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To be fair to Columbia's toilet bowl, he was banned from here when a large proportion of us were posting that we felt that getting rid of CalderbafonclounwoodTM was folly at a time when it was going to cost us a large amount of compensation. Not to mention the further folly in replacing him with someone of similar provenabilities for a further large sum of money. He is right about Milne though.

Not one of McGhee's bum boys then? What he needs is some compromising pictures of McGhee Seriously though is he just not good enough, or is there more to it? He seemed to be playing reasonably well at the start of the season and now not playing at all!

Not yet, thought I'd start at the beginning. The wife bought me a few for my Christmas as the wifie at Waterstones told her I'd like them, given the books I normally read.

Fatherland and Imperium are his best IMO. Think I read that Lustrum is the second book in his Cicero trilogy?? I thought Ghost was probably his weakest effort so if you enjoyed that you'll love the rest of his books. Just finished the Frankie Boyle autobiography, quite enjoyable post Christmas fayre with a few laugh out loud bits. Comes across as a very honest and intelligent guy, which I don't suppose is all that surprising. Just started Sleepy Head by Mark Billingham.

Thanks for clearing that up. Definitely the first of "Mark's Dross"

Reda Johnson? Given that Jimmy tried to sign Dobie on more than one occasion where do we stand with him? Is he one of "Jimmy's dross" or is he merely a "nearly Jimmy's dross" and if he signs will he be the first of "Mark's Dross"? Scored 7 goals this season already (although only 2 in the league) so bit of a strange one unless it's a swap. Tommy Wright??

Is one game really a "streak"?

I assume what Glasgow Sheep is getting at, is more home games against teams with travelling supports similar to that of Hamilton's i.e. insignificant numbers.

Presumably they won't be marching on Wootton Bassett now... Oh wait...

Yass! Sna'n heavily down here in the sunny south west, been falling for about an hour. I can still see the ground but am expecting wide spread panic. Just been speaking to the wife who tells me the trolley rage in Sainsburys this morning was mental with people panic buying, worse than Christmas eve she said.

Back in the SPL now captaining St Johnstone isn't he?

Sure it was Bird that lived above my sister, always seemed a nice quiet lad and there was never any parties or loud music from upstairs apparently. Probably just wasn't loud and arrogant enough to make it as a footballer.

@ ally s. Who knows, tbf I thought he was from the 00's, I'm just bored so thought I'd look up soccerbase (Mainly because I was sure Gilles left well before he did). I found that Mark Peat actually started a game for us maybe he should have been my goalie pick . *edit

Agree with minijc I liked Dempsey and Karim. Neither Paatelainen brother played, but neither did Gillies in this decade. Also I thought Pasquinelli looked decent maybe if he hadn't got injured so early in his Aberdeen career my opinion may not have been such. I also don't understand the dislike of Cobain (also ally s) another who was blighted by injury and incidentally did not actually play for us in the "Noughties". Sorry to pick holes, nae offence, just waiting to get home.

Your probably right, but with so many choices at left back... The only position with a bigger pool of players would have been up front, I was tempted to go for an Ardilles-esque 1 -10 formation.

I can kind of see where MiniJC is coming from. You have to admire Barton's ability, his desire to get stuck in and his SOBER moral compass. However his ability to self destruct quite so spectacularly, on the whole precipitated by a couple of shandys, is a disgrace and utterly un-befitting of an overpaid footballer, the likes of which he himself pours scorn on. I hope for his sake that he can sort out his demons and has not completely wasted his talents as a footballer, or for pissing off the obvious up themselves knob-heads of the modern game.

If Carlsberg set questions with so many correct answers to choose from... Worst Aberdeen Player of the Decade: Thornley Worst homegrown player: Ross O'Donoghue? Scott Muirhead?? Scott Morrison??? Jon Stewart? David Donald?? Worst signing:Did we not pay £50k for Byrne? Although we also paid money for McQuilken and Lee Hinds. Tommy Wright has to be up there. Worst goalkeeper:Bossu Worst defender: Dan Smith Worst midfielder: Jamie Winter Worst forward: Stephen Craig Worst manager: Pele. Although (just for MiniJC) statistically it's McGhee. Pick your worst starting XI from the decade: -----------Bossu------------- -McQuilken-Lilley-Bus-D.Smith- --Thornley-Winter-Muirhead--- ---Kristjansson-Craig-Blaha---- Worst Game of the Decade: Loads of obvious ones, but ones that I was present at... There was one New Years game against Kilmarnock under Pele that we were absolutely woeful in I think we won but a worse game of football I have never witnessed. I think the highlight may have been Shearer trying to lay the nut on the ref. Biggest single disappointment of the decade: The whole thing.

