Summer 2021

[StandFree1982]

On 3/8/2021 at 12:58 PM, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Was gonna make a joke about David Winnie having a league winners medal but just looked up the squad and you could make a fair starting 11 out of that. Probably shifting McKimmie to left back cause the rest are pish and having the original rat at right back

http://www.afcheritage.org/Team/CurrentSquad/index.cfm?Season=2020-21

Just had a look at the womans team. Anywhere there isn't a photo, they've used a cartoon Willie Miller. I doubt Nadia Sopel has a Miller tash, but you never know. 

[slippers]

Fletcher promoted to technical director at Man United so would assume no chance if there ever was of him becoming manager. 

[super_al]

Anton walkes

[CalgaryDon]

24 minutes ago, super_al said:

Anton walkes

I hope not.

[Durrant Dived]

2 hours ago, CalgaryDon said:

I hope not.

He can't be any worse than Gallagher.

[Andy_123]

According to wiki he’s played 17 first team games. So he must be better than Gallagher. That’s not saying much though.

[torry_battery_ram]

He's also a full back so that's an unexpected bonus ?

[Tord31]

Ex Spurs and Pompey? He must be ace

[WesthillWanderersFC]

5 hours ago, Durrant Dived said:

He can't be any worse than Gallagher.

We’d basically be swapping this lad for Hernandez?

With the £800k missing obviously. 

[Tord31]

So thats Louis Moult back fit after two years out.

I'm a bit sad he's never going to turn up at Pittodrie now.

Stick on McInnes would have been in for him over the next few months. 

 

[Don Fonte]

8 minutes ago, Tord31 said:

So thats Louis Moult back fit after two years out.

I'm a bit sad he's never going to turn up at Pittodrie now.

Stick on McInnes would have been in for him over the next few months. 

 

@Dad

[Tord31]

disappointing we cant really speculate about summer signings without a manager.

I'll look forward to post a list of the new managers former players.

Managers always sign their former players, right? 

[The Gee Man]

Maybe a loan for Dykes as he’s getting nothing down south 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

Apologies for the link to the Daily Retard, but it’s Scott Burns & he’s fairly reliable 

 

[Tord31]

Its a no brainer to make a strong offer.

The fans will also have low expectations of him actually joining so no harm done

[Granite95]

Good player, certianly an upgrade on who we've got!

[slippers]

Might stand a chance if that is all the clubs linked. Sure to be a few more championship teams that will throw money at him l. 

[dazzy_deff]

21 minutes ago, Tord31 said:

Its a no brainer to make a strong offer.

The fans will also have low expectations of him actually joining so no harm done

So your post about him having his contract extended by a year was fake news then?

[Zeus]

Get him signed up. Good player. 

[Guest milne_afc]

Cormack playing footy manager, is he?

[aberdeen1970]

He'd be a perfect signing. 

Getting a younger guy to play alongside him would be useful as well. 

[Ten Caat]

1 hour ago, dazzy_deff said:

So your post about him having his contract extended by a year was fake news then?

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt by saying it was a genuine misunderstanding rather than a monstrous fuck up.

Gallagher did reach the trigger point in his contract where an extension had to be offered. I presume this is what he read and for some reason thought that it was cut and dried that he would sign it. 

[Tord31]

55 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said:

So your post about him having his contract extended by a year was fake news then?

Haha. I'm not sure. He's obviously done a deal to work around that. Why don't you ask Scott Burns who reported on the contract stipulation and it being triggered? 

[Tord31]

Graham Alexander also claimed it was a done deal he was staying so he didnt understand either. 

[Andy_123]

An obvious upgrade on Devlin and Taylor. Happy enough with it.

No brainier to get him in. Him and Hoban would be a fairly solid CB pairing if we can keep Hoban too.

[ThomohawkKid]

Keeping Hoban should be biggest priority. What a pler. We’d been a hell of a lot worse off without him this season.

[aberdeen1970]

Only issue is his age for me. 

30 now.   Ideally we'd be signing younger players. 

But as long as any other defensive signings were younger guys it would be fine. 

[Granite95]

31 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Only issue is his age for me. 

30 now.   Ideally we'd be signing younger players. 

But as long as any other defensive signings were younger guys it would be fine. 

Ash Taylor is also 30 and some folk are clamouring for him to get a new deal.

Our last game vs Accies the average age of the First XI was 28, which is part of the issue, need to recruit or bring through younger players.

Gallagher would be a great CB for us, a wee bit older aye but would get a good 2/3 years out of him I reckon

[Ten Caat]

22 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Only issue is his age for me. 

30 now.   Ideally we'd be signing younger players. 

But as long as any other defensive signings were younger guys it would be fine. 

He should be serviceable for a couple of years at least. A year in the pokey gave him a decent break and consequently he's averaging pretty much bang on 30 games per season for his career so hasn't been overplayed. And as far as I can see, has no major injuries (he tends to inflict them rather than suffer them....) in his career to date.

If we can persuade Hoban to sign on and get one younger (21-23 ideally) but first-team ready left sided CH then we wouldn't be in a bad position. If we could stagger Hoban, Gallagher and the younger one on contracts of 2, 3 and 4 years, it would also mean only having to replace (or renegotiate a new contract) one of them per season going forward. Considine as a 4th option for next season covering for injuries etc would give us a pretty good selection to choose from

 

[Tord31]

We wont get Gallagher so no real need to worry about his age or contract status.