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New music, live music, vinyl, band Ts, 1980s music, running, comedy, the Dandy Dons, travel, crime novels, family, gin, IPA, pets. Not all in that order though. Count beans. Avoid politics. Views personal. Glasgow. Edinburgh. London. Aberdeen. Anywhere.
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Hi I’m Jim. I’m a bean counter from the Central Belt whose passions include running, new music, live music, running, vinyl, band Ts, running, comedy, the Dandy Dons, running, crime novels, family, gin, IPA, pets and running. Oh and did I mention running or parkrun?🎸🎤🏃🏼♂️⚽️
Can’t defend? ✅
Can’t score? ✅
Too old and too slow in midfield?✅
Powderpuff creative players?✅
Can’t find a win?✅
A non-entity of a captain?✅
Maybe a game against Hibs is just what we need next week❓
Another defeat & I think the manager faces serious pressure
Can’t score? ✅
Too old and too slow in midfield?✅
Powderpuff creative players?✅
Can’t find a win?✅
A non-entity of a captain?✅
Maybe a game against Hibs is just what we need next week❓
Another defeat & I think the manager faces serious pressure
January 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Can’t defend? ✅
Can’t score? ✅
Too old and too slow in midfield?✅
Powderpuff creative players?✅
Can’t find a win?✅
A non-entity of a captain?✅
Maybe a game against Hibs is just what we need next week❓
Another defeat & I think the manager faces serious pressure
Can’t score? ✅
Too old and too slow in midfield?✅
Powderpuff creative players?✅
Can’t find a win?✅
A non-entity of a captain?✅
Maybe a game against Hibs is just what we need next week❓
Another defeat & I think the manager faces serious pressure
Losing 3-0 at home to St Mirren just when you think it can’t get any worse…13 league games without a win is worse than the very worst of the Glass Goodwin and Robson eras. Forget Europe. Staying in the top half looks ambitious now. Worrying. Very very worrying.
January 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Losing 3-0 at home to St Mirren just when you think it can’t get any worse…13 league games without a win is worse than the very worst of the Glass Goodwin and Robson eras. Forget Europe. Staying in the top half looks ambitious now. Worrying. Very very worrying.
I don’t think it’s panicking to wonder whether Aberdeen might be drawn into that relegation play off spot. Can’t see us getting much from the Hibs, Dundee & Kilmarnock matches coming up & at this rate we could be out of the top half by next weekend. 🎢
January 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don’t think it’s panicking to wonder whether Aberdeen might be drawn into that relegation play off spot. Can’t see us getting much from the Hibs, Dundee & Kilmarnock matches coming up & at this rate we could be out of the top half by next weekend. 🎢
Poor Ange being found out for the flat track bully and incredibly arrogant manager that he is. Easy to look like a top manager when you’ve got a far bigger budget than everyone else in the league and your main rival is in turmoil…see also Stevie G, Brendan…
January 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Poor Ange being found out for the flat track bully and incredibly arrogant manager that he is. Easy to look like a top manager when you’ve got a far bigger budget than everyone else in the league and your main rival is in turmoil…see also Stevie G, Brendan…
First gig of 2025 and it was a cracker. The wonderful brownbear with his incredible backing singers and a string quartet. Indie Soul perfection. Fantastic vocals, harmonies & arrangements and loved the new song. 🎸🎹🎻🎤
January 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
First gig of 2025 and it was a cracker. The wonderful brownbear with his incredible backing singers and a string quartet. Indie Soul perfection. Fantastic vocals, harmonies & arrangements and loved the new song. 🎸🎹🎻🎤
A very sensible Aberdeen team imo. Good to see Clarkson, Shinnie & Nisbet “rested”. Keskinen & Okkels should benefit from sitting it out. Midfield of Polvara Palaversa & Nilsen one I am keen to see. Good to see Jensen & Tobers start. A make or break start for Ambrose. #standfree #COYR
January 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A very sensible Aberdeen team imo. Good to see Clarkson, Shinnie & Nisbet “rested”. Keskinen & Okkels should benefit from sitting it out. Midfield of Polvara Palaversa & Nilsen one I am keen to see. Good to see Jensen & Tobers start. A make or break start for Ambrose. #standfree #COYR
The morning after that 2-1 Rangers game at Pittodrie feels like a lifetime ago. Riding high & 9 points clear of Rangers. We are now closer to the relegation play off spot than we are to Rangers in second place. Absolutely baffling.
January 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The morning after that 2-1 Rangers game at Pittodrie feels like a lifetime ago. Riding high & 9 points clear of Rangers. We are now closer to the relegation play off spot than we are to Rangers in second place. Absolutely baffling.
Maybe expectations got carried away with the great start but think we just have to write this off as a transitional season. Bonus if we qualify for Europe. Every chance we slip into the bottom half. We will find a way to score and win eventually….
January 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maybe expectations got carried away with the great start but think we just have to write this off as a transitional season. Bonus if we qualify for Europe. Every chance we slip into the bottom half. We will find a way to score and win eventually….
Anyone starting to worry that Jimmy has bitten off more than he can chew and is out his depth at Aberdeen? Still 100% behind him of course but this run is increasingly baffling & he just can’t get a reaction from them. Cant even get the basics right. Worrying.
January 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Anyone starting to worry that Jimmy has bitten off more than he can chew and is out his depth at Aberdeen? Still 100% behind him of course but this run is increasingly baffling & he just can’t get a reaction from them. Cant even get the basics right. Worrying.
12 winless games. 4 points from 36. Don’t expect a result there but the lack of reaction from Aberdeen is the bigger worry. A shameful collapse. Creating nothing. No legs in the middle of the park and comic cuts from Nilsen. Surely we can’t Darvel it again at the weekend?
