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Seems fairly unanimous that the quality is a massive drop, although some point to palace’s kit being decent. So we can but hope we’re in that category rather than your st middens etc

Fair fucks to them but their board won’t batter an eyelid imo

Iraola confirmed at Liverpool.

Oh well will have get a bigger size this season

Would we accept a McRorie style deal? Unlikely I suspect but if we had a buy or punt back with a firm toe up his arsehole would that be acceptable?

Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth

Macron confirmed.

Macron officially confirmed as our new kit supplier but no sign of any designs yet. https://www.afc.co.uk/en/news/aberdeen-fc-announces-record-breaking-partnership-with-macron

Haha - to quote Michael Lee Aday, "2 out of 3 ain't bad"

I remember having a chat about Foster's loan to the huns with the much missed Donsdaft and he also used the term "shottie"

Steely Dan - King of the World

Actually, I'm okay with the loan on one condition. If Cormack has information that Cormack park is built atop a disused mineshaft, accessible via trapdoor right at the front door. Upon signing, he's photographed outside, with a big cheeser underneath his Hun moustache, and invited back into the building. Cormack has switched the trap door for a bottomless rug, which Miovski steps on, falling 76 metres. He survives the fall, but after three days of screaming, he whispers a final "I'm sorry", before passing on to the place one floor below hell, reserved for all other Huns. The Dons report him missing after a week, and with nobody able to trace him, they are given a full refund of his wages to date and compensation of £100,000 from the Huns for their player's breaking of contract. Fourteen years later, the great grandson of Neil Simpson is taking a walk round the proposed site of a new underground training pitch, when he stands on Miovski's corpse, snapping his festering shin in two.

Another captain. Robinson is defo trying to up the leaders in the squad. Did a wee bit of digging on him and it would seem he's 5"7 purely def mid. No assists at all last season in 43 appearances and 1 goal. Reading between the lines he's a wee terrier type which we don't really have 2bf.

Aye, having him on loan from them and potentially building him up to be a more attractive prospect so they get more money for him/keep him and play him is too sickening to contemplate. Especially when he wouldn't be able to play against the team we would most want him to play against. If Ferguson has a good world cup though we may see some movement on him and that could potentially provide enough cash to actually buy him.

Signing Huns is fine, sort of. Getting Huns on a borrow agreement (I think that's the correct term) is fucking unacceptable. It was unacceptable with Cameron, it's fifty times more unacceptable to borrow miovski. For obvious reasons. They're not writing off a huge fee only for Miovski to join the Dons. Borrow would be the only option, and it's totally unacceptable.

The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite

This, plus he needs to make a statement that he’s also coming back cause Stewart Milne has gone and he wouldn’t have been able to return to the club if a guy who did so much damage to the great name of AFC was still here - followed by a detailed list of all his multitude of failures and fuck ups (I’ll happily help with that) just to remind the hard of thinking in our support who seem to think he was some kind of saviour exactly what he was. Yep, I’m still going on about that one too. Oh, and we need 15 goals by Xmas or he’s fired out a cannon from the roof of the RDS. Then, its a maybe…

We don't hate Celtic like we do the Huns and no-one could blame Hayes for wanting to play in the CL for his boyhood club. He had given us phenomenal service and he wasn't sleekit about it either. Re Knox it's a bit different with coaches. Snelders I never blamed at all because he was frozen out by Aitken who seemed to think Watt was better (fucking clown). What a shock that Walter Smith had a better eye for a goalie than Aitken. Cooper I don't know, I wasn't really a football fan at the time so don't know how it was received. I would also add Aluko to this list. I never gave him a hard time about going there as he had been OOC for a good few months and a man has to eat. Miovski is different because he bawled his eyes out, kissed the badge and then took to Instagram to say "moving forward I'll be the clubs biggest fan" which no-one forced him to do. Then he signs for them in less than a year. It's certainly the biggest slap in the face I've ever had from a player in my years as a fan. All that said, and as I mentioned a month or so ago here, prolific goalscorers are the easiest players to forgive and if he was to come back I know I'm fickle enough to forgive (though never forget) all sins pretty quickly if he's rattling them in.

Bromley fans don't seem to be particularly bothered:

It's a no thank you from me

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