capitalsharpie

:clap: Also Ajja, the very essence of football is its perocialism, from the boys meeting in the red beastie for the past thirty years, to all over Europe and the biggest teams on earth, there will be an element of this. It is, however the wonderful "modern" game that has tried to buy into this, the American, japanese, Arabian millionaires whilst meanwhile diluting this sense of parochialism through soaring costs to the punter, has manifestly changes the nature of the product, to its utter detriment.

does this also mean that MM forsees us getting rid of one or two in Jan to free up wages?

All part of the continuing msimanagemt from the board. 50 000 at park head every week and the place is a grave yard..

One of the main problems here is that certain positions ie defenders and goal keepers dont mature until over this age. This idea is going no where.

This whole preposal fills me to dread to the very core. If this board of directors track record has anything to go by this may spell the end of Aberdeen Football Club. Nothing this board has done has inspired me. Aberdeen Football club survives despite these faceless men. Cove is the THIRD choice site for the club. Cove is NOT Aberdeen In the same way Motherwell is not thought of as part of Glasgow and Dunfermline as part of Edinburgh. We are going to lose our identity. I disagree with Ajja. The reason our club survives is precisely because we dont play in the B and Q stadium in a piece of wasteground in a mechano stadium. And that people CAN walk from The Pittodrie Bar, or the Blue Lamp or thier OWN FUCKING HOMES TO THE GROUND. Does anybody on here ACTUALLY think that we are going to get an amazing modern architectural statement from this current bunch of visionaries within our club? The answer is no, because, as per usual, this project will be completed with the lowest cost figure in mind, which does not necessarily provide VALUE for money. The selling of the ground around Pittodrie is one of the biggest scandals in the city. we are a one club city with (apparently) nowhere to go. The lack of judgement from the board is a disgrace for which they should be held accountable. If not the expanding of the ground, then the space for decent quality training facilities. In this regard we are a joke. A continuing joke that has never been dealt with. The board harp on about relying on youth. Yeah, well how about giving those people you rely on to keep this club going THE RESPECT OF HALF DECENT TRAINING FACILTIES, rather than dog turd strewn public parks. There is much spin about the merits from moving from Pittodrie (on a cynical note I believe it is to feather the nest of those on the board). There has been very little said about re-vamping the old place and waht has been said is to my mind utter shite. Yes, thae main stand needs replaced, but i bet you your bottom dollar there is a way of achieving this without losing too much capacity. And so what if we do lose 5k seats? Very rarely do we achieve 17K. This is a fact we are hammered for in the weegia repeatedly. It just means we cut the ugly sisters allocation and make the place our own. Remember, this board dragged our club into debt over the RDS. If they didnt see a future in the old place than that has been for nothing. All that subsequent tightening of purse strings afterwards could have gone to a better quality of product on the park. This surely is a debacle that can never be forgiven. Like i said. Aberdeen Football Club survives desopite the board of directors. STAND FREE PS 650k A FUCKING YEAR for WM inc services? If he loved this club so much he would offer to drop his wages to free money up for current playing staff.

Agreed on the possession comments. No way did hearts have that amount of possession, In fact now and again some of our passing was not bad. It now appears we have players who can beat the first man with a cross.

Pure delusions of grandeur. Mintal the lot of them.

I'd rather have a semi fit Anderson chasing a position in the first team than half of our current squad fit.

Tell you what tho folks. Listening to the hun game on the radio, there are quieter places in the SPL than Pittodrie. The dons fans were often heard way, way more often and louder than the huns. The only thing that I heard from that filthy mob were semi excited murmerings toward the end of the second half as the hun pressed a bit. And thats with a crowd of 47 000!!!

the hun atr rotten this season. A bit of pace and the enthusiasm that has been shown from the youngsters may be all it needes to take the hun at the dread death star.

Did he say that we are going on a spending spree in January then? Or did he say that he will give our new manager some proper backing? If not then he has nothing to say.

Aye Jim Spence is a good loon. Brings an air of sensibleness to the sportssound nonsense

Joey not just using Mackie as an example? With Mackie, its not just this season, hes been mince for a long time. A striker with the scoring average of a defender.

Spot on Joey. Have to say though, listening to MM, I have very rarely heard such a negative interview from a manager from any club, not just in tone, but in sentiments expresssed. I got the impression that if he could, he would stick the lot of the senior players on the transfer list today.

