BobbyBiscuit

1-0 Sellick, Scott McDonald

Would you want to? In all seriousness, there will be a number of players he wants to move on just now but can't due to any number of reasons and then there will be players who he may not want to lose but leave of their own accord and then there may be players we get cash offers for that we simply can't afford to turn down.

Over a period of a year? I don't think that's a surprise at all.

Pretty much Rocco. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Langfield joining the vermin - they're short of cash and McGregor may be one of the few players they get a few bob for.

Brian Fucking Irvine? Jesus wept. they were doing this a while ago and instead of having a poll option they just asked folk to email their choice and add a comment if they wanted to. My majestic prose on David Winnie has been taken off the site...

If this is the rumour about him moving to Sellick... I just can't see Mowbray wanting him there.

well played Seabass, post your picks up when you've made them

And Pawlett is the English guy.

Why they're invited anywhere by anyone is beyond me. Hideous, hideous creatures.

Don't worry about that Andrew, travelling by yourself is good and if anything forces you to talk to other folk in hostels, bars etc instead of just staying in your own wee group. Also means you can do as you wish when you wish. It's a good confidence boost for you too if you do it by yourself and will mean you won't think twice about going away by yourself again. You'll have a blast.

Result. You definitely doing this then?

I agree, but again, and this is only from what i've heard, even if JC had kept his job the board would not have trusted him with any transfer funds because of a split in the board re his record in the transfer market. We do, at some point, have to speculate to accumulate, but I thought this was going to be the point as I thought MM would have been given a substantial budget. Obviously not, unfortunately.

The "first team" players need the match practice for their fitness and we need to get the team gelling for the start of the league. This game should be more beneficial than a friendly so we have to use it to our advantage.

If only I had a wife.... I've done a lot of practicing to be fair...

Also, from what I hear, Miller didn't vote for JC to go.

Eh? I'm talking about the people on a certain site who bang on about his position after every single poor result for AFC. Not just Thursday's.

Same with Miller's role. The club's fortunes have changed dramatically since he came in and the Youth set-up is now something actually worth talking about it seems, but that's not good enough for folk. Miller appointed the right man in JC to get us back to an acceptable position but one result means he has to go, even though he has no say over team selection or tactics, and no say on who we sign essentially.

Pooves. I'm on the Stella, and whatever beer my mate has left in my fridge.

Really? If you're a multi millionaire, or someone who represents a multi millionaire or a group of them, do you really need Stewart Milne to tell you what sort of state Aberdeen FC is in and that they'd welcome your money? Anyone who is interested in buying into football will know Aberdeen need a jump start and then some. It's a tough gig though, isn't it? This is what I don't get about our fans... we have fans screaming about how Willie Miller doesn't go out looking for new investment. His job title is "Director of Football". Duncan Fraser's is "Director of Finance" (or something similar). So why would Willie go looking for that? Yet he gets pelters for it. Now Milne is supposed to howk the club around Millionaires Row where everyone knows that both the club and Milne are skint (on paper, at least, for Milne) and would invariably end up selling the club for fuck all and likely lose even more cash.... are people living in the real world here?

Thanks. Good post.

One thing I'd say for JC is that he knew how to set out a side to grind out a result as you say, that is very true. But we bottled it when something tangible was at steak. The semi finals, the chance to go second in the league over Christmas when we lost to the huns etc. And to be fair, there's nothing more frustrating beating the top dogs when you then go and lose to Hamilton, Falkirk and the likes.

Why on earth are you bringing Hertha into it Dave? The team that played Hertha is almost completely different You can not deny that this side is one that bottles it when it has to win. The Euro performances were very good, but no one expected much if anything at all. As soon as we "expect" in the "big" domestic games, they bottled it, and you can not deny that.

Heikenen was a Paterson era signing. No, he definitely only cost about half of that.

Don't really agree with Dunc either. Alex Fucking Miller spent a fair whack when you consider Hignett was on £8k a week plus a huge monthly bonus payment just for staying employed by us , then there was the Winters for £750k (while I was glad to get rid of Dudds (sic), and Winters was a good player for us, he wasn't £750k + a player good). Roy Fucking Aitken also spent unbelievable amounts on Bernard (again, a good player but just unlucky with injury) and shite like the Bulgarians. We even paid over the odds for Deano, in all honesty. Ebbe spent a fair deal for not a lot in return (in some cases) but also got some good players for his money. He definitely wasn't any more guilty than the two jokers who were before him.

They may well get a run around on Thursday if the other night is anything to go by.... That said, you'd expect every single player who plays this Thursday to play as if their lives depended on it, if not they can fuck off as far as I'm concerned.