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Aye deleted it when I noticed but you were obviously too sharp for me. Rules were changed at the start of last season - yellow cards in cup competitions no longer carry over.

No Miovski. Morris starts. Be interesting to see in what position because by the looks of it I don't see anyone to play on the left, unless Sokler is. Vinnie on the bench.

Nah, let him rot. Fine him every week until he can't afford the flight back to Aberdeen to grovel. Make his life a misery until, finally, he apologises, trains hard, goes to lots of supporter functions and community outreach programmes and begins to win the hearts and minds of the city, then bangs them in for Cape Verde with his value going through the roof - yet still he waits for Jimmy Thelin to give him a chance. It's a wait that goes on until the Scottish Cup final when the bench signal for Duk, he comes on at a packed Hampden, flattens Scott Wright with his first touch, nutmegs Todd Cantwell with his second, collects a pass from Nilsen, rounds Jack Butland, and just as he's about to complete a wonderful redemption arc and send the red army wild - Shinnie snaps him in two and screams in his face "that's what you get for fucking with the Dons". Connor Barron goes on to miss the crucial spot kick in the penalty shoot-out.

This is how England will win it. Not by us grudgingly acknowledging they've been the best team. But by scoring the same number of goals in the group stage as Scotland but finishing top, by scoring a 94th minute equaliser v Slovakia, by matching a score line we got v Switzerland, by VAR controversy getting them past Holland, and in an as yet to be revealed annoying way of winning the final. What makes it worse is we were shite. Had we at least given Germany a game and had more than a defected McTominay goal to cheer in the other two games, and maybe had a knockout game to enjoy, I'd cradle that and our own excellent summer. But no, we were shit. England have also been shit but are going to win it, and there's nothing we can do about it.

Patience.. https://www.afc.co.uk/2024/07/11/nilsen-is-a-don/

It's growing on me (not literally). It actually compliments the red strip nicely. Having seen a video of it I think it's one of those that'll look better in the flesh. I reckon you should all buy it.

You want a rumour @OrlandoDon, I'll give you a rumour.

I like the sentiment behind it, but unless we win the League Cup wearing it I can't see it becoming a cult classic. And like I said for the home top - £68, wise up.

New away top

That's fine, I will shield Thelin of all criticism until he settles in. It's the least I can do.

No-one is saying treat the group stages as friendlies. But they are low level opposition and we don't need four friendlies before it. Sharpness and fitness will come from the four games. If we're not fit enough v QOTS then something has went badly wrong and a friendly with Fraserburgh would not have been enough to fix it.

The reason for the League Cup group stage being this early is because it's meant to replace friendlies. Last time we were in the group stage (under Goodwin) we had played seven games before the start of the Premiership season. Was probably overkill. We only won four of our first nine games and were taken to extra-time by Alloa. Last season Robson announced we'd be doing double training sessions before every match day during pre-season. Won three of our first 13 Premiership games. So I'm quite content with them just training. Even if we're rusty we'll still win the group, let's be honest.

Has announced his retirement. Love the man. Truly one of our own.

Aye he was posting some nonsense about instagram the other day. A time waster. Morris snores according to the Aberdeen instagram. He's rooming with Miovski and it was exclusively revealed he snores. Not sure about the other three. We could maybe all take it in turns to keep a watch on instagram? Thelin says we might have a kick about in Portugal, if not we'll have an internal friendly. Again, exclusively revealed on instagram.

If I've worked it out correctly, we should (providing Kilmarnock make it as far as a play-off) play St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Hearts on Sundays after they've had a midweek European fixture. There is the caveat that we ourselves will be in transition under a new manager so we'll likely be rocky too, but apart from the remarkable decision to send us to Kilmarnock on Boxing Day, the fixtures work out well for us. The aim should be to be at least third by December.

Kristijan Lovric, Croatian winger; has followed Alan Burrows and Rubezic on instagram which may be a sign he's on his way or at least there's some sort of interest. Although he did similar three years ago when he followed Celtic. Was a £2m signing three years ago, seven goals in 25 appearances last season in the Croatian top flight. If Duk is leaving this would seem a more than adequate replacement (but 8 yellow cards, never seen a winger get booked so much).

I actually met Dave Cormack the other day in Munich, was chatting to him for a wee bit. Nice guy actually. I did tell him he sacked Stephen Glass too early and the other two that followed him not early enough. We did both agree though Thelin has the job for life on account he's gonna win us the lot. Oh and keep it quiet because he told me off the record, but Ryan Jack coming home after the Euros. Gonna be the highest paid player in our history. Exciting times.

I get what you're saying. BBC - we get stick if we push women's football and we get stick if we don't. But you probably have no interest in half the Scots going to the Olympics, but strap yourself in because we'll be posting lots about them. But the Aberdeen twitter - I don't want to see "here's our fixtures this month" and it's the men's and women's fixtures mixed in together on the same graphic. Like my first post on this thread, it's creating an expectation that because you support the men's team than you automatically support the women's team because "we're the same, we wear the same strip, we're the same club". But it's not the same. As far as I'm concerned, Aberdeen have never been relegated. Do we make accept we have relegation on our record now because the women's team got relegated?

Depends. Theo Snelders, Neale Cooper, Jonny Hayes and Super Joe Miller all did it and remain revered up here. Ryan Jack & Charlie Mulgrew though. Think it's more than they're both pricks rather than the clubs they played for.

Bojan Miovski confirming he's away on instagram. Okay, he actually just posted a photo of him buying a fruit juice with the caption "fruitful adventures await... " but if that doesn't say "I'm signing for one of the old firm, I look forward to beating Aberdeen at Hampden" then what does?

Will Shayden ever win three tennents sixes like Joe Miller did? The true test of a man's skills was in that tournament.

Let's not have some revisionism here and make out Hayes' crossing was always on point. I'd say Hayes & super Joe's abilities were very similar.

Behave yourself otherwise I'll get Rico bumped from everyone's teams. Or worse, I'll pick him but play him as a holding midfielder.