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Just passing the time at work & watching Donnie’s speech to the WEF. It’s quite something. Telling a town full of German speakers they’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for the US 77 million Americans chose him to lead the nation and represent them on the world stage. Mind boggling. That’s before you even mention the fact he operated the worlds biggest nonce ring

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Article says "some" rather than all. Not sure what to take from that, other that we're not finished yet.

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It's a big anniversary for them this year though and they are on track to emulate it, out of the cup already. I'm as comfortable as I can be, of them winning the league, as it won't rid them of their FIVE top flight relegations and two administrations. Doesn't matter how bad we are, Hearts will always be shyte.

Well said. No manager and a bloated squad. Not the time to be signing players long term. Sad but the reality of things.you could even throw lutz in there, coordination with a new manager on the squad, style of play, needs etc.

BBC saying that all candidates on the shortlist have been interviewed. Presumably we would need to ask permission from current employers before interviewing Robinson/McGlynn which usually gets out into the public domain one way or another.

I think signing players without a manager just brings more potential problems. For starters, what kind of player is signing for a club without knowing who his boss is going to be? More importantly, when the new manager comes in, what if he just does not rate the guy? We are unlikely to win the league , probably won't get relegated, just hold fire for a minute and wait to get the new guy's opinion before signing anyone - even if that means waiting until June. No one really wants to qualify for Europe anyway.

But why loans? Morrison is younger than Milne and less experienced. Do we seriously expect him to be better than, say, Dorrington? We're offering development minutes for six months. An experienced defender on loan, I'd be comfortable with. This just seems weird. Cameron is less of an issue in terms of the actual loan (although it's still weird given where he plays), but who it's from makes it ridiculous. Overall, though, it's a disaster in the long term, as we've seen twice before. You simply can't afford to miss the churn of a single window. We should have learned this by now, and we should have the structure in place to see that it doesn't happen. We're going to be looking at around six players leaving in the summer that need to be replaced: Karlsson, Aouchiche, probably Clarkson, the two loanees and likely one from Milanovic, Jensen, Gyamfi, Armstrong etc. that mill around the squad. In order to replace that, you're looking at least ten signings. Again. Two good signings now and you've potentially reduced that to 8. At the very least you've crossed two options of your list. Things need to keep moving. The new manager will once again be doing a complete rebuild in the summer. The chances of getting that right are extremely slim as we've seen every time it has happened. Sign now, even on precontract, to ease the pressure.

if Toyosi Olusanya is the best we can do as far as brining in a striker then we would be as well pack it in and close the doors

I have to say I'm with WTR a bit. Sometimes you just need to patch things up for the short term. I know that's not ideal or pretty, but firstly I'd like to see us shore up the defence, stop conceding silly goals and pull away from the relegation candidates and up into the Top 6. The bringing in of McDonald and his mate Matty from Watford on loan did just that for us a year or two back. On Olusanya I'm sceptical I have to say, so I'd rather a loan given the risk of it not working out! Particularly as he's coming from outwith the SPFL.

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And so they go an accelerate a deal for a striker they'd already got on a pre-contract. Hate them as much as you like but they're certainly running well this year.

If you ask me - which nobody did - there's a wee bit too much "forward planning" in the way some folk are thinking about this window. Absolutely the club should be looking to the future in terms of signings and player development but there's also the here and now to consider. We've hovered between bang average and rank rotten this season and that's absolutely got to improve between now and May. Jack Milne, as referenced by Rico above, is a case in point. I think we'd all love to see a homegrown Dons fan excelling every week but he's been struggling a lot recently and we don't have the scope to take him out the team just now even though that might actually be better for his long-term development. Bringing in a loan player to challenge for his position for a few months might push him on but if it doesn't, it's another player we can use to give Milne a break. If Cameron and Morrison - and Olusanya and anyone else who comes in - improves us enough to get up the table and have another run in the cup then that's better than ploughing on with mediocrity just to hypothetically develop our own players.

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Not sure why McGinn's arse needs knees anyway. He'll be fine.

Aye, a good point. However, given that Knoester was just an illness, I'd have hoped that we'd just be seeing out the one game per week schedule with Polvara and Devlin as backup. Keeping the squad lean and getting as many minutes as possible into the existing squad. A loanee that's here to get first team football doesn't really fit with that. If he's not left footed, too, then it's simply a replacement for Milne. Milne is making mistakes still, but game time is massively important at his age, when the biggest component missing from his game is aggression (particularly in the air in the box). I'd be willing to overlook the mistakes for a young Aberdeen fan developing. Not so, an inexperienced loanee going back in the summer.

Touch of the Barbara Dickson & Elaine Paige song about that post. Of course, you're going to have to be of a certain vintage to get that one

Both The Stanway rumour is gaining momentum Scottish 21 year old defensive midfielder. Apparently some Polish team and Dundee also interested

Need to watch the final yet

I agree with pretty much every word. But we have previous form for this. McInnes-Glass-Goodwin-Robson-Warnock-Thelin. Every man so different from the next. There's no consistency there in selection. We abandon the plan, try short-term success, then go back to the plan again. We can't make up our minds. I can't help but feel Cormack is again looking enviously at Hearts. McInnes - experienced, knows the league, good at motivating the squad, has had some success before, and having a poor season at Kilmarnock hasn't stopped a very good league campaign so far at a bigger club. Who is the most similar type of manager in Scotland for Aberdeen to recreate that - Stephen Robinson. I also think it's personal for Cormack. He got rid of McInnes, and yet this will be the second time in four seasons in the top flight that McInnes has finished above Aberdeen. Hearts finishing above Aberdeen with McInnes in charge is a big problem for Cormack, especially if he does the unthinkable and wins the title. Why does Askou check the boxes but McGlynn doesn't? If McGlynn was Portuguese, 20 years younger and in his first season here, we'd be raving about him. It's not the slightest of glances. He has his fans in the boardroom, has been considered before, and is being considered now. Robinson is a good manager, that's the thing. He could actually be a successful Aberdeen manager. We would likely have to accept a horrible style of football, but let's not pretend there is not a very competent manager there. But, if we go with the - as you put it, the vision aligned coach - we're asking for time to get it right. We wanted to give Thelin time, and we did until we couldn't any more, but it wasn't all his fault, but will Cormack and the club accept their share of the blame? I think Cormack wants instant success this time and thinks Robinson will come in and lift the place (yes, just like that McInnes character) and paper over the recruitment/structure cracks we have. But here's hoping Lutz has others ideas.

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Usually Twitter. They have been right about things at times too, but I think Robinson is a wind up.

Our Summer signings don't usually work out much better either. I wish I shared your optimism.