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My work has booked out an entire cinema in a couple of weeks and we're all off to see TF3. Cannae wait. I dinnae care fit people say about Michael Bay's OTT movies, I love the TF series of movies.

Lets see what Bandy can do with him in training. If he can turn Preece into a half-decent keeper, who knows what he can do with a Columbian internationalist!!

Well, latest papers are saying Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle are also showing interest in Fyvie. I say let them bid against each other. The winner is the one who pays the most. 10mill O.N.O Lets face it, all three clubs are in the Premiership and can more than afford a decent wage for a decent young Scottish midfielder who still has a couple of years left on his current contract

Point being that there's nae many Dons fans who don't consider Fyvie to be our most promising youngster in a long long time. £500k or even £1m for him is insulting.

Would be shit if we accepted a million (or less) for Fyvie. I know his opinion probably counts for shite now, but it's only a year ago that McGhee valued Fyvie at £10million.

You pretend at having friends all the time, don't you?

Maybe we should show interest in Derek Young. That way, Hearts might sign him with urgency too. What's Bryan Prunty up to these days? Reckon he'd be a good Aberdeen Hearts signing too.

Apparently he was MOTM in some intercontinental Nations Cup final between Nigerian U21 and Australia U21. Has been on the books of Charlton, Leicester and West Ham. Lets face it, Aluko didn't exactly have a glowing report-card when he arrived here. But one game (vs Bayern) was all it took to sway most of us!

Completely agree. Whilst the RDU does make a noise, it just goes out to where no ears are, thus sounding shite on the tele/radio. I've said for years we should shift the away fans to the Merkland, make the entire South Stand a home-support stand, and house this other singing section at the corner of the RDS/South.

In true anti-Aberdeen style, the loon is barely oot the door at Pittodrie, and the national manager gives him a cap.

Luis Fabiano ... it was Nicolas Fabiano that we had ... and he was French Patrizio Billio .... and he was Italian

He works for David Robertson?

Only selling at the clubshop is incredibly narrowminded of AFC. It's well documented that a huge portion of AFC fans live outwith the city. Many fans don't go near Aberdeen unless it's matchday. Have you ever been in the club shop on matchday? Friggin bedlam! At Christmas time, are these parents going to go to Aberdeen specifically to visit the club shop, or are they gonna pop down to their local "sports fashions" shop and get whatever is there? The economically-mined parents are gonna stay in their hometown (or at least go to the closest city, such as Inverness, Elgin, or whitiver) and look for the next best thing. Here's hoping the parents go to the local sports shop and get a fishing rod, a squash raquet, or a Scotland top. Chances are, though, that one of these days some unaware auntie is gonna pop down to said sports shop and buy their kids the latest "football top" ... which just so happens to be either blue or green/white-striped.

See I was thinking that too. I would love a striker of Riordan's ability to be snapped up by Broon. Broon does say he's hopeful of landing at least one relatively big name.

Think of it as SPL quality without the SPL weather. Standard is shit, but the crowds are getting bigger and bigger as each season passes. Melbourne Heart, for example, were only formed in 2009, and they're the smaller of two teams from the same city. But they are already pulling crowd averages of around 14000. Whilst the SPL tends to be full of players from lesser known countries trying to be noticed by English clubs, the A-League tends to be full of players in the twilight of their careers. Robbie Fowler is loving his football again over in Australia ... and Craig Moore is still a fuckwit even though he's not at Rangers anymore.

According to the EE, Pa Broon is going to hunt in Australia and New Zealand for the latest potential Dons players. Quite a few decent players in Aussie. Couple of half-decent players in New Zealand playing for Wellington Phoenix as well. Kiwi keeper Mark Paston is phenomenal when he's on form. He was the man mainly responsible for New Zealand's 1-1 draw with the Italians in last year's World Cup. Strangely enough, Paston used to be third choice keeper at St Johnstone five years ago. Kiwi midfielder Leo Bertos would be a decent enough signing too. He's creative and a bit cocky too. Stacks of SPL-quality players in Australia too. Ex hun and Dunfermline midfielder Ian Fergus-hun is head coach at Perth Glory, so there could be the potential for Brown to pull a player or two from there.

Could be worse. Could be Colin Hendry ... up front!

Oh FFS! Livin' the dream there, Phil

IIRC Turnbull was the man who had the guts to rip apart the Aberdeen squad he inherited from Tommy Pearson, including a number of "club stalwards" who claimed he was making the gravest mistake of his career by ditching so many household Dons names. Incidentally, the cup final in 1970 that saw Turnbull's Aberdeen team lift the trophy had a whopping attendance of 108,434.

There's minor earthquakes happen in Aberdeenshire all the time. The Highland Boundary Fault runs diagonally from Helensburgh near the Firth of Clyde all the way up to just north of Stonehaven. The fault line has tiny, yet quite regular, movements. The movements are far too small for any human to detect, and the fault line itself is too weak for anyone to worry about. However, my auld man used to be one of Grampian's finest polis. I remember him showing me a stats-chart showing crime/police-reports throughout the Grampian area over the space of ten years. Whilst most parts of Grampian were pretty unpredictable in terms of crime numbers, there was a definite concentration of activity along the Grampian section of the Highland Boundary Fault. Whats more is the type of crimes that occurred along this faultline ranged from beatings and stabbings, to much higher than normal reports of people being found naked in the middle of nowhere, cult activities, etc. It is thought that the increased electromagnetic activity that exists along this faultline is causing people who live along the fault to go just a little bit more crazy than those who reside elsewhere.

Blur, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, James, Primal Scream, The Shamen and The mighty KLF to all of the above

Moon Safari was excellent. I've nae listened to it in years, but it's always worth a dust-off now and then. Sexy Boy was the first song I ever heard from Air and I loved the sound they were producing. Bought the album and instantly loved Kelly Watch The Stars

He'll be able to keep his family in the area, so I wouldn't be surprised if he takes this deal tbh. Good luck Young. Yer nae good enough for Aberdeen, but I respect the fact that you're a hard worker on the park. Is Phil McGuire still playing for Formartine?

I always worry when we're looking for a new manager that so many completely untried, novice managers who have only just gained their coaching badges throw their names into the hat. I was chuffed when we secured Brown. But what's even more important is that we secured Knox. Knox is one of the UK's most experienced Assistants, and he does not take any bullshit. He was assistant during Aberdeen's most successful period of all time. He was assistant during Rangers most successful period of all time. There's no denying that Knox is made of stuff that todays Drew Jarvies, Paul Heggarties and Scott Leitches will never know. We've tried goodness knows how many combinations of players and tactics. I firmly believe that if this management team combination of Brown & Knox does not work, the ONLY thing left to try is a new board of Chairman/Board. This really should be the final throw of the dice for Milne et al I'm ignoring the results from this season since Brown/Knox took over. They've added some decent quality to the squad, but they are still short of fully-fit Fyvie, Pawlett, etc, they are yet to see what Foster has to offer. They've also had to try and test McGhee's dross. This summer will be interesting. Brown MUST clear out all the dross. I'm glad we're getting rid of the likes of Young and Diamond. He already saw fit to completely cancel the loan contract of Velicka six months ahead of schedule. Now he needs to do something with the likes of Paton who, in my view, has had too many chances to prove himself at Aberdeen, but fails time and time again to live up to his pre-match banter.

I think his drop in ability coincides with Russell leaving for Sunderland. Proof of just how good Russell made him look. It's like Darren Young ... Bisconti carried him for two seasons and made him look a hell of a lot better than he really was