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Could the club go into admin? Then they would have to accept any reasonable offers you would think.

My thought was hayes to the right. It's interesting Coulson is preferred over Kennedy

Had a look on hun media to see what they are saying. Aside from indulging in some rather juicy schadenfreude I did notice a lot of them saying they weren't going to be attending. It will be interesting to see what the attendance is and unless they get an early goal I can see those that do go getting on their backs pretty quickly.

Apparently we are being linked with van veen

He's been out for so long I wouldn't be overly comfortable starting him anyway 2bh. Agree about Duncan, thought he had a fine second half and I am happy to be unchanged for this one.

True but it would be a real sickener not to get 3rd now all things considered

Indeed. I had heard rumour he was going back south in the summer regardless as he has a business in London.

Time for a dedicated thread for the Gaffer I think. https://www.afc.co.uk/2023/05/01/robson-and-agnew-extend-their-aberdeen-stay/ I'm pleased with this though I can understand trepidation. Overall though it got to the stage the club didn't really have a choice but to give him it permanently.

Getting to the group stages of the CL gets you about 2.5 mill and Europa about 3 from TV. Also, that's 4 guaranteed home games that are most likely going to be cat a sell outs and that will be worth around 2-2.5 million to the club. Once costs are taken out I would say the value to the club of group stage football would be 4-4.5 Mill. You also get money for drawing and winning games. The money is better in the Europa league but not by that much, I think I would actually prefer going into the conference as we would have a far better chance at qualifying from the group.

Hard to argue with much of that Rico. I do however think Mcrorie is worth a wee bit more than 2 on the grounds he's under contract for another 3 seasons. I'm not overly convinced Mcrorie is wanting a move either btw but usually money talks in the end. Good luck to him if he does go, he's a cracking pro. I agree he's not irreplaceable in terms of ability in the position, logan at his peak was a better rb you could argue for example, but his leadership on the park will be much harder to replace.

We tightened up towards the end of the half but our distribution has been poor, even allowing for a rangers team that is pressing well (even morelos ffs, never seen him work so hard for a team) it's been poor. Love how solid we are though, scales is having his best game for a long time.

If they get 3 home games post split they may have a chance but it's likely the bottom 3 won't change much now.

LEEEROY JENKINS!

I don't have an awful feeling about this one though if Shinnie was playing I would be quite confident. This is a massive game for Rama and if he plays well we have a good chance to cause them problems. I do have some time for jutes suggestion of moving Mcrorie to midfield but it's hard to predict how Robson will approach this. It's a bold move to change a defence that hasn't conceded since a penalty away to utd. Der hun have their injuries as well but I have been depressingly impressed with how they have been progressing under beale and this will be a tough game. Goldson still out is good for us though and I do think we will score. 1-0 miovski

The big question for the window will be whether we can keep Lopes out not. I've been of the opinion for a while we will do well to keep him 2 seasons so I would personally like to see us offer him a 1 year extension so we can still get a good price for him next summer. I'd like to see Mcdonald offered a deal and some of the glut of unused wingers moved on which must be costing us a fucking fortune.

Could be cracker this one but not convinced it's a good time to get them. They will be well up for it with several places in the starting 11 for the semi up for grabs. That said we will be well up for it too, I doubt anyone who played in the last home game against them will need much in the way of motivating words from the manager. Not expecting much from the Shinnie appeal so hopefully rama is fit and available as we are a bit screwed if he's not. Impossible to predict without knowing who will be in midfield but I am hopeful of a result and wouldn't take a draw if offered just now. They are defo beatable so I'm going to say 2-1

My anxiety is building for this one significantly but there's plenty of reason for hope. Classic tricky place to go as we have seen plenty times but good to see a sold out away end. If we score first i think we will be fine though they will be stodgy and we may need to be patient. 2 - 0 dons, Clarkson and bavidge

Take that win all day long. Stodgy stuff at times but there was defo some moments of class in there. Rama was a big stand out for me, I was worried about the lack of Shinnie but he wasn't particularly missed in the end.

Source for that last one?

Potentially this could future planning. I did read online that Agnew may be away back to his business in london come the summer and he only took the gig as a favour to Robson. If memory serves it was on the abz podcasts twitter feed as a reply but don't quote me on that. I trust Robsons judgement though. One of the first things that struck me about him when he took over from glass was he clearly doesn't suffer fools. If he thinks Fox is worth having then I doubt he's going to be a negative influence on the team. He was asst to courts and the jutes did well under that regime so his record isn't as bad as would first appear. Time will tell I suppose.

The Spanish are fair getting their whine on after that. The grass was too long and we were time wasting apparently. Fucking have it ya gurny cunts

Retard reporting Robson to get it till the end of the season. About bloody time to my eye.

Thought we might have had some sort of update from the club by now. I'm starting to think we can rule out Robson getting it until the end of the season though. If that was going to happen it surely would have done so following the massive comprehensive win against hearts.

I don't agree with that 2bh, why must he get it permanently? I appreciate in for a penny in for a pound as much as the next man but I don't see why appointing till the end of the season isn't a reasonable proposition. I will concede I'm not sure there is a right answer to this though, there's ups and downs to all options in other words. One thing I will add that hasn't been mentioned is that if we were to get 3rd place you're looking at a higher quality of candidate for the position in the summer. Obviously that's a big if but I fancy us to beat hearts on Saturday 2bh. I appreciate your point about squad building for the next season but I don't think we have the luxury of giving that too much consideration at the moment. The fact we are still in with a sniff for 3rd is bonkers but that's just Scottish football in general i suppose. Regardless though that's the prize we should be keeping our eyes on and right now i think Robson is our best chance of getting it. Appointing till the end of the season with an assurance he will be a serious contender if he gets a euro place seems a perfectly reasonable proposition to me.