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Clearly the weakest part of calderwoods management style is youth development. bebo would have flourished ages ago if given more of an opportunity in a striking role as opposed to being lumped onto the wings

as frustrating as smith is with injury's im glad he's clearly not being rushed. Its getting to business end of the season and a fully fit smith would really sharpen our claws up front, lets hope he can get a good run under his belt. reckon he'll make the bench for the killie game

i wonder how many "darren mackie must go" threads i have seen over the years? Must be at least 30-40. Dont care though, i quite like mackie. Why when he's clearly not that good? Well he really puts a shift in, has a record of scoring important goals, told utd to get to fuck when offered as part ex for miller, and whilst not a consistent goal threat he is right pain in the arse for defenders to play against. Also in recent years his touch has improved considerably (in the skovdahl years an exploding land mine would keep better control off a pass) and finally the guy would go through a brick wall for aberdeen. You NEED people like this in your squad, helps keep the other players motivated. I think he is a player that is always going to divide the support but in the 10 years he's been in the 1st team he's done more good than bad i reckon

Was wondering how the lad sammy stuart has been playing

2 fucking months? thats pretty much the same amount of time as the close season. No festivals in winter to look forward to either. Fuck that!!!!!! if your going to have a winter break then make it from xmas to the 3rd week in jan. Yes you might still get snow but thems the breaks

that is a really interesting idea kelt. It will never fly under the current rules cos as you say the old firm would not have their CL carrot and would therefore stand together and veto it. east coast league sounds pretty good as your pretty much getting the best of the spl outwith the gruesome twosome. West coast league sounds shite though. OF, falkirk, st mirren, killie, minkerwell, hamilton, morton, partick and ayr. would be boring as hell. I think the most realistic improvement would be a 16 team league so teams only playing each other twice. 20 is unfeasable as there would be no one left in the lower leagues capable of the step up. the league cup would have to be revamped, perhaps into a sort of champions league format, so as to make up the missing revenue from losing 7 league games.

not convinced mulgrew is any way cut out to be a full back. His height seems to be a hindrance to him when he's up against midget wide players. Ideally i think he is best suited in a central mid position

things were wierd under ebbe. it was like the rules of supporting a football team were suspended. I remember us taking a total shoeing to someone at pittodrie and the entire stadium singing one ebbe skovdahl as the full time whistle went. Very strange!

Smiths injury?

Time to change the name again maybe?

surely tim cunt is more appropriate. he did turn us down though when he went to utd

1. Won 4 on the bounce and after a disapointing start the team looks to be finally firing on all cylinders. 2. Theres competition for pretty much all positions bar keeper but ironically this seems to have settled langfield as he's not made one massive fuck up this season to the best of my knowledge. 3. Mcdonald has settled and dare i say is making barry nicholson not missed 4. Our defence is starting to look really stingy 5. Players of great potential are starting to perform eg miller + JDV 6. JC seems to have toned down talking utter pish in the press, has stopped chopping and changing players all the time, is playing players in correct positions. 7. Won 15 points from 15 at pittodrie. All in afc are a pretty tight ship at the moment but you always must strive to do better so what now to improve? Personally i still think we could do with another centre half, preferably with plenty of experience. Trying and get jamie smith to play a few games on the trot without getting injured would be nice. Would also like to see more of some of the kids coming through like paton and crawford. Oh and get the players with expiring deals worth keeping on new contracts Thoughts?

Fucking right btw, i've always thought JDV had cult hero written all over him but he needs to keep the dutch porn star look about him Seriously though i've always rated him as a player and wanted to see him get a run in the side. Thing bout jeff that i like the most is even when not playing particularily well its very rare to see him give the ball away

Actually in fairness to the highland league if you compare the attendances to the population of the town they play in relatively speaking they are quite high. HIbs had a higher average attendance when they were in the 1st division a few years back than they do now. Actually having something to play for is key in getting people into the ground. We had some massive attendences when we were relegation candidates and the fare on show was total dross

i think what i like about football is its ability to bring all walks of life together. Indeed being a football fan is very compareable to being religous in that all members congregate weekly for worship in the same place, sing songs together, hope for the same overall goal and intensly dislike those that worship at different churches. Thing is just because 2 people have an common interest doesnt mean they are going to get on, if you compare to religion again a lot of proddies think ian paisley is a total cunt. as such i have to say that at least half the aberdeen fans i have met are pricks, the other half go from dull to sound on an decreasing scale

I know what your saying aj but a guy can dream, and i dont base my expectations on a computer game. Still if weir can play till he's 38 dont see why ando cant, reckon he'll be back one day to see out his career.

We have still never replaced anderson, i actually re-signed him in football manager and pu him straight in the team. 1st game was against the huns where within 5 minutes he put fergahun out for the rest of the season and scored a last minute winner from a corner. Okay its only a computer game but i couldnt help thinking that there isnt much i wouldnt do to have him back at aberdeen for real. Really the only player i woud be a little peeved at leaving would be jamie "made of glass" smith. He might not play as many games as we would all like but when he's on song theres no non old firm player in scotland that can touch his ability.

Oh ffs sorry for having a fucking opinion For large periods of that game i was bored, considering the amount that people moan about the lack of entertaining football on this forum yesterday was an excellent opportunity to address this. At the end of the day 3 points is king especially when you happen to reside in inverness, For the record though ive spoken to a few folk that agree with my assesment. 3-0 is a great result but a lot of folk seem to be wanking off over what was an average performance over a total dross side

3 really good goals, dazzlin's in particular was top drawer. Worked really hard to get onto the ball then provided a sublime finish. That said i was really bored most of the game. I'vve been to some cracking games at ict, normally its a real battle but yesterday we didnt even have to get out of 2nd gear the whole game. I was disapointed with the attitude of a lot of the players, thought we should have pressed the game a lot more. Aluko was completely anonymous though he was given no supply whatsoever. In the 1st half JDV kept wandering all over the pitch which led to more than one incident of players looking to pass wide right and having no one there. If i had to choose a mom it would be seve or kerr for their efficient if unspectacular defensive work. Great to win 3-0 dont get me wrong but it could have been so much more had we actually tried

Think it will all be down to the defence, if they show up then i think we will win. Any silly mistakes killie will do us

My flatmate is one of the main organisers for this, when she was putting it all together she was asking me loads of questions about aberdeen like who was any good etc. Bonus is she's going to try and get me a signed top

Next confirmed gig for me is ages away, gogol bordello in the carling academy

Wish i could go

prefer a big old shot of cynicism, less dissapointment that way

You gotta give me some of what you've been having if think a. mackie can glide past anyone and b. will score a goal on sat let alone several