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Any word on whether this is going to be on or not?

Neil young - Heart of gold

Delighted for you

How much did Jens Berthel Askou know about Scottish football before he pitched up at Motherwell?

She still has another event to go. And she's young, so she could have another crack in four years. Some of the comments on the BBC about her are disgraceful.

Cheers for that Al. We might not win a lot of trophies. But we do give it a go. I'd also claim that us and other teams would have won more if it wasn't for the blatant cheating we have all witnessed in big games, especially where deadco were concerned. Plenty reasons to be a proud Dandy and can easily claim to be Scotlands third club. If a manager doesn't fancy signing for us, fuck 'em. Their loss.

I can see why people wouldn't be that enthused by Horneland. I think his record is decent, although mainly at one club. I do like his tactics though and think he has the potential to improve on what Thelin did, so I'm on board with it if it's him. But you've just pitched Scott Brown ahead of him, simply because he has more knowledge of Scottish football. Two of the managers occupying the top four in the Premiership at the moment are foreign. The "knows Scottish football" thing is an easy thing that gets thrown about - it's a whole management team these days, and we play each other 4-6 times a season so they get to know the opposition very quickly.

Total Scottish Cup & League Cup semi final appearances AFC 39+27=66 Hibs 39+23=62 Hearts 36+21=57 Arabs 21+19=40 Source: stevesfootballstats.uk

There are plenty of options. From the more experienced like Stevie Clarke, John McGlynn or Michael O'Neill. A current SPL guy such as Robinson, or someone lower down the chain like Scott Brown or Gary Naysmith. I'd argue that any of the above would stand a better chance of success than taking in someone from Norway that knows very little about either our club or about fitba in this country.

The "strategy" that Deadly Dave has implemented makes all of that very difficult to achieve on a consistent basis. We want to sell on all of our best talent so as soon as we produce a few decent players they are offski. It means you will have one good season followed by one shite season and so on. You are never going to get consistency if you are changing out half of your squad every season. Even just the loans make consistency a problem. Think I am right in saying we have signed seven players on loan this season. How can you get any kind of cohesion going when you only have players for six months at a time? You can never build for the long term.

Aye, but we won most of ours.

Think we share that accolade with Dundee United.

That afc chat manager thread has gone chicken oriental. What a strange bunch of loons. Anyway, get the noggie in!

An absolute peach of a nonsense banger has emerged from Australia the past few days.

Yes the commentators thought she had it so I was quite excited- fine margins

Gutting for her - missed out by 0.41 or something like that

We are the club who have played in more European gamed outwith the Tims and deadco. Without knowing or checking, we can't be far off most semi finals and finals competed in, outwith the bigots, since our inception. Could be way off the mark with that one. I'd be happy to see a good team on the park. A good youth system, with youngsters getting a chance and not laying down to the cheeks and others like we are too prone to do.

She just missed out on a bronze!!

That seems about right. But I'd argue that the expectation of a continuous "well run" club is in itself a little unfair. There's not a club in the world that is perennially well run. It's perfectly normal and acceptable to be up and down considering the number of factors that affect a club, and the turnover of staff. We don't continuously spend enough to guarantee we'll finish above the rest, and certainly not Hearts and Hibs. We probably spend enough to ensure that we don't get relegated, which is why we never have been. A European place should be achievable every year. A European place is not guaranteed (as it is for the Huns and Tims), and a slight failure in the transfer market (say 40% success as opposed to 60%) would be enough to see us miss out. The margins aren't great and will never be. Edit: to add, there is no correlation between being well run and the time it takes to appoint a manager, either.

A well run Aberdeen should be the club best positioned to scoop up anything not won by the smellies A well run Aberdeen should be able to give both smellies a game when we play them, especially at home Finishing in a European place should be achievable every year

Such as?

Has anybody asked what she thinks about the manager situation yet?

What are our expectations though? We are 123 years old and have won 4 titles, 8 Scottish Cups, 5 League cups and two European Cups, with the majority won over a 6 year period from 1980. You need a bit more about you to support a team that doesn't win much trophies, but it's what makes days like last May all the more special. Bigot fans will never feel what we did last May. Take comfort from us just being us. Whether we are shit or decent, it's still our team. The manager thing will sort itself out, let them paid to sort it, sort it and don't over think it. I could have listed our Tennants Sixes wins, Drybrough Cups, Aberdeenshire shields and master trophies. We're far better than that though.

I wish no back home now Planning for France 2030

Local lass Kirsty Muir is competing in the Women's Freeski Slopestyle today at 11:30 am Scotland time.