strachanmcgheegoal Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 3rd should be an absolute stick on for this squad. Much as I hate the cheeks we need to a/ cement 3rd, b/ ride on their coat tails medium term to pick up the euro benefits of the looming restructure (and then take advantage of them, fuck a body else) and c/ hang on their coat tails short term and see where it gets us both in terms of cups and the possibility of them killing each other and us nipping between them (what Utd did to us in 83). and very regrettably, in terms of Cormack‘s philosophy, Dereks KPIs and fans realistic expectations It should be in that order. Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 1 hour ago, BigInnes said: We'll be lucky to finish top six. Nah we’ll be top 6. But we will be anywhere between 3rd & 5th. And about 25 points off 2nd. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I can live with us finishing 3rd or even lower if we have tried our best to win every game. What I can't handle is the lack of ambition to have a go at teams and doing the minimum to get by. 2 Link to comment
NEM Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Tord31 said: Ultimately all this backing is why I would sense DC will change the manager when the time is right. Discovered time travel has he? McInnes' time was up long ago Link to comment
sooth_stander Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 McInnes has zero accountability for his signings (McGeough, for example) Overloaded in certain areas and yet still no bona fida left back. Maybe it's time a DoF was installed above him. Maybe that's Steven Gunn's new role, not sure, but its time we modernised and moved with the times Link to comment
Durrant Dived Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 5 minutes ago, sooth_stander said: McInnes has zero accountability for his signings (McGeough, for example) Overloaded in certain areas and yet still no bona fida left back. Maybe it's time a DoF was installed above him. Maybe that's Steven Gunn's new role, not sure, but its time we modernised and moved with the times "zero accountability for signings" , "install a DoF" This sounds like Hearts all over. FUCK THAT. Link to comment
Ten Caat Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 2 hours ago, sooth_stander said: Yeah, its funny what £17K a week does to your ambition On topic however, I don't really give a fuck what SKY or the BBC are spouting about helicopters, or 10IAR. It doesn't impact on me one iota What does impact on me is the horses arese that our manager is making of my club. As I said yesterday on another, more downmarket fans forum, DC won't want to make hasty decisions whilst in the middle of a pandemic, so its difficult to see DMc getting the bullet any other time but NEXT summer, unless we hit relegation bother, which, however shite we are, is unlikely. The time to have sacked him was THIS summer, and I'm certain DMC would have been gone had last season completed as per usual, but the intervention of COVID has saved his bacon. For now. "Do the math" as they say in Atlanta....or any Yank city. That's why he wasn't sacked this summer and won't be next summer either, unless as you say, he leads us into dire relegation difficulties. Which won't be happening. (and if it did, we wouldn't be replacing him with an exciting new managerial team, it would be one of Sheerin or Robson). COVID has nothing to do with it. The long and short of it was that he should never have been given the new contract. His old one was due to finish in June and that should have been the natural break point for both parties. We would have thanked him for his service, for bringing us a trophy and generally putting an end to us being a laughing stock. He's now outstayed his welcome and when he does leave eventually, sadly his reputation with the fans will be almost irrepairably sullied. (win us another trophy and he can remedy that but I'm sure as hell not going to be lumping on him doing it) Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 12 minutes ago, Ten Caat said: "Do the math" as they say in Atlanta....or any Yank city. That's why he wasn't sacked this summer and won't be next summer either, unless as you say, he leads us into dire relegation difficulties. Which won't be happening. (and if it did, we wouldn't be replacing him with an exciting new managerial team, it would be one of Sheerin or Robson). COVID has nothing to do with it. The long and short of it was that he should never have been given the new contract. His old one was due to finish in June and that should have been the natural break point for both parties. We would have thanked him for his service, for bringing us a trophy and generally putting an end to us being a laughing stock. He's now outstayed his welcome and when he does leave eventually, sadly his reputation with the fans will be almost irrepairably sullied. (win us another trophy and he can remedy that but I'm sure as hell not going to be lumping on him doing it) McInnes hasn’t got the cahoneys to win a trophy at Hamdump against either of the arsecheeks in a Cup Final so I wouldn’t worry about that. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Reality is the it will likely be the case. may not like it but sadly 3rd is the best that side is capable of in this league. Link to comment
shooftahmooftah Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 40 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said: Reality is the it will likely be the case. may not like it but sadly 3rd is the best that side is capable of in this league. 5th Dundee United will finish 3rd. ( My opinion ) 1 Link to comment
