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McLennan has been pap in nearly every game he's played for us. Also, we were playing a back 3 today with Gallagher supposed to be a wing back. We were significantly better when mcginn moved there in the second half mind you, but mainly because mcginn was shite in the middle and Gallagher's one attribute is his fitness and runs from deep to make space for others. Once again McInnes plays a back three ahead of a game against the scum, with the clear intent of playing that way against them. It was fucking awful. We clearly can't play that way and especially when considine isn't in the centre of the three, exposing his lack of pace out wider. We'll get destroyed by the hun if we attempt today's shite against them. Especially if Campbell plays too, he's nae close to being ready yet. I expect we'll see the back 3 again on Wednesday despite today's game proving it doesn't work. We're a midfielder short definitely. Vyner looked okay when he moved into midfield, but left huge gaps as he's nae nearly mobile enough.

I was just joking like, I expect they'd nae long finished (although I didn't see any cars either). I didn't think anyone but AFC were using the facilities though? Or am I mistaken?

Well when I drove past on Monday, it was after 18:30 and nae cunt was there but some fucker had left the lights on, on all the pitches. Nae wonder it's so expensive. Where does the £750K per year come fae like? How does that compare with the previous cost of various pitch rentals and so on? Does that figure include a loan repayment of sorts? Will we ever find out now that we're nae listed?

I'd say that it's "uncertain" times to be a Don rather than exciting (I quite like a bit of uncertainty however!). Let's be honest, we're all quite ignorant here. The sharing of business practices doesn't quite ring true to me - that didn't need investment, we're not direct competitors we could simply have set up a working partnership. I understand Cormack's involvement sort of - he's been here before. I don't understand Atlanta's involvement, nor do I understand what we gain from it. I don't understand if "investment" is new investment or just the purchase of some unwanted shares. I don't understand why a business man would think that moving to Westhill is a good business decision. I wasn't jealous when Romanov came into Hearts, nor Farmer to Hibs, so I'm not convinced many would be jealous of another rich business man buying up equity in a Scottish club. Ultimately, I think that the several mentions of "top-100 European club" over the last year suggests that the aim is some sort of European league type thing. I'm guessing it'll be a matter of time before the big teams setup a european premier league and I suspect that the aim will be for the dons to be on the fringes of a second tier of that when it comes round. That seems, to me, to be the only avenue in which these rich business men will see a return on their dough. Not my cup of tea, but I could see it selling well in the North East. But good luck to them, and I'm interested to see their plans, and I totally agree about the 90 day reflection. I would like to see Milne become uninvolved within that period so that the new board members are free to impart their own ideas without feeling that they're undermining him in any way.

What a cunt. About as self-absorbed as naming a training ground after yerself.

It is, but we need to be bigger than McInnes, and think beyond his tenure. We need a much better structure in place for scouting and recruitment so that everything doesn't fall on one man and his contacts. Obviously a new manager will have players that they know, but that list is usually limited to the first season or so as they lose track of players or simply get the level required wrong. We need folk at AFC who understand the SPL level and understand the type of players that fit in to the game up here. They should be presenting players to the manager based on criteria requested by him, nae the other way round.

If a manager can bankrupt a club then we've got far bigger problems than just the manager.

Good shout, think you could be right. Twardzik and Vujadinovic both came from Italian clubs. Don't remember any others. They clearly haven't done their research!

St Mirren v Broxburn Athletic surely? Fairytale.

When was the last time we signed a player from Eastern Europe (Cerny disnae count)? I'm not convinced by this like. Kingsford obviously being the main issue for me. On the plus side, we'll be able to get some more of their players to sit on our bench.

It is basic forum ettiquette to provide links ye ken. I'm not saying it's worse than what Salmond is accused of, but it's up there. I don't believe it is a setup, but I could imagine a situation where 10 of the complaints wouldn't have made it anywhere near a court but 1 of the complaints was evidenced enough to bring the others forward. If all else fails, then they'll at least get him on breach of the peace, which I assume is why it's in there (a certain charge, to bring the whole case forward)? I've nae idea how these things work like. Is Moorov the one they tried to get rid of a few years back Rocket? Corroboration of witnesses who didn't witness or some such?

If McInnes hadn't given him that unnecessary 5 minutes the other week, he'd have been celebrating his 500th game at Pittodrie with a hat-trick against St Mirren.

Does that mean we get their place?

Yep, plywood can look really good if showing in places. I'd probably use loose tenon joinery like dominos or even biscuits with ply. Given it's not really subject to movement yer things like wedged tenons aren't really that great. The material is so solid it's difficult to wedge. You can laminate (not veneer) ply in such a fashion that you can make mortice and tenons really quite simply just by leaving a hole in the lamination of 3 pieces (or more) of ply or leaving a piece longer than the rest to form a tenon. Save a bit of dosh by getting cheaper ply for bits you can't see and only get one side hardwood where possible. Good luck. Show us yer pictures when finished.

