rocket_scientist

Poetry. Judicial. He starts the game with Willian, Giroud and CHO on the bench. Jorginho and Higuain start. 2-0 defeat immediately after a 5-0 win away. Personnel selection isn't a difficult nor a black art. When your soul is as black as Sarri's, even the simplest things become invisible.

I could have, without a push, gone to the game today. I couldn't be arsed though because going to Pittodrie has been an endurance for too long now. And the weather was shite. No, even if it was fine, I still couldn't be fucked. Nor do I care about being an Uber fan and giving "loyalty" to a shit cause. After north of 750 AFC games (but less than 1,000) over a period which will span 7 decades in January, I am finally joining the cast of the missing thousands. You can have my ticket for the semi. I couldn't be arsed with that either.

I didn't intend to watch it either, didn't bother with the first episode but started watching the 2nd one and was captivated by the testimonies. I get what you're saying about not coming out sooner and agree with it broadly but on this occasion, the two victims could not have spoken out sooner, for various reasons. The damage Jackson did to them and their families was severe, the guilt of the mothers being deep.

Strange quote. It's impossible for anybody who is sane, who has a functioning instinct and who doesn't have any vested interest to not believe the documentary. After all, to orchestrate this many diverse people to construct a lie would require the best acting performances of all time, from ordinary people without any acting history. Jackson was a paedophile, period. I think how he became one is the more interesting aspect. That father of his (Michael Jackson's) has the answer would be my guess.

The shocking news from Christchurch today shows that poison and hate is universal. We can normally detect a motive in these kind of seemingly random acts but deciding to slaughter people who's only act is to pray to their religion is a sick mind beyond recognition. The shooters in the US who target schools are normally disaffected young men who feel excluded to the point of hopelessness, deciding to make their final mark by hurting society with the sickest and maximum damage that they could. I don't think we ever learned what drove Thomas Hamilton in Dunblane, perhaps because the establishment didn't want us to learn but it appears that these acts today were carried out by neo-nazi far right types, the sort of non-thinking classes that Tommy Robinson attracts, the type of sick cunts expertly illustrated by Spike Lee in his Oscar winning BlacKkKlansmen. I refuse to believe that we can't fail to anticipate that these type of people are a danger to humanity. Unfortunately the concept of thought crimes introduced by Orwell is too fluid in the modern era, plus it was being used in a totally different purpose but policing globally must examine extremist behaviour prior to acting for relevant correlations, if indeed there are any. With all the debate about Facebook and social media and their responsibilities, that's got to be a route to explore. These sick fucks are almost posting their intentions in advance and there's bound to be neighbours or others around them who saw it building up to this. Sick sick world.

Plus, I bet Keane wasn't saying we ARE going to win the World Cup. He knew how incredibly unlikely that would've been and he would have had his own desires and expectations, with various levels of realistically coming to pass. He was simply answering a question and he answered correctly.

Expectations are no predictor of outcomes and the unexpected happens often. Leicester and the punter who backed them at 5,000/1 weren't foolish. Who would have thought AFC would beat Bayern and Real Madrid and lift a European trophy? I bet Paul Lawrie winning the Open would've been met with similar scorn but like AFC 16 years before, he thoroughly deserved it. It says more about the derisor than the person who dares to dream.

I don't get this. Sarri starts CHO tonight, he's just scored the 5th, has had a hand in some of the others and is produing his usual excellence by all accounts. The manager either sees the special talents that this footballer has or he doesn't. Maybe he's thinking he's some sort of master tactician, maybe he's thinking he's a squad-rotator or maybe he thinks the Europa League isn't worth bothering about? Whatever the reason he's never started Hudson-Odoi in the EPL, I reckon you should always go out to win every game and that to do that, you need to put your best team out there. Ok, the odd resting of some players in cup games here and there (if they're not man enough or hungry enough to want to play all the time) but picking CHO to start in the cups and never in the league is posting mixed messages, and the Chelsea fans don't like it. But they can fuck off with their camel-coloured flat caps. I hope Hudson-Odoi fucks off out of Chelsea at his first opportunity and Willian goes with him. They are a delightful double act who could make magic together and both have been mismanaged at Chelski. Jorginho's not working and Sarri's stubbornness has cost them.

