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SevCove keep losing 2 goal leads. Hopefully it'll come back and bite them in the arse quite badly
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2 minutes ago, Merkland Red said:
There's far more evidence to suggest the support who frequent twitter are complete and utter imbeciles who could barely be more negative if they tried.
Yeah
Good point. Will definitely read again.
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14 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
So what is your point then?
ETA - I'm aware of the 'at least it's not Mcghee' trope that is thrown out by the anti Mcinnes mob as the happy clapper mantra, but it really doesn't hold any weight.
If you are on Twitter have a look at the #AberdeenFC #McInnes hashtags. "At least he's not McGhee" was played fairly regularly last night.
Let's be clear, McInnes is a vast, vast improvement on McGhee & Broony and Jimmy Calderwood. However, regardless of how bad McGhee was it has no bearing on McInnes' record, or shouldn't. It's every bit as damaging as comparing managers to Alex Ferguson was in the 90s and early 2000s.
Having mentioned Ferguson, though...he learned from his mistakes. As do all good manager/coaches. In his early years in Europe Fergie's teams made some eye catching blunders but he learned and improved and polished the team and his tactics. Granted, we can't compare McInnes to Ferguson or that era to this but I just feel that McInnes keeps making the same errors over and over. The best performance we had against Roger's Celtic (IMO) was the 2017 Cup Final where we got in their faces rather than standing off and competed well into the second half. AFC could have won that Cup Final, the only one against Celtic I feel I can honestly say that.
Since then though, it seems like AFC have resorted to type - stand off, hope for a set-piece and watch as the roof caves in with a moment of lost concentration or a missed assignment.
I'll say it again. I think McInnes has it in him to be an even better manager but he has to take on board and learn from his mistakes.
Incidentally, speaking of Happy Clappers I see they are rushing to agree with Anthony O'Connor that it was the fans fault we lost last, absolving McInnes of any blame. Fox ache.
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1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said:
Go on man, prove me wrong. Nothing says 'berk' more than 'lol' response.
No one, not even the WU merchants like McGee, Romeo, Bigmouth has ever suggested that we are "only slightly" improved compared to McGhee's disasters. You're wrong. LoL
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Just now, kingjoey said:
Ok, not year on year, I’ll give you that. But what about your point that since year one we haven’t improved at all?
The first few years (with players recruited pre-McInnes particularly Hayes & McGinn, ) we improved, no question.
The last couple of years? Last season especially? Do you think the football AFC played was an improvement of 2013/14 - 2016/17?
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18 minutes ago, kingjoey said:
You say that ”there was immediate and vast improvement in year one and since then we have not improved at all” and then you go on to say “Improvement doesn’t mean winning the league but improving points total year on year does”. Do you realise that the points total in year one was the lowest in his tenure until last season when we got one point less?
Points went up
Points went down
Points went up
Points went down
Points went down again
the key phrase is year on year, I think. As well you know
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7 hours ago, Dons_1988 said:
If someone thinks mcinnes time has only been marginally better than McGhee then it’s not even worth debating with them. As a club we are night and day from that era.
That was as poor as it’s been under derek tonight though.LoL
Berk
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10 hours ago, Merkland Red said:
Not raging at all. Just find it funny and pathetic when folk like you slither out to have a go when we're on a bad run. Not to be seen again until the next bad run.
He's consistently had us as the best of the rest since his second full season whilst losing most of his best players each year.. New rangers finally managed to overtake us last season and Killie had a phenomenal season. His European and cup record could be better but domestically we're also up against a team who can outspent the whole league several times over if they wanted to.
He is flat-lining, though. There was immediate and vast improvement in year one and since then we have not improved at all and, in fact, in the last couple of years the fitba has been atrocious.
Improvement doesn't mean winning the league but improving points total year on year does and surely, surely he should have learned something about European football by now?
And if I could be arsed I could dig out my posts where I've stated unequivocally that I don't want McInnes sacked and that I think his problem is confidence; he's a better manager than he thinks he is and he has better players than he thinks he does. But he seems determined to play it safe, it's almost a classic case of the old James Richardson remark about Italian clubs being 'afraid to win'.
And yet any criticism and the Happy Clappers are out in force making ridiculous statements about 'typical greetin faced Aiberdeen fans'.
