Bogbrush1903

I remember reading that when he was at Partick Thistle, Tomas Cerny was going hiking and learning about the country his job and taken him. He seemed a cut above the average footballer and its great to hear that he intends to stay on in the North East and, I think, might still have a role at AFC. Hopefully he continues to visit Pittodrie and we gain other lifelong Don. So I wish him the best of luck in his post-football career

There are better options than Curtis Main I'm sure (although I can't provide any off the top of my head) that don't require a third helping of Stewart. He had more than enough time at Aberdeen to pull his finger out and he steadfastly refused to budge (Siroki aside, which gave me hope that we had a player on our hands). I remember being particularly pissed off with him after the Stenhousemuir game at Pittodrie but can't remember why now.. The second time I remember being happy that we had got him and he proceeded to be absolutely honking. I won't fall into that trap again. Anyway, I'm very petty and can't purge his smug coupon and lit jig of h*nnery delight... F@ck him

Greg Stewart is shite and has proved it over two spells with the club... To take him back a third time is just lazy incompetence.. which exactly sums up the player himself Whatever he once had at Dundee and a brief half season at Killie is no longer present. A Sevco cast off.. Plus he's 18 months older of which he's spent sitting on his arse at Ibrox. Why would anyone think that's a good signing? Have you forgotten is little jig of delight when he scored practically his only goal or goals, I can't remember, for Sevco against us?

... And who has achieved just as little in his time at Aberdeen as Wright. Either these young players aren't good enough or McInnes isn't giving homegrown youngsters the opportunity to shine.

Your club ruined a reasonable league with its financial doping aka cheating.

It's a bit rich talking about building professional relationships and overlooking rivalry for the sake of a good deal when the original club to whom you're referring of didn't knowingly sign a Catholic for the first 120 years. However, alls fair, that doesn't apply to the phoenix club..

So if they were shite old days are these magical ones Blockhead?

I'm proposing that it would be best for all if McInnes left in the summer before things go awry. Winning the league!? Heaven no, you've already mentioned that it's a duopoly. We're happy to finish 3rd and win the Scottish Cup once every 50 years.

If we aren't your rivals why are you lurking about on this thread? However, I agree to an extent. I was more referring to the old club rather than the phoenix one. The games had a bit more bite pre-2012. Although that season we knocked you out both domestic cups was enjoyable.

I'm not defending McGhee but he was working with a very limited budget. We were millions in debt before the intervention of Willie and Elaine Donald. A new manager isn't going to be operating with a squad consisting of players of the standard of Kerr, Mcdonald, Clangers, Duff, Grassi, Ifil, Young et al... How do you think McInnes would've got on with that lot? Covid has been a big financial set back for the club but McInnes leaving doesn't send us spinning back to 2009 conditions. Also, "when things looked good" we still got knocked out of Europe after barely landing a punch against Sporting Lisbon team that hadn't played much if any competitive action that season, and were pumped in the next round. We still played without passion and again without laying a glove on the opening game of the season against Sevco. The warning signs were there that a McInnes team weren't going to progress any further than previous seasons despite what seemed a generous backing to improve the squad by the chairman over the summer.

And persisting with an incumbent against the will of the majority brought us 11 years of Thatcherism..

If Stephen Glass becomes Aberdeen manager then we'll know Cormack hasn't done due diligence to find the best candidate for the job. For that reason, I think it's nonsense. McInnes is though finished here. He wants out and the fans should want him out. He did well from 2013-2018 but he's now past his shelf life with the Dons. I suspect, and would prefer, he left in the summer but I think it would be a tragedy for both parties if he remained past the summer. You only need look at McInnes now to understand that his ship has sailed and he himself wants a fresh challenge. The fans that are scared of change need to get a grip. We may well go downhill initially and we may well go through a couple of managers until we find the right one but we need an injection of freshness around the club.

