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If you read properly, you will find that the ONLY person on this thread who has already come to a conclusion is you. And a pretty remarkable conclusion it is too. Remember to discern between speculations on his possible guilt and actually saying that he is not guilty, as you maintain. You say that it is "impossible" for him to get a fair trial. Do your paranoid reasons for the case being brought include that these women just made it up, or in your fantasy world are they being paid a lot of money to make up these complaints? The evidence hasn't even been heard yet and you have convinced yourself that he's not guilty? How does a fair trial become impossible? Alex Salmond stated that the trusts the Scottish legal system which is what we might expect an innocent man to say, but it is also something a guilty politician might say so there's nothing to be gained by seeking to understand his motives for saying it but why do you not trust the system? How is it even possible to skew the justice system? Will "the establishment" threaten and coerce Salmond's defence counsel? Will the jury be pressurised and similarly nobbled? Will the procurator fiscal be briefed with a killer argument, one that overrides the facts and evidence presented? What the fuck are you talking about man?

Before 2019, Liverpool had 17 wins and 3 draws = 90% points v. potential. This year, W2, D2, L1 = 53.3%. 6 points left out there in first 20 games v. 7 points lost in last 5 games. The recent results definitely point to a major slippage. It would've been a steal if they had won at WHU last night. They're not looking like champions right now, rather a team with a nose bleed, giddy in the heights and not believing that they're good enough. It's starting to look like they've shat the bed at the prospect of winning but have a good chance to get back on track at home to Bournemouth, who managed to get beat from the hapless Cardiff last out. Everyone's heard of the fear of failure. Less talked about is the fear of success.

I was hugely impressed with him when he was at Hibs. He went quiet though so no idea what happened to him in the last 12 months or so.

Great to hear kids getting active and good on you for helping to encourage and develop them. Like women's rugby though, I can't help seeing them as vastly inferior technicians, almost like they're not built to excel at the sport. They haven't exactly been contributing to "the beautiful game" so the standard really needs to improve drastically in the years ahead. I find it totally unwatchable at present.

Hebrew, is your avatar a Mark Rothko?

I don't think there's a big future for women's football. The standard is shit.

We caught Pure by accident on Channel 4 tonight. It was amazing, totally unexpected and highly original. Being me, I didn't just stop after one episode. The now available on All 4 line wasn't just a magnet for my obsessive compulsive (not really but definitely addictive in certain personality traits), it was an inevitability. Me and daughter did episode 2 but after she bailed (school night), I did episode 3 too. Feeling pretty good about myself that I'm not doing the next 3 episodes but stuff to do the morn. Fuck knows where this plot is going and fuck knows where it came from but it's so brilliant and interesting. Edit: I ended up watching it all until 2.30 a.m. It wasn't a post telling you what I watched. My love for you is so strong, I took the time to give you a thoroughly good recommendation so get on it, for your own good.

CHO not even on the bench tonight as Chelski get fucked at Bournemouth. Maybe he's offski already but if he's not and it was a football decision not to involve him, serves you fucking right. If he's not playing on Saturday, I'll be supporting Huddersfield. But concealing this of course, being in "The Shed". Hope there's not too many Union Jacks. They make me nauseous.

Thanks for sharing. It relates to Hudson-Odoi because we have proved, or at least put forward some arguments for a case we know to be true, without even initially starting with that objective - now that's organicism for you - that the cultural shite that goes on in football is not exclusive to football. Unsurprisingly, as it is perpetuated by human beings. Most of whom are shite. And in Aberdeen in particular, they are parochial in their shiteness. We've decimated the oil industry and the legal profession already, and there will be others...

