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From what I can gather from the numerous reports in differing newspapers, he was saying something derrogatory about JC & JN whilst in Magaluf on his stag night. JC's villa is not in Magaluf, but word wormed its way to JC via several sources and he wasn't happy. When asked about it, Langfield basically confirmed what he said by apologising and using the excuse of "it was my stag night, I was pissed! Don't tell me you've not said something you've regretted when you were drunk". It must've been something REALLY REALLY bad if he's been chucked on the scrapheap! Especially since Calderwood rates Langfield so highly

Hmmmm, could do! I feel Calderwood would rather get a permanent replacement in. And with us having fuckall in the bank to spend on transfer fees, that pretty much limits us. I had a wee check on all keepers available on a free around Scotland and England, and this is the list I came up with: Rob Burch (Eng) - Tottenham Hotspur Michael Oakes (Eng) - Wolverhampton Wanderers Mark Crossley (Wal) - Fulham Nathan Abbey (Eng) - Brentford Josh Clapham (Eng) - Plymouth Argyle Stuart Nelson (Eng) - Brentford Laurence Matthewson (Eng) - Manchester City Tony Bullock (Eng) - St Mirren Jeroen Lambers (Ned) - Falkirk Hmmmmm. Not much to choose from really! Burch and Oakes are the only names I really recognise there ... and even then I only know of Oakes cos I used his name as an April Fools signing a few years ago on DandyDons.co.uk. You know .. Oakes ... sounds like Hoax! Perhaps a loan signing is the way to go, unless we look to the continent. Maybe we can pick up a keeper when we're over in Egypt.

If he's the best keeper in Scotland aftter Gordon, then the Scottish national team are royally fucked! I suppose we've got a habit of signing crap keepers with a reputation that's bigger than their ability ... of course I refer to Nicky Walker! Oh yeah, don't even talk to me about Tony Warner!!!!!! But after reading a number of articles regarding the issue, it would appear that JC/JN were not bothered about him being out on his stag night. It was the fact that he apparently said a few very distasteful things about JC & JN, and these words wormed their way back to Calderwood and Nicholl. Needless to say, Langfield's obviously said something sour about Calderwood and Nicholl because, even after apologising, JC has told him to gettae! I'm just very very wary of the fact that there is now a GLARING hole in our team ... goalkeeper. I've not seen Soutar with my own eyes in a Dons top. But I remember him from years ago, and must admit he was the worst keeper I've seen since Nick Colgan. So what now for our keeping-connundrum? Would bringing someone like Preecey back be an option? Or should we just forget about the keepers we know of and look in England and on the continent for someone else? I'm sure Calderwood wouldn't have told Bonny Langfield to gettae without having a backup plan in mind. In a way, I'm kind of glad Jimmy's made an example of Langfield. Kind of tells the rest of the squad that the Dons mean business and will put up with no shite

Is McNamara a suitable replacement? I know he's captained Ra Shellick and all that guff, but he's more suited on either one of the defensive flanks. Russell's a central defender! Have we got adequate cover in the centre if he does decide to have a crack at the big time? Is it about time Diamond finally came of age, dropped his immature side and became the player he was tipped to become some three years ago?

Was it Mido that was Egyptian then? I definitely had one player in Champ Manager a few years ago that was Egyptian ... and I'm sure he was one of those "One Name" Players.

Apparently it was his choice to go amateur whilst he sorted some family stuff out. I'm interested to see what he's got to offer. As MBT suggests, strength in depth and all that. Surely he cannae be as bad as Winter.

True. But you can't blame Russell for wondering what life is like in the Premiership! I actually wouldn't mind him going to the Premiership for two or three years and then coming back to us. It could help him iron out those occasional hiccups he has on the field and make him into the ULTIMATE defender. But then again, can our defence survive a couple of seasons without him?

We'd be happy if it were 40 degrees farenheit. Unfortunately, it's celcius so we're fooked!

What are Egyptian teams like? Are they any good? Am I right in saying that Deco is Egyptian, but switched his allegiances to Portugese or something like that?

Agree with what your saying phil-stellaartois-mcguire. Aberdeen are a debt-laden club, yes. Of that there is no doubt. But, our debt is manageable. Wiggy tightly closed the purse-strings a long time before everyone else in the SPL did so. Everyone laughed at us at the time, saying "hey look, there goes their toaster!" and all that shite. But Wiggy and Wyness stopped our spending before we crashed out of existence. It took a few years for us to climb back up, but we slowly recuperated a bit of money. And when Willie Miller was approached by Wiggy to take the position of Football Director, clearly Miller stipulated that the cost-cutting efforts would have to be directed away from the playing squad if he were to engineer bringing success back to the club. Clearly it's had an immediate and noticable impact as our playing squad has gone from strength to strength year upon year that Miller has been in-charge of football affairs at Pittodrie. Celtic did the same. When Fergus McCann bailed the club out, he refused to let the club spend big on players. Even though Parkhead was full to the brim every fortnight, Fergus refused to let Tommy Burns spend big. Then, when McCann left, his successor basically opened up the purse-strings and realised there was a HUGE amount of money there to burn and let the team manager go out and start purchasing players for large sums and placing players on larger-than-average wages.

Aye spot on! Wiggy didn't make his millions at Stewart Milne Group by writing a load of cheques!

We've been back for a while now, Caledonia. we've not really advertised it yet ... a combination of wanting to make sure the site is stable and fully ready with no glitches ... and not wanting the bampots who once took great delight in tearing the old DT apart to follow the masses and come back here. Being honest, I'm quite happy for them to be over on AFC-Hat as it means there's no childish tit-for-tatting going on here any more.

I think if our squad takes their form from this season into next then we've got a LOT to look forward to. Couple that with the signings of McNamara and De Visscher, who could well prove to be the key individuals who ignite us, and Champions League football is certainly not outwith our grasp!

Aye, Michie was tipped for some BIG things. Basically he was the most prolific striker our youth side had seen since a young Scott Booth graced the Balgownie pitches. He and Mackie were apparently the most devastating partnership in the U18s league. And now look at him ... cannae do a shite cos he's so crap! And fit about O'Donoghue?! I actually thought he was pretty good. The only thing that let him down was he was about 3ft high and weighed about 11kgs. But he was a pretty good footballer ... a comfortable defensive midfielder. Maybe he looked good because he was playing in the latter-Skovahl/early-Paterson days, and in those days everyone whose name wasn't Heikkinen was shite.

Nah. Wasn't stuck in Stoney. I was stuck in Ballachulish on the West Coast. A few of us went there for New Years, and got snowed in. Ended up watching the match in some wee pub in Fort William.

Just read the article in the P&J saying that Jeffrey De Visscher was invited over to watch the Killie game, and was suitably impressed with the club, the manager, the stadium and the fans! "This is a big club, playing in a big stadium. Everyone breathes football here and I like that. I was here to watch the match with Kilmarnock a few weeks ago and seeing everyone in the big stand with their red shirts on was very impressive. I can't wait for the new season to start." Imagine if he'd seen the last game against the huns!!!!! Shit, he'd sign on an amateur contract for sixteen years!

Haven't we got a finger in this new fandagled pie that is being built ontop of the Chris Anderson Stadium? I was lead to believe that the Dons would be major contributors to the project under the pretence that the Dons would get priority use of the indoor training facitilities there.

Yeah yeah. Whatever mate! I've already fallen for that link once today. I'm nae doing it again ... cheeky barsteward

Haha! You're lucky!!!! Pepper was a

I see that The Times are quoting Al Fayed as saying he's giving Laurie Sanchez around £10million to play with this summer, and that Anderson is "very high" on Fulham's shopping list. Could we see a bidding war between Middlesbrough, Fulham and Everton take place for Anderson? I sincerely hope so. Believe me, I do NOT want Anderson to go as he is the rock around which our team needs to be built. But if he is to go, as I said a few days ago, I'd rather a ferocious bidding war took place between some big English clubs so that we can get as much money for him as possible. And I'm talking NO LESS than £2million ... which in my view is an absolute bargain price for a player like Anderson who can not only defend spectacularly, but can also lead a team competently!

Whilst were on that note then, BRING BACK THEO

I had to laugh at the Celtic "away" strip in the season that Jorge Cadette signed. The idea of an "away" strip is so that if any other team has your home colours in their strip, you can change to a DIFFERENT COLOURED STRIP! Anyway, Celtic's home was green'n'white ... as per usual. But their away strip was ... wait for it ... green and darker green! Therefore, regardless of whether the likes of Hibs were to play at home or away when they face Celtic, they would HAVE to change into their away strip. Just another stupid little thing that makes me hate Celtic even more. They truly are "the new Rangers"

Unfortunately, I remember the game well. One of the few games that we saw Paul Bernard appear in the starting lineup!! I remember seeing Bernard get substituted, and then Pepper run onto the field ... and then actually get sent off so quickly that he BEAT Bernard to the tunnel!!! Couldnae fuckin believe it. Any credibility that man had with the Dons fans went completely out the window at that moment in time. And to think he was tipped to be the "direct replacement for Craig Hignett". As much as Hignett fucked us over, Pepper wasn't fit to lace Hignett's boots.

I rememember the game well, I took my now wife to it when she over over visiting. Was that the game on 2nd January? The one where the Tims scored first and looked like mauling us, but then Russell Anderson popped up with a timely header to level it.

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