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Bloody love Devlin. He’s felt like ‘Aberdeen’ from day one. Rare for me to take to a player so early and so completely but feels like he’s been here forever not just 2 1/2 years. There can be better players at us for longer who don’t feel so integral to the club for me. He’s not perfect but not coincidental to me that our results are better when he’s in the team (I think?). I just like how the guy conducts himself. Chuffed he’s back getting a consistent run in the team.

Thelin is out and about in Prague tonight meeting the fans Seriously a top guy

Now it actually is Xmas Day Merry Xmas to ALL our members. Stand Free Wherever You May Be

I’m looking forward to the bit when managers realise that playing out from the back is a sack of shit

By the way, we have far too many players who look like each other when watching on the telly. Lazetic-Bilalovic. Jensen-Karlsson Milne-Polvara Too many times today I praised/criticised the wrong player. It's another issue Pfannenstiel needs to sort out.

Of course you will. You're the forums very own Sandy Jensen.

A countdown clock would be a very easy way to make VAR significantly better. If you can't tell if it's an error within ten seconds of seeing replays then it's not clear and obvious, play on.

It's a breath o' fresh air is Donstalk, a forum which allows the word 'fuck' It's efficiently run, nae sign o' a hun, Ah'm so chuffed Ah could wank in ma sock!

Ex ‘Mad’ gadgies in search of a flock Awa fae shit tech and SiBo the moch Had a look at ‘the hat’ Thought Christ no, sod that So are now posting shite on Dons Talk

A lot of the posters left Mad And went to DonsTalk, it's nae bad We've been on the site For at least a fortnight And a good time for all has been had They'll get better, I promise.

An AFC limerick thread was started by Radiored (neeps as was) way back in 2019. Saw mentioned it was missed so bringing it over here. Rico has approved this Here’s the very first limerick from Radiored (the master of the gemme) which was dedicated to Cosgrove A useless big laddie called Sam Like a ham sannie devoid o' the ham But at penalty kicks, Wi a smirk 'tween eez chicks, made the keeper feel like a right bam And the final offering from Swaddon The Dons have been battered in Greece Which fair made me choke on my piece Our players are sh*te Yes, you hear me right Maist of the c*nts are nae eese

Even better than that, it was 35 years

If the last 18 months, which included an enthralling unbeaten run at the start of last season and a first scottish cup win since 19-fucking-90 just seven months ago is “painful”, then what word are we using for the 24-odd years that came before?! It’s been a weird 18 months, at times a frustrating 18 months, but attendances are up, the connection between the club and fans feels stronger than ever and - I repeat - we’ve won the Scottish Cup for the first time in 25 years. I’m certainly not feeling any pain.

Photo opportunities for those based in Capital and Inverness

My theory is that Cormack wants the whole back room structure sorted; coaching, academy. Basically a whole DNA - pathway to first team, pathway for coaches to step up too. This whole "three year project" is more about Thelin leaving a legacy on the club, an imprint. That's why he has backed Thelin a hell of a lot more than Glass, Goodwin or Robson because they weren't offering that. And I think results wise, Thelin winning the cup and banking £6m+ from Europe, that was probably ahead of schedule - the club likely were aiming for that in his second or third season. It would also explain why Thelin doesn't feel the need to throw in Bilalovic and Kjartansson. I think he's quite happy to develop these guys and have the next manager enjoy the fruits of his labour. Like I said, just a theory. If he gets sacked next week, someone delete this.

I think he probably deserves at least the January transfer window, and it'll be the first with a sporting director. And if you're giving him that, then you're essentially giving him until April, unless the form becomes terrible again. I do have my doubts now. Some really poor decision making coming from Thelin; namely I don't think he's used the squad well enough this season, and I think the tactics are wrong. But I have not lost faith with him the same way I did with Goodwin and Robson. We're in December, we no longer have the European games, and there's still a lot to play for - third is still very much there, and should we be any less confident about winning the cup than we were at this stage last season? So I'm still backing him for now, but a bit pissed off with him.

To understand the change to this format, you have to understand what they're trying to get to. The final goal is a European league(s). This gets everyone used to the idea by creating the format first, and then slowly increasing the number of games you play within the format. It doesn't make sense now, but in a couple of years, you'll maybe have 8 games in Europe rather than 6. Then 10. The closer you get to the final format, the less pronounced are the differences in fixtures but, paradoxically, the effects become more visible (team X played exactly the same fixtures as team Y, bar one fixture which they lost and finished three points behind them, missing "promotion"). At that point, the calls are then switched to shouting for a full round of fixtures for everyone rather than questioning the tournament itself. It's basically using the sunk cost fallacy to get what you want. Governments, businesses and football cunts do it all the time. The most obvious example is VAR. Your goal is to remove all refereeing errors from football, so you introduce a shite system. You then slowly chip away at each type of decision until you get what you want. At a certain point, people stop questioning the existence of the system itself and they are the ones saying "well we've got this system, why aren't we using it for throw-ins?". Aided and abetted by morons in the media who have discussions about "how we can make VAR better", rather than "how can we organise to get rid of VAR", not realising that the former discussion doesn't mean impartiality, you've already agreed with Thatcher's TINA (there is no alternative). It's not just football. Every single town and city on the planet is setup in the most ridiculous fashion to accommodate car travel, for example. We must bail out banks, and so on. We don't have a say. We all know that the correct answer is to rip it up and go back to knockout tournaments, unseeded. We all know that what makes European football magical is its scarcity.

Take off the guys who are starting on Sunday. We’re not getting anything here other than embarrassed. I know a few folk get a piss up abroad but honestly I’d sooner be in the league cup group stage. Foreign influences, managers/players but standard of Scottish fitba still miles behind. This lots touch, pace, tempo miles ahead of us.

