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Scottish Premiership - Aberdeen v Ross County

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Ernie

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  1. You misread me Lightbulbetc, I believe we could have won the title a couple of times since the extraordinary 80's and I believe we can at least challenge going forward and win a cup or few along the way. That's the target isn't it? But we won't do it by employing a Hollywood manager at 10 times our salary and 100 times our player budget levels any more than we could by employing Andy Robertson, Gilmour and Lukaku. It will need a sustained period of good management, revenue from sales and Europe to fund the team, a few decent breaks in the market and a great team attitude. Idealistic I know but even after all my Dons supporting years I still live in hope!
  2. Mr Solskjaer's salary is only the start. His second question would be how much do I get to spend in the summer? Our budget being a factor of 100/200 times lower than his would end the phone call. Not only is it a ridiculous proposition but even if he wanted to come he'd be useless dealing with free transfers, risky prospects and those who have failed at other clubs: that's the market we are dealing in.
  3. Won't matter when 9if) next season starts if we're down the plug. I should have said I have bought mine, just an opinion but I'd really like to see us continue at a decent level and I'd be buying it anyway.
  4. ST holders should buy early bird 20-21 season ticket. Might help.
  5. Good question. There were plenty numpties at Pittodrie in the 80's, there are lots of numpties at all clubs and even more who don't go to the football so I don't think that's a factor. We are a long way from that quote now but we were a bit of a way from it in the day. It was and remains bit over romantic. Basically we were a good local club with a fortuitous decent board and ambitious, extremely capable manager and all that came along just before the money explosion blew all but the big players out of contention. We were that as opposed to the bunch of biscuit tin management and players who could earn more working in the fish that we had in the 60's. I usually get into trouble about this but I started going in the early 60's and I suggest the 80's Dons were an entirely different club than the 60's one never mind the difference between 1983 and 36 years later. Not saying it's always for the good (it's not!) but things change. What's more frightening for the future of the game is how far Real Madrid have come from those days. Sure they were a big team that bought the best to supplement their own but they had a history and a culture that was Spanish and a specific type of Spanishness (not my cup of tea but nevertheless ....). Now they are one of a few global franchises who will swop the world's best players and managers around season after season scooping up the bulk of the TV dosh and ensuring no challengers crop up. They are a major player in the big club cartel that have stitched the game up. They are not the romantic Real Madrid of the past.
  6. I remember the Pearson era. Also every other joker we've had in place with few exceptions. DM is nowhere near the level of shit we've had. For sheer incompetence however it's hard to beat the 7 losses in a row in 2010 including 9-0 to the Tims and 5-0 to Hearts. Covered two management teams but really just one to blame. McInnes perceived lack of winning mentality is the reason we still have him. I think a new manager would be interesting but I accept it's a fair chance he wouldn't be any better than DM. Gamble away I say, maybe we'll fluke it. It's not the end of the world if we don't: we survived post McGee.
  7. Enjoyed that today. Played well within our limits and although Smurn were gash that's 75% of the job in the SPFL, they were gubbed 2-0 by the huns and beat Dundee so standard 9th or below for them I suspect. GMS starred but great to see Wright play so well central midfield, it's been worth sticking in with him. He was as good as Christie today? Probably will struggle against better teams over 90mins but he does give a creative option which is valuable as opposed to being another fancy dan winger with a few tricks up your sleeve. Also, taking due cognisance of the pish opposition, all the defensive unit breezed it today. Having Logan back will be a bonus in that position and in freeing up Ball (into CM) who I think is worth a deal. Next week will be a good test of where we are.
  8. One year loan deal with Aberdeen, one year left in his contract with Manyoo, 30k a week now and for the last 3 (or more?) years. James, James where did it all go wrong?
  9. Personal opinion of course but I don't want someone to drop £50m in our lap so we can buy a bunch of players and pay them top whack for a few years to take on the dhims. To be frank, there's nobody in their team worth getting skint for. They would all walk in to our team of course but their nae exactly galacticos are they? The financial inequality that you quite rightly acknowledge is far worse than £50m. Unless we can trouser £100 plus million a year as per, for example Bournemouth whose turnover is £121m and are subsequently the 28th richest, by turnover, in the world with a ground capacity of 12,400, we'd still be third or fourth tier. Life is a bitch. We're not in Glasgow never mind the EPL and I'm generally pretty happy about that, we'll just have to get on with it.
  10. Kiri... I mean if he is poached, I'd be happy for him to stay but the problem is that he is only likely to remain if he is less successful. Like our players any decent offer (from a decent team that is) will see him off. Get the system and the personnel in place to keep the club in good nick and get a manager/coach in to look after the first team fitba, if it's McInnes that's fine with me.
  11. Rico "I think he could do much better at raging players into a frenzy for the bigger games against better teams when tactics alone aren't going to cut it, and I think that is far more an issue for him. You could switch him for Lennon and we'd tank the huns a couple of times a season but we wouldn't finish second; he doesn't have Deek's discipline." That's the key issue for me. We'd probably be happier if we had a team of lennonesque scrappers (no disrespect, I would have him as a manager) because that's the way of fitba fans but I doubt if we would be as successful, a relative concept I know c.f. Arsene Wenger. Having happily clapped a succession of sh*te mangers from Pearson via Porterfied to Patterson etc. we Dons have seen only 4, so far , who have gone against the old political paradigm that "all careers end in failure". Turnbull, Macleod, McNeil and Ferguson. Maybe McI will get poached and do the same; I hope so because we could do with a change but to deny his success is a bit odd. Meanwhile he will have to dig in and do what the aforementioned 4 didn't have to and play the free/cheap market, at about third tier England level, with the hope of finding the odd gem.
  12. A good season spoiled by regular regular lack of fight/bottle/tactics (I know not what) against the huns and Celtic. Overall though, the market we are able to deal in is evident again and it is clear that we will be relying on frees, loans and cheap options. I'm amazed we can keep the standard up to enable 2nd place four years on the trot. If Celtic, sevco or anyone in the top three divisions in England fancy any of our targets they will get them. Makes for interesting management though!
  13. Possibly. I'd rather keep him. I'd prefer having a slightly past his best Rooney as an option rather than some lower league no mark on a free.
  14. He may well want to leave LADon but what I'm saying is we are talking about "letting him go" as a bit of a favour etc. but we may well have to sweeten his leaving IF the club want him to move on. He has a contract with us won't get a better one elsewhere unless Hibs/Hearts offer him a deal which may, at a stretch, be as good.
  15. Why would he leave? He's unlikely to get a better deal anywhere else.
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