RicoS321

I guarantee you'd never heard of him, or seen him play, before his call up. Me neither obviously. Hopefully Strachan only continuing his pathetic reign for the next week, so I can take a wee bit of interest again.

Pittodrie is fucking cool.

Some good points ED, well put. However, the above is balls. I have driven to the vast majority of games this season as I haven't been having more than a pint (before the game, nae after). If I'm not drinking at all, I leave from about 8-9 miles South of the city at about 30-35 minutes afore kick off, with a pickup in Torry, and am parked and in the ground afore kick-off. If I'm early, I go to the Gallowgate or somewhere and have a pint in the centre of toon KGB, Blue Lamp or some such and then head to the game. It's really simple from the South and anyone who says it isn't, isn't doing it properly. As for whether or not it is in the shire, it isn't, but it's a hair's breadth. One thing for certain is that it absolutely isn't in Aberdeen. To answer Jute's question, there isn't another club in the UK that plays as far from the location from which they claim to be playing for. Whilst that might not be a big deal - certainly not in the short term - it is worth discussing. I'm not one for sentimentality, but I do understand identity, and Pittodrie has that. The location is very Ikea, very Stewart Milne Group - a meaningless nothing in the middle of nowhere, not part of anything. The journey to and from entirely soulless, no Castlegate, Marischal college, glass abomination or granite streets, shops and no beach, no sea. It's actually a perfect metaphor for the Scottish game; stripped of all meaning. It's line with 21st century building practices (expecially those of our chairman). It's designed for driving to and driving away from again, it's a commuter town like New Kintore, a Homebase/Asda Portlethen, an Altens industrial estate. A meaningless, soulless, shitehole. It perfectly encapsulates our Zombie society. Okay kids, as a treat, after the game we can go to Costco and buy a year's supply of cold meat. We'll be home by 17:45, and with these superb driving arrangements we'll barely miss a minute of sitting down in front of the TV and ignoring one another. Jute, there's an unsubstantiated 12,000 (it was 12,500, but lost another 500 recently) seater reason we can't re-develop Pittodrie. Tom and Manc have it covered pretty well in this thread with some good reasoning.

Welcome aboard Auntie Kingsford. I also think that the transport plans are absolutely shite and the location is also absolutely shite. Thanks for clarifying about the 7 - 7 split (or nae), that was my mistake. However, you've given people the opportunity to be faux-offended by your jew-based comments, which might just detract from yer other points a touch.

Shalk is just a diving little cunt. He's decent like, but doesn't have the pace to do any real damage. Certainly wouldn't replace McGinn. I actually think Jack will be just as hard to replace.

Is this not a bit like the Trump course though? In that it was a draw 7-a-piece, so the chairman is obliged to vote no until there is a consensus? It's not exactly an overwhelming objection, I can't see it making a difference.

It'll be interesting. Don't think McInnes has had this many first-teamers to replace since he took over (assuming Jack, McGinn and Taylor don't re-sign). It's a case of priorities I reckon, as there's a lot of spaces to fill. We're looking at 4 good players required, that have to hit the ground running and be able to get straight in the team. One defender, either a left back or right-sided centre back One midfielder to replace Jack One attacker to replace McGinn One striker to challenge Rooney That's going to be very difficult. If we can get Jack and McGinn to re-sign that'd take a lot of pressure off. Really focus on a good striker, with a defender being a secondary priority (I'd hate to see us sign pish, but there is room for error there with O'Connor, Reynolds and Considine all very capable of performing well in the SPL). If Jack and McGinn go, then priorities move to those two positions with a striker dropping down the list, which could cost us. I work on the assumption that you can generally only get one or two good (first-team good) signings in one window with our resources. Lewis and maybe Maddison were ours this season. We probably have a one-in-four success rate with signings. I'm not judging that figure, I suspect other teams are in a similar position (Kille, one-in-forty).

Interestingly, the PvdD - Pro animals party got 5 votes on a platform of promoting human-animal relations.

Nice one, thanks.

