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I have noticed that the fans who suggest teams merging are the ones who know there is no chance of it happening to their team. Would the fans on here suggesting it still be doing that if one of the suggested mergers was with Dons and Arabs. Even the merger of the two Inverness teams lost fans to the game with the vast majority of the Inverness Thistle fans having nothing to do with the new club and also a fair number of Caley fans. Anyone looking for evidence of this should look at the Caledonian FC thread on Pie and Bovril. Better way to deal with the teams at the bottom end of the league is to set up a proper pyramid system in Scotland that would allow ambitious non league clubs access to league set up and would allow clubs at the bottom of the league to find there own level rather than just killing them off. As for extending the league this would just lead to more meaningless games that fans simply would not turn up to watch. As it is Livngston v Dundee for example only attracts 1800 fans when they are pushing for promotion to SPL why would more people turn up to watch them battle for 11th in an expanded top league. I would go back to 10 team SPL with 1 automatic down then 2nd bottom going to a play off with 2nd in the first division.

According to Daily Retard Foster has been told he is to be sold in the summer following bust up with JC.

Any team that loses to Falkirk, Inverness and Hamilton twice never had any chance to finish 2nd.

Was unhappy he was getting a one year deal but a two year deal has got to be some sort of joke.

Thought he looked pretty poor again and even goal was result of a miss hit. Also he again took a swipe at one of their players for no real reason.

Was at that game and ended up having to go in the Merkland as was the only stand with any space left.

Who voted for Wright?

If that was the case then why did it take JC so long to make the changes?

Yes.

Think moving Seve into midfield and bringing on Bebo to replace the amazingly shit Young (got to wonder why this clown is getting a new deal) and Duff had more to do with our imporovement than Wrights introduction.

Mentioned in a few of the papers. Thought at the game he was lucky to get away with a booking.

I just think he is shite. Half decent player sticks that cross in the net and piss poor one misses the goal. Wright missed the ball!!

Best post on here in ages.

Smith is probably our best player by a long way when he is fit but problem is he is never fit. I very much doubt he would be at Dons if he did not have problems with his fitness. I am still loath to see him being let go though and would like to see him being offered some sort of pay as you play deal.

Excellent chance of making the semi finals but players have to focus on the job in hand first.

Which has been paid and thanked for. I also remember all the sitters he has missed and for those he should not be rewarded with a 3 year contract. He should be on his way to play for Peterhead with our best wishes.

3 years!!! Cannot belive this usless twat has got another contract.

According to East Fife site game is in doubt. Aberdeen v East Fife We have just spoken with Aberdeen FC who have informed us that although their pitch is fine the problem we now have is the approach roads to Pittodrie. The situation will be monitored by Grampian Police and a decision will be made, hopefully by 9am tomorrow morning. Safety of all supporters is paramount. We will update our website as soon as we have more information in the morning. Sadly my train is before 9 so will be on the way before the pitch inspection.

One poor performance? What about Hamilton and Alloa?

Snowing on and off here in the Capital.

The bit in bold is the thing that frustrates me the most and is clearly a fault in Calderwoods style of management and imo the main reason we will never win anything with him as a manager. The other concern I have is that from what I have heard about Saturday the players put in the same shiftless and heartless performance that they put in against Hamilton and Alloa earlier in the month. There was no flu to use as an excuse this time and it looks more like to me that players are not getting motivated to play against these teams. This might be down to the attitude of the players but surely it is the job of the management team to get the players up for the games and this clearly is not happening all the time.

From what has happened in the past it seems that its just a talking shop because when it comes to decisions Lex Gold just does what he wants or whatever Martin Bain and John Ried tell him to.

Apart from putting Aluko back in the side who else can we bring in?

Not replaced Hart at right back either and would argue that as poor as Clark was he is still a better player than Duff.