I'm not sure I can endure another home performance like the last two.

Sadly I fear McGhee isn't up to the job.  Some folk can talk about "transitional" seasons all they like but we are not doing the simple things correct - at the back we are an absolute joke (Ifil is shocking and needs dropped asap), and we have no style of play whatsoever (we are neither passing it on the deck, or hoofing long balls - fuck knows what we are supposed to be doing!). Getting extremely frustrated, and if we continue to play like this we could get dragged into a relegation battle.

 

The last two home games have been like something out of the Paterson era. 

There were some serious pissed off folk tonight.

 

McGhee's transfer dealings need to be questioned also.  I'm not commenting on Paterson and MacLean but Ifil and Grassi are both rubbish.  While I am far from being a fan of Maguire, all we seem to have succeeded in the transfer window is reduce our number of options up front - and this was pretty much the number 1 area of concern so far this season.

 

Saturday is massive.  It's one thing getting knocked out of the cups by lower league opposition, when we normally still have a chance of Europe, but the season could be well and truly over on Saturday.

 

McGhee might be working with limited funds and limited quality of players, but he should be doing a lot better with both.

 

Things need to turn around or I will consider not renewing for the first time in 10 years.  Nothing worse than sitting in sub zero conditions watching a team who haven't won at Pittodrie in decades play us off the park, and create far more chances than us.

 

Cue knee jerk reaction accusations...

Muppets on the Hat still saying we need to get rid of Young and Foster despite them being our better players this year.

 

Fuck sake.

 

It fits a 'Jimmy's dross' agenda, despite the team increasingly looking like 'McGhee's team' for the want of a better phrase.

What? Young is not a good football player, he's put in decent performances at times its true but a couple of fluke goals doesn't cover up the fact he's not good enough for anything other than mid table dross. Foster has improved but long term he's got lots of flaws in his game.

 

It doesn't matter if its Jimmy or Mark's dross now as they both seem to rate them judging by public comments, either way the folk that slated those players are right!

Young was one of the only players to get pass marks last night, was heavily involved in our best and pretty much our only good move the whole night. He's been playing well and deserves his place much more than some others on show last night.

How long is McGhee's contract, 2 years? It has to be left to run, not only because he is the incumbent and getting rid would mean throwing good money after bad, but because he has to be given a chance to sort HIS mess out. We're not going to be relegated and as was said countless times, before and after Calderwood's departure, it's a waste of money for a club so heavily in debt to throw money away sacking and hiring managers who have time on their contract to run, unless there is a significant risk of relegation. Yes I would like to see us win a cup but we are a middle of the road SPL club not significantly better or worse than most of our opposition when you add in  to the mix teams of a lower standard going on a "cup run" the chances of winning a cup are average to minimal at best.

 

Again, I've said it before the Hibs model is the one to follow, and I still believe that is what the board were trying to achieve in offering Jimmy the 3 year deal i.e. get some compo for when a Championship club came in for him following the Euro run. Maybe if we can get some cash money for some of our youngsters we can start to clear our debt because that is the only way we will ever get back to a level where we are able to compete, again. Maybe the board have seen in McGhee the ability to bring on the youngsters but not to spend on new players (another point I've raised on several occasion is McGhee poor track record with HIS signings). Then again Calderwood wasn't ever really allowed to spend either (when you look at the figures, according to soccerbase, Jimmy had a net transfer spend of -£555000).

 

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of Jimmy's departure, Mcghee has to be given the length of his contract. If by June 2011 we have had another two season without a cup win and two successive bottom 6 finishes,but we have 2 or 3, 19 to 23 year olds with a couple of season left to run on their contracts who are generating interest of around £2-4 millon each. I'd guage McGhee's tenure to have been a success.

 

As "we" on here argued at the time of Calderwood's departure there is no short term fix, it is will be a long drawn out process repairing the damage Milne's Chairmanship of the club has done. I say don't become a reactionary and lose sight of that now, but at the same time everyone has the right to criticize where it's due and we'll keep on with the "told you so(s)" they are the least we deserve. After-all we certainly don't have the team we deserve .

For one, I don't mind if we miss the top six this season, especially if we get to Hampden. Rather that that stagger to 5th and be frustrated at missing out on Europe.

 

It's fairly obvious to me that the team is being rebuilt.....just not as quick and as successfully as MMG wants, or us, but I am still optimistic we will be better for it!

How long is McGhee's contract, 2 years? It has to be left to run, not only because he is the incumbent and getting rid would mean throwing good money after bad, but because he has to be given a chance to sort HIS mess out. We're not going to be relegated and as was said countless times, before and after Calderwood's departure, it's a waste of money for a club so heavily in debt to throw money away sacking and hiring managers who have time on their contract to run, unless there is a significant risk of relegation. Yes I would like to see us win a cup but we are a middle of the road SPL club not significantly better or worse than most of our opposition when you add in  to the mix teams of a lower standard going on a "cup run" the chances of winning a cup are average to minimal at best.

