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[Pacman1903]

fittiered - thanks for the well balanced summary there

Strachan was one of the finest players to ever wear a Dons shirt, both he & McGhee were in the Gothenburg XI and thats the way you refer to them... speaks volumes about your own "character"

McGhees a c@nt

Hard to gain respect, very easy to lose it

[Pacman1903]

Ill add, people are not talking about McGhee and Stachan as Dons players. They are talking about them 33 years later

[BorneoRed]

Ill add, people are not talking about McGhee and Stachan as Dons players. They are talking about them 33 years later

Agree. Massive respect for them as Dons players, they were the dogs boll0cks for us, but now? Dont think I need to say more.

[Aldo1983]

fittiered - thanks for the well balanced summary there

Strachan was one of the finest players to ever wear a Dons shirt, both he & McGhee were in the Gothenburg XI and thats the way you refer to them... speaks volumes about your own "character"

Fittiered speaks for me as well I'm afraid.

[red_mist]

Agree. Massive respect for them as Dons players, they were the dogs boll0cks for us, but now? Dont think I need to say more.

Surely when someone has earned your respect, say by winning your club numerous trophies, two of them European, you dont refer to them as a c*nt?

Must be just me.

You wouldn't see other clubs referring to their greatest players in such a way.

Its not just Strachan & McGhee - I've seen McLeish get pelters on here.

Just shows a total lack of class from those typing in these posts.

[Mason89]

You're right, two of our greatest ever players & their contribution to Aberdeen FC was immense. Imagine how hard you would have to work, to be considered a c*nt by that support.

McGhee is a total c*nt.

Strachans not anywhere near that level but he is good friends with McGhee, which would suggest he's got massive flaws in his character.

I'd rather be stuck in a lift with both over McLeish

[fittiered]

fittiered - thanks for the well balanced summary there

Strachan was one of the finest players to ever wear a Dons shirt, both he & McGhee were in the Gothenburg XI and thats the way you refer to them... speaks volumes about your own "character"

red mist. They certainly were fine players but that is now history and we all thank them for what they done for Aberdeen, but gs is just what I said above and mcgoo embarrassed us by how he ran our team as manager. Both have shown their dislike for Aberdeen now and for me they can go and fk! gs chooses players in the English championship and first division who have not been playing for there teams!! We know how good our Scotland picks are and they don't get a snifter at being chosen for the squad.

[Aldo1983]

Surely when someone has earned your respect, say by winning your club numerous trophies, two of them European, you dont refer to them as a c*nt?

Must be just me.

You wouldn't see other clubs referring to their greatest players in such a way.

Its not just Strachan & McGhee - I've seen McLeish get pelters on here.

Just shows a total lack of class from those typing in these posts.

Both of them think our club is **** and we are all ****s as well.

[InversneckieDob]

The issue of McGhee, Strachan and McLeish are complicated.....and, in my opinion, very different.

McGhee, by all accounts, was a bit of a knob back in the day when he played for us.
Heard that from a few sources, including a neighbour of his.
That's OK, people who make it right up there in sport are often not the best balanced people and are usually too single minded to be .....nice.
He is possessed of a level of (misguided) self belief as a manager that strays well into arrogance (the "Wikipedia" comment being a great example).
Another fine display of this was the comments about raselickbyrawaybutbigman when he became manager here.
It smacked of "they're lucky to have me here...... and they know it, so I can be honest in my opinions of this job and the selick job, they'll understand and appreciate my honesty".
Self-aware much?

Strachan is driven and, I think, tends to live in the moment in an emotional sense.
It doesn't strike me that he has any emotional attachment to any of his past clubs. I read an interview with him a while ago when he said that he didn't feel any emotional pull to Hibs, his boyhood club, any more.
Again, possessed of huge levels of self belief, but I've heard tales, albeit second hand, that he is a decent bloke away from the white heat of fitba.
His time at AFC was a job to him, at job at which he never gave a midgie's ba hair less than his all.
I think you could say that about every one of his fitba jobs.
I dinna think you can say he hates or dislikes Aberdeen, he's just completely indifferent to us.....as he probably is to Dundee, Man Utd, Leeds, Coventry, Southampton, Celtic....etc.etc.
He has certain ideas about the standards of Scottish football and players who ply their trade in Scotland, and picks raselick players cos of their European Cup involvement.

McLeish is the one that tears me up most. The ambition is the common factor among the three, but him going to deadco hurt me bad.
Boyhood r*****s fan? Well, he moved to us at 15 and stayed his whole playing career here (virtually) so he was a Dandy longer than he was a h*n.
He saw that shower from our side, saw the media treatment of them (and us) from our side, read what The Sun said about him and Willie in the aftermath of Durrant..........yet he still went there.
I also genuinely believed he DID have an emotional bond with the Dons beyond it being a job.
Mebbe he did/does, I dunno, but ambition ruled again.

I think the thing about Fergie was that he surrounded himself with men as driven and single minded as he was.
This is why he has fallen out with so many of his most trusted men down the years.
People that driven, that focussed are seldom nice folk........capable of loyalty and selflessness.

Idols having feet of clay, t'was ever thus.

So let's treasure Willie Miller, Russell Anderson, Brian Irvine.....even the much maligned Andy Considine, hopefully Graeme Shinnie a decade from now, and the others like them.

Good guys for whom we were enough......more than enough.

[jamiesd]

Can anyone enlighten me as to why Forrest gets picked? he is utter garbage. I've lost my voice shouting at him last night