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Sugar and lemon for me. Although bacon and syrup sounds affa fine.....but I feel more suited to fluffy yank pancakes. But that's just me. Actually, maybe I'll go three courses of pancakes. Starter with smoked salmon and crème fraiche. A few chives sprinkled on top. Main with cheese and ham - maybe Emmenthal and something Parma ham like Dessert with lemon and sugar (or maybe flambé bananas and melted dark chocolate) That's dinner sorted

Just keep our grip on the cup a little bit longer lads. Make us dream again... screenrecording-02-16-2026-13-46-51-1_FjKCcAMa.mp4

Who is going to be stappin their faces with pancakes today? I'll be having syrup and bacon on mine because tomorrow is lent and meat will be off the menu. Ordinarily I'd be having them with Nutella. A wonderful food stuff I only discovered late in life.

I recall Willie Miller got some grief from opposition fans for a few weeks or so after having split his shorts during a game and he changed into new ones on the pitch, near the dug out if memory serves me correctly? "Willie show us yer arse, Willie, Willie show us yer arse" was the roar. I used to enjoy Tannadice trips "Davie Dodds the elephant man, Davie Dodds the elephant man" sang with an arm held up to your face and the forearm and hand flapping back and fore to imitate an elephants trunk. Glory days. The Pies in Dundee were things of beauty at the time. Dangerous to eat hot because of the amount of grease dripping off them but affa tasty.

Narey's a fairy might get you arrested these days

Can’t say I have ever tried Nutella - just one of those things I felt wasn’t right- stupid really as I used to always enjoy a cadburys whole nut bar before Kraft turned it into yank chocolate may go for sausage bacon and egg stack with maple syrup - can’t decide on the thin crepe style from the packet or making buttermilk ones

That was the Rev. Joe Jackson.

Reinstate a proper reserve league. Yes please.

I think it was just his reputation that died after that film.

The Dons beat Formartine on penalties (at Harlaw Park) to win the current season’s trophy. I think it finished 2-2 AET before the penalties.

Panic over then. I thought this was the Aberdeenshire Cup. I stand corrected and happily so.

Oh aye. Funnily enough I sprayed that exact make of cream on the grandkids pancake at the weekend. Dog got some as well. They were both very happy.

That’s the Aberdeenshire (FA) Cup, taken seriously in that actual factual Saturdays (the Proper Mannies’ fitba day) are allocated to the competition. I did hear a while ago that the AC is the second oldest trophy still played for, just younger than the Scottish Cup. The original trophy was in the Dons’ possession after they won it a goodly number of times, and was lost in the 1971 fire. The “shire” is no longer what Aberdeenshire was. Whilst the historic county still exists with important functions, the name was mistakenly given to the local authority area after the 1975/mid-90s reorganisations. So you now have pretendy “Aberdeenshire” stretching as far as the North Esk, ignoring the culture of the Mearns (I was at the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre on Friday night and am certain I heard the rumble of LLG’s remains as he spun in his grave in nearby Arbuthnott churchyard) and having the most perfect example of the oxymoron known to me in “Banff, Aberdeenshire”. The Aberdeenshire Cup was the first trophy, of many, that I witnessed Keith winning, in April 1967, but it’s been 17 years since I last enjoyed a Keith triumph in the tournament when we gave Huntly a cuffing in Inverurie in 2009.

Apparently the official name is squirty spray cream who knew Taste sensation along with the nutella try it

I'm having lots of pancakes, free ones at work then at hoem tonight too. Sugar & lemon with golden syrup and nutella & shoochy cream my favs

I canna remember if the AS date was agreed before Johnny Aqua saw the intended Scottish Cup tie postponed. The decision would be Aberdeenshire FA’s rather than the Broch’s. I worked with a number of Heelan League players who disliked the Shield games as there was no reward for winning it, and it just added to the late autumn/winter midweek fixture list.

Does any club feature strongly for Scotland? Looking at the last u19s for example, half the players are in England and the rest belong to different clubs. Boyd is in it, as our representative in that regard. I can't find much on the u17s, I'm guessing that Masson and Carrol would be involved, with both at one point rumoured to be off down south too. It seems reasonable to say that we should be well represented, but I don't think anyone is, which suggests that young players are moving around a lot more.

If you go with three as a minimum, then you’ve got Milne and Lobban as you say, who each still have plenty to prove. Ryan Duncan was given a reasonable number of chances but doesn’t seem to have “it”. Then there’s those who fucked off for a better offer like Boyd and a couple of others. There’s also the out on loan crew, out of whom it sounds like Marshall might have a chance. That’s not a great return but similarly it isn’t nothing and suggests we do try to give out young guys a chance. At the risk of repeating myself, it isn’t necessarily the lack of chances for our own youth that’s worrying me, it’s why our own youth aren’t good enough. Look at the Scotland youth squads and we don’t feature anything like as strongly as I think a club of our size should strive to. If they’re at Aberdeen and not good enough for Scotland at age group level then that’s a real concern.

That's class BTW

Daily Record reporting that club to open talks with Findlay Marshall about extending his contract.

I’m still waiting on Andy Bagshaw to get us 40 a season