I'll give you an example. It's almost unbelievable that the "business" culture was this bad as recently as when Aberdeen were the best team in the country but it was; I had a client who was selling his house. We had an inquiry and as I was passing reception, I heard our receptionist, a lovely old dear say "I'm sorry but viewing was between 2 and 3 pm today so you've just missed it". We hadn't had that much interest in it and I was desperately trying to get her attention because I would've borrowed a partner's car and showed the property any time the prospective buyer wanted to see it. I failed to interrupt her, unsurprisingly as she was not a multitasker so I asked if she got a note of the name and number of the inquirer. She hadn't. Later that day I suggested to our senior partner that we could be more flexible in showing property and we should certainly be getting details of prospective buyers. He looked at me like I had come off the moon. One of the many reasons I jacked the legal profession and Aberdeen at that time is that I predicted that the Aberdeen property market would be taken over by Estate Agents like Glasgow had been, us solicitors only being left to pick up the less lucrative conceyancing work. Our "Solicitors & Estate Agents" on our letterheads was a misnomer. I got that prediction wrong in that the ASPC have kept a strong monopoly on the local market but from a tiny 2 partner firm in Bon Accord Crescent, Harvey Aberdein subsequently overtook them all to dominate the profits from NE property sales. It was there to be had because the prevailing culture was so shit - "we've always done it this way" being the line I remember most.

It probably isn't specific to fitba but fortunately I've never worked in a time-served culture. Tell a lie, I certainly did work in such a shite environment, in Aberdeen 35 years ago when training as a solicitor. No wonder I didn't accept their two year post qualifying contract and got the fuck out. The first 24 months in Bon Accord Square amongst dinosaur thinkers was 2 years too long. The secretaries were lovely though. It's pathetic when people follow convention and never question cultures. True innovators create their own culture, another example of why there are so few who succeed and so many who are losers.

One of the subjects on talksport just now is this kid. Simon Jordan just said that the culture in England has been not to throw kids at this age into the first team after spending so much time and energy developing them through the academies. Jim White has pointed out that 18 year old Jadon Sancho - another product of the youth academies in England - started for league leaders Borrusia Dortmund on Saturday and made two goals. A look at his record shows 12 starts and 6 goals this season in the Bundesliga. It's no wonder Bayern Munchen are sniffing around Odoi. It's pathetic that great potential talents aren't getting a run because of cultural ignorance in the UK. These kids want to play and in these two, they're obviously good enough at 18. The Chelsea manager has just been quoted saying "he's only 18, he has to respect the Chelsea academy system" etc. Fuck that, if they're good enough they're old enough and you won't know how good he can be until you start him. The cultural prejudice towards kids may even have extended to the players. I swear that Odoi wasn't getting the service his excellent runs into positions deserved (in the two games I watched him on TV) and some team-mates were almost ignoring his presence. Hope the kid gets his EPL starting debut on Saturday, plays a blinder and then reveals he's signed a pre-contract with Bayern.

Stunning pick min. Given their goals scored in their last 8 games, all wins, I couldn't see the value of your bet, even at those odds, as high as we ever see for a home win. Well done you. Great hunch

Great post and totally agree on every point. On your first point, isn't it tragic that our squad is so weak and/or imbalanced (due to shite management) that a reduced Hayes probably would be our best provider? The chances of him being as good as he was are negligible given his age now, his rustiness from not playing regularly and the fact that he suffered a serious injury. And as you say, fuck loan deals. I'm surprised you're surprised LA. Then again, I shouldn't be as I've been wrongly assuming that most AFC fans are like me and want us to win the league, something that others think is impossible due to financial disparity and the game being rigged. One aspect of winning in a team environment is culture, arguably the most influential aspect despite it not being discussed and acknowledged enough in these types of debates. A winning culture is engineered by a strong man with an exceptional mental outlook and high levels of self discipline and work ethic which inspires all around him. That exceptional man is not McInnes.

It works two ways doesn't it? You wanted quotes and I gave you them. I asked for my quotes that you interpreted as "massively flawed"?

