Thenorthernlight Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 minute ago, TommyDickFingers said: Pity it’s only suggesting a loan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thenorthernlight Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 23 minutes ago, TommyDickFingers said: Give him 2 weeks to re-sign, if not, sell and replace -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Kennedy a makeweight for the boy McGrath ? According to Derek Ferguson in that Mensa broadcast, we are still in for him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyDickFingers Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 12 minutes ago, tarapoa said: Kennedy a makeweight for the boy McGrath ? According to Derek Ferguson in that Mensa broadcast, we are still in for him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 7 hours ago, TommyDickFingers said: Look forward to another 2 weeks of Aberdeen fans still claiming they'll get him by adding another player though. We suffer the same with Hibs fans, who seem to think we'll happily accept no fee for our captain because we're getting a worse player in a completely different position on higher wages handed to us. Really odd mindset. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Grimes Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Let’s just swap Matt Kennedy for Ali McCann and Jason Kerr St Johnstone won’t mind 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Frank Grimes said: Let’s just swap Matt Kennedy for Ali McCann and Jason Kerr St Johnstone won’t mind Callum Davidson will likely be our next manager so it’s probably actually in his own interests. Edited August 10, 2021 by Dons_1988 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: We suffer the same with Hibs fans, who seem to think we'll happily accept no fee for our captain because we're getting a worse player in a completely different position on higher wages handed to us. We once gave Dundee United about 800K plus Billy Dodds for the services of Robbie Winters. Dodds scored so many there that he 'won' a move to Ibrox, whereas Winters was a slow burner and sacrificial enough to go between the sticks in a cup final after the buns managed to 'accidentally' injure yet another AFC keeper. - so these things can work out ! Even on Sunday - not quite the same scenario, but if you look at the respective performances of Anderson and Emmanuel-Thomas - the player that quietly slipped away in the other direction was far more impressive. Edited August 10, 2021 by tarapoa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 We once gave Dundee United about 800K plus Billy Dodds for the services of Robbie Winters. Dodds scored so many there that he 'won' a move to Ibrox, whereas Winters was a slow burner and sacrificial enough to go between the sticks in a cup final after the buns managed to 'accidentally' injure yet another AFC keeper. - so these things can work out ! Even on Sunday - not quite the same scenario, but if you look at the respective performances of Anderson and Emmanuel-Thomas - the player that quietly slipped away in the other direction was far more impressive.I'll always maintain that at the time, the Dodds/Winters deal was a good one for Aberdeen. I was very young but I remember Dodds being the kind of striker that needed half a dozen chances a game to score. Winters was much younger, I think was on the fringes of the Scotland squad and we were buying a promising young player, probably hoping he'd score a shitload and we could punt him on. Ok, it didn't work out like that and we couldn't have forseen the upturn in Dodds fortunes after he left us. Hindsight a wonderful thing but at the time it was a good deal, as was the Bernard one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betting competition Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, tarapoa said: We once gave Dundee United about 800K plus Billy Dodds for the services of Robbie Winters. Dodds scored so many there that he 'won' a move to Ibrox, whereas Winters was a slow burner and sacrificial enough to go between the sticks in a cup final after the buns managed to 'accidentally' injure yet another AFC keeper. - so these things can work out ! Even on Sunday - not quite the same scenario, but if you look at the respective performances of Anderson and Emmanuel-Thomas - the player that quietly slipped away in the other direction was far more impressive. Worst transfer deal in our history: Dodds was well liked by the Aberdeen support and was scoring goals for us yet we managed to give Dundee United money and sign a player that wasn't as good. Robbie Winters wasn't a terrible player but the money we paid for him he wasn't the player that we should have got. Those was the terrible days under Alex Miller and didn't get that much better under Ebbe Skovdahl. Edited August 10, 2021 by betting competition 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 24 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said: 2 hours ago, tarapoa said: We once gave Dundee United about 800K plus Billy Dodds for the services of Robbie Winters. Dodds scored so many there that he 'won' a move to Ibrox, whereas Winters was a slow burner and sacrificial enough to go between the sticks in a cup final after the buns managed to 'accidentally' injure yet another AFC keeper. - so these things can work out ! Even on Sunday - not quite the same scenario, but if you look at the respective performances of Anderson and Emmanuel-Thomas - the player that quietly slipped away in the other direction was far more impressive. I'll always maintain that at the time, the Dodds/Winters deal was a good one for Aberdeen. I