EdTheDuck

Speaking of discontent, do you think that geezer is being forced into bukkakke by a sevco supporters group and has developed some kind of bizarre Stockholm Syndrome for them?

SevCove keep losing 2 goal leads. Hopefully it'll come back and bite them in the arse quite badly

Yeah Good point. Will definitely read again.

If you are on Twitter have a look at the #AberdeenFC #McInnes hashtags. "At least he's not McGhee" was played fairly regularly last night. Let's be clear, McInnes is a vast, vast improvement on McGhee & Broony and Jimmy Calderwood. However, regardless of how bad McGhee was it has no bearing on McInnes' record, or shouldn't. It's every bit as damaging as comparing managers to Alex Ferguson was in the 90s and early 2000s. Having mentioned Ferguson, though...he learned from his mistakes. As do all good manager/coaches. In his early years in Europe Fergie's teams made some eye catching blunders but he learned and improved and polished the team and his tactics. Granted, we can't compare McInnes to Ferguson or that era to this but I just feel that McInnes keeps making the same errors over and over. The best performance we had against Roger's Celtic (IMO) was the 2017 Cup Final where we got in their faces rather than standing off and competed well into the second half. AFC could have won that Cup Final, the only one against Celtic I feel I can honestly say that. Since then though, it seems like AFC have resorted to type - stand off, hope for a set-piece and watch as the roof caves in with a moment of lost concentration or a missed assignment. I'll say it again. I think McInnes has it in him to be an even better manager but he has to take on board and learn from his mistakes. Incidentally, speaking of Happy Clappers I see they are rushing to agree with Anthony O'Connor that it was the fans fault we lost last, absolving McInnes of any blame. Fox ache.

No one, not even the WU merchants like McGee, Romeo, Bigmouth has ever suggested that we are "only slightly" improved compared to McGhee's disasters. You're wrong. LoL

The first few years (with players recruited pre-McInnes particularly Hayes & McGinn, ) we improved, no question. The last couple of years? Last season especially? Do you think the football AFC played was an improvement of 2013/14 - 2016/17?

Points went up Points went down Points went up Points went down Points went down again the key phrase is year on year, I think. As well you know

LoL Berk

He is flat-lining, though. There was immediate and vast improvement in year one and since then we have not improved at all and, in fact, in the last couple of years the fitba has been atrocious. Improvement doesn't mean winning the league but improving points total year on year does and surely, surely he should have learned something about European football by now? And if I could be arsed I could dig out my posts where I've stated unequivocally that I don't want McInnes sacked and that I think his problem is confidence; he's a better manager than he thinks he is and he has better players than he thinks he does. But he seems determined to play it safe, it's almost a classic case of the old James Richardson remark about Italian clubs being 'afraid to win'. And yet any criticism and the Happy Clappers are out in force making ridiculous statements about 'typical greetin faced Aiberdeen fans'. There's not a chance in Hell that AFC will finish second this year but I don't think sevco have markedly better players. Gerrard sets them out to attack and win and in our crap league that will get him results more often than not. If McInnes went for it instead of always playing safety first AFC could challenge for second, I have no doubt about that. But experience says he won't. Right at the start, one of the St Johnstone fans said the more turbulent it gets, the more McInnes will back into his defensive shell. I'd say he got it pretty right.

LoL Ragin eh min? Direct it at the fucker who's to blame. Give me justification for supporting McInnes based on his record rather than "at least he's nae Mark McGhee".

Boo hoo! Better a dumb c**t than a happy clapper.

Because, for some reason, the fact that Mark McGhee was an utterly shite manager and coach seems to mean McInnes gets a free pass. I don't get it myself, the catalogue of wrong calls in important games is remarkable. We all know, without question, that in a big game he will get it wrong, that the best that can be hoped for is the "we were comfortable, never in trouble until Consodine/McKenna/Logan had a brain fart and fucked up/the defence went AWOL" . He isn't tactically smart enough to play horses-for-courses but he thinks he is. A dangerous combination that means time and again in the high stakes games the whole thing falls apart. Oh wait, AFC beat Sevco last season so everything is fine. Forget what I said above

Plumb Centre "Taking your shit away and dumping it in the sea"

f**k Sakes

It's because they think it makes them a genuine Big Club. If they're being mentioned in the same breath as Paris St. Germain, even on the wrong end of a 5 or 6 goal rogering it puts them in the same 'league' as Paris St. Germain...except it doesn't of course. The real big clubs from the big five leagues are now financially as far ahead of Celtic as Celtic are ahead of the 40 other SPFL teams. I hope those Brand Name Clubs eventually get their closed shop Superleague if just to watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Entitled Hordes as they bang their heads against an impenetrable glass ceiling.

This one is up there with Flat Earth and Chem Trail loonies. What a fucking beaut!

say what now

Can someone dub the celtic fans singing their stupid fucking I waana be edouard song over that?

I would be really, really careful about what you wish for with that hopeless c**t as your manager...

FC Cludgy flush Celtic down the shitter Marvellous

I support all Scottish teams in Europe But not Irish or British/English teams Ye get me?

In terms of the pyramid it is the problem. They're not interested in the pyramid because they run the North Juniors for the sake of the North Juniors. Not for fans and not for the greater good of Scottish Football (if that is what the pyramid represents), just for whatever the North Juniors are. It will ultimately make the pyramid a mockery. Dozens & dozens of South clubs battling to play off against the same 3 or 4 HFL with rich benefactors. That could be changed by North Junior clubs run along the lines of Cove Rangers with the ambition of Cove Rangers. Doesn't look likely though, eh?

Others have answered pretty much perfectly. Part of the problem is the North Juniors seem to be run entirely for the benefit of the North Juniors. Big league games, cup semi-finals and finals come and go and Joe Soap is blissfully ignorant of it. They seem to make no effort whatsoever to engage with the public. Doesn't help of course that local media make no effort to publicize games or league positions or anything else but then again the impression is that the North Juniors don't really care if they get coverage or not. Their social media seems to be utterly abysmal too. A someone said further up, the reason for their reticence regarding the pyramid is there for all to see and it's because they're in a bubble and have no interest in looking beyond it. It's a pity because Dyce, Bridge of Don, Banks o Dee, Sunnybank, Ellon, Stonehaven and a couple others have the potential to enhance the SHFL.

To all intents and purposes the North Juniors don't have any supporters. So...y'know...

Please accept my apologies. I churned some numbers based on the Prem since the 12 team top flight began and I have to say it surprised me. Granted each "half season" is only based on 11 games but that is still around two thirds of an 18 team half season so is a reasonable indicator. What came out was: Celtic were top on 27 occasions. Rangers 6 times Hearts 3 times Aberdeen twice. However, there were a further dozen instances where a club other than one half of the weegie twins was within 3 points of the top dog after 11 games. That's almost half the time! Given that the remaining 6 games would be against none of the "major" clubs it suggests, as you said, that apertura/clausura offers a realistic chance of non-exOF clubs winning a 'title' even without playoffs. I also owe an apology to the lesser lights by suggesting earlier that only Hearts/Aberdeen/Hibs could realistically win even a half season title. In fact, Hamilton, Inverness, St Johnstone, Motherwell, Kilmarnock were level with or within 3 points of top spot. Let's start a campaign. It would transform our game!