I can't think of any AFC songs that we sing at der hun that would be classed as sectarian? Even in joking. Something along the "could you go a chicken supper" that we might have sung at the tims in the past. It was noticeable at the last hun home game the absence of billy boys being sung. Was unusual.

Jesus christ, read the tone of my comments, they're quite clearly discussion and not argument (i.e. I was adding to the discussion). I even wrote a big caveat explaining that I was taking a different (more literal) meaning of the term of the word shocking for the purposes of the discussion so that you would know I wasn't arguing with you. I'm merely/clearly just adding more meat to the discussion "in the spirit of forum" (as I also said to make it abundantly clear). You're creating an argument where one doesn't exist. It can not be a shocking record by being expected, or predictable. We can nit pick over 1 away win over the tims or the giddy heights of 2 home wins that Kilmarnock, Hearts and Hibs have managed. If everyone's record against them is shocking then it ceases to become shocking. As you rightly showed, our results are worse and bad in context to the other teams around us but - to me - it's no more than that. What I was trying to add to the discussion was how our results compared to others. The point that you/someone else made was that we'd found a way to beat the Huns but not the Tims. I put up the results to show that nobody else had really found away to beat them either. I'm certainly not defending our performances or results against them in any way, I'm just adding a bit of context. That's not the way I interpreted that game whilst watching it, no. I saw a full-strength team with cup final places to play for playing in front of their home crowd not wanting to lose ahead of receiving their league tophy. To be honest, I don't remember any Rodgers team coming out against us not wanting to win, it was a decent battle on the day. We were high in confidence, with a rake of decent performances in the post-split run in and we'd found a formation that worked (4-5-1 with Cosgrove as the 1 and Ball sitting in front of the defence alongside Shinnie and McLean) - one that I haven't seen us use since, but a variation of it existed v the huns on Tuesday with Campbell the extra man in our midfield. Again, it's semantics, I'm not here to argue about whether the Tims were trying their very hardest that day any more than I'd argue that they try harder against us than they did against Hibs or Killie because we were their nearest competitors (because I don't believe that either). Both are pretty weak arguments in the scheme of things and too subjective to call in my opinion. I'm just trying to advance a discussion about our best lineup that could beat the tims in the semi final really.

Yep, it's worse. With each of those winning 2 (home) games in Rodgers' tenure vs our 1 (away). Hertz and us 0 draws, and Hibs and Killie 2 each.

I was responding to the bit where you said "Hibs, Hearts, Kilmarnock and probably many others have a considerably better record than AFC over the champions in the last few years., if you meant this season then fair doos. Seeing as I've looked it up anyway though, and in spirit of forum, I'll show yis anyway. Results since McInnes joined in all tournaments (taken from soccerbase, I haven't verified them anywhere else): Hearts 2/23 wins (9%), both at home; 2 draws; 8 points from 69 (9%) Kilmarnock 2/20 wins (10%), both at home; 4 draws; 10 points from 60 (17%) Hibs 2/14 wins (14%), both at home; 3 draws; 9 points from 42 (21%) Aberdeen 5/27 wins (19%), 3 home 2 away; 1 draw; 16 points from 81 (20%) The reason I put it up is that I've heard heaps of people comparing our results to the Tims saying that we don't turn up or whatever, or that team X is so much better against them, but invariably it's not true. Unsurprisingly, the dons have the most victories since 2013 and also the only team to win at Parkhead. However, it does point to the fact that wins are sparse and that no team has really found a way to play against the Tims with any great success. It's all very good saying that Lennon or Clark (for example) have a go and take the game to Celtic, but that's really just a set of tactics that they think will get them the best return and it clearly doesn't. Overall it just really says that about once in every 5 games you'll probably manage to sneak a win if you get things right on the day.

Yep, I think we have found a way that we can set up to beat the hun, but it's volatile. The difference for me is that we can set up the same way against the Tims and Huns, and against the Huns we can afford 4-5 losses of concentration/mistakes without being punished whereas the Tims it's only 2-3 (I'm using these figures as illustration). Playing the way we do, we need the near perfect game to beat the Tims, which is why it doesn't happen as often.

I might have misunderstood the Heb ones, but I think that they were just examples on their website rather than kit-like designs. They seem to be focused on the CLT supply and efficiency/energy saving designs and so on. In other words, if you gave them draawins they'd make a "kit" to suit those. *Edit: in reality, they seem almost like a middle man for the Austrian outfit that actually makes the buildings.

I don't believe in the Glasgow hoodoo or whatever we'd like to call it. I do believe that you have to beat either of the scum a requisite number of times in order to win the league or cup (or get very lucky), but I don't think that there was a fear, or a superstition behind it. We've simply never been good enough - and nowhere near them. I think we've been on a par with the hun since they returned, or certainly close enough to them that wins down there are not significantly against the odds (they would still be favourites as the home team). It's really not that different to a Hamilton or someone having a poor record at Pittodrie - it's not a hoodoo, it's just that we are massive odds on favourites to beat them at home. Under Brendan Rogers, the Tims were far enough ahead of us that it meant a win at Parkhead was unlikely. I don't think it is that important going forward, because I think our "fear" of winning in Glasgow will be far outweighed by transfer activity. What it does do is claw them back and make things harder for them off-field by putting pressure on them. A bit like us finishing second last season, anything that does that is fantastic. If this win puts a downer on the rest of the huns' season then it'll help to reduce season ticket sales and in turn Gerrard's transfer budget. They played a blinder by getting Gerrard in during the summer, which lifted the huns' after another shite season. If he turns out to be an average manager (which many of us suspected) then it'll further drag them down to the point that they'll have to reckon with their massive overspending.

They look the business like Rumpus. I do like the cross laminated timber like. Good bit of woodworking machine porn on that site too.