Yeah, basically I was an entire day out, and thought the game was about to kick off.

Fair few holograms in the back line over the last 30 years.

To all those moaning Aberdonian bastards that think he is finished, I have just two words GRAEME SHINNIE

Just back. Decent game, tireless performance and should have got something from it. Some sitters missed and a weak bit of defending. We pressed really high though and matched them all over the park. Going man for man was high risk but good to see. Their goal came from Devlin being high up on his man and tanking back in to cover for Milne who needs to be a bit better with his positioning. Earlier in the season, we'd have had the two defenders deep and probably dealt with it, but we'd have been passing it sideways and allowing them 80 yards of space all over the park. It's a worthwhile trade-off. Thought Aouchiche worked his arse off in there tonight (might have solved our midfield issue?), Armstrong outstanding for an hour and Lobban played like a seasoned pro. Was happy enough with the subs, I think Sunday has to be the priority. Yengi wasn't terrible, Milanovic was. Karlsson ineffective but generally worked hard. Mitov obviously pissed off with the disgusting besmirchment of his abilities on here recently and was top class - anyone questioning him should be flogged. Lazetic should be scoring tonight and has to be disappointed. Nisbet looked possessed when he came on. By a man with extremely heavy feet. His first five passes were hit at quadruple speed. You could see he really wanted to get involved, but everyone else was out on their arse (or Yengi or Milanovic).

I still find it hard to believe, that despite spending a fortune on employing the folk sitting at the top table, at the AGM, that the prick Stewart Milne, still hangs around our club like a bad smell.

While they're munchin' the legs aff amphibians, They wear necklaces made oot o' ingins There'll be be nae Laissez-faire When we kick derriere An' show them the road tae oblivion.

It’s early December, the club are at least 6 weeks away from identifying last minute panic signings.

I would say that was individual errors more than managerial?

While I'm nae one to slag off the Beeb Their cup headline fair made me seethe 'tic playing Talbot? Have they all forgot? The Dons hold the cup I believe...

We measure all of our games by the more accurate xD (expected disappointment)

Oh look. Two points above the holders of the We Beat Barcelona Twice Yiz Ken Eh, Trophy. Fannies.

Ah've rescheduled band practice the morrin So tae the Kirkgate wee aa can be goin Tae watch on teevee oor game v Leevee An' keep coont o' the goals we'll be scorin' ( the game is technically/officially today, but it's still dark an' Ah've nae slept yet, so the game is still, at this point in time, for me ... 'the morrin' )

A swarm of Dons Mad infiltrators Wi' their limericks they did inundate us Their forum was burst Its punctuation was cursed Or perhaps it's a brief hiatus

Disappointed if they don't line up in a 2-2-2-2-2 formation.

The top red called Santa has been He even stopped off at Thelin's He's been a good boy So he gave him a toy And some Brasso to keep the cup clean

Football fans who follow social media accounts of players’ relatives are without exception absolute wrong ‘uns and belong on a register.

We don't generally shit the bed under Thelin. We just seem to confidently brush off the glaring errors, before doing exactly the same twenty minutes later. Milne didn't give the ball away for their third last night through panic or having given up. He confidently tried to thread a ball through to a retreating centre half in the name of passing out from the back. A crazy decision drummed into them on the training ground. Ignore the score, just keep doing it until it works seems to be the philosophy. Equally as likely to lead to a 0-6 tanking as shitting the bed like.

Wonder if I’d feel differently if we’d advanced, but what a shit format. Not a complaint because we faced 5 of the top 8 teams, but I just find it rather uninteresting. No clue why we had to have 36 teams, if you insist on something different instead of the regular knock out rounds, why not 32 team, 8 groups of 4, play everyone home and away so you get your 6 games, but the games are now likely more meaningful. Top 2 advance to a round of 16. the format of the European tournaments are getting worse and worse. As has been said before, I certainly miss the original 3 tournaments.

It's not a league though, is it. It's a contrived bollocks set of games where different teams play others at random. It's tragic as fuck that people actually came up with it in the first place. You can't even properly slag us off for finishing bottom because we played different teams than others around us. I'm fucking glad we're avoiding this format for imbeciles next season (unless we win the league).

Good, anyone else he wants to start on Sunday should be pulled off (oooer) now too. Damage limitation mode (theyve pretty much given up now anyway), hopefully no injuries and get this pointless european farce over and done with…

Maybe somebody got their names mixed up

Greetings fellow Dandies Lump your cash on us for the morn This Czech beer is awful fine Stand Free COYR

As in “cocks”, I guess.

I have never looked forward to playing them in our own patch let alone Parkhead and as for them being there for the taking... The scars of watching us over the years, means I can never be that confident going into a game against anyone. We were honking first half yesterday, as bad a 45 minutes as I have ever seen from an Aberdeen team and I've seen plenty. Prague is a free hit. My appetite for the game is zero, but Thelin has to have us far better prepared for Sunday than he did first half yesterday. The green filth don't often lose many games on the bounce and I really don't want us being the team that it starts to click for them.

The weather at Todders was bracing The Dons the game they were chasing They pushed and they pressed But emerged second best The match ended 1-0 to Racing

Could anyone imagine Simon Murray's athletic body, beautiful hair, but with Stuart Armstrong's face? Tidy as fuck.

Trigger warning please.

One of my Aberdeen group chats on what's app is called the "Nicky Devlin appreciation society" for very good reason. Absolutely adore him!

That was my first game of the season and a great 3 points, nice company, shopping, bacardi, chips and a cracking goal what's not to like

I wouldn't have thought so if he's died...