El Padre™

A week in Ireland? No ta. Too many Irish there. Also after having the last 10 months of Aberdeen every week I need a break

I can't believe we let Dave Bus go. JIMMY WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???

Keep in mind this is the Herald we're talking about. Its not as highbrow as people would like to think.

Our best central defensive partnership should be Zander and Considine, the rest are all squad fillers, Mair and Byrne especially.

Put Byrne in for as many games as Zanders had this season and I promise you that Zander will look like a defensive god in comparison.

Still a far sight better than Byrne

Aberdeen rarely make the papers here so this west coast media thing is just a fantasy. We have to have success before the media outside of Aberdeenshire has reason to snipe at us.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7367385.stm Another one slips through the net.

My season ticket renewal will be seriously in doubt if this is true.

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We've just taken that old European form and put it into the Scottish cup.

Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out! Joga Bonita!

DISALLOWED GOAL Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008 Disallowed goals can often be contentious decisions that rely on split second judgement by the officials in charge of the match. Iain Brines made such a decision this weekend during the match between Celtic and Aberdeen when he ruled out a late goal by Diamond for handball. After reviewing the decision again on television, Iain Brines now concedes that this was an incorrect call. Speaking today, Iain Brines said: "In the final minute of the match, Aberdeen were attacking within the Celtic half of the field of play. The ball was on the left wing and was crossed into the packed Celtic penalty area. From the angle I had adopted I observed the Aberdeen player Diamond jump to meet the ball and I believed he used his hand to aid the ball's flight beyond him. "Immediately I blew my whistle awarding a free-kick to Celtic. The majority of players reacted to the whistle by stopping - the exception being Diamond who placed the ball into the Celtic goal. "On reflection and having had the opportunity to view the incident via television, I fully accept that I called this incident completely wrong. Having adopted the position I did, it didn't allow me to gain the best view of what happened during the incident. It is clear that the goal should not have been disallowed." Commenting on the decision, Hugh Dallas of the Scottish FA Referee Development Department said: "Refereeing a match requires our officials to rely on their judgement and positioning to make decisions as they see them within a split second. Sometimes errors are made and it is right to admit when you have made an incorrect call. http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/whistleblower.cfm?newsid=3894

I thought McVitie was the great white hope? And what the hell is the Script with David Ross? What was the point in bringing him back? Shambolic stuff.

We wont sign twelve players, they just want us to talk about something else other than the clubs failings. If we even sign five players I'll be surprised. My medium can kick your mediums ass.

This is just a feeble attempt to make us forget about Hampden.

This frees up a wage for Sol Bamba surely?

The 'recruitment drive' should have happened in January. I'm still dubious as to whether or not this is going to happen.

If Szamatoulski wanted to play in Scotland he surely would have stayed with UTD?

This is a complete non-story and not even worth discussion.

We can, but Calderwood is most likely too lazy to try.

I take it Dunfermline are on a world tour?

We're all thoroughly reformed now. THOROUGHLY!

Its about choice, you arent confined to the one city, you have edinburgh at your disposal and you can head down to england in no time at all as well if you want, whereas in Aberdeen you have a fair slog if you want to be anywhere else. Its all about lifestyle really. Anyway, like ST says:

Money money money, its a rich mans world! If a young footballer can get the same money in the central belt as he would in Aberdeen I would reckon the choice would be central belt 9 times out of 10.