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Didn't Celtic grab him?

No need to find adequate replacements really. Once a youngster shows enough talent and ambition to play at the top of his game, JC releases them to the other SPL clubs for diddly-squat (see Andrew Bagshaw and Ryan Strachan).

Still cannae forget a match between the Dons and Killie about three seasons ago. Clark had the ball on the half way line, we were losing 1-0 with only minutes to go. He stops, looks up, sees his teammates piling upfield, realises nobody is near him, and promptly boots the ball directly into the main stand. Nae denying he was a good squad player for us. But don't be disillusioned here. He was nothing more than a half-decent squad player. Sure he had some moments that were good. But how often did they come up?

How many seasons since 1985 have we been in Europe? Compare that to Rangers time in Europe since 1985. For a team that have been consistently in there for the past three decades, it's quite surprising that they are still getting knocked out before Christmas every year bar last year. You'd think they'd figured it out by now.

Pitch looks alright to me some 48 hours onward. Doesn't look like it took too much of a beating. Judging by the stroll in the park that Scotland had against Canada, I don't think there was really any justification for the park to be messed up in any way. Excellent. Tidy sum of money coming the way of AFC for doing jackshit.

Maybe if you spent more time supporting your team than shouting abuse at Kafflick teams and wrecking the city of Manchester, you might have won more in Europe. In the past 35 years, you've been in Europe every season bar three. And yet you've failed to win anything. That's a pretty shit statistic, man! Even Aberdeen have a better record than that. What a shameful statistic to carry with you. Nevermind, at least you're the people.

Pretty sure Drew Peacock and Drewsome are different people altogether. For a start, our Canadian friend's last name ain't Peacock. And he regularly posts on here ... just nae lately cos of family comittments and all that stuff. Here's some auld eens that I've nae seen or heard of for about 6 years ... Ebbe's Holdall Garden Shears Andy Dow's Left Peg I'd presume they changed their monikers after the respective departures of their idols. But what did they change to, and where are they now?

If there's been any damage to the pitch, then yes this money will go back into repairing it. If there's been minimal damage to the pitch, then we get to keep the money. Win win for the Dons, really

I know. When will Rangers fans realise that this is just a game and that, no matter how hard you try to be a REAL football club, you'll never be like Aberdeen?

Always seems to be a sell-out for Scottish rugby matches at Pittodrie. Gets a bigger crowd than when the Old Worm arrives up north

At least we're gettin a nice wee sum fae the SRU for hosting matches at Pittodrie. Interesting to see that Pittodrie appears to have become Scotland's base when they're playing a non-Murrayfield home match. It's good for retaining a bit of faith with the north-east rugby fans. Cos lets face it, rugby's a bit of a dying sport up in the north-east

Yeah, it does say he's modified a new top to "look like" the Gothenburg top. But 80-odd quid so far? Bit steep

Unfortunately for Darren Mackie, it's been ten years of mediocrity. Whilst the last few testemonials I remember have been for real legends like Russell Anderson, Jim Leighton and Brian Irvine, Mackie has never come near legendary status. He's just been here for ten years ... that's all.

He's injured right now! And he was injured for two-thirds of last season. Pretty sure he was out for the majority of Paterson's last season too!

Aye but there were moments when you could put a safe bet on Doddsy scoring for the Dons. There are times when you could put yer mortgage on Mackie ballooning the ball over the bar from 2 yards out of an open goal! They may be different shades of shite. But where Dodds was a lump of shite sitting on the pavement ... Mackie is what sits at the bottom of a long-drop that's been sitting there for decades.

Really? that's it. I'm finished being a Dons fan. I am a Dons fan because it takes my mind of harsh reality knowing that on Saturdays I can sit back and enjoy being a fan of Aberdeen. Now you are telling me that on Saturdays we are United?? WTF? Arab shite [ *] [* by Arab shite, I mean crap from the city of Dundee that wears tango coloured shirts ... just incase ? ? ? gets offended]

My thought too! They whinge when the fans fail to turn up. They whinge when the fans turn up and have enough passion to complain about the shite football they're seeing on the park. If the players want to get cheered from the fans for doing fuckall, maybe they should consider playing for Livi. Us Aberdeen fans have standards. It ain't winning the ECWC (despite what all the weejia think). Our standards are we expect to WIN a match after going 2-0 up against a team who haven't won in five attempts. Does he expect the red army to just sit there and accept those sorts of performances?

*coughjackiemcnamaracough*

True. To be sitting on the bottom of the table and still come to work smiling means either one of two things: (1) You don't give a shit about your job or the club you play for, or (2) You have enough confidence in your teammates and manager to know that this is only a blip that will be rectified very soon. It was very interesting reading a number of articles at the time that we were bottom of the league that all said the squad were in jovial mood and were loving their training sessions. Imagine this squad when they're sitting in 3rd place?!

Popeye? Incredible Hulk? Roger Ramjet?

As camp as the red cross?

Tonight, Matthew, I will be going to see Irish comedian Jimeoin. He's friggin hilarious! Saw him on the Crunchie Comedy Gala here in NZ on the tele about four months ago and he was streets ahead of everyone else on the gala (not hard when it's hosted by Paul Tomkinson [thon crap chap who used to host the Big Breakfast]).

The other side of that coin is Hibs have only beaten us twice at Fester Road since 2006!

Nice to find out from the horse's mouth what figure the debt is actually sitting at. Speculative reports I've seen over the past 24 months have pushed it as far up at £12million. If it's actually down to £6.5million, then this is fantastic. That's, what, four years we've taken to bring it down by about £5million?! That's awesome. No doubt the sale of Anderson and the matches in the UEFA Cup will have helped bite off a huge chunk of the debt. With the amount of interest we're paying in retrospect to the lower debt, I reckon we could break even by 2012. Maybe even 2011 if we got back into Europe between now and then.

I for one would love to see Deano back. He was a class act, and I reckon if he's half the player now that he was back then, it'll boost attendances somewhat! I just hope he's still got the banana boots, cos they were brilliant!