Ex-Dons

[57vintage]

Michael Paton appointed Brechin City manager. Oooof thats a tough gig for your first

He’ll maybe get a ride though.

[Pacman1903]

Nice, I'll need to head down

Hes only 31. I canna believe that

[Pacman1903]

New Keith manager

[Don_Corleone]

Former midfield maestro Stevie Gleason currently on telly playing for Solihull Somethingorother in the FA Cup.

[InversneckieDob]

Former midfield maestro Stevie Gleason currently on telly playing for Solihull Somethingorother in the FA Cup.

Is that nae where Rooney ended up?

[sheepcrooky]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...SCZcrMf8s0JKBk

That’s pretty **** for Willie Young. I was a young nipper watching from the main stand when he ripped off his AFC top and threw it at Bonthrone (I think it was Bonthrone and I think it was v the pikeys).

[57vintage]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...SCZcrMf8s0JKBk

That’s pretty **** for Willie Young. I was a young nipper watching from the main stand when he ripped off his AFC top and threw it at Bonthrone (I think it was Bonthrone and I think it was v the pikeys).

A sad state of affairs. Your memory’s OK. September 75.

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=3183&season=1975-76&squad=Senior

[SparkyFaeStoney]

Bobby Wishart footballer. Born: March 10 1933. Died: December 2 2020, aged 87

https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituary-bobby-wishart-scots-footballer-who-won-first-division-championships-two-clubs-3072735

[donsdaft]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...SCZcrMf8s0JKBk

That’s pretty **** for Willie Young. I was a young nipper watching from the main stand when he ripped off his AFC top and threw it at Bonthrone (I think it was Bonthrone and I think it was v the pikeys).

I missed this one on the day.

The best one on one duel I ever saw at the fitba was at a midweek evening game (must have been a cup tie) at Tannadice.

Some battle between Wuillie Young and Andy Gray.

Think I took a blonde to the match which would date it circa 1975

[donsdaft]

Great thing this google.

Dundee United 0 Aberdeen 1

Scottish Cup fourth round. 74/75 season

We'd knocked the Hun out in the previous round.

[medw1311]

Danny Rogers gifting St.Mirren a last minute equaliser by catching a cross and then falling into his own net with the ball.

[57vintage]

I know I’ve previously listed him among the worst signings that the Dons ever made in my 55 years of attendance, but I’m sorry to see news of Barrie Mitchell’s death at 73, in today’s press. Bonthrone grabbed him from Dunfermline when pressure was on him to sell Joe Harper, and nobody was ever really going to replace him.

I didna realise that he was originally from the city.

I can only remember him scoring once, when we beat Manchester United 5-2 in a crowd-pulling friendly as a sweetener for Docherty’s capture of Martin Buchan.

http://www.afcheritage.org/Team/CurrentSquad/player_show.cfm?player_id=80&Season=1972-73

[donsdaft]

We still haven’t replaced Joe Harper, Frank McDougall was probably the closest.

Some crowd that night against Man U.

God knows what the official attendance was but there were about 15,000 in the Beach End alone.


RIP Barrie Mitchell

[hajduk]

When I was a lad, a tiny wee lad, I often watched Barrie Mitchell when he played for Sunnybank. He was one of my first footballing heroes. At junior level he was outstanding and seemed capable of winning games by himself. I was not surprised that he went on to be a success at Arbroath and Dunfermiline Athletic. It remains one of the disappointments, and mysteries, of my Dons supporting life that it didn't work out for well for Barrie at Aberdeen F.C. I was unaware, until reading one of his obituaries, that he had suffered a slipped disc before kicking a ball in anger for the Dons and that it had hindered his mobility for the rest of his career.
Another one gone. Soon there will be "no more heroes anymore".

[57vintage]

The slipped disc issue didn’t register with me in 1972, and like Haj I only discovered it when I read the obituary in today’s online news. In 1972, discs were Telegram Sam and Rory Gallagher Live! In Europe.

He wasn’t the last bad back in a red shirt though. Memories of Steve Ritchie and Richie Byrne have the potential to drive me to a psychiatry appointment.