The All New Unworthy Of It's Own Thread AFC General STUFF Thread

[BigAl]

8 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

Interesting thought - did we have a club shop back then?

Bridge Street 

[Elgindon]

Nae sure there was a club shop on Bridge st in the early 80's,could be wrong? Must have closed about 15/20 years ago...,

[RicoS321]

The font on that certificate hasn't been used since the Magna Carta, so I suspect it will be worth a fortune.

[Kowalski]

4 hours ago, BigAl said:

Bridge Street 

How could I forget that. 
 

About time they re-opened a club shop in the city centre…

[Jute]

@Slim @Kowalski as has been said what great things to have. 

[manc_don]

5 hours ago, OneBrianIrvine. said:

Was going to say not that long ago, it would have been around 2010 - but that is that long ago

Speaking of places closing - Blue Lampie closes next week. Sad, sad, sad  

Think the last time I went to the bridge street shop was late 90s / early 00s. I was always surprised the club haven’t even done a regular pop up in town (not that I live there but not something I’ve heard). Especially given the number of vacant shops from what I read. 

[tom_widdows]

20 hours ago, manc_don said:

Think the last time I went to the bridge street shop was late 90s / early 00s. I was always surprised the club haven’t even done a regular pop up in town (not that I live there but not something I’ve heard). Especially given the number of vacant shops from what I read. 

Why pay rent, business rates, Utliities, insurance, staff and delivery costs for a commerical unit which in these days of online retail will fairly likely make an operating loss?

[swaddon]

Vicente Besuijen is back in Aberdeen after his loan at HJK Helsinki.

[Jute]

29 minutes ago, swaddon said:

Vicente Besuijen is back in Aberdeen after his loan at HJK Helsinki.

Thelin mentioned he was working hard in training the other day and he will come into contention for squad place once transfer window opens. 

[blinlemon]

The original club shop in the early 1970s was in Nelson Street. Number 57, if memory serves me sufficiently, for I am a rapidly-ageing, non-mellowing, Bertie Miller-haranguing curmudgeon. 
They also used to sell basic merch from the pie shoppie lean-to at the King Street End. 

[swaddon]

I found out today that the last team in the Scottish top flight to field numbers 1-11 in their starting line-up was us back in 2011 against St. Mirren.

The team was: 1. Langfield, 2. McArdle, 3. McNamee, 4. Folly, 5. Diamond, 6. Considine, 7. Maguire, 8. Hartley, 9. Vernon, 10. Mackie, 11. Aluko.

[Neptune Lodger]

6 hours ago, blinlemon said:

The original club shop in the early 1970s was in Nelson Street. Number 57, if memory serves me sufficiently, for I am a rapidly-ageing, non-mellowing, Bertie Miller-haranguing curmudgeon. 
They also used to sell basic merch from the pie shoppie lean-to at the King Street End. 

My granda walked there from my grandparents home in Baker street the first week the Nelson Street shop was open. He bought me a club pennant that showed the club honours including the then recent Drybrough Cup and the not so recent league cup win against the deid club, 1946, which has since been struck from the record.

I was so excited as a kid that there could be something to do with the Dons that was not just on a Saturday afternoon.

You could go into the shop any time you like and buy stuff. That had something to do with Aberdeen. Who would have thought… Of course such commercial taking the pi$$ out of all of us was so novel in them days…I don’t think there was even a new strip to buy every summer. Maybe every other two years. In any case all that folk wore was red and white barred knitted scarves.

So the Nelson Street shop didn’t last long….