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Christ, are we playing UTD at the weekend ? Sounds like the sort of piss McGhee comes out with for the away dressing room pin board.

Its a compelling argument you have there mate. I'm with you.

I fail to see how an out of town facility would be considered a lesser option than a city centre one for attracting such major events. In many ways a facility that does not require visitors to navigate the inevitable city centre chaos would be significantly more desirable. You are failing to comprehend that there is a population outside of the very centre of Aberdeen who would benefit from accessing a stadium outwith the city centre. With Aberdeen FC this population is not an insignificant one as a large amount of the home support is derived from central belt fans and Grampian based supporters. There is also an increasingly large percentage of fans who will travel by car to football and this might also suit their needs. In actual fact, those of us who choose to travel by train to games and centre our day around pissing it up locally and crawling in to the ground at 2:58pm are increasingly in the minority. But hey, lets ignore all that and demand that the game stand still to service our needs.

Lets hope the scum run themselves into the ground to get some sort of result.

He has established himself as one of the best talents in the SPL over the last 18 months and is knocking on the door of the Nigerian first team. Despite a poor season, he would still command a significant fee on the basis of his reputation. When he scores goals like he did against St Johnstone and Celtic, these are the barometers being used by other clubs to assess his ability and value. As week-in-week-out fans you may know something different but it matters not a shit. Perceived form is what drives the market so we should get him signed up if we want to see a decent roi. Is that enough ?

Yes, lets build a city centre stadium. There must be Dons fans on the Council or in big local businesses who will sell us some exorbitantly expensive land at a discounted rate to make it happen. Hell, if we can find a local construction firm who have the Dons best interests at heart then we might get it built for buttons. If I was an influential council planner or owned my own business or was a stadium construction specialist I'd do it for free because after all we are all Dons fans together. That alone trumps any sense of commercial sense or motivation to look out for your own interests. Nothing brings out the altruistic tendency like the scent of an opportunity to progress Aberdeen football club. Great stuff.

There are some great song suggestions on Abmad for this one. My personal favourite is: Are you HBoS in disguise... http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=4&fid=27&sty=2&act=1&mid=2123981228

Its a fair point. I would assume that the additional new stadium requirement will come from private funding. A fresh greenfield development will provide much more opportunity for commercial investments and initiatives than trying to shoehorn a revamped stadium into a locked in urban site. I suspect that people are underestimating what is required to redevelop Pittodrie to turn it into a modern arena. Its often significantly more troublesome and expensive to redevelop an existing run down structure than to build fresh.

If he is a striker who can hold up play and actually find the net then Miller's coat must be on the proverbial shoogly peg.

OK, I'll try to get this one straight...again. You are right in all you say and I agree with it entirely. Having shared many drunken trips with me you know I am all for this picture you paint and it is absolutely the lifeblood of the footballing day out that you and I enjoy and want to enjoy forever. Trouble is, saying it, writing it, maybe even believing it is not going to change it. Modernisation is taking football in a different direction and however much that hurts the traditionalists its still going to happen. Progress will always trump the luddism and emotional rhetoric. As for developing Pittodrie, is the sale of the land not the key to any new stadium whether it be ground up new build or major redevelopment ? Surely the money just isn't there to fund a revamp of the scale required.

I'm starting to feel that any team beating the OF is good for the league this season. We are not going to do to much this season as we are in a process of rebuilding so I want to see the OF kept close to the rest so we can put to bed any notion that they are significantly better than us. That way, they may get dragged back into the pack psychologically and players, young ones particularly, will be less inclined to jump to them so quickly.

You need to go back and read my comments. Pre-match boozing is the best part of any Saturday as far as I am concerned but you have to accept at some point that the old fashioned structures of football are becoming redundant.

Its been painful enough watching 10 minutes of the bleeding hearts on Children in Need tonight without subjecting myself to your repeated attempts at bleeding yet more cash out of my wallet with your charity cock-duster. Plus my 3 week old daughter is cutting the throat of football pleasure for the time being

Although career resurrections are seldom found in lower divisions than the one you are currently in. SPL would provide a mildy better option I would have thought. In saying that, money talks in the modern game.

Should we make it for the greater good of the lazy cunts whose main focus is to drink themselves bent and head to Pittodrie if they can be arsed and celebrate when they can't even muster up the energy or botheration to even do that ?

Lets hope he is reading DT to warm his insides to the mighty Dons. He's sure to feel the love.

In fairness I did edit my post after ally s had repsonded without knowing he had....

I would agree with the Brian Irvine comment BB. He is remembered with affection due to his honest commitment ot the team and to the game in general but I used to hate seeing him on the field, he was a scare more often than not. Possibly due to the era he followed. Another controversial one but I never liked Bobby Connor. Thought he was completely ineffective as a player but again possibly due to the company he kept....oh, and that god awful cock duster.

He did yes. Hatrick. http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/articles/u19s-aberdeen-6-0-st-johnstone-ft-20091120_2212158_1880263

U-19s Aberdeen 6 St Johnstone 0 Who is 'banging them in' this week ? Hatrick for McRobbie and and a double for Low

Is he really such a bad choice ?

I'd heard he was pretty offensive. Does he know where the upper 90 is ?

Modern football = large arenas in accessible, spacious, suburban zones. Get past your small minded, myopic and parochial attitudes about rolling out of the pub and crawling down Merkland Road to the 'fitba'. Its a modern game with modern demands. Like it or not (and for the record I do not) this is going to be the future for Aberdeens stadium.

You're right there. Its always going to be a game of risk, as with any investment. It might turn out to be the best move or the worst, you just have to look at it and make a decision. Personally, I'd still see him worthy of investment unless, as you say its a limited set of offers in which case there are certainly more deserving cases.

Agreed, imagine what pelters the club would get if he matured in the next 24 months and we then lost him for nothing. I think this is the smart move, despite his recent attitude and performance.