Originally Posted by
Don_Corleone
Just watched the Edmondson interview on RedTV... comes across as a likeable chap and the glimpse we got of him against Rangers showed promise.
One thing though... when asked about his aims for the season, he said (paraphrasing) "help the lads and try to push for a top 3 spot - that would be an amazing achievement."
Ok... the lad is new and he's young... and maybe didn't think through exactly how that might come across, so I'm not being harsh on him. BUT... if finishing third is being sold by McInnes as some great achievement to players joining us, it's just an indication of his negative boring mindset. Here's a young lad, highly rated by a team just promoted to the EPL - you would think highly ambitious... and he's told that he's here to help us get third place. Effectively he's being told, "forget about Rangers and Celtic - they're in a different class to us, we can't really hope to do anything much against them. We're just trying to finish above Motherwell and Hibernian." We're disappointed when we see how we approach games against the OF, but obviously this second class mentality is drilled into the players from day 1.