THE OFFICIAL: "LET'S ALL LAUGH AT HEARTS"

[RicoS321]

He's a good manager. He's good at getting points. He's pragmatic. It's a good move for him, as hearts are performing below expectations, and he's undoubtedly a better manager than the Critch and Wee Naisey. 

Two of the last three seasons with us it was beginning to be clear that Cormack was having an interest in the transfers and the wider running of the club. Hernandez wasn't a McInnes signing, for example. Certainly his last season can be entirely discounted, as it was clear he was being set up to fail (no transfers in the January took us years to recover from). It was also a frustrating thing for me that we never really worked with McInnes to try and get the new structure in place with him here. But perhaps his salary covered the director of football (how is that going?) and recruitment director roles anyway. I think he'd have worked quite well with his hands off recruitment to a large degree. Guys like Storey, Tansey, Morris (Callum), Main etc just wouldn't have happened had we a stronger recruitment role in the building at the time. We'd have made other failed signings of course, but there would have been the opportunity to learn from those errors too, where McInnes just kept making the same mistakes (and has continued at Killie). 

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how Greg Stewart gets on up front for Hearts next season.

 

[OrlandoDon]

2 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

He's a good manager. He's good at getting points. He's pragmatic. It's a good move for him, as hearts are performing below expectations, and he's undoubtedly a better manager than the Critch and Wee Naisey. 

Two of the last three seasons with us it was beginning to be clear that Cormack was having an interest in the transfers and the wider running of the club. Hernandez wasn't a McInnes signing, for example. Certainly his last season can be entirely discounted, as it was clear he was being set up to fail (no transfers in the January took us years to recover from). It was also a frustrating thing for me that we never really worked with McInnes to try and get the new structure in place with him here. But perhaps his salary covered the director of football (how is that going?) and recruitment director roles anyway. I think he'd have worked quite well with his hands off recruitment to a large degree. Guys like Storey, Tansey, Morris (Callum), Main etc just wouldn't have happened had we a stronger recruitment role in the building at the time. We'd have made other failed signings of course, but there would have been the opportunity to learn from those errors too, where McInnes just kept making the same mistakes (and has continued at Killie). 

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how Greg Stewart gets on up front for Hearts next season.

 

I would say he’s a decent manager, and he’s good at getting points with good teams when other teams are significantly weaker. I always felt the stars aligned for Mcinnes in the first few years, we had a good squad and some very good players. We made some good signings, perhaps mcinnes’ man management/personality helped there. An in their prime with us Lewis, Logan, shinnie, McLean, Hayes, McGinn, jack, Ferguson, possibly Sam cosgrove, Mackey-Steven, maybe even flood too would all start on our current team. Probably McKenna too but that more the fact I rate knoester. Add a sprinkle of Maddison and Christie, we had some good players. At the same time every main competitor , hearts hibs rangers, utd, all were poor and got relegated.

mcinnes got us credibility and we were a top 3 team again, delighted for that, but I still as I said, thought he underachieved and we should have won a trophy or two more. Then in the last three years I felt he showed that without as much talent and maybe stronger opponents, he was a very bang average and limited manager.

hearts don’t have a great squad, he’ll have to build, is that his strength? Does he have a solid core in place like he had with us? Will hearts have patience? And as said, will the transfer policy work for him. It will be his 4th spl team and he’ll be no surprise to anyone.

Edited 17 hours ago by OrlandoDon

[Reekie_Red]

Be interesting how manybof his trusted crew follow him. Will we see Hearts line up with Marley Watkins, Matty Kennedy, GAsh Taylor and Bruce Anderson? 

I have some fond memories of McInnes time at Aberdeen, but have to question whether these memories were just the afterglow of Craig Brown's guidance beforehand.