HaarDon

Exactly L.A. I'd like to know how the recruitment team look for new players. If one of us were employed to solely look into leagues for say 3 months and make a ton of calls to managers and agents etc, I swear we could come up with a few decent signings. Even telesales marketers get some results. Hernandez was a defender. I was talking about a striker/midfielder who would win us games hopefully. You want to buy a £750k striker for ONE game in the hope he wins it for us? That's ridiculous and a wrecklessly stupid gamble by your thoughts too. What I was talking about was taking a gamble on one or two players who would win us games and put pressure on a hugely vulnerable Celtic whose only real threat was US. We then take these decent players into a guaranteed Europa qualification round. Any Don's fan who didnt want that isn't looking to win anything. These arent grand statements. It's wanting your team to challenge for things and play better football for the fans. Wonder where we might have been now if the club had shown some nuts. We are just going round in circles here anyway and clearly have different views on how to appease the fans. Over and out.

Maybe not but we would still have a decent striker going into Europe which could have made a difference as you said yourself. That's a way to run a club. Instead we sit hoping we get that 3rd spot in the league while hanging onto dross. Scotland hadn't beaten England at Twickenham for nearly 40 years. That's outrageous stats akin to our abysmal records at Ibrox and Celtic park. Scotland rugby can only play Scottish players. We have a plethora of world leagues to look at and try to persuade young talent to come to AFC. Do we even try ?

Happy birthday manc. Sorry but due to covid mail times, your gift wrapped box of tunnocks tea cakes will arrive around 2029.

I dunno Rico, I reckon it was still worth the risk. £750k is a cheap striker these days. What do we have now? it pains me to say it but the rangers have gone from zero to very successful. Won the league and had some amazing results in Europe. They took risks but had the fan base to back it up of course. I think we could get better crowds with some investment from Atlanta or McCormack and the board when fans come back. Surely some sort of long term plans should be discussed between these parties. We need a red revolution I tell ya

So a cheap striker would have won us the Apollon game? But not the league that year we were just behind Celtic and could have put enormous pressure on them with perhaps a decent cheap striker? You sure we arent asking the same thing at different times? I think the risk of spending on a couple of solid players was worth maybe winning the league that year and set us up for Champions League football which I doubt we will reach for about 20 years now. Just my opinion. We will never know.

Hi Rico I'm not saying it's about mcInnes just telling the players to win the league and it will happen. I'm talking about the whole direction of the club. We dont have any drive or ambition to change things. That's fairly evident in the 'not bringing in players' to beat Deila THAT season, the laziness in the player recruitment, the returning of ex players, the lack of opportunity for young players who can actually score goals for other teams, the constant injuries we get, the apathy of players not busting a gut every game, Maybe I am expecting too much. The return we got on Cosgrove and McKenna was superb of course but it's 2 players in a long long time. Where are we going wrong? At present, McInnes is capable but so am I in that sense with only a few games to go ha.

9 games to go and our best player is out for the rest of the season though tom. I don't see that happening to any other team in the SPL or has it? I mean of course if we had a better pool of quality players we wouldnt notice as much.

Jute I AM asking us to beat everyone and win the league. That's the mindset problem. We have all played sports against better players, teams and opposition. I'm sure coaches of any sport around the world will endure their athletes to think they can beat anyone against all odds. Leicester was a fluke but it can happen with belief and we don't have that. Our problem for decades has been players of course not just management tactics. But we dont seem to even try something new. I still believe a mix of decent Scottish, British Isles and foreign players is the way forward. We won't gamble on finding new players from Europe. I was excited at Hernandez because it was a South American footballer and different. A guy who plays for a national team. Then what happened? The money is in European competition not Scotland so we must strive to be reaching group stages to then dominate our own league through money gained there. The domestic cups are great if you win but we need to rebuild and recruit from elsewhere. It's not a quick fix but at least it's a direction. We are headless at the moment and will continue to be. Come on Cormack show some love and balls.

Resigning players is like taking back an ex girlfriend. Best avoided. I'm sure Hayes still has it but he's not showing it.Neither are any players. I wonder if the whole covid situation is an excuse. I mean it's affecting everyone personally, emotionally and professionally. Except the huns but they aren't human.

Think we will get 2 goals this game. Call me crazy. Why is it always us who has vital players injured at the worst times? Season after season it seems.

Thanks manc. I'm no expert. Just had a wee look around and wondered what wages he was on. We need someone who knows how to inspire the team and any manager who has taken a team from a lower division to the top obviously has the motivation skills. He's also played against some big teams so has that experience to maybe beat the likes of Celtic and the rangers.

Someone like Frank Wormuth of Heracles Almelo would be a great manager for us I think. Done amazing work.