Reekie_Red

I've read every angle on the proposed move away from Pittodrie, from today's current acceptance that we're gonna be playing in Cove, to the original plans that saw Wiggy standing over a cowshite-filled patch of land at Bellfield Farm about seven years ago ... see images below I refuse to believe that Pittodrie is a dead horse. Yes, the land around Pittodrie has been allowed to slip away from our grasp, but I've read a lot of talk from the pro-Cove/Loirston/wherever brigade that the ground that Pittodrie sits on is just not suitable to hold structures like multi-thousand-seater stands. If a piece of land no more than 300 metres away can hold something as magnificent as the Chris Anderson Sports Complex, why the fuck is ground beneath Pittodrie such a difficult thing to manipulate? Look at the great clubs of British football. The one thing the vast majority of them have in common is their stadiums are situated IN THE CITY! Arsenal and Man City, albeit have many many times the riches we have. But they have both relocated to new stadiums within close proximity of the old stadium. Even in Scottish football, the most prominent clubs have worked with various sections of the surrounding community to ensure that the club remains in the city. Hibs and Hearts, in particular, were tightly constrained by houses and public buildings. However, the city council have worked with both clubs to free up land so that Hearts could stay in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, and Hibs could stay in Leith. Aberdeen FC belongs at the beach as much as the Codonas, Beach Ballroom and the Kings Links. If you rip the heart out, the club just becomes another tenant in a lifeless shell of a stadium that is in a location brushed completely to one side. Aberdeen FC belongs first and foremostly in Aberdeen ... not in a commuter-suburb situated closer to Portlethen than to Aberdeen!

I was genuinely excited when we signed Hignett. The thought of him, Jess and a fully-fit Paul Bernard as our midfield was mouthwatering. And Hignett's first two games for the Dons gave me one of the most impressive displays I've ever seen from an Aberdeen player. He danced around Celtic and Dundee like they weren't there. Then Miller stopped allowing Hignett to travel down to Merseyside every week to see his son, so Hignett spat the dummy and just stopped playing for us. Cannae really blame Hignett for that, really! What fucked me off the most about Miller was how perilous a situation AFC was in, and we'd see him on the back page of the papers laughing away whilst sunning himself with the Scotland squad. Absolute fucktard of the highest order

Interesting reading that article by Spiers on Willie Miller losing the plot, yet the Dons fans still adore him. He put it perfectly when he said Willie will forever be remembered as the inspirational captain of the greatest ever Dons side. In the same light, Alex Miller will (regardless of what he does in life) always be remembered by Dons fans as the man who singlehandedly did the most intentional damage to Aberdeen Football Club in the club's history (I say intentionally cos Aitken and Paterson simply didnae hae a fuckin clue what they were doing). Lest we forget!

42BC - Tiberius Cesar (2nd Roman Emperor) was born 1959 - John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison participated in the final round of Carroll Lewis' "TV Star Search." The men were calling themselves Johnny & the Moondogs 1960 - Clark Gable died at the age of 59 1985 - The 200th episode of Dallas aired on CBS 1997 - Following a spirited 1-1 draw with Rangers, Dons Director of Football Keith Birkenshaw announced in the Scotland On Sunday that the club were in negotiations to bring Alex Miller in as head coach of the club. The decision was made official just 5 days later

Again, I don't believe Spiers is a hun. After reading a number of his articles over the past decade, I would be more inclined to think he's a fan of one of the east coast teams .... and I wouldn't put it past him being an Arab.

http://www.donstalk.co.uk/messageboard/index.php/topic,9637.msg166226.html#msg166226 See above link for details of why

Nah, it was a complete rebuild of pretty much every single part of the site.

Wasn't Shearer in charge of Buckie Thistle recently? Nae sure if he still is and cannae be arsed googling that fact.

Thanks. The rest such as the arcade, topic previews, and Youtube-embedding will be returning in good time.

I can imagine the events right now in the January window. We go for Paterson. Luggy says "who is this lad Paterson? Who does he play for? Ah who cares. Sign him up now before that bastard at Aberdeen does!" Luggy's assistant says "err, he's already on our books, Mr Sturrock" "He is?" remarks a surprised Luggy.