 

Again, I've said it before the Hibs model is the one to follow, and I still believe that is what the board were trying to achieve in offering Jimmy the 3 year deal i.e. get some compo for when a Championship club came in for him following the Euro run. Maybe if we can get some cash money for some of our youngsters we can start to clear our debt because that is the only way we will ever get back to a level where we are able to compete, again. Maybe the board have seen in McGhee the ability to bring on the youngsters but not to spend on new players (another point I've raised on several occasion is McGhee poor track record with HIS signings). Then again Calderwood wasn't ever really allowed to spend either (when you look at the figures, according to soccerbase, Jimmy had a net transfer spend of -£555000).

 

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of Jimmy's departure, Mcghee has to be given the length of his contract. If by June 2011 we have had another two season without a cup win and two successive bottom 6 finishes,but we have 2 or 3, 19 to 23 year olds with a couple of season left to run on their contracts who are generating interest of around £2-4 millon each. I'd guage McGhee's tenure to have been a success.

 

As "we" on here argued at the time of Calderwood's departure there is no short term fix, it is will be a long drawn out process repairing the damage Milne's Chairmanship of the club has done. I say don't become a reactionary and lose sight of that now, but at the same time everyone has the right to criticize where it's due and we'll keep on with the "told you so(s)" they are the least we deserve. After-all we certainly don't have the team we deserve .

 

Fantastic post Baggy We told you so

What? Young is not a good football player, he's put in decent performances at times its true but a couple of fluke goals doesn't cover up the fact he's not good enough for anything other than mid table dross. Foster has improved but long term he's got lots of flaws in his game.

 

We are mid table dross.

We are mid table dross.

yes but WHO's dross

yes but WHO's dross

 

Mark McGhee's! 

 

Vast improvement is needed but we also need to circle the wagons. Let's support out manager guys, otherwise we are just huns with better teeth. And jobs. Except for Mini.

 

 

I want McGhee to be a resounding success. No-one wants that more than I do.

 

I wanted Alex Miller to be a success, Roy Aitken, Ebbe, Pele and JC.

 

It's just not looking very good for that just now does it? But let's give him time. We can afford to blow a season as a training exercise can't we? In a "results business" we can afford to just let it slide can't we?

 

I would hate to think folk wanted rid of McGhee at all at the moment but at the end of the season . . . . .

 

 

One more thing, folk saying they'll forgive a shite league position for a cup final. For fuck sake.   Looking at a bright side that doesn't even fucking exist yet.

I've said this time and time again, sacrificing our league position for a cup run is completely hollow. Look at united under Golac, a cup victory then relegation. Which competition gave a true indication of the team they had become under a poor manager? Strong league finishes are our bread and butter, cups are little more than a nice day in the sunshine.

Think he was always going to need a season to see how much he needed to change the team. As long as we make the top six and get through to at least the next round of the cup then I will be happy with the team for this season.

 

Going on the last couple of performances, a top 6 place would be a nightmare turned into a dream come true .. . . .

Cue knee jerk reaction accusations...

Not a knee jerk reaction thread, no?

 

Thursday. McGhee is like a producer. He didn't cast or costume nor design the set. He didn't even write the script and doesn't own the theatre. As your first response said, the problems at AFC are beyond the producer. The fact that the problems are various yet repeating over a significant period of time should provide a clue.

Not a knee jerk reaction thread, no?

 

Thursday. McGhee is like a producer. He didn't cast or costume nor design the set. He didn't even write the script and doesn't own the theatre. As your first response said, the problems at AFC are beyond the producer. The fact that the problems are various yet repeating over a significant period of time should provide a clue.

 

That's possibly the worst analogy, ever.

That's possibly the worst analogy, ever.

spot on

My humble opinion is that it is too early to judge MM. 

 

MM has been in the press stating how frustrating it is for him to have a squad in which he doesnt have the depth for players to compete for places, thereby players stagnating in positions.  I do however think that after a couple of transfer windows have been and gone, this situation will at least have started to be rectified. As we have chuff all cash for players, it has to be patients all round with this.

 

Some of these poor performances by our senior players are beginning to make me wonder if a couple of them think that at some point they will be on thier way out.  Im thinking about MM comments post league cup pumping at the start of the season here.

 

To my mind, this is why JC brought in players like Duff.  OK, not by any means a wonder player, but capable enough to challenge a few players in one or two positions.

Not a knee jerk reaction thread, no?

 

Thursday. McGhee is like a producer. He didn't cast or costume nor design the set. He didn't even write the script and doesn't own the theatre. As your first response said, the problems at AFC are beyond the producer. The fact that the problems are various yet repeating over a significant period of time should provide a clue.