I thought we were terrible in the first half. Totally bi passing the midfield with high balls. Our passing from midfield when it did happen was woeful. rarely did we manage tofind our own players. Im not sure what miller was meant to be doing. He certaintly wasnt playing as our big target man for our other forwrds to run off of. Despite being anonymous for large spells, Mackie could have scored twice. he doesnt look like a forward with any confidence. However, Pawlett was an amazing breath of fresh air, exemplorary first touch, taking on Falkirks back line and causing real problems. In fact all the younger players did really well. despite Fyvie being rather harshly booked. I think with Pawlett on our right and Aluko on the left we will have the width that just wasnt apparent in the first half. From what Mcghee said in his pre match interviews, is it possible he was almost writing this game off (almost) as afriendly so that he could use his favoured 4-3-3 to see if the players could settle into it now that he has been with those players a bit longer?

Fair enough Aberdeen are in the position of working with the best we have, but Aberdeen are also in the entertainment business and therefore have to provide a level of entertainment. We are the ONLY spl team in the city and therefore, if we can not develop the revenue to compete with Hearts, DUFC and others to provide that entertaining product in the "energy capital of europe" then there is something far, far wrong at the higher levels at the club. We may be debt free in say 10 years time, but what use is that to us the supporters and the club itself if we are sitting mid table in the first division? As has been said before, as a crisis looms (ie relegation), all of a sudden money appears for whichever current manager is on the scene in order to avert disaster. Lets try another tack: spend the disaster fund on keeping the better players which end up being financially better assets for the club. AFC will always have a level of support that does not seem to diminish below a certain level, no matter how pish we are.

i used Hart initially as an example. The main point is, if you look at the squad during our Euro run and what we have been left with in the aftermath of JC leaving and the close season. Surely it is better to invest internally when things are going well, rahter than having to start from scratch each season, either with shelling out out for a new management team, and/or for a whole new starting line up because the english third division has come sniffing around our only creative midfieder, who has only been given the worth by AFC of a two year contract. WM alluded to this in the euphoria post Copo with to paraphrase " maybe it's time the board were challenged in a different way to what they have been used to." Meaning keep the players that are doing well for us so the manger can BUILD. Instead we are once again in AFC board of directors comfort zone of hiring and firing managers on a whim when THE BOARD are challenged, making them look supposedly pro-active and offering minimal money short term contracts. Mark my words, (excuse the pun) when MM unearthes a player of the calibre we want to keep, lets just see if the money will be available to keep them. Two years time we will be in the same position of having to build a team from scratch. What costs more in the long run, this constant rebuilding or having a squad that will compete, get to the money spinning positions in cups and eventually into Europe, thereby repaying the increase in wages paid to achieve this?

Perhaps this is the main reason. MM maybe sees proper potential in Kerr and want him to focus his mind on the game and the club. In other words to get the best out of the player. Anyway, who's to say Diamond didnt say "no gaffer, Im happy with the way things are. I can do without it?"

Diamond will be gone by Christmas.

:lolabove: :lolabove: +1.

:clap: :clap: That to me sums up the argument. Its NOT about splurging millions and millions, but buying shrewdly and intelligently. For example, the two year contracts thing, which in another topic some have mentioned has been screwing us for years. Howis a mangager meant to BUILD a team with contracts like that? Not giving the room to barter with contracts when contracts DO expire, again allowing us to keep the players we NEED. (How many of us would have Hart bck in the squad at this moment in time, for example)? But, out of the blue, when a new manager comes along, lo and behold, a pot of cash appears. The question has to be asked, why is this pot of cash not used to hold onto our QUALITY players in the past we have let go, who after all become AFC's assets? Milne may be a genius at making loadsa dosh outta shite contruction methods, but to my mind he's done very, very poorly with AFC.

Pish like this aslways circultes in the red tops bofore we play the infirm. Give it the attention it deservers. Ignore it.

A gunshot to the head of trepidation by Trivium. :headbanger: :headbanger:

I disagree totally and utterly. Just because he wasnt in the scotland squad regularly doesnt mean a thing. how many in form, scottish based non old firm players regularly get a game for scotland? IM not in the "captain marvel" mind set about anderson. however, some of the challenges he used to make within the 18 yard box were pure class. If aN opponent player did manage to get passed one of our other defenders and hove in on goal, you used to always feel confident that Anderson would be on him getting a foot round the ball and away to safety. He sorted the back line out, martialled our defence in aconstructive manner and quite simply was our best captain in may a long year. In time he should have been up there with Miller and Mcleish, but ah well, as long as he's having the career he dreamed of in the world of superior english football.

So is the quality of football in the english lower divisions. Hell even mid/lower EPL verges on the mediocre Its the packaging from TV that makes it look remotely interesting.