rocket_scientist

I can’t tell you what to do but you’re obviously determined to make it personal. I’m sorry I told you to grow up. I should have known someone like you would take it badly.

I’m not harassing anyone. I just happen to have a different opinion to yours. That’s the whole point of the forum isn’t it, exchanging opinions? It’s not personal. I will argue with any opinion I see differently, as most of here will attest. You being in a minority of one doesn’t mean that you’re wrong either, just that you’re in a minority of one.

Out of interest dd, do you reckon Lewis was “at fault” for the first Celtic goal?

Yes there were a number of them in the middle offside as the free kick was played in. But how often do we ever see the game stopped in those situations, the ball clearly going to the back post and those in the middle arguably not interfering with play? By the strict letter of the law, you’re 100% correct.

If he had saved it, a shot struck perfectly at point blank range, hit off the underside of the bar, immediately after having to scramble the full length of his goal, he would’ve pulled off the best reaction save ever seen at Pittodrie. It was a less than one per center. The third goal however, he failed to dominate his area and stopped coming for a ball he could have got to. You’re the only one blaming Lewis for the first. Is it the fact that at least 3 of us didn’t agree (before you got the thread locked) that makes you hold firm? Do you not make mistakes like the rest of us or have you a pathological need to never be seen to be wrong? You could at least demonstrate your superior football knowledge by explaining what Joe did wrong at the first and discussing his role at the third. For the record, I don’t blame Lewis for the irrelevant third. Not many keepers would peddle back that much into traffic. He did have a chance to get there but chose not to try. But he had a better chance at that one than the first, by ten or twentyfold.

We were looking at Pedro’s past. His best win ratio was 45% as a manager, for teams we’d hardly ever heard of. His 14/27 at Rangers was the best he’d ever done. It was a crazy appointment. As Kenny Miller proved at Murrayfield yesterday.

I’m not so sure. Celtic aren’t invincible. As Kilmarnock showed yesterday and as Dundee and Hibs have shown recently. I’m dying to find out why Rodgers is despised by certain ex players at Liverpool, famous and hugely successful ex players who didn’t actually play for him. Something went on behind the scenes. I can’t warm to Brenda. His smugness offends. I would love to see him under pressure. Even we with a team full of journeymen have had chances to compete with them. Even this season we’ve picked up more points than Celtic in all the other matches, the same old story of the head-to-heads being the downfall. McInnes isn’t a winner. He’s not clever enough tactically and he can’t inspire sufficiently when it matters. If Rangurs recruit a good manager, they can challenge for the title. They’re so poisoned though that they keep on getting it wrong. They know fuck all about football if they go for McInnes.

A couple of days ago I was asked how many English managers have won the EPL. I didn’t know and I couldn’t think of one. The answer is zero. Howard Wilkinson at Leeds was the last Englishman to win Division 1.

Much as I see and despair of Derek's limitations, I hope you're right and I'm wrong. It's just not good losing anyone to them. However capable or otherwise they might be. They would be 2nd in the league if he goes. AFC would be fighting for 3rd. There's very little management talent for us to pull from. I just can't stand mediocrity. In anything. There's no excuse for it.

My prediction is that by Thursday at the latest, your prediction will be wrong.

In the mind of the hun, they are the people. They don’t live by normal rules. The EBT thing was something they were entitled to do. HMRC can go fuck themselves. Money is never an object because they are a big club, housing tens of thousands of like-minded knuckledraggers. So Allardyce is who they want. What they want and what they get can be two different things of course but it’s interesting how the integrity of the man is something that they don’t consider. They’re not overlooking his corroupt bung nature. It just doesn’t compute as an issue for them. He would be a perfect personality fit for this horrible club. Unfortunately he would be effective would be my guess.

My hun mate is hoping for Mike Ashley to sell his stake in the Toon and invest in Rangurs. Apparently Ashley wants European football and this could be a platform for getting a business foothold abroad. I reckon that could be contrived thinking, particularly post Brexit. Most huns want big fat corroupt Sam.

I hope McInnes gets offered the job. There is no doubt he will take it. The barman at my local and I know that we are in the minority. Since when did following the pack bring truth and enlightenment?

