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Dons_1988

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  1. The size of the debt really isn't that big an issue so long as the lenders aren't demanding it back anytime soon. Also is it attracting interest on it and are they actually paying that interest or is it just getting tagged into the principal.

    Also the p&l again isn't that significant, although more significant than the debt.

    The place you should be looking is the cash flow statement for any real substance on how much trouble or lack of trouble they're in.

  2. It's worth buying The Sun for his column alone.

    To be fair to Davie boy - at least he's consistent.

    He never misses an opportunity to spraff about his two favourite subjects;

    - Old Firm.

    - How Scottish football is perceived in England.

    He gets well paid to talk about and watch football, taking in big English Premier games and International games all over the world, but he's still too bitter and consumed with hate to appreciate it.

    What a pathetic, wretched old fool.

     

    This is not just Provan, it is all red top columnists and it drives me up the wall.

     

    "Folk down in England just don't to watch Inverness vs Partick Thistle"

     

    And?  Probably an extra 100 tune in for their beloved old firm.  When are they going to wise up to the fact that no one down South gives two fucks about Scottish football, Old firm or otherwise.  I have lived there, seriously they don't care.

     

    So how about Scottish football focuses on what Scotland wants from the game, not England.

  3. Sorry but old Rangers cheated to win titles and cups.

    I forked out thousands of pounds over many years to watch a rigged sport.

    We have all been cheated.

    All those EBT-fuelled honours should be stripped.

    Nothing will change that - passage of time does not alter facts.

    I respect that view and as I said everyone has their own opinion on it. I have mine.

    I just don't see what near on 7000 pages of pretty much nonsense is achieving.

  4. Despite a heavy intake of alcohol before and after this game, I too remember it well. My voice was in shreds for about 4 days after. Worth it though, as it's one of the best atmospheres I've been in (obviously if you were in the home end it wasn't so good). I'm sure Calderwood claimed someone in the main stand spat on him as he walked off.

    You're thinking of Mark Mcghee when Raith put us out. He lied.

    ETA - I just watched that clip. I don't know why. f**k you DA Baracus. :(

  5. It was his son, I believe. I'm not too clued-up on the behind the scenes goings on at County in those days, but there's others on here who know more. I'm certainly led to believe he wasn't as hands-on as would have been expected. Whilst he won us the Challenge Cup on a glorious April afternoon in Perth, I wasn't disappointed at all that he wasn't kept on.

    I remember those games (was studying in Aberdeen at the time). That second half against Copenhagen was a joy to behold, and the Bayern match was incredible insomuch as it felt like a defeat after the game! (Lokomotiv) Moscow I'd somehow wiped from my memory until I found my match ticket years later tucked inside a book I'd never finished reading. I have absolutely no memory of the game, although I must've been there. Presumably I was on a fairly heavy session at the time!

    His comments about Lovell and alleged treatment of O'Leary show the quality of the man, IMO.

    It was far from the most exciting of our European ties. Diamond gave us the lead from a corner first half, and they scored right on half time. Although I think I pretty much missed their goal. I'd been to the toilet and they had basically no fans so didn't know until half time (I think) that it was 1-1.

  6. On the surface Calderwood has a reasonable record in Scotland but once you scratch the surface he really is a total buffoon.

    I can't speak for Dunfermline but as alluded to earlier, he totally alienated the youth system at the club.

    He also created an awful culture at Aberdeen with the team he put together, guys with a bit of talent but a horrible attitude to the club and the sport. The true level of what shitbags they were was evident when Calderwood (who let them away with murder) left and Mcghee came in and tried to instil a bit of professionalism.

    The football itself was an absolute eye sore, hoofed balls long to Lee Miller who would try and win a set piece. That was it.

    He won something like 4 of his last 19 games, alienated a lot of fans, pissed off the board, the cup exits to lower league teams (QoTS still hurts :( )

    Dons fans got a lot of stick for wanting a guy out who had brought us so much 'success', especially with the car crash that was Mcghee but I think his career since has seen us vindicated that this guy wasn't fit to take the club forward.

  7. Right, so nobody decides to move and we end up with a family stand full of adults and no children.

    Obviously people will move but as far as I'm aware you're not under any obligation to do so. I could be wrong.

    I do agree that if the club are going to pursue this they will need to change their pricing structure. I don't think fans being unhappy at moving should stand in the way of this but similarly there should be an incentive to move like discounted seats in mainer/south

  8. Rehashed version of the 'f**k the IRA' song, Andy Haliday rhymes and they have added the lyrics 'he hates the pope and the IRA'

    I have no idea if Andy does, they are probably guessing that due to being a Rangers fan then he does.

    Personally I do not see the point in these songs, they are just there to wind up celtic fans, even though we have only played then once in past 3 years, the celtic fans do the same, tit for tat shite.

    I do not know the pope so i certainly do not hate him, I think he is pointless, pretty much I think all religion is pointless. Hating the IRA is fair enough, I hate them too but it is well past time we stopped singing about it at fitbaw games or the tit for tat will go on forever and it is free ammunition for those who hate the club. Will never happen though, too many morons on both sides whose only purpose in life is to wind up the other morons.

    Fair post.

  9. You have to play the game, chappy.

    Just to show I don't see you as a total tosspot, "He hates the Pope and The IRA" is entirely innocuous.

    In poor taste, sure and not something I'd every sing/chant. Possibly offensive to a few morons and certainly inappropriate at football.

    That's the most you can say about it, though.

    Fair enough.

    To be honest I don't really get offended by words in a song. Whether it be the billy boys or as you say a fairly innocuous wording, for me it is more indicative of the general culture of your club and your green brothers.

    I will no doubt hear something equally innocuous yet brainless and tiresome tomorrow night at Pittodrie.

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