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May May Wilson

Coyr 

https://maps.nls.uk/os/

Not a specific historical post, but this is a nice link to old OS maps, interesting to see how Aberdeen has changed over the years - some fascinating landmarks to look out for too (my favourite being ‘Royal Lunatic Assylum’ at cornhill).

People are calling for the manager to be sacked? Why? Because Stevie May’s let us down? Because Shinnie’s having a bad run of form? Or because we’ve played the whole season so far with injury/suspension problems that couldn’t have been foreseen?

We’ve maybe been lucky in previous seasons to have avoided situations like this with important players missing EVERY week, but it has caught up with us this season. But how anyone can say Heart's lead is unassailable already, after 5 games, is fucking mind blowing to me. I hope the manager doesn’t read this shite. Maybe it won’t be our year, maybe it will, I’m just relieved that the majority of the fans are level headed enough to realise we’re a work in progress - unlike some of the miserable cunts on here.

Aberdonians. Only happy when they’re unhappy.

Out out out etc (work)

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May and May

Injuries to key players, but McInnes has also made some bad calls. He’s got the recruitment wrong in the past for sure, some absolute howlers to be fair, but our budget dictates which market we shop in - and the English lower leagues are just as likely to throw up a carthorse as the occasional hidden gem. I know I’m probably overly optimistic at times, and probably too forgiving of DMC’s flaws, but I want him to be the one who delivers some silverware so much. I know we (the supporters) have earned it, and I feel he has too.

Not trying to trip you up or anything but do you feel that we're going to win a cup this season?

 

And if so, why?

 

And if not, why not?

I think it’s possible, don’t you? There’s a lot worse teams than ours who’ve won the Scottish cup and league cup over the years - that’s the beauty of knock out competition rather than a league campaign.

Listen I know we’ve not exactly set the heather on fire yet this season, and I can see the glaring question marks over some of the latest recruits - I can also appreciate we’ve been unlucky with injuries and a questionable red card decision yesterday....it’s too early for knee-jerk reactions in my opinion. I believe McInnes deserves our patience, that’s all.

Except that he can't even finish above us and hasn't yet won Hibs a trophy or looked likely to

Exactly. I’m not as old as some posters on here.....certainly older than most (I imagine), but Aberdeen fans should be careful what they wish for. I’m an optimist and I agree with Rocket that we (and our manager) should aspire to great things. But I’m also a realist, and I want this period of stability to continue and hopefully lead us to silverwear even if it is only in cup competitions. I’ve spent too many seasons making excuses for dons teams finishing at the lower end of the league.

Also, I think maybe we should have let McKenna go. He’s a fabulous prospect but, bizarrely, losing him this season wouldn’t have changed much in my opinion - I think we’re destined to be in a 4-way fight for 2nd regardless. The money would have been huge to a club like ours. Only time will tell I guess.

I expect us to win handsomely tomorrow 

Yep, I'm not convinced that "getting his players to work for him" is the best term either. Rather that he gets his players to remain loyal to him. And not in a Jimmy C "best mates" way either, there seems to be a distinct professionalism about the relationships within the club. Again we see another transfer go smoothly without gossip or leak. In terms of his management - in an administrative and directorial capacity - I think we've not seen anything as good since Ferguson. There is a very obvious loyalty and a strong discipline that can only come from respect for the man; I think it'd be very difficult to argue otherwise. However, he's missing the ability to turn that into big game motivation and being held back by his own fear of losing/lack of risk taking. I think that would need an entirely different person. There is a strong team mentality, but with that we seem to be losing individual thought and creativity (although GMS seems to have been given licence to try shit this season and so far that is paying off). This has led to hard-work and safe-play being given precedent over taking chances. It's a balance that McInnes has never managed to get right and it only really becomes obvious in the big games. It's clearly quite a delicate balance though as we see the gung-ho Lennon fuck it up again at the weekend against a team we would undoubtedly have beaten whilst at full strength. Our victory with a weakened team against Dundee is testament to McInnes' approach, but so is our draw against ten men the week before. His approach got us second in the league that nearly every other manager in the division would have struggled to match, but his reliance on loyalty lost us a semi final against Motherwell that several other managers would have got us through on the day.

 

However this guy turns out, it'll be hard work for the team first, individual performance second. If he can't do the former then we'll never see the latter. For the former to work we need to see how he'll fit into our style and how he'll link up. We'll also have to address the massive issues in our central midfield or else he'll be hit with punts all day long. Until we sort out the midfield, I don't think we'll see anything from him and he'll be part of another 65th minute substitution but with May - unfortunately - replacing Anderson as the go-to (the most obvious area in which McInnes - and a lot of other managers - lacks).

Good post, +1.

If they’d used VAR the correct outcome would have been yellow for McKenna, and red for Morelos. Does the decision to rescind the red card come with any explanation, or are we just expected to suck it up and not ask any questions? 

It's actually also a fairly good time to get injured with the League Cup game after Dundee, Hibs will be a difficult one then Killie at home then its the international break. So should only miss 4 games....could have missed 7 or 8 had it been later in season

Good point, we definitely need centre back cover in the meantime though.

Think it’s time for cool heads, not ridiculous knee jerk reactions. As an intelligent fan base we should be better than that.

I prefer to focus on the positives. They were desperate to beat us yesterday, but they couldn’t. And as a result Gerrard’s pre-rehearsed post-match soundbites sounded like paranoia and sour grapes. He was gutted and already the pressure is on him. It’s a bonus point for us, one up on last season, with a stretched squad, key players missing, and on the back of a draining week against good opposition in Europe.

