David McNamee was 10 minutes away from becoming Craig Brown's first signing for Aberdeen last night before the blizzard conditions in the north east put his ambitions on hold.

The former Scotland full-back was about to land at Aberdeen Airport but the state of the runways meant he was forced to return to the Midlands, putting his move to Pittodrie on hold.

 

"I'd flown up from Birmingham and we were 10 minutes outside Aberdeen when the pilot was told that we wouldn't be able to land until 4.10, which was half an hour later," said the 30-year-old. "So we circled the airport for half an hour and then the word came through that the airport wouldn't re-open until five o'clock.

 

"It turned out that our plane didn't have enough fuel to wait that long so we had to return to England. Once we got back we discovered that they'd postponed the re-opening of Aberdeen until 7pm."

 

McNamee had been due to undergo a medical this morning before signing a deal until the end of the season.

 

He'd played in two bounce games for Brown and Archie Knox at Motherwell last week and was under consideration for a place in the squad to face the Steelmen tomorrow.

 

"It's incredibly annoying to have got so close and then to have everything held up by something as unavoidable as snow," said McNamee, a League Cup winner with Livingston in 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

He said in another interview later that after fearing MacNamee could be out for 2 weeks at least, MacNamee felt that with rest and treatment his Groin might be okay for the 1st Celtic game.

ABERDEEN FC remain hopeful that full-back David McNamee will be fit to face Celtic at the weekend.

 

McNamee suffered a groin injury during the 2-0 victory over St Mirren at Pittodrie.

 

He has been unable to train since, but Aberdeen FC boss Craig Brown hasn’t ruled McNamee out of his plans for the trip to Celtic Park.

 

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Excellent news if he makes it. We really need a balanced back line to have any chance of holding off Celtic. Might be better to rest him and make sure for the semi though.

Excellent news if he makes it. We really need a balanced back line to have any chance of holding off Celtic. Might be better to rest him and make sure for the semi though.

 

Just about to post this. More important game for us.

I think he needs game time!

I think he needs game time!

 

Put him on the bench and use him as a sub after 60 mins?