There's not a chance in Hell that AFC will finish second this year but I don't think sevco have markedly better players. Gerrard sets them out to attack and win and in our crap league that will get him results more often than not. If McInnes went for it instead of always playing safety first AFC could challenge for second, I have no doubt about that. But experience says he won't.
Right at the start, one of the St Johnstone fans said the more turbulent it gets, the more McInnes will back into his defensive shell. I'd say he got it pretty right.
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23 minutes ago, Merkland Red said:
Here he goes. Nowhere to be seen when we were winning games. Can't wait to post the above when we lose a few.
LoL
Ragin eh min? Direct it at the fucker who's to blame.
Give me justification for supporting McInnes based on his record rather than "at least he's nae Mark McGhee".
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14 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
Dumb c**t found.
Anyway, that was atrocious.Boo hoo! Better a dumb c**t than a happy clapper.
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1 minute ago, Jason King said:
Ruddy hell, again and again McInnes is proven to be a big game bottler and couldnt spot a decent player in the Brazil 70 team and yet this board continue to allow him to sign player after player that doesn't improve the team.
Why the heck aren't Dons fans wanting this fraud hunted?
Because, for some reason, the fact that Mark McGhee was an utterly shite manager and coach seems to mean McInnes gets a free pass. I don't get it myself, the catalogue of wrong calls in important games is remarkable. We all know, without question, that in a big game he will get it wrong, that the best that can be hoped for is the "we were comfortable, never in trouble until Consodine/McKenna/Logan had a brain fart and fucked up/the defence went AWOL" .
He isn't tactically smart enough to play horses-for-courses but he thinks he is. A dangerous combination that means time and again in the high stakes games the whole thing falls apart.
Oh wait, AFC beat Sevco last season so everything is fine. Forget what I said above
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Plumb Centre
"Taking your shit away and dumping it in the sea"
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f**k Sakes
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5 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Would rather see scuddings from PSG and cash in the bank than see your team win its national championship. I am reminded of the end of the 2010 League Cup Final. I exited Hampden as fast as possible. On the streets, while the deadco players were still celebrating on the pitch, thousands of Disabled Tramplers were heading away from Hampden, not even arsed to see their ‘9 man heroes’ lift a national trophy, won in dramatic circumstances. It means that little to OF fans. If I ever get to the stage where I want anything for my team in lieu of the joy of seeing them lift a cup again, then it’s time to chuck it.
It's because they think it makes them a genuine Big Club. If they're being mentioned in the same breath as Paris St. Germain, even on the wrong end of a 5 or 6 goal rogering it puts them in the same 'league' as Paris St. Germain...except it doesn't of course.
The real big clubs from the big five leagues are now financially as far ahead of Celtic as Celtic are ahead of the 40 other SPFL teams.
I hope those Brand Name Clubs eventually get their closed shop Superleague if just to watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Entitled Hordes as they bang their heads against an impenetrable glass ceiling.
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4 hours ago, TavTastic said:
This one is comedy gold
"Support Celtic in Europe or you're destroying the NHS!!!"
This one is up there with Flat Earth and Chem Trail loonies. What a fucking beaut!
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1 minute ago, Victor von Doom said:
Christ! Take a look at this thread. I post some trolling scheidt on here, but f**k me!
Bad result. New defenders not settling in yet. Scheidt happens. Not the end of the world. Nothing to do with McGregor. The Darkside will qualify for the Europa League. They'll still finish 8-10 points above us in the Premiership. The Lurgan Bigot is a manager of perfectly adequate standard for either them or us. (Not that the **** will be coming to us.) Nothing to see here. Move along now.
Griffiths -2.5 goals v. the Pars at the weekend might be worth a bet.
say what now
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3 minutes ago, TommyDickFingers said:
Can someone dub the celtic fans singing their stupid fucking I waana be edouard song over that?
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1 minute ago, Greenlantern said:
Can we get Sevco in the Europa play off plz.
I would be really, really careful about what you wish for with that hopeless c**t as your manager...
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FC Cludgy flush Celtic down the shitter
Marvellous
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I support all Scottish teams in Europe
But not Irish or British/English teams
Ye get me?
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On 28/06/2019 at 10:21, welshbairn said:
Don't see this as a problem tbh.
