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Erzma. Fraternal greetings. Fk the huns, tims, jutes etc etc and COYR.

Back when Fergie was manager, if a player asked for a day off he'd chain them to the side of the pier. After high tide, he'd untie them, and if they weren't dead he'd fine them a week's wages.

Aye, it's frustrating. Thankfully we've got next week off, and we can relax watching Steve Clarke manage Scotland.

Congrats to Dylan Lobban upon his first call up to the U21s Well done loon, thoroughly deserved.

️ Warning: Really boring answer coming up. ️ There's been a few articles on this. Typically, a player is entitled to five weeks paid holiday a year. They can't always get those five weeks in pre-season. And I think they get public holidays added to that too as they work Christmas etc. If Aberdeen had lost the cup final, the early European fixtures would have meant we'd probably have started back 19 June like most clubs did. Can't be arsed working out how many paid holidays days that is, but it would fall well short of their entitlement. And then you had Keskinen playing at the U21 Euros and, I can't remember, but Mitov probably playing for Bulgaria etc. The holiday allowance actually starts 1 July, so the longer summer break we had this season doesn't actually count towards this season. So basically, in short, without a winter break, we need to use the international breaks to give them their days off. Woke nonsense etc.

You have been to La Bombonera? You never mentioned that before. Cunt.

Just defected from Abmad too - testing, testing 123!

But, have you seen our squad? I don't think it's very good. We've maybe had one good signing in the summer, in Lazetic. Armstrong probably a downgrade on the younger and fitter McGrath. Karlsson not being nearly as effective as Morris. The rest being completely replaceable by a number of serviceable SPFL players. Players like Palaversa, Polvara and Keskinen simply haven't kicked on from not being good enough in the first place, with Shinnie and Nilsen being a year older, and it showing. There's just not a lot to work with, and other than the new manager bounce, I don't see us being in a better place. We could probably, maybe, improve the performances of Nisbet by playing him correctly in a two, playing Clarkson, keeping Armstrong further forward etc, but I think the issues are largely personnel based rather than tactics. For me, getting rid of Thelin is basically blaming him for the poor squad building. The entire point in getting rid of McInnes, and employing the following four (and a half) managers, was that we were no longer letting the manager do the squad building (at least not unchallenged). We've done exactly that, whilst having a stupid "strategy" of signing project players that seems to force the manager to build unbalanced squads. I don't think we'll ever get the opportunity to see if Thelin can do it for us as a manager, because the new sporting director will likely need more than two windows to sort the mess that he's walked into.

New home top allegedly.

He's not finished, he's only 42

That's because they've got better players, and a balanced squad. We've signed badly. I don't think Thelin could be getting significantly better out of what we have got because what we have got isn't very good. It was really a response to the budget comments, as if spending more money means that we should be being better whilst ignoring how we've actually spent that money. I'm not saying that he couldn't get slightly better out of them, just not a huge amount. There's a ceiling to the sum total of that squad, and to me it looks about fifth best in the league, maybe sixth. We've ended up with some individual players who would get into any team outside the scum, but as a squad it's not better than Motherwell. Key areas of the park are missing good players, and we've got zero options to throw on as a wildcard that could get us a few points to push us higher than the quality in the squad merits.

Andy Irving of West Ham United and some prick fae Rangers have been called up to the squad.

We have a KDM trophy game on Tuesday at Spartans which we can field 3 overage players in and then Aberdeenshire Shield game on Wednesday against Banks of Dee where I think we can field first team players a run out as well. Might be slightly better than arranging a bounce game to give players a run out that are not away on international duty.

AFC Squad 1983 - European Song

Another bottle job by the Democrats which would embarrass the Hearts 86 squad

I was in the give him the January window camp,...waivering a bit after that limp display yesterday,but the appointment of the new DOF buys him a bit of time.Hope we're keeping an eye on the young Scottish market before splashing out again on expensive Scandi/Oz mediocrity

Aye aye min .... been a while .... good tae see ye active on a fitba forum again ... aa the best Oh ... and FFIW ... Yer allowed tae say 'fuck'

Oh don't get me wrong, I recognise a lot of what you say about the post Hibs game, so close after Athens it was a really sore one to take looking so vulnerable to them. Derek Rae has described Lutz as a big character and I think that makes for an interesting dynamic with Thelin who is the quiet geek type. It could well be Thelin is having some form of crisis of confidence and who knows? Maybe that is exactly the kind of person above him he needs right now.

I thought this was a reference to Darren and Derek

Just joined the flock- previously known as Kincorth Don on AbMad- infrequently post but happy to get involved from time to time- cheers for the welcome

Noooooooooooooo. It's nae fitba. Note the shape not Another thing to add to my list of preferences of here over AbMad - this topic lives in the right place Edit: This would wind me up way more than it should have

Give Vintage a shout,and then delete the Abmad thread before that poultice RedJohn sees it...

There's a username from the past. Good to see you posting here Mason.