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David McNamee was 10 minutes away from becoming Craig Brown's first signing for Aberdeen last night before the blizzard conditions in the north east put his ambitions on hold. The former Scotland full-back was about to land at Aberdeen Airport but the state of the runways meant he was forced to return to the Midlands, putting his move to Pittodrie on hold. "I'd flown up from Birmingham and we were 10 minutes outside Aberdeen when the pilot was told that we wouldn't be able to land until 4.10, which was half an hour later," said the 30-year-old. "So we circled the airport for half an hour and then the word came through that the airport wouldn't re-open until five o'clock. "It turned out that our plane didn't have enough fuel to wait that long so we had to return to England. Once we got back we discovered that they'd postponed the re-opening of Aberdeen until 7pm." McNamee had been due to undergo a medical this morning before signing a deal until the end of the season. He'd played in two bounce games for Brown and Archie Knox at Motherwell last week and was under consideration for a place in the squad to face the Steelmen tomorrow. "It's incredibly annoying to have got so close and then to have everything held up by something as unavoidable as snow," said McNamee, a League Cup winner with Livingston in 2004.

Can't disagree with that A clear indication of just how much his stock has fallen owing to the level of performances he has been churning out week after week

Yep, pretty much agree with that word for word.

Welcome home Jim.

Competiton for his signature, hopefully means a fee coming our way. To think I was always told the 25th December was Xmas day.

done

Full back....wtf is that, once asked Dingus and he said we wouldn't any of them old fashioned thingys

In case you miss it in other football section, pick over this mate http://www.donstalk.co.uk/messageboard/index.php?board=2.0

Waiting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aberdeen/9257495.stm

According to Mr Brown himself on his interview on BBC Scotland Sport website he doesn't expect official annopuncement until Monday. Relax guys, all will be well

Can noyl think they don't trust the mini bus full of supporters they'll take to the game to behave themselves and not shout some nasty things to Mr Brown

They obviously want him to have a few days oot of work

SSN source Motherwell have asked us to delay the appointment of Mr Brown until after we play them on the 18th December. Does this mean they will in return retract the stupid statement about getting the SPL to take action against us for an illegal approach for their management team. Personally I'd tell Frankie Howard to go fuck himself

Sorted for you

Frightened he might have had to pay him more than two pence in the pound if he'd given him a contract and then had to sack him

Kev this is bang on and I agree with your post wholeheartedly. +1 Delighted to waken up this morning to the news that this is a step closer, just need the confirmation of pictures from the news conference. Imagine that he'll watch the game from the stand tomorrow and offically take charge as of monday. Got to laugh at Murderwell greeting the way they appear to be. If he didn't have a contract, what can we have done wrong by talking to him and offering him a job. Typical farce from Mr "two pence in the pound" Boyle

How fucking raging is John "two pence in the pound" Boyle going to be if this goes through. No compo this time either Frankie boy to soften the blow. What goes around, comes around

copy and paste of article Craig Brown has revealed he turned down the chance to take over at Aberdeen out of loyalty to his players at Motherwell and reluctance to move too far from his family. Aberdeen’s determination to land Brown was underlined when chairman Stewart Milne made a second attempt to persuade him yesterday, having had a meeting on Tuesday which ended in disappointment. Brown was flattered and promised to consider the renewed offer overnight, but he is certain to contact Milne today and tell him he will not be coming. Former Scotland manager Brown, 70, was Aberdeen’s first choice and along with assistant Archie Knox he met Milne, director of football Willie Miller and managing director Duncan Fraser in Glasgow. At Brown’s suggestion, the meeting took place at the office of his solicitor brother Jock. Last night, the Well boss said he had been impressed by Milne and claimed the Aberdeen chairman did everything he could have done to make the offer attractive. He said: “You’d hardly get a bigger and better club outside the Old Firm, a club with bigger potential, than Aberdeen. It is a big club, a real football club. “If everything else was equal I’d have done it, or if the response at Motherwell wasn’t as good as it is, we’d jump into Aberdeen. But we have such a young and vibrant group of players here.” Even Aberdeen’s superior fanbase and wage bill could not tempt Brown and Knox, not least because they have reached a stage in their careers where they are weary of moving around the country. “Archie has done 15 moves already. My family’s all in Ayrshire. My wee grandkids think Aberdeen’s in Outer Mongolia,” added Brown. “Aberdeen’s a smashing city, but on balance we thought, having thought the whole thing over, that it wasn’t right.” Scottish Under-21 manager Stark and former Hibs manager John Hughes will inevitably move up the list of candidates for the Dons job now. Hamilton’s Billy Reid, Mixu Paatelainen at Kilmarnock, Gus MacPherson and Jocky Scott have also been linked with the post as well as several non-Scottish managers. Another rumour had Scott and Alex Smith down to return in a resurrection of the co-managerial team which was in charge at Pittodrie from 1988 to 1991 and won two domestic cups.

I prefer mini skirts

interesting, but you have far too much time on your hands

Stoney min.... just follow the advice given in the title of this song PLEASE

Very surprised at that and not like him. Could be a substantial amount of humble pie or back tracking involved

Aye, but you can get that any where