I did my al' Lexus one eence. It was a caker. It was like the cheats you used to get for C64/Amiga/Sega computer games to program it, and I got the details online. It was like: press brake 5 times, left indicator, right indicator, finger from mouth to hoop, hazard lights on, off, on etc etc. I thought it was a piss take at first, but it actually worked. Anyway, it's probably all changed, but I trust my story has helped greatly.

Yep, you could see that coming with the second episode. I said to the wife that they were rushing it too much and just springing unrealistic shite on people without previous background. Luckily they had covered the main character's previous history of a career in vehicle electronics extensively before last night's episode (wtf was that about?) to add to the realism. It was really poor from the BBC. It was great to see the recognisable weegie back-drop and the subject matter was sound, but I don't understand how any program commissioner could have sat through that last episode and thought that was an acceptable ending. There's some big-hitting box sets out there that the BBC is competing with and they really need to up their game. They went down the current fashionable route of bold-colour camera shots to make it look classy, but there was no substance whatsoever. The script really let down some good acting performances from the two birds especially. All it needed was to stretch it out to 6-8 parts and develop the plot a bit more. It was like they ran out of money. Frustrating like.

That'd be interesting to see in picture format. Did you take a photae as evidence? That's quite staggering. Whilst it's easy to say "don't buy a paper", that doesn't help the fact that others do. We don't prevent paedophilia by pretending it doesn't exist.

As a bit of background, it's from the folks who did league of gentleman. Whilst I liked LoG, I thought that the format of repeated characters (ala Fast show, Enfield etc) didn't really do it justice. Inside no 9 fits better into its own genre with different plots centred around an arbitrary theme (the number 9). It allows a broader scope and really tests their acting. It's then fine that some episodes aren't great and others are just genius. Try last night's one if you get a spare minute, it's phenomenal. Last series was good too. It's what BBC2 should be all about in my opinion. Regardless whether it's yer cup of tea or not, it pushes the boundaries and leaves you a bit stunned at the end.

If you go around each person in the vicinity of your seat saying "fit like, Rico?" you'll find me. Although I won't acknowledge you because I'm an ignorant cunt.

Inside no 9 again tonight. Class.

It is to do with the Euro, that is the mechanism by which they apply the force. The Euro is the tool of the central bank that allows German and French banks to enforce debt reparations and asset grabbing. Without the Euro, and it's punitive design, Greece would simply perform the manoeuvre mentioned in the article with regard to the Swiss. The Euro is the basis of the entire article. It is just a currency, but it is a currency that has been set up in a particular way with an unmovable design (which is why I never understood Varoufakis's position that Greece should keep the Euro - it seemed to be entirely sentimental). I disagree with the part about Switzerland. I think they took the correct approach for their country and exactly that which Greece should take.

How long before the call-to-arms to get behind the team and buy new season tickets for next season so that King can pony up the £12M through some dubious back-channel? I'm assuming the other shareholders mainly include Ashley, and he'll just hold him to ransom unless King can conjure up some trick to get his fellow shareholders - the ones that actually have money - to cover the bill.

So that you can hold Greece to ransom, or Ireland, or whoever the next poorest happens to be? The Euro is an abomination, an absolute disgrace of a currency design. Europe, and Europeans should be ashamed of what happened to Greece and other before because of the deliberate persecution built into the way that currency works. Don't agree with everything in it, but the facts surrounding the Euro are spot on: http://www.globalresearch.ca/open-letter-to-the-people-of-greece-you-are-being-slaughtered-before-the-worlds-eyes/5579023

I'm not that confident. I entirely agree about the SNP and disbanding. It should remain only for continuity and allow other parties to be voted in within a couple of years with their own ideas surrounding a constitution. The currency option from last time was a disgrace. It has to be our own currency, that is the only option. The Euro is a fucking disgrace and the English poond would leave us in exactly the same position we are in now - basically a federal arm of the UK. They have to come up with something concrete and something viable. It should be electronic. They need to get this idea out ASAP too, so that folk get over it by the time the "debates" happen. A new currency is not only entirely viable, but essential to any working country with aspirations of taking control of its own destiny. Unfortunately, it's a subject that few people properly understand and there's a giant amount of shite spouted about it which will affect the public opinion, so there needs to be plenty of time to bed the idea in and get it explained. The problem I have is that it'll be the same folk vying for power with the same ideas. We desperately need something more forward and something more radical. A complete change to the way politics works and a complete change to the way the economy works. I think we'll get a bunch of differing neo-liberal parties along UK lines that will offer a mild improvement on what exists already. We'll settle for being better at shite than England rather than forging something unique and exciting. There'll be a lot of slogans.

