Reekie_Red

Manager - I voted this one. I think JC has ran out of ideas. He might've been able to use the excuse of "the team are still trying to gel". But that's what a pre-season is for. They had six matches before the season started to try their luck against a variety of teams ranging from amateur non-league Dutch sides to the current European champions. To now be four home matches without a win is diabolical, especially considering Inverness had NEVER won at Pittodrie, Hamilton hadn't won here in something like 57 years, and United were winless and bottom of the league. That should've been nine points. Instead, the only home point we get so far is against the current league-toppers! WTF?! That's not down to lack of skill. That is down to lack of leadership, lack of motivation and, more importantly, players being played out of position. There's only one man who is responsible for all the above ... Jimmy Calderwood. Time to go. Time to give someone else (like Jimmy Nicholl) a chance to show what he can do with what is, in all honesty, one of the better squads in the current SPL. Players - I think the players are good, with the obvious few exceptions. Director of Football - For being "Director Of Football" I really don't know what he does. He was a magnificent player in his days. But, as Harry Ramsden's proved, success on the park does not automatically follow you when you hang up your boots. To be perfectly honest, Director Of Football / Chief Executive / Whatever Else Name it is given has never really had someone competent in the seat since Dave Cormack. Dave was the only one who really saw what the fans wanted and tried to structure the club's direction around the desires of those very fans. His only problem was Milne spotted his part in the Cummings Consortium and ... faster than you can say Nigel Pepper's been sent off? ... Dave was fired, err I mean sent packing, err I mean he found a sick granny in America to look after. Stewart Milne - yes, he is the common factor in all of our embarassments over the past 15 years. He has allowed managers to spend ridiculous amounts of cash that the club did not have. However, when we've had golden opportunities to reap the rewards of what was a glorious youth system (for example), he has failed to use his financial prowess to capitalise financially. But, despite being the cause of all our financial difficulties, he is the only thing keeping the administrators from Pittodrie's door. Fans Opinions - many of us still have fond memories of the glorious 80s ... the glorious European nights, the regular whippings we used to dish out to BOTH sides of the Old Firm (not that I remember Celtic being any good in the 80s anyway). I've heard so many pundits hark on about how we are all living in the 80s and setting standards that are too high for the Dons to ever reach. I'm sorry, but maybe one cup in seventeen years is good enough for Killie, Hearts or shit like that. But I expect a club of Aberdeen's stature to be in semi-finals EVERY YEAR, and lifting at least one cup every four or five years. That, I say, is realistic. Regrettably the Aberdeen teams of the past decade-and-a-half have fallen woefully short of anything near that target. Not good enough for this fanbase ... which is why we only managed 11,000 fans against our biggest east coast rivals. Wasn't that long ago we attracted at least 3000 more than that to a game against United. I don't blame the fans at all for that. I blame all the options above us in this poll

I can't spot any difference, tbh! Still, any reason to watch what is still one of my favourite goals of all time. Jess at his absolute best!

Del Amitri - The Last To Know

Watched [most of] the game courtesy of some bloke uploading the Setanta game to the pornonet, then me streaming it on my pornonet, then pluggin a cable into my tele and chuckin it on full-screen. It's the best Dons I've seen on the tele for five years, cos the last time the Dons were on NZ tele was 2003. Unfortunately, it was also one of the weakest most lacklustre performances I've ever seen from the Dons. They had something like 369 corners, yet you just felt that every single corner would come to nothing. How many times must McDonald balloon the ball into the stands before he understands that getting his foot under the ball is gonna send it skyward?! I mean, basic football skills! And WTF was Tommy playing at waving his hands around in the box?? It's okay for Maradonna and Zerouali to do it in the OPPOSITION box, but don't fuckin do it in yer own one! It's gonna take a hell of a performance from him to make the Red Army like him again. Aluko! All the tricks and backheels and stepovers in the world, and ye still cannae beat the first man. Get back to basics, min. Diamond ... solid performance from big Zander. He's starting to look as comfortable at the back as Anderson. Is he finally coming of age? Everybody else, gtf! It's all very well performing on the road, but it's the home support that pays yer wages. After that performance, I can see a lot of fans nae bothering for the next few weeks.

Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

That's probably the best team we can field with what we've got at the moment. Glad that Aluko and Wright are both starting. Pleasantly surprised to see Mackie make way for Miller in the up-front pairing with Wright. Even more happy to see no place in the starting lineup for Mair or Duff.

Probably the best strikeforce we have at the moment, tbh. Is Jamie Smith still injured?

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe

Yeah. And that certain someone used to front up and take the blame when it was his tactics and his player-choices that resulted in defeat. JC just seems to blame everybody else except himself. It's all very well JC telling the players to show the Pittodrie faithful that they are hurting just as much as the fans .... but since the defeat to Hamilton, I'm yet to see JC say sorry to anyone for the result. It's not the players who pick the team and formations!

I very clearly remember watching the Variety Performance that he died on. People cracking up with laughter cos he's saying "ooh, difficult to breath"

And this from the man who vowed to show the Red Army just what he is all about this season. Waste of money, he's been. Another journeyman who nobody else wanted. Along with Duff and Mair.

Nothing like having a level playing field for all players at kick-off, is there?! What's the point in Tommy going in for a 50-50 challenge, or using his physical strength to get to where he needs to be in the box. What's the point in him doing any of this if he knows that the refs have "already read up on him"? He's already been hung, drawn and quartered despite only playing an hour of football. I knew his past would make him a wanted man by the refs. FFS, it's like Lee Richardson!

Eddie Izzard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRBTFlXFCk Richard Pryor ... and the best of the best, Tommy Cooper

No but you have just gone up in my estimations!

The only Ibrox disaster songs I've ever heard are ones that I've heard when absolutely pished and nowhere near a football ground. I've never heard these being sung at football grounds

Had a few chuckles at the Jim Jeffries guy (to be honest I was expecting the Killie manager to walk out and say "erm, well ... Gary Wales was great"). But certainly not laugh-a-line like Hicks was.

ah! I get you now. Let me see if I can sort this wee thing out

I watched that guy's clips when you linked to them a few months ago, FJ. To be honest I wasn't that impressed with him. He was like the poor man's Bill Hicks, except without the same comedy element.

Hmmm. I still don't get it.

How long did we have terracing before Hillsbrough? 100+ years of standing at football matches, and there's one accident (albeit one helluva accident). It's been several years since I last stood on real football terracing. Brondby's stadium was probably the last one I was at. The last Scottish one was probably Dens Park in a bizarre match I went to see between Dundee and Montrose about 15 years ago (Billy Dodds played for Dundee). Terracing was excellent, and should be brought back in a day and age where football fans are now watched like a hawk through stadium security personnel, CCTV cameras and the police.

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TBH I'd rather have 56 tins of Fosters than one Richard Foster. 56 tins of mildly drinkable pish is better than one pile of unbearable pish! On the stadium front, I can see us and Cove Rangers moving into a shared stadium. Then Cove Rangers will struggle to keep up appearances with the rent money and will merge with us to become ..... ABERDEEN RANGERS! I'm nae supportin that shite!

I'm not quite sure what you mean, ST

Faithless - God is a DJ

Awesome. Okay, to embed a youtube video (works with heaps of other streaming content too, such as radio) simply paste the link into your text. No need to put any code at the start. Just place the link into your post.