BobbyBiscuit

No bother my man, just caused a slight coronary issue with me there...

I read some time ago that Miller actually asked the board for £3m, and had targets identified which he felt could win us the league and the board refused. But no doubt the resources he did get weren't used too wisely. Joe Miller as a replacement for Paul Mason... EFF EFF ESS.

Sorry tsr, I think you may have me mixed up with someone else. I wasn't at the game on Wed and the main reason being that I can't put myself through the shite anymore. My point to ST was that no matter how shite they are I'm never embarrassed to say I'm a Dons fan, you are what you are, why pretend to be anything else? In case someone takes the piss? That's my point, absolutely nothing to do with the stuff you're going on about and if you look in one of the other threads I'm backing you up about this stuff. And as for the Langfield stuff, most on here will tell you i've wanted the cunt out since he signed near enough. I can't stand the guy. I want most of them out. I'm pretty much like yourself, had a season ticket for years, travelling all over the country every Saturday for umpteen years to see them and gave it up a few years ago. As for me being a happy clapper...jesus wept. One of the worst experiences of supporting the Dons for me was when there was a conga at Hampden at the 2000 Cup Final, so I think you're barking up the wrong tree with that one too.

If you win a cup it's not a fluke. You can't fluke your way through every one of 4/5/6 matches. Do you only support Aberdeen to look "cool"? Because that's the way it's coming across. I've taken pelters all my life for supporting the Dons, but I'd never, ever hide the fact I'm an Aberdeen fan no matter how shite they are. Yes, I go through times I can't be arsed with them, I lose patience and get unbelieveably frustrated with them but I'm never embarrassed to say they're my team. Why do you give a fuck what anyone else says about it?

Just finished watching this weeks episode... 92-93 but it was really all about the huns in the CL. They broke off talking about that to talk about the League Cup Final, and considering our current predicament (and that of the last 16 years), that Hately cunt gave us a reminder of just how far we have fallen: "In those days you really wanted the LC, to win the first trophy ahead of ... Aberdeen" The LC Final was sickening - Winnie's (even though they said it was Aitken) "backpass" and Theo's chest down for McCall to score and then Smith's og - but it was nowhere near as sickening as the Scottish Cup Final. Grant hitting the post in the first 30 seconds but then before we knew it we were 2 down without doing too much wrong. They kicked the fuck out of us that day; John Brown assaulted Scott Booth on several occasions but was never punished for it. Our midfield (in particular Grant, but Richardson and Mason too) were superb and ran the game, the huns were chasing shadows all day but we just couldn't get the second goal after Rico's strike. It was fucking gutting. I often wonder what our fate would have been if we had won just one of those trophies. It was probably only second to 90-91 as far as how good a footballing side I've seen regularly in the flesh, but like 90-91 I do wonder about the long term effect that season had on us.

Thought Monty was good at the old commentating lark, good hearing it from a player's perspective and why certain shots are played the way they are. The jingle they've got when they go to the adverts was seriously doing my nut in last night. Article here about the BEEB and the Masters:

Silver by Nature and West End Rocker for me.

There is a fair amount of melodrama, but you also can't blame people for staying away. I'll be at the semi, more because I feel obliged to go rather than any great desire to do so. I'm looking forward to having a few drinks with my mates but not the football and it has been that way for quite some time now, before McGhee took over actually. And remember it is a two way street, if AFC is dying, the blame lies squarely at their feet. They have bred the apathy for years. Are people supposed to just go along week in week out, paying extortionate fees in the process despite the utter dross that's served up with little or no hope of any improvement in the forseeable future? People have a breaking point and also other things to spend their cash on.

Can someone please explain why, no matter who they've played for, we have always struggled to contain Higdon and Dargo? Two players who are bog standard but cause us problems repeatedly. I wasn't at the game tonight but seeing their names on the scoresheet didn't surprise me at all. Fucking woeful.

Supposedly McNamee is out of tonight's game. Really don't think it is worth our while offering him a contract for next season. we've enough troubles with injuries without him.

As much as I agree with you, if he has survived the hook so far despite some woeful performances, I'd imagine this isn't going to see him dropped.

