OrlandoDon

I’ve watched the penalties at least once a day pretty much. Cannot tell you how proud of the team I am, what a game. But what gets me going is the fans. The noise, the passion, the red army. What an amazing support. I’m assuming it was a 50/50 split but the noise doesn’t suggest that, our fans were outstanding. Congrats to all of you. Don’t take seeing us live on a weekly basis for granted! i was finishing my 6th year at lanark grammar in 1990. Worked in John Menzies all Saturday and taped the 90 final, managed to go the whole day without hearing the score, only for the video to run out midway through the second half of extra time. can’t believe that was 35 years ago. This one has been amazing, never got to see the 2014 league cup final live, watched this one on red tv with my 88 year old dad who was over here visiting. been over here full time since 1995. Ive been to pittodrie 4 times in my life, last time I think it was dean windass scoring the winner against Dundee utd in 1998. Freezing that day, surprisingly. As a fan went to most away grounds, Aberdeen when you’re a kid in lanark was a little challenging to get to. When I come home I usually see us at Motherwell, Hamilton, falkirk, killie, livi, hearts, hibs etc., been a few times to parkhead and was there when Eric black scored his hat trick, and saw us win a few times at ibrox. Very jealous of you all who get to see us in the flesh regularly, never expected to live here and be a ‘foreign’ fan! Amazing the optimism now with a cup win, keen to see if jimmy can move us forward. the Aussie winger is intriguing, very excited to see us pick up a 9 and 10. can’t wait for signings and the new season!

Great news! Like a new signing, who just extended his contract! Read shady mo had 5 goals and 13 assists this year. Last year of his contract, he the next one to extend? Still don’t rate him highly but that’s solid production.

Nisbet or miovski and you choose nisbet. Apparently Ferguson is home sick and weve been offered him on a free. I say no, let’s get Funso Ojo back.

You can wish but I’d say he’d go for 4m plus, prob close to 5. We got 6.8m a year ago, they’ll want as much of that as possible. what’s the sell on for us? 20%? I wonder if Celtic go for him…

I don’t see dorrington coming back at all, much like Madison, even Christie. Good loan but time for him to kick on, he’ll either go to spurs first team squad or a higher end championship team. We have so many glaringly obvious needs and we spent on tobers, an experienced national captain and leader, who will get fit in preseason, plus we must give Milne game time. Molloy covers kneuster, ruby should be moved on. Polvara is good cover too, if he is still here. What I will say though, perhaps we’re getting a good connection with spurs, a little like Liverpool perhaps (or did we get burned with Williams), where we see more loans from them. i do think we’ll seee more of Milne and a back 3 in the future. Not our weekly formation but Celtic, Europe, etc, I think Milne will start more when we do that.

You think they’ll make it to the cup final??

Agreed, a lot more, but they have no manager and a pretty poor squad. They’ve also spunked a fair amount of money on players in recent years that I don’t think are in a healthy financial state. This change doesn’t buy them success and, putting my red specs on, we at least have a manager and a squad to build on, plus plenty of momentum. Still think we could give them a challenge next year.

When you factor in Celtic will pay maybe 10m for a player and rangers need multiple signings, 20m is not a lot. With wise spending I think we’d be competitive with them next season.

I was meaning the starting bid. We’re not giving him away cheaply. Makes miovski look like Leon Mike.

So you’re saying 2025-26 won’t be Ambrose’ season?? £10m to inter Milan next summer?

Other than to find his best form and to renew his contract with us, saving the hassle of buying a new left back. Jack’s an odd one, from player of the season to date, and injury, and rarely played in weeks, totally out of favor. Wish the boy well but I think he’s been poorly advised.

If we can loan miovski we totally do, would be huge, but agree the priority is finding the next bojan. But we have zero high quality forwards and that was obvious this year, it’s not just one in we need. Sokler Dabbagh and Ambrose are very likable guys but I’d like to think we can find better than all 3 this summer. We all agree on Ambrose, Sokler has had enough time, and while dabbagh is a bit of a cult hero, he’s looked very average, even poor quite often. 3 goals (I think ) plus a penalty in 5 months doesn’t stand out.

Vey proud seeing again and again the celebrations of the fans, and the relationship our fans seem to have with the team/players/club. Also nice seeing pics of Adam Rooney and dean campbell in the crowd, hearing how happy Derek young was in the commentary. Really think we do have a bit of a unique club, something special.

I think we’re all very emotional and sentimental at the moment. Trust me, I’m over the moon too and watch highlights or penalties every hour! however, is dabbagh any better than sokler? He’s better than Ambrose but I still think if we’re taking a punt on one of our existing strikers, I’ll like it to be bavidge. Sokler dabbagh and Ambrose aren’t going to improve us. We need to replace nisbet and need another forward to push that signing, and it’s none of this 3. Two signings plus bavidge. If we loan miovski, highly unlikely I know, then I’d consider keeping sokler since those two played well together. and being more gloom and doom, jimmy just coached a very jimmy type of game successfully. From what I heard, that’s the type of teams and games he’s capable of creating. However, he cannot play that way in the vast majority of league games, and has still to figure out style of play and create consistency. One cup win in a one off game doesn’t hide the fact we’ve been the worst league team since early November. Feeling extremely optimistic and excited for summer signings. It’s year one of the three year project, or longer. A cup win is great but still lots to do, and new players are needed.

Perhaps, I threw him out there a month or two ago when he hadn’t been playing, plus with them being relegated from the championship, I don’t know how that affects Cardiff’s finances.