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Can you put in the contract that I can miss a game a season - ta Wiggy Mr Milne

I do it but I'll be in the pub at lunch time before the supporters club bus leaves.

Chris McLaughlin is banned from Ibrox but his source is a person that worked for the BBC and now works in Rangers PR. McInnes is away that is obvious but I think he will have to resign as I doubt Aberdeen will accept Rangers offer due to them messing us about. Aberdeen fans will question McInnes integrity over the last 2 games and Rangers should never have allow that to happen.

Someone mentioned that he was at game on Sunday. He didn’t go to Pittodrie when he was Scotland boss [emoji12]

Aberdeen won’t let him go on the cheap but this will force Derek McInnes to say he staying or going. I think he is away now as talks have been going on through the back channels and Rangers have tried to get him on the cheap (never going to happen) Hopefully this doesn’t get messy and is done in a few days.

I don't think it is I think it is the Rangers that is playing a game here to disrupt us and so far its work. I think if Rangers have approached us then we give them a deadline to pay cash by tonight to speak to our manager or they won't be able to speak to Derek McInnes until after the Dundee game. We all know the media is controlled by either Celtic or Rangers fans but the campaign to get McInnes has been disgraceful including those in the bbc who again yesterday gave some more air time to a ex-rangers player - where is the balance?

One of Donalds clients is Stewart Milne homes, is it possible the family did that kind act for business reasons?

I look at the Chairman job to run the club well financially and appoint the right people for the appropriate job - he has got that right with profit in the last 3 seasons and good manager The only criticism I have of Milne is the lack of training facilities as it is a disgrace the size of our club don't have any yet.

Ludo*1 next Aberdeen manager?

Heard the media is camped outside Pittodrie today - the way the media have conducted over the last 5 weeks Aberdeen should not speak to them.

I agree it needs to be sorted this week I'm a big Derek McInnes fan as think he is our best manager since Fergie but taking away Celtic his teams has bottled big games more often than not. If McInnes does go I think it will be a mistake as Celtic have a great Manager and they won't win the league if Brendan stays so could be sacked within a season. European fitba might get them a bigger budget but it is near impossible to qualify to Europa League as we have found to our cost so can't see the debt coming down which looks like their financial plan.

If McInnes stays then it won't be difficult for him - he will be judged on results although even if results do go against us then I think he will get the time due to what he has achieved in the last 4 seasons. 2 games ago a lot of Aberdeen fans would say they would be disappointed with 3rd - got to wonder if the McInnes speculation has affected the players but we always have a poor spell under McInnes during a season and maybe this is ours just now

The smaller trips with less fans are always the best. Skopje was really difficult to get to along with cost but when you got there it was about 60p a drink, Ibis hotel was £10 a night with a walk in! - what a trip that was!

I've also given up on the show - really dreadful these days

That game was the worst trip away for me in the european adventure Top 5 for me 1 - Dnipro 2 - Siroki Brijeg 3 - Shkëndija (Skopje) 4 - HNK Rijeka 5 - Real Sociedad (San Sebastian) Special mention for Kairat Almaty (nearly in top 5). So many amazing trips that i've not mentioned either.

I actually worried about the financial figures as although we have made about 1.4 million over the last 3 seasons the figures include Jonny Hayes transfer to actually make profit for last season (that is with finishing 2nd in each competition). The good thing is Dave Cormack is putting money into the budget this season which is why we have signed players on longer deals including the management team so if we are short this season they hopefully can use what is left to break even.

I don't agree with Smith/Scott being best since Fergie due to what he inherited with Willie Miller, Alex McLeish, Jazzer Bett and likes of Jess/Robertson/Booth coming through. McInnes took our club from 8th/9th to finishing best of the rest. Willie Miller was a disaster for the club as again he did inherited a good team from Smith/Scott but each season the club got less and less points which he replace the good players with players that wasn't near the level. We should have been no-where near relegation in 95 with that team but he continued to persist with the 3-5-2 which didn't work with the players he had. Best player we have ever had but sadly won't be remembered for Manager or Director.

really? Best manager since Alex Ferguson and for one I would be gutted if he leaves as we won't get anyone near the quality of him as a manager. It must be the first time in about 20 years we actually have players that come to the club because of the manager as they woudn't come with our current training facilties.

I don't think so either, the only negatives I have in Mcinnes is our record against Celtic is very poor and only won 1 trophy but the positives outweigh that I keep reading that we should have taken advantage of Ronny Deila poor teams but for that Celtic team got 92 points and 86 points for those season and to put that into context with us our best ever points total was last season with 76 points. Our club is well run financially now and I don't want that to change like we tried to do in the late 90s

Supporters clubs can't get any allocation for Ibrox - it depends if their members have the points! Last season you got a list of members that had the points for Ibrox and you had to say what allocation you was taking along with sending a list of your members that are going. Should also add the mid week game will struggle to sell like last season it took well over a week to sell out as quite a lot of Aberdeen fans just won't go to Rangers/Celtic away games.

Do you mean Maribor? I know they didn't do any European trips away from last season which is understandable going with numbers but in games in the league I don't understand . Supporters Clubs like Granite City/Northern Lights/Blazing Lambs/Capital1903/Glenrothes Reds etc are running buses to every game and have the regulars that go home and away so will have enough points so don't understand why it is difficult to organise 300 odd tickets for these groups. The CRM database system at Pittodrie works well apart for Supporters clubs as staff have to manually put points for them so they need to improve that as I noticed yesterday I got a heap of points (obviously someone complained they didn't have enough points). Also its only down to a 1pt for away games which is strange considering it was 4 points for european games before the season started.

I find that twitter, facebook, afc-chat, and also Aberdeen Mad is very negative after a defeat - its always been like that 1 defeat and we are doomed yet 2 wins in a row and we are going to win the league! I don't contribute to any of these social media/forums these days - here seems to be ok with only 1 or 2 going over the top. Easily our best manager since Fergie and imho he is ready for Premier League but I very much doubt if he will be on the radar with West Brom owners who will want a bigger name. Strange to see him 2nd fav for the job in the bookies.

I don't get why Supporters Club can't put a ticket order in - still over 400 tickets to be sold!. Supporters clubs benefits include all members sitting/standing together and in the past they have only made games like this available to those with enough points which is only fair. Makes me wonder if Aberdeen don't really want supporters clubs?

I think the timing is due to the financial figures we are away to release. On our website we mention this donation will go to training facities which we have raised over 60% funding so far.

Normally we release our Financial Annual report on the Friday night/Saturday morning - expecting it tomorrow going with the previous years. Should be record turnover and hopefully decent profit again.