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I found out today that the last team in the Scottish top flight to field numbers 1-11 in their starting line-up was us back in 2011 against St. Mirren. The team was: 1. Langfield, 2. McArdle, 3. McNamee, 4. Folly, 5. Diamond, 6. Considine, 7. Maguire, 8. Hartley, 9. Vernon, 10. Mackie, 11. Aluko.

If you want accurate passes then the best passer in the team (as well as being the best dead ball specialist) is warming the bench and seemingly being cut loose in January. I’d rather Jimmy left.

The original club shop in the early 1970s was in Nelson Street. Number 57, if memory serves me sufficiently, for I am a rapidly-ageing, non-mellowing, Bertie Miller-haranguing curmudgeon. They also used to sell basic merch from the pie shoppie lean-to at the King Street End.

Looks like AI to me. Those aren't real clouds, and naebidy is oot walking before 9am at this time of year.

My granda walked there from my grandparents home in Baker street the first week the Nelson Street shop was open. He bought me a club pennant that showed the club honours including the then recent Drybrough Cup and the not so recent league cup win against the deid club, 1946, which has since been struck from the record. I was so excited as a kid that there could be something to do with the Dons that was not just on a Saturday afternoon. You could go into the shop any time you like and buy stuff. That had something to do with Aberdeen. Who would have thought… Of course such commercial taking the pi$$ out of all of us was so novel in them days…I don’t think there was even a new strip to buy every summer. Maybe every other two years. In any case all that folk wore was red and white barred knitted scarves. So the Nelson Street shop didn’t last long….

I will delete my comment,vas it is my fault. Shouldn't try doing this whilst broadcasting via the internet from the studio

I meant you both missed the previous post at the top of the page

I will never understand what the swans can fly community gain from faking these pics. Why does it matter? Why swans? Nobody fakes pics of airborne penguins, emus etc mind boggling

Thanks for posting that just before I posted a very similar one. Failure of the recruitment team to bring in players that suit the system the coach is implementing is baffling. Maybe the recruitment team got too focused on player trading model rather than bringing in players who actually who fit system coach is trying to implement.

Ditch Karlsson, he's pish. Best for both parties that he leaves. Hasn't managed to take on a single player since joining. He has got an ace touch, a great shot and his dead balls can be sublime, but he's basically a dick.

We shouldn't be trusting Jimmy, or any other manager, with another transfer window. There's no chance Thelin signed Milanovic, he'll be a product of our scouting system, which is the way it should be. To date, he's been given very poor value for money from that system, which is hopefully something Pfannenstiel will help address. Milanovic is an interesting case in point. He's clearly a decent footballer who a scout would take a look at and would understandably decide was worth a look at. He clearly has some great attributes. The issue is the transition from that league to ours. It turns out that being very strong down under doesn't transfer to the SPFL, it's that shade below, and without game time he won't develop (I think he'd benefit from six months at someone like Livi). We had a similar situation with McGarry, and we should have used the data from his signing as a guage to measure Milanovic. That's how it's supposed to work, but maybe it just needs more data! Similarly, any signings JT is making off his own back from Scandinavia need to go through that system so that we have something to compare league to league for future signings. Thelin will have run his known targets dry in that part of the world I expect, and might be more likely to look to players he's seen in the SPFL. At present, we're not getting a better return from our expensive European based signings than McInnes was picking up players from down south. We're definitely not getting a better return than those he picked up from the SPFL, although his good ones were either really obvious or his mate's son (when actually having to dig around we got shite like Morris, Quinn, Tansey, Storey and so on). As we all pointed out, the balance of signings was ridiculous, with a million project players and some old guys. That stems from the fucking awful decision not to have the sporting director position filled at the time JT was hired (or as soon as McInnes left as we all suggested). He needed someone experienced in the building reviewing age profiles, balance of positions etc and perhaps vetoing certain targets. I can imagine it's very difficult to maintain a view of the macro strategy when you're stuck in the weeds of the micro level looking at videos of players and so on - we see it a lot, with even the Tims forgetting that they might need a striker at some point. Pfannenstiel can hopefully provide the high level view to ensure we stay on strategy and in balance, he shouldn't be there to provide his favourite contacts or any of the other stuff I've heard suggested. Thelin suffered a little because he didn't come into the job with a good set of targets with SPFL experience (McInnes immediately had Robson and Flood, Brown had McGinn, Hayes etc, Goodwin had fucking Anthony fucking Stewart for some bizarre reason), and his Scandi lads just haven't made the transition with any great degree of success. That's where a sporting director would hopefully have directed a portion of signings to this country to help bed him in. Whilst I'd say that we are only a midfielder and perhaps a winger away from having something that might work for the next six months, I have little faith in our structure, with Pfannenstiel just in the door, to be able to make those two important signings.

Neither wide player will attack the line because it'll put them on their wrong foot, so they nearly always check back and the oppo defence can reset. As an old-fashioned winger, you want to burn past FB, and flash it into the penalty area where the defenders are chasing back facing the wrong way. Instead we have inverted wingers who cut back inside all the time, giving defenders time to reset.

Just back. Wasn't great, wasn't terrible. Utd got what they came for, were really cynical and sucked all the joy out of fitba for an evening. When they actually tried to play football, they appeared capable. Complete domination, doing very little, until we make a rudimentary catalogue of errors. All our goals against come from the initial error causing a domino of further fuck ups. Today it was Aouchiche with a tragic attempt at a header when he should have controlled it, the defence gets caught out and Devlin loses a header he would normally go through first time and Milne doesn't read the game and cover, leaving Mitov rooted to his line for an easy finish. We then dominate up until our goal, with some fairly attacking subs. Those subs are then screwed for utd's fifteen minute spell of actual football until Thelin finally realises he needs to make a sub again. We finish the game on top but with little opportunity to score, save for one good run and cross from Milanovic. Shinnie ran his arse off the entire game, constantly making the space down the left and was my MOTM. Knoester decent too. Armstrong was terrible in the second half, as was Lazetic. Aouchiche worked really hard but his passing was woeful, and Polvara worked hard but once again gets caught in possession in the most schoolboy of fashion (think he might be a centre half). Karlsson did really well for the goal but just needs fired into the sea. McGinn was never the fastest player in the world, but he could drop a shoulder and send a player into a different timezone. Karlsson hasn't taken on a player since he arrived, and he's very easy to defend against. Nisbet perhaps looked poor on the TV, but he did a lot of work as the number nine and did stretch them a good bit in the first half - significantly more so than Lazetic. Kjartansson shored things up nicely and should have been on earlier. Bilalovic tracked back well but isn't the player you want in the wingback role. Keskinen was actually okay there, I think people forget he's the fullback with a player in front of him, but we missed Lobban.

Whilst on no way blaming him for our inability to beat a team who came for a draw and only late on thought they might actually have a chance of three points owing to our incompetence, a special mention must go to TBITB, Calum Scott whose ability to stop the game for the most trivial reason knew no boundaries.

Sometimes we win, sometimes we draw and sometimes we lose but it’s always shite

Glad I posted that...

We offered a three year deal, they offered a four year one allegedly

Yep, can’t help thinking we made a mistake there letting him walk…

It might have been signed by Fergie. He was known to put R M Donald's signature on a bar bill or two.