City of Aberdeen and its football club.

[donsdaft]

It's a f'uckin shed.

Furthermore, if anyone ( does anyone?) want to go and look at pictures, why would they need any "retail space?"


The most expensive shed in the world.

[TheDeeDon]

****ing hell of an over reaction to a very bad game for us last night.

I've never got my head around thinking we should by rights be beating any team we come across, even more so now than ever. Fitba like most other things has changed drastically over the past 30 odd years. Our playing budget of around £10 million (nae idea if that is right as unlike others on here I don't get a stiffy off the back of our financial results) doesn't give us access to a better pool of players to buy than say Livi who have a budget of around £1million. Just look at us signing a like Miovski for £500k in the summer and think that we paid £650k for Gillhaus back in 89, no way we are comparing apples with apples now and that is not meant as a go at Mio as I like the loon, but sorry he is no Gillhaus.

I said I would give it until the first round of fixtures until I gave any opinions on our signings and still prepared to do so as I think we have seen progress, despite some shockers against Motherwell, Hibs and especially last night against the jute, which was a real hard one to take.

As for the city, it is not a bad place to live. Union Street has been jaded for years, like most other shopping streets in most places across the UK and has really been hit over the past few years. The building of Marischal Square was never going to help much and is as much a monstrosity as what it replaced and the poor Provost Skene hoose has been left in the shadows once again whereby it should have been a jewel to accompany the splendid Marischal college and a revamped Art Gallery and Union Terrace Gardens.

As for the city, my biggest gripe is the oil industry, we have feck all to show for it bar loads of people on inflated salaries with a sense entitlement not seen since the Hun went pop who drive horrible cars and live in mainly horrible houses on the outskirts of the city or in the 'shire' and who have a love of the tory party.

[donsdaft]

I moved to abz 10 years ago and I'd love to now live somewhere else, abroad would be great but doubtfull, its a depressing city at the best of times with fūck all in it to do. Many many people born n bred here say the same to me! I generally hear many call it aberdoom, sad as fūck I know but in general apart from the lovely outdoor scenery up the Highlands etc Scotland is in fact shÃ*te to live in as the hole of the UK. Britain is the worst place to live in the hole of Europe

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.

[57vintage]

Who looked up at the Gallery roof before the copper extension was added? Nae ****, that’s who and it was only the howls at the moon (it’s somewhere in the sky too) of the perennially-girning nationalist ****ers on the last cooncil who started it, taken up by their usual ‘four legs good, two legs bad’ online attack dogs. Funny how silent they’ve gone on it since the Gallery has won awards for design, content, and accessibility. Their silence has also been quite remarkable since they took control of the cooncil. Awaiting orders from Edinburgh, I should imagine.

Whatever happened to the subsidiarity aim in the 1997 Scotland Act?

[donsdaft]

****ing hell of an over reaction to a very bad game for us last night.

I've never got my head around thinking we should by rights be beating any team we come across, even more so now than ever. Fitba like most other things has changed drastically over the past 30 odd years. Our playing budget of around £10 million (nae idea if that is right as unlike others on here I don't get a stiffy off the back of our financial results) doesn't give us access to a better pool of players to buy than say Livi who have a budget of around £1million. Just look at us signing a like Miovski for £500k in the summer and think that we paid £650k for Gillhaus back in 89, no way we are comparing apples with apples now and that is not meant as a go at Mio as I like the loon, but sorry he is no Gillhaus.

I said I would give it until the first round of fixtures until I gave any opinions on our signings and still prepared to do so as I think we have seen progress, despite some shockers against Motherwell, Hibs and especially last night against the jute, which was a real hard one to take.

As for the city, it is not a bad place to live. Union Street has been jaded for years, like most other shopping streets in most places across the UK and has really been hit over the past few years. The building of Marischal Square was never going to help much and is as much a monstrosity as what it replaced and the poor Provost Skene hoose has been left in the shadows once again whereby it should have been a jewel to accompany the splendid Marischal college and a revamped Art Gallery and Union Terrace Gardens.

As for the city, my biggest gripe is the oil industry, we have feck all to show for it bar loads of people on inflated salaries with a sense entitlement not seen since the Hun went pop who drive horrible cars and live in mainly horrible houses on the outskirts of the city or in the 'shire' and who have a love of the tory party.

Don't worry about Provost Skene's house as the cooncil have f'ucked it up anyway.

I think I have only been once, but thought it was really good with all the furniture crammed into small rooms, allowing you a feeling of how hard it was to keep warm in the North East, even in a posh hoose like that,or maybe even especially in a posh hoose like that.

It was so good in fact, that according to the paper, the cooncil ripped out all the furniture and replaced it all with notice boards telling you how the furniture "would have looked" and other s'hite like that.

