2018 Summer recruitment

[redstarfk]

Not meaning to harass you any further than you already feel you’re being harassed, but genuine question... why don’t you give a monkeys about European football?

Loyalty Points are at the heart of it.

None of the Dons matches will be in Mason's central-belt comfort zone , so obviously he won't be going (unless of course AFC lay on complimentary tickets and travel for his two-member , unregistered supporters club)

No European ties means Mason doesn't miss ou on any LP's

[Stavros39]

Not a lot has changed on here over the years! Still your similar characters from before! Every cu•nt is different who cares if some moan a bit or some happy clap a bit. STOP giving every f•ucking one grief who has a different opinion! Ones on here berating mason n red John must be right controlling buggers in real life!

[Stavros39]

Cracking support Burnley have. Even when in the lower leagues always carry a healthy support for such a small town.

Some rowdy f•ckers in castlegate typival

[thebeachend]

Maybe Burnley Suicide. ****ing sick missing these ties.

[Pacman1903]

Cracking support Burnley have. Even when in the lower leagues always carry a healthy support for such a small town.

The dudes i was speaking to said 4k are travelling

[Mason89]

None of the Dons matches will be in Mason's central-belt comfort zone , so obviously he won't be going (unless of course AFC lay on complimentary tickets and travel for his two-member , unregistered supporters club)

Firstly, I’m in Norway so it’s not really practical to make it along to Pittodrie, even if I wanted to (I don’t - f*ck UEFA)

Remind me again, what unregistered two member supporters club am I a member of?

[Don_Corleone]

Not a lot has changed on here over the years! Still your similar characters from before! Every cu•nt is different who cares if some moan a bit or some happy clap a bit. STOP giving every f•ucking one grief who has a different opinion! Ones on here berating mason n red John must be right controlling buggers in real life!

Absolutely, the whole point in a messageboard is to have discussion and debate - we’ve all got different opinions which is fine, there’s no need for folk to get personal just because others disagree with them. At end of the day we’ve all got the same desire - to see our team winning, which hopefully we’ll do tonight!

[Don_Corleone]

It’s not a competition that UEFA want teams like Aberdeen in.

I get what you’re saying, everything is set up for us to fail - it would be a minor miracle for a team like us or Hibs to reach the groups. It does give us opportunity to play a few games against teams outwith the 11 we play ump**** times a season though and it is a means of generating a little more revenue for the club.

Do you reckon it would be better going back to the 3 European trophies and bringing back the CWC?

[RED_JOHN]

I get what you’re saying, everything is set up for us to fail - it would be a minor miracle for a team like us or Hibs to reach the groups. It does give us opportunity to play a few games against teams outwith the 11 we play ump**** times a season though and it is a means of generating a little more revenue for the club.

Do you reckon it would be better going back to the 3 European trophies and bringing back the CWC?

Bring back the Cup Winners Cup...the Dons have a soft spot for that tournament.

[afc1903mad]

Here's what determines the probability of success in fitba in order of importance:

1. Money
2. Luck
A very, very distant 3rd indeed: anything else, including your manager.

This isn't just my subjective opinion. The subject has been researched to death, and the product of that research has been summarised in popular books of the Soccernomics type. They're easy to read, easy to understand and if you skim the padding not especially dry. They won't tell you what Aberdeen's chances of winning trophies are, but they will give you the tools to provide you with a much better idea than many seem to have.

AFAIC nobody should be criticising a manager's achievements unless they have a basic understanding of how probability works in the game. Valid criticism needs to apply criteria that measures achievement against reasonable expectations given a club's resources and that of their rivals.

Even a moderate understanding of this stuff would blow the kind of superficially plausible but quite frankly ridiculous statements we often see on this forum out of the water. Such as:

- we should reasonably expect to win a cup every 2-3 years
- we should expect to be putting in a real challenge for the title
- given the temporary demise of Hunco and Hearts our recent achievements of finishing 2nd and getting to finals and semi-finals is no more than delivering on reasonable expectations and shouldn't be viewed as success.

Anybody who thinks any of these statements is true literally has no comprehension of how probability works in the game.

I see posters being called "happy clappers" because they disagree with criticism of the club during what has been by any rational measure a period of genuine success given our financial limitations.

In fact it's the critics that are the happy clappers: they are holding the club to a fantasy standard born of wishful thinking. It has absolutely no basis in logic or reason. As an Aberdeen fan who can remember Gothenburg and league titles I grieve that the club's relative status in the game is so catastrophically reduced. But much as I despise Milne, particularly for his 'we need a strong Rangers' stance, this is down to forces no chairman could have controlled. And our current manager has done a very good job in the circumstances.

What a cracking post.
This man gets it.