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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.

He certainly wasn't keen last time out. As far as I'm aware, he doesn't need the work desperately. I think he'd have been keeping a keen eye on McInnes' reaction to it all and weighing up the likelihood of being hung out to dry by another club (as he was in Egypt recently). I hope he doesn't join them, I quite like him and thought he was ace as a player and was good as Scotland manager too. I think it'd be a terrible move for him, and possibly last if it all goes wrong.

^^This. Also, on Moult, we've clearly missed the boat. I, and others, mentioned at the time that the summer was the time where we had to buy Moult. He was clearly a player on the rise and the chance had to be taken then to capitalise on that rise. If we'd gone for it with our bid in the summer, we'd have probably qualified for the europa, perhaps the league cup final (definitely the semi) and would have had a player worth more than when we bought him. I really can't get over how poor a decision it was not to match Motherwell's asking price given the timing of the approach.

Nope. He's the top scorer this season and the best proven striker at the club. I think May is an all round better player and provides us with something that Rooney doesn't and so should start more often than not, but Rooney still has a huge role to play; certainly this season. The only time we should consider getting rid of Rooney is when we have two strikers that are clearly better than him. That's a long way off at the minute, and if that ever happens within Rooney's contract, then he should be allowed to leave. I doubt that'll happen in January though. If we do get a striker in January (which I think we should) then we'd need to give the new guy at least 6 months before even considering letting Rooney go. Could you imagine we signed someone like Maynard and let Rooney go thinking we had his position covered? Don't think McInnes would make that error. To add, we started the game with the same formation that has been an absolute success with Rooney at the front of it. It's been a long time since we've had that formation with Rooney up front (I don't think it's happened this season? Perhaps early europe before he got injured). We've been dicking around with two up front and 3 at the back with no support from midfield and so on, and it has been exhaustively shown that it doesn't work unless against poorer opposition. It has to be Rooney or May starting each game, not both. That'll get us a return from both players. If we're going defensive, with 3 at the back or whatever, then it has to be the more mobile May. If we're starting both then it has to be in 4-4-2 and they have to be closer together and get the ball to them quicker.

Aye, it was a fucking shocker like. It was the ref to blame though, there was nothing in that at all that could be considered worthy of a pen. It wasn't like he was fooled by the dive, he could clearly see the faint touch that he gave the pen for and chose to give it. Awful decision, ruining another cup final. Tims support, doing their glorious phone light bullshite again like the best fans in the world that they are. Fucking pathetic cunts, lapping up yet another vacuous hollow victory bought and paid for 100 times over.

Good win, some decent performances. Shakey spell, well cancelled out by an excellent May goal. Terrible linesmanning for the disallowed goal - really bad. In a closer game that could have been costly. Whilst Reynolds was calming and decent when he came on, it was a worrying move ahead of Wednesday's game. McInnes likes to try out formations ahead of "bigger" games that he intends using. It was clear that moving back to our normal set-up today made a big difference, especially allowing McLean to play further forward and maybe getting man of the match (him or May or Shinnie or McKenna). Whilst I prefer Shinnie at left back, Considine played quite well and Shinnie did well in midfield. Based on recent evidence, I don't think Tansey and McLean or O'Connor and McLean or Tansey and O'Connor as a combo in the midfield will cut it, and the 4-2-3-1 is by far our best shape. I'd start the same team against the hun, but consider Wright or Stewart in for GMS who was fairly gash after the first ten minutes and maybe Arneson back in for O'Connor. As an aside, I thought the pitch was quite decent today. Killie's seems to be far truer and with a lot more give than Hamilton's for some reason. Whilst the SPFL pitches haven't started to cut up yet, it'll be happening shortly if this weather continues and that pitch is significantly better than Pittodrie has been for large spells in recent years. Arneson didn't feel he could play on it for whatever reason, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as some other surfaces - including grass pitches - in our league.

Chris Frae Killie nae gan to Killie? That'd be like Garlogie_Granite nae gan to an away game in Westhill.