January 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
12 winless games. 4 points from 36. Don’t expect a result there but the lack of reaction from Aberdeen is the bigger worry. A shameful collapse. Creating nothing. No legs in the middle of the park and comic cuts from Nilsen. Surely we can’t Darvel it again at the weekend?
What on earth is Nilsen doing? Embarrassingly poor. Up there with Ruby for schoolboy errors the last few months. A liability. I would hook him now.
January 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What on earth is Nilsen doing? Embarrassingly poor. Up there with Ruby for schoolboy errors the last few months. A liability. I would hook him now.
Sure Rab C Nesbitt could do as good a job in this Aberdeen team as Kevin Nisbet. One of the least effective & impactful strikers I’ve ever seen in our team. Should be sent packing back to Millwall this week. Not the answer. Ditto Duk.
January 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Sure Rab C Nesbitt could do as good a job in this Aberdeen team as Kevin Nisbet. One of the least effective & impactful strikers I’ve ever seen in our team. Should be sent packing back to Millwall this week. Not the answer. Ditto Duk.
Some positives at least. A clean sheet. Didn’t lose. McGarry’s best performance to date. Tobers looked good. Palaversa decent. Keskinen had the makings of a real star. Doohan excellent. Find a striker & creative spark and no reason we can’t make Europe.
January 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Some positives at least. A clean sheet. Didn’t lose. McGarry’s best performance to date. Tobers looked good. Palaversa decent. Keskinen had the makings of a real star. Doohan excellent. Find a striker & creative spark and no reason we can’t make Europe.
The prospect of going to Elgin potentially not having won in 12 is already giving me the fear…
January 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The prospect of going to Elgin potentially not having won in 12 is already giving me the fear…
Lucky to escape with a point. Lack of composure quality urgency & creativity in that second half as surprising as it was poor. Far too pedestrian & slack all over the pitch. 4 points in 33 is catastrophic form in this league. Okkels being given 79 mins just baffling.
January 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Lucky to escape with a point. Lack of composure quality urgency & creativity in that second half as surprising as it was poor. Far too pedestrian & slack all over the pitch. 4 points in 33 is catastrophic form in this league. Okkels being given 79 mins just baffling.
Decent first half from McGarry. Solid enough at the back and has shown more pace & directness going forward today than Mackenzie has in months.
January 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Decent first half from McGarry. Solid enough at the back and has shown more pace & directness going forward today than Mackenzie has in months.
Just not clicking in the final third but a better first 45 & more solid at the back. Polvara & Morris on for Okkels & Clarkson please. A very winnable match.
January 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just not clicking in the final third but a better first 45 & more solid at the back. Polvara & Morris on for Okkels & Clarkson please. A very winnable match.
Some cracking business from @afc.co.uk this week. A very encouraging start to the January window & hopefully the catalyst to get us going again. A lot more optimism than last weekend. #coyr #standfree
January 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Some cracking business from @afc.co.uk this week. A very encouraging start to the January window & hopefully the catalyst to get us going again. A lot more optimism than last weekend. #coyr #standfree
Trying to stay positive. Still in a great league position. Polvara could be our best option at centre back. Saw a spark & hunger in the 2nd half that’s been missing for weeks. Desperately need a few new faces to get us moving again. #coyr #standfree
January 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trying to stay positive. Still in a great league position. Polvara could be our best option at centre back. Saw a spark & hunger in the 2nd half that’s been missing for weeks. Desperately need a few new faces to get us moving again. #coyr #standfree
Insipid horrible amateurish stuff from Aberdeen. Topi apart would happily bin this entire group. Passing from Nilsen & Palaversa highland league stuff. Schoolboy stuff from Rubi & MacDonald. Duk a waste of a shirt. At this rate finishing top 6 is at risk. Shocking stuff
January 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Insipid horrible amateurish stuff from Aberdeen. Topi apart would happily bin this entire group. Passing from Nilsen & Palaversa highland league stuff. Schoolboy stuff from Rubi & MacDonald. Duk a waste of a shirt. At this rate finishing top 6 is at risk. Shocking stuff
Insipid horrible amateurish stuff from Aberdeen. Topi apart would happily bin this entire group. Passing from Nilsen & Palaversa highland league stuff. Schoolboy stuff from Rubi & MacDonald. Duk a waste of a shirt. At this rate finishing top 6 is at risk. Shocking stuff
January 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Insipid horrible amateurish stuff from Aberdeen. Topi apart would happily bin this entire group. Passing from Nilsen & Palaversa highland league stuff. Schoolboy stuff from Rubi & MacDonald. Duk a waste of a shirt. At this rate finishing top 6 is at risk. Shocking stuff
Time to get the W again please Aberdeen. Would love to see Palaversa Morris & Keskinen all start today and would be tempted to switch McGarry in for Mackenzie.
January 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Time to get the W again please Aberdeen. Would love to see Palaversa Morris & Keskinen all start today and would be tempted to switch McGarry in for Mackenzie.
Bit of a niche post I know but incredibly impressed with the turnaround time from HM Passport Office. Applied for new passport on 20 December & it arrived on 31 December using standard service. Given there were 2 weekends & 2 public holidays in that period that’s outstanding.👏🏻⭐️
January 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Bit of a niche post I know but incredibly impressed with the turnaround time from HM Passport Office. Applied for new passport on 20 December & it arrived on 31 December using standard service. Given there were 2 weekends & 2 public holidays in that period that’s outstanding.👏🏻⭐️
Maybe this is the reason for Aberdeen starting matches slowly and certain players being anonymous in the first half hour…👀⏱️
January 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Maybe this is the reason for Aberdeen starting matches slowly and certain players being anonymous in the first half hour…👀⏱️
Running is so much better for you than following football - January highlights so far 😊
January 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Running is so much better for you than following football - January highlights so far 😊