RicoS321

I also agree. Basically, what we're saying is that due to the media and the fans' hysterical reaction to rumour, his position is now untenable. Rangers' best move would be to not make an offer to McInnes. The damage is done, they simply don't need to anymore. Ridiculously, McInnes has no way back with dons fans and, given the recent results, probably isn't really wanted by the hun fans either. At best they'll put in a heavily reduced offer for him this week, at worst they don't move on anyone over the next few weeks and we continue to stumble around. I hope Milne now understands his huge mistake in trying to be the new huns when preventing the 11-1 vote structure changes. There's no level playing field between us and them. There never will be.

But he did find those words. He shut it down two weeks ago. The media chose to resurrect it again. I'm not sure what more he can do.

Fit colour are they? If they're hun-blue then they can get fucked (on Nips' behalf).

Good work on shoe-horning in Kingsford, but you've missed my point. First, he's not saying he's not interested in any vacancies just now, because that would be ridiculous. He has no idea when another job might come up. For example, if he'd come out on the day the previous hun was sacked and said "I'm not interested in any vacancies just now" and then three days later the West Brom job was offered to him, I'm pretty certain he'd have taken it. The point being that as soon as you give a definitive answer to one piece of speculation then you're expected to give a definitive answer to every piece of speculation. Your example doesn't get round that. If you need evidence, look back at the comments on here when McInnes was being touted for the Sunderland job. Everybody was suggesting that he should come out and say whether he would be leaving or not. He kept his mouth shut until an actual offer was made, mulled it over, and then decided to stay. As any professional manager would. Although Donsdaft is obviously correct.

I've mentioned it several times on here, and no-one has come up with a counter argument. McInnes cannot say he is not going. It would be the worst move a manager could make. Just as he didn't when Sunderland were sniffing about. If you say that you're not going this time, then everyone expects you to do the same next time. If he'd said he wasn't going to Sunderland when linked last time, he'd have had to say on day one that he wasn't joining the huns this time. At some point, there will be a team he wants to go to and he'd have to say so, which would cause all sorts of difficulty. He can only say "I don't comment on speculation", because that's what all professional managers do, every time. Same when dealing with purchasing players, or players getting sold/leaving - something we've been very appreciative of in our transfer dealings since he's been here. If he doesn't have that barrier between speculation and truth then he'd be screwed. McInnes' managerial life doesn't end after this one story, he has a long career in management whether that be with us, the hun or someone else. Kris Commons is a thick cunt who clearly hasn't been in that position before to know what to do. Nor is he capable of putting himself in McInnes' position to think it through. Quite simply, the huns have not made an approach yet. McInnes can't possibly know if he'd take the deal or not. There is nothing for him to comment on other than some BBC stories.

I think that's very harsh. McInnes went through a spell last season where we were playing pish and really struggling. He then turned it round and we had one of our best seasons in 20 years, scoring a huge number of goals, getting a record points total and playing some sublime fitba. It's far too easy to forget that, and also to forget that he lost his best players. I disagree with a lot of his shite tactics (yesterday was fine given the choices), but whether I like it or not, he's very much earned his extra time. There were very many on this board who were very happy with the squad McInnes had assembled at the beginning of the season, suggesting that we'd effectively replaced the players we'd lost (I wasn't convinced by the key players such as GMS, Tansey or Arneson) and, as they were in the shape of proven SPL players, it was easy to see why McInnes might have thought so too. Had the board backed him with Moult then I suspect we wouldn't be in this position today. I think we'd be in the Europa league and McInnes wouldn't have had a second thought about the hun. Still, the huns have made no approach at all for our manager and he has re-iterated the chairman's statement that said he wasn't going anywhere (his words - "I re-iterate what the chairman said"...""He has no intention of going anywhere. He loves this club."). It seems to me like a massive exercise in trying to unsettle a club so much that the club have no option but to let the manager go at a reduced price just to bring some sanity back to proceedings. It's been a pretty shameful, BBC orchestrated, shite-show. McInnes shouldn't be held to account for things that are entirely outwith his control. I think the huns will meet the figure, McInnes will talk to them, and he'll turn them down.

Once again, McKenna was good, Lewis okay, the rest pish. Stewart okay in spells. Agree with Donsdaft, dinna think the youngsters added much when they came on other than the sublime free-kick for Ross It was strange that they came on though. That isn't McInnes' way. Given how gash our passing was, I'd have chucked Considine or McKenna up front against the ten men and threw the ball in there in hope. With Wilson off, we'd have won the majority of headers and hoped for the scraps. Mingin like, but better than whatever it was we did try.

Great article. Regardless of the outcome, this has once again shown the disgusting state of Scottish fitba media and national broadcaster specifically.

Nationalism is for weird cunts. Get it done. You can still support the Scotland fitba team and you can't change yer place of birth. But, aye, fuck the queen. You should be questioning that bollocks.

I'm assuming you're joking? A brand new poster on a forum said so? Cause that never happens. I'm away on to a Hibs forum to tell them we've signed McGinn on a free due to a contract anomaly. My source is Davie Wylie, but dinna tell anyone.

Obviously I reserve the right to be entirely wrong when Maynard comes on and scores the winner

Maynard is fucking gash. Again, you have to see him in the flesh just to see how gash he is. May is approximately 6 times better than him and Rooney perhaps 50. If yer watching it on the TV, you don't see his movement. He's lost any ability he may have once had to play fitba because he's forgotten how to play the game. He's like Storey last season. Makes all the wrong runs, is two yards behind his defender when coming short, and hides when we're breaking so he doesn't receive the pass. Makes the run too late to make it look as if he was trying, when I don't think even wants the ball. He doesn't look bad on the TV because he doesn't get the ball because he's never in the right position. He makes all other players look bad because of his own ineptitude. He's a fitba charlatan. Like Goodwillie.

