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If we're spending another season with Bates playing on his wrong foot (especially as Dunne is left footed I think), then I'm throwing my season ticket in the sea. Edit: which is frustrating, as it's on my phone.

Update (even though nobody wanted one), listened to the latest ABZ & red tinted episodes, both were excellent. Just a shame the football team they were talking about isn't.

Im not out to prove anything given Ive thought it was bullshit since the late 90s. A lazy hack journalist/ pundit tagline which in my teenage years I put a certain amount of hope in for lots of games (dons or other) only to deduce its essentially a sports equivalent of horoscopes. Perhaps there was something to it pre-bosman when players had the fear of being trapped at a relegated team with their freedom to leave in the hands of the club's board so a new manager might be the catalyst to try alot harder, ensuring you could at least tempt a transfer fee out of someone. Now having the freedom to move on, as soon as your contract is up or perhaps even having a certain clause that lets you go early knowing with a reasonable chance some lower league club in englandshire will shell out at least £5k a week on ya....well who cares what happens to the team. You can be a tactical genius with all the management qualifications in the world but if you can't get your players (or staff) to work for you then you are wasting everybody's time. Frankly if anyone at Aberdeen football club is actually putting out genuine statements saying they are even thinking about having a summer clear out then it has become a seriously toxic workplace and as a player i'd have my agent looking elsewhere no matter how long my contract was.

Looks like Kennedy will be staying going by Goodwin's comments. I've seen that little of him I can't really say if he could still potentially be a good player for us or not. Goodwin used to play a three-man defence at St Mirren (although he had more success when he switched it to a back four) and I wonder if he'll do it next season once he brings in more defenders. It would actually suit Gallagher who tends to play better in a three. You could see Goodwin pinpointing Kennedy & Hayes as wing backs. Vladky Dunne Gallagher Bates Kennedy McCrorie Barron Hayes Vicente Ibrahimovic Watkins There's the team to play Cove Rangers in the Granite City derby in the opening League Cup fixture.