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Kinda reminds me of the Kille fans humour when they played Motherwell the week after it was revealed that Gorum had mild schizophrenia. The Killie fans chanted "two Andy Gorums, there's only two Andy Gorums"

Anybody see young Schmeichel's performance against Manure at the weekend? Awesome goalkeeping!! Even though his auld man was in the crowd, it was awesome to see him play with 100% committment to the Man City cause. I guess that's us out of the running to sign him then.

Been a while alright. I think the last player we had like Phil McGuire was ... Phil McGuire.

I met Willie in Edinburgh one evening. He was out with his missus. Me and my mate were at some restaurant ... I think it was for someone's birthday. Anyway, digressing. Willie was having a romantic meal with his missus, when we were saying "hey look. There's Willie Miller! Shall we go over and say hi? Nah, he'll want to spend time with his missus" And whaddya know, another group of Aberdeen fans wandered straight into the restaurant after seeing Miller thru the window and went "hey Willie! How's it going??!! You're awesome, by the way". Willie's reaction? He completely ignored his missus, and started shaking the hands of the guys who spoke to him, and started signing autographs and talking Dandies folklore. Unbelievable, this man. Surely he's the biggest ambassador the club has ever known. He carries the club on his sleeve wherever he goes.

What? A midfielder playing in midfield? Surely not. Better get Tango back to Egypt, cos I think the sunstroke is gradually wearing off.

fuckin hate drums. That Livi drummer is probably the worst. Just as the Livi fans start to sing a song, he goes and kills the whole thing with "bang bang bang". But microphones are a definite go-er ... so long as you don't put an idiot like Alan "fans rep" Duncan at the controls. I saw a documentary a few years ago, and there's a Lazio fan who always has a megaphone at matches, and gets the fans going. He was like "are you going to let that filth sing these song? This is OUR ground, OUR home! Chant with me!" ... and off he'd go. Was quite effective. But the prawn-sandwich brigade of the Main Stand wouldnae put up with it, IMHO

Being honest ... BRUTALLY honest ... at least Young gives his all when he plays. Winter was lazy as fuck. He had the ability, just couldnae be arsed using it. This is a difficult choice to choose from. Kind of like what colour of shite would you like to eat? The darker one that's runny ... or the lighter one with the nutty chunks in it?

True. I'm not doubting the fact that he does give 100% effort. I recognise that from his original stint with us. But his 100% is unfortunately still not good enough to hide the fact that he just doesn't have the quality that the Aberdeen fans of 2007 expect from their club. Maybe 1997 we would've accepted this, but not any more!

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Again, this beggars belief as to why JDV was left on the bench. He was signed to solve our wing problems, and then Tangoman goes and leave him on the bench for the majority of our first game of the competitive season! :wheres-the-shrug-smiley-when-you-need-it?:

Just noticed that seven of your preferred starting eleven are what we may class as regular goal scorers. Quite impressed with that lineup, and it bemuses me as to how we lost last week! Really, we should've knocked half a dozen past Yooshited. Ho-hum!

This is not a reason to sign a player. I would give more than 100% to the Dons. But I'm the first to admit I'd be shite, regardless of how much effort I put in. If Young always gives 100%, yet still ends up drifting between St Johnstone and Partick Thistle for a year, something tells me he ain't SPL quality, and is struggling to persuade even clubs in the first division that he's worthy of a contract!!

And our forwards arenae really one-dimensional either. Admittedly, we're missing a real tall target-man. But effective and tall targetmen are already on decent wages with other clubs. But what we've got ain't bad at all: Brewster: old and slow, but has a phenomenal footballing brain on him, and knows where the back of the net is Mackie: quick as fuck, and a bit of an opportunist. Not that intelligent though Lovell: clinical. Probably the most naturally gifted striker we have. Quite strong too Miller: Good close control. Inconsistent though Maguire: not fortunate enough to have seen this boy yet. Maybe someone else can comment I don't think the problem is really with our personnel. I think it's more to do with where they are positioned around the park. I mean, defenders in midfield, and midfielders in defence. WTF? Those choices are all down to one man. If you've trained for years to be competent in a particular role, and then all of a sudden your boss says "right, today we're gonna put you into a different department", you're not exactly gonna take to it like a duck to water, are you?

Can't share your optimism . We're going down like a 2 dollar hooker! JC needs to Wake the f&CK UP and realize that the team needs better results. Cheer up, Drew. It's only the first game of the season. We're nae exactly gonna win every match of the season. There's been a fair number of upsets this weekend in the SPL. Who would've thought Falkirk would score FOUR goals against a Gretna side who had something to prove? Who would've thought Hibs would've beaten Hearts 1-0? Who would've thought reigning champions Celtic would've been held at home to a Kilmarnock side whose main goal threat is completely unsettled? We're nae gonna win every match of the season. How often to we win against Craig Levein's sides? Let's just hope this is the shock our boys needed and that they'll march out and trample all over Hearts and fire six past their reserve keeper next weekend.

Do the Toronto Maple Leafs play at Ibrox, or something? Cannae believe the amount of folk who leave Ibrox with 10-15 minutes remaining ... even when it's 1-1 and their team are on the up!

laced with rum? easy on the coffee?

United are covered by www.internetfootball.co.uk, so a small fee in the region of something like three quid will get you the game's audio. It'll be on at 2am on Sunday morning for me. Too bloody early ... but I'll still be there to listen to it ... somehow.

Dammit! I read that topic headline with the hope that JC had taken a wee peak at DonsTalk and realised just how big a mistake he'd made in signing Derek Young, and had decided to relieve him of his contract. Fín get my hopes up, ya bassa!!!

Dundee always smells like that, mate! Doesnae matter if there's a game on or not, Dundee polutes the whole country with its smell

Hehe, might as well have a trip to New Zealand, if that's the case. Mind you, the year the Dons went to Portugal for their pre-season, they were apparently offered a trip to New Zealand for their pre-season. Would be awesome if they came here. They'd be in good hands too, as Bobby Clark is over here and helps out heaps with kids "soccer", as it's still called over here ... primarily because "footy" in New Zealand is what everyone else calls Rugby League.

Nah. More like "This Year's Derek Young"

Pretty decent top JC is wearing. What top is that? It's obviously nae the new third top, cos it's nae stripey. It's almost like the bastard offspring of the away top from our centenary season and our away top from the 99/00 season.

Ãf he wanted to get somewhere in his career, other than skipping from part-time club to part-time club every four months, then he should've kept his fitness up to a standard fitting of a player who wants to play in the SPL.

TBH I'd rather we played meaningful games against Inverurie Locos, Elgin City and Montrose each summer so that we can tinker with tactics without fear of running a whole 90 minutes without touching the ball ... as Hearts apparently did! Sure they scored a goal, but from what I have read in multiple reports, scoring was about the only touch Hearts had for the entire game. How effective is that sort of pre-season training going to be for Hearts?

Doubt if he knows if there is ANYTHING north of Stirling!!!