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Scottish Premiership: St Johnstone v Aberdeen
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Good vs Evil - Saturday LIVE on Sky Sports
Mentorred replied to glasgow sheep's topic in Aberdeen Football Club
Am I being Biased or was there no way that should have been a penalty for Rangers. Sky sports kept going on about it, saying it was. Suprised the ref never gave it. -
Good vs Evil - Saturday LIVE on Sky Sports
Mentorred replied to glasgow sheep's topic in Aberdeen Football Club
What a performance. Especially from the makeshift defence. Lee Miller won almost every ball today. -
We should never have got rid of Roy Aitken.
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Hopefully we can reap the benifits of him signing for the club
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SFA GTF
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Much better than this
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Happy Miller day folks: Friday 21st November 1997 Alex Miller's ill-fated spell in charge of Aberdeen began when he was unveiled as the new Aberdeen manager at Pittodrie. Several supporters groups had questioned the appointment as Miller had gained a reputation of being defensive in his approach. Those fears were realised some 12 months later as Miller was sacked after a series of poor results and questionable signings. Among those was that of Craig Hignett who was reported to be the highest earner at the club, picking up in excess of £8,000 per week. Miller later joined Liverpool as a scout and latterly assisted Rafael Benitez at Anfield. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 21st November 1931 A debut for Aberdeen's Matt Armstrong as the youngster earned a quick promotion to the first team in the aftermath of the 'Great Mystery' betting scandal. Armstrong played in the Black & Golds' 0-3 defeat at Brockville in a side that showed several changes with five of the Aberdeen side being implicated in the scandal; they were never to play for the club again. I met Matt when my mum nursed him in the last few years of his life, He told me he got a 1 pound bonus for scoring against Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final.
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I agree. Are you in the USA redordead?
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Willie Miller was the most overrated player ever, what did that mercenary ever achieve?
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I would say David Winnie. He was terrible.
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I think he is a really good player. Scored and set up a few goals for the Dynamo. Could be the sort of player we need to get our strikers scoring.
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What's the age limit on getting a transfer fee for player out of contract? I hope we are not letting them out of contract just as they can leave for free.
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Quote from: BigAl on Today at 08:56:40 AM[/urlAnyone got any good memories of Alex Miller [img alt=]http://www.donstalk.co.uk/messageboard/Smileys/dt_smileys/huh.gif[/img] He did bring in Jim Leighton
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Hignett could have been a great player for us if it were not for his personal problems. Andy Dow was a cult hero.
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Winters cost us more than 700k when you think of what Dodds went to Rangers for. Making Winters technically a 2m player. Nigel Pepper was terrible, remember when he got sent off for his 1st tackle when he came on as a sub.
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Here is Chick Young's view from the BBC website. Of course he had to slip in a bit about the referee in a Rangers game being bad. Chick Young's view By Chick Young BBC Scotland football correspondent It has been a bad week for referees and Holy Willies. As Celtic chairman John Reid was laying into the sanctimonious - and I have reason to believe that his target was not indeed Rangers, but rather some shareholders who attended his own club's AGM - Aberdeen were turning the guns on poor Steven Nicholls. Rookie ref Nicholls, it seems, could give the currently petted-lipped postmen a half-mile start when it comes to delivering cards. On the club's official website someone scripted the words: "When cards are being dished out like confetti, players become afraid to make tackles. "Nine against 11 - perhaps make that 12 - for the best part of half an hour means an unequal situation and that is cheating the fans." That, I have to say, is a pretty serious accusation. "Cheat" is a noun that has legal teams getting their mouths all shaped for the words "libel" and "slander". In fact, they have obviously gone as far as suggesting he was performing for Hibs. Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab. This is not for the faint hearted. And for sure it blows from the water Hugh Dallas's Pravda-style agreement with clubs that they would not comment on referees' performances to the media after the games. Not that I ever believed the gagging would work in the first place. Aberdeen will be punished by the Scottish Football Association for this, of course they will. Otherwise, Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov might rightly question that there is one rule for Lithuanians and one for the natives, given that he has a standing order with the association to square up his fines. The blood-spitting Dons even suggested Nicholls allowed the game to degenerate to the level of farce. Brian Rix - the king of the art form - would be awful proud. Actually, as long as they are aware of the laws of the land, I defend in true Braveheart-style to my dying day Aberdeen's right to voice an opinion. The SFA need to wake up to the fact that if people don't chip in their tuppenceworth then the game is dead. It's what makes football breathe in bars and living rooms across the country. However, I don't agree with much they said. It's all-out verbal war. The world has gone stark-raging bonkers Chick Young Dallas has already defended his organisation's plan to fast-track match officials to the big time. Indeed Nicholls, bound for the Fifa list, was in just his second SPL game. But I watched television highlights of the key moments of the game and there has to be a time when players take a little responsibility for their actions. Tackles were flying in despite the Dons website claims that "hardly a strong tackle was made", and if you suggest the match official was performing as a 12th man for the opposition then it is innuendo which points at something next door to corruption. There have been some pretty miserable refereeing performances this season - and not all of them from Scots. The Swedish oaf Mr Eriksson who took charge of Rangers v Sevilla in the Champions League match at Ibrox was a role model for any aspiring idiot. Sometimes it is far too easy to blame your own shortcomings on others - and I'll hold my hand up to that - and referees don't operate in camouflage. Pin-pointing individual mistakes is one thing. Machine-gun fire claiming out-and-out bias is another altogether. Mind you, Michael Stewart has returned the fire. The Hearts captain is fair raging at the written media after claiming his comments on Hibs were "manipulated" in an attempt to stir the mood ahead of this weekend's Edinburgh derby. He used the Hearts website - er, that'll be the written media - to have a right go at the hacks who allegedly stitched him up. "They are complete parasites," he said. "They tried to manipulate, twist and put a spin on everything that has been said." It's all-out verbal war. The world has gone stark-raging bonkers. Nobody is safe out there. Even newspaper reporters are under fire - and none of it is very friendly. It was Robert Burns who wrote about Holy Willie. Even that old soul would have been left without a prayer in the cruel modern world of the Scottish game. Story from BBC SPORT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/8341492.stm Published: 2009/11/03 22:45:27 GMT © BBC MMIX
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Just finished reading The Shack. Very thought provoking.
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Anyone know who the Guy dressed as a sheep who was on fire in the train was? Any news if he is ok?
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Andy Goram on "Bad Guy" Jim Leighton
Mentorred replied to BobbyBiscuit's topic in Aberdeen Football Club
There's only 2 Andy Gorams -
Dons to sell tickets from Bridge street shop
Mentorred replied to manc_don's topic in Aberdeen Football Club
Whats everyone's thought on the new Shopping center? Would that be good location or is it going to be a white elephant? -
Here comes Mackie, let the goal fest begin.
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Sack the whole team!!!!
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And Jim Bett, Alex Ferguson etc.
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