Well done cooncil, yet another thing completely f'ucked up.

Now, lets see what a total a'rse they make of the green.

[donsdaft]

Who looked up at the Gallery roof before the copper extension was added? Nae ****, that’s who and it was only the howls at the moon (it’s somewhere in the sky too) of the perennially-girning nationalist ****ers on the last cooncil who started it, taken up by their usual ‘four legs good, two legs bad’ online attack dogs. Funny how silent they’ve gone on it since the Gallery has won awards for design, content, and accessibility. Their silence has also been quite remarkable since they took control of the cooncil. Awaiting orders from Edinburgh, I should imagine.

Whatever happened to the subsidiarity aim in the 1997 Scotland Act?

Awards for design

So has Rosemount Square


I'm not against all new building

https://youtu.be/Ip349VL_UfU

[DonUnder]

Awards for design

So has Rosemount Square

Flats in the square were pretty good to be fair but having to run through it when I was late for school was more enlightening than anything I learned once i had arrived.

But The Green?!

Don't get back much but thought it looked far better a few months ago. I think they waited until George Romero died to demolish the indoor market surely that was where he filmed most of his movies?

[Bavarian_Don]

My dear Dons, as you might know i live in Bavaria just south of the city Augsburg.
Since a long time I support FC Augsburg and have a season ticket, also my two children. There were ups and downs, but the club did hold the class in the 1. Bundesliga since 13 years in a row now and developed well, a new stadium for 42 Mio. € built in 2012 with a capacity of 30.600, new training grounds, a youth camp, club office and much more. Great infrastructure.

Augsburg is the third biggest city in Bavaria with a bit more than 300.000 inhabitants.
Aberdeen is the third biggest city in Scotland with aproximately 220.000 inhabitants.
Augsburg is the poorest city in Bavaria if you believe latest statistics.
Aberdeen is the richest city in Scotland after all what I know.
FC Augsburg is a rather small club in the Bundesliga with (22000 members)
FC Aberdeen was the no. 1 in Scotland in the 1980th when i discovered the Dons
FC Augsburg’s team has a market worth of around 100 Mio. €
FC Aberdeen’s team has a market worth of around 10 Mio. €
FC Augsburg built a new stadium for 30.600 fans
FC Aberdeen is just talking-talking since years
FC Augsburg has an average visitors number of fans around 28.000
FC Aberdeen this season until now around 13.000

I could go on with comparing of these two places which simply are comparable in my eyes…

So what the hell is going wrong in Aberdeen that it’s football club has such a bad condition and it even gets worse all the time?! This city with it’s economic strength must be able to host a more successful football club than AFC is now and since many years…

Please don’t get me wrong, I do not want to bore anybody here or hurt anybody feelings, forgive me for bringing me into this discussion and comparing the two clubs, but I deeply believe there is not only the same name “FCA� but there is more in common as I tried to explain and nevertheless I will keep Aberdeen in my heart and hoping there will come better times soon.

I still remember the great time that I had with the Dons in 2007 when a few thousands came to Munich for the Euroleague match against FC Bayern and the Augustiner in the city centre was full with Dons in a friendly atmosphere and also the support in the Allianz Arena. OK, it was a clear 5:1 for Bayern after a draw 2:2 at Pittodrie but at that time AFC was at least able to be a halfway good opponent for them, but this is long gone… FC Augsburg won in a great game against them at home 3 weeks ago 1:0 – not for the first time…

All the very best for Aberdeen FC and stand free, wherever you might be – also me in Bavaria.

Bavarian_Don

[DondyDan]

Wrong! I've visited 4 European countries and 4 states in USA!

You know there are 44 countries in Europe (well 47 if you count properly) and 50 US states?

Or are you trying to be funny?

[57vintage]

Awards for design

So has Rosemount Square

I'm not against all new building

https://youtu.be/Ip349VL_UfU

I can’t fathom out why the local serial red-faced blowhard amateur design ‘experts’ (you’re exempted because we’re going for a pint, and I’m ****ed if I’m spending decent Lampie time speaking about buildings) fulminate like **** over the Marischal Square boxes (see fit I did there?), yet gush like Snuffy Ivy on the occasion of supply boat onshore leave over the big ****ing featureless glass box that is the university’s Duncan Rice Library on Bedford Road. It’s magnificent inside, like.

Did anybody else watch the documentary about the M8, only half of its urban footprint ever built, on telly during the week? Now THAT was urban vandalism.

Aberdeen, as far as I’m concerned, is neither better nor worse than most other urban settlements I’ve ever visited in Europe, and beyond. I imagine that moaners are going to moan, girners are going to girn, whingers are going to whinge, complainers are going to complain, greeting ****s are going to greet, wherever a slab is laid, concrete is mixed, and they dinna like the cooncil.