Not only are the general standards of literacy declining on an alarming scale, it’s alarming that these cunts don’t care. Some of these thick boring bastards get mod status in the modern era!

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Now that you've since edited and added to the wisdom you share with this forum, let me say goodbye before you fuck off for a while, possibly for good. Your propensity for cowardly running away from adversity has been noted. On the contrary, I don't give you roo much attention (no spellchecker even at your end?), I don't give you enough... On the overrated bands thread, I didn't revert to you. I made one post. You invited further discussion. I refrained. :wave: :wave: :wave: Your comment about "if you love books so uch" suggests that you are illiterate. Your posts prove it.

Says the illiterate man who wants to annoy another Aberdeen fan?

People I pity don’t annoy me. If you can’t recognise my attempts to help you, you’re probably fucked.

N & T. Timeline on BBC 2 just finished. Watch it on iPlayer when it becomes available, the last bit about the guy from Glasgow. I guarantee that he had a much less fortunate start in life than you, I and 99.4%+ of posters on any AFC webchatspeaksite. Yet he has "skills" and qualities that are superior to 99.7% of us. He's certainly a much better man than me anyway and in terms of social observation and the ability to communicate - areas I considered myself pretty expert in, or at least certainly better than the mean - he is phenomenal and a wonderfully inspiring mind. His book "Poverty Safari" is available to download on 2nd November. I've just ordered it. I recommend it to you too. I'm certain that not only will it provide massive growths in our awareness of human nature - and I predict from an innovative, fresh and highly original angle - it will implicitly teach us much about ourselves and perhaps also reinforce the essential requirement for humility, in everything that we do. We need to invest time in educating ourselves, continously. As the Bible said - and they kill each other over this shit - "Whoever knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything”. The Gospel according to St Thomas 67

Watch your attitude min. This front of intellectual superiority coming with full condescension is ugly. I made the necessary distinction between individual sports and team sports. You missed this vital distinction because you either didn't read simple words carefully enough or you didn't understand the distinction, or probably both. You possibly don't work with high-earning sportsmen nor would you be involved in coaching coaches would be my wild guess. Not only did you miss the distinction, and therefore the whole point and context of the "pish" I was talking, you're obviously not educated about the work ethic v. skill debate in high performance sport, so eloquently and brilliantly described by Matthew Syed in his best-seller "Bounce". Daniel Coyle's "The Talent Code" made roughly the same conclusions but wasn't nearly as well expressed in my opinion. Wow! You're questioning MY qualifications for posting on this forum? That's rich from someone who can't even concentrate enough to complete a post without grammatical or spelling errors. You really want to compare what football levels we played at? Have you ever been paid to improve sportspeople's performance and does your income depend on how good you are in this regard or otherwise? Have you even managed people? But HOW you said it above revealed that you hadn't gotten over it. Your pathetic responses after wrongly perceiving that those of us who disagreed with you were doing it for personal reasons (followed by your absence from the forum for a week or two) was hard to witness. That's the second or third time you've raised this. I ignored it before but can I refer you back to the thread? I didn't fall out with you because of our musical differences. I said that your posts smacked of intolerance and I pointed out you were being a total dick. Is it memory or comprehension issues that preceded this bit? I also forecasted a defeat, a "howler" in fact. Practise AND skill? You don't understand the difference? Read more min. Start with Bounce. It's a phenomenal read. A big piece of advice you might want to consider is this, if you're not too blind with rage by now to disable your capacity for reading and understanding, arguably already limited. I didn't "have a go" at you. I was trying to point out the error of your ways. I'm good like that, a kind old benefactorial cuddly man, full of love for his fellow man, especially Dons fans but prone to inventing the odd word or three to fit a sentiment. This is indeed a forum and therefore it's not personal and never is, or at least it shouldn't be. I will refrain from repeating my counsel to you to "grow up" but please, before you fuck off for another extended period, have a wee think about it. None of us have all the answers. All of us have made mistakes, both in life and in posting shite occasionally (or at least presenting opinions wrongly as facts) to varying degrees, some more than others. For your own good, try educating yourself. Read books. Your insecurity is pitiful.