I thought he was excellent, and was clearly the best player on the park. As did most folks round me, who all seemed surprised that McGinn was MOTM. McLean, Lewis, Considine or McGinn for player of the year so far for me.

It's a nice image like, but will we re-decorate later? I thought there was overwhelmingly good reasons for voting Yes to Brexit, but I knew - almost for certain - that none of those good ideas would reach the table post brexit. I also knew that the European project (specifically the Euro and the ECB) was broken and stood no chance of repair so staying in Europe was not the right thing to do either. I ended up not voting because neither side made the correct case, and the vote shouldn't have happened anyway. With independence it's only slightly different. I know that the Westminster system is broken and stands no chance of repair (apart from the building of course). However, I see absolutely nothing other than PR that tells me that Holyrood isn't just Westminster-lite. I see your illustration as maybe missing the point a little. We (Scotland, and the UK) doesn't need decorating. We need massive internal re-construction, with structural walls removed and a shite load of insulation put in. I'll vote Yes, but I believe we will just be changing the wallpaper and throwing up a few ornaments. That doesn't really interest me.

By admiration, do you mean boner?

Agreed, but there will still be a deal with the EU though. A trade deal. I suspect that is what Manc was referring to, rather than the pish that Cameron was on about. Good use of the word tertiary though. Strictly Nigel was concerned about paying for the binary level of government. Will be interesting to see if we can rid ourselves of the binary government this time round. Pretty hopeful. Something tells me we'll get the same result again though, I just can't see the electorate being able to look beyond people screaming "the economy" and I doubt the SNP will broaden the case beyond that either. A huge opportunity for some progressive currency options and putting forward something very much worth voting for, instead of the shite they put forward at the last referendum. If we get independence, it'll be through the unimaginative narrow channel of political discussion that Trump and Farage took on and beat.

The question is: is an Andy Considine that plays every single week worse than a Grant Hanley who has only played twice this year and seven times this season? The answer is blatantly yes. I've seen a lot of Scotland games and a lot of Aberdeen games, and he definitely is. I don't think Andy Considine should be international class defender (although arguably he's performed to that level this season), but he isn't a worse player than a guy who isn't getting a game for his team. There are only a couple of players in that squad who you'd probably have in regardless of if they are playing for their team or not and Hanley isn't one of them. We shouldn't be rewarding players for failure, and we don't need this "club mentality" at international level at the expense of players doing their job to the best of their ability every week. A good question would be: is there a better Scottish defender in the SPL this season? I don't believe so. I suppose he's been playing at left back a lot, which is perhaps harming him (an inverse Shinnie if you like). The question again boils down to whether or not you reward top SPL performers or not. I can guarantee if thon dud Wilson was anything as good as Considine he'd be a shoe in. I don't think he's a fashionable enough choice.

I don't think Storey is very good at football, which is the main drawback. The fact that it seems that we went for May in January suggests McInnes is aware of Rooney's performances of late. I think we'll be getting a striker in the summer without doubt. Like many of our players recently (McLean, Jack, McGinn etc), he's being played through his poor run of form rather than benched due to lack of good alternatives. I just don't think McInnes (or me) thinks Storey is good enough or clever enough to perform 90 minutes for us. I think he's a great sub, because he is 100mph and scares defenders ala Josh Magennis, but he doesn't seem to link up with our other players due to his head-down and charge approach to the game. In all honesty, I don't think we've improved on Magennis or Vernon in the second striker role. Stockley has shown flashes of decent play, but even at the weekend he barely won a header (poor service admittedly). I think he may turn into a half decent player, just has to use his attributes a bit better. I think we'll persevere with Rooney to be honest. Force him back to form. Not sure it will happen, and I'd be inclined to rest him if it doesn't happen in the next game and give him something to prove against der Hun next month.