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Lobban back I hope

Gabon 2-3 Mozambique. Really entertaining end to end game with Mozambique getting their first ever AFCON win. Passed a couple of hours on train this afternoon. Gabon looking like they are probably going home after losing first two matches.

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.

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

I will never understand what the swans can fly community gain from faking these pics. Why does it matter? Why swans? Nobody fakes pics of airborne penguins, emus etc mind boggling

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

Maybe she did as age now being reported as 91

Nah, you're thinking of the queen. Easy mistake.

I thought she died years ago.

Radiohead - No Surprises

Brigette Bardot aged 94

not able to utilise what he has is not the sign of an adequate manager

Thanks for posting that just before I posted a very similar one. Failure of the recruitment team to bring in players that suit the system the coach is implementing is baffling. Maybe the recruitment team got too focused on player trading model rather than bringing in players who actually who fit system coach is trying to implement.

Well, aye, but then we're possibly back to square one and should have kept McInnes. The entire point of the "three year project" was to allow the manager time to bed in his system, or variant thereof, and give us some "identity" and whatever else. That means we need recruitment to match the manager's requirements, and that hasn't happened. Although Polvara, Palaversa, Ambrose etc should have been shown the door prior to the season beginning given we knew they couldn't meet the requirements (maybe Polvara could have stayed for utility). I don't think it's a coincidence that Glass, Goodwin and Robson (see McInnes' 3-4-3 too) all had systems that were kept in place for too long when everyone could see they weren't working (Robson when he didn't replace Ramadani in his system for example). The instruction from above is that we develop a system and get really good at doing it to the point that we have an "Aberdeen way" from youth to first team. Seems like utter pish to me, but again I don't think it's a coincidence that pragmatism has essentially been binned since Cormack took over

The Stranglers - No More Heroes

I'm of the opinion that not all the issues we have on the pitch is down to the players. The markets we are looking in is always going to throw up more misses than hits, but we need a manager to utilise what he is given to work with better and be more flexible with his tactics.

Dick Gaughan - No Gods,precious few heroes

highlights JTs Utd reaction -

We will get near their box. We will just shit the bed when we do, and then say it will all be fine as Lutz will sort it out in the January window. Thank fuck I rarely do away games.

Dismal December continues for the Dons as they head down to the capital to face Hibernian at Easter Road this Tuesday, kicking off at 1945 hours. Hibs are three points ahead of us and a 6-0 away win will be enough for us to leapfrog them into fifth. However, I can see us giving away soft goals, not getting anywhere near their box and getting pumped 0-3.

Ditch Karlsson, he's pish. Best for both parties that he leaves. Hasn't managed to take on a single player since joining. He has got an ace touch, a great shot and his dead balls can be sublime, but he's basically a dick.

Looks like AI to me. Those aren't real clouds, and naebidy is oot walking before 9am at this time of year.

We shouldn't be trusting Jimmy, or any other manager, with another transfer window. There's no chance Thelin signed Milanovic, he'll be a product of our scouting system, which is the way it should be. To date, he's been given very poor value for money from that system, which is hopefully something Pfannenstiel will help address. Milanovic is an interesting case in point. He's clearly a decent footballer who a scout would take a look at and would understandably decide was worth a look at. He clearly has some great attributes. The issue is the transition from that league to ours. It turns out that being very strong down under doesn't transfer to the SPFL, it's that shade below, and without game time he won't develop (I think he'd benefit from six months at someone like Livi). We had a similar situation with McGarry, and we should have used the data from his signing as a guage to measure Milanovic. That's how it's supposed to work, but maybe it just needs more data! Similarly, any signings JT is making off his own back from Scandinavia need to go through that system so that we have something to compare league to league for future signings. Thelin will have run his known targets dry in that part of the world I expect, and might be more likely to look to players he's seen in the SPFL. At present, we're not getting a better return from our expensive European based signings than McInnes was picking up players from down south. We're definitely not getting a better return than those he picked up from the SPFL, although his good ones were either really obvious or his mate's son (when actually having to dig around we got shite like Morris, Quinn, Tansey, Storey and so on). As we all pointed out, the balance of signings was ridiculous, with a million project players and some old guys. That stems from the fucking awful decision not to have the sporting director position filled at the time JT was hired (or as soon as McInnes left as we all suggested). He needed someone experienced in the building reviewing age profiles, balance of positions etc and perhaps vetoing certain targets. I can imagine it's very difficult to maintain a view of the macro strategy when you're stuck in the weeds of the micro level looking at videos of players and so on - we see it a lot, with even the Tims forgetting that they might need a striker at some point. Pfannenstiel can hopefully provide the high level view to ensure we stay on strategy and in balance, he shouldn't be there to provide his favourite contacts or any of the other stuff I've heard suggested. Thelin suffered a little because he didn't come into the job with a good set of targets with SPFL experience (McInnes immediately had Robson and Flood, Brown had McGinn, Hayes etc, Goodwin had fucking Anthony fucking Stewart for some bizarre reason), and his Scandi lads just haven't made the transition with any great degree of success. That's where a sporting director would hopefully have directed a portion of signings to this country to help bed him in. Whilst I'd say that we are only a midfielder and perhaps a winger away from having something that might work for the next six months, I have little faith in our structure, with Pfannenstiel just in the door, to be able to make those two important signings.

4 games again today Gabon v Mozambique 12:30 Equatorial Guinea v Sudan 15:00 Algeria v Burkina Faso 17:30 Ivory Coast v Cameroon 20:00

If you want accurate passes then the best passer in the team (as well as being the best dead ball specialist) is warming the bench and seemingly being cut loose in January. I’d rather Jimmy left.