rocket_scientist

He wasn't the only one today!

Lucky not to be one down in the 3rd or 4th minute. The only attack we had worth anything was a sublime through ball by Scott Wright but Stevie May didn't know whether to try for the far corner or cut back and it fell between the two. McLennan was poor, as was Ferguson. Shinnie and Ball offer zero creativity but the whole team was incapable of creating anything. Just a shocking performance.

You said yourself that McInnes was on the equivalent of £17k a week. Do you think he would have walked for only £11k? Imagine the couple of players we could have had for that £6k saved PLUS Ball's wage PLUS every other useless fucker McInnes has recruited if the right manager had been in charge, let alone how much better we could have been if our very good pool of prospective youth talent had been developed properly? They (Miller, Calderwood and Milne) admitted that they dumbed us down with the "unrealistic expectations" line. As cts said, it's murder and brilliant being Aberdeen but when we accept "squad fillers" and trust the judgement of a manager who himself is never a winner in a million years, we will end up getting the club we deserve, at Westhill Halliburton Arena with its empty trophy cabinet and a once-proud soul from a once-good city, lost for ever. Realism pills aren't required but the prescription for others may need to boost ambition. Edit: Actually, realism is the correct diagnosis. If we were real about the agenda of Milne and the reason why he's so desperate to hold on to McInnes, we wouldn't accept where we are just now, a team that managed zero shots on target in a cup final and embarrassingly few scoring chances over the last month and a bit, excepting Hamilton who were fucking toilet that night. Look at the first couple of months of this season too, there should be BIG alarm bells ringing, that's the reality.

As exciting and hugely impressive as he was for the 2nd half on Sunday, he was pretty anonymous on Wednesday. If he gets a start tomorrow and there is no doubt that he should, he has to take this chance with both hands and put in a performance. History is littered with potential. An excellent showing tomorrow and like McKenna at Motherwell a year and a bit ago, he can be an ever-present and build a career and name for himself.

That's not very nice. A significant number of us don't see it the way you do but we are delusional and in need of a significant dose of medication? Well please allow me to retort... He tries his best but he's NOT of the right quality IF OUR AMBITION IS TO WIN STUFF. I agree that he's been a worthy servant and it's an indictment of how shite McInnes has been recruiting, how weak we are in midfield, how utterly devoid we are of attacking options (unless he ever considered giving youth a chance) that he's been deserving of some games. But for fuck sake let's not allow our standards to drop that bad that we herald the cunt and are we honestly paying him over £150k a year? That's fucking insane.

Anything other than 3 points would be unacceptable. Hopefully a comfortable win and a great turn out. It's the least the team deserve after Wednesday, beating 12 men at the "big hoose", the big shit hoose. Not a bad weather forecast so zero excuse for not attending although some piss weak "men" will claim the wife forced them to go Xmas shopping.

Tup? When you see that snivelling baldy cowardly fuck, ask him why he can't keep a woman.

What are you trying to achieve? Have you crossed over here just to cross me? I've never hidden an instinctive distrust for authority. I've never denied dishing out abuse on AFC forums and yes, some of these have been fuelled by alcohol. But not hotel minibars, that's not good value nor good planning. I can be a fucking idiot like the rest of us but this being a football forum and me being interested enough in the game to attend, I generally have an opinion or an observation to share. Fuck knows what you're doing here, whoever or whatever the fuck you are.

Couldn't agree more. On Sunday the only decent thing McGinn did was a cut back to Dom in the first half who at the edge of the box, and literally less than 20 yards from goal, didn't know what to do. His ballooned "attempt" wasn't just a shot off target, it was (like Cosgrove) another revealing technical malfunction that shows this is another footballer we pay money to who doesn't even have the basic fundamental skills, not being able to shoot. He battles hard and has been quite useful in a breaker capacity but if we have any aspirations at all, there's no room for the likes of Ball at AFC.