I don't buy it. We fucked up against the huns because we played a shite formation that plays to the weaknesses in our squad. That had nothing to do with speculation surrounding McInnes or anything else. The evidence to backup this view is in the numerous times he's made the same mistake previously. Suggesting that the speculation had anything to do with it is a pathetic excuse for a shite performance. We (McInnes) were at fault here, nothing to do with the press.

Like needing a jobby?

Maynard is pish. There's no reason to ever play him. He'll be playing non-league very soon. In light of injuries, I'd go: ------------Lewis------------ Logan---Arneson---McKenna---Consi -------O'Connor-----Shinnie---------- -Stewart------McLean--------Wright- ----------------May------------------- If GMS is fit, I'd drop O'Connor, McLean deep and put Stewart into the centre with GMS out wide. One game - against us - aside, I haven't seen anything good from May out wide with Rooney up front. We need to get the best out of Rooney or May, and that best comes from getting the ball fired into the box, for which we need width. Neither May nor Rooney provides this for the other. The front 2 does not work with our personnel.

Nope. 6 defenders, 5 at the back. The formation and set-up was clear for all to see. Keeping the crowd quiet wasn't about banging in goals, it was about frustrating them. Hence why he did the same against the Tims, Motherwell x 2, Hertz away and Appollon once we went in the lead. That is his go to defensive, stifling format.

I think you've misunderstood his point. He didn't mean pressure by getting in their faces, he meant pressure from their fans the longer the game went on without them scoring. He was playing to frustrate them, hence the 6 defenders.

Nonsense. Our formation was designed to let them come to us. We had 6 defenders on the pitch, and didn't play a pressing game. McInnes clearly thought we could absorb pressure and then pick them off later in the game. That is how both Dundee and Hamilton beat them recently. However, we don't have the personnel to do this as we're too weak in midfield.

Considine is clearly not shite. He's a good SPL player. Not afraid to take the ball. However, he should never ever be playing left of a back 5 especially not as a wing back. He has been consistently decent at left back in recent years defensively, and puts in a shift every week. He's been hung out to dry on numerous occasions this season due to obviously shite tactics not just not suited to his strengths, but actively targeting his weakness (pace). Agree regarding Logan though. He hasn't offered anything going forward for about a season now. He checks back all the time, and never hits the touchline when he clearly has the pace and ability to. Compare that to Tavernier today, and it's night and day. That said, Tavernier was quickly covered by Jack and the ither cunt every time he fucked off up the park. I wonder if McInnes tells Logan to take no risks on the ball? I don't think it's that, I think it's his own caution, but it's really stifling his game.

Yes, but I have to admit I was thinking it when he was taken off and O'Connor kept on. At least he can kick the ball with his left foot.

Exactly. McInnes has absolute form against the hun for this shite setup. He did it in the game here last season and was bailed out by a Maddison free-kick. He also tried it against Motherwell and the Tims with the same fucking awful effect. And against a really shite Hertz team and got a draw. It's nothing to do with the speculation and everything to do with McInnes' absolute cautious approach to management as shown over the last few years. He sets his teams up to manage the opposition (or attempt to) rather than playing to our own strengths in the most important games. He didn't shitebag it against the hun at Ibrox the last time, and we won convincingly. We're good enough to beat them, but we're not good enough to beat them by not playing our most potent formation and style. Especially when our personnel - Tansey, O'Connor, Considine - cannot play in the roles they're being selected for. Fucking fuming. When's thon Black and Gold night so I can give McInnes a right good earful?

^^^^This. His performances shouldn't even be on our radar a the moment, easily in the top 5-6 players, no point in even mentioning him - especially not in every fucking match thread. McKenna the only one who didn't disgrace himself tonight, with a decent performance (Lewis was a'rtie I suppose). But, as everyone has already mentioned, shite-bagged it before the match started. No one on earth would have picked a back 5 with our personnel. Awful management. We're way short in centre mid. I was given abuse for suggesting that Tansey was nowhere near good enough to replace Jack, tonight showed that he's barely on the same park. It's blatantly obvious that he doesn't have the pace and positional ability to play the role that McInnes expects of that midfielder, I can't believe he looked at Tansey and saw something there. It's like his Storey signing. Visibly not good enough. Unfortunately, O'Connor is proving inept in that role too against any above-average opposition. As expected, cause he's clearly a fucking defender. What made it worse was, because we started with such a fucking awful formation, we effectively needed two subs to restore any form of game plan, and McInnes was never going to do that. If we'd started with the team that began the second half, we wouldn't have been chasing the game and, if we had lost a goal, we could have made positive changes to alter it instead of having to rip up our entire game "plan" and start again with little room for error. Christie now missing for the weekend, so looks like we'll have to start two of Stewart, Wright and GMS. Although I expect to see Reynolds in midfield with Considine on the wing.

I don't believe that Pardew is a better football manager than McInnes.

Meh, bit cuntish. Raise some decent points, in among their blatant pathetic Christian yank bullshit. Wouldn't get tired of punching them in the cocks. Populism for the hard of thinking.

Or at least it would be a paper exercise if we weren't actively trying to sell it. Revaluing the property downwards just before selling it to our property developing chairman on the cheap for him to build hooses on Pittodrie....... it's a conspiracy.