Derek McInnes

[Devanha Red]

Of course Milne is the problem but some folk think he's doing a good job and just as worryingly, some think he's a d1ck but happy to back his mental idea about moving us to Kingsford.

Stop scaremongering. Kingsford won't happen. Donsdaft has assured me.

[Pacman1903]

After seeing Ross Coumtys defensive display on Saturday. If McInnes doesnt beat them he should resign before hes even reached the tunnel at 16.45. They are absolutley honking and were destroyed by Livi

[thebeachend]

It's too late for DM to change. You were all warned.

Correct. Aldo knows the score

[rico94]

No I don't think they're being naive. Most dissenters know fine well it's Milne that's holding us back but just because he's the main problem it doesn't mean we shouldn't hope to eradicate any lesser problems that can be identified.

I think some folk actually do think that.

Personally I couldn’t give a fvck if McInnes walks out the door tomorrow but his replacement will be just as bad because Milne doesn’t have it in him to pick a manager who could take us to the next level.

I don’t think he really wants to either,that’s why he keeps giving McInnes new contracts.

[NewOrleansRed]

Very good post and I think Saturday will be very revealing as to whether he really knows the way to Damascus. Ross will come and sit in and play their version of hoofball. If McInnes has truly seen the light he won't play Bryson, Ojo and Ferguson, who are effectively three sitting midfielders, in the same midfield at home to Ross. We will definitely need more creativity than those three will provide to break down Ross. So will he throw off the anchors (copywrite Red John) or will he revert to type. As I say it will answer your question of whether the penny has really dropped or whether he is all talk in the press with no intention of changing.

I wholeheartedly agreed with the quotes above and thought it was indeed encouraging that McInnes is seeing the same ****e we are, without rose tinted spectacles. Passions are rightly enflamed by the turgid crapfest that has been dished up so far but there is an air of inevitability about all this. Finishing third is no better or worse that our budget suggests we’re capable of and provided we play some decent football on the way to that, that’s pretty much where a McInnes team will finish and is probably the bare minimum and glass ceiling of where we should and want to be.

Last summers recruitment was ****ing awful and we saw the results of this. Mr ‘Works Two Transfer Windows’ ahead will have know that the stakes were raised with a 4th place finish and again no trophy, so no doubt he is also aware that a poor start to the season would sow the seeds of discontent. I said to my mate earlier in the week that this feels like the beginning of the end for Derek. That might sound over dramatic but you have to ask the question; where exactly can he go with this budget and level of recruitment? It’s certainly not up. With the Huns returning to a cemented expectation of 2nd place and apparently pulling suspicious sums of money out of their arse, its not realistic or reasonable to expect McInnes to do what no other manager since George Burley has really shown any signs of, and that’s truly challenge a fulls strength Rangers and Celtic. We just don’t have the money or the players. Sad but true, beyond a shadow of a doubt, not something you could ask for season upon season. The numbers don’t lie.

It means i’m reluctant to chastise the man for finishing in third but am happy to hold his feet to the fire over the standard of football we’re playing. It’s not his fault that he’s not signed a fee-demanding carbon copy of Christie, but he’s to blame for not addressing the issue. His refusal to sign a naturally creative central player may yet prove a further nail in the coffin. I’m not a betting man, but surely its fair to say, that the trajectory of this team in light of a strengthened opposition is not to finish 2nd every year. In fact, realistically, there will be some daylight between us and the ugly sisters. As depressing as that is, provided we play GOOD football, we all have to decide whether that’s the facts of life or whether there’s a miracle worker out there and we’re wiling to go through god knows how many iterations of this team to find him. Neither is frankly a palatable option.

[donsdaft]

Stop scaremongering. Kingsford won't happen. Donsdaft has assured me.

Donsdaft has assured me as well.

The amount of people who have told me they won't go to Westhill is incredible.

I really fear that it's the end for the Dons, we'll become a Ross County or a Livingston.
Small fan base, do all right for a while, up and down the divisions.

Stuart Milne will have f'ucked off, Cormack will concentrate on his sunbed empire or whatever.

Me sitting at bottom of Merkland Road East in somebody's garden or car park on alternate Saturday afternoons isn't going to help anyone.

There will be no way back from this one, to be taken out of the city by a country bumkin who will never understand that Westhill isn't Aberdeen , never will be Aberdeen is just too much to bear.