I watched the Inter game as my mate was up who is a huge Inter fan. Really good game mostly because neither team can defend. Inter's backline is horrendous, no communication, no urgency; two pretty insipid performances from them in two games. Can't imagine the locals putting up with that for much longer.

Wenger has repeatedly stated he has money to spend but chooses not to as he believes he doesn't need to for his side to be succesful. Says the man who also said I was talking "utter balls" but didn't have the good grace to explain why he thought so, and the very same who took his ball and went home at first because people didn't agree with him, but it actually turns out folk are saying mostly the same thing as him, but he chooses not to acknowledge this. The first part you say there.... that has been said many times in this thread. No one is disputing that. United have had a "wayward" time away from home, but compared to Arsenal (and everyone else) their home form is exceptional... or is that just average too? And by the way, 7 points is not within touching distance. If United are average, Arsenal, Chelsea and City are just plain shite, but I don't believe they are for a second.

Silver By Nature, was at 40s at the start of the year, is in now to 14s. Not my tip I'd like to add, but a friend of a friend sort of thing. He told me about it in January and is supposedly having a very good year.

Well tell us all why then. Is that not what I more or less said too and you ripped me for it? Make your mind up. Arsenal have the players to win the league, giving it "they're punching above their weight" is absolute nonsense. In Wilshere and Fabregas they have two of the best midfielders in the country, Diaby is a fine player, van Persie is an explosive striker when he's on form and more importantly fit, Nasri has it in him to be a regular match winner and Vermaelen looks like the defender they've been lacking since Sol Campbell was at his peak. So they're not punching above their weight. If anything they're not doing enough; drawing at home to Blackburn and Sunderland, losing at home to West Brom and Newcastle, losing a 4 goal lead at Newcastle... hardly stellar names in the game are they? Wenger's problem is that he always has a team which people say has "potential", but the potential never comes to fruition and he is the one who has to take responsibility for that. If it makes you feel better by saying that Man Utd are an average side then go for it, but you're making yourself look stupid. Perhaps by Man Utd's own standards, their play hasn't been as great to watch as it usually is but they are far from an average side. By the very definition of the word, if they're average what the fuck does that make Arsenal, Chelsea and the rest?

That's only a trifling matter, mate.

I'm talking about how Foster appeared to be elevated to greatness by some. The squad was horribly imbalanced by his departure and poor decisions by McGhee, but his absence seemed to greatly exaggerate his effectiveness. You'd have to ask Walter Smith that. While you're at it, you could maybe ask him why he also thinks Kirk Broadfoot is a player too.

Deary me. So United aren't a poor side but they are far from good? So they're what..? Average? I'd say that is a blinkered view. Lost 4 matches all season, but they're not a good side? You should maybe stop taking your views from Paul Merson. Name one thing said about Arsenal by either myself or Manc which isn't accurate. No trophy in 6 years, likely to be 7...but United are the "poor" side? I don't think so.

A common mantra this season in certain circles. Vidic is the best defender in the world, van der Sar is an unbelievable keeper and you have Hernandez and Rooney and Berbatov ahead of Giggs and Scholes... seven players there who suggest it is not a poor team. Not the best United team, but they are far from poor. I've seen poor United teams... Ashley Grimes and Peter Davenport and Garry Birtles. They couldn't lace Darron Gibson's boots... scarily enough...

You're as well saying "Billy Reid has a winning philosophy" because he'd like his team to win. Brilliant, you have some of the best players in the world and certainly in the country you play in but have basically come nowhere near winning anything for 6 years. Arsenal, for the talent they have and the club they are, are shite. They're soft and Fergie has Wenger in his back pocket. Ferguson knew his team would win today, Wenger would have hoped, but after 65 minutes given up. He has no goalkeeper and his best centre half is injured. Bad luck on the centre half, not so much on the keeper. He should have signed one years ago. And a striker. He can't trust van Persie to stay fit. But he persists with it. What is he trying to prove? Play to win, don't play to look nice. No one will remember you for that. Arsenal fans will end up hating him for it.

Real Madrid lose 1-0 to Sporting Gijon at home. Barca got a potentially tricky away match at Villarreal later on tonight. Mourinho's first defeat in a home league game since 2002 (150 games).

In what sense?

Sky reporting Craig Brown had to be pulled away by police from Frankie Howard in the tunnel at the end.