City of Aberdeen and its football club.

[Red Zone]

Hi Red Zone,
well, your club, which i know from the 1980th simply still is in my heart, i'm 54 now. They did beat Bayern and Hamburg which were really strong teams but Aberdeen was better that time! My dad was/is a Bayern supporter and i never have been one, and so i was oposition to him and hoped everybody who played FCB will win, and Aberdeen did. Have been to Pittodrie also, last time in 1996 and the mentioned game in Munich UEFA-Cup in 21.02.2008. Every week after Bundesliga and comming home from the stadium i serch for the result from Scotland and yesterday again after our 1:1 against Wolfsburg, the company club of VW with lots of money from the company, i just hit my hand to my head when i saw Aberdeens result against Dunde Utd.
You are absolulety right, even Bayern this season maybe is not that dominating, it will be enough to win the league again, which is a big problem for such a big league like the Bundesliga. Apart from that the league nevertheless is very interesting and what we are very proud of in Germany, at least the absolutely majority of fans, is the fact, that no one can buy a club like in England and other countries, there is no rich arab from Quatar or a billionair from Russia who can buy a club, use it as his toy and has the say than, we still have the so called "50 + 1 rule" which safes the original club behind the profi-team and it's members always the majority of power and deciding important things. The other side of the medaille is, that for this reason there is not so unbelievable much money under way like in the English Premier League but we prefere our situation much more, Leipzig is a special thing that never should be allowed to happen, as it is no real club, it is just a marketing product of Red Bull, like all the others like Salzburg or the Munich Icehockeyteam etc.. We will wait and see how long the rule will hold, hopefully again for a long time...
In Augsburg you are able to get a season ticket on an avarage place for a bit under 500 €, when you are club member for aprox. 400 €, a good one for arround 630 €, as a member arround 560 €. A standing season ticket in the fan curve, the "Ulrich Biesinger Tribüne" you can get for 199 , being a member for 174 €. Augsburg Football Club is one of the clubs with the tickets that are most valued for money. And aye, this season we did beat Leverkusen for the first time ever – good stuff! Main thing as usually to hold the class with not so much money.
Hope this was what you were interested in and what you wanted to know.
Greetings to bonnie Scotland.

Thanks for the info BD. The prices for season tickets are very good and not much more than we pay for season tickets here. Given the difference in the quality of football you guys see, no doubt which offers the best value for money (unless of course we keep averaging five goals per game at Pittodrie!!).

[TheDeeDon]

I've always liked Norco House, something different in the heart of the city, although I wouldn't have ripped out the heart of the city centre to build it, same applies to the shopping centres.
We elect these goons of every political persuasion to act on our behalf and then they usually feck everything up afterwards. I used to work with a Labour councillor who was very open about the level of corruption going on and did very nicely out of the city and never gave a f uck about his decisions even when he knew they were wrong.
It's difficult to link the poor performance of the club to the city, but it is certainly better when we are good and getting to finals gives the place a spark.

[sonofrgmsdad]

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.

[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....

[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!

[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.

[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

[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]

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