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What sort of update would keep everyone happy though? If there's a potential issue with the manager's previous club then any public announcement could prejudice the resolution of that issue. If there's a potential issue with the preferred candidate himself then any public announcement could have an impact on our plan B, plan C, plan Z, etc. If we're in negotiations with any party on any topic, it's usually best not to show your hand until those negotiations are concluded. If we're looking for an announcement just to say we've made an announcement, people are still going to be pishing their pants over the vagueness of it. There will be plenty of time and scope to hold people to account once the process is concluded and we get the full story, getting the pitchforks out and demanding speed takes priority is how we'll end up with someone like Robinson.

It's amazing how much people are winding themselves up over their own interpretations of guesswork being published by sports reporters who themselves have no real idea of what is going on other than this Norwegian chap had been openly sightseeing around the city for 2 whole business days before they were remotely aware that he was under consideration. If we can save a few £000k's in compensation by waiting a wee bit while we're not actually playing any games and have someone semi-competent keeping training ticking over, then it makes sense to do so. And taking a job in another country away from where your family are, it's a big impact on your personal life and not something you can expect someone to take lightly. Allowing someone in that position to take some time to do some research, discuss with family, etc, is not a sign of weakness or a slight on our stature as a football club. Basically, calm doon.

Hi first time on this chat be gentle. I personally don't think any managers in scotland appeal at the moment ( apart from steve clarke but don't think he would come to us and don't fancy waiting til summer either) so hoping this guy horneland takes the job and hopefully we eventually start playing some exciting football and maybe even start to win games. But whoever gets the job we all need to get behind them and give them a chance SF

I may be out of sync with many, but I just don't get all the angst on this. Replacing any member of staff is a tricky process, let alone something as crucial to a football club as a manager. Why do folk expect it do be done quickly? I'd much rather it were done right. There's so much we don't know about what's happening behind the scenes, who is available, who is not. It's not as easy as simply having identified a few names beforehand and then them magically being in a position to say yes right off the bat. Apart from the Cup (which is a long-shot given the state of the team) this season is basically a write-off now. So far better to limp on and get the "right" person than do something quickly. Even then, there are so many variables that the "right" person may not succeed. Most managers fail. Even if the "right" person says yes, there are wider factors. I don't think it would be too speculative to suggest that Jimmy not bringing his family with him had a negative impact, as did the loss early on of a key member of his coaching staff. Life is full of shitty variables that mean the best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley.

Leven says he's had the squad play a match against each other. I bet they both lost.

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.

Couldn’t give a fuck about the colour of the tie but great to see the gaffer and his captain reunited.

I'm not having this. It wasn't a lucky start to the season. It was a team that needed to improve to keep the run going, and unfortunately didn't, but they earned every single one of those wins, the same way I wouldn't suggest the three months without a win after it was "unlucky". If anything, considering Hibs were very fortunate with some refereeing decisions in various games in the run in, we were perhaps UNLUCKY not to have had a chance of third on the final day. And as for the cup, what was lucky about it? We actually trailed for most of the game due to Celtic getting some good fortune. Let's not denigrate one of the best days in our recent history. Thought that sentence was leading up to Panda there

To be fair to Lutz ( tin hat on) he only came in I dunno late October/early November and we were getting some results then so not inconceivable that they did not foresee sacking Thelin just after the new year. So the next time we need a manager that process will hopefully be in place.

Doom n gloom on here today and from at least two who can't blame our miserable weather. We're seventh in the league and still in the cup. We've been in far, far worse positions than this in Februaries gone by.

I’m pretty confident of putting Motherwell out. Fuck knows why. I didn’t get into the business of supporting Aberdeen to be afraid of a Motherwell fixture though

I actually listened to the recent episode on the way home yesterday after it was advertised on here, and I had AI vibes too. I've been on the HereWeGo podcast a few times in the past as a guest, but sullied myself each time by talking shite. I think I'm better off with the written word rather than trying to have real life human interactions.