I can't see Bowie being overturned in his constituency. The rich Tory element will not move to Lib Dems with the danger of the SNP looming. Everyone else will do as they're told or not vote.

Pittodrie is getting re-built as a 22K covered arena, including 10K safe standing capacity, a supporters bar and widened pitch. To be used to house a new Aberdeen city rugby team.

Do you do it on behalf of anyone, or were you just asking for your own info? Not a surprise about deeside, they love a tory.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very much a hobbyist and one that struggles to get much time for that hobby, so I wouldn't be in the same league as your mate. I've probably done just enough over the years to be able to avoid a lot of the basic mistakes, which is probably half the battle. I probably spend as much time watching videos or buying tools than I do in the garage these days. Life getting in the way and all that

Plywood is expensive for decent stuff, but can be very nice if done well. If you're veneering anyway then MDF is cheaper. Both are good if you're using biscuits or dominoes for joining or if you want knock down furniture that you can take apart and put together again. I built a fitted chest of drawers recently with MDF as it needed to fit an exact space and I didn't want to deal with inevitable wood movement had I used actual timber. There are good reasons for using MDF and plywood, but unless you absolutely need to, or finances dictate, or you want the look of plywood layering for example then I'd use hard or softwood. In terms of screwless joinery, then hard or softwoods are yer best bet. I find hardwoods easier to work, but softwoods better and cheaper to practice on. The old classics such as dovetails are still the best for drawers and definitely best to learn to handcut. For table legs and stiles the mortice and tenon or wedged tenon are fantastic and will last 100 years. For more complicated joinery, her Jap and Chinese joints are sublime. Somebody like Dorian bracht on YouTube is worth checking out to visualise the joints themselves. Ishitani furniture also gives a lot of good ideas for entire furniture projects with a good blend of hand and power tool. My advice would be less tools more work (a mistake I made) and hand tooling is often far superior to power tools if you're just doing the odd piece.

Me. Apart from the CNC bit, but I've done CNCable designs (shite ones) on fusion 360 (you'd need another piece of software like v-carve or something to generate the files I think dependent on type of machine etc). Can I ask why CNC? I would only consider that if I was doing a massive run of pieces. If you're just doing a handful of dining chairs or whatever then there are much better ways to go about it. Even if you're looking for precision for a particular design then hand or power tools will do anything a CNC could. If you're looking to get into it as a hobby, I'd still recommend going down the hand and power tool route first. You'd get far more enjoyment and understanding doing it that way. For plywood, a jigsaw, router, hand plane(s), tracksaw, lots of clamps and very good dust collection and mask (if you can stretch to it, then a bandsaw and drill press) will do everything you need. Unless you just always fancied the CNC computing side of things and have no interest in the wood side of course.

Great post DL. Covers it for me. The £11M loss they announced before the league cup semi? Or the £10M they need to keep them afloat until the end of the season? Or the ~£70M losses they've notched on the way up the leagues? They're certainly setting the ground works for making HMRC the fall-guy next time they go tits up. Or at least using a complicit media to pressurise HMRC into not investigating their current business anytime soon. That hun cunt fae the times was on the BBC this morning. When talking about it you could tell there was zero impartiality. He even said "and the club survived by the way" whilst making his point. Which is at best contentious, at worst a complete fabrication. He said it with the absolute fact-stating certainty that only a partisan hun could. This story isn't free from bias and isn't credible.

They can offer a new system, but it must be described in the terms of the existing system. I'm criticising the boundaries of the debate. Even the environmentalists have adopted the terms of the system to discuss their policies. Corbyn's policies are all capitalist offerings, but not neo-liberal or free market and with some socialist trappings such as state run rail system.

But we know all that. Yet there will be very clear manifesto differences this time around and two demonstrably different parties alongside the SNP offering an independence referendum (as much as they possibly can anyway). All under the Brexit sideshow of course. That said, there's nothing remotely interesting about it all. It always amazes me how a system's (democracy) representatives can be so removed, and so unwilling to discuss, the needs of humans (constituents) and how best to provide those in the most efficient and permanent fashion. The whole affair is being allowed to be discussed in the sudo-religion of economics and a capitalist faith based system. That's a very narrow interpretation of democracy.

My argument doesn't fall down anywhere, it is correct. Unless you live in an alternate universe. If capital punishment worked then there would be no need for capital punishment. That's basic logic. Yet you're suggesting that it "100% stops repeat offenders"? Go slowly back through my statement and yours and work out why yours isn't true and mine - by definition - must be true.

If capital punishment worked then there'd be no need for capital punishment.