Where is our support?

[mondo_notion]

Well this particular little sheepcrooky fan is stuck quarantined at home for the next 14 days. Just returned from Malta today, 12 hours too late.

You fairly get aboot min. You'll need to get some boxsets loaded up for the next couple of weeks.

[Jupiter]

Well this particular little sheepcrooky fan is stuck quarantined at home for the next 14 days. Just returned from Malta today, 12 hours too late.

Go outside, you'll easily get away with it.

[sheepcrooky]

You fairly get aboot min.

Worried if I don’t keep moving, I may get caught for the George Murdoch shenanigans.

[RED_JOHN]

Go outside, you'll easily get away with it.

[Don Julio]

Aboyne Academy in the 80s, mostly Dons but a fair few Huns. 0 Tims that I can recall.

I blame religion.

[InversneckieDob]

Living in the Highlands there's a rake o' JJs and Sevconians, but there is a big "sleeping" Dandy's support up here.
To be fair, mainly residual glory hunters from them days, but it's there.

What mair concern me is the number of younger folk, sub 30 primarily, completely and utterly captivated by the Wendy, Moneyball league.

Their espousal of allegiance to Abu Dhabi, Fenway Sports, The Glazers or whichever corporate behemoth is flavour of the month irks and frightens me.

Oh, and most of the Inverness and County fans, with a few honourable exceptions, still have a "big" team.

[57vintage]

My place of work since retirement, is the hoose. Two of us. 100% red, fitba and politically. Both kids reared on “Nae Dons? Nae dinner” principles. One now domiciled in Ontario gets a new Dons shirt/training top at this time of year, and recently scored a replica 83 shirt off eBay. First time we visited Toronto, we were greeted by a hand-held card bearing a ‘COYR’ message. My Red TV log-in is shared so that match commentary can be enjoyed across the Atlantic, 5/6 hours in arrears.

The other child, based in Soapdodging Central sent a rather fetching fake-retching video last year, as work duties necessitated a walk past the still-crumbling Sevcovid Towers. Grimacing towards overt Sevcovistry and Victimhoodies during dog and kid exercising in Queens Park is actively encouraged and regarded as sport. Grandson was born in Paisley, and will be encouraged to follow family fitba loyalties, but if he wants to support his home city and St Paisley, that’ll be OK.

At school, I was just about the only Dons fan. The VicTims winning some bauble in 1967 saw a huge wave of gloryhunting, and with a considerable support for the Deid*******s in the NE at the time, when few people could afford to travel on the barely-metalled cairt tracks that made up our roads system, meant that the whole ‘ I support them because my dad did’ excuse for being a **** was rolled out. I did used to delight in telling them that I saw their teams more often than thet did, the ****ing erseholes.

Our street seems to be pretty solid red, perhaps due to Peter Weir and Davie Wyllie having been neighbours back in the day. Our next door neighbour is a Manchester City fan of 60 years, as is the gas mannie along the street. Both Mancs who had to put up with ****e for years, so that’s OK. The same goes for my old Malt Mill team mate Ronnie who bides roon the corner, an Everton fan.

**** everyone else.

[InversneckieDob]

Top quality parenting that man.
Virtual cap virtually doffed.

[Stav22]

Said this years ago that abz/shire has a hoorin amount of huns! Strange city

[sonofrgmsdad]

Said this years ago that abz/shire has a hoorin amount of huns! Strange city

Back in the 70's Aberdeen had a population similar in size to Dundee's of c180,000. Since then Dundee has reduced in size whilst Aberdeen has grown to c230,000. Further there has been a similar growth in the Shire. Therefore in our city region there is around 1/5th of the population not "from around 'ere". Indeed at one point Aberdeen's growth in population was greater than Scotland's growth reflecting a movement of Scots towards the jobs boost from the oil industry.

These "incomers" will not have any allegience to the Dons, indeed many of them will be followers of Sevco or Smelly. Not really a "strange city"

It will likely take a few generations to turn the sons, grandsons of these incomers to Dons fans. My son for example, although he spent all his life in Aberdeen, wouldn't have been anything other than top red, wherever we were living. I'm sure a lot of the "incomers" would be the same.

Come on ewe redz.