OxfordDon

Thought we looked good for a whole 12 minutes, now we look like panicked spuggies.

29 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Wow, we were quite the team in 1935. What was it like watching those guys play @BigAl?

I thought Al stopped going to games after the 1916-17 debacle

Before we dive into our make-or-break 31st game of the season this afternoon, I thought it would be interesting to see how we are stacking up aginst the other two years captured at the 30-game mark in this thread, which also just happened to be our best (2016/17 - 2nd place) and worst (2021/22 - 10th place) seasons in recent memory.

I also ran the averages for 38-game seasons at the 30 game mark as a comparison, along with adding current end-of-season records as they stand.

Some key points:

• Fail to win any of our last 8 games, and we will equal the all-time 107yr-old record for lowest number of wins in a season.  Likewise if we lose all of those 8, we will equal the most defeats in any 38-game season (please step forward Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee).  Of course if this were to happen we would undoubtedly have bigger, more downward, problems.
• We still need to score 3 more goals to avoid setting a new all-time record for least goals scored in a campaign.  This should be easy, right?
• We should continue to be extremely grateful to Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee, as thanks to their efforts we only have the 4th worst goal difference this century, rather than the worst.
• We are almost 14 points behind the average for 30 games into a 38-game season. Fourteen.  We need a minimum of 5 points from 24 to avoid equalling ll-time worst points total in a modern 38 game season (Hi Steve).

Enjoy.

Xabi Alonso rules himself out of the Aberdeen job.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68692969

On 21/03/2024 at 20:40, RicoS321 said:

Aberdeen are set to announce the appointment of up and coming young manager, Peter Leven Neil Warnock, with a contract until May March 2024.

My level of expectation right now

Came perilously close to being burned as a witch by my fellow companions, after predicting at half time that we would concede a penalty in the final minute of added on time for a suspect VAR handball decision.

7 hours ago, Panda said:

 

Stop pissing about and go get him.

Not convinced, what use is a manager that loses the title on the final day - we want a manager that loses the title nice and early in the season, so we can get the next manager in.

Incidentally, I think we can halt these Aberdeen field trials into whether "new manager bounce" exists, it doesn't, we can stop testing now.

Hideous to watch. I've watched some shite with Aberdeen, particularly in the early part of this century, but at least then they had the excuse that the individual players were crap.

This is just bewildering in how far the sum of the whole is below its parts, a team with Clarkson, Duk, Devlin, Shinnie, Barron, McGrath, Miovski as options should simply not be in this situation.  I fear for us.

a controversial penalty and two red cards for the opposing team - just another normal day at the office for Sevco.

8 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

 

 

There's a theme here 

Going on that logic, I now too expect Xabi to be announced Monday.  Dave, suggest we send him some rowies and point out Munich, Madrid and Liverpool don't do them.

Can't help thinking - did Warnock manage the team today?  Or did we just see a Leven win.

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

Actually, I'm guessing that Cormack just watched that BBC vox pop after we ditched Robson, where several munters outside pittodrie suggested Lennon. That seems to be how he does his business.

Don't knock it, clearly some of your Warnock out rumours got through to him too.

5 hours ago, OxfordDon said:

Just watching the pre-match interviews, why does Warnock never say "we" when he talks about Aberdeen?  Always "they" - doesnt exactly smack of togetherness and cohesion.

Well, guess I got my answer.  Wonder when the decision was made.

Just watching the pre-match interviews, why does Warnock never say "we" when he talks about Aberdeen?  Always "they" - doesnt exactly smack of togetherness and cohesion.

17 hours ago, Panda said:

No.

 

Disappointed the BBC have dropped the "(formerly known as Twitter)" bit, now every statement just looks like someone forgot to update the placeholder in the draft copy with the correct reference.

On the plus side, at least it's cheaper to sack an interim manager than a permanent one.

Only fair that we draw straws to decide who can have 27.

1 minute ago, redordead said:

Should've been dead and buried but our striker only has one foot and refuses to get a shot away.

Given the wealth of candidates for scapegoat, Miovski seems a wierd choice.

Can only assume Warnock was brought in to save us from relegation.   Disaster of a game.

On 19/02/2024 at 17:44, OrlandoDon said:

Hodgson available, worth a look??!!

Bit of a gamble taking on someone that early in his career, the guy's barely in his seventies

Feels like we are running out of red lines that make a game a "must win".  Lose this and we are staring at our season being reduced to the meaningless purgatory that is "best of the bottom-six".

8-7 after Warnock realises at 7-0 down that Duk in goal isn't working out.

On 12/02/2024 at 07:41, Slim said:

Which is far more exciting than our previous tactic of waiting for borderline boilers to finish doing the rounds of the whole town before eventually settling for us because we’re too scared to spread our wings beyond our own doorstep except for a fortnight in Magaluf every couple of years. Occasionally we’d get in first with one of the younger local ones but only because we have our own car. That’s no way to live. The knowing nods between punters every time you enter the local pub. “I see he’s taken in Curtis Main this time” they’ll whisper amongst themselves.

Ah, the glory days of being Jackie Macnamara's sloppy seconds.

Get Morris off the park now.

7 minutes ago, OxfordDon said:

Goal Warnock sorry Jute, Moivski.

Goal Warnock sorry Jute, Miovski.  Clearly was offended I spelled his name wrong so gave me another chance.