Simple solution; delete this thread then delete him if he proves incapable of posting anything worth reading. It won't ever be in the AFC section where he dribbles.

Ok, in the face of an open threat from you rapey rumpus real, twice, I think it's best if we take it off the real threads and into this piece of trash, which looks like it was tailor made for you. As a man who has "nothing left to achieve", I'm surprised that you've not worked out that your posts have been offensive to some of the shrinking violets and now that the mods are deleting your posts, you got to have worked out by now that you need to be checking in with Houston, as you clearly have a problem. Allow me to be your big brother from Texas. I can only support you so far but until you post something worth reading, you're probably only fit for the electric chair or the lethal injections that we use in the Yoo Ess. You say we are going to fall out. How is that even possible? If the currency used is words on a forum, how can you anticipate that I'm going to post something that you are going to disagree with, let alone disagree with so vehemently that we will "fall out"? Spit it out rapey rr, what's troubling you son? Why the "adonis" shite? I know you got touchy when your wife decided to leave you (about 6-7 years ago if I recall your posting history accurately) and you don't want to reveal why you are estranged from your son but is it everyone else's fault and you're the perfect one?

I look forward to this... if you can survive long enough.

Shelley was a great musician and a man of courage. Orgasm Addict was innovative. Spiral Scratch was an excellent debut piece of art. As for sex being a "right", that's confused thinking. It's a desire, not a right. It's the most powerful driver in any man who's not wired wrong but describing it as a right fails to appreciate that it needs consenting partners. You sound a bit rapey, rumpus real. Then again, with your wanking off men and involving male voyeurs, you don't know what you are. Edit: I see your trash has now been deleted.

30.3 units for me last night, according to my drink tracker App. Not McHammered but a bittie roch this morning. We got it streamed in the pub last night and it was full of Celts watching the Motherwell game. Good crack.

The boy's nae reet in da heid but dinna ca him oot fer fuck sake. One needs diversity.

Great support. Both ways. ??????

They specifically said that they "don't do walking away" the first time. So funny at the semi final - "walking away, the Rangers way". The "Ibrox disaster" was a result of walking away. They are shit humans.

That was immense. A class above, Stevie G? The minute you uttered that shite, I knew it would eat you. Despite the Cosgrove red card, the biggest joke ever, I was confident. Cos Rangers aren't very good. And Cosgrove doesn't contribute to our defensive effort. I was insulted by bet365 offering 10/3 for the away win straight after the red card but still backed it at 3/1 which were the odds when they took the bet. Fuck you Gerrard. Fuck you huns. Magnificent result. If Carlsberg did Wednesday nights at Ibrox.

Agreed. In fact it is necessary that it is a slow process. Impossible otherwise. Confused thinking. It is not possible to be left with nothing more to achieve. Having plenty of money is nice, especially when it's been earned with zero inherited, allowing us to sweep the shelves of Asda of the cut price Bollinger in time for Xmas and book lovely hotels on our next ventures but being able to buy whatever we want when we want it does not equate to jack shit, when we're talking about the bigger issues, of which the gods certainly pertain to. You have much to learn rumpleforeskin, as we all do. I look forward to watching you in action tonight in furtherance of my education but fyi, there's a game on so after 10.30 aye?

Ha. I seen another one recently where a wee dug - of the breed that appears in those infuriating English ads, one of which featuring Jennifer Ennis - saved a trickler going in bottom right. I must question your judgement however Al. For me, Joe Lewis is the safer bet and I wouldn't want any canine on the payroll, even if it only costs a few biscuits. I can think of a few cunts in the heirarchy at AFC who could be designated to pick up its shit though. Edit: oops, Jessica Ennis. I wrote Jennifer Ellis at first

This got me thinking.... I wouldn't have a problem being told what to do if I believed in the teller and I understood why I was meant to be doing it. I can't be a pawn in someone else's game however, which is why I've been my own boss for 25 years. From memory and some of your posts, am I right that you're also your own boss? Never having had a good boss nor a mentor, I kind of grew to resent authority. In fact, I detested the vast majority of my managers over the years and didn't have even an ounce of respect for any of them. So I guess I'm very thankful that I worked for fools. I wouldn't have found out shit if I'd been a cog in someone else's wheel. Yin and Yang. Karma and Destiny. War and Love.