[nice1simmy]

I wholeheartedly agreed with the quotes above and thought it was indeed encouraging that McInnes is seeing the same ****e we are, without rose tinted spectacles. Passions are rightly enflamed by the turgid crapfest that has been dished up so far but there is an air of inevitability about all this. Finishing third is no better or worse that our budget suggests we’re capable of and provided we play some decent football on the way to that, that’s pretty much where a McInnes team will finish and is probably the bare minimum and glass ceiling of where we should and want to be.

Last summers recruitment was ****ing awful and we saw the results of this. Mr ‘Works Two Transfer Windows’ ahead will have know that the stakes were raised with a 4th place finish and again no trophy, so no doubt he is also aware that a poor start to the season would sow the seeds of discontent. I said to my mate earlier in the week that this feels like the beginning of the end for Derek. That might sound over dramatic but you have to ask the question; where exactly can he go with this budget and level of recruitment? It’s certainly not up. With the Huns returning to a cemented expectation of 2nd place and apparently pulling suspicious sums of money out of their arse, its not realistic or reasonable to expect McInnes to do what no other manager since George Burley has really shown any signs of, and that’s truly challenge a fulls strength Rangers and Celtic. We just don’t have the money or the players. Sad but true, beyond a shadow of a doubt, not something you could ask for season upon season. The numbers don’t lie.

It means i’m reluctant to chastise the man for finishing in third but am happy to hold his feet to the fire over the standard of football we’re playing. It’s not his fault that he’s not signed a fee-demanding carbon copy of Christie, but he’s to blame for not addressing the issue. His refusal to sign a naturally creative central player may yet prove a further nail in the coffin. I’m not a betting man, but surely its fair to say, that the trajectory of this team in light of a strengthened opposition is not to finish 2nd every year. In fact, realistically, there will be some daylight between us and the ugly sisters. As depressing as that is, provided we play GOOD football, we all have to decide whether that’s the facts of life or whether there’s a miracle worker out there and we’re wiling to go through god knows how many iterations of this team to find him. Neither is frankly a palatable option.

Hard to disagree with any off that,I want to see us play good,exciting,attacking football and if we fall up short than so be it but at least do it the right way,with the budget's the cheeks have it's going to be difficult to finish above them but at least try and play football the right way especially against the cheeks,the Scottish Cup final when we lost in injury time to the tims was hard to take but i came away knowing we gave everything and gave the chunts a game,last season and this season so far has been brutal to watch and makes me wonder why do i bother going,Mcinnes needs to find a solution and fast,im not convinced he can though...

[blowupsheep]

Hard to disagree with any off that,I want to see us play good,exciting,attacking football and if we fall up short than so be it but at least do it the right way,with the budget's the cheeks have it's going to be difficult to finish above them but at least try and play football the right way especially against the cheeks,the Scottish Cup final when we lost in injury time to the tims was hard to take but i came away knowing we gave everything and gave the chunts a game,last season and this season so far has been brutal to watch and makes me wonder why do i bother going,Mcinnes needs to find a solution and fast,im not convinced he can though...

Its fkn amazin as to how quiet afcmad1903 (aka "Chomical Ali) has been since that fkn shambolic, pitiful, woeful classic demonstration of tactical wizardry from our Illustrious leader at Rugby. As I said earlier our resident spin doctor must be away getting a deeper red tint put into his AFC Winless red dandy dons tinted specs, fk me me it is obvious that our end is nigh when even Chomical Ali cannot bring himself to get his @rse on here and start defending McWinless and the dons and reminding us of where we used to be and bright and rosy the future that we all have ahead of us under the currenet regime ffs.

That's it fellow dandies we are all doomed I tell ya , we're all doomed

[mondo_notion]

Moan when he does post, moan when he doesn't... Fit's he to do?

[blowupsheep]

It’s not his fault that he’s not signed a fee-demanding carbon copy of Christie, .

Sorry bud but I disagree with that statement as our illustrious leader has openly said that James Wilson can reinvent himself as the next Ryn Christie and wh fully expects him to do that at Aberdeen

another statement of absolute laughable standards and and another clear sign sign of someone who is nae wired up right and is just spouting sh1te upon sh1ite upon shte
Even more of a stupid stamement when you consider his signing him he ha sspent mostof his time on the bench
or 3 mnutes on the park of a agme that was already clealry lost, or substituted after about an hour where he was clearly the only payer in a red shirt ho even showed a glimmer of hope that he had something in him and could do something for us.

But dont worry it is clear that this approach is all a major partof our w@nkst@in of a leaders master pal to help James "re-invent" himself as the new christie, ......fk meI honestly have not heard a manager speak so much utter sh1te in all my life fkn nuts min