Aberdeen FC’s McGhee ‘betrayed’ by players

Furious manager vows to make changes

 

By Charlie Allan

 

Published: 17/02/2010

 

FURIOUS Aberdeen FC boss Mark McGhee today vowed to wield the axe in the wake of their latest Scottish Cup shame game.

 

McGhee was spat at and fans threw scarves and other objects at him as they reacted in fury to seeing them lose 1-0 to First Division part-timers Raith Rovers at Pittodrie.

 

In a question and answer session with the Evening Express, the irate Aberdeen FC manager accused his men of “betraying himâ€.

 

Question: What did you say to the players after this latest night of Scottish Cup shame for the Dons?

 

Answer: That I felt they had betrayed me and are responsible for the worst result of my managerial career.

 

Carbon copy of Calderwood.

Well, McGhee's saving grace (to my mind) is that this isn't 'his' team.  It's Calderwood's.

 

Now despite these being the same players (more or less) who made Europe and finished fourth last season they clearly don't want to play for the manager.

 

The issue then becomes who do you get rid of... players or manager?

 

I'd vote to get shot of the players. We've made our bed in sacking our most successful manager in years, allegedly to appease the corporates and the fans, and hired a relatively popular manager.

 

The least the club can do is give him a couple of years to bring in his own dross. That's not a slam on McGhee.... but all he's going to get for nowt is dross.  The test will be if he, like Calderwood, can take dross and make it work.

 

 

Where does this misconception come from that Calderwood made it "work"? The use of the term "most successful manager in years" is equally flawed, the implication being, unsurprisingly enough, that he was in fact successful. 

like many others I feel they let us all down last night. However, surprised I was not. The players simply for a lack of pride and will to win must shoulder the majority of the blame.

 

MMG though can't deflect all the blame. Who's idea was it to put aluko up front and pump high balls to him for the last 15 mins. ( p.s did you see aluko in the record talking about his hopes for the world cup, after last night he'll have to take up another sport to reach a world cup. His sister has more presence on a pitch ). He also watched Ifill plumb new depths without making further changes and stripped fyvie only to change his mind.( probably felt for the boy going onto that mess, but surely we had nothing to lose by that point as we'd created piss all )

 

I like MMG and what he has to say, but I find it too hard to believe that a hairdryer wasn't used at half time. If it wasn't it should've been. If it was where was the reaction from the players. I just feel that our lightweight heartless team don't have the desire to chase trophies any more and without the desire to be winners we'll continue to languish just below mediocrity.

Some good points that I agree with. Aluko is conundrumenical. There's something about that kid. There's something not right about him. He was just awful v. Celtic and last night again, he was so frustrating, often not getting his crosses and corners past the first man.

 

Ifil's "performance" was described by Richard Gordon as woeful, the worst defensive performance he has seen and he wasn't wrong in my book.

 

The stripping of Fyvie for him to stand there like a spare prick was incredible, as bizarre as the match being stopped for ages despite their player being off the pitch.

 

McGhee has much to do to convince anyone that he is a going to be a good manager for Aberdeen but unless he's given the right level of support it will be impossible to properly assess.

Aluko to me doesn't give a fuck about playing for Aberdeen, he's one of the few who can be excluded from Mark McGhee's big game only syndrome as Aluko is even worse in big games than he is against lower teams. I want to back him because when he was on loan here originally he had so much to offer but you could see there was a rawness in his game. All I can see now is a player who's indulging to much in lifes other offerings to grasp the chance of being a star, shame.

Where does this misconception come from that Calderwood made it "work"? The use of the term "most successful manager in years" is equally flawed, the implication being, unsurprisingly enough, that he was in fact successful.

 

He was, in your opinion, unsuccessful?