 

As Padre says a poor analogy made even poorer because half of it is crap. If I can attempt to follow you; So McGhee is "like" a producer, OK. So, on to the cast (I'm guessing the players), four of the members are his, Ifil, Fyvie (we all know Jimmy would never have played him ), Patterson and MacLean. The last two were put in without so much as a "rehearsal". Not sure what you're on about with the costume? I'm going to guess design the set is the formation, well that's McGhee's, unless we're suggesting Jimmy came in the dressing room before hand and told the players to play differently? The script?, well, McGhee has had 7 months now to adapt the script to his liking and get the cast to learn it. Surely not too much to ask from an average fitba manager let alone the messiah.

My humble opinion is that it is too early to judge MM. 

 

MM has been in the press stating how frustrating it is for him to have a squad in which he doesnt have the depth for players to compete for places, thereby players stagnating in positions.  I do however think that after a couple of transfer windows have been and gone, this situation will at least have started to be rectified. As we have chuff all cash for players, it has to be patients all round with this.

 

Some of these poor performances by our senior players are beginning to make me wonder if a couple of them think that at some point they will be on thier way out.  Im thinking about MM comments post league cup pumping at the start of the season here.

 

To my mind, this is why JC brought in players like Duff.  OK, not by any means a wonder player, but capable enough to challenge a few players in one or two positions.

 

This isn't the EPL it's the SPL where are the funds coming from to pay for two potential first choice players for each position. He'd be as well moaning in the press that he hasn't got the funds to sign Ronaldo and Messi.

As Padre says a poor analogy made even poorer because half of it is crap. If I can attempt to follow you; So McGhee is "like" a producer, OK. So, on to the cast (I'm guessing the players), four of the members are his, Ifil, Fyvie (we all know Jimmy would never have played him ), Patterson and MacLean. The last two were put in without so much as a "rehearsal". Not sure what you're on about with the costume? I'm going to guess design the set is the formation, well that's McGhee's, unless we're suggesting Jimmy came in the dressing room before hand and told the players to play differently? The script?, well, McGhee has had 7 months now to adapt the script to his liking and get the cast to learn it. Surely not too much to ask from an average fitba manager let alone the messiah.

So obsessed with protecting your coffee morning mentality, you miss the point completely. It doesn't matter if it's MM or JC if the script doesn't work or the theatre-owner doesn't give a fuck. I never said MM was the messiah. You make shit up. But to start a thread blaming McGhee for our present predicament is not knee jerk, it's being blind. It's not working. Blaming MM or JC is stupid, like you lot.

So obsessed with protecting your coffee morning mentality, you miss the point completely. It doesn't matter if it's MM or JC if the script doesn't work or the theatre-owner doesn't give a fuck. I never said MM was the messiah. You make shit up. But to start a thread blaming McGhee for our present predicament is not knee jerk, it's being blind. It's not working. Blaming MM or JC is stupid, like you lot.

 

 

All this ^^ does is highlight the ineffectualness, of your metaphor. As usual you are the only person able to decipher your rambling nonsense. And what the fuck is a coffee morning and what is it's mentality??

 

I agree, if you care to read the thread in full, that to blame McGhee for the altogether mess is folly, but by the same token blaming JC for it last season was equally folly. Only problem now is that same mess is seven hundred odd thousand pounds bigger.

 

All this ^^ does is highlight the ineffectualness, of your metaphor. As usual you are the only person able to decipher your rambling nonsense. And what the fuck is a coffee morning and what is it's mentality??

 

I agree, if you care to read the thread in full, that to blame McGhee for the altogether mess is folly, but by the same token blaming JC for it last season was equally folly. Only problem now is that same mess is seven hundred odd thousand pounds bigger.

Try not to look intelligent by using alternative vocabulary. The ineffectualness of your thinking is patent.

 

Hey, how about this for an idea? Debate the problems. It's all the manager's fault is it? Look at the history. Look at the trends. Think outside your thimble-sized box.

Try not to look intelligent by using alternative vocabulary. The ineffectualness of your thinking is patent.

 

Hello irony. How are you feeling today?

Try not to look intelligent by using alternative vocabulary. The ineffectualness of your thinking is patent.

 

Hey, how about this for an idea? Debate the problems. It's all the manager's fault is it? Look at the history. Look at the trends. Think outside your thimble-sized box.

 

I think the manager has a lot of the blame and responsibility now.

 

I think the chairman shoulders most of the responsibility historically. Though I suspect your history may not stretch that far back somehow.

I think the manager has a lot of the blame and responsibility now.

 

I think the chairman shoulders most of the responsibility historically. Though I suspect your history may not stretch that far back somehow.

I agree. This team is not performing. The league position doesn't lie. The manager is judged by his results. I agree also with the history. Mine is into the sixth decade of supporting AFC. This is why the dungies holding on to differentiation positions such as MMG and JIG is ignorant. It's ok to agree with the truth. It's not ok to argue for the sake of it merely to distinguish oneself as being different.