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Wake up and smell the bullshit!
28th April - Under the headline "Pittodrie spin doctor can't heal Aberdeen's financial headache" in today's Press & Journal, Mike Tremlett has written a superbly succinct summary of just what a mess Aberdeen FC are in. This fanzine, the Shareholders Association, the ISG and laterly the Supporters Trust have been pointing out the threat to our beloved Dandies for the past couple of years, but the Pittodrie board have gotten away with mismanagement and blunders. Now they expect us to believe that a £1.5 million half-year loss is some kind of virtue. Come on! It's simple as this fans, either we all rally together and do something or Milne, Donald and their hanger-on cronies will flush our football club down the pan. You get the football club you deserve folks.
	25th April - If the people at Pittodrie think that a £1.5 million quid loss is a virtue then they need their heads examined. Of course they were bound to try and put a positive spin on the board's fiscal incompetence and produce even more promises of how things will get better, but why should we expect that the same people who have already pissed away millions of pounds worth of new investment in the past six years will suddenly get things right? As for the assertion that we'll have five 'new' players for next season, bollocks! We'll have a net one and even that'll be in a shrunken squad. Zerouali and Anderson are already on the books. Rowson and Dow will be replaced (sort of) and one 'new player will be brought in. All this whilst at the same time the wage bill has to be reduced. We agree with the trimming of the wage bill, but nobody should expect that we can get better players for less money. We can only hope that there really will be some more effective kids coming through the rans very soon to save our bacon again next season.
18th April - What would the Scottish Cup final be without a bit of controversy whirling around it? This year the contestants are the much improved Hibernian and champions Celtic - the match is attractive and lots of people want to be there. The two clubs are being given an equal allocation of tickets - 22,000 each - with the remaining 8,000 or so going to other clubs and corporate connections. There will be no prizes awarded for guessing where the majority of those 8,000 extra tickets will end up, yet the Celtic fans are complaining that they aren't being given enough. Their argument, the same one incidentally that Rangers fans used last year, is that they have a bigger support than Hibs so they should get the most tickets. This is a playground bully's argument and should be utterly ignored by the SFA. Before the 2000 Cup final, Aberdeen fans fought hard to be awarded a fair share of the tickets, fuelled by the knowledge that no matter how many they would ultimately be given it would not be enough to satisfy demand. The argument revolved round the fundamental case that Hampden Park is supposed to be the National Stadium and a neutral venue. How can neutrality possibly exist if one team are given more tickets than the other? The proposal put forward was that if one club was unable to sell all their tickets they would return them for reallocation to their opponents. This idea was knocked back at the time, as was the call for equal shares of the tickets. Dons' fans in the guise of the ISG and AFC Shareholders Association felt so strongly about the issue that they took counsel's advice and were within a whisker of going to court; that they didn't came down to finance and the absence of any backing from AFC. After the dust of that final had settled, the SFA decided that the Aberdeen case was, after all, just. The announced months ago that future finals would be strictly neutral with ticket allocations and that they would use the Aberdeen fans' proposal where tickets could not be sold by one of the contestants. Celtic and their fans knew about this several months ago but said nothing at the time. It is only now when they realise that they are to be involved in this year's final that they have begun to whinge. Their only argument is about the size of their support, but by that argument, they should also be given the bulk of many opponents' grounds when they play away from home in league matches. Where do the Old Firm get off? Do the really believe that might is right and that they should be given their own way in all things football? Probably, they are certainly content to see their teams dominate Scottish football through spending power instead of player development and it comes as a great satisfaction for other fans when they see the pair fail miserably in European competitions year after year. Any sensible person would think that these clubs would learn the lesson and endeavour to play their football on a level playing field. But that is not the mentality; theirs is one of 'win at all costs' and devil take the hindmost. That is the mentality that makes them demand the majority of the tickets for Hampden and that is the very reason why they should not succeed.
	5th April - A stoney silence has fallen over fortress Pittodrie this week despite the wigless one telling us that there was an agreed way forward. So what's the plan? Why the big secret? Surely if Milne wants to restore the club's relations with the fans after stitching up Jim Cummings he couldn't do it a better way than coming out and telling us how the board are going to get us out from under the mounting debts. Maybe he's going to wave a magic wand? Perhaps the Rockerfellers have offered to bail us out. Or maybe we are about to become a feeder club for Sunderland. Who knows? Still, Ebbe's saving the board's bacon a wee bit by getting his young lads to perform miracles week in and week out. So that's all right then? Now, anybody want to buy two A-Fab strips in one go?

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