Reekie_Red

Excellent film I saw a few nights ago was Law Abiding Citizen. Probably one of the better movies I've seen in the past 2-3 years. www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/

Really? Defenders who played with Stavrum: Russell Anderson Juan Cobian Gary Smith Michael Hart John Inglis David Lilley Jamie McAllister Phil McGuire Kevin Rutkiewicz Thomas Solberg Derek Whyte Ontop of this, the midfield that serviced Stavrum wasn't that hot either. Jess was sick of Skovdahl, Zerouali was temperamental, and Dow was on-form for one season only. Stavrum was a poacher. The majority of his goals were scored from within 6yards - but he did put away the majority of his chances. If Velicka is capable of something close to Stavrum's return, I'll be happy.

I seem to remember a certain Arild Stavrum was only really of any use from about 6 yards out.

Based on the above video, he's got the determination and commitment of Russell Anderson and the close-control of Kevin McNaughton. Looks good so far

I like Foster's comments since signing for the huns. Everything he has said so far basically suggests he wants to experience lifting trophies and playing in the Champions League, and hopes this experience will work in his favour when he returns to Aberdeen in a years time. At no point has he done the usual "I'm a boyhood Rangers fan, this is a dream come true move for me!" garbage that 99% of all Scottish footballers seem to spout. I think this is an excellent move. If Velicka can stay injury-free, we've got a proven goalscorer of the caliber that we've not seen since the says of Shearer and Deano. And hate them or hate them, playing for Rangers is gonna up Foster's experience, his likelihood of becoming a Scotland internationalist, and his financial value. Fast-forward a year, I think both Rangers and Aberdeen will benefit from this move. Foster will hopefully get some Champions League experience, and there's no doubt he will be able to experience what it is like to be part of a squad that wins regularly. He might even get a cup and/or league winners medal out of it all. Velicka will be McGhee's first-choice striker whenever he is fit enough to play, so he's gonna get more gametime with Aberdeen than he was with anyone else in the past few seasons. Sure, there's gonna be the odd moron who will boo him whenever we come up against Der Hun this season - probably the same people who were booing him when he was in an Aberdeen shirt, so no love lost there! But I think the majority of Aberdeen fans know that this is a move that Foster had no real say in, but one that will show Foster's professionalism.

Well, selling Foster for a decent fee would surely allow us to afford the wages of both Bassey and Vujadinovic. I'm thinking a fee of at least £1million for Foster would let us finalise both deals.

I was gonna say surely it's not up to Aberdeen and The Huns to keep the Scottish coefficient up there. But for some reason my memory had clean forgotten about the Sigma Olomouc games. Dammit!

Izzard is brilliant. His World History tour was a right laugh. The "tea and cake or death" gag was brilliant. Here's a bit of that tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOLOGGftTY Anyone seen the series of Lego sketches on Youtube that has Izzard dubbed over them? Fantastic.

I hope if we do get Hartley, it doesn't spell the end of our interest in Hendrie. I've been checking the news online on a daily basis waiting for Hendrie to sign. Seems like we've been signing pretty much every goon except him, though. Just wish we'd push the boat out a bit and get the lad. Pushing the boat out to get a midfield of Hartley, Hendrie, Pawlett and Fyvie (not in that formation) would be worth the gamble in the real hope that it'd attract a few more season-tickets! Shit, if that was our midfield, it'd be the most excited I've been about Aberdeen pre-season since the prospect of seeing Hignett team up with Jess in the middle.

If a rail link is built at Cove a mile away from the stadium, this is gonna be no problem whatsoever for fans. All fans arriving from south of the city already walk 1.5 miles from Guild Street to Pittodrie as it is. And there's not that many SPL stadiums that are actually within a mile of the nearest train station anyway. Ever tried to get to McDiarmid Park from Perth train station?