You're still treating it as a competition between us. You've agreed to disagree, you are communicating more effectively (by not drowning your points and arguments in thousands of words) but you've not swallowed your pride. I will probably respond later but I'd rather just fuck off to be honest. Here's the quotes you asked for: - Dreams and goals can be related but they are very distinct. I assumed (wrongly, making an "ass" out of "u" and "me") that that one was well known.

When I have time, I'll respond. Don't see it as a debating competition. You don't understand my points of view. That's fine. It's the responsibility of the communicator to ensure that the communicatee understands so it's my fault, not yours. I wrongly assumed that certain truths are so widely known that they didn't need spelled out. Assuming is always a mistake, just like you assuming what the goal should be, before changing your mind, feeling a bit silly about it and then reverting to your original rhetoric and making an arse of it.

I'm happy to spell out what I was saying, although I thought I already did. What's quite frustrating is being misinterpreted when I'm using language as best I can. What's very frustrating is being misquoted, which you continue to do. This means I have to waste time correcting you when you say I said something I didn't, something you've just done again, on more than one point.

Sad to hear scotfree. Crystal Meth is an awful thing, fortunately not around when I insisted on trying everything in my long distant youth. So much for renewables. I guess China's growth needs energy and there are always a few with the resources, contacts, guile and sleekitness to turn a buck.

If you did understand what I'm saying, you wouldn't use confrontational language and throw in (mildly) insulting rhetoric. If you were capable of understanding my points, you wouldn't say that my posts are "massively flawed", which suggests you know more than me, you know best and anything I say is just plain wrong. If you are capable of swallowing your pride, of communicating with greater efficiency and of agreeing to disagree, then I would ask you what specifically I've said is so flawed? And please use the quote function to show me my bad words.

Yin and Yang. I was in Oz for 3 years, two of our daughters were born in Melbourne and I loved the weather, the swimming pool in the garden, the BBQ's and the lifestyle. When we got offered citizenship, something out of the blue as it hadn't ever crossed out minds, that forced us to think longer term so we came home. There are pros and cons. We live in a binge drinking culture and are at risk of being stabbed randomly, probably in the pissing rain on a council-neglected dark street by a loser no-hoper ned who himself has indulged in too much mind and mood-altering substances. So if you want to increase your chances of life, you're in a healthier place. But nothing in the world could tempt me to live in Australia again. The chances of a random stabbing could increase twenty fold and I'd still choose to live here. Places are about people and the racism, laziness and intellectual retardation in that country made us realise that we weren't bringing up our clan to be Aussies.

