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Jocky Scott (6.1%) Sacked twice as dundee manager

 

To be fair, Scott was last sacked by Dundee when he had them in pole position. They were still in pole position, albeit had surrendered the bulk of their 15 point lead at the top of the league. It was a knee-jerk reaction by Melville because he didn't think Scott could keep the club at the top of the league. Turns out Scott's replacement Chisholm made things worse by helping drag the club into administration again

 

Scott would actually be on my shortlist to replace McGhee

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One of the many to blame for our poor league position - to blame it all on him is worryingly short sighted, and just leaves the same problem for the next manager to try and overcome

 

But it his his responsibility to ensure that the players are playing to the fullness of their ability too, not just the bad formations, random selection of players for the start of games, slow substitutions, crap shittyness etc

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The board must've been reading my post. Perfect timing, imho. We've got a week without fixtures due to the weather. There's still the best part of a month left to get a manager in in-time for the opening of the transfer window.

 

Whilst the new man may not be able to do too much in the window, he may be able to get some clubs to take one or two of the dross that pull on the red shirt each week. And the new man will have half a season to try to turn things around.

 

But who?

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So phase one is complete, why do we need to stop now? We still need further change at the club. The same issues still need to be raised at the AGM. McGhee was part of the problem, but only minor in comparrison to Milne.

 

Agreed pressure should still be applied to the board especially our Director of Football. He was responsible for giving JC 3 year deal then firing him a year later and also for hiring McGhee. I really feel he has to go and should have no part in the hiring of McGhee's replacement.

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Agreed. McGhee was only part of the problem ... although hiring a raft of 3rd-rate players was bad enough, nevermind the dismissal of Leighton, was fully pinned on him (and don't even get me started on his handling of Aluko).

 

I think the only decent thing Miller has done was persuade Calderwood/Nicholl to come to the Dons in the first place. It was Calderwood who managed to do the magnificent task of persuading the likes of Severin, Aluko, Lee Miller, Langfield, Nicholson, Jamie Smith and Noel Whelan (imagine all of those guys in our squad right now!) to join the Dons. It wasn't Calderwood who failed to persuade these guys to stay with the club - especially in the summer of 2008 when we lost so many players that we really really needed to keep ahold of.

 

I believe 2008 was the critical year of failure for us. The only up-point was the draw against Bayern. We've never really recovered from losing the likes of Nicholson, Clark and Hart (and Anderson from the previous year). Keeping someone like Severin happy would've been vital in our bid to keeping a degree of solidity in the team too.

 

The men behind most of the above decisions that culminated in the above players leaving is Willie Miller. He's got to go. He's a waste of money. The only person in a similar position to his who actually did a decent job was Dave Cormack. But he refuses to work at an Aberdeen that has Milne at the helm ... yet another problem. There is investment available to the club ... but not whilst Milne is involved. Why would any investor want to plant money in the club when the man who has allowed the club to get into so much debt is still at the helm? That's just another waste of money.

 

 

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Cummings has said time and time again he'd love to invest in the Dons. He last mentioned this only a couple of months ago. But each time he has hesitated because Milne is at the helm. How willing would you be to invest in a club when its chairman ripped publically ripped you a new arsehole ten years ago? Mind you, Cummings was plotting to overthrown Milne and Donald at the time, so its no wonder Milne chucked him out of the club

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Cummings has said time and time again he'd love to invest in the Dons. He last mentioned this only a couple of months ago. But each time he has hesitated because Milne is at the helm. How willing would you be to invest in a club when its chairman ripped publically ripped you a new arsehole ten years ago? Mind you, Cummings was plotting to overthrown Milne and Donald at the time, so its no wonder Milne chucked him out of the club

 

Personalities and egos.

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