Right, thoughts?

My money's on the statue of Fergie.

50 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

Seems to be a lot of posts about Steve Clarke on social media.

Seems like the kind of safe appointment I reckon Cormack would go for right now. Big name that would settle a lot of fans, knows the Scottish game (some would argue) and if it doesn't work out Cormack can shrug his shoulders and say 'well, what more can I do?'.

If he does appoint Clarke and he signs Grant Hanley in January, then that's me done with fitba.

11 minutes ago, mondo_notion said:

and if it doesn't work out Cormack can shrug his shoulders and say 'well, what more can I do?'.

Stop talking about a strategy and actually fucking implement one?

Steve Clarke would smack of an expensive, temporary appointment. A guy who would want a lot of money to get short term results, without developing youth or implementing the attacking philosophy the club keep saying they want.

I would accept Clarke IF it was part of some sort of coaching progression, ie a young assistant coming in to work with him, with the long-term plan he takes over. But my fear is Steve Clarke as manager would mean Steven Naismith and John Carver as his coaching team. And they won't be cheap. And we'll be in the same position in 18 months when they get bored.

But that said, would probably take that over Raphael Wicky.

58 minutes ago, Panda said:

Stop talking about a strategy and actually fucking implement one?

Steve Clarke would smack of an expensive, temporary appointment. A guy who would want a lot of money to get short term results, without developing youth or implementing the attacking philosophy the club keep saying they want.

I would accept Clarke IF it was part of some sort of coaching progression, ie a young assistant coming in to work with him, with the long-term plan he takes over. But my fear is Steve Clarke as manager would mean Steven Naismith and John Carver as his coaching team. And they won't be cheap. And we'll be in the same position in 18 months when they get bored.

But that said, would probably take that over Raphael Wicky.

Once again, I post on here and the club quickly react.

Thanks Lutz pal. I'll always have your back.

1 hour ago, Panda said:

I would accept Clarke IF it was part of some sort of coaching progression, ie a young assistant coming in to work with him, with the long-term plan he takes over. But my fear is Steve Clarke as manager would mean Steven Naismith and John Carver as his coaching team.

I was on board with trying to get Clarke in to steady the ship- then you put the notion in that when he moved Steven Naismith could be the one to take over

Lets look elsewhere so that scenario never happens 🤣

2 hours ago, Panda said:

Perfect number of candidates to run the whole thing as a edge-of-the-seat TV reality gameshow - Last Manager Standing.

Each round they get a single game each to prove their worth, before fans vote off the least popular to be symbolically driven out of the city in the boot of a taxi, and we go again.

The surviving manager gets to manage the Dons in the inevitable Scottish Cup final. A fan phone-in chooses which hand he holds the resulting trophy aloft in.

We make a fortune from the global syndication rights, Happe becomes a household name to millions with his own cooking show, and Tobers-mania sweeps the island nation of Tuvalu before descending in a bloody religious civil war as the populace splits into two distinct violent sects ideologically opposed over whether he does, in fact, truly exist.

Well, at least it's a strategy.

You’ve taken that too far.

I have no idea how accurate this stat is so don't shoot the messenger here but fuk me if this is accurate it is fukin alarming stuff
I heard / read somewhere (canna remeber where it's an age thing)
that over their last 120 odd competitive games Aberdeen have used approx 35 different central defensive pairings for that games, played them under the leadership of 5 different fukin managers.
Won 47, lost 51, drawn 22,
Scored 159, conceded 171 giving a Goal difference of -12

If the above is spot on then that is fukin alarming to put it mildly.

Whoever is the next lamb being lead to the slaughter (sorry next aberdeen manager) I can only imagine is not going to quit a job to come here.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Blow.Up.Sheep

We are a shambles regardless of which stat you pull at the moment. Some of the data about xG, SoT, chances created, touches in opponents box, points, goals etc etc pretty much all have us very near the the bottom of the heap across the last 2/3 seasons when compared to the teams who have competed in the top flight. It’s fucking embarrassing how far we have fallen. By statistical analysis we should be clear favourite to go down.

Just been having a look at Kombouare’s record, it’s surprisingly good for someone openly interested in the job.

I assumed he was a bit of a joke candidate and hadn’t really done much in last 10-15 years, he’s miles above that.

Last job in Ligue 1 ended in the summer as they couldn’t come to a contractual agreement and was replaced by the last Chelsea manager (who was also Strasbourg manager when we played them a year ago).

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