No idea if it was suicide. Was just saying. It was the first thing that crossed my mind. I also could never have hacked that shit.

Suicide is at unbelievable proportions in the armed forces, or at least it used to be when I was close enough to it, not that it gets reported widely. The bullying culture is almost taken as an occupational hazard. Tragic for the family.

We won't agree on Shinnie for this one although I do accept your point about McKenna being culpable too. The principal reason I can't agree with you is that I don't buy your line about "midfielders lose their man all the time". When we do not have the ball, the whole point of defending - and good teams defend from the very front when not in possession - is that we do NOT lose our man, particularly when he's already between the half way line and our box. There is no excuse for being so out of position that he couldn't see Christie behind him. What really fucks me off is a professional pundit slating Logan for this one. That's just not fair and totally unmerited.

Rico, you seem to be giving Logan the biggest blame for the goal, which is apparently what Michael Stewart did (although I didn't hear it but I'm happy to take your, and hebrew's, word for that). I disagree with you both. Stewart is the best pundit out there in my opinion and as I've been saying since I heard the Murrayfield 0-0 on the radio but that doesn't mean that he's not human and that he doesn't make mistakes like the rest of us and I've seen way more AFC games than he has. In a beach cafe for lunch today, I took the opportunity to do something I rarely do and read the tabloids (back pages only). Both Considine and McKenna were quoted about momentary lapses in concentration and switching off for a second, which was exactly what I said at the time: - What neither of them did was to attribute blame and actually say who it was who switched off, as we would rightly expect. They're hardly going to call out themselves or a teammate. I didn't even seek to apportion blame at the time, as per my post, and at HT my son reckoned Logan but I said I'd need to see it again but my gut instinct was Shinnie, as he had been man-marking Christie the whole of the first half. With the benefit of hindsight and the highlights are there for all to see on YouTube, I'm convinced that Shinnie was the most culpable. I hear what you're saying about Russell Anderson and we agree that McKenna has mistakes in him and has a lot to learn, and you make a very good point that he is not as aware of his central partner as the best practitioners in that crucial position. A top quality sweeper would have the whole game in front of him and would have been aware of the Christie's run coming in to the middle from the right and without having a man to mark himself - because there were no forwards in green at the top end at that time, the ONLY threat being Christie - he should have been able to anticipate and provide cover for Shinnie, who's schoolboy error was losing his man and allowing Ryan to run into space behind him. It was a magnificent ball in and a great run but it was embarrassingly simple how it carved us up. What I don't get is how Logan gets the torture here. He is our right back and therefore never our last line of defence and was clearly marking Sinclair and any run that he may have made towards our box. When Christie went behind Shinnie and it was obvious that Shinnie was out of position, even before the ball was passed, Logan was off like a hare, leaving Sinclair and everything else behind and running flat out towards goal to try and cover. He was the first to anticipate the problem, the one that Shinnie had created and Shay was unlucky in his attempts to block the second attempt, where Shinnie was fucking nowhere. I'm happy to apportion some of the blame to the central defence who were sleeping to allow that simple goal to happen but I'm afraid Shinnie must take the biggest hit here and as for Logan, it was his heart and his football brain that even got him into the picture but he did absolutely nothing wrong, as it's not his job to be the last man and it wasn't him who let the run happen thereby allowing a simple (but sublimely executed) through ball and a goal. This is 100% another exposure of our manager's failings. Shinnie is not good enough in midfield for a top, winning, team. He's committed for sure but he doesn't possess the basic skills required in the middle of the park and offