Kneetrembler

Mate, that's the new stadium debate, which has a thread of it's own. My post was that Milne has been a decent custodian of the club and I would trust him to pick a decent manager to replace DM when the time comes. Ebbe had a stellar cv when he came in. He was just not suited to Scotland and a bit past It. Pele had probably achieved more in football when he came in than Jack Ross has up to now. The drink had hold of him though and a bit of due diligence on that one might have helped. Lesson learned hopefully. McGee was a disaster of an appointment. Milne made a right c**t of that one. Craig Brown steadied the ship and laid the foundations for Mcinnes. Far from perfect, but we could do a lot worse.

We don't know how anyone else would have handled managing the club in that period. But we do know that no one tried to. I am not seeing any consortium looking to buy him out now either. No "save Pittodrie" fans action group. Just anti kingsford. I think he's done a decent enough job. He stood up in troubled times and is working hard on delivering Kingsford. I get that you are strongly opposed to moving Stadium as are many Dons fans. However, it is a minority view.

Slam dunk. Milne must have a mega ego to put up with the shite and pressure of running Aberdeen. But there can be no dispute that he is a pure Dandy with the club at his heart.

You are completely overlooking the fact that he got the club out of the same debt. He struck a genius deal with the banks that wrote off a heap of the debt. Getting wealthy people to put money into the club with no strings attached whether its your mates or not is extremely good practice. Milne made mistakes along with other clubs overspending in the 90's to try to complete with rangers. It was a collective madness. However, he stuck around to rectify his mistakes and turned it around. He also built the dick Donald stand, which I believe he was never paid for. Although I don't know that for sure. It's completely appropriate to compare where the club was when he took the helm and where it is now. It's in much better shape and the buck stops with him.

The number of clubs entering into administration and liquidation suggests, to me anyway, that running a football club isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. The Donald family among others made generous financial contributions to the club whilst under Milne's stewardship. He has been on the board since 1994, probably the most turbulent period in Scottish football history. If he ran up the debt, then he also cleared it. To blame him for one and not give credit for the other is unfair. He's been chairman a long time. 17 years, your post suggests that the club being on a sound financial footing after all that time being despite the person making all the decisions and not because of him is also unfair. The training ground stadium saga has been a shambles, the 11-1 vote was a missed opportunity, he is by no means perfect. However, I would prefer his stewardship over a magnesium glare like Hearts and Dundee had.

Why not? They hired McIness. I don't get the hate for Milne at all. When you see what's gone on at Rangers, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Dundee, Hibs, Hearts. He may not be perfect, but he's been at least as big a part of the recent revival as DM.

As far as I am concerned, the best possible outcome from this sordid mess would be if Rangers make an approach to Aberdeen, be given permission to talk to him and Deek tells them to f**k off.

You are absolutely right.

Ross scored a wonderful goal but also gave the ball away in midfield for the second goal. Although there should have been cover.

I would like to see this happen, but after Sunday I think McKenna needs Arnie playing alongside him.

Rangers have absolutely done us.

Oh JG, I thought better of you old boy.

Now you too excited to type properly .

That's the spirit, you let it all out.

Agreed. DM has created the expectation that we could get to the next level although he is yet to deliver and perhaps never will. I believe he gets a bigger share of the credit and Milne gets less than they deserve for the improvements. However, DM is great for Aberdeen and when I am not raging about another disaster in Glasgow, I would not swop him.

Fucking sore one last night like.

Greame Fucking Souness and his 1988-89 title winning team of mercenary no mark arseholes. These b*****ds and more importantly, the c***s hiring them, made sure our league became the money dominated one horse race it is today. Hate is not too strong a word. I fucking hate Greame Souness.

Hey Rangers! See that Leeds United? That's you, that is.

Pleasing.

Utter baseless pish. Did you miss the celebrations on here when DM knocked back Sunderland in the Summer?

Just watched GMS on Redtv. He is sounding like a proper Golach again, nice to hear. Hopefully his on field performances will improve as much as his accent has. Mon the Tcheuchters.

Derek McInnes, Dandy for life.

It really is. I was reading through it earlier. It beggars belief.

Finishing ahead of Rangers last season and getting to two cup finals was an excellent return. The club has its shit together on and off the park. DM has been at the centre of this revival but by no means the only factor. Everyone associated with Aberdeen are desperate to see the club lift more silverware. However, the task is huge, up against a financial giant of a club.

Is there any other manager within our budget that could do a better job than McInnes? I dinna think so.