CALDERWOOD IS STAYING WITH DONS

 

08:50 - 14 January 2008

 

Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood and his coaching staff will today end months of speculation about their futures at Pittodrie by signing new contracts with the club.

 

Calderwood, his assistant Jimmy Nicholl and coach Sandy Clark have all agreed to stay with the Dons following talks with director of football Willie Miller.

 

The Reds have maintained they wanted to keep Calderwood and his coaching staff following three-and-a-half years of progress at the club. Talks stalled, however, as Calderwood sought assurances he would be able to continue strengthening his squad.

 

The manager had admitted he was considering his position following the loss of several key members of his squad and, with the management team out of contract at the end of the season, there were fears the team and coaching staff could bebroken up in the summer.

 

The imminent departures of Michael Hart and Chris Clark to English Champion-ship clubs will weaken analready slender Aberdeen squad but the anticipated £400,000 generated from the sale of the duo will soften the blow of their departure and give the manager some much-needed finance to add to his squad.

 

Central defender Zander Diamond and goalkeeper Jamie Langfield's new three-year deals with Aberdeen, along with an improved offer to midfielder Barry Nicholson and contract offers made to forward Lee Miller and Irish defender Richie Byrne, have convinced manager Calderwood to stay and continue to lead the club.

 

Calderwood and director of football Miller refused to comment last night but a press conference is expected today to announce the manager and his coaching staff are staying at Pittodrie. When he arrived from Dunfermline in 2004 to replace StevePaterson, Calderwood took charge of a club which was languishing near the bottom of the Scottish Premier League.

 

He has taken the Dons to the top six of the SPL in every season he has been in charge, with last year's third-placed finish and a place in this year's Uefa Cup just reward for the hard work put in.

 

More success has followed this season with Aberdeen surpassing expectations in the Uefa Cup to reach thelast 32 of the tournament, landing a dream tie against Germans Bayern Munich next month.

 

Despite competing on all fronts, Calderwood has taken his side to fourth in the SPL and Dundee United standbetween the club and a place in the League Cup final.

 

If the Dons beat United on January 29 they will be in a Hampden final for the first time in eight years.

Not in any doubt TF...... Barry Nic will have signed a new three and half year contract afore we play Ushited on Sat

 

So, not offski then? 

 

I agree.

Word of mouth or a hunch?

Word of mouth or a hunch?

 

Bit of both.

They're probably swinging from their necks over on the Hat.

 

Cant be any worse than the retard who penned this:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A31089116

 

Just read this wonderful response to Calderwood et al signing on again from the BBC site.

 

Dear christ.

 

On hearing the news that the management team have agreed new deals, I can say that I am bitterly disappointed. Whenever I write on here about Calderwood’s xenophobic, shabby decisions, most of you respond with some meaningless mumbo-jumbo that brings the pro-Jimmy bunch together in, nothing short of, an interdenominationalism fashion. The wolves in sheep’s clothing, that claim to be happy with the current one-dimensional tactics and idiotic managerial decisions, will be the first to jump on his back when the luck runs out.

 

Calderwood’s philosophy of “let’s take football out of the equation†does work. However, Hibs have achieved European Football, Top Six finishes and most importantly Cup Success by playing football the way it should be played. Therefore they get higher gates than us and delight the supporters on a regular basis. I get to watch an overpaid, over-hyped team put in abysmal performances and rely on men-behind-the-ball play combined with luck. I can not be bothered with it anymore.

 

I bid you farewell Dons fans and will no longer be in attendance at Pittodrie, or on this site, as Calderwood has destroyed the game and club that I once loved.

 

Good Bye

Just_Chalky

 

 

You sir, are such a deluded and moaning faced idiot you won't be missed.

 

 

Cant be any worse than the retard who penned this:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A31089116

 

 

Fools seldom differ eh drew?

Word of mouth or a hunch?

 

Little bit of both to honest... did hear a story a couple of weeks ago, but cannae post on here... hence reason I've consistantly said all along Barry Nic will be a Dons player next season

Little bit of both to honest... did hear a story a couple of weeks ago, but cannae post on here... hence reason I've consistantly said all along Barry Nic will be a Dons player next season

 

Just read this wonderful response to Calderwood et al signing on again from the BBC site.

 

Dear christ.

 

On hearing the news that the management team have agreed new deals, I can say that I am bitterly disappointed. Whenever I write on here about Calderwood’s xenophobic, shabby decisions, most of you respond with some meaningless mumbo-jumbo that brings the pro-Jimmy bunch together in, nothing short of, an interdenominationalism fashion. The wolves in sheep’s clothing, that claim to be happy with the current one-dimensional tactics and idiotic managerial decisions, will be the first to jump on his back when the luck runs out.