Let me stop you there. You look like you’re hurting. You look like you’re squirming. You got put down when you spoke some shit and you’re in denial that wot you said was wrong. If you know so much about fitba that you can predict games so precisely, perhaps you should hit the bookies. You’re saying, as you’ve said before that it’s all about the players. At least you’re acknowledging now that formations, tactics and strategy exists but I would’ve thought you might have touched on the bigger issue, the biggest issue, knowing so much about football as you do. In individual sports, the biggest influence separating the best from the rest is DESIRE. The desire to work harder than the rest. The desire to work smarter than the rest. That’s not opinion. It’s fact. Confidence, self belief and expectation (that you win) comes on top of putting the miles in. In team situations, the manager is responsible for the overall performance, not the players, which he recruits and selects of course. If they’re not good enough, he didn’t do his job. In this instance however, the financial disparity is huge. As it was in the 70’s and 80’s. One former AFC manager was expert in shaping mindsets in players, bullying them to be the best they can be and recognising naturally-occurring winner mentalities, born from ruthlessness and desire. If everything is as “utterly obvious” to an expert like you, I’m surprised you don’t even discuss the role and function of the biggest influence in team sport but choose to focus only on the players. And by the way, formations haven’t been losing games. That’s the first and only defeat of the Premier season.

I don't see this. Ok, Considine hadn't played for a month (nor was he even on the bench for the last two games) but I can understand reintroducing him as LB for this one to put Shinnie back in midfield. We've been saying for a long time that we're not strong enough in the middle of the park. McInnes has missed umpteen transfer windows to get some quality. Ball, GMS and Stewart are not quality. Shoe-horning Shinnie into midfield against the champions, unbeaten in ages was understandable because without GS in midfield, it would've been even worse but this is the whole problem. We're not good enough to compete on our budget v. Celtic by having our best players not in their best position. We should be raising standards all over the pitch, not shoe-horning fill-ins. It certainly isn't. Playing Consi at LB was cautious, it was common sense, it was risk-free in terms of him getting pelters. At least he didn’t do a crazy experiment tonight. But it was never going to work. I didn't expect Celtic to be that good though.

But that’s the thing, the game could go either way because neither are very good. Considine is a perfect example in terms of consistency, the one quality above all others required to succeed. I like Consi’s effort and determination. He’s just not hugely talented and suffers from being played at LB where he’s not comfortable. He’s good enough to get a game at this level or at least as a squad player but it would be madness to reintroduce him for this one, the type of irrational shite that McInnes has a history of. Considine hasn’t been consistently played this month and he’s not a consistent performer when he does play. And we will never know how good he might have been if he had been played as a CB in a settled back 4 due to how many partners he’s had there over the years. With Arnason and McKenna now, Consi’s starts are going to be fewer. On the contrary you’ve increased my optimism. Consi won’t play (surely?) and I trust Arnason and McKenna. But then he might play him at LB. Where he might have a stormer. Or where his lack of pace, skill and intelligence might be fatal. Even though Shinnie is a natural LB, we are really short in midfield, especially sans Christie and the likes of GMS, Stewart and Ball aren’t good enough. Fuck knows what DM will pick and fuck knows how it will go. The one thing is certain is that DM isn’t good at changing things and adapting to the situation. Not good enough in midfield means we get beat is my prediction.

The closer it gets, the more I’m seeing all the possibilities. It’s a matter of time before Celtic get beat. They’re not that good anyway. Really can’t stand the smugness of Rodgers. McInnes saying the game “can’t come quick enough” is interesting. A rare expression of confidence and I like it. But we have a history of bottling EVERY big game. Not that this is a big enough game to be a league decider. AFC are NOT winning the league. My fear is Celtic are up for it like they were at Ibrox. My fear is that we fail to produce a decent performance. That would mean another massive disappointment. But a rare sell out crowd should give us a big chance. I fear Rogic the most. The game will be won in midfield. Aberdeen 1 - Celtic 3

Excellent post. Totally agree on every point.