was very young but I remember Dodds being the kind of striker that needed half a dozen chances a game to score. Winters was much younger, I think was on the fringes of the Scotland squad and we were buying a promising young player, probably hoping he'd score a shitload and we could punt him on. Ok, it didn't work out like that and we couldn't have forseen the upturn in Dodds fortunes after he left us. Hindsight a wonderful thing but at the time it was a good deal, as was the Bernard one. I remember thinking it was a shit deal at the time but i do think people's view of Winters is adversely affected by it. He was a top player, not so much in goals though. A straight swap would have been a fair deal but us chucking £800k in was always ridiculous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 I remember thinking it was a shit deal at the time but i do think people's view of Winters is adversely affected by it. He was a top player, not so much in goals though. A straight swap would have been a fair deal but us chucking £800k in was always ridiculous. That's the issue. People look back with rose tinted glasses. Bernard was a good deal at the time. He'd played in the new Premier League in England and should really have gone on to get 40-50 Scotland caps if he wasn't perma injured, however, I'm not sure we were to know how often he'd be injured when we signed him. I'll always stick by the fact that at the time, they weren't the terrible deals they turned out to be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukDukGoose Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 The EE had lots of polls at the time. Who should be signed, sold etc. Winter's was always on the "must sign" list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobles Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Worst transfer deal in our history: Dodds was well liked by the Aberdeen support and was scoring goals for us yet we managed to give Dundee United money and sign a player that wasn't as good. Robbie Winters wasn't a terrible player but the money we paid for him he wasn't the player that we should have got. Those was the terrible days under Alex Miller and didn't get that much better under Ebbe Skovdahl. I would have loved to see Winters AND Dodds playing for Aberdeen. That could have been special 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyDickFingers Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 The Dodds/Winters deal followed by paying 850k for O'Neil then selling him for 350k a year later if I recall correctly are the worst I can think of. Bernard suffered from people expecting him to win games by himself because of the price tag and most importantly the injuries like previously mentioned. Special mention goes out for paying 1 million for Tzvetanov and Kiriakov then punting Tzanko a year later for 100,00 euro. But I just remind myself of Cosgrove going for circa 2 million and I'm in a happy place again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 7 minutes ago, CCB19035 said: 11,000 tickets sold and they've been on general sale since 9AM yesterday morning. That's pretty bloody poor. £30 a ticket is surely one of the reasons, Celtic are £19 for a ticket in competition a tier above ours, and St J's have offered their ST holders free tickets for the Gala game. A fair few people online etc saying they genuinely can't afford to go at the rates on offer. Not to sound pant pishy or whatever, but I think the club have dropped the ball on this one. They have to consider opposition etc when pricing, surely? Your casual fan isn't going to attend a match against Icelandic part timers at £30 a pop. No surprise. I think that 30 quid is the most expensive ticket, ever, for a Dons home game. As you say, against an Icelandic team. I have a feeling that it might be a wee bit harder than we all think on Thursday, but the fact is that we won away from home, and the casual fan is thinking why shell out 30 quid on a routine sure thing ? I realise that the club have to try and make money back from somewhere, but I think that Dave 'man of the people' Cormack has got this one hilariously wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 £30 is ridiculous tbh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobles Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 11,000 tickets sold and they've been on general sale since 9AM yesterday morning. That's pretty bloody poor. £30 a ticket is surely one of the reasons, Celtic are £19 for a ticket in competition a tier above ours, and St J's have offered their ST holders free tickets for the Gala game. A fair few people online etc saying they genuinely can't afford to go at the rates on offer. Not to sound pant pishy or whatever, but I think the club have dropped the ball on this one. They have to consider opposition etc when pricing, surely? Your casual fan isn't going to attend a match against Icelandic part timers at £30 a pop. Add in that some people couldn't book their ST seats due to AFC wanting to maximise attendance.The pricing has been OTT so far for euro games, so I dread to imagine the multi-game ticket price should we qualify 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldie1980 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 marley Watkins scoring a double tonight for Cardiff,can't help thinking he would have been a great signing for us 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbrush1903 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 2 hours ago, Dons_1988 said: £30 is ridiculous tbh Some are paying £34 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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