EdTheDuck
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Happy New Year to a' the Radges and Chiels
Lang may yer lums reek etc etc and so on and so forth
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Club manager in tears on national radio
Beyond magnificent
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10 minutes ago, AngusTheBull said:
If their weirdo, seething fans on Twitter are anything to go by it’ll be dragging up challenges made by Aberdeen players from years ago
It's as predictable as it is hilarious. They're so immersed in whataboutery and entitlement they have all the characteristics of Pavlov's dogs, not least the slavering
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Dave Cormack though
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1 hour ago, gannonball said:
Im finding it hard to disagree with what he is saying but Aberdeen and Scottish football are better off without him. He’s brought a bit of money to the game Im guessing, but he ran one of Scotlands most Successful clubs and stadiums in to absolute mediocrity for years. Then went the **** went bust there was the opportunity for change with the whole voting arrangement and he fucked it up for everybody that wanted change.
He's is the epitome of a ba'heid. His legacy to AFC is going to be damage limitation for the next decade and his legacy to Scottish Football is the Same Old Same Old for perpetuity. Good riddance numpty.
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6 minutes ago, smc4761 said:
Away support 6 men and a dug
I know football fans are committed, or should that be "should be committed", but to travel around 300 miles to watch a piss poor team on a cold Wednesday night. No
Setterday is it nae?
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Some of the performances this season suggest there IS a decent team in there. Too often though the line up and/or tactics are just plain wrong. (whether that’s because it is as simple as picking the wrong team/tactics or players not understanding or not liking the formation/tactics I have no idea).
IMO either
McInnes suffers from a lack of self-belief in his own ability as a coach and plays it safe far too often against inferior* opposition
Or
McInnes suffers from over-confidence in his own ability as a coach and tries to play ‘chess’ in games where he could just take the reins off his players and let them have at it.
I had always thought it was the first, because of the big-game-crashes, but maybe It’s the second. Either way it’s probably as good as it’s going to get under McInnes, unless he has an epiphany.
*inferior based on budget and players’ pay
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On 01/12/2019 at 13:12, EdTheDuck said:
Motivational Speaking 101
“Rangers are a better team than us, they have better players but we can win the game. It is important my players believe that when they go out there, that we can do so much well in the game that we can get close to what we want."
Further to the above I think last night's quote is almost as pathetic for different reasons
"I needed to see that from my team, but it also shuts a few people up who questioned that," McInnes said.
45 minutes of application does all that? The missing 6,000 from last night will be convinced to return off the back of a draw, albeit a fighting draw? Show that determination, get in everyone's faces like that regularly and they'll be back in their droves, but one positive half after the usual stand back capitulation won't.
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3 hours ago, big al said:
I haven’t seen it on tv. So is it all edged to have happened in the box but ref gave it outside the box?
It's patently outside the box. Fucking miles. Besides cunto Morelos spends so much time throwing himself around I'm disappointed he even got a free kick. Later, a touch on the knee and the ugly fucker is rolling around like he's been amputated below the knee.
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Motivational Speaking 101
“Rangers are a better team than us, they have better players but we can win the game. It is important my players believe that when they go out there, that we can do so much well in the game that we can get close to what we want."
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3 hours ago, Lola montez said:
Home fans took too long to start one, obviously going to be a straightforward home win but hopefully they will rest a few with The Rangers up next
They'll have a rest in the game against the blue buttock...positively comatose prolly
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9 minutes ago, Dele said:
Placida Domingo = Peppino Impastato.
Ahhhhh...say no more
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7 minutes ago, Merkland Red said:
From a lad at work who claims to have someone close to the situation and has been spot on before (has no interest in football and follows rugby):
Milne pushed out the door quicker due to an argument around the new stadium plans which likely won't happen. Training facility called Cormack Park after Cormack took the sulk as it turned out Milne was looking to him to source funding for the full project. Plan is now to stay at Pittodrie.
McInnes and Cormack don't get on (a few folk on here have stated this).
Eales to eventually run the show here as Cormack has no plans to move back here permanently.
With the greatest respect to my home town, Eales would have to be off his nut to swap Atlanta for Aberdeen, certifiably mental.