Kevin Drinkell = Super Agent Good luck with Dundee next season, Charlie. An indication of the wide regard that Mr Mulgrew is held in within the World game. Three years ago we were punting a fullback (with 6 months on his contract) to the Championship for £100k now we have a fullback whose only other option, other than us, is waiting for a Bosman to Dundee in the summer. I assume the conversations went something like this; Drinkell: "Aberdeen are only offering you half a bag of magic buttons and a fun-size Snickers for next season Chaz" Chaz: "I'd forgive the Aberdeen for their derogatory offer if you can get me a half a bag of magic beans and a half of those Mars two little ones, elsewhere" Drinkell "Well that's the thing Chaz everyone knows your a big fanny that hits about 1 in 100 set pieces well, but give me ten minutes I'll get something that will really noise up them sheep shaggers." ring ring Melville: "Hello" Drinkell: "Wanna sign Mulgrew" Melville: "Aye, but I da think he'll wanna sign for us..." Drinkell: "but if he did???" Melville: "Well obviously we'd be interested" (whispered: if he wisnae so pish) click Drinkell: "Right Chaz I've a story, for the daily hun, that can't fail..."

Oh old on... What's this I have on my line? Looks like I've caught myself a Fisherman .

I'm sure as it is the God of Football Management Mark McGhee that has identified him he will be at least 100 times better than "Jimmy's Dross" and will also make a major impact on the loser mentality, the bulk of our current squad, has. I'd goa as far to say he will single handedly win us a cup. I'm sure this won't pay £20k is posturing in the hope of getting him for £10K once the pre-contract is signed.

I think that's true. Most Scottish football fans seem to have this for some reason. I suggested Calderwood for the Cheltenham gig on a forum I post on, I didn't think it was realistic just posted it because I doubted if anyone would know who he was. A poster called "bigdavejambo" commented the only thing Calderwood would improve is the profits of the local tanning salons. Which is something I had come to expect form the more moronic elements of our support and didn't expect it of supporters of other SPL teams. Then again moronic would probably describe Hearts entire support .

Succinctly put.

Well it's taken them over 30 years to get it to this stage, I look forward to it opening just in time for all the flying cars to take advantage of it.

Eggzactly! All I'm reading is excuses. As I said in another thread, transitional how? Because we lost Severin, J.Smith and Mair? The people rolling that one out are the same people who, claimed Severin only played against Hearts and forget that Jamie Smith was always injured and if Mair was still here he would be being included with Duff, Young, and Mackie as Jimmy's dross. If it's the change in manager well... with so many out of contract players why not have made the change at the end of this season, it would have cost a vast amount less. As for injuries name me a recent season when we haven't been unlucky with injuries. Red cards I'm afraid the buck stops with McGhee as far as indiscipline goes. As for McGhee... I was chatting to a Tim mate who stated he did not want Mowbray because he felt in getting the Celtic job he was being rewarded for getting West Brom relegated. I suppose the same could be said here, McGhee was rewarded for finishing below us and failing to achieve anything anywhere before. Only this time he hasn't been lucky enough to get a Honeymoon period from inheriting a team playing below their potential. Everywhere McGhee has been, pretty much, he has inherited a decent team and done well, the problems have started when he has been asked to rebuild to maintain or improve a side. Unfortunately that is exactly what he has been asked to do here from the off and with a limited budget. Can he do it? I hope so, but I'm not going to get carried away in this blind optimisitc belief that he can, just because he says things we like to hear in the papers. The proof will be there for all to see in the next 8 months.

Taking nothing away from Aluko's ability, I think it shows the absolute dearth of left sided players we've had at Pittodrie this decade. The majority of posters are playing McNaughton (like several managers) out of position at left back because lets face it Andy Dow, Jamie McAllister, Scott Morrison were fucking crap Ricky Foster isn't a left back, and my choice of Mulgrew is fairly questionable defensively. Further up on the left, what are the choices? Scott Muirhead? Did Ben Thornley "play" on the left? There are plenty who played out of position at LM but I'm struggling to think of anyone better than Aluko. Jamie Smith maybe?