strachanmcgheegoal Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Cmon tae fuck. Utd??? Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Hibs and Motherwell will be a threat to us again. If any of the rest are a threat to us then we really are shite. Link to comment
Andy_123 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I reckon we’ll struggle to finish 3rd. Again... It’s the bare minimum we should be achieving as well. Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 4 hours ago, Andy_123 said: I wonder how bad we would have to be doing before it would be financially worthwhile to sack him (and Docherty probably). Like Mark McGhee bad, if not worse, i'd imagine. For the bulk of last season I thought we were 'Mark Mcghee bad'. Saturday wasn't any better. 1 Link to comment
dj_bollocks Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 3rd is expected, I'd also expect an Aberdeen team to be getting closer to 2nd not seeing the gap widen... but it won't happen with this cautious predictable missionary position of a manager... 1 Link to comment
Tord31 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 5 hours ago, NEM said: Discovered time travel has he? McInnes' time was up long ago The writing was on the wall long ago (and actually before the last contract got handed out) but its not been the correct time to sack him yet. Link to comment
sooth_stander Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, Tord31 said: The writing was on the wall long ago (and actually before the last contract got handed out) but its not been the correct time to sack him yet. So when is the right time? Now? Link to comment
don corleone Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Scottish football can fuck off. Link to comment
strachanmcgheegoal Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 When we have a replacement in mind who will change things, not just like for like and as Tord says when we can minimise the cost of so doing. anyone watching County Well by the way. If we can’t beat that to 3rd..holy shit. Link to comment
Tord31 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 12 minutes ago, sooth_stander said: So when is the right time? Now? Ideally when we dont have to pay to make him go away. Like it or not. Things are not bad enough to start writing cheques yet. Please don't @ me Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 19 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said: When we have a replacement in mind who will change things, not just like for like and as Tord says when we can minimise the cost of so doing. anyone watching County Well by the way. If we can’t beat that to 3rd..holy shit. Aye Motherwell look poor. Let’s see how the teams are looking after 6-7 games. Motherwell look as rusty as we did on Saturday. Link to comment
Ernie McCracken Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 3 hours ago, Millertime said: What "serious effort" do you want to see us make to challenge for the league when the guy who scored the winner against us on Saturday cost 7m? A wise man once told me that in order to beat the old firm the other teams had simply to improve. As no team has pipped them to the league title in 35 years, I can only surmise that no serious effort has been made to improve. Link to comment
BonnieDon Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 8 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said: Hibs and Motherwell will be a threat to us again. If any of the rest are a threat to us then we really are shite. Motherwell look considerably stronger than Hibs and overall look stronger than last season. On paper I'd argue we have the third best side however Motherwell have a very good manager in Robinson. I believe we'd have gone on to finish third last season but I'm not sure if we will this season. Link to comment
Tord31 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 we would have finished third last season Link to comment
dazzy_deff Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 11 minutes ago, Tord31 said: we would have finished third last season Another wild claim. We finished 4th. Nothing else is up for debate. Link to comment
Yorston Vasey Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 21 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said: Another wild claim. We finished 4th. Nothing else is up for debate. We were fourth, season didn't finish. Link to comment
Sonoftherock Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 40 minutes ago, Tord31 said: we would have finished third last season If Jonny hayes hadn't passed the ball behind Kenny McLean we'd have won the 2017 Scottish Cup. 1 Link to comment
BonnieDon Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson is on a list of potential candidates to take over the vacant Bournemouth post. (Daily Record) If Robinson were to leave Motherwell that would certainly boost our chances. Link to comment
dazzy_deff Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 32 minutes ago, Yorston Vasey said: We were fourth, season didn't finish. In twenty years time when we look at the records, it will say we finished 4th. Just like celtic won the league. To say we would have finished 3rd is nonsense. The way we were playing we could just have easily finished 5th or 6th. Link to comment
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