wee toon red

P&J saying that Yengi will be away in Jan, most likely back to English league one on loan unless an Asian club stumps up for his wages on a permanent deal.

milanovic also keen on going out on loan, whereas Clarkson might stay now because he did well under Leven last time around.

48 minutes ago, Nordicus said:

why do you feel the need to be abusive

nobody is suggesting what you assert they are - that his poor form have somehow diminished his cup achievements

yet you agree his form has been poor (for too long) , as do others who think it's time he were swapped 

 

You specifically said he’d “used up his credit”. The first poster said his mistakes now have “far outweighed” his performance in the cup final. Maybe clowns and roasters was a bit harsh but I find it incredible that people hold such an opinion and aren’t just lashing out in frustration and looking for a handy scapegoat.

Our centre backs have been absolutely rank for most of this season, that’s never going to help a keeper perform at their best.

The guy is the absolute star man in our biggest achievement in 35 years and we've got at least two folk on here (and Lord knows how many clowns on social media) who think a few months of poor performances have tarnished that? For a fan base that prides itself on being so good at backing the team, we really do have just as big a percentage of roasters as every other club.

Chucking Clarkson in just because he's "good" is exactly the type of thing Lutz meant when he said we've got lots of good individual players but they don't fit together as a team. It would be super if we had a squad set up to accommodate a player of Clarkson's style and ability but I'm not sure that we do, hence why he's being left out a lot.

I know we’ve not been great but we’ve created enough to have got something out of this. Their goals were two horrendous set pieces but other than that they’ve rarely threatened.

Our intent and work rate has been much improved. Sadly our defending and attacking have remained garbage.

52 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

You can't just invent new formations, that requires a licence. A 4-1-2-3 has never existed. 

I got the licence out a lucky bag in 1993.

Think of the formation as a 4-1-4-1 as that’s what it’ll be when we don’t have the ball.

Mitov

devlin milne knoester gyamfi

kjartansson

polvara shinnie

bilalovic nisbet armstrong

Doesn’t look too bad?

8 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

Don’t agree. ‘Old’ football the manager did everything. Now the manager is the coach, being asked to spend all of his time doing what he does best, coach. There is not one model for every club, and the manager role can vary slightly. Other folks do the scouting and signing of players. You also sign a manager who aligns with your/the clubs philosophy, which is correct in my option. You referenced Amorim, a very bizarre hire because he didn’t align. A manager/coach should  know his role and is not bigger than the club.

its how it is with most sports in the states, the manager is ‘only’ the coach with the old manager job split between other ‘experts.’

It drives me nuts these days when you read things like "manager such and such spent £x thousands/millions in the summer" when, quite clearly, more or less no big clubs give the person in charge of training and picking the team carte blanche to even pick signings, let alone negotiate wages, fees etc.

Amorim is the latest example: he didn't spend £200m in the summer, Man Utd did. If it had just been up to Amorim, he'd probably have signed four completely different players to the ones the club did.

It'll have been similar with Jimmy. The sooner folk get their heads around that being the way football works these days, the better.

I think that’ll mean Celtic win the league. O’Neill will get them back to pragmatic football that’ll be enough to overtake hearts and hold off the huns.

59 minutes ago, Panda said:

 

Fucking hell, Scotland’s greatest ever didn’t cover himself in glory at any of those Hun goals and Theo wasn’t brilliant at the other end either. No way Laudrup meant that.

Really sorry it didn't work out for Jimmy but it was probably time. The first few months of last season were a thrilling time to support the Dons and obviously May was incredible, so he should leave with his head held high and with the best wishes of all Reds.

Three criteria for me, otherwise I'm reasonably open to whoever the club picks:

1. Not Neil Lennon

2. Not Stephen "Jim Goodwin mk2" Robinson.

3. Not one of these modern idealogues like Nancy, Amorim, Postecoglu, who are willing to lose every game due to their religious adherence to a system. At our level, we need a manager who can work with what they've got and adapt it as necessary depending on the opposition, not some egomaniac who thinks they have football figured out and just need their board to throw a fortune at the right players for the system.

Easy...

It’s not supposed to be up the manager - who I suspect will actually be a head coach - to sign players now anyway. That’s what pfannensteil is for. Same for outgoings. No point in a sporting director if you need a manager to buy or sell players. That’s the model we’ve got now so other than not being able to sell the club to prospective signings, the head coach position being vacant shouldn’t prevent progress being made on sales or signings.

2 minutes ago, Jute said:

One thing I would say is the recruitment team should be sharing the blame for this with Thelin. They have brought in a number of players over the summer who are clearly not good enough and if/when Thelin goes they should go with him. 

Is that the reason Gunn’s already away?

Well done to the Brochers in this year’s fantasy football and thanks as always to Sneckie for all the organising

That’s how pain-free my Christmas Eve has been

If the last 18 months, which included an enthralling unbeaten run at the start of last season and a first scottish cup win since 19-fucking-90 just seven months ago is “painful”, then what word are we using for the 24-odd years that came before?!

It’s been a weird 18 months, at times a frustrating 18 months, but attendances are up, the connection between the club and fans feels stronger than ever and - I repeat - we’ve won the Scottish Cup for the first time in 25 years. I’m certainly not feeling any pain.

I was just the right age for getting into football as Jess was breaking through. What a player.

Andy Considine is a proper hero. A fan who grew up to play over 400 games for the club, even winning a trophy. And topping it all off with a Scotland debut at Hampden, at the age of 33, helping the team to a clean sheet in a meaningful game. Seems to be a genuinely good guy and a hugely loyal servant who played wherever his manager asked him to. He's basically the manifestation of the dreams of every kid who grew up wanting to play for the Dons.

20 hours ago, Don Julio said:

Except it's VAR that sucks the life out of the game, never knowing when to celebrate a goal, and so on. Before it was just shite refereeing, now it's shite refereeing and a ruined experience. We have all those Tifos and fireworks and stuff to 'enhance the fan experience ' when the best thing to achieve that would be to bin VAR. Cormack should just drop the 60 second stuff and argue for an end to VAR. I reckon he'd get lots of support.

Cormack should just stop paying for our share of the bill.

The new guy has been calling McGregor over and showing him one of those wee magnetic tactics board. Sure sign that the coach is a diddy.

Unless the sign means something I’m not seeing, we definitely shouldn’t be throwing stones at other fans.

First two games in Boston/Foxborough and the third one in Miami. 2am kick off for the first one and 11pm for the other two. Rubbish times. Worse world cup than Qatar for TV watching.

A player or two in January and a less burdensome fixture list and I reckon top 4 isn't beyond us yet.