Superstar Tradesman

There seems to be an awful lot of huffing and puffing about money to spend on new signings yet we're not prepared to offer the players we've got more money to stay. I'm yet to raise an eyebrow as to who we've signed for next season so far and I'm surprised if I even will. We need at least one signing of real quality to get the fans buying season tickets again otherwise it's another team grinding out results. But I won't hold my breath and I'll only believe it when I see it holding a pen in the broom cupboard.

I agree. Just take a look at that new Hibs top.

United wanted shot of Lee Miller and we want shot of Lovell. Sometimes it just doesn't click with certain players at certain clubs.

Can anyone slating the sponsor actually name something great that JVC did for our club that ADT didn't do or TR won't do? It's a fucking company giving their money to our club to help them stay afloat for fuck sake! Bring back JVC? When was the last time you bought anything from JVC?! Load of moaning about nothing if you ask me.

Like I said before and someone else mentioned, nobody ever gives a supporter stick over their sponsors nor I can't even remember what any sponsors were for last season. I very much doubt anyone ever sold many shirts off the back of a company branding being plastered on the front of it. I'll agree with you there but I'd say by the time the start of the season rolls around, most will have warmed to it or bought it regardless. Most people will buy the top to stick money in the coffers of the team and so they can wear their colours on matchday or at 5s. Nobody will be buying it as a fashion accessory a la Glasgow.

I am. Microsoft, Pepsi or Porsche could sponsor us but we'll still only get 5 minutes at the end of Sportscene(?) every Monday around midnight. Not sure how their world wide exposure would get us any more cash down Pittodrie St. Surely companies bid to become the team sponsor and the highest bidder wins? A huge company wouldn't necessarily put in double what the next highest bidder put in, they'd just need to put in more. TR obviously offered the most and it's a "record deal". Yet folk are still not happy.

".....the letters should be this, the colours should be that, the horizontal stripes make you look fat......" It's like an afternoon watching Lose Women on here. Bunch of miserable bastards! I think it looks the dogs bollocks.

Exactly. I can't remember anyone batting an eyelid at any other team's sponsor let alone giving them stick about it.

Anyone think that the sponsorship announcement this week and the fact that Donald Trump is in town has got anything to do with each other? No, me neither.

My statement wasn't as hemmed in as 'two semi-finals' but the likes of Dundee United are probably feeling the same way about their cup final loss and also their final game against the Huns that finished their Euro hopes. QotS will be sure they coulda, woulda, shoulda in the cup final. Etc, etc. There's no teams outwith the O.F., Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool......add name of top 2 or 3 from each league these days.......who has a realistic chance of silverware. The other 9 teams in our league have as much chance as any of picking some up because the Dons just aren't bridging that gap yet either.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda...... I'm sure the same thing is said on any of the chat sites that Maybury might plum for. You mean like Lee '11th hour' Miller? Nicolson is slightly different in the fact he's nearing the end of his career and has played in the SPL for all of it. Maybury is still to make a name for himself and perhaps he thinks he's a better chance of doing that in the lower leagues down south where the scouts will be out in force. Perhaps it's not all about money? I'm sure he can have as many 'shots' of it as he wants. Maybe he's not that impressed with the set up at Pittodrie, maybe he thinks the staff are arseholes, maybe he doesn't like the bog roll, maybe he's already as bored of the league as the rest of us, maybe he thinks the women of Aberdeen are howlers or maybe we're not offering enough and he's just chasing the Yankee dollar. Who is to say? If he is fucking off for more money then he won't be the first and I don't blame him. He won't be getting more money than Hart or surely we'd have kept Hart? Who himself left for more cash because we offered him peanuts. Put yourself in his shoes. You're a young lad who is trying to make as much money as you can over a short period of time. You've no ties to family or emotional tie to any club. Why would you pick Aberdeen over anyone else? Because they might win something 15 years after they last lifted some silverware?

Coca-Cola are the most recognised brand out there so they don't have to worry about that. ADT will rely on the font, colour scheme and symbolism of the design for recognition. But I'm sure you already knew that.

Unless you sign for the top 2 or 3 teams in your league then chances are you're not going to achieve very much. We had a great season in comparison to the past 10 years but we still achieved fuck all really. Maybe he does and maybe he doesn't. The fact he's came out and said it won't put AFC off of signing him but it has got his name in the paper and advertised himself in the process. It's not any different to what Nicolson has done.

I just don't get why football fans seem to think that a player who has no ties to their team should stick around when someone else they have no ties to, offers them a better deal. Anyone out there in cyber space not left their job for a better deal elsewhere?

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I'd imagine that the logos aren't "tastefully done" to match the shirt but a straight lift from their design and plastered onto the front of the jersey. A company who pays a lot of money to sponsor a team is also paying to advertise their logo. I'm pretty sure MacDonalds wouldn't make their "cartoon" M any less rounded for anyone so why would another globally recognised brand name like ADT? Just be happy that we have folk still willing to pump money into the club. Even the mighty Barcelona struggled to get a shirt sponsor until a couple years ago.

Why you cheeky little minx, I should take you across my........ Sorry, better not, Robo might get angry and punch my chair.

They not make them in the wife's size?

Back to the drawing ironing board.

I've a feeling that we might actually pull in someone big this year. No idea why I think that. Will we still have the sponsor on the shorts?

We don't buy quality or 'flare' players so I'm not surprised that people fail to include any of them in their top teams. The other side of the coin is we have a team full of Brazillians who we sell off to the O.F. each season and finish midtable. I wouldn't be too hard on McLeod, he suffered a severe head trauma a few years back and never really recovered.

This could be the first year I buy the away kit as it looks pretty bling! The ADT one was the best one we've had in years, it actually looked like it was made for running around in for 90 minutes. Before that it was the AFAB one that ticked all the boxes. I hate ones with collars and the APEX one just looked like a golf shirt.

I see what you're saying but we also paid a lot more for Lovell and didn't get our moneys worth or a few quid back on our investment when we got rid. Think this sums it up pretty well:

Yep. Where do you want to meat again?

I heard she has slippery nipples.