In terms of the pyramid it is the problem. They're not interested in the pyramid because they run the North Juniors for the sake of the North Juniors. Not for fans and not for the greater good of Scottish Football (if that is what the pyramid represents), just for whatever the North Juniors are.
It will ultimately make the pyramid a mockery. Dozens & dozens of South clubs battling to play off against the same 3 or 4 HFL with rich benefactors. That could be changed by North Junior clubs run along the lines of Cove Rangers with the ambition of Cove Rangers. Doesn't look likely though, eh?
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On 24/06/2019 at 18:33, Robert James said:
I thought BoD had a good level of support, compared with all the other north juniors. What is their average attendance ?
Serious question Ed
Others have answered pretty much perfectly.
Part of the problem is the North Juniors seem to be run entirely for the benefit of the North Juniors. Big league games, cup semi-finals and finals come and go and Joe Soap is blissfully ignorant of it. They seem to make no effort whatsoever to engage with the public. Doesn't help of course that local media make no effort to publicize games or league positions or anything else but then again the impression is that the North Juniors don't really care if they get coverage or not. Their social media seems to be utterly abysmal too.
A someone said further up, the reason for their reticence regarding the pyramid is there for all to see and it's because they're in a bubble and have no interest in looking beyond it. It's a pity because Dyce, Bridge of Don, Banks o Dee, Sunnybank, Ellon, Stonehaven and a couple others have the potential to enhance the SHFL.
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On 23/06/2019 at 12:18, Robert James said:
As an aside, juniors Banks O'Dee's disinterest in joining the Highland League, shows a shocking lack of ambition from the best North Juniors club. It speaks volumes for the rest of the juniors. I am also amazed that their supporters don't want them to progress as a club.
To all intents and purposes the North Juniors don't have any supporters. So...y'know...
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2 hours ago, anonanist said:
I would imagine SPFL attendances have been increasing because we have been seeing the biggest clubs finally return to the top of the League over the past few season, and the return of their larger fan bases to support their relative success will be skewing the stats. However, it's good to see some of the bigger part-time clubs (Arbroath, Peterhead, Clyde) moving up - one thing I'd like to see is the SPFL concentrate on supporting more of these clubs to go full-time, not least in order to provide more full-time football for loanees to develop.
My view is that attendances would rise further with an 18-team top tier, with half seasons and play offs, because our middle-sized clubs would also pull in more punters as they competed for play-off places each half season: there would be more top flight teams on winning runs than at present, which fans will turn out to support, and a top 6 with a competitive reward (reaching the play offs) would a realistic goal for many clubs. They wouldn't be wasting a full season in the dumps because of a bad run: they would just reset and go again in a couple of months.
No, it doesn't - as you state in your next sentences. There clearly wouldn't be as much riding on an individual half-season as there would be on any full season, but the two half-seasons combined would produce more excitement, commercial revenues, etc than at present because of the greater involvement of smaller clubs and non-OF clubs through competing to be in the play offs, and then in the play offs themselves. Nothing's being watered down over the full season, other than the potential drama of a 'decisive' OF game.
Please accept my apologies.
I churned some numbers based on the Prem since the 12 team top flight began and I have to say it surprised me. Granted each "half season" is only based on 11 games but that is still around two thirds of an 18 team half season so is a reasonable indicator.
What came out was:
Celtic were top on 27 occasions.
Rangers 6 times
Hearts 3 times
Aberdeen twice.
However, there were a further dozen instances where a club other than one half of the weegie twins was within 3 points of the top dog after 11 games. That's almost half the time! Given that the remaining 6 games would be against none of the "major" clubs it suggests, as you said, that apertura/clausura offers a realistic chance of non-exOF clubs winning a 'title' even without playoffs.
I also owe an apology to the lesser lights by suggesting earlier that only Hearts/Aberdeen/Hibs could realistically win even a half season title. In fact, Hamilton, Inverness, St Johnstone, Motherwell, Kilmarnock were level with or within 3 points of top spot.
Let's start a campaign. It would transform our game!
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Now is The Season of Our Discontent
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Speaking of discontent, do you think that geezer is being forced into bukkakke by a sevco supporters group and has developed some kind of bizarre Stockholm Syndrome for them?