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I've read them all ST. Really good author Demille

FFS dinnae start that crap all over again

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Copy of article in today's Times which makes interesting reading. "My shelf life at Aberdeen may be close to expiry," says Jimmy Calderwood Graham Spiers Jimmy Calderwood admitted yesterday that his “shelf life†as Aberdeen manager was getting shorter by the month and that, whatever happens between now and the end of the season, the time was looming for him to consider a new challenge away from Pittodrie. Calderwood and Aberdeen were still on a high yesterday after Sunday's epic 4-2 home win over Celtic, but it didn't stop the manager from reflecting on the career choices ahead of him. The 53-year-old is in his fifth season at Pittodrie and, despite having two-and-a-half years left on his contract, has doubts that he will be able to complete seven years in total as the Aberdeen manager. “Five seasons in the modern game is a long time to be at one club,†Calderwood said. “This is a wonderful club, a fabulous club, but everyone needs fresh challenges. With every season that passes I think, 'My shelf life here is getting shorter and shorter.' You start thinking there is only so much you can do at one club. “The secret is to keep freshening the squad up and getting new players in, and that aspect helps a wee bit. But I know the time is coming when I'll think, 'How much further can I take this club?' My contract says I've still got another two-and-a-half years to go here - it would make it a hell of a long time at the club.†There has been further speculation linking Calderwood with jobs in England and the Netherlands, and Utrecht have certainly made it known that they would like him to return. Calderwood says that he has rarely loved a job as much as at Pittodrie, and that leaving Aberdeen would be a wrench, though he can see the day coming. “Right now we are sitting third in the league, and we've been in the top six all the time since I've been here - in fact we've finished fourth, sixth, third and fourth in my time at Aberdeen,†Calderwood said. “So it's not bad. We've been to the last 32 in Europe, and I would really love to get to a cup final and win a trophy. “But four-and-a-half years seems a long time at a club. I think I'm now the longest-serving manager at Aberdeen since Sir Alex Ferguson was here, and you don't often see guys being four, five, six years at any club these days. “Everyone faces choices, but you always need new challenges. Everybody has a shelf life. If we can stay in third place, and maybe get to a cup final, something like that would be great. But then I'd have to ask myself, how much further could I go?†Calderwood said that his own circumstances were brought home to him when he had a heated debate with Barry Nicholson, the midfield player, when he chose to leave Aberdeen at the end of last season. “I had this debate with Barry when he left here. Barry said to me, 'Gaffer, I've seen every ground there is to see in Scotland, and I've seen them all at least ten times!' He wanted a change, and I couldn't argue with him, I understood him 100 per cent. Everybody needs freshness. I'm probably just the same. “It would be hard for me, having been at Aberdeen, to go to certain clubs down in England. At Aberdeen you are used to chasing prizes and trying to get into Europe - that is the task facing you. “I got an offer to go to Barnsley a couple of years ago but, no disrespect to them, but you cannot leave a club like Aberdeen for Barnsley. Having said that, you cannot get away from the shelf-life decision that faces you.â€

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Have you changed hands yet

1980 -2005, Cafe del Mar 25th Anniversary

No real surprise that there is none here

Gordon Strachan as a footballer, top man Gordon Strachan as a manager projecting himself in the media, total tosser. There was a time when his pre/post match interviews were funny, nowadays just comes across as an arsehole

Agreed..... not nit picking but Miller only has eighteen mnoths left on his contract though

H'min, dinnae lump me in with the JMG'ers

First time we've stuck four past the Tic at Pittodrie since 1985 when a certain Frank McDougall scored ALL four goals

Never said it was bad TF. I was merely suggesting that folk had swallowed the hype around it, although personally speaking i'm not a great fan of it

You obviously didn't if it took you two years to read

So fucking good the Italians don't chose it as their number one lager. That honour goes to Bierra Morreti which is far superior to Peroni

Ach some on BB, dinnae be harsh loon, some right tactical geniueses o'er there. Seems only right that JC would be paying heed to their advice

Norwich is no issue...Boothroyd will be appointed at start of the week. Utretch however I sense might be an issue.

Very bitter individual towards AFC......thinks we did him out of the medals that were his by rights for playing for the Tic in the 80's

Sir Craig Levein.........Aye fecking right.......yet another member of the BigAl list of tossers

Hartson was and still is an obnoxious shite who I find highly offensive. did we deserve to lose the game 3-2 at the Tattie Bowl earlier this season It might just be true that the breaks even themselves out over the course of a season. Welsh fuckwit but still not as bad as Davie provan who is a double :wanker:

and if they had succeeded then they wouldn't have had to wait for over a century for success in the Scottish Cup

WTF