Good to know that someone actually reads my posts!
I don’t see myself as a McInnes happy clapper, more a dour realist. I think McInnes has been a good fit for Aberdeen for the most part but his limitations are an understandable source of frustration as we have essentially peaked just short of genuine success.
I also happen to think that he’s probably going to continue to do a better (or no worse) job than most of the likely candidates to replace him. The “Jamie Langfield” argument is a logic fail because (a) how many potential replacements did we go through who were just as bad or worse than Langfield and (b) replacing a manager is not the same as replacing a goalkeeper.
There probably is someone out there who could do a better job than McInnes but the ingredients are somewhat intangible so a new manager is always going to be something of a punt. I suspect we would likely need to go through a few managers until we found someone who would make a tangible improvement (although we could get lucky first time). The problem is that there are so many other variables that are directly influenced by the manager, that kind of chopping and changing has many detrimental knock on effects for other areas of the club; a period of uncertainty or instability can be beneficial when things have gone a bit stale, more likely it leads to a lean period like the one we saw from 1996-2014.
For a club in our position success has a lot to do with luck and timing and when DM came into the job it was a case of the right man at the right time. Six years later a section of the support is now looking at our perennial cup defeats to Celtic and, not without justification, asking if he’s the man to take us forward. In my view if there’s one criticism that sticks against McInnes is his record against Celtic; not just the H2H (which isn’t that bad in terms of wins vs losses when compared with other teams) but the fact we’ve been battered by them so many times in key matches i.e. too often we’re not even close.
But then my realism kicks in and I realise that expecting some saviour to come in and rectify this is delusional. But I also realise that my realism is the antithesis of why many people follow a football team at all so I don’t begrudge others the fantasy that a new man at the helm could take us to another level.
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Originally Posted by ragnarok
