Quote Originally Posted by TheRealSLYFOX View Post
The biggest indictment on DM is that his teams have always been less than the sum of its parts.
Even now the players we have in the squad are better than the results the team produce. Rodgers, Lennon, Murty, Levein or Clarke would produce a better team than DM does with the same players.
This is the big question for me (as someone who has been a big fan of McInnes, but is now getting a little fed up with the stupid tactics and terrible results against our main rivals) - is there anyone better we could bring in, realistically? Lennon or Clarke would be good shouts and I think would potentially take us forward, but I don't think either of them would be interested. Then you are basically looking at up and coming managers who are unproven at our level, or guys that are out of a job (which is normally because they've been hopeless elsewhere). It's easy to say, "oh there must be hundreds of managers throughout the world we could find who'd do better" but reality is we don't need radical change - there's the basis of a good side there - a squad which is arguably still the second best in Scotland on a player for player basis and a general consistency against bottom 6 teams. What we need is someone risk free who can take us into big games with the right mentality - Lennon and Clarke are the kind of managers we're talking about here, but as I say, unlikely to be interested, so for now best to persevere with McInnes