Stop writing too many words and stop imputing words and ideas to me that I didn't say and don't think. I have not ignored any "evidence" and if you say that 34 years is evidence that it can't happen, I say "awa and bile yer heid". Anderson and Donald were directors. They don't win leagues, their job was to employ people who might and they certainly wouldn't have employed the shite that Milne has done for 20 years. This started out as you taking issue with me saying that Hayes would be a retrograde step. I gave my reasons, the principal one being that we should not be looking at squad fillers - you said yourself he's not guaranteed to be good enough to get a start - if OUR GOAL WAS TO WIN THE LEAGUE, something that I have always hoped for every single season of my life. We have now established that this is the main difference between us. You have no hopes of winning the league and you give reasons for your void of optimism... Financial disparity is as pronounced in the EPL as it is in Scotland, as it has become throughout Europe thanks to UEFA mismanagement and "Financial Fair Play" hypocrisy. But money is NOT everything, only a significant advantage. You know why we see cup upsets every year without fail? Leicester's EPL win was seismic and beautiful for its poke in the eye to defeatist thinking. I agree that throwing millions at it wouldn't work, nor have I ever advocated this. We don't have the right manager to invest in. His signings over a prolonged period prove that he's fucking incapable so we are not 7-8 players short, we are ONE manager short. You forgot about Leicester pretty quick but NOBODY EVER WINS BY ACCIDENT. My point is that the club isn't even TRYING to win the league and as we've just discovered, neither are you. Winners are DIFFERENT, that's why there are so few who succeed and McInnes is a perennial loser. There's your 34 years of "evidence" again, the glass ceiling self-imposed upon your ambition, the key fundamental difference between you and I. There's you imputing "standards" to me now? I've not commented on Hibs and Hearts. Scottish football is shiit and the vast majority of managers employed in the SPL/SPFL going back 30 years have been incompetent. I have NEVER denied the correlation between money and success. You are twisting my words to fit your supposed perception about our disagreement. I also totally refute that expensive managers are the key to success. The best managers weren't expensive when they did their best work - including our own history if you're old enough to remember - and the evidence of expensive and big name managers failing in recent years, recent days if we want to include Jose at Man U is a very long list indeed. Next your argument, or your excuse for not having any optimism is that the game's rigged... ...once again displaying that what winning looks like is invisible to you. Always excuses. Your further insult is noted but rather than getting petty and childish, how about seeking to understand where we differ? Perhaps you don't even know despite my using plain English... .. and perhaps you don't even know what your goal is, as you need to assume it? THIS IS THE KEY. Milne has no interest in winning the league and McInnes has no goal to do so. Forget that McInnes isn't capable, he doesn't even try to win the league. As I said, the very few winners that there are ARE DIFFERENT. Understanding what separates the best from the rest is a good foundation for this particular key fundamental difference between us. Not once have I said this. You are putting words into my mouth. You want a "mechanism"? There are no mechanisms or formulas for success, in anything. There are only truths, consistencies and non-negotiable fundamentals but every winner does it his or her own way. There are no parallel models to follow but here's the way that you might win the league, employ somebody who WANTS to win it and who BELIEVES that it is possible. You then finish with a rant against Milne and a view of support for the manager... THAT is where we disagree. McInnes will NEVER win the SPFL at AFC and as it's not your goal too, fine.

Hope he gets picked on Saturday, my first visit to Stamford Bridge. Was going to go to The New Den and wasn't put off by the scenes at the weekend including the slashed face we saw on Twitter (obviously organised casual type behaviour) but I was put off by the phone-in on talksport this afternoon!

Accepted. I didn't say that WE were best placed of anyone in Scotland to win the league but given the size of our club and it's dormant potential, I would very much hope that we were one of the best placed to do it. I actually think George Burley could have broken the duopoly if the mad Lithuanian crook hadn't sacked him after 12 games of the season when they were top. Your line of rhetoric is concerning. You hold up the 34 years as if it's a ceiling? Have you given up? Don't you even strive to win? Obviously not, as you wrote in a previous post that it's not only this year that is another write-off but next year too, even if we throw "millions" at it. So once again, I ask, what is the point? Why do you support Aberdeen and go to the majority of games? I go because I have NOT given up hope that we can win the league one day but I know that it won't be under this manager and chairman... who aren't going anywhere soon (so maybe I do need to ask myself some serious questions) but what exactly are your aspirations? Are you tugging off that we won the 2nd place trophy in recent seasons? What exactly are you looking for? Do you think winning is a fortuitous accident? Who said that we can't discuss anything? You and others think Hayes returning would be a good thing. I and others don't agree with you. He may well be a good influence and good to have around the place but winning mentality managers with a limited budget don't look to buy footballers to be squad fillers, they look to improve the team, always and IF THE GOAL IS TO WIN THE LEAGUE, we don't buy a 31 year old who recently suffered a broken leg. Now you're holding up my conviction that McInnes and Milne are bad for AFC as an argument against me? Don't you understand that THEY ARE A BARRIER preventing us ever being the best we can be? You've written off the 2019/20 season so how many years are you prepared to tolerate McInnes? What exactly are you looking for from your time and money? A day out? So you have some material to come on here and write novellas?

I didn't call Hayes a journeyman. I said the manager signs journeymen but the bigger point is what's the point? You say it's impossible to win the league. Why the fuck do we support them with our time and money then? Incremental gains and margins? Not under this bearded midget clown and the rat chairman.