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Saturday 30th  March 2024:  kick-off 3pm

Scottish Premiership - Aberdeen v Ross County

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Panda

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  1. Plays three at the back, would split the support too much anyway.
  2. No, you were criticising O'Neill's recent run of results, I was pointing out he has a young team and they are in a period of transition. Romania, Hungary, Greece and Finland may not be seen as major nations to Scotland, but they are all significantly bigger than Northern Ireland. You were the one comparing his management record to Callum Davidson and Tommy Wright. Are you serious? They lost to Germany and Poland by a single goal and beat Ukraine 2-0. Again it's Northern Ireland we're talking about here. They lost narrowly to a Wales team that went and beat Belgium 3-1 in the next ground. Does it? Where's all the management offers for Steve Clarke? Or Neil Lennon? Like who? If you mean Lennon I can think of many, many reasons and him not being a fashionable name isn't one of them.
  3. It's not the club leaking anything. They have nothing to leak except bad news. What is the bigger achievement? Winning a cup in Scotland, or not only taking Northern Ireland to their first major tournament in 30 years but then taking them to the knockout stages? They qualified by topping their qualifying group where five of their opponents had significantly bigger populations and a larger player pool to pick from, losing just once, then beat Ukraine at the finals. He's achieved more than all the names above and I include Neil Lennon whose record at clubs outwith Celtic has been poor. Lennon in his management career has never punched above his weight. And by the way, since you compared him to Callum Davidson, O'Neill also has two league titles at two different clubs in two different countries* *or the same country if you're that way inclined. A lot to unpack there. "He's done ok to a point" - as above, his first spell was sensational. He also took them to a play-off to get to another finals (though left before it because of Covid/Stoke). In his second spell he's having to work with a young team. Is it not an average age of 23 in the last two games (1-1 draw with Romania and beating Scotland). Let's not forget Northern Ireland are minnows. They have less than a 2m population, and even a large proportion of that would refuse to play for them and would instead choose the Republic if given the choice. As for Stoke, he actually did well there initially. He got sacked because towards the end they got into a rut that he couldn't get them out of. It certainly was no disaster. As much as I'd like O'Neill as manager, it's not happening unless we pay big bucks to get him. It may come to that if we continue to struggle to get someone.
  4. Michael O'Neill rumours doing the rounds, mainly based off his Northern Ireland press conference today where he didn't rule out the Aberdeen job. I had heard a few things weeks ago but was under the impression it hadn't come to anything and any interest was now over. But I would be delighted if there was substance to these rumours and it was him. The day Robson was sacked I tweeted two names - Jimmy Thelin & Michael O'Neill.
  5. We're just making excuses for the club here. Never in my whole life have I known a football club to take this long to appoint someone. Now I should say, I'm not criticising them for this week and the time it's taken them to whittle down their shortlist and get it over the line, because that's fine, that does take time. But we appear to have sacked Barry Robson with little imagination as to what to do next bar giving the likes of Lennon and Warnock a call. We've needed a German company to come in and say "yeh, you see all that success there you're targeting, you might need a good manager and a proper coaching structure to do that."
  6. Have they what? Pissed about? Absolutely. As far as I'm aware, we're appointing a manager before a technical director. Not all of it is speculation and the media may have more of a clue than you think. Maybe not about who will be manager, but why certain others won't be. Do you think Jimmy Thelin is still in the running?
  7. But that's not what has happened. The club aren't simply "taking their time". They had five months last season to pinpoint targets. They've put an interim in place this year and made little move to get their new man while Warnock was setting the place on fire. They have began interviews two weeks after their interim fucked off because he was dismayed at what was going on behind the scenes.
  8. Crafty of the club to hold off announcing the new manager until people have bought the tickets.
  9. Monday will be 11 years to the day Derek McInnes was appointed Aberdeen manager. You think we're waiting until the anniversary to... you know?
  10. Yeah, Souttar replaced McKenna in the squad. Hanley also pulled out.
  11. But that's not what happened. And no-one has been stitched up. Porteous says we're getting close to the best teams in Europe. Gordon says we can beat anyone in our day. He was literally asked about it today. He wasn't raging. He answered we've shown we can be competitive against the best teams. You're getting yourself annoyed at nothing.
  12. Craig Gordon has said that Scotland can get a result against anyone on their day. That's his actual quote. Shall we burn down his house while he's away with the national team or wait until he returns to lynch him for creating unrealistic expectations?
  13. Which divisions have been created? Do you think half the squad aren't talking to him now?
  14. Just read that back and hardly any of that made sense Been a loonnngg day.
  15. Aye but McInnes was likely in significantly more than Glass was, so shits and roundabouts. Would JET have been on big wages? He would have been on commission minimum wage & relying on tips at Livingston.
  16. He hasn't. Bit of a myth really since Glass was his own man and we didn't spend big until Goodwin arrived. I'd give up. He gave us some good times, but it's time to move on.
  17. But there was never any progress in the tactic under Robson. IF (and we don't even know, I suspect it wasn't) Robson's long term plan was to play a similar way to Thelin, then we saw little example of any sort of improvement or a team evolving. It's not revisionist to say it was punting long balls because that's what it was. The defeat at Tynecastle in September was a glaring and obvious example of a team punting it long without any real idea what they were trying to achieve. That's not all on Clarkson, these punts were coming from everywhere. I have my doubts his plan was to play like that. It looked more like a "hit it long to their back line and try win the second balls". What alarmed me about the Dundee game (I know we're post Robson but it's still his legacy) was we would hit it long, lose it, and did little pressing to win it back. So many players stood and waited for Dundee to hit it back to us. That's not just down to wrong personnel. Well aye, we do have to accept it'll take a few transfer windows. Glass I backed because I felt that's what he needed. Maybe it still would have turned to shit but I still feel he was sacked too early. Goodwin & Robson, it was clear more transfer windows wouldn't fix what were managers who weren't good enough. That all said: Jimmy Thelin - I think if we have already began interviews and haven't even approached this guy, then he's probably not going to be the next manager. Which is a real shame as I think the style he plays is actually more realistic for the Scottish game.
  18. It may have been what he thought he was attempting but he went about it in a completely different way. Robson played three at the back and punted the long balls for Miovski to chase. And no wingers (except for when Shayden Morris was thrown on as a game changer). They were aimless long balls. Thelin appears to play a 4-2-3-1 with wingers staying high and being the main recipients of the long pass. Hopefully we would pass the ball instead of what we did on Wednesday where it lumped hopefully into the box in the hope something might fall. But who knows, maybe Thelin doesn't have a plan B which is why he hasn't moved on from Elfsborg yet.
  19. Well the guy was reportedly interviewed last year when we were also a basket case of a club.
  20. Stop pissing about and go get him.
  21. Who is going to break it to him we've another defeat and shite performance on Saturday to come first?
  22. That may have been the case back when you and Neil Warnock were kids, but not these days. If anything, the two sides meeting in any other round of the competition is better for the broadcasters than it is them meeting in the final.
  23. Why would they need to avoid each other?
  24. There's not been an Old Firm Scottish Cup final since 2002. Since then, this is the first time they have been kept apart in the semi-final. On the previous five occasions they have been drawn against each other.
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