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I think that if a club, say St. Mirren, were to offer ?40k for Rankin, I would say that is as reasonable a fee as we are likely to get for him. Pretty certain I'm not missing an "O" anywhere unless you are thinking of a "0"? Regardless, I don't think there was anything missing there. Others might feel different of course.

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If Rankin was to move on I think this ?40k figure would be about what we would get back for him. We'd be doing well to get that. This was the amount St. Mirren originally offered to County for John before we came in and bettered their offer. I can't see St. Mirren offering us ?160k for him - they wouldn't be held to ransom.

Who were the commentators? I can't think of this Rankin chance of the top of my head. Black and Bayne had good chances along with Niculae as mentioned. Just wish we could have taken one of them. A lesson in being clinical I guess.

Would that not mean dropping Don Cowie?

1) The whole team was not very poor today. 2) What chance was this for Rankin?

Ha ha! They are rubbish these days from what I am aware. Anyway, OT and all that

I would agree with Hislopsoffsideagain(maybeevenmorethanInzaghi) - Tokely looked very much off the pace today as did Hart. Aluko (spelling) didn't give him as hard a time as I thought he might do though having said that but Tokely offered very little going forward and was caught out badly when Aberdeen shuffled their pack and he really didn't need to make the challenge he did that gave away the penalty.

And he did score an OG for Aberdeen earlier this season. Maybe he had them on his coupon? :004:

First half was pretty even in that both sides were dreadful. The shooting on show was terrible. We were much improved after the break and had all the good chances. Black, Niculae and Bayne in particular should have put us ahead before Rosscoe inexcusably felled Miller in the box to allow Aberdeen to rob us of the point which we deserved (at the very least). I can't think of any real chances Aberdeen had in the 2nd half. It wasn't exactly all ICT but we had much the better of the ball and Langfield pulled off some cracking saves. No idea why Wyness wasn't brought on and the subbing of Hart for Rankin was peculiar indeed. I wonder about the language barrier with Marius - several times today he got mixed up with another ICT player going for the same ball and taking it off him or colliding with him. It's not something I've noticed before but it was very evident today. Another unimpressive Dons performance yet they have the 3 points again. We still haven't learned to take our chances against them.

This will be Calderwood using the reverse psychology thing. On himself! :015:

What a shock this move is *ahem*

*Dons Are underdogs says Calderwood*

Hasn't Caff left?

I think Considine is the better player of the two. Diamond is over rated and he has gone off the boil since his early promise.

He is a very dedicated alias.

Diamond is rubbish. That is actually a boost for Aberdeen. Byrne will likely play centre half. Now this guy is mince on the left side but he has apparently been playing really well in the centre of defence.

Someone allegedly posing as Alan Hutton has posted on Mcguires Bebo saying "Square go son" or something along those lines! :015:

I thought maybe I had clicked the wrong button myself! Work is so boring I am kind of zoning out.....

Is this thread meant to be stickied? :confused02:

I get "This page cannot be displayed". Weird. Anyway, I expect this is the Kids for a Quid thing? Well that's no use to me as I am no longer a kid! :015: What about Adults for ?1.50? :004:

The Eveing Express is indeed utter mince. It makes The Sun look good and that headline doesn't surprise me in the slightest! Their coverage of the Donald Trump saga is ridiculously one sided.

Aberdeen seem to have their "usual" injury crisis for this game again.

I can't be bothered. It's too far away.

I am not sure that was Boxing Day. I think that was the 27th but Scotrail said they expected less customer demand for the services that day and ran a Saturday service instead :015: