BigAl

Preferably do the honourable thing and walk...... Failing that you get the tin tack and find it difficult to get another job in football management owing to stubborness For avoidance of doubt, I voted sack now

I still clearly remember listening to Miller bering interviewed on Radio scotland post the Copenhagen game waxing lyrically about how the cash injection from reaching last thrity two would result in team being strengthened. Got to think whatever became of the cash generated, and if he/they had no intention of doing so why go on about it

Think Hartley has the potential to make a very good manager BUT this is not a job for a rookie manager in my opinion. Fair enough if you appoint a father figure then Hartley could become player/assistant manager

Whilst we'll never know, I think this one time you might be right

Probably away looking in a book of quotations to find one to adapt for Jocky. Think he is keeping his options open

See LS has jumped on the Jocky Scott bandwagen o'er on the inferior site

Not convinced that anything is going to make much difference now. The damage has been done, the support alienated and fcuked off. Short of going on an unbeaten run through to the season end playing scintilating football, can't help but think its time up for Dingus. Regardless of the failings elsewhere in the club ( and there are many ) it is time to move on. Next

go on then, as long as you ensure your seems are straight

Don't suppose you were in a white mini bus with inflatable sheep in back window. If so passed you on the road just about Brian Grant's franchise

Would have hoped he would have stepped up to the plate given the adversity we have faced this season. He has however been responsible for more fuck ups then I can possibly remember. Not reallt sure where the likes of Zander actually thinks he will be playing next season. Certainly just now, we should not be offering him any form of new contract. Needs to play for his very livlihood right now, or second tier Scottish League football beckons for him

Can't disagree with that. Used to defend Zander's ability but time for that is long long gone. Know a former top league central defender fairly well. For long enough he used to tell me that Zander wasn't as good as some of us ( myself included ) believed he was. Looks like he was right all along

Spot the error in his second last sentence THIS Aberdeen squad will never be forgiven. The horrendous 9-0 defeat at Celtic Park will be etched on the record books and in the memories of supporters for years to come. The abysmal defeat has strained Mark McGhee’s position to breaking point but, regardless of the manager’s future, the players must accept responsibility. Defender Zander Diamond admits morale at the club has flat-lined. He knows there will be nowhere to hide tomorrow when Inverness Caley Thistle arrive at Pittodrie. He said: “This will be remembered for a long time. Even if we go on a run and win six straight games, it is always going to be remembered we got hammered 9-0 by Celtic. “The players are at rock-bottom but we have a game on Tuesday, so we have to pick ourselves up. It’s going to be hard but we need to go for it. “This is as bad as anything I have experienced. I think every player, member of the management and supporter is feeling as low as I do. “It’s a hard one. “There was a feeling of disbelief at what was happening. I’m still shocked to this minute. But we need to pick ourselves up for Tuesday. “You are only as good as your last game and people can sum this one up in their own words. “It hurts your pride. You have umpteen friends and family, coaches and whoever, but you have let everybody down. “Everyone in the dressing-room was despondent – in disbelief and shock. “It is not nice to be part of the worst defeat in the SPL and the club’s history.” McGhee is fighting to survive the mauling, coming after a run of nine matches which has produced just four points. Diamond said: “We are hurting as players – and for him (McGhee).” Diamond knows what to expect tomorrow. Terry Butcher’s Caley Thistle are unbeaten away from home in the SPL and in the top six, achieved on a fraction of the budget than at Pittodrie. Diamond said: “We will get dog’s abuse for this – and rightly so. It’s going to take men on Tuesday night. We need to stand tall. “It’s a home game and any bad passage of play will be mumped and moaned about. “The supporters will be hurting as much as the players are. Hopefully, we can go out there and get the result we need.” Read more: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1998794#ixzz14g9tEylV

Indeed it was GS

Last two words of your post completely sum up AFC.

IT’S getting to the point with Aberdeen where the only thing that isn’t red about them is their faces. Is it possible to be made a fool of so many times it becomes hard to get embarrassed by anything? If one humiliation heaped on another can ever lead to building up an immunity, Pittodrie is the place to look for signs of it. Chairman Stewart Milne and his directors have witnessed so many horror shows at this club that their eyes must be dead to them. Parkhead on Saturday was the most humiliating of all, but what does it say about a club when legitimate cases might be made for a handful of other pitiful episodes having been just about as shameful? Stenhousemuir, finishing bottom of the league one season, being in a relegation play-off in another, a manager leaving in the boot of a car after being sacked, Queen’s Park, Queen of the South at Hampden, and now a 9-0. What a litany, and that’s a heavily-edited list. There has been a malaise at Aberdeen for years. Mark McGhee could be the latest manager, powerless to reverse it, who falls at a club which has exhausted the patience of its fans. The last two league attendances at Pittodrie were under 9000 against Hearts and 7500 against Hibernian, alarming figures which suggests a support has turned its back. The turn-out against Inverness Caledonian Thistle tomorrow night will be even worse. The other day the respected financial analyst David Glen, of PricewaterhouseCoopers, said Aberdeen deserved credit for their tight financial budget. According to him they were working to a business model that other clubs in the SPL would do well to emulate. Fine, but there’s more to running a club than ticking the right boxes for the audits and keeping it out of administration. It still comes down to the quality of the individuals at every level of the operation, from directors to manager to backroom staff, coaches and scouts. There are good people and impressive operators within Pittodrie but also some who have been there through all or many of the years of decline, failure and humiliation. That is unhealthy. When a club with one of the bigger supports in the country goes 15 years without a trophy and 10 without appearing in a national final, while finishing in the bottom half of the league more times than the top, it is a level of entrenched mediocrity that hints at endemic flaws and problems running right through the place. McGhee knows he is running on empty and has to hope for leniency and a little more time. Finishing ninth and going out of both cups to lower league opposition last season eroded the goodwill towards him. This season’s league form has been underwhelming. A slap in the face was avoided in the Co-operative Insurance Cup for once – Alloa, Raith Rovers and Falkirk were dealt with on the way to a semi-final in February – but Celtic’s nine unanswered goals have led to the gallows being dusted down again. Contrary to the way they are perceived, because Jimmy Calderwood stayed for five years the club has been more stable than most. They can be spared criticism for endless hiring and firing, or some sort of revolving door approach to appointments. Two managers in the last six-and-a-half years compares commendably to three at Rangers, four at Celtic, five at Hibs and Dundee United and six at Hearts in the same period. Calderwood had his moments, notably an enjoyable Uefa Cup campaign, but had run his course after five years. McGhee has never had the response from Aberdeen players that he got when finishing third in his first season at Motherwell. Picking over his individual failings is inevitable when a manager is facing the chop but, with Aberdeen, a wider undercurrent of ingrained inadequacies undermine everything. They are numb to failures. The team at Parkhead was subjected to a going over which resembled the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan but that was symptomatic of a squad lacking in character, leadership and quality. The same could be said of most Aberdeen squads for a decade. As one of the richest men in Scotland, Milne’s presence has always reassured the bank that they needn’t interfere with Aberdeen despite debts which reached £11m and now sit at around £7m. Aberdeen’s decision not to pursue any potential investment from their supposedly millionaire supporter, Calum Melville, turned out to be the sort of shrewd judgment which used to distinguish the club in the days when Dick Donald and Chris Anderson were calling the shots. But Milne’s era has also been one in which the Aberdeen has been a crippled club. He will not be budged from his deeply unpopular mantra that it “needs to stand on its own two feet” – meaning he will not dip significantly into his wealth to provide any spending power – but during his reign Aberdeen’s comparable rivals, Hearts, Hibs and Dundee United have all won cups and the Edinburgh pair have moved into superior training facilities. Removing McGhee would satisfy those who will not tolerate a 9-0 without demanding a head. The outcry is inevitable. But if a new manager is in place soon it’s hard to see how he won’t be handed the same as all the others at Aberdeen: a job and a ticking time bomb.

With you on that one, I still struggle to come to terms with that

ah the famous Tommy Steel game Was a major embarassment at the time, little did we know the number of them still to come, each one of which would trump the previous

Hear what you're saying Bobby, but not been there, seen it, done it etc........ Why not combine the two ? Jocky to front the job, Cooper in the background learning the ropes, ready to take over all command next season, season after ?

+1 Couldn't believe it last mid week when i was down south and got the text saying Sky sports were reporting betting suspended on him being next manager to get the bullet in EPL. Think he has done a fantastic job since taking over at St James with very little money (in EPL terms ) to spend.

In the real world, short of winning at least 75% of the remaining games this season, including victory in Co-op Cup final nothing is going to save Dingus........then again I'm not a member our ambitious board of directors

not for long Bobby, not under any illusions, finishing 17th this season is a result for Newcastle

Tenacious little fucker

You'll have to shell out to fill it Bobby, cause Stewarty isn't going to

Hows about the following Realised after about half an hour of the first leg game against Sigma that we had problems at full in the full back positions and decided top make it my number one priority....... no thought not, only us punters that saw that apparently