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Fitba tweets has outdone himself here.

Punted for spamming and unacceptable language and trust me it takes a lot to get banned banned from here

Was impressed with his first team meeting

I know it’s not but it is for me. Finally made the pilgrimage over for my 50th. Off to the Ullevi stadium in the morning, to try and recreate Hewitts winner. There doesn’t seem to be an official tour but ill chap the door and ask I don’t know what you’re all moaning about, the weather is lovely

[Not a limerick - apologies] Good King Cormack now looks out On a boss called Stephen His pass mess lies all about Deek and Doc and Leven Jim and Jimmy, Stephen Glass Barry fae the ‘rurie Warnock was a complete arse Piss up in a brewery…

Ok, not my choice, but he's here so the slate is wiped clean until at least 4.55pm on Saturday He'd better get three points next week against the Huns or Bukta Bertie will self combust with conspiracy theories

It's a chipper

I love how we bring everyone back and give them a free header anyway. Been doing this shit since Craig Brown LEAVE SOME CUNT UP FRONT FOR FUCK SAKES

Think we're giving the 95 team too much credit. We had only won five league games before Aitken took over as caretaker, and followed up a win over Rangers by losing to Stenhousemuir. I think, despite everything, if we're in deep shit after the split that we'd sell out Pittodrie for the remaining games and I think we'd be due Kilmarnock and St Mirren at home. I don't see us losing both those games. We're crap and gutless, but we'll scrape enough points to be safe. But we really could really do without losing to St Mirren in the next game just to relieve the stress levels.

My guess is Robinson probably insisted on the 3.5 years. Why wouldn’t he? Lets be honest, after the clusterfuck we made of the prawcess, he held all the cards…

It's done, announcement coming very soon. Dave is currently writing and rewriting the statement, trying to convince everyone that Robinson fits the board's philosophy of delivering exciting, attacking football and that he was the number one choice from the very start. He's here now. Wasn't my first choice but I also don't think he's anywhere near as bad as some people are making out. The anger should be with the club rather than Robinson.

Is there still a mute function on this forum? Asking for a friend.

I have fond memories of Alex Miller. That break dance he did in the box prior to Strachan’s goal in the 4-1 cup final win vs the dead club was an absolute thing of beauty…

You're saved getting one of these after review by VAR Panel and because having met you in Munich or possibly Madrid I know you're a good person so I put in a good word for you.

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The dead huns weren’t relegated either. THEY FUCKING WELL DIED.

Sadly this future started quite a while ago. I miss the days of watching things on set days, then chatting about them at work, and looking forward to 'next week'. What an old man thing to say. For me, Netflix is all about quantity - most of it is shite, some of it is pretty good. Very little of it sticks in your memory for more than about 2 days. It's just finding the right things. But we tend to spend more time looking for stuff to watch, so invariably give up and go back to council telly. We also tend to rotate our subscriptons - Netflix for a few months, Apple for a few. They always throw offers at you to come back, and there is never a long term commitment so you can just cancel whenever. Apple doesn't have masses of stuff, but they seem to have more quality things - at least we have found a lot more there that has some proper substance. We'll often take it when a freebie comes up for a month, keep it for three, blitz a load of stuff, then leave it for a year. I could happily live without the streaming sevices. For the most part, you are better with a book - unless you fall in to the trap my wife fell into of just reading the crap that is churned out by Amazon for your kindle. Mrs Tattie: Oooh, 99p. How bad can it be Me: Very - Like the last 40. Why don't you just buy a real book! That's my issue with modern life (or one of many). We have too much choice, and 99% of it is pish. We are just told we need all these options and believe 'them'. Real music (including heavy metal - but not C&W or freeform jazz), four channels and some good books, thatll do me.

Its now or never for him and the whole club. Lets just have a little less conversation out of them all, and a lot more action and results on the park instead…

The turncoat cunt has not scored for the huns.

Every year at our place, we get around £60 a head for the Mad Friday thing, which for around 300 workers, is quite a sizeable chunk of cash for folk that can easily pay their own way. During lockdown there was no shindig and they donated the money earmarked for it to charity, fair enough. I then made the suggestion that we should do this every year and pay for our own Mad Friday. I pushed for the funds to go to schools in poor areas. To say the reaction to this wasn't well received was an understatement. The entitlement was off the scale. I was genuinely taken aback by the abuse I got for suggesting it. I don't partake in Mad Friday and I also lose 10% of my yearly bonus because I won't do the charity stuff linked to it. We're meant to do it and post about it on the internal social media thing we use. Makes you want to boak. I still struggle to see why I am sort of being pushed out, as the oil industry up here dies. Was it something I said. I'm of the opinion that Utopia isn't happening in any of our lifetimes. No shit I hear you all say. You see the money being used to blow up the middle east and think how easily most of societys ills could be fixed if they really wanted it fixed and resources were used correctly.

Robots

Dundee United look like they're doing a lot of research into whether their signings are a good culture fit for them, hence signing someone who looks like he already lives in a caravan.

Here's my take on it good and bad: The woman asking the questions was horrific The sound quality was hit and miss, with one minute loud and clear and the next no audio at all Robinson's opinion on the best player he ever played against was Steven Gerrard Kept referring to "the football club" as a top six club......needs to re-think that part Now for the better parts in my opinion: Honoured to be manager. Praised the fan base and the facilities at AFC Preferred formation 4-3-3 but only if he has the players to play it, otherwise happy to be flexible. Not adverse to playing youngsters but only if good enough. If he has a 25 yr old and a 18 year old both playing same position and the 25 year old is the better player then he plays. Keen to work on set pieces and may look to add someone for that to the coaching staff. He has the final day on signings but obviously others do the leg work in identifying. Anticipates a lot of movement in the squad over the summer. Absolutely hates VAR with a passion and says it ruins the game for fans in particular. I actually quite took to him and am potentially a bit more comfortable with him BUT talk is cheap and he knows he has to deliver

Good idea. It's my wife's car, so it's her that they'll go after. I'm contemplating going full gaslight and asking her how she doesn't remember the day out she had in Dunfermline only a week ago. Maybe hide some of her things and remind her about the great time we had at various events we never attended.

"It'll be bad news for NATO if Europe don’t drag me out this enormous pile of shit I’ve got myself into" Not an actual quote but well done to Starmer for standing strong. Farage and Badenoch would have had us knee deep in this fucking quagmire by now.

Why would Dave Cormack be to blame for @Jute dragging every team he supports down to a level worse than they could ever possibly be?

As a result of numerous trips to San Francisco over the years I have developed an affinity for the various Bay Area sports teams including the San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS. They have had a good start to the season and haven’t conceded in their first three matches winning all three. Tonight is first time had a chance to watch them live. They concede after 19 minutes and are currently losing 1-0. I have decided it’s me that’s the problem. Not clueless managers or shite players just me supporting a team.

If it was horneland or another foreigner, Aberdeen is just another random job. And questions would be asked, comments made etc. Robinson knows the club, the size of the club, and truly feels this is a step up, a one he deserves. He rightly says we are a big club with history, and means it. I think we’ve got a very motivated guy, eager to have us punch above our weight too.

I do wonder if Emir Bajrami was the one who lit the fire under players arses in the Thelin regime. Robinson has spoken really well so far but he's been good with a mic under his nose every time I've ever heard him. It is nice to have a manager I actually want to listen to again though. Leven clearly hates doing press, Thelin was ok to a point but still pretty bland, Goodwin was solid enough, Glass a bit meh. McInness was excellent though and I would put Robinson in that category. All that said you can't fake enthusiasm and he's clearly delighted to be here which I must admit does lift the spirits a bit. Overall I'm defo feeling a bit better than I did yesterday morning when the news dropped though still remain sceptical this is going to be the right choice long term.

Well he'll have lasted infinitely longer than Bertie has on here

Seriously min, give it a rest with pish like that ffs…

I feel cheated and completely underwhelmed. It has been a complete circus getting to this point. I really can't see a future at the club for Lutz if his position has been undermind by burrows. The board have acted in a totally amateurish fashion throughgout all of this. Not my choice and quite clearly not the club's first choice (otherrwise wait 2 plus months). Smacks of desperation and panic with I think Dunfermline result spooking Cormack and Burrows. He'll get my support as any new guy (apart from warnock) would but I can't see him getting much rope and unless there is a very quick turnaround in terms of performances and results wont last long. I think he has been superb for Motherwell and St. Mirren but not the right fit here. 2 and a half months of "global recruitment" has seen us ending up going to Paisley again. Not good.

Why would that be of any relevance to anyone of an Aberdeen persuasion

As usual min 100% spot on. Incredible. I am angry enough about appointing Robinson but I think I'm more angry at the amateurism of the last couple of months. A complete laughing stock.

On the bright side, he'll probably bring a lot of good backroom staff with him. We're really struggling in the goalkeeping department, especially when coming for crosses. They're bound to have someone who can help on that front.

Mark Fishkin suggests that Sandro Schwarz never gets his starting eleven correct.

Perhaps we might not be around to see The Dons relegated after all - every mushroom cloud. Mind you a world populated by cockroaches and huns

The last rocket on this forum turned out to be a bell end

He's got a job as assistant manager at Rotherham United.

It's the same as the Huns who will happily be surrounded by 50,000 mutants spewing sectarian bile at Ibrox insisting they're "only interested in the football" as an excuse. They'll fixate on one policy that they claim is super-important to them (border security or "trans gender for EVERYONE") as justification for turning a blind eye to the hundreds of other atrocities committed by the regime so they can avoid any kind of recognition that they may have been wrong.

I think we knew it had happened or was happening. Some of the vitriol aimed towards him was way OTT. Was a bawhair away from getting us to the cup final in 2024, whilst interim manager and gave us a respectable end to a shit season. Looked a broken man after the Dunfermline game, just like Jimmy T did too, towards the end. All the best Peter.

Just one of the many things that shits me about the anti assisted dying religious argument - when they say ending someone's life peacefully and with dignity is playing god, all whilst the patient is hooked up to machines, being artificially kept alive; all because someone decided we need to preserve life at all costs. It's the most valuable thing and not for us to decide when to end it! My folks were (mum) and are (dad) of the mind that they would rather be allowed to pass peacefully with assistance at the point they become unaware and there is no realistic hope. I share that view - but I do understand the emotive nature of this and how people disagree. I see this from three key points: If I am going to have no quality of life, and going to be a burden who needs constant care, I don't want that. As soon as I lose my faculties I don't want to be a burden to others. There is a great cost to prolonged life when there is no hope (mostly emotional but to an great extent financial too). I don't want my family to have to suffer while I suffer. They still have lives to lead without worrying about my constant needs (my mum hung around for 2 weeks before she slipped away and we all agreed it was best for everyone as she had no hope of recovery. My dad could never have coped if she had gone home, and she wouldn't have wanted to be cared for 24/7. She was 'lucky' to go so quickly and peacefully) It puts a massive burden on our care services to keep people hanging on. I don't think we should be able to choose willy nilly when we go - but if we have made our wishes clear whilst compos mentis we should be allowed to go when we are in a position where we will have no quality of life and need support to be kept alive. Even the god fearing USA has assisted suicide in certain states. I want that choice. My choice. Not some god fearing politician. And not only within 6 months of dying - I don't want to be shitting my pants in a home for 10 years. Let me decide what's best for me.

Fitba tournaments should be decided on the field, not in the courts. The fair thing to do would be to replay the final.

It is frowned upon to drive in either but whats life without whimsy?

Twelve years ago today Derek McInnes won his first and last trophy as a manager.

This story is hilarious (although, a few months of stress for the poor bloke involved). Basically an Aberdeen fan got charged with assault for singing Stand Free. My favourite part:- His daughter Lauren gave an example of the fists-out gesture to the court and sang a line from the Stand Free chant. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm89w9yeyno

Your loyalty lies with the online message board, not some employer. When you get fired for calling tom English an ineloquent writer, this will be the first place you come.

The first team coach that had Norwegian experience seems even stranger- was potentially a Horneland appointment with him meant to come in summer What is his role now? more coaches than Central

Good post, Panda! You made my post so much easier and shorter, was going to post something similar. He’s an experienced coach, Goodwin glass and Robson were not. Thelin had minimal knowledge/experience of our league, opponents, and players. Robinson will also have more of an idea than most of the type of player that’s needed for the SPL. We also have lutz (assuming rumors are false) and the return of Mowbray to find players. i suggested here early season that Robinson could be an option and got blasted for it, so no surprise that there’s so much negativity. But he has done well as a coach in the league. And won a cup. And not just with one SPL team. the big however is that he doesn’t seem to match the whole long term approach, philosophy of the club, and the glamor of a new coach. I’m certainly disappointed in this announcement, surely we could have done better. Seems like desperation/panic to me, and id be surprised if he came before summer. When i suggested him before one major negative voiced was the quality of their play. Haven’t seen enough of his teams to comment, although I have certainly been wooed more by the play of falkirk and Motherwell. Don’t remember the chat when Alex miller was hired, or Roy Aiken, and in more recent times when goodwillie came. Certainly my most deflating hire for us to date and I’ve been a fan approx 45 years, even though there are signs he could be a good fit/hire.

Your determination to derail every thread by saying the same thing over and over again, and then insulting anyone who disagrees with your opinion, got boring a long time ago.