New font? Hmmm, pretty sure it's the same as before. You using firefox? If so, go to the following menus: View > Zoom > Reset Your text might've been slightly larger or smaller than normal

I've just done another upgrade on the site as there were just too many glitches to even contemplate on the old one. There's a few features of the site that are, as such, currently unavailable. Things like youtube embedding and the arcade are not currently active. I will be activating these again over the next few days. Can you all have a good play around with the site and let me know if you spot anything that's not right (or indeed anything that you think is better)? Note, the links at the bottom of each page are back again !

Every man's got to hae a hobby, min!

Barthez was amazing when he was up for it. Admittedly some of his performances were shocking, including his attempt at out-witting Di Canio in the FA Cup. But there's countless times Barthez has simply been unbelievable. He's one of these keepers with the ability to catch the ball in situations where the vast majority would be forced to punch the ball away or turn it round for a corner. Barthez just had a knack for making the ball cling to his hands like velcro.

Godzilla's about to surface

Anyone see the Man Utd vs CSKA Moscow game a couple of days ago? Unbelievable goalkeeping from CSKA's keeper, Igor Akinfeev. Based on that display, if Fergie does eventually move to sign him (as the commentators were saying would happen throughout the match), I reckon ManU would finally have found the quality keeper they've been craving since Peter Schmeichel (although I would say Barthez was equal to Schmeichel, but in different ways in that his strengths were in different areas to Schmeichel's strengths)

How quickly will the the SPL and SFA brush that one under the carpet?

If I were McDonalds and they were Burger King, I'd take note of their warning. However, DT is a non-profit-making fans forum. AFC-Chat is apparently a non-profit-making fans forum. DT has no intention of attempting to sell the domains to AFC-Chat for profit. We're merely taking the piss and have been for about 7 or 8 months now. The fact that they've just noticed it is what's even funnier. But no laws will back their threats up. If there were laws in place to protect random forums, I would've layed a claim against Dons-Mad years ago for taking stand-free.co.uk because, until about two years ago, I was the legal owner of the domain stand-free.com. But I didn't cos I've got too much respect for those guys on Mad, and I also don't really care about fellow Dons fans having a bit of fun.

No. The old chat facility on the afc website was not officially called "AFC Chat". There was a button that said "Chat" on the old site. People referred to the official forum as AFC Chat, but there was never any trademark or copyright around the name "AFC Chat". The guys who set up the unofficial forum "AFC Chat" (ie The Hat) were predominantly ex-chatters from the official site who didn't want to engage with conversations with people from Mad or DT (or Dandydons as we were back then). They can bleat all they want, but nobody holds the rights to "AFC Chat". We are just having a bit of fun by redirecting anyone who misspells the web address for AFC Chat to come across here. Hey, if they decide to find a variation of Donstalk's web address and play with that, who are we to stop them? Neither site is a profit-making site (allegedly) or official organisation, so there are no laws that can tell us what and what not to do with each other's web addresses.

Not to mention the fact we'll have no asset for security on our loans. This new stadium is gonna be the death of Aberdeen FC, imho.

We should sell sell sell. Play Aluko, Fyvie, Pawlett and Paton as much as we can and get them noticed. Sell them either in January or next summer for AS MUCH as we can, and take things from there. Do what Hibs and Hearts do. Place astronomical transfer fees on their heads. Say "Fyvie is not for sale. It would take a bid in the region of £7million before we'd consider letting him go". Based on that analogy and the behaviour of some ridiculously rich and stupid clubs in England and on the continent, someone would buy him for at least £4m. I know he's worth nowhere near that. Not yet, anyway. But, for once, why can't we just pretend we're better than we really are!

It's a scarf. It was knitted to be hung from a bridge in one of the wettest parts of the country. Should anyone really care that it's wet?

See, I don't know who to believe. Fraser says the club is missing out on £3 million over the next three seasons because of the collapsed TV deal. Craig Levein said in today's Scotland on Sunday that most clubs would see a loss of around £700k per year because of the collapse. £2.1million over three years is, in the context of Aberdeen Football Club, a thousand miles away from £3million! Is Levein talking shite? Or are AFC trying to get the excuses in early for the forthcoming year?

WTF is it with every single contribution I make to the DT conversations being met with "wtf?", "you don't have a clue", or "you're an idiot". Goram WAS a world-class goalkeeper. But he was still nowhere near as good as Leighton. Like Bobby says, Leighton's only fault was his kicking. But the amount of boots he took to his face in the name of laying claim to the ball was astounding, and again like Bobby says, there's very few saves that Leighton didn't hold onto where other keepers would palm it away.