I'm not so sure, it makes me feel uncomfortable when we're in debt to them. McCrorie won't be here 5 years but I agree that we might make money on him. My problem is with McCrorie himself but the club he came from. I could be wrong, but I remember reading it was 50 years since we've signed a player from that neck of woods albeit a different club now (Jim Forrest I think). There was a reason for this, they were our rivals. Let's not start getting cosy with them now. That's why I don't want any of there benchwarmers coming up here either in the short-term or 'permanently' as part of the Wright deal. And let's get this deal completed and get Wright out the door asap. The idea of taking players on loan or buying from the Ugly Sisters doesn't feel right. The Christie on loan deal was embarrassment too. No doubt someone will inform me that the Christie loan was brilliant because we nearly signed him. And what if Wright becomes an incredible bit of business for them? They liked Jack too, and they did us favour with McCrorie so are the going to start cherry-picking our players?

Jordan Jones!! I hope not...why must we take any of these Sevco rejects?

Not from Sevco we don't...

Don't take any of them.. Just wipe some of the debt off

Cormack needs to stop dealing with this club. The year long debt to them for McCrorie was an embarrassment but we shouldn't have even dealt with them if we were in a position to pay off the bat. He's obviously forging links with this club at boardroom level which is very concerning. However, we have a debt to pay so let's shift this player out to them during this window to start paying it off and please don't take anyone of their bench warmers in return. I'd rather we start giving opportunities to some of your younger players.

St Mirren being still in with a chance of winning League Cup wouldn't be clouding your judgement would it now?

What I've seen of Virtanen on three occasions, I think he has a lot of quality. His running style is reminiscint of Kenny McLean although a different type of player. I'd be looking forward to him returning and getting decent game time but alas, it won't happen. Anderson, in my view, has a suspect attitude which will always hold him back unless he grows out of it.

I'm delighted we're not signing GMS (Brophy I thought was an upgrade on what we currently have) but if we weren't that fussed then why were we bothering investigating the possibility with either? GMS would have been a bad signing with a relatively hefty wage...two years of failure on and the Jambos are welcome to him

I have no agenda, it wasn't me that kept giving McInnes whopping big bonuses. I'm just pointing out that loyalty can be bought and that's why Delboy is approaching his testimonial golf game and dinner...Perhaps we could play a Sunderland/Sevco XI for his testimonial match. I should add that up to the Sunderland job offer, I thought he was doing a good job. It's when the big pay rises started to happen that I think his hunger started to wane. I do think he should now leave before it turns really sour.

Expectations to an extent I suppose but the 3rd biggest budget can finish 4th in consecutive seasons and get dumped out of the cup at the first time of asking by St Mirren and he doesn't receive much flak. A little from a section of the supporters and nothing from the media. You can see why he didn't bother with the Sevco job.

I suppose it would be more common if the said manager was getting paid 17k a week with no pressure and no expectations. Why would McInnes want to leave that set-up?

We haven't beaten Celtic, aside from May 2018 when Celtic weren't playing for anything and win for us would stop Sevco finishing second, since February 2016. Therefore, five years ago in three months time. During that time, we've recorded two draws. Sevco is better with four wins, three away and one at home. However, we haven't beaten them at home since September 2016. Given that stats, I doubt any 'bam' thinks we should win every time we play them. The performance in the recent Scottish Cup semi final was an example of the loser's mentality we have when we play them. They were there for the taking and we didn't lay a glove on them. And, in my opinion, I point the finger of blame for this at our overpaid and comfortable manager who can't seem to motivate his players enough or figure out tactically how to win these big games. The same is true in Europe for our consistent failure at the 3rd qualifying round. There was an opportunity this season against an unfit Sporting Lisbon team and we were abject.

Ideally not, but then he should've never received the extension in the first place, and wasn't worth the money we're paying him. However, we're going to struggle to attract fans back when the stadiums open again playing this style of eye-bleeding football, so do we continue with McInnes as manager until his contract runs out in the summer of 2022?