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27 minutes ago, Placida Domingo said:
I'm a Dundee United fan actually. So if three points clear in third is underperforming, where do you think Aberdeen should be right now?
I don’t think anyone believes AFC are under performing by being third.
All things being equal 3rd, 4th, 5th is where AFC, Hearts & Hibs should be given their budgets. When they underperform they’ll fall below that mark or when others over perform, as with Kilmarnock last season, who according to your own logic shouldn’t be anywhere near AFC given a budget about a third of Aberdeen’s budget.
What Aberdeen need is an exceptional coach. They don’t have one at the moment. They have a good coach who has them meeting expectations in the league…and that’s all. If they could land an exceptional manager then maybe they could get in about the Uglies just as Kilmarnock got in about Aberdeen.
Dropping a third of the points available against bottom six sides ain't gonna do it.
The trick, of course, is finding that exceptional coach.
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Since Milne took over as Chairman AFC has posted losses in 16 out of 20 years (and 3 of the profit seasons were in 2015, 2016 & 2017) - over £20M in losses (the numbers are available at Companies House if anyone wants to take umbrage)
AFC had their longest post-war run (19 years) without a trophy
AFC had their longest post war run without a Scottish Cup Final (17 years)
AFC finished bottom of the league for the first time
Post war and excluding the Ferguson years AFC won a trophy approx once every 6 years prior to Stewarty taking over the reigns which would convert to a minimum of 3 (and maybe 4) in his 22 years at the helm. He has 1 and that was won on fucking penalties.
During his time in charge, the Scottish has been won by Hearts 3 times, Hbs, Dundee United, St. Johnstone and Inverness CT (so don't tell me the dominance of R&C blah blah blah)
He fluked a windfall that cleared the debt that was accumulated during his tenure and his legacy is likely going to be a far, far worse debt to build a stadium in the boondocks that will completely alter the game day experience for thousands.
He was in charge as our home ground was allowed to disintegrate around us, fall into terrible disrepair, largely because there were no funds available to do the repairs, much less upgrade and modernize.
He has stated how he believes in and wants the "status quo" in Scottish football to be restored, so I can only imagine he is delighted at the way this season is shaping up. I wonder if he's excited about December 8th.
Minus several million out of ten from me
However, 47% of the nation is apparently going to vote Tory so I am clearly at odds with the general public
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"This is a great franchise and we believe we can take it back to conference titles and championship games"
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13 hours ago, sjc said:
Was it Brentford that did away with their youth development entirely, and used the money saved to pick up released 19/20yo's from the bigger Clubs?
I'm sure they did this because of continually losing promising youngsters to bigger Clubs and getting f**k all compensation.
It certainly was. 6th year in the English Championship for a club working with average attendances of 10,000 - 11,000 (and just 6,000 - 7,000 in League One)
However such radical thinking (we can't outspend them so we have to out think them) won't happen at Aberdeen under the current chairman. He will follow the popular trend whether that is spending too much, not spending enough or "developing" youth players.
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5 hours ago, Snafu said:
I wonder if everyone sounds angry in your head when you read them.
And why are you so bothered anyway, you being a Motherwell fan?
Ha ha ha. Good een. Motherwell fan....ROFLMAO
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4 minutes ago, wastecoatwilly said:
Met Jorg Albertz in the duck bay one night, went up to him and asked for his autograph perfect gentleman.
I got his autograph and said thanks, then ripped it up in front of him he wasn't pleased but my mates were falling off their chairs.
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Ten of one, fifty five of the other. If there was some way for them both to fail, that would be great, but success for either? Meh.
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Lenny fulfilling the prophecy
LOL
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Guess who for
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Top of the table becoming a lg jam
Broch on 19, Locos & Buckie on 18 with Brora & Nairn 3 points further back but with a game in hand
Nae missin' Cove ava
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Great idea
...if only the North Region Juniors were remotely interested or the Tayside Juniors were remotely interested in joining the North/Highland region
Aprt from that, spiffing
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Dons v Sons, SC4R
in Domestic Cup Football
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Which of the happy clappers will tell us, straight faced, that all that matters in the cup is winning?