This is an example of what is known as 'The Gambler's Fallacy' A guy watches the roulette wheel and notes that the ball has landed on black 10 times in row. He concludes that this means the next spin must be red, or has an elevated chance of landing on a red ..... so he whacks his weeks wages on red. It lands on black ... he fumes and claims there is something wrong with the wheel ... Of course, previous spins or tosses of a coin have no bearing on the probability of the next outcome. Funny enough, folk who gamble on the horses/dogs do the opposite - they study form. No sane gambler will bet big on a horse/dog which has failed to win or be placed in it's last umpteen races in the belief that it is 'due a win' I do fancy we'll score, but .... errr .... I wouldn't bet on it

What's the eligibility? Like, can we use posters from the English forums if they have grandparents that post on Donstalk?

A lot of Dons fans said derogatory things about McInnes, so he can say what he likes about us. The hun c*nt.

I am hopeful of keeping Cameron if he does well enough 2bf, he seems really happy to be here and I don't think Rohl has much interest in him.

Just keep our grip on the cup a little bit longer lads. Make us dream again... screenrecording-02-16-2026-13-46-51-1_FjKCcAMa.mp4

Fuck off

Hearts the better team in last years cup semi. Were. They. Fuck.

I was just about to say similar.Think Thelins position was becoming untenable just as Luts was getting his feet under the table,so not really fair to expect him to have someone lined up at that point. Even if he had potential replacements in mind,doesnt mean theyre available...or want to come at that time.Saying that,any sort of update to keep Blow up sheeps knickers dry wouldnt go amiss

It's hardly realistic if you're jumping to conclusions without knowing any of the facts. The person tasked with fixing the "shambles" has only been in the job for about 2 months. So aye, calm doon.

Think we need to keep some perspective on what we can reach for in terms of manager. We are unlikely to be buying in a market for experienced European managers who have a successful track record at a number of clubs. Very much like the players we are shopping for, we are taking a degree of risk with those who have shown performance at some point on their career but may have drifted off that trajectory. If they had continued to grow (Palaversa, Aouchiche etc and Horneland) we wouldn’t be close to getting them. It’s a calculated risk that hasn’t really paid off so it’s reasonable to question the strategy but if we bin that idea then we go down the McGlynn route. No guarantees that doesn’t fall flat on its face either. Knowing the Scottish game isn’t a recipe for success. Someone like McGlynn has spent a long time crafting Falkirk, would we give him that time?

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.

Hopefully Dundee United won't survive the next week either.

I’ve just seen the club announcement. I think only Bobby Clark, Chalky (Tam’s best pal), Jinky, and Jimmy Wilson from the 1967 cup final team are still on the right side of the turf. Of the 1970 cup-winning team, Bobby Clark, Jim Hermiston, George Murray, Martin Buchan, Joe Harper, Bumper, and George Buchan are still extant. Tam was also Inverness Thistle (RIP) player-manager, and when he came back to the city as a taxi driver was aye good for a pint in the cricket club at Mannofield. I was at a Football Memories session at Pittodrie about 3 years ago, and it was sad to see how dementia had affected him. Ach.

Yeah, twice, but they don't count because that prick Ferguson wore a maroon tie on Saturday, so we've disowned anything he won.

I guess the difficulty here is the penalty Dundee got against us. In my head if a player deliberately gets in front of a player who is travelling forward and initiates contact it’s not a foul. Both the Dundee penalty and the Armstrong one are not penalties but one is given. This is the problem.

I meant the right thing morally. If we have mutually agreed that he is the right person for the role and he's keen to take it and we have been progressing on that basis, then an "unforeseen" medical issue has arisen, I am comfortable that giving him the time and space to deal with whatever it is, is the right thing to do, even if it impacts on short term results and performances.

I’d quite like the Greens to win. They’re the only sane party running

Sums it up perfectly

We all knew that there was no update though. Many on here were crying out for there to be an update on the no update. He couldn't win, really.

Sorry man, disagree, good update. Good managers are hard to find and we need to get this right, which in itself requires luck and timing. Saying something but nothing in a way, but least it’s an update. All he can say, and better than silence, you. Can’t say more when things aren’t set. dont disagree too, starting with us midseason is bit of a shit show. Starting in the summer, build a squad, a preseason is the ideal for a coach. If it’s horneland for example, can work with us on recruitment prior to formally being hired, but has a voice in squad building. Realistically, we are not in a good spot right now and hard for a manager to start right now and go forwards immediately. Shit situation, but is what it is. .

