February1971

In retrospect, it might have been a bit too optimistic to expect such even-handedness towards us. 

 

Three home games for Sevco and three away for Dons, quelle surprise.

Which will mean Aberdeen have played 19 home 19 away, and the Huns will have played 19 home 19 away.

Its embarrassing at times the greetin folk do for no reason at all.

and as for this minus shite ye faceless prick stick yer shite up yer arse

why would he leave? why would he be sacked?

lets wait to see where we are at the end of the season.

Tommy Wright, Alan Archibald...... fuck off

I am not saying McInnes is a bad manager, I am not saying he should get the bullet but like all managers in football he makes mistakes and I think our set up on Saturday was one of them.

 

What frustrates me most about the game on Saturday is that I honestly believe that had we had a more positive approach and actually asked questions of Celtic from kick off, we could have got something out of that game even if it was only a point.

we almost got a point as it happens. The thing I didn't get about team selection was not so much Burns but more McGinn. As I saw it McInnes wanted the front 3 to press the Celtic back line to disrupt their playing out from the back. Burns  was running all over the place trying to close them down and Hayes was blowing out his arse at the end with the amount of work he did.

McGinn on the other hand was way out of his comfort zone, its not his game at all.

McLean was totally inaffective when he was supposed to be supporting the front 3 and when he was the holding midfielder.

Personally I would like to see McLean on the bench for a while and would start Maddison every game.

He was a joy to watch even at the half time warm up, problem is McLean cost 300k and Maddison will only be here for a couple of months.

As for McInnes i prefer to look at the bigger picture, he has done a very good job on the whole.

The next couple of seasons will be the making or breaking of him as The Aberdeen manager i believe.

Surely it's just another way of saying we didnt win, but that the mentality and effort shown by the players was acceptable. No one wants to hear a manager say that losing its acceptable, but i dont think he meant it the way folk are interpreting it. Yes, losing is losing, but i think what he was saying was we didnt just roll over and let them thump us, but rather we had a go, they showed effort, but we still lost.

 

I heard him say on the radio that the difference between our players and St Johnstones is around £500 a week, but with Celtic its more 500-600k a year. That is fact and reiterates the gap and quality we are trying to deal with. If he had gone out yesterday with 2 up front and really had a go, but we shipped 6 goals in the process, folk would still say he got it wrong. In other words, he isnt getting it right unless he wins, but beating Celtic is getting less likely. They have far superior quality and they really could go this whole season unbeaten... that is the level they are at.

 

I am also seeing a lot of people saying Lewis kept it from being a humping... well thats what he is paid to do is it not? and he does it very well i hasten to add.

 

For me, the greatest disappointment yesterday was watching how poor McGinn and Mclean were. Truly awful and its not the first time this season. I sometimes think that McGinn gets unfair criticism at times and contributes more to games than he gets credit for, but yesterday he was very poor. Mclean... well he just isnt good enough in my opinion and needs a long spell on the sidelines.

 

I could see what DM was trying to do yesterday and it didnt work, but he tried something different at least. It was perhaps the wrong game to do it, but after Hamilton he probably felt a risk was worth taking.

my thoughts exactly.

Over reaction as usual, I suggest we wait until we are in the bottom half of the league like we used to be before slagging the Manager.

He is not perfect but he has done a bloody good job since he has been here.

1.    Alex Ferguson 

2.    Alex Smith, Jocky Scott

3.    Billy McNeil

4.    Derek McInnes

5.    Ally McLeod

6.    Jimmy Calderwood

7.    Willie Miller

8.    Ian Porterfield

9.    Roy Aitken

10.  Craig Brown

11.  Ebbe Skovdahl

12.  Steve Paterson

13.  Alex Miller

14.  Mark McGhee

In/OOT: In

Pre-Match: Hoose

Match: Main C

Post- Match: Hoose

Score: 1-1 O'Connor