capitalsharpie

in retrospect, thinking about what mghee said yesterday, never once did he mention the immediate future beyond tonight, ie the hun game. Makes me think he's a gonner after tonight. Been given the sack but this game has come too soon even for a short term replacement.

Sorted oot St Machar academy when he wiz headteacher! Some right heed cases in that place!

The cheap, spineless option from the directors? Yep. It'll happen.

Well, evdrybody on here has been moaning about how either nothing has been said or the wrong thing has been said from the authority figures within afc. Hartley actually has thu guts to admit his mistakes and take that on the chin. Well, i suppose i'm trying to inject a small positive out of all of this.

Just watched the interviews on red tv and i have to say, at this moment in time the ONLY good thing within this club is our Captain. Accepted responsibility for his actions, defended the club (always refering to "us") and making a point of removing the youth players from any responsibilty, getting angry at the perennial stupid questions from the hacks, showing to me a passion that has been missing for years. I thnk his methods off the pitch are not well known or spoken about (and to a point rightly so). If this club is to recover and move on AT ALL, we need to keep Hartley at the club and build our team round him. in fact we should break the bloody bank to do so. If he was to leave (fair enough no suggestions of this yet), but we know wehat AFC and contract negotiations are like then to me this will be sign of where the board of directors are at and should recieve nothing more from us. It will be a syptom of this board of directors reign.

This is is. Any body approached now will see us as apoisoned chalice. As a club we are a shambles from top to bottom, massively indebted, with plans for a new stadium to make us even worse financially, directionless medium term, with no ambition or abitility to find any level of consistency that the likes of hearts, or unt have found. Yes they are never going to win the league, however they can now base thier finances on being regular top six fixtures, whilst short term we have no financial support to strengthen a lacking squad. Yes we have some good young players, but they need protected, which was not the case today. ps. if Diamond thinks that is an acceptable performance as vice captain today then he should fuck off.

Can fuck off

Dear all at AFC thank you for taking us back to the days of thrashings from the old firm. I sorely miss rthe feelings of utter incomprehension. Well done! We have gone NOWHERE in 15 years.

Sounds like we never bothered showing up.

I thought you didnt care anymore?

Bring on the plastic paddys!!

Ahh but so wil we! Won't we?

After last night I would prefer the tims. They look as bad as w do in defence.

I agree about Ifil. His distribution is just awful continually putting the backiline under repeated pressure by either not picking a red shirt out with a pass or hoofing it into touch. He has cost us games.

Ooff. Contrivershul stuff from Stoney. I thought you were only meant to have opinions such as "for fuck sake MM, you have no clue."Or the wonderfully informed classic "MM fuck off".

Indeed. I was thinking the same watching Hartley's pre-match interview on RedTv and comparing him to Kerr. A thorough professional who will not shirk his responsibilities even if the going gets tough. I dearly hope we can keep hold of him. He is the player to build the team around.

Much, much better today, at last we have width back in the squad. Jack played well. However, the weakness at the back is still a worry. Not pressing out wide to allow those crosses in in the first place. The goals against were a carbon copy of each other.

To a point, but also a daft question. Our squad IS so small that having seven players out WILL effect results.

True, but I dont think anything would have prevented the first goal, or even the pressure that forced the keepers mistake for the pen. Inter (much as I hate to say it) were just brilliant.

An unbelievably shambolic start to the game for Spurs tho. One of the pundits said at half time that the first couple of years in the CL should be used to learn. I think that would be about right for this game. A learning experience for Redknapp and the players.

I think he should get till the january transfer window. If he doesnt begin to address the imbalance in the squad, ie get rid of forwards to free up wages for defenders then he should go as it is a clear sign that he doesnt know how to construct a squad.

mike tumilty. Enough said.

Any action has to be sustained, thats why it hasnt worked before. One off protest can too easily be brushed aside by half arsed press releases and statements such as Milne has made before.

Yup. Agree with all of that. Was Mackie as efffective through the 90 mins as seems to be the case in the highlights. He was unlucky a couple of times. Yet again the standard of refereeing is called in question as the utter lack of cosistency is clear. Tokely should have been off. With Paton's red it seemed that the caley player went through Paton not making contact with the ball, luckily paton turned him and got tangled up in his legs. Never a sending off in a million years. Surely worth an appeal.

Quote from: Labirinth7 on April 12, 2010, 01:15:05 AM This mess is completely the board of directors fault. We had assembled a great squad in 06/07 which went on to finish 3rd. They then cashed in to the first bidders and have chronically underinvested since. Its not MM or JC's fault. The current predicament is a result of cutbacks to wages. I only wish that the board had given JC the near million quid it cost to repace him to spend on players last summer. I think we would then have been looking forward to europe again next season. Déjà vu folks? Yay. someone gets it! This is the AFC way. If the rumblings of discontent get too loud. our intrepid board of directors take the short term option time and time again. They sack the manager. Twenty years this has been the cycle of failure, League position slips under current manager. Red army get pissed off board say they support the current emcumbment Red army get more pissed off and moan louder about it board say they support manager again BUT GIVE HIM NO MORE CASH TO WORK WITH Relegation/embarassment looms. sacking drag in new manager Start at top All this has been is a diversion from the utter ineptitude as to how this club is run. So, he is therefore a scapegoat