Aint that the truth. Gary McDonald is fucking gash. Kerr at least looked for the ball (first half only) and made some good runs (first half only), but we are fucking pedestrian. No ideas or imagination, no craft or guile, no belief or desire to win.
That team lacks so many things, but the biggest thing it lacks is a soul.
Right, so it's ok to sing and laugh about hundreds of thousands of people dying through starvation, but it's not ok to sing and laugh about 66 huns falling down some stairs and dying? Fucking hun cunt.
Did he not drop Mair at the weekend after praising his performances? I can see your point, but if Mair and Considine were playing well together why change it? Just because it's perhaps not the pairing he or any of us would have envisaged being successful, doesn't mean it shouldn't be given an extended run - one which would have been deserved, too.
I'd start Zander too, every week. When he's on his game he's probably as influential as anyone. I am a tad concerned though that perhaps the reason he's on the bench is that his injury hasn't cleared up as expected/hoped. After the amount of fucking around last season with the centre half pairings, I'd hoped he'd learned his lesson to keep things as steady as possible, but obviously not.
Has to get in the team first. The start of this season has shown that Zander is not an automatic pick, which you'd like to think your captain would be. I don't disagree that he'd be a more vocal captain than Severin, however.
I agree with you about JDV. The guy can actually play football. He's not the fast, tricky winger that JC had led us to believe he was, but the guy knows how to use the ball, unfortunately his colleagues aren't fucking bright enough a lot of the time to use him properly.
1.At Pittodrie - Shearer versus the jutes to effectively send them down. Wonderful strike and meant shitloads to our club. And got to laugh at the Jutes for a season at least.
2.Away from home - toss up between Frank McDougall's third against Hearts or Jess's at Ibronx.
3.In the Premier League - see options 1 & 2, would also chuck in Brian Grant and Peter Nicholas at Parkhead and charlie nicholas v celtic at Pittodrie
4.In the Scottish Cup - John Hewitt's first v Hearts in 86
5.In the League Cup - Shearer v the huns in the 92 final
6.In Europe - Craig Robertson v Rapid Vienna
7.At Hampden - see 4
8.Individually and or collectively - paul kane at ibronx as mentioned by Tom.
9.A Dons player representing Scotland - McKimmie v Argentina
My answers would probably change tomorrow if asked again, but that'll do for now.
No, he was told by Paterson that he wouldn't be here and then the fans went mental (remember the offer from the fans to pay his wages?). That was before Willie Miller came in and before JC came in. He was a free agent at that time, JC could have offered him something I suppose to re-sign him, but didn't. When you look at some of the numpties he's signed as strikers I'm not sure whether to be appalled or not at all surprised.
EDIT: I also think that by the time JC came in and they started looking at the squad/new players, he may well have gone to setanta already, but I'm not 100% sure. I do remember Hibs making an offer to him and he said that if that was the only offer he'd probably retire. Obviously wasn't keen on being part of the re-make of Brazil 1970...
That isn't right. Paterson didn't want him after Booth told him what he thought of him after a game midweek at Fir Park. Booth was fed up with the ball getting hit to him at throat height and was also despairing of Paterson's tactics. Booth was subbed after screaming at the bench to change the tactics, stormed up the tunnel then had a major barney with Paterson in the dressing room. He was told there and then he was finished at Aberdeen. And that came from one of the players playing that night.
I think you've missed my point. Booth - and Bernard for that matter - were better players than Smith is. The point is that both were injured a helluva lot. As is Smith. You see?
He turned up at Dortmund and within about 5 mins their medical guys spotted that he had one leg longer than the other. They modified his boots I believe to mean that he didn't have the same problems there as he had with us.
Exactly what i was thinking. Good player on his day, but his days are few and far between. His injury situation is beginning to rival that of Scott Booth and Paul Bernard.
Don't think anyone has said that. If you've never been to Parkhead, you can see both goal mouths ok, but can't see the touchline of the nearside after the halfway line from some "vantage" points.