I wonder how relevant this case is anyway. Suppose Venkys "won" and the Court gave them permission to send unlimited funds to the club? Does anyone believe they would?

I think that was the outlook and the hope at the Club from the start. We simply "over-achieved" early on.

Course it is. That's our role in life.

and from there to the Premier League.

Of course anything is possible but do you really think we will?

And Travis.

Tell him that we have a brilliant mid-fielder in Hedges whom we could be persuaded to let go for the right fee and would fit right back in Aberdeen!

He's better than Telovic who must surely be among the worst signings in our long history. But its a low bar.

I quoted the quote instead of the original post! Sorry. Not a hostile post luckily!

He's a striker and at no point has he shown he can shoot! He does give us height and physicality up-front and we've really missed that. I was quite enthusiastic about him in his early games but at this point he doesn't look the answer to me.

We have created chances though, surely we'll convert one or 2 at some point?

He played some beautiful passes in that game too. Heart-breaking.

Feel the same way. Its like being on hold only permanently. i got excited early on this season but I should have known we haven't the means to sustain it and what we're settling for is avoiding relegation. Same every season. It will be like that as long as Venkys own the club. In football terms we are irrelevant, apart from providing players to "bigger Clubs" at knock-down prices.

and loads of others!

Whatever we want /need in January, we won't get---same as every other window. We'll never be out of this tunnel til Venkys sell.

Back to the game--we should have scored 3 goals.Our conversion rate in recent weeks?---we've scarcely had one. Just pathetic.

We're probably a Szmodics away from being a good team?

We took it in Howard Kendall's time at Ewood. We were similarly under-resourced then and we loved it.

Someone will have noticed....

Exactly! If he doesn't score himself he can flick it on to someone who will. He's already done that in fact. We aren't scoring enough goals so let's use every avenue. PS---Hedges had a good cross on him when he played wide for Aberdeen. Just saying!

If we win this one, will be a great boost for us. We've been fairly lucky so far with the early draw. But this is a real test. As to defence, we kept a clean sheet so Eustace will most likely leave things alone.

I'm certainly not arguing that Dolan is a gem we should fight like crazy to keep. But I do think he is a genuine Championship standard player and that's the division we are in, and likely to remain in unless we get relegated down the line.

Being seen to be doing something I suppose?

I'd rather lose Hedges than Dolan. Hedges is anonymous much of the time. At least Dolan gets involved on a regular basis.

I suspect many are ex-season ticket-holders. So they'd be hard to convert? Only price would do it presumably. The season ticket would have to be priced at the rate they currently pay taking into account evening kick-offs, special offers, live TV games etc.