42BC - Tiberius Cesar (2nd Roman Emperor) was born

 

1959 - John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison participated in the final round of Carroll Lewis' "TV Star Search." The men were calling themselves Johnny & the Moondogs

 

1960 - Clark Gable died at the age of 59

 

1985 - The 200th episode of Dallas aired on CBS

 

1997 - Following a spirited 1-1 draw with Rangers, Dons Director of Football Keith Birkenshaw announced in the Scotland On Sunday that the club were in negotiations to bring Alex Miller in as head coach of the club. The decision was made official just 5 days later

Winters cost us more than 700k when you think of what Dodds went to Rangers for. Making Winters technically a 2m player.

 

Not really. Very simplistic way of looking at things there. Dodds' goal scoring record at Tannadice was about 1 in 2, something he didn't have in his months leading up to his departure from Pittodrie.

8th of december 1998. The day the fuckwit quit.

 

 

Is the correct answer

If my memory serves me correctly it was off the back of a four goal pumping at Rugby Park.

Was it Miller that brought £8k a week Hignett to Pittodrie 

 

Is the correct answer

If my memory serves me correctly it was off the back of a four goal pumping at Rugby Park.

Was it Miller that brought £8k a week Hignett to Pittodrie 

 

Yeah... brought in at the same time as Andy Dow and Mark Perry... 

 

Remember winning the first two games of the season and Alex Miller came out and actually said "Don't get too excited, this won't last". And he fucking made sure of that, too.

 

Yeah... brought in at the same time as Andy Dow and Mark Perry... 

 

Remember winning the first two games of the season and Alex Miller came out and actually said "Don't get too excited, this won't last". And he fucking made sure of that, too.

 

 

Yeah... brought in at the same time as Andy Dow and Mark Perry... 

 

Remember winning the first two games of the season and Alex Miller came out and actually said "Don't get too excited, this won't last". And he fucking made sure of that, too.

Was Hignett good?  I seen him play once i think, can't remember much.

Was Hignett good?  I seen him play once i think, can't remember much.

 

Hignett could have been a great player for us if it were not for his personal problems.

Andy Dow was a cult hero.

 

Hignett could have been a great player for us if it were not for his personal problems.

 

 

Totally agree about Hignett, different class to those around him

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He did bring in Jim Leighton

Hignett was a good player.. in his 8 or so matches he had 3 really good games (Dundee, Celtic and huns away) the rest he was pretty ding including getting sent off at East End Park for a really petulant elbowing of some gimp from Dunfermline.

To be honest, if i was given the choice of having Hignett in the side or Eoin Jess, I'd pick Jess everytime.

 

Andy Dow, that one freak season aside, was pretty toilet.

 

 

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He did bring in Jim Leighton

 

That was Aitken who brought Jim back was it not? As I think it was Leighton who recommended Miller to Milne!

As I stated Dodds scored 25 in 45 or 46 games. He was a goal scoring machine for united. I still think the money we paid must have had united laughing. Winters although not the worst was no better and I would say slightly worse than Dodds.

Pepper was an abomination. Here for roughly 2 years and played 14 or 15 games. The actual money paid for him was a joke but still not as bad as the winters deal in my eyes. The board actually sanctioning that deal was criminal as well.

Dow was a cult hero due to the fact that everyone around him was even worse than he was and that is saying something.

Hignett should have been different class what with the wages he was getting. Would actually have been good to get a full season out of him to be able to make a real judgement on him.

 

Hignett could have been a great player for us if it were not for his personal problems.

Andy Dow was a cult hero.

 

 

Do elaborate on both?

 

 

Do elaborate on both?

 

Didn't Hignett leave because his family refused to move up here?

Didn't Hignett leave because his family refused to move up here?

 

Had a bairn down south and used to head off to see it post every match.

Dinnae think that mother of said bairn and him were still an item

 

 

Do elaborate on both?

 

at least dow had the stones to put a shift in at hampden

 

Had a bairn down south and used to head off to see it post every match.

Dinnae think that mother of said bairn and him were still an item

 

True but many think that was an excuse and he simply realised what a monumental mistake he made signing for us. Me included.

 

 

Didn't Hignett leave because his family refused to move up here?

 

Seem to remember he was going through a divorce at the time and couldn't get to see his kids. He wanted to move closer to them.

was he not getting bonus payments from us every 2 months of about £80k? The bonus was called a "Loyalty Bonus" I believe..."Mercenary Bonus" would have been more apt.

I have a memory that Hignett was supposedly on £7k a week with us. I also have in my head that we were a bargaining chip with 'boro that backfired, and he spent most of his time here trying to get away. Did he not give out about Millers coaching methods after he left?

Was Miller not recommended to Milne by Craig Brown?

Niall, you starting to get a feel for the lack of warmth towards Miller yet

This thread makes me want to smash my monitor with my keyboard.

This thread makes me want to smash my monitor with my keyboard.

 

You're not alone. Niall has that effect on everyone.

 

You're not alone. Niall has that effect on everyone.

 

 

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I have a memory that Hignett was supposedly on £7k a week with us. I also have in my head that we were a bargaining chip with 'boro that backfired, and he spent most of his time here trying to get away. Did he not give out about Millers coaching methods after he left?

Was Miller not recommended to Milne by Craig Brown?

 

I don't believe Hignett evre wanted to come to Scotland...certainly appeared like that in most of the games I saw him play. My mates all reckoned as soon as he saw no "glory" up here he was spitting out the dummy.

42BC - Tiberius Cesar (2nd Roman Emperor) was born

 

1959 - John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison participated in the final round of Carroll Lewis' "TV Star Search." The men were calling themselves Johnny & the Moondogs

 

1960 - Clark Gable died at the age of 59

 

1985 - The 200th episode of Dallas aired on CBS

 

1997 - Following a spirited 1-1 draw with Rangers, Dons Director of Football Keith Birkenshaw announced in the Scotland On Sunday that the club were in negotiations to bring Alex Miller in as head coach of the club. The decision was made official just 5 days later

 

2009 - Following an abysmal 3-0 defeat to the hands of Wales, Gordon Smith announced in the Daily Record that the club were in negotiations to bring Alex Miller in as the new Scotland manager.  The decision was made official just 5 days later

 

Dodds was really struggling with us though, even by his standards.  Winters wasn't a bad player for us, not worth £700k but that wasn't Winters' fault.  This is always the transfer that is held up against Miller, I'd say letting Windass go for half of what we bought him for and replacing him with Nigel Pepper was far more criminal.

 

I think it would have been slightly less painful if dodds hadnt scored a hat trick in his last game for us (league cup away to caley thistle).

 

He then scored a hat trick in his first game for united against st johnstone.

 

Meanwhile we had to wait until the 2nd week of december for winters to get his first goal for us (header which Rousett managed to break the goals trying to keep out, followed up by Eoin Jess scoring a second with a run from the halfway line.) Believe we missed a penalty in that game too.