City of Aberdeen and its football club.

[Bavarian_Don]

Re Augsburg,

Two major differences.

1) Major clubs in Europe tend to be membership clubs rather than our company model.

2) Playing in the Bundesliga, Augsburg's tv revenue will be considerably larger than Aberdeens.

Also, apart from the twa cheeks, players in Scotland tend to be undervalued compared to the bigger leagues.

I agree, this is true without any doubt, nevertheless i'm absolutely sure, that at a place like Aberdeen it must be possible to reform the football club to be more successful and more resistant than it is since a long time now and the forecast is not getting better....

[Sidney77]

A survey, in the mid-90s I think, showed that a substantial majority of the Dons’ home crowds came from the city’s hinterlands to the north and west. I doubt that that has changed much. Anecdotally, Toonsers seem far more negative about the club than we mealers. My oft-used quote that a mannie I knew, who, when I met him about a week after 11.05.83 complained that his jacket was still soaking after the Gothenburg rain, is true.

Anyone who complains about the state of the city centre’s retail offer, but who buys regularly online, is part of the problem. That woukd include me, but I don’t complain about it. City and town centres throughout these islands are in exactly the same state. When the ‘malls’ were first mooted in the 1980s, this was, according to then contemporary research, the way that people wanted to shop, especially in the prime retail season of November/December. Traipsing around Union Street and George Street in the cold drizzle, with a 25MPH south-westerly taking its toll was no longer shoppers’ preferred experience, it showed, and having to get the bussie hame whilst carrying a rocking horse, Subbuteo accessories from The Rubber Shop, and a turkey fae Morrice the Butcher was not the ideal retail experience, Mr and Mrs Joseph opined. A heated shopping centre, with a roof, and a modern version of the New Market’s Penguin Café, far you could buy a’thing, and cairry it oot to the Austin Maxi in the car park? Sold.

Hindsight and revisionism are poor planning tools, but are fabulous ammunition for perpetually-moaning ****s.

And we need a hairy-arsed no-nonsense right back who can defend until we can coach defensive nous into Jayden.

And that’s fit I think.

Brilliant. Gave me a smile.

[Auldtoontoby]

Going back further.
The toon "planners" who allowed the old original thoroughfare from the harbour, up Shiprow, up what is now Broad St, up the Gallowgate to the Spittal and onto the Auld Toon.. To be destroyed.
That history and culture. was taken away from us by the "planners" and replaced by concrete
Aul Toon brings in tourists, but imagine the numbers if this old thoroughfare still existed.

[sonofrgmsdad]

from the harbour, up Shiprow, up what is now Broad St, up the Gallowgate to the Spittal and onto the Auld Toon

Is still available!

[57vintage]

If you’ve nae already read it, ATT min, Crucible of Secrets by Shona MacLean, a Banff quine if my memory’s in gear, might be right up your Wrights and Coopers Place. It’s set in 1631, and the Marischal College librarian has been found dead. There’s a good bit of to-ing and fro-ing between Marischal and Kings College, slums, hoorhooses and taverns in Putachieside as the investigation goes on.

I got a proof copy from the publisher, and caused a bit of a panic when I found a plot error suggesting that some official wifie was shagging her brother (had it been set in Huntly naebody would have batted an eyelid). I hope they made the edit before they published it.

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co....scrucible.html

[Bisconti's balls]

I don't mean this as a "why don't you f'uck off then" comment but why don't you move abroad?

Obviously I don't know your personal circumstances and it can be difficult to move for lots of reasons, but most of those reasons and only excuses in disguise.

Not easy when the other half isn't big on the idea' well not right now as her parents are still alive 80 & 82.. but yes it wouldn't be easy we don't have high savings to up sticks & move abroad but hopefully be in a position to move in the comings years.

[donsdaft]

Yes, that's the usual excuse/reason.
The trouble is that sometimes parents hang on for long enough, could be another 15 years including care home visits.

Savings? What's that?



Truth is though , if the wife's not keen then you're buggered.

[Auldtoontoby]

Nowhere like it was.
Only the buildings around Blue Lamp are anything like the original.
Yes the "road" is there, but is has been butchered and the history, culture, wiped out for monstrous replacements.

[Auldtoontoby]

Vintage.,cheers i will look up that book.
Wrights n Coopers, affa close to Thom's Place 😉

[57vintage]

I nearly ended up in lodgings with a very kindly landlady (nothing fool, orra, or immoral, you filthy animals) in Douglas Lane in my final year at the U of A. My pal who was graduating a year ahead of me was moving out to do his PhD in Edinburgh, and his landlady was looking for another clean-living, studious, polite and tolerant individual to take his place. I found a semi-slum in Orchard Street instead. She had a lucky escape. Lovely area, like. Delegates from across the planet at the 2016 Dickens Fellowship Conference marvelled at the architecture which is aulder than most of their countries.

My old comrade is now one of Scotland’s foremost professors of education, highly-critical of the failed ****eshow over which several and a half Education Ministers have presided for the last decade and a bit. I’m still a ****ing chancer who’s bluffed his way through occasionally-gainful employment.

https://youtu.be/a9lUG4gBjSE