 

Calderwood’s philosophy of “let’s take football out of the equation†does work. However, Hibs have achieved European Football, Top Six finishes and most importantly Cup Success by playing football the way it should be played. Therefore they get higher gates than us and delight the supporters on a regular basis. I get to watch an overpaid, over-hyped team put in abysmal performances and rely on men-behind-the-ball play combined with luck. I can not be bothered with it anymore.

 

I bid you farewell Dons fans and will no longer be in attendance at Pittodrie, or on this site, as Calderwood has destroyed the game and club that I once loved.

 

Good Bye

Just_Chalky

 

 

You sir, are such a deluded and moaning faced idiot you won't be missed.

 

Ta ta then Chalky

 

 

well where can you post it?

 

on a pm to me??????

Fools seldom differ eh drew?

 

I prefer "great minds think alike..." 

well where can you post it?

 

on a pm to me??????

 

I realise talk is cheap, but I can't betray the individual that told me what I know just now. In all honesty check my posts, i have consistantly stated on here that once Calderwood signs on, then Barry Nic will follow suit. please trust me on it, Barry Nic is going nowhere now

I realise talk is cheap, but I can't betray the individual that told me what I know just now. In all honesty check my posts, i have consistantly stated on here that once Calderwood signs on, then Barry Nic will follow suit. please trust me on it, Barry Nic is going nowhere now

 

I tell you al i realy hope your right

Cant be any worse than the retard who penned this:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A31089116

 

 

Similar to the fat fucking mongoloid that I was near in the toilet queue at the Copenhagen game at HT.

 

"That's the last straw, I've had it. Jimmy must go!" he shouted.

 

Bet you felt a right tit you fat gonk, eh? 

Similar to the fat fucking mongoloid that I was near in the toilet queue at the Copenhagen game at HT.

 

"That's the last straw, I've had it. Jimmy must go!" he shouted.

 

Bet you felt a right tit you fat gonk, eh? 

 

For fuck sake JimmyJimmy, stop fucking about and say what you mean.

Similar to the fat fucking mongoloid that I was near in the toilet queue at the Copenhagen game at HT.

 

"That's the last straw, I've had it. Jimmy must go!" he shouted.

 

Bet you felt a right tit you fat gonk, eh? 

 

Post of the year! 

Great news

Well done afc. Good bit of business, particularly as it looks like BN will sign too.  The weegia must be gutted they have to put away all those Dons in Crisis headlines again

Now that that's settled, let's get the rest sorted!

I wish Clark would hurry up and fuck off. Has he spoken to Plymouth?

I wish Clark would hurry up and fuck off. Has he spoken to Plymouth?

 

Nah nah, this must surely win "Post of the Week" 

Haha. Just_Chalky cracks me up.

 

We're in the top six and only a couple of wins off top four. We're in the semis of one cup and still in the other. Last 32 of the UEFA Cup. And this spasticated jellyfish decides he has had enough of us.

 

Is he all there? I mean, if he's as big a Dons fan as he says he is, then he must've been through the Aitken, Miller, Skovdahl and Paterson years. And he decides that NOW is the time to stop supporting the reds?? We'll kindly do without your support ya fuckin retard

Haha. Just_Chalky cracks me up.

 

We're in the top six and only a couple of wins off top four. We're in the semis of one cup and still in the other. Last 32 of the UEFA Cup. And this spasticated jellyfish decides he has had enough of us.

 

Is he all there? I mean, if he's as big a Dons fan as he says he is, then he must've been through the Aitken, Miller, Skovdahl and Paterson years. And he decides that NOW is the time to stop supporting the reds?? We'll kindly do without your support ya fuckin retard

 

Unless I am mistaken, are we not 4th?!

Haha. Just_Chalky cracks me up.

 

We're in the top six and only a couple of wins off top four. We're in the semis of one cup and still in the other. Last 32 of the UEFA Cup. And this spasticated jellyfish decides he has had enough of us.

 

Is he all there? I mean, if he's as big a Dons fan as he says he is, then he must've been through the Aitken, Miller, Skovdahl and Paterson years. And he decides that NOW is the time to stop supporting the reds?? We'll kindly do without your support ya fuckin retard

where has mizer gone this week? 

where has mizer gone this week? 

 

Da brotha's in lockdown for slangin' some rocks.

Haha. Just_Chalky cracks me up.

 

We're in the top six and only a couple of wins off top four. We're in the semis of one cup and still in the other. Last 32 of the UEFA Cup. And this spasticated jellyfish decides he has had enough of us.

 

Is he all there? I mean, if he's as big a Dons fan as he says he is, then he must've been through the Aitken, Miller, Skovdahl and Paterson years. And he decides that NOW is the time to stop supporting the reds?? We'll kindly do without your support ya fuckin retard

 

I'm glad he's chosen now to give up. If he was a season ticket holder, it's one less person to compete with in the Munich ballot...