Reekie_Red

I actually feel for the players. A good chance to just get shit-faced and call everyone else a cunt to their faces. The players need the opportunity to vent like this now and then. I've worked for companies who've been really struggling at Xmas time. And the Xmas nights out are a good chance to just blow steam for many employees. Everybody needs an out, especially when you're under enourmous pressure like a relegation-threatened squad.

That's the whole point. Bin the lot of them and start a-fresh.

Frankie tends to regurgitate a lot of his jokes. If you've seen him regularly on Mock The Week, you'll know half his material. But he's still worthwhile for some of the stuff he comes out with

First? Ah fuck it. Just "Do a Turnbull" and kick them all out

I loved Police Squad when it was on in the UK in the late 80s. I reckon this was Nielsen at his very best. Look out, he's got a Picasso! Look out, he's got herpes!

i only ever laughed once at Joe Pasquale - he made a gag about being dyslexic. He wanted to do karate, but ended up going to karaoke. Someone picked a fight with him, so he sang "tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree" at his attacker. Made me chuckle a little bit. But Lee Evans is an irritating shit who tries to pass "I'm nervous as fuck, and I'm gonna sweat all over this stage" off as comedy.

Yet Mackie scores one goal per season and he stays. And Young does one rally-call in the press per year and he gets labelled with "valuable squad player" for yet another year.

Widnae surprise me if the guys who get paid to clear the sna from the roads arenae doing it cos they regard the sna as being an occupational health hazard and winnae clear it without approval fae the union.

Jimmy should've moved on from Aberdeen after the Bayern loss. That was his peak, and he would've gone down in history as being an Aberdeen legend for his team's exploits in Europe. Instead the club decided to renew his contract when he was already a grumpy fucker who couldnae gie a rats. I reckon we would've been able to attract much better managerial candidates if we'd let the Jimmies go in February 2008 and build on the good work he'd done up to that point.

Bring Back Bandy. He should've never left. Any coach that makes David Preece look good must be worth keeping.

Admittedly I've nae seen this squad in person. I've only listened to seven matches this season, and watched one on the tele. the rest of my knowledge is only based on what I've read in the papers and on DT. Therefore, my opinion probably isn't really on-the-mark, so to speak. But correct me if I'm wrong in thinking the following eleven need to go (and there could be more!): Jamie Langfield Rory McArdle Yoann Folly Zander Diamond Andrew Considine Scott Vernon Darren Mackie Derek Young Jerel Ifil Michael Paton Mark Howard

vs Celtic just before Xmas 2001. The South Stand shielded us fae most of the freezing cold, despite the fact that the snow was just piled up at the back of the South Stand. But the walk back to the Pittodrie Bar after that game was easily the coldest I've ever been after a match.

Okay then. I reckon this is gonna be a pretty easy list. If you could sack any 17 players from the current Dons squad ... who would they be?

Dunno about these days, bu Mackie used to be in the papers regularly with his social antics circa 2001-2004. Whether it be going out on benders with the likes of Ben Thornley to him puffing away on cigarettes. Maybe he's changed his ways now, but Mackie was certainly no model-athlete at the turn of the millenium.

Would Hughes be that bad an option? He failed miserably at Hibs. But then he's done so well with every other club he's managed! Possibly issues with being a die-hard Hibee ultimately backfired on him? Same way Willie Miller and Mark McGhee (and to an extent Paterson) have failed to do anything with Aberdeen. Our most successful Aberdeen managers of the past three decades have both been huns (Fergie and Calderwood).

Cummings has said time and time again he'd love to invest in the Dons. He last mentioned this only a couple of months ago. But each time he has hesitated because Milne is at the helm. How willing would you be to invest in a club when its chairman ripped publically ripped you a new arsehole ten years ago? Mind you, Cummings was plotting to overthrown Milne and Donald at the time, so its no wonder Milne chucked him out of the club

Basically you're looking at the old-guard from the Ebbe days: Mackie Young Wouldn't surprise me if they've taken some of the newer young'uns with them too, including Bebo, Pawlett, Paton, etc.

The timing seemed odd to me too. Sackings normally happen on the Monday. Looks like the board were indeed waiting for the inevitable Celtic defeat as a final excuse to bin McGhee. But as the game was called off, they thought they might as well do it now. Should've been done after the 9-0 defeat imho. Big defeats are part-and-parcel of football ... see Barcelona vs Real Madrid. But 9-0??!!!! No SPL team should EVER lose 9-0 to any other SPL team.

Agreed. McGhee was only part of the problem ... although hiring a raft of 3rd-rate players was bad enough, nevermind the dismissal of Leighton, was fully pinned on him (and don't even get me started on his handling of Aluko). I think the only decent thing Miller has done was persuade Calderwood/Nicholl to come to the Dons in the first place. It was Calderwood who managed to do the magnificent task of persuading the likes of Severin, Aluko, Lee Miller, Langfield, Nicholson, Jamie Smith and Noel Whelan (imagine all of those guys in our squad right now!) to join the Dons. It wasn't Calderwood who failed to persuade these guys to stay with the club - especially in the summer of 2008 when we lost so many players that we really really needed to keep ahold of. I believe 2008 was the critical year of failure for us. The only up-point was the draw against Bayern. We've never really recovered from losing the likes of Nicholson, Clark and Hart (and Anderson from the previous year). Keeping someone like Severin happy would've been vital in our bid to keeping a degree of solidity in the team too. The men behind most of the above decisions that culminated in the above players leaving is Willie Miller. He's got to go. He's a waste of money. The only person in a similar position to his who actually did a decent job was Dave Cormack. But he refuses to work at an Aberdeen that has Milne at the helm ... yet another problem. There is investment available to the club ... but not whilst Milne is involved. Why would any investor want to plant money in the club when the man who has allowed the club to get into so much debt is still at the helm? That's just another waste of money.

Butcher surely has to be an option we consider.

The board must've been reading my post. Perfect timing, imho. We've got a week without fixtures due to the weather. There's still the best part of a month left to get a manager in in-time for the opening of the transfer window. Whilst the new man may not be able to do too much in the window, he may be able to get some clubs to take one or two of the dross that pull on the red shirt each week. And the new man will have half a season to try to turn things around. But who?

To be fair, Scott was last sacked by Dundee when he had them in pole position. They were still in pole position, albeit had surrendered the bulk of their 15 point lead at the top of the league. It was a knee-jerk reaction by Melville because he didn't think Scott could keep the club at the top of the league. Turns out Scott's replacement Chisholm made things worse by helping drag the club into administration again Scott would actually be on my shortlist to replace McGhee

Enough is enough. McGhee has to go. We cannot afford to bin the shite squad, so we have to get a new man in who can do a better job with these players than McGhee is currently doing. One win in thirteen is simply not sufficient. The P&J put it bluntly. In 1995, we were in the same position league-wise. Different is we had the likes of Shearer, Dodds, McKimmie and Irvine to help us out of the hole. This season, we've got Hartley and a frustrated Aluko ... that's it! We need someone new NOW. Not in January ... NOW. Get a new manager in now, give him a few weeks worth of games to get to know the squad, let him grab some freebies in the January window, and then see if he can haul us out of the relegation zone for the remaining four months of the season. McGhee, you were a cracking player for us. But I'm sorry to say it has just not worked out at Aberdeen from your very first game in charge. For the sake of Aberdeen Football Club, it is time to go.

Jim, ever fancied another AFC takeover bid?

When was the last time we faced either of the Old Firm in the cups? Correct me if I'm wrong, but was it 2001? (Scots Cup vs Celtic at Pittodrie) Unfortunately, I think we're due a tie against one of the ugly sisters soon!