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So basically Charlie Allan was hovvering around the front door at Pittodire, spotted McGhee and said "Any idea when Diamond will be back, Mark?" McGhee said "I don't know when he'll be back. Do I look like the club doctor?" And now Fat Ex-postie's omitted the "FYI" directed at him and made a backpage headline out of it. Another non-story from this excuse of a reporter.

Just made a change to the coding of the site. Can anyone report if you're still experiencing this particular problem?

I've been told reliably he's not looking at moving back to Scottish football in a playing-sense EVER. My extremely reliable source has said Russell's looking at retiring very very soon (within the next 2 years), and heading back to the Granite City to start a career in the investment sector. I chose "unsure". I'm sure he'd still be able to do an awesome job for us. But we don't need defenders. If we're gonna "pull out all the stops", I'd prefer it to be on a decent striker or attacking midfielder.

Nah. There's not many off-topic threads I get pleasure out of these days due to people hijacking threads all the time. The music game thread is one of my few remaining pleasures on this site these days, so I'm not gonna let the fucktards ruin that too! George Harrison - Unconsciousness Rules

The server is in New Zealand. Daylight savings happened here just last week, hence why the time was thrown out by one hour. I've altered the timezone which should correct the hour immediately. I'm not sure why the time is out by so many minutes though. My computer clock is in-sync with world time servers and is currently only 3 minutes the time displayed on the site. Bobby, try syncing your computer's time. Right-click on the time on the bottom-right (assuming you're not using a white fruity-branded computer), click on "Adjust Date/Time", select the "Internet Time" tab and then select "Update Now". This should get your computer's clock uptospeed with the current time. Although, if you're viewing DonsTalk from work, it could be that all the computers at your work are syncing to the time on your work's central gateway.

I always called John Hewitt for World Cuppy at school ... mainly cos his name sounded like my favourite sugar-filled treat at the time ... Chewitts.

Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time

Agreed, Bobby. Yes he got us into Europe (twice), achieved some memorable wins, steered the club back to a position of respectability and credibility (esp vs Rangers and Celtic) and brought about a general stabiliity at the club that's been lacking for many many years. But his managerial form with the Dons was just too extreme from week-to-week. I mean, humping Copenhagen ... or being humped by QotS. I felt his time was up in January 2008. He'd lost interest in the Dons back then, it was obvious on his face, in his expressions, in the way he carried himself in interviews and at the side of the pitch. He should've gone out on a high back then. Instead we stupidly gave him another 3 year contract. Three additional years in a job you really don't want to be in? Nah, it was set up for failure on our behalf. Meanwhile he doesn't need to do any work in football for a while, cos we've paid him and Jimmy Nicholl a handsome payout fee to sever the contract.

If he's Aberdeen's answer, then I'm presuming the answer is "awa an shite, min"

But these days it's so bloody difficult to find goalscorers. Any striker who can score more than 10 goals in a season gets snapped up by Portvale/Darlington/Luton/insert-random-division2-team ... or the Old Firm grab him and let him rot in their reserves for three years and sell him back to the original club along with wage demands that are ten times what they deserve. Gone are the days when Aberdeen could comfortably hold on to the likes of Harper or McDougall. A striker who can score more than 20 goals in a season gets valued dramatically more than a goalkeeper who can keep 20 successive cleansheets. Whilst we appear to have our defence sorted out, I think it's gonna be a long long time until we see a quality striker at Aberdeen who can bang the goals away on a regular basis. Until then, we're gonna have to rely on players from all over the park to score. Whether that be Mulgrew's foot, Kerr's head or Mackie's arse, I don't care. But we need to be teaching ALL players how to score, not just the strikers.

Is it the number of yards distance between Kris Boyd and the nearest player to him before he'll consider falling over?

Team 1 Preece - The first sign that Leighton could polish any turd. Went from a crap flapper fae Darlington who dropped pianos on his foot, to a very comfortable and capable keeper who I was sad to see the back of 17 McNaughton - Good on ye Kev. I used to love the crazy tricks he'd come out with against the huns. Apparently "Mr Consistent" at Cardiff. With his gray hair, he was also the SPL's youngest old man too! 24 Morrison - Oh dear! Wasn't he the Scottish David Beckham? 29 Heikkinen - Oh for another Heikkinen right now! 5 Anderson - He was just starting to become the solid and consistent player we all know and love back then 14 Clark - Still dunno what all the fuss about him leaving was about. I couldnae be arsed wi the loon and was glad we got rid of him ... what's even better is we got a fee! 10 Sheerin - Was this the pre-new contract Sheerin or the post-new contract Sheerin? There's a world of difference between the two! 7 Hinds - Why did we persist with him? Suppose same reason we persist with just about every "striker" at Aberdeen ... he's all we could afford 27 Diamond - He was extremely raw back then, although to be fair he was about 9 years old 19 Zdrilic - Oshor Williams rated him as the best striker he'd ever seen. I want some of Oshor's drugs 9 Booth - Thank you Scott for everything you gave to AFC