Nah, the old server and old database were deleted several weeks ago. The issue is I have never been bothered to index the site's post-content. As such, the database is not really keeping tabs of the number of times someone types the word "Foster" or "shite" or "brown". It DRASTICALLY reduces the db size, but also means that searching is basically disabled. Searching could be re-indexed, but it takes like a whole day to index the site, and it's not something you can just sit back and watch happen ... you have to press a button every ten minutes, which sucks. RC3 might be an idea, but that's up to the new admins :-)

Makes a change from letting all of our kids go in the summer ... including all the kids who keep winning awards. Nice to see we're actually giving these kids contracts for once!

Dave_min's right. It's SMG who are dealing with the UTG thingy ... not Stewarty himself! On that note, it's Stewarty himself who is on the Dons board, not the Stewart Milne Group. If it were the Stewart Milne Group who were head of the Dons board, we'd have no problems with renovating Pittodrie. Yes we've got the man in-charge of Stewart Milne Group as the boss of our beloved club, but Stewart would still need to get approval from his group Senior Management Team and shareholders before pumping SMG money into Aberdeen FC.

I'll say. Quick lads. Get the pitch-forks and chase this foreigner out!

Further to this, Cummings didn't just want to take over at Aberdeen, he was a CURRENTLY AFC Director, and he was plotting the removal of the board along with key individuals including Willie Miller (I believe Willie was Head of the Supporters Trust at that point) and Dave Cormack (who was the current Dons Chief Exec). The consortium was engineering the removal of Milne, Donald, etc whilst most were current AFC employees / board-members. Effectively, they were looking to sweep the carpet out from underneath Milne's feet at a time when Milne was quite happy with his lot as AFC Chairman.

At the time that Cummings & Co were looking to take over the club, Milne was happy with is lot. It's only in the past four or so years that Milne has started to hint at being ready to hand the club over.

Hmmmm, don't really think he's actively come out to say "someone please buy this club from me!". He's hinted, yes. But he's not actively come out yet and said "make me an offer". Jim Cummings has made his first AFC-related appearance in the media for about ten years. I wonder if this could be the start of something beautiful!

Jeeeeez, I remember seeing the much publicised "Ten Year Plan" on Scotland Today about ten or fifteen years ago (I was studying in Edinburgh, so must've been almost 15 years ago now). It looked fantastic, with promises that would revolutionise the very existence of Aberdeen Football Club. We kind of started getting there, and then the arse fell out of Scottish Football thanks to the collapse of the SPL TV deal, and as you say we really have been stuck on stage 2 of the 5-year plan for about nine years now.

If that really is true, that is surely a clear invitation for Cummings to reignite his consortium from ten years ago.

Still give you a semi though, didn't it FJ?

I've said this so many times. Have terracing. If the SPL doesn't like it, just close the terracing during SPL matches. Open it up for League Cup, Scottish Cup and European games ... so that's two games per season we can use the terracing, lol. I've said it so many times that the terracing-setup they have at Brondby is impressive and would easily for Aberdeen's new stadium. What the hell, bring back terracing. It wasn't the terracing that was the problem at Hillsbrough, it was the police.

Mark Kerr: "Willie, it's time to start looking at my contract" Willie Miller: "So it is. Here's wur offer" MK: "I'll take that away and think about it" [some time later] MK: "I'd like to enter negotiations with you regarding my contract-offer" WM: "Oh aye. Since we offered you this contract, we've noticed you've done absolutely fuckall for the club. So we're now offering you HALF of what we offered you before" MK: "hurrumph" That's not right! Hurrumph. I'm supposed to get more money from you lot, regardless of how little effort I put into my game" WM: "Well thats not the way we work around here anymore. Why don't you go and whinge to Hearts. They'll gladly pay you what we offered you to begin with." MK: "Hurrumph!!"

Just watched the highlights of the Motherwell v Hibs game. Looked a hell of a lot more entertaining than our 6-5 game at Fir Park ten years ago. Some good goals, some shocking goals, horrific backpass by Giles Coke, but stunning goal by Jutkiewicz (why couldn't we have found this player rather than Rutkiewicz?) to grab the draw

I hadnae noticed. But now you mention it .... for being a player who is normally so vocal at every given opportunity and is normally slated for talking so much shite in the papers, Langfield's been affae affae quiet since the turn of the year.

Is that volcano still spewing??