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Wow I can remember John Hewitt's goal 44 years wtf

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44 years ago today, since a young Hilton loon called John Hewitt, scored after 9 seconds, against Motherwell in the Scottish Cup. We wouldn't lose again in the SC, until 17th April 1985. Also on this day in 1988. Charlie Nicholas, scored his first goal for the Dons, in a 2-1 defeat, down at Motherwell. Maybe their revenge from 1982! There is also a press story listed from 1950, with talk about a 70,000 capacity stadium for Aberdeen. https://www.afcheritage.org/history/on-this-day/70000-seat-stadium-for-pittodrie?id=810

I find the very thought of AberDNA morally repugnant No offence to anyone that’s bought it like

Aye, but the change isn't really for the better. We are quite possibly just legacy fans with no place in the modern game. I mean, I don't even do AberDNA and yet here I am, on here complaining about our latest signing. The cheek of it.

But surely that’s how all football clubs have been ran since the game began? We’re reinventing the wheel here & it Scotland especially, it’s not necessary. In fact, it’s demonstrably worse I understand the game is changing but even still…

Unfortunately he's not a winger though. But, aye, he's definitely a good signing on that front. Run in a straight line and harass defenders. A Sokler replacement if you like. Edit: a loan deal, for this type of player is completely acceptable. A potential super sub with a bit of experience. Probably not likely to be a long term solution but may allow us to test out new systems that would suit a player of his profile. Crucially, not a type of player that we already have.

So? Those failings are the same for any single manager given the keys to the building. Not bringing through youth, limiting your signings to the lower English leagues, pragmatic football, grinding out results, signing players who have had a couple of good games against you. These are all symptoms of a structure where the manager is unaccountable until they're sacked, at which point you realise that they're accountable for absolutely everything and you need to start again.

Chaos reminds me more of Pape Gueye

Robinson has worked on building a team that is hard to beat, works hard and physically competitive - where is the players for him to work with in our squad? Shinnie and Devlin but that’s about it and they are getting to the end of their careers Apart from the cup win, even his stock in trade hasn’t worked and their form is as bad as ours. like replacing Jimmy with another Jimmy (cup win masking over the cracks) maybe it has just gone stale at Paisley after punching above their weight for last couple of years and the cup win made players believe they were better than they are i agree that we are no better or worse position that St Mirren despite wasting some money on players not good enough, but for all the vision of wanting to play attractive football, only Motherwell have really managed to do that competitively and will still likely win nothing. Cathro, Maloney and Glass were appointed to play open attractive football but didn’t work in this league as the majority of the other teams just physically outmuscled them I just hope we get the right balance of steel and silky football correct this time

That’s glossing over a number of Dereks failings there.

Yep, he was a scout for the Tims, he knows how the system works and any time you hear him speak, he's well versed. Robinson I'd be far less sure about. We had that under McInnes and a large number of fans weren't happy. We also largely failed with that model since the mid nineties through to the point the Hun went bust. It had a ceiling, and McInnes was it. Maybe that is our actual ceiling. I tend to agree that our budget will never be enough to buy success, or consistency, it doesn't buy enough additional players to cover injury even if all signings were perfect. However, I'm loathe to criticise Cormack for recognising that ceiling and trying to implement a strategy to break through it. That he seems incapable of implementing, or letting others implement, the strategy is the problem.

If he's pacy and "unpredictable" maybe he'll at least give us some Shady Mo-esque chaos off the bench?

To be fair to McGlynn I think he is being unfairly stereotyped based on his age (and probably appearance). As can be seen from his LinkedIn page, he's fluent in Cormackese which suggests he'd be handy firing out tactical analysis slide decks on a laptop: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mcglynn-3a53586b/?originalSubdomain=uk • Talent focused – Identify early, mentor, develop, perform and maximize value • Organised and structured with a results focused attitude

We may as well go all out and get Curtis Main back. Works hard, not prolific and ticks a further box by knowing the club. Apologies for not feeling the love on this one. If he scores the winner against Livi tomorrow, I change this post to say I never doubted him.

A decent interview with the loon. Disappointing only in his omission of any reference to Huns and Tims being bigoted inbred throwbacks, Shankland being a lead-swinging tossbag, and of the necessary desire to avenge the Jute assault on Funso Ojo

Olusanya's record doesn't exactly scream "prolific" but if we feel we're lacking in grafters who will run all day and generally be a nuisance then he should at least bring that? Kinda in line with Pfannensteil's comments about having a squad of good footballers who don't fit together to make a team. That's the optimistic Friday morning viewpoint anyway.

BBC Gossip Page today: "Hearts are hoping to beat Norwich City to the signature of 25-year-old striker Kasper Hogh, who scored a double in Bodo/Glimt's Champions League win over Manchester City. " BBC Sport webpage 2 days ago: "A fee of just over £6m is thought to be enough to acquire Hogh and BBC Norfolk understands , externalthe former Denmark Under-21 international wants to join the Championship club." Either Hearts are really going for it or BBC need to curate their gossip sources a wee bit better.

The big question mark over McGlynn is how he'd fit into the sporting director structure we've got now. Strikes me as the kind of old school manager who thrives when wheeling, dealing and bringing in players he finds. That's not how we're supposed to be working.

Re olusanya, looks like a player who’d play alongside nisbet or lazetic. Are we planning on two up top?? Certainly gives us a different look, just as long as he doesn’t continue his scoring against us. Or do we see him shunted out to right mid for the Morris role?

Rumours of a £1m offer for Graham from down south so I'd be surprised if we end up getting him. Stanway's a centre mid. Seems to be on the defensive side but does seem to score once every 8 or 9 games so must get near the box on occasion. Regarding the culture, hopefully that's something the sporting director role is here to fix but it's not going to happen overnight.

So that’s Olusanya in the door, who is next? We’ve been linked with graham at Dundee and Stanway at thistle, any other noise out there? From what I read both of those Scottish boys would be decent additions. Stanway a holding mid? Winger?? interesting there’s been no movement with David Watson to anyone….yet.

Not convinced by this one at all. Didn’t think he was that great at St Mirren for most of his time there.

We’re in this depressing Goldilocks Zone where we expect to be better than the rest but we’ll never afford players to do it. As you say, being well organised, difficult to beat with some youth players coming through and everyone would be happy(ish) Do that and our slightly larger budget should see us above the shite more often than not

The truth is, we are closer to St Mirren as a club, than we are any of the big boys. I've said it before, I don't think we are big enough to be trying to emulate the big boys of football. I'd rather we concentrate on being a competitive team and a place where youth gets a chance.