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Hopefully. The fewer players that plot a successful path after leaving our youth setup without playing a first team game, the better. Of course, there are plenty of personal reasons why he might want, or need, to move on, that we're not party to so it's not a criticism of his decision. From an Aberdeen perspective, it's best that he tails off into significance in the same way as someone like Grimmer (whilst still having a great career).

Fuck him. Hope he ends up at Ayr.

Cheers, I assumed you would so didn't start a new thread. I'd have only done it half-arsedly and you'd be left with it for a year.

Opening game against Livi away is a difficult one. Tims at home the following week should be good.

Yep, it'd be fantastic to see him move within the country rather than to England. I wouldn't grudge him any move at all obviously, but I like the idea of him going down a different path. If he gets a move to Milan, then after a few years he could maybe dream about making it into the big time at the Huns.

Hope he does more than just peel the halftime oranges.

Stewart was, and is, honking. Being able to do the basics very slowly isn't what we're looking for.

Looks like Shinnie getting number 4 next season then. Proper midfielder number.

We should only sign in threes. It brings good luck. Thon Williams lad is fucking massive. Put him up front.

He's 31 thanks, and still will be at the start of the Scottish football season! Your ageist attitude is exactly why supreme athletes such as myself have all but given up playing for the Dons. I suspect that if you looked at the stats from last season, you'd see that Hayes covered as much ground as anyone else in the Dons team, and the way that Shinnie plays would suggest he could easily do similar. In reality though, if we get two good seasons out of him for the price of three, that'd be better than most of our signings this century. If it gives his family security and makes him happy to be here, then all the better. He'll know when it's time to quit when it comes round I expect.

Yasssssss

Christ, I hadn't realised that. It just automatically comes off for me. I get my folks one too, so that's getting canned, they can use mine!

I like Burrows, seems to get it right with the fans more often than not. He'll say something not quite right, that doesn't please everyone, I'm sure, but his engagement is refreshing (similar to Cormack when he was here first time round in many ways). I'm assuming it's new kit day today? Modelled by Shinnie I hope (because he's tidy).

Shame, lovely gentleman. I liked the way he continued on at the club after leaving, given he had no long-term affiliation. His commentary was always interesting and thoughtful when on Red TV too. A great ambassador, basically.

Seems like former board member Hugh Little has a had a stroke. Met him many times, a nice guy. On the plus side, though, the cryptic suggestion here is that Shinnie is in progress.

So we're going to have to pay to get him?

Aye, with McInnes also signing a player who would be fantastic if he wasn't permanently injured in Kyle Magennis. Classic Derek.

Yes, obviously the team don't have to talk about it yet, but we should! If we lose to Spain, then we need to keep it to a one goal deficit, as head to head is counted first. People talk about having "seen it all before" with Scotland, but we haven't. This is the first time this century that we can genuinely say that we've got a team that is capable of winning and qualifying. The times that we gloriously failed were down to the fact that we didn't have a good enough squad. We didn't beat teams like Georgia away because we had no right to (or no right to expect to). We were always destined to lose or draw a winnable game in a whole campaign. It's different with this team, they're a very good team. We should be expecting to win all three of our non-Spain games, and we'll be favourites to do so. We've got a good depth of squad, with decent cover in every position (Adams and to a lesser extent McKenna and Paterson, and of course Gordon will put pressure on Gunn next season too). I think Clarke will expect to get 9/9 from the easier fixtures, which piles the pressure on Spain to do something. A win in Cyprus would relieve a huge amount of pressure too, which would make a massive difference away to Georgia. The 21st protocol for those types of fixtures (difficult pot 3-4 teams I mean) is that they're always preceded by the manager saying "well, even if we don't win, it's still mathematically possible to qualify" - they're basically gift wrapping potential failure. Things are so different this time round, it's intriguing.

I feel like we should be talking about winning the group now to be honest. If Georgia can get a draw against Spain next round and we beat Cyprus, then we just need a point in Spain and a win against Norway to top the group. Sorted.

Forgot to mention, does anyone in the world think that the game is improved by giving penalties like the one last night? This is the shitey stat that they base VAR being a success because of. They changed the rules to make accidental brushes against the ball a penalty and then claim success because a camera can spot them on the 18th time of asking (I actually saw it in real time and wondered why the commentary team didn't mention it). It's ridiculously unsporting. Anyway, it could all be decided by the next round of fixtures. If Spain go to Georgia and win (likely) and we beat Cyprus (likely), the second game involves Norway and Georgia. If that is a draw like the first fixture (likely-ish) then we've qualified.

More of the new strip sold than the combined home and away from last season. Crazy. I got one. Not for me. I'm holding out for the home one.

It's fine, we won.

Good half from Scotland, all over these dicks.

Should move it to pittodrie. Dons season ticket holders only.

Well this is interesting...