Derek McInnes

[its_a_goal]

Enlighten me with the countless examples of folk having a free reign?

McInnes does as he pleases at Aberdeen. For the vast majority of his tenure he deployed counter attacking football against teams during bigger matches as he preferred a defensive approach. Now he has went even further and decided our forward players should be man markers. It didn’t work but I bet you he gets to try it again. For the folk that thought it worked we got beat and 4 goals flew past us.
Jim Leighton was on the radio a few weeks ago talking about how he finds it difficult to watch Scottish football now as hardly any team has a real go and are defensively set up. He isn’t the only one struggling to motivate themselves to view matches.
Milne is obviously keeping an eye on his cash but McInnes has bought a few players in his time here and will continue to do so. Milne is very like the bbc hierarchy who turned a blind eye to the bad things that were happening (Saville admittedly is a bit controversial but makes a valid point).

You have made free reign analogy between McInnes and Savile about a million times now. To compare the two is quite frankly absurd and ridiculous and these posts are an embarrassment to yourself and and embarrassment to the message board. You've made your point. You've made your point repeatedly and it's gone way beyond boring now. We know what you're trying to say, you've said it often enough. Nobody agrees with the analogy, so can you do everyone a favour, including yourself, and please, please, please just drop it now.

Thank you.

[87kilos]

You have made free reign analogy between McInnes and Savile about a million times now. To compare the two is quite frankly absurd and ridiculous and these posts are an embarrassment to yourself and and embarrassment to the message board. You've made your point. You've made your point repeatedly and it's gone way beyond boring now. We know what you're trying to say, you've said it often enough. Nobody agrees with the analogy, so can you do everyone a favour, including yourself, and please, please, please just drop it now.

Thank you.

He does it as he gets a reaction, ignore the thucker and he'll not get his pathetic kicks out of it.

[its_a_goal]

He does it as he gets a reaction, ignore the thucker and he'll not get his pathetic kicks out of it.

You're right. In subsequent messages, he's still coming out with the same old tripe. By flock, it's tiresome.

[DollyLongstaffe]

Milne may be particularly close to McInnes (although frankly I doubt that: they are guys from different generations with different lifestyles and personality types and I find it hard to imagine them as buddies, as opposed to having a very good professional relationship).

Even if he is, though, there's not a scrap of evidence that this has led to an over-generous appraisal of McInnes's abilities. Let's be clear, if Milne were to sack McInnes in the foreseeable future on the grounds that he wasn't doing a good enough job, the verdict of the professional game and the football media in Scotland would be that he'd completely taken leave of his senses. They wouldn't just think it was a mistake they would think it was an act of lunacy, and a vindictive and disloyal one that. He'd get absolutely slaughtered.

Milne's high opinion of McInnes isn't some mystery that needs explained by their personal relationship. He has the same high opinion as the vast majority of people who understand the game.

I don't normally like pedantry but it would be good if people would stop spelling free rein with a g.

[RED_JOHN]

I don't normally like pedantry but it would be good if people would stop spelling free rein with a g.

It is the correct spelling lad, it’s you that made the error this time.

[afc1903mad]

It is the correct spelling lad, it’s you that made the error this time.

It’s not.
There’s no royalty involved.

It’s Free rein, as in into free the reins of the horse and let it go as it pleases.

[RED_JOHN]

It’s not.
There’s no royalty involved.

It’s Free rein, as in into free the reins of the horse and let it go as it pleases.

So it does, my mistake. Queen Derek has a free reign....hope that helps my case?

[DollyLongstaffe]

It is the correct spelling lad, it’s you that made the error this time.

Not so. Oxford dictionary:

This is demonstrated by the fact that we tend to confuse the spelling reign with rein. The two words mean quite different things, but sound the same when you say them: nowadays, the concept of a monarch’s reign seems to have more immediate relevance to us than the reins used to control a horse.

This misinterpretation is most clearly apparent in the phrase ‘free rein’. To give a horse free rein is to hold the reins loosely so as to allow the animal freedom of movement – it’s the opposite of keeping a tight rein on the horse (controlling it closely). The Oxford English Corpus (OEC), the Oxford Dictionaries’ database of over 2 billion words of 21st-century English, shows that when it comes to free rein, over 38% of the total instances are for the misspelling free reign.

[RED_JOHN]

Milne and McInnes celebrating another cup final silver medal.

[RED_JOHN]

Not so. Oxford dictionary:

This is demonstrated by the fact that we tend to confuse the spelling reign with rein. The two words mean quite different things, but sound the same when you say them: nowadays, the concept of a monarch’s reign seems to have more immediate relevance to us than the reins used to control a horse.

This misinterpretation is most clearly apparent in the phrase ‘free rein’. To give a horse free rein is to hold the reins loosely so as to allow the animal freedom of movement – it’s the opposite of keeping a tight rein on the horse (controlling it closely). The Oxford English Corpus (OEC), the Oxford Dictionaries’ database of over 2 billion words of 21st-century English, shows that when it comes to free rein, over 38% of the total instances are for the misspelling free reign.

I admitted my error earlier.