City of Aberdeen and its football club.

[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.

[donsdaft]

I telt them not to build any f'uckin shopping centres in the first place but nobody would listen.

In particular, the madness of building yet another shopping centre down by the harbour was always going to finish off the toon.

Add to that the expensive vandalism that's passed for town planning over many years, including wrecking the trainy park and building a shed on top of the art gallery then I'm afraid the future looks bleak.

[57vintage]

The ‘shed on top of the Art Gallery’ affords attendees to enjoy their fly whilst enjoying the view of the 90° sweep of the city centre from south to west. An even wider sweep if the weather allows one to venture on to the rooftop seating area. I like it a lot, but do prefer the view from the also-controversial café/restaurant extendion ti HM Thestre, although The Triple Kirks vista has been spoiled. ‘The shed’ provided a fine backdrop this morning to the Kuenssberg interviews where Cherry and Sturgeon were surrogates in the REAL intellectual battle going on between you and Mason89 in these here parts, although they were both gritted-teethingly polite about each other.

It’s also increased the available gallery space considerably, and allows for additional café and retail space which has been enhanced further recently.

I suggest you need new glasses to see the bigger picture. I believe there’s a decent place in Rosemount that would help you out, although the co-proprietor is a right radge.

[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]

****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.

[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]

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?

[donsdaft]

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?

My grunny bade in Kintore Place and we weren't allowed over to play in Rosemount Square, even in the sixties.

I'm pretty sure I had some chums at school ( Skene Square) from there though.

Some really dodgy characters there now, you see them in the local shop.