I am all for change if that change is for the better. Have now seen more than enough of Bratveit to see is most certainly not an upgrade on Mitov. Hopefully Mitov back in between the sticks from Wednesday at tannadump and for the rest of the season. Nisbet MOTM easily yesterday and is most probably one of the most hard working players we have. He certainly and clearly gives a fuk and tries his best every single week which is not a lot to ask. Sadly we cannot say the same about many of that fukin charlatans that were prancing around the pitch yesterday. Got what we deserved once again

You’ve not met my wife have you

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Agreed. There are clearly aspects of their set up and play that are impressive. Getting what he is from that squad is pretty exceptional and the ability to switch players in and out often without significant reduction in quality is impressive too. They play some really good football box to box, their movement, work rate and understanding of each others positioning is also good. They struggle a bit bookending that though. Vulnerable at the back of they are pressed and not dominating possession and more crucially they don’t have a focal point up front and depend on playing through to allow Maswanhise in to score. They tried to create that focal point with the big Scandie guy but he was honking so I reckon it stuffed some of their game plan last night.

I like to see this sort of thing. I've played kick abouts at the sports village where grown men are diving to win free kicks. The lack of sportsmanship in football is insidious. I don't believe it was always the case and we seem to not only be getting further and further away from a sport where sportsmanship was built in, but accepting and promoting it, and building it into our rules. The handball rule is a prime example, where sporting advantage (i.e. deliberate Vs not) has been removed from the equation. Accidental collisions are now red cards. Their red card, given after a slip etc. It's a real shame. It would be very simple to add the word "deliberately" into stopping a goalscoring opportunity, for example. Or "deliberately" endangering an opponent. Ironically, the sending off that everyone seems to be complaining about from last night was the one where the Motherwell player deliberately and cynically hauled the player to the ground to stop him getting away. He did it in an attempt to "take a booking" probably, with no idea whether his teammates would get back or not. It's certainly the most deserved of the sending offs, but we're all arguing over the technicality of whether the defenders would have caught the player, rather than the deliberate lack of sportsmanship in the challenge.

I should add I saw enough to suggest we do have a chance in the cup tie. Definitely.

4 sensible posts in a row. Is that a new record?

He has a problem with the folk who think the top of Union street is the castlegate

There is not one footballing success metric by which Aberdeen FC are not the 3rd club in Scotland. Its why the diets and spoon burners constantly obsess about attendances, its all they have to try and pretend they’re bigger clubs, laughable really. As for the pikeys, they just dream of being us…

I can remember them all as far back as Alec Douglas-Home who had to renounce his peerage to take on a moribund Tory party around 1963. By the two 74 elections I was involved, but neither Wilson, nor Callaghan was radical enough. From today’s perspective, they were almost Kerensky and Kosygin compared today’s self-serving cabal of wishy-washy dinna-scare-the-cuddies “progressives”. I despair after the graft put in during the 77-79 referendum campaign, and the input of trades unions to the Kenyon Wright Constitutional Convention, that Holyrood’s become a safety-first talking shop full of party placemen/women/others with any hint of radicalism strangled at birth by the system, opinion polls, and sneaky, snide SPADs. I’ll be spoiling my ballot in May as there is fuck all worthy of my vote. Anent Westminster, it’s as remote politically as Peru. As Bambi said to Scumbag College, “the rich kids always win”. I trust I can rely on your vote? Dinna bother.

If we had anyone actually interested in holding Reform Ltd to account, it would be the end for Farage as well, he seems to be all over the files in a political inference context. BBC seem far more interested in “At Home With The Farages” puff pieces showing what a ruddy nice bloke to have a pint with Our Nige is while the Labour government are perfectly content to let GB News break all kinds of broadcasting regulations on a daily basis and despite the mounting evidence that Brexit was planned by these outside influences from the very beginning have no interest whatsoever in addressing that head on.

Ooh I cannot wait for the wine and now got tickets for the figure skating too so absolutely buzzing

Tims absolutely raging elsewhere. It’s almost as if we’ve never travelled, and found out at 2.45 that a match has been postponed. Suck it the fuck up you manky cunts - or bring soap.

At least his nieces and nephews can still call him the same name.

I'm guessing they'll factor the weight of Callum McGregor's tears into the decision too. Could potentially tip it.

Aberdeen players spotted pouring buckets and buckets of water on the pitch just to make sure it’s off.

Aye, that has formatted so badly it actually resembles our team defending a corner.