Cheer up Terry V was good because sad orange bastard referenced his ridiculous penchant for sunbeds.

If you're saying the game we won at Parkhead in May was the ONLY points picked up in the league v. Celtic in the last 3 seasons before Saturday, that's 4 points in a possible 33? One win, a draw and 9 defeats, not including the defeats in the cup, including EVERY game at Pittodrie? How can that not be a shocking record? And the game we did win, do you think we would have won if it was a meaningful fixture? How much did they want it? Is that game not a perfect example of mentality and mindset in sport, in particular the absence of it from our opponents that day, highlighting the essential values of determination, focus, passion and desire?

Ok then, so we do have a shocking record against Celtic then, as I said. Your argument was therefore based on an interpretation of three words that I used - "last few years" - in relation to a side issue, not the principal point I was making. Once again, we waste time and energy on semantics so that you can attempt to look on the bright side. And once again, you go off on diversionary nonsense, this time offering an interpretation on the word "shocking" that I used in its every day Scottish vernacular, so wonderfully demonstrated by Limmy with his "shocking, eh". There's a pattern here and it's tiring.

Since you've done the homework and have all the data, tell me how we compare to Hearts, Hibs, Killie and Rangers in the time Brendan was there i.e. this season and the previous two. Pretty certain our record will be the worst, even including the victory they handed to us in May.

Given that Hearts, Kilmarnock, Hibs and Rangers have all beaten Celtic this season and we have only one point from a possible 9 against them, you don't need to look up anything Rico. Motherwell are the same as us, 1 draw and 2 defeats but with St Mirren and Livi having only played Celtic twice this season so far, and both having got a draw, that's six teams ahead of us this season in a points haul percentage v. Celtic .

The only hoodoo or superstitious or karma thing going on between AFC and the Old Firm is the curse that Stevie G put on himself after the first game of the season. I'm sure you've all seen the hilarious clip going around social media today when Kevin Bridges says "did ye aye?" in response to his "we showed today that we are a class above Aberdeen". We've not proved anything against the OF to suggest a major breakthrough. We have beaten one half, Rangers, three times in Glasgow and these are the sweetest victories of all but until we can reverse our shocking results against Celtic, we're still going to be trophy-less. The draw on Saturday was a solid defensive performance and a rare point against a team who's record against us has been embarrassing for many years for a period stretching over a decade. Hibs, Hearts, Kilmarnock and probably many others have a considerably better record than AFC over the champions in the last few years. With us conceding two thirds of possession against the OF in the last few days and making considerably less shots and attacking threats in these two games, we're not out of any woods yet. We MUST find a way to beat Celtic, something we've not been close to doing for a very long time. All we've done so far is to shove the scouse tink's words right up his arse.

Was it a photoshop or did the boys actually smuggle in a black mattress into Ibrox tonight? Or a blow up inflatable? Whatever the fuck, that was a massive LOL tonight.

I watched Considine on Saturday and he was immense. As he was again tonight. McKenna was also rock solid too. We have lost a big part of Andrew's career by continuing successive mismanagement. He was always a CB, from the first time we saw him alongside Russell. Whoever the clown was who first stuck him at LB (Calderwood?) was committing a crime. Interesting that it took Consi himself in an interview a couple of months ago to come out and speak the truth before he started getting managed right. That's thanks to McInnes for spotting and recruiting Lowe, although in an ideal world Shinnie would have been LB and he had recruited real quality in the middle of the park. Some bad vibes towards our captain tonight in the city centre pubs. These cunts are convinced he's signing for Sevco. My correlations between Shinnie, Davie Robertson and Ryan Jack, they didn't want to hear. I don't blame any man moving for 2 or 3+ times his salary. It's a short career.

Goalkeeper observations from the highlights. I love Joe Lewis. His interview on North Tonight was class, all about WINNING TROPHIES and being remembered for doing so, speaking about what it means at the end of one's career. Plus the way he got stuck into Morelos just before the cheating cunt got booked. I despise that hun keeper cunt. The way he got McGinn booked was disgusting. There was zero contact. And he's fucking useless anyway as he offered fuck all against both our goals, like he didn't exist.

Stunning result and so chuffed for the guys who were there. I had a match tonight so couldn't make it but probably wouldn't have gone even if I could because I missed the first leg and didn't deserve to be there tonight. We were all bouncing in the town tonight and it's days like these that remind us of what it's like to be AFC, a "club with soul" as di Stefano said more than 35 years ago. Our away form has been incredible these last couple of months. And so much for you cunts being "a class above" Stevie G. The minute you uttered that after the first game of the season, you were doomed to get haunted. Home now and looking forward to these highlights. I fucking hate Rangers, new and old. Beautiful beautiful night.

Good call re Ross but like Alex Neil at Hamilton, we missed our opportunity to attract them when they were low SPFL clubs and those two will be well out of our budget by now. We didn't even see their potential would be my guess.

There's not going to be a change cos Milne and Cormack love him and nobody's going to come in for him. So it's an academic question. Plus I'm not engaged in the recruitment. Of the manager's in Scotland in the SPFL, I only like the managers at Livi and Killie but as Hibs might well have done, and as the huns did in the summer, their clubs went outside the box and engaged recruitment practises that already look to have been sound. There will be numerous good candidates. It's the job of the board to find and attract them.

No, you're misinterpreting my position and I really don't need the condescending lecture about commuting, like I'm a fucking idiot. His "commitment" to the job was a side issue. The main issue I have is that he is not a good enough manager for AFC. The relocation of his family or not was discussed as a possible symptom of his desire to move on, a lot sooner than 6 years! I also put forward the argument that NOT being with his family for as long as this is hugely difficult for any normally-functioning man who has a capacity to love. Had he relocated his family to Aberdeen, it would not have made a blind bit of difference to my opinion of the man... IF THE RESULTS HAD BEEN THE SAME. I think he has been his own worst enemy however by putting undue stress on himself, racking up so many additional miles as he needs to do, missing opportunities to commit himself to further to his job and he may well have been a better-performing manager if he had relocated them.

It's his own fucking fault that he's got tired and stale. It would be hell for any normal man being apart from his kids and not seeing them grow up every day FOR SIX FUCKING YEARS. He's having to spend miles in a car travelling to see them because he didn't consider the NE good enough for his family, his plan being not to be here that long despite this being the biggest job he's ever had in his life. Like every single manager recruited by Milne, it's all downhill or extinct after AFC. Donald's successive recruits in Ally, McNeill and SAF went on to some of the biggest jobs in football. No coincidence there much.

Here's how committed McInnes is. He never watched Zola play. Within 3 minutes of his debut v. Killie, I turned to my mate and said George Weah cousin syndrome. That was back in his early days when he described "like every young manager", his then acknowledging that he doesn't work as hard now. If he had been professional, obsessed and committed, he would've seen in one game only that Calvin was a fucking donkey. He's lazy and he's now tired. His spark has dissipated. He's treading water badly. He knows it's gone tits up and we can smell the fear in his eyes. Fuck him right off. Dick Donald would never have recruited him.

Look, were never going to agree on this but for fuck sake, that Record article is so see through in terms of purpose and even then it failed. Any man who needs to talk about his commitment, isn't. He even acknowledged that he tries to spend more time with his family. If he was obsessed, he would be at every reserve (U23) and youth game. As for the odd time he spoke to an agent whilst on holiday, we ALL have our work with us 24/7, unless we are an employee or of similar mindset. And what type of fucking thicko lowlife chooses to return to Florida after one visit? And what sort of shit kids want to return to a Disney park? He's not fucking good enough for AFC, period.

Ramon Calderon has been speaking about why José wasn't asked back. The "dressing room leaders" don't like him. A guy who's football opinions I value was telling me on Friday that Sergio Ramos and Mourinho couldn't look each other in the eye. That's the problem when a manager's ego is too big. It should be about the team, not his rampant sense of self. A tragic figure who once had it all but now he's left with only a few tens of millions in his bank.