A young local loon popped up with a fantastic and dramatic equaliser, then spoke about ‘dreams coming true’ and ‘hopefully more to come’ afterwards. McInnes is turning to youth players more often now, that’s what we all wanted, wasn’t it?

We’ve proved in recent seasons we can go on 8/9 game winning streaks, often on the back of a bad result, so the manager and the players deserve our patience in my opinion. Three games against tough opposition and we’re undefeated, let DMC do his business in the transfer market this week and let’s see where we are after that.

Hang in there fellas, keep the faith. 

Squad could be very stretched today on the back of Thursday, and with Logan out. However I’m optimistic as usual and I think we’ll have a proper go at them. So....

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1-0

Considine

Wild Vodka fuelled celebrations

COYR! 

Biggest positive in the performance last night was effort and workrate. We were properly motivated, more so than their bodies allowed this early in the season.

Hence why I picked Shinnie for motm, did a power of work and thundered into every challenge.

Shinnie motm for me, led by example throughout. Very proud of the whole teams performance, pity we couldn’t hold on. 

Pittodrie was beautiful last night, packed, noisy, emotional.... it all added up to a fitting tribute to Neale Cooper. Had a wee tear in my eye during the Norther Lights.

As usual I though McInnes spoke well after the game, as did Sean Dyche (or Greg Dyke, as the fella next to me kept calling him  )

As kick off gets closer, I’m starting to feel moderately optimistic that we might just turn them over tonight. It’s not like we’re playing Liverpool or Chelsea where our young team might be like rabbits in the headlights, in awe of their opponents. This is a team from the premier league who’ve over-performed recently, and they won’t necesserily fancy coming here for a midweek game. It all points to a narrow dons win, probably 1-0.

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Wan nil

Rooney Cosgrove

Coyr! 

No Live TV coverage as yet for this match.

In that case they’ll probably enjoy the pub even more then 

2100 tickets left. Think we'll shift at least the majority of that by Thursday.

Tried to buy 3 for visiting friends last week, got told they had no chance because it was a category A game and they had no loyalty points. Welcome to Aberdeen, enjoy your night watching it in the pub while there’s scores of empty seats at the game. 

One of our biggest assets in the last few seasons has been the togetherness of the squad, and the fans. A feeling of unity amongst everyone connected with the club - fuelled by rangers demise and a series of 2nd place finishes, these have been relatively good times. The unity has gone. Season ticket sales are down. Fans are bickering on social media and turning away from the club....the whole mood around the place has taken a pessimistic turn.

This is a dangerous period for the dons. While the board commit millions to future infrastructure, the bread and butter side of the business seems to have been neglected. And all this despite the DNA promises of more football investment.

My worry is that rangers will get a massive lift from Gerrard. He is unproven, and he could be gone in a matter of months if they don’t get results. But their fans have bought into it big time, and they have unity and momentum going into the season - giving them a huge advantage in my opinion. So far our board have done nothing to ignite the passion of the fans and try to build on last season’s ‘success’.

I’m an optimist, but even I need to see some sort of ambition in the coming days - we’re in danger of imploding very very soon. 

I’d be surprised to see a ‘top striker’ coming in, think it’s obvious McInnes is planning to go with a May/Cosgrove partnership. Think we’ll either be bringing in a squad player or relying on youth for striking options.

The squad seems alarmingly thin at the moment though - we have pretty much zero contingency, in defence particularly.... 

I’m notoriously lazy, and can’t be arsed checking to see if anyone’s done a definitive ‘players out / players in’ list. Can any of you feckers help? I’ll start.....

Players out : Dominic Ball, Kenny McLean

Players in : Dominic Ball

Went to the club shop today, the grey strip is absolutely honking in the flesh - looks drab as fuck and, like the blue strip last season, looks really cheap and tacky.

Some of the retro kits are quite good, and this season’s home top is a beauty imho opinion.

Away kit should be white with red or black trim, or Black/Navy with gold trim. I’m the customer, and the customer is always right. 

That’s a fair response, and I’m not inclined to argue with any of it - apart from the bit about moaning Aberdonian cunts 

Genuinely interested in the share thing though, so there are no benefits attached to those shares now? You have nothing to show for that investment?

My mistake, 155 for phase 2, and 140 for 3. Even so, I’m not getting one - and that’s fine.

Season ticket for 2 years plus premium DNA purchased before last Friday is 140 points at a minimum which would put you into phase 3.

Thought phase 3 was 145....?

My postie has had a ST for years. Buys them for his kids too. He told me today that he doesn't have enough points to get a Burnley ticket and is getting sick fed up with the direction AFC are going. AberDNA has been a brazen attempt to screw the fans. Just like Arsenal and most of the EPL clubs, the chairmen don't give a fuck for anything other than making money. That's great if this all translates to success on the pitch in a shiny new stadium. It would be tragic and utterly predictable if in the process, the heart and soul of the club gets lost.

There seems to be a myth that dna members are hoovering up the Burnley away tickets, and in doing so ‘true’ fans are missing out.....can someone explain this to me? I’ve also had season tickets for years, and I’ve done the dna thing - still don’t even qualify for phase 3. Am I doing it wrong?

Seems to me the most ‘loyal’ fans, who both invest in, AND travel to support the team are gonna get the tickets. I’ve got no problem with that.

This is all just another excuse for moaning Aberdonian cunts to go nuts on social media.