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Aluko IS a quality young player. He's just surrounded by players who couldnae gie a fuck, and a management team who have completely lost all motivational control over the first-team. No wonder he cannae be arsed at the moment. If McGhee can hold onto Aluko, and build his new team around Aluko, Diamond, Fyvie, Pawlett and Paton, there could be reason for optimism next season. Aluko is a player I'd love to see stay at Aberdeen for another season, as I don't think we have seen the best of him yet.

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G'night JV?

Record fines seems a bit harsh for arguably our only two players who actually give a fuck this season!

Could probably count on one hand the number of Aberdeen FC employees who are actually earning their wage at the moment.

I think we've had several players who had the potential to be at least as good as Charlie Nic, but the "Aberdeen factor" got the better of them and they ended up being good-at-best, horse-shite-at-worst. Names who spring to mind who've been with us since Charlie include: - Eoin Jess (had the ability to destroy ANYONE ... just didn't have the mentality to do it regularly) - Hicham Zerouali (had skill that this Dons fan has not seen since the Smith/Scott era, but like Jess he just seemed to lack the mentality to use it on a regular basis) - Noel Whelan (when he wasn't injured, he showed signs of his EPL quality. Problem was he spent too long either on the treatment table, or getting match-fit after being out injured).

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Give or take 3 or 4 players, it's pretty much the same squad of dross that Jimmy got into Europe with this time last year. Make of that what you will.

What fucks me off is he is whinging about not having any money. Mark, you do realise each league position carries with it a bigger prize than the previous? At least try to push for as high a league position than you are. At the moment, it seems that you're ready to accept ANY non-12th position as acceptable. There's a reason why Willie Miller has told you that your transfer-kitty is guaranteed regardless of your position, because regardless of whether you finish in 7th or 11th, yer still gonna get fuckall. But seriously! Have a bit of fuckin passion. A bit of professional pride! If your senior players are not capable of raising their game against Hamilton in the final weekend home-game of the season, then drop them and play a team of kids. I'm sure the massive crowd of 7099 would've been inspired by that performance to even bother thinking of renewing their season-tickets.

Corrected your sentence there. You had it right the first time around!

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That's a bit cheeky from Maguire, the bit about us nae playing him and Killie using him every week. There's a reason why we put you on-loan, min. Yer a good player, hence why we didnae want to sell you. But we wanted you to get first-team experience so you could come back a bit better. If we didnae like you, we woulda sold you. Wouldn't we???

agreed

I think we should ditch the split and keep it a 12-team league. We should have one auto-relegation spot and one relegation-playoff spot. We should also start up a championship playoff scheme whereby the top FOUR teams play a round-robin knockout mini-tournament at the end of the season ... with the final match of the season being at Hampden, and this match ultimately deciding who wins the league, regardless of how many points split the top team from the 2nd-placed team. Something has to be done to try to break up the duopoly the Old Firm has on this league.

Hindsight and all that, min! When Willie was taken back to the club by Wiggy, I was sure this was the next best thing to ousting Stewart Milne! Having the legend of all Dons legends running the footballing side of the club was, in my view, a complete no-brainer and a recipe for success. How was I or anyone else who shared my views to know he'd contribute the square-root of fuckall to the club?

I remember that walkout, now! Weren't the prawn-sandwich-seats in the Lower-RDS empty for the first twenty minutes of the game or something like that?

That rule has changed, tsr. There now needs to simply be an 8/4 (could actually be 7/5 now) majority rather than the previous 11/1 majority. This came about after the 10/2 majority voted for SPL-TV to happen, but the remaining two (the Old Firm) resulted in the plan being quashed.

Nae sure it was during Paterson's reign, min. I think the Cummings-Consortium was in 2000 or 2001 when Ebbe was in charge. If I remember rightly, a consortium was built through Cummings (millionnaire owner of Edinburgh-based Pilgrim Software), Willie Miller and Dave Cormack (Scottish-Canadian Chief Executive who had done wonders whilst running Toronto FC). The consorium was being built from within the club to oust Milne and Ian Donald from their positions on the Aberdeen board. Milne found out about the consortium, and promptly bumped Cummings off the board, cut Willie's access to the club, and it wasn't long before Cormack went back to Canada with a prefabricated sob-story of "my kids are homesick" or something like that. At a time when following Aberdeen was slowly becoming something close to mildly exciting (these were the years when we had Stavrum, Jess, Dow, Zero and Belabed entertaining us), being a Dons fan was given a little bit more edge and excitement with the prospect of seeing the Cummings Consortium brought into power at the expense of the Milne regime. I'd like to think Cummings is quietly biding his time, plotting another takeover bid. Please try now, Jim. You might have more luck!

We should be lining up McGhee's successor right now, then bin him at the final game of the season. My reason for waiting until after the final game of the season? McGhee and every other Aberdeen player's contracts should be ripped up, and they should be forced to wear their Aberdeen strips, and then marched down the left-hand-lane all the way from Pittodrie, up King Street and the whole length of Union Street. They should be FORCED to hold up traffic behind them so that everyone in the city gets a chance to show just how much McGhee and this sorry excuse for a squad have ripped the heart out of the club. Marching them up through the heart of the city will finally give the fans the opportunity to get REALLY pissed off at them, and force the players and coaching staff to hear the abuse, rather than just run away down the tunnel when the whistle goes. I honestly feel this club has been set back more years by McGhee and his squad than Pele, Ebbe, Miller and Aitken did collectively.

Time to go. He's had a summer and a January transfer window to get players. He's had a whole season at us, with a pre-season too. What's he succeeded in doing? Losing to EVERY SPL club without exception, losing to two First Division sides in the cups, humiliated in Europe to the detriment of the country's co-efficiency ... and offered the squad who has done all this shit a lifeline by saying "they could all stay til next season if they show a bit of determination". I'm sorry, but if he cannot grow the balls to wipe out that abysmal squad that has brought us closer to relegation than any other manager (Ebbe doesn't count as NO team could be relegated that year) then he needs to go. What makes you think this squad is gonna be any better next term, Mark?

He's already lost the same number of games as Alex Miller, but in four fewer attempts! Why is McGhee not hounded out in the same way Miller was?

Only thing I'm pissed at is the fact Anderson never got to lead his team into Europe. And the fact he's not an Aberdeen player any more. A million times the captain that Kerr or Severin ever have been.

Couldnt be much further from how the current Aberdeen team are doing.

If those players cannot raise themselves for two all-or-nothing cup games against Raith, and cannot overcome the might of St Johnstone, Falkirk or Kilmarnock at a critical time in the season, what chance to we honestly think they'll have in the REAL dogfight that will be the final 3 games of the season. Two games from now, we could be equal-bottom of the league. This team don't have the fight in them to escape relegation. Why? Because most of them already know they are on their way in the summer. They will fuck off to another club, whilst Aberdeen gets relegated for the first time ever. I hate to admit it, but this team depresses me more than any of the starting lineups that Alex Miller fielded. At least Alex Miller's sides had a few shots on-goal.