We're only a month away from it being ten years since I celebrated becoming an author by watching my heroes draw 2-2 with said mighty Bayern Munich.  But where are one's starting eleven now?????

 

 

1.Jamie Langfield, 28.Alan Maybury, 5.Zander Diamond, 21.Andrew Considine, 18.Lee Mair, 8.Barry Nicholson, 6.Scott Severin ©, 27.Josh Walker, 26.Sone Aluko, 10.Darren Mackie, 16.Lee Miller.         

1.Jamie Langfield - St Mirren

28.Alan Maybury - Falkirk U20s Coach

5.Zander Diamond - Mansfield Town

21.Andrew Considine - Still here

18.Lee Mair - Retired: Now an entrepreneur and allegedly applied to go on 'the apprentice'

8.Barry Nicholson - Fleetwood Town Development Manager

6.Scott Severin © - Retired: Now an Assistant Well Test Technician at Expro

27.Josh Walker - Edinburgh City Captain

26.Sone Aluko - Reading

10.Darren Mackie - Retired: Until recently was a Sales Executive for Nixon Hire

16.Lee Miller - Falkirk

Langfield is an up and coming gk coach as well as letting in goals at St Mirren

Maybury is a youth coach at Falkirk

Diamond is hammer throwing in Mansfield

Considine being done for pace down Aberdeen’s left side.

Mair last I noticed on social media was selling supplements?

Nicholson is a youth coach near Blackpool

Severin thought I heard he was offshore?

Walker was he not playing for Edinburgh City?

Aluko showing the world how mental the English transfer market is last summer

Mackie probably missing sitters for Locos

Miller is he not still playing for Falkirk?

 

Mental how far that team went, current team would smash them.

 

Should habe beaten Der Hun, Valentines Day 2008. Ridiculous penalty given to them by referee when ball driven onto Maybury's from close distance.

 

Took about two months to be forgiven for spending that Valentines in Aberdeen. Although I put my daughters interest in football down to being rocked to sleep to AFC European exploits that season (unfortunately she seems to have got Darren Mackie’s ability), she loves it though.

 

Happy memories for a couple of reasons.

I can't believe the different direction most have taken in a decade.

Fucking hell Bayern must have been shite to draw with a Scotch team with no more than 3 actual football players in the starting eleven.

Noticed that both Ash Taylor and Peter Pawlett's new sides have been relegated this season.  Johnny Hayes only made about half a dozen starts for the celic before injury and Ryan Jack of "The Rangers" achieved as many red cards as good games before injury.

 

Niall McGinn is back at Pittodrie after his adventure in Asia.

 

The grass is clearly not always greener on the other side.

 

 

 

Lee Miller will feature in the Playoff Final next Thursday.

 

Have to say I think Partick will steamroller through those two games

 

In the interests of not starting a new thread I was looking into how some of our more recent departures are getting on this season:

Marco Lazetic at Noah: 13 games, 10 goals, 3 assists.

Leighton Clarkson at Blackpool: 11 games, 1 goal, 1 assist. Think he is normally on the bench.

Topi Keskinen at Odense: 10 games, 2 goals.

Oday Dabbagh at Zamalek: 8 games, 3 assists, 0 goals

Ester Sokler at Macabi Tel Aviv: 7 games, 2 goals

Lazetic 😲

Not sure those Sokler stats are correct, he’s been a bit more prolific than that. 10 appearances (7 starts), 5 goals, 1 assist in the league.

Keskinen has 5 assists in addition to his 2 goals.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Slim

1 hour ago, BigAl said:

Lazetic 😲

File under “one that slipped through the net”.

To reply 8 years on to this post:

26.Sone Aluko - Reading

10.Darren Mackie - Retired: Until recently was a Sales Executive for Nixon Hire

I read this to mean that Aluko was “reading” as in “Burn after reading” and Darren wasn’t. As he had only seen the film. Lord of the rings that is and not burn after reading.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Neptune Lodger
Typo

2 hours ago, Kowalski said:

File under “one that slipped through the net”.

Kind of looking that way mate

They obviously saw something in him during the 33 minutes he played against them.

Either that or they have a coach that knows how to bring the best out of him 😕

1 hour ago, Neptune Lodger said:

To reply 8 years on to this post:

26.Sone Aluko - Reading

10.Darren Mackie - Retired: Until recently was a Sales Executive for Nixon Hire

I read this to mean that Aluko was “reading” as in “Burn after reading” and Darren wasn’t. As he had only seen the film. Lord of the rings that is and not burn after reading.

How fucking old do I feel if Darren Mackie is retired 😂

23 minutes ago, BigAl said:

How fucking old do I feel if Darren Mackie is retired 😂

I'm the same age as Darren Mackie (he is a few weeks younger than me).

33 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Kind of looking that way mate

They obviously saw something in him during the 33 minutes he played against them.

Either that or they have a coach that knows how to bring the best out of him 😕

Or the Albanian league is worse than ours

8 minutes ago, swaddon said:

I'm the same age as Darren Mackie (he is a few weeks younger than me).

Stop rubbing it in min ☹️

Just now, 2stars said:

Or the Albanian league is worse than ours

1 minute ago, 2stars said:

Or the Albanian league is worse than ours

Not sure I get what you mean

FC Noah don't play in Albania 😉

1 minute ago, BigAl said:

Not sure I get what you mean

FC Noah don't play in Albania 😉

Hahaha - Armenia

Edit - I could try to blame auto correct but it’s 7pm on a Sat evening and the beers have kicked in

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by 2stars

1 hour ago, BigAl said:

Kind of looking that way mate

They obviously saw something in him during the 33 minutes he played against them.

Either that or they have a coach that knows how to bring the best out of him 😕

Almost certainly the later.