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Heard from a weeji cabbie last night that nl missed a meeting with the board due to a hangover recently. No idea if this is bullshit or not

Anyone know the manner of the goals?

jotters for ginger bollocks? 3 down to killie at ht :-)

His mum has always reminded me of zelda from terrahawks

Jammy irish bastards!

Jack signed a new contract http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20111012/dons-youngster-commits-future-to-the-club_2212158_2479955

International football is a different game in many ways from club football. Players have to be handled a bit differently for a start due to the fact they're not contracted. I think there has been improvement in the national side under levein as he has found his feet and cant help but feel some of the criticism thrown at him is a bit harsh. Qualify or not i hope he stays for another campaign

This. Would have snapped your hand of for a 1-0 before the game. Last night was a big ol banana skin well avoided if you ask me.

Rich hall the dirty south about to come on bbc 4. Well worth a watch (i've not seen this but rich hall is always worth a watch)

the cynical cunt in me cant help but think the more downtrodden scottish football becomes the easier it would be for him to spin as not his fault. What really does my nut in about this situation is you never hear SM talking about his love for the club etc. If you look at most spl chairmen that is usually fairly forthcoming, take the thompsons at utd for example. Its no wonder fans suspect his motives

The guy was a good prospect and its a shame how it turned out. Its all his own fault though, he has a shocking attitude when it comes to trying to develop as a player. When he was younger he was alright if you put him next to any kind of leader figure eg seve or anderson. As he's got older he wants to be the big man and does not have the capacity for it. He clearly learnt very little from playing alongside two very good centre halfs

True that This still made me laugh though

not as far as im aware dude

http://www.designfootball.com/stadium-design/new-aberdeen-stadium-plans-revealed/

Only time i can think of was the champions league game against man u for about ten minutes until park scored

wish i'd spotted that

I didn't say that was the cause of no atmosphere i just said that the set up makes it harder to build atmosphere. In well over 100 trips to pittodrie i can think of only 3 or 4 games where the noise created by aberdeen fans has been really intimidating. Its like trying to boil a pan of water without a lid on it. You'll get there in the end but it takes so much more effort

I wonder if this means iphone 5 will have flash now

(tin hat on) As it is I dont really like pittodrie much as a ground so i find it hard to mourn its forthcoming death. Aesthetically it looks totally disjointed, I once heard a fan describe the ground as 3 bike sheds and the RDS and its hard to argue with this assessment. Because of this its very hard to build any kind of atmosphere in the ground. The majority of the noise from the RDS passes over the top of the ground rather than booming down on the pitch. Add to this the roof of the south stand seems to me to be the wrong shape to amplify noise effectively. All in I like all of you have had good times at this ground but the ground itself had little to do with this. All this said i would much rather redevelop pittodrie than move the home of afc outside the city especially as not much thought seems to have gone into the logistics of fans travel to and from the city centre. Sadly this seems not to be an option though the cynic in me wonders if the club were not so debt ridden if this would still be the case.

On current form I was very surprised at the size of the crowd.

Wow. Where to start on this thread. Well i suppose a good place to start would be an observation on how the topic of Mr James Calderwood is still capable of inspiring such focused debate by aberdeen fans over two years after he left the club. I've made my opinion of JC clear on this forum on more than one occasion. Put simply i think he generally did pretty well, signed some good players and produced a solid if fairly uninspiring team that underachieved on a number of significant occasions. He talked an awful lot of shite in the media which a lot of aberdeen fans found embarrassing and did him no favours when results became poorer. He clearly had his undroppable favourites (byrne mackie etc) and his tactical choices were questionable on more than one occasion. He was initially backed well by the board but things went sour when they didnt back him in the transfer window after the copenhagen game. I maintain this was where things went wrong for him, keeping hart and clark and adding a couple of players at this point would have pushed us on to bigger and better for the rest of that season and the next. Things started to stagnate and then with the likes of nicholson leaving to be replaced by casper we went into decline. Unfortunately Calderwood was nowhere near a good enough coach or tactician to compensate for the drop in standard of player. I see comparisons with harry redknapp as he's also fine as long as he has money to spend and clearly enjoys close relations with his players. Its no secret that Joe Jordan is the brains of that operation though, a role Jimmy Nichol played at Aberdeen (theres a guy i would have back at the club in a coaching role in a second). I've mentioned before that a good pal of mine works at county, i asked him about Calderwood a few months after he got there. The report i got back was quite condemning. Familiar phrases of players starting regardless of performance and odd tactical choices were noticable. This was added along with a general treating of contempt of non playing staff and most disturbingly the best left back at the club, Scott Morrison, was dropped because "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth". In short my pal, who is friendly, amiable and generally finds a good word to say about most, text me when he left saying "thank fuck that fat fucking orange cunt has left" I found this very telling.

What mad bad said. At the moment I am so disillusioned with the dons. Next game I go to is likely to be ict away on xmas eve but that's only because I'll be in inverness for xmas and it will be a good day out with the boys.

Yep or shearer

3-3 now, classic ending on the cards?