Surely can't be as gut-wrenching as the Valentines Day match in 2003 where Diamond scored in the second minute and we went on to run Rangers absolutely ragged. We could've and SHOULD'VE smashed five or six goals past them, but for the the goalkeeping skills of Stefan Klos. Then just as we thought "fuck it, let's just make do with a 1-0 win" De Boer goes up and grabs an equaliser for them in the final minute of the game. Seriously though, we should've destroyed them that day, as they were unbelievably poor.

A turkey! So it is!! Here's me look at it from all angles, trying to figure out which animal had feathers, a really really small base and also had claws. All I could see was this bizarre creature trying to reach the pregnant woman's belly. With this in mind, you can understand my "WHAT THE FUCK?" stance I had.

What is it? I really can't figure out what the fuck that is!

I ain't seen this problem before. You still experiencing this problem, BB? Yeah this is a known problem, mate. It's RRRREEEAAALLLLYY annoying as fuck, and I can't figure out what the problem is. Short of reinstalling the entire site again, the site engine designers aren't sure what the issue here is either! But we're working on it.

And that is part of the problem, paulinho. Hibs make hefty profits because they sign their promising players up on LLLOOOONNNGGGG term deals and then put them up for sale when they've still got 3 years to run. We, however, have a habit of selling our players when they are in the final year of their contract. Being honest, our most sellable asset right now is Aluko. He's still contracted for another year and a half. Nae fuckin way is he gonna sign a new contract with us. So I reckon we've got to look at selling Aluko this January or, at the VERY VERY latest, next summer.

FFS, wasn't he bought as cover for our already crocked defence? When's Diamond back?

Right on! Milne's been doing the sensible thing for a decade now, by trying to get the club to survive on its own without injections of cash from his own wealth. However, the only two clubs who've succeeded in doing this in Scotland in recent times are Hibernian and St Mirren. One lives by selling its players at extortionate prices. The other lives by selling its ground to supermarket giants and getting them to build a new stadium in the process. 1. We saw a glimmer of hope when we sold Clark for £300k and Hart for £200k. But when you see twats like Scott Brown being sold for £4.5million, it beggars belief how someone of the quality of Russell Anderson can walk for £1m. 2. Unless Donald Trump wants to build the first hole of his golf course on the ground beneath Pittodrie Stadium, we're never gonna get anywhere near the £7million that Pittodrie's worth. Even then, when we do sell it, we've got no physical asset against our name to use as collateral if the banks start knocking on our door. So, Milne, what are you going to do? We've given you enough opportunity to try to get things right. We've seen you cut the size of the club's cloth, squad after squad gets trimmed, every year we get closer to having to permanently shut down the Main Stand. And I can't really imagine that the past 12 months have done very many positive things to our overall debt. It's time to either show the colour of your money, or let someone else do it. Apparently the only reason Calum Melville didn't chuck his money at Aberdeen FC was because Milne was there, and he didn't think the money would be spent wisely. Time to move aside Stewarty!

Here was me thinking you were selling Lee Miller's car. He won't be needing that for a whiley, eh!

At least these kids would be disappointed to lose so heavily to the huns. The current crop of "experienced" players don't seem to give a shite that they're shite

Agreed. I'd rather we lose with a team of youngsters who actually gave a shit, than lose with a bunch of overrated, overpaid players who couldn't give a shite about the result because they know they'll get picked for the next match. I think the only experienced players who deserve a starting berth from what I've seen so far this season are Langfield, Ifil, Aluko and (tinhat) Foster. The youngsters like Fyvie, Paton and (tinhat again) Maguire have done extremely well, but they're getting fuckall support from those players who should know better, such as Miller, Mackie, Mcdonald and Kerr. I say let the wasters rot in the reserves. That way, we get to play youngsters who might have a bit more hunger, we don't have these liabilities like Miller dragging his knuckles around for 90 minutes, they'll get fuckall time to showcase their ability to any prospective buyers, and we can just release them at the end of their contracts ... nobody loses except for said players. Win win as far as I'm concerned. It might even result in a couple of those wasters firing a rocket up their own arses and actually produce the performances we all know they can do.

Give us a fuckin chance. Some of us mods have to eat/sleep/work you know.

It had a Dundee win written all over it. Struggling Aberdeen travelling to Dundee, a team who are second only to Celtic in terms of their summer spending in Scotland ... courtesy of funding from an Aberdeen fan. Writing was on the wall before kick off. Jimmy Must Go.

Carron Keating is/was hot.