The Famous Aberdeen - Season 2022/23

[MJC]

26 minutes ago, highland_mechanic said:

Clearly a *** then are you MJC? Or can you not afford the train or bus to Ibrox?

 

Nope, just an Aberdeen hater. 

[bennett]

The excellent MJC is in fine form tonight, nice to see a fellow bluenose dishing it out.

[Flybhoy]

2 minutes ago, bennett said:

The excellent MJC is in fine form tonight, nice to see a fellow bluenose dishing it out.

Shut it ya dick

[bennett]

3 minutes ago, Flybhoy said:

Shut it ya dick

This time I did get mjc and Mjw mixed up, I'm off to my kip now.

[Im_Rodger]

 

19 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Nae bother, ya five heided Tory c**t.

[accies1874]

27 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Nae bother, ya five heided Tory c**t.

That's just nasty. 

Expect a PM imminently. 

[Frank Grimes]

9 hours ago, MJC said:

As opposed to a sheep?

So no then 

That explains it 

[tree house tam]

Aberdeen desperately need a decent striker, Stevie May is finished. You could've won that last night if you had one decent striker. Get the cheque book out Milne.

[kingjoey]

10 hours ago, MJC said:

We weren't involved. However in our absence I took great pleasure in seeing one of my most dislikes clubs getting pumped out.

That’s really excellent to hear. It means that you see Aberdeen FC as a huge club. People only really hate huge clubs.

[EdTheDuck]

47 minutes ago, tree house tam said:

 Get the cheque book out Milne.

Hahahaha

Good een.

'get the cheque book out Milne'

That's gold, Jerry. Gold!

[tree house tam]

6 minutes ago, EdTheDuck said:

Hahahaha

Good een.

'get the cheque book out Milne'

That's gold, Jerry. Gold!

It's the difference  between second and fourth this season, he needs to.

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

There are a few things to come out of the last week. The're obvious, but it makes me feel better to type them anyway ;

Firstly and most urgently, we'll struggle big time without a proper striker. Cosgrove has his talents, and he'll do well this season, but without a goalscorer we won't be able to lay a glove on Celtic, and probably Rangers. It desperately needs fixed, today if possible.

Secondly, we already look a much stronger and rounded team than we did at a similar point in previous years. The defence needed work, and Devlin and Hoban both look like the type of quick, tough defenders that will improve the team considerably. Good work there from Deek.

In midfield GMS already looks like he's improved his consistency, and I think he'll be a big player for us this season. I'm not sure McGinn has the legs anymore, but he had a decent game against Burnley. Graham Shinnie now has the freedom to do what he does best...be magnificent in midfield, the engine that drives the team forward. Every minute of the last 2 games, he's proved what a f*cking blinkered clown Strachan is. I now look forward to Shinnie being a mainstay of the international team for years to come. What a player.

Lastly, Lewis Ferguson. Like most, I thought Lewis was going to be a youth team player this season with occassional 1st team appearances off the bench. Wow.....how wrong could I be ? Already, he looks like he's cemented a place in the side, and his physique and temperament remind me uncannily of Simmie and  Cooper when they broke into the Dons team all these years ago.

Pay Hamilton half a million for him, because this guy is a multi million pound footballer in the making. Another brilliant piece of business from McInnes.

All in all, it's been emotional (the last week). The good thing is, having had to re-build over the last 2 months, we already look like we have a team that have been playing together for years.....I'm looking forward to this season more than I was a month ago.

Just get a f*cking goalscorer in.

 

Edited August 3, 2018 by Bob Mahelp

[EdTheDuck]

4 minutes ago, tree house tam said:

It's the difference  between second and fourth this season, he needs to.

Oh I appreciate the need but the mannie Milne will be looking at an early exit from Europe and the shortfall in the finances for the training complex never mind the Concrete Box In The Middle Of Nowhere and doing his sums. Hasn't McInnes already been lamenting the lack of available funds? I hope I'm wrong because you're right and fourth might not be a given.

[Jmothecat2]

Aberdeen desperately need a decent striker, Stevie May is finished. You could've won that last night if you had one decent striker. Get the cheque book out Milne.

He really doesn't look good enough.

[Mr Heliums]

5 hours ago, tree house tam said:

Aberdeen desperately need a decent striker, Stevie May is finished. You could've won that last night if you had one decent striker. Get the cheque book out Milne.

There was one ball across the face of the goal last night that the Stevie May of 2014 would have buried and Aberdeen would have been through. But in 2018 he just got his feet tangled up. Sad to see - it isn't as if he can't be bothered - and you just hope that it's a confidence thing.

[tree house tam]

Just now, Mr Heliums said:

There was one ball across the face of the goal last night that the Stevie May of 2014 would have buried and Aberdeen would have been through. But in 2018 he just got his feet tangled up. Sad to see - it isn't as if he can't be bothered - and you just hope that it's a confidence thing.

He's fucked. Lost whatever he had, that's not confidence, that's what an injury as serious as he had does. He was worth a gamble, that's not Deeks fault. Paying him so handsomely and paying such a fee is. I wouldn't want him back at Saints, think that tells it's own story.

[d31]

Hopeful we can bring in a decent calibre striker but I don't think it's going to be today.

[Kyle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6023199/Lewis-Ferguson-Burnleys-radar-stunning-goal-against-Europa-League.html

Well, that could be one way of getting funds for a striker.

Every time I've seen May play for Aberdeen I've thought the same as Tam above. He's no where near where he was when he left us, obviously brought on by what was a devastating injury and probably the associated dip in confidence.

I'd love him to come back to us and recreate what he did before, but I wouldn't want the player that Aberdeen currently have playing for Saints. I hope he can get back to somewhere near his best.

[Dons_1988]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6023199/Lewis-Ferguson-Burnleys-radar-stunning-goal-against-Europa-League.html
Well, that could be one way of getting funds for a striker.
Every time I've seen May play for Aberdeen I've thought the same as Tam above. He's no where near where he was when he left us, obviously brought on by what was a devastating injury and probably the associated dip in confidence.
I'd love him to come back to us and recreate what he did before, but I wouldn't want the player that Aberdeen currently have playing for Saints. I hope he can get back to somewhere near his best.

Is he even allowed to move twice in one window?

[DrewDon]

May certainly hasn't lived up to expectations, although I feel like our preferred system doesn't really suit him. As far as I can recall, he did his best work at St Johnstone when partnered by MacLean or Hasselbaink, but McInnes usually prefers to deploy a lone striker. He did occasionally start with both May and Rooney last season, but, whilst there was the odd bright moment, it didn't really work. 

He would likely have been next to useless as a starter against Burnley, as he is unsuited to playing as a targetman; a role which Cosgrove, for all his limitations, has performed quite effectively at points. 

I'm reticent to judge him too harshly after two relatively brief substitute appearances against Premier League opposition, but it is undoubtedly a make-or-break season for him at Aberdeen. 

I desperately hope that something 'clicks' and it works out, as I still see things in his game that I like, but I'm increasingly fearing that it just isn't the right match for either party, which would be a real pity.