Reekie_Red

I'm nae talking about being injury-prone throughout his career. I'm only talking about since he arrived here. I was comparing it to Booth's second stint with the Dons. When he played, he was brilliant to watch as he was always about three or four steps ahead of where everyone else was thinking. But he was too injury prone. Brewster too has been plagued a bit by injury since arriving here.

I'm Reekie_Red. I'm 30, born in Aberdeen, lived in Bucksburn for the first few years of my life, then moved to the Hive of Stoney when I was five. Whilst there, I witnessed my first Dons match, a cup tie against Celtic in 1984. It was a 0-0 draw, but I cannae mind much about it as I didn't really care for footy in those days. I was more interested in Transformers, He-Man and M.A.S.K. My first Dons match that I cared about was a 1-0 loss to St Johnstone at Pittodrie in the midst of the mire that was the 1990s. George O'Boyle was the scorer that day, and the atmosphere contributed to the shittiest Saturday I'd ever experienced (up until that day anyway). My moniker came from the auld Granite Sheep days on the rivals network. The likes of Ebbe's Holdall and Garden Shears were running the best Dons chat site on the market, and I thought I'd sign up. Living and studying in Edinburgh was the obvious reasoning behind my chosen name. I now live in New Zealand, and listen to most matches online. In my hayday, I was a member of the Stoney Steamers, whose prime saw them embark on the now infamous Stoney Steamers OVD Denmark Tour 2002, shouting abuse at Derek Young, telling David Preece to purchase shares in Gillette, and jokingly sticking the fingers up at Zerouali after our match with Farum. Favourite match of recent times? Has to be either the 3-2 win over the huns at Pittodrie last season ... or the 2-0 win over Shellick in the snow. SULKY STILLIAN'S SNOWBALL ARMY!!!

We said that about Scott Booth as well, though. He was a model pro. Turned up for training early. Was the last one to leave the training ground. All his spare time at work was spent in the gym. But, just like Brewster, the majority of his latter days of footballing appeared to be spent on the treatment table. There's nae doubt that Brewster is a quality addition to our squad. I only wish we'd decided to secure his signature before he reached his 81st birthday! If he feels he can go another season, then I say give him another season. But he should surely bow out when he KNOWS he should. Kjaer finished his career when he felt he should've, despite most of the Red Army pleading with him to keep his gloves on for another season. I hope Brewster knows his physical limits.

Priceless post there, BobbyPeru! If Carlsberg made posts in discussion forums, they'd probably look like that!

Didn't Kerr used to play for Newcastle? Or is that a different Kerr? If it's the one I'm thinking of, I seem to remember he used to be quite handy in his day. I don't really know about Rae, though. We tabled a bid for him years ago, before he left Dens. He hummed and hawed about that move, so I very much doubt he'd be keen on a move to Aberdeen now that he's been at "the mighty" Rangers. Wage demands would be astronomical, too!

Server issues, possibly. Same as we had when we went down the "shared-hosting" route. I'd love to see how that site copes when they get excess people navigating their way around the site on a huge matchday ... especially if they're still planning on launching a news section. Good on them, I say. The more Dons sites online, the better. Nice to have some competition ... finally!!! It's only taken five years of being on our own for another site to appear!

Maybe I've missed something glaringly obvious since I left Scottish shores some four years ago ... but isn't Klos still at Rangers? I seem to remember him being EASILY the best keeper in the league not so long ago? What's happened to him? Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

Preecey was okay. Nothing more than that. As Johnny Mac suggested earlier, Kjaer has been the only real goalie we've had of recent times who's been "good". He was old and fat ... but he was phenomenally acrobatic and commanded his area well. And he came off his line, which is something that plagued Preece.

Wasn't Andrew Shinie the last Press Officer that we had? Agree that it is a role that is drastically in need of resurrecting at Pittodrie. I think we got rid of Shinie when it was clear that Keith Wyness was capable of handling just about any flack that was fired in the direction of the club. But now there's nobody to do this job. Yeah, so Calderwood is a good face for the public. He always has been and always will be. He's as press-safe as Jim Leishman. But there's only so much crap that an Aberdeen manager can deflect ... even if that Aberdeen manager is Jimmy Calderwood. A club that is at the mercy of The Sun, the Daily Record, and now seemingly Aberdeen's very own gutter-rag the Evening Depress should really be hiring the services of a press officer. If any club needs a sole individual to handly the crap, it's Aberdeen.

I remember watching that on tele. I wasn't sure what game it was, but I remember Big Brian giving someone a real clattering, and the opposition fans baiting him with "Brian Irvine, yer such a f'in penis, Brian Irvine yer a horse's arse!". I couldn't remember for the life of me who that opposition was, and just when I read your post I distinctly remember a straggley haired gimp falling over, and Big Brian just standing over him shouting all manner of profanities that I'm sure he didn't learn in church! What a player!!!

I read an article on the Dondeh pages saying that Dyron Daal had signed a contract with Dundee. What's everyone's thoughts on this? I thought he was going to be another one of these "one-for-the-future" players. Seems a strange move from the Dons, offloading a promising striker. Then again, I suppose Daal has been dicked around by the Dons for long enough on this amateur contract that he's been on for sixteen years! In the end he has to think about his own interests.