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That is sad to read. He was a very good broadcaster and writer.

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No guesses and haven’t seen anything to suggest who it might be.

Club would need to have a Death Wish to go down that route. I’ll get my coat…

David Bates has been called up to the Scotland squad.

This article in the Daily Record prompted me to create this thread: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/23m-aberdeen-transfer-chasm-exposes-37862611 This is actually some decent journalism imo b/c it's very hard to look back in time with so many players traded for undisclosed fees and add up the money from the player trading model. The article suggests that there's an eight figure sum that's been generated from this player trading. That might have been re-invested in paying down Cormack Park and further investment, might be being ringfenced for the new stadium, might have been invested into commercial ventures.... we don't know. What we do know is that the club has made a pile of money from selling our best players and our current squad are miles off it, and no youth player, aside from Jack Milne b/c we have an injury crisis in the central defence, gets a look in. In my opinion the money needs to be invested on the pitch first and we buy players from the outside where they are materially better than what's available through the youth pipeline, and the youth pipeline should always have priority. When Cormack first arrived and opened Cormack Park and set out his vision, that was my understanding of what the process would be. What we have now, I think this is the consensus even from the departing manager Stephen Robinson himself, is a recruitment crisis, we've got a bunch of jobbers who aren't even Scottish clogging up the first team, the likes of Lobban and Bavidge are on loan elsewhere, there's no one actually demonstrably better in the first team squad better than them, there's a pile of cash available to put to work on this, but the board and Cormack can't/won't. For me this is something I find hard to justify in defending Cormack. Yes the commercials of the club are better, yes we have not just a proper training ground but a top level one at that, but if there's £23 million lying around in profits from player sales, why are Brad Lyons, Olusanya and Dan Happe Aberdeen players at all? Like I'd accepted it b/c it seems like money was tied up elsewhere and we needed at least a dozen new players and at the low end of the market that seemed to make sense. But it seems for want for spending a a few million that we do have on hand anyway we've recruited an eye wateringly bad squad of players, who unlike the last lot, don't even have the potential to be anything better than mediocre. Thoughts?

Private Eye ready to go with exposure of a.n.other celebrity but an injunction has been obtained to stop publication. Any guesses anyone 😂 A victim ready to go on the record and tell all.

Ricky Astley - It Would Take A Strong Man

Danny Kelly He was good on Under the Moon. Think he split the Smiths up too

I'm thinking we might be able to get some decent loan players in the winter transfer window to improve things. We could def use a Matty Pollock and a Dennis Gieger also a bit of sparkle, Lewis Smith, Ntelo, Mahou and Yogane and Malloua were supposed to give us sparkle but IDK maybe Stephen Robinson gave them catatonic depression or something.

I assume we’ll see Walliams in the celeb deaths thread soon enough since the gist of his legal argument for an injunction was that he was sure to try and kill himself if anything was published…

Stacy Keach 85. - I used to like the Mike Hammer series back in the day, in which he starred. Jim Milne - Aberdeen businessman, away at 85 too.

That was my take on it..

I think you know the answer to that.

I can see a slight flaw in this.

I want Steve Clarke to play full bore 5-5-0 Osama bin Laden style until the end of the season and then another clear out in the summer. That's the best option at this point imo: to just grind out the points until the end of the season and have someone who understands how the get the best out of a limited team, but also knows how to get the most from a few star players.

Are we mental enough as a club to give it to John Hughes till the end of the season?

The Beatles - Let It Be

Problem was he didn't have a system so the players couldn't play the system. Lyons and Olusanya I can see them meeting basic expectations when they are played in a consistent position with a consistent job to do, they're not there for their Mensa score. It's like Obi Wan: he plays left back and that's all he does, whether it's in a four or a five, he does the same thing, he doesn't change, doesn't need to. To hear the gaffer one minute say 'we're going to play high pressing, high intensity attacking football, but we're not sure whether to go three or four at the back yet, 4-4-2 or 3-4-3' and then on the pitch start with five defenders against St Johnstone and still lose and surprise surprise not score a single goal. That was, in retrospect, the omen that no one had a clue what was going on any more. The problem is he signed players that are not very bright and not very adaptable and sort of like Soviet troops when the corporal and the cook are shot they can't fend for themselves.

Ricardo Astley - Let It Be Tonight

That Spiers article seems a reasonable summation and clearly he’s been spikkin wi Dave ahead of it. Lets see if the Mea Culpa fae him actually materialises. The recruitment bit looks spot on to me. Its very easy to see who was behind which summer signings. I’d wager all the UK ones were pushed for by Robinson & the foreigners by a mix of Lutz & Mowbray. Pretty much all the signings have been shite, but the irony is that Robinson has been massively let down by his own guys who he thought he knew and could trust. He wanted players who knew the league, could handle the physical demands, play his system (what system I hear you cry) and show the required attitude and commitment. The club clearly pandered to his demands as surely even we wouldn’t have been going after the likes of Cadden, Lyons, Olusanya etc ourselves. Not one of them did meet his expectations on these metrics (neither have the others tbf) so his handpicked guys have basically cost him his job…

Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together @swaddon you are exempt from the ban mate, as we need you for the offishal match thread starter. I must admit I did type that fukin song masel at first and then thought nnnnnnooooooooooooo fukin way I can put that shit on here 🤪

Richard Paul Astley - Together Forever

Michael Wimmer has applied for the job, according to the P&J.