Alf-Inge Haaland

There was questions over, you know, would he get offered a deal? Was he going to accept it? Was the deal actually on the table? All this kind of stuff.

I mean, to a certain extent, you kind of, you know, you look at the same, I mean, the two Alfies that are...

But Inverness are the same as well.

Whereas these guys are just going to go out the door and they'll be shown their way.

zenith of what more could you possibly do to be considered in the first team squad.

You've gone to play at Arbroath, probably the smallest club in the championship at least from a financial perspective and have been in a team that was involved in the promotion race right up until the playoff rounds he was a star player in that side multiple goals and multiple assists and the thought that that might not have earned you at least a further contract extension and an opportunity in the first team squad just beggars belief but Yeah, I really haven't got why he didn't get that opportunity beforehand.

And again, while... have to give Robinson some due credit as well and that obviously you know Lutz may well have seen something and been recommending that he should be kept on and should have his contract extended as with the Alfies that you mentioned but you know ultimately the manager does have to put you in the team and for a manager who I've been very critical of in terms of being a manager tends not to go to the youth option that certainly wasn't the case in his latter tenure at St Mirren St Mirren were notoriously one of the worst clubs when it came to giving what we now refer to as emerging talent it seems a chance in the team And I don't think we should pretend that, I mean, a lot of this, as with anything, I mean, you can look back to someone like Scott McKenna, a lot of this just comes down to a certain element of serendipity in a world where Brad Lyons is still fit and you know, things had went better at the start in the season and you were still playing in a you know with two midfielders and an attacking mid rather than what was a flat three certainly away at Motherwell maybe that opportunity doesn't come about but the opportunity did come about and that's all that I think that's all that we're really asking as supporters is that we invest and some supporters invest a lot more than others I mean I think it's been quite high profile for those people that contribute to the uh the the the the aber dna that a lot of the drive behind that is that you know that that money gets you know reinvested into youth development and they have the board up at corbett park with all the players who have come through the the system and been open quote graduates close quote in that they get first team football aberdeen binley marshall obviously now one of those together with uh andrew fasania um earlier this season but um In terms of Finlay Marshall as a player, he's got the full package.

He reminds me a lot, maybe not completely, and again, it might be unfair to put this label on him, but in terms of his physicality, he reminds me a lot of Fraser Fife when he first came into the team, where he already has the physicality.

Um, you know, he does put his foot up into, into Bruno Fernandez when he's on the ground.

Doesn't help that he did the sort of Roy Keane over Alf-Inge Haaland, like standing over the top of him.

Yeah.

Mm.

Well, I didn't know.

I did some research on this, but Erling Haaland, who is one of the greatest footballers in the world at the moment, but his father was a Premier League footballer, Alf Haaland, and Gry Brout was his mum.

She was a Norwegian champion heptathlete.

So she did every event in athletics and dominated Kate.