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Not fussed about this comment in the slightest, I'm sure CB is too experienced and far too long in the tooth to not have made it perfectly clear to the Aberdeen squad which players are part of "his" team and challenged others to prove to him they should be part of "his" team. I also doubt Considine is one of those hinted at, wasn't the comment from Brown when he came something along the lines of "Andy is a far better player than he believes he is"? Which would suggest that even if Broon does think he might not be up to the task he's not likely to come out in this manner to give him a kick up the arse.

Probably wishful thinking, but given his experience, an appointment that will have the ability to attract investment?

One thing I won't be watching is Haye Klitschko as SKY are a bunch of useless cunts. Won't let me purchase via the box, or online and their phone lines are rammed with folk presumably suffering the same fate.

Looks to be a typically Craig Brown (Scotland) team, 3-5-2/5-3-2. Aluko and Pawlet presumably could take the position of AN Other, Clark, Foster or even Fyvie, Jack can fill in any where across the middle, so to can Folly or at the back. The bulk of our wins will be 1-0 but I'd say we'll win more than we loose with that formation.

No definitely a good idea in the lower leagues. Although not twitter, Martin Allen did a similar thing when he was at Cheltenham and was one of his few good ideas. Plenty of lower league fans are football fans first and foremost and will go watch the local non league sides rather than sit in watching the telly. One of my best friends rarely goes a night without taking in a match and I know of several others at Cheltenham who do similar. When you consider the average L2 club and most of L1 have virtually no budget for scouting and a lot use a company (I forget what it is called but I'm sure an ex-Cheltenham player is involved somewhere) to scout players. Is it too far removed to have knowledgeable fans doing the donkey work for free.

Hopefully he can exorcise the disappointment of previous trialists and ring the bell of a new era at Pittodrie.

Cool. Could it be Langley then? Checked his Wiki and looks like he's signed for another Thai club so maybe not.

The goalie, Gonzalez.

I think Jaeger is pretty much correct. Bosman, contract law and this oddity FIFA law about buying out your contract in the 3rd last year, or whatever, have pretty much served the 'big' club interests as intended. A player is only worth the same as their contract. As I see it though there are other contributing factors, as bb has pointed out; The sell on clause - something the south American Spanish and Italians like so not sure if it would actually stand up to contract law in his country. Supply and demand - eg talented young englandshire players playing in englandshire Image rights - as a guess this is the reason for inflated prices of players such as Ronaldo. His contract may have been worth £35m but if you take into account the lost image rights it might be worth closer to the £80m in lost revenue Press interest - I'm sure the previously mentioned hibs transfers of Brown and Thompson were inflated due to the daily reporting of the whole carry on by the weegia.

Anybody else get excited when the email started "Congratulations! You have been allocated some of the greatest tickets on Earth!" ? I thought "Yass 100m final!!!" then scrolled down to discover I'd got boxing at the eXcel and a fitba quarter final in Cardiff.

yeah

Surely to christ the club should be looking to receive more than a paltry £500K for the best young prospect we've had in a over a decade. As far as I understood the average cost to get a player to the first team was £1 million, so this isn't even covering that cost. That said, if true, good luck to the lad. I'm sure Fulham will be able to find the correct footwear for the correct surface for him.

Aye they're fair plumbing the depths!

Turns out I got tickets for, I assume, more than one event given the amount that came out. Money didn't go out till the last day, by which point I'd given up looking. Just waiting on the cryptic crossword clues for what I'm getting to go and see now. I'm going to assume one is either the fitba qf at Cardiff or show-jumping as two of each of those were kids tickets, but that leaves enough for one of the athletics sessions or the team sprints at the velodrome. The whole process is still a pile of shit though.

Wasn't he Aluko's mate? A deal with the Dons? He's worth it.

Aye and then he wakes up pulls on his tim trackies and heads off for training at Falkirk.

It'll be interesting to see who picks him up now.

I probably should have included a , which is what I did when I heard that.

Aye and Forest are a big club.

I caught a bit of the newsnight after. Did it make you want to go out an commit assisted suicide? I heard it being described as propaganda on the radio this morning.

^^THIS^^ Anyone who says different is kidding themselves. I couldn't give two shits what he does off the pitch, as long as he doesn't get himself locked up and as long as he continues to score goals on the pitch, which he seems to have managed throughout his career. He usually gets in the high teens or low twenties in a season something we have been crying out for, since Stavrum. A player capable of that with the right off field attitude would be worth a couple of million, so we either suck it up or gamble on an unproven player and we know how successful that has proven to be.

Fuck that, the cunts didn't want our money first time round. I'd rather book a holiday than pay a travel agent for something I could organise myself. Fucking ridiculous that some folk have been allocated £30k worth of tickets (when the intention is blatantly to sell them at a profit) and others haven't been allocated ANY of those that they have chosen in consideration of what they could afford. The sad thing is I'm considering not entering the ballot for the paralympics now as its the same corrupt fuckers running that, despite how much fun blind cricket and football sound . Good thing fitba is run by much more trustworthy and fair organisations...

First decent signing in years and hes a footnote at the end of a 4 page thread. Thats even worse.

No.1 Signing http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20110603/youl-mawene-signs-deal-with-dons_2212158_2371088 I'm in TRNC and more up to date than you lot

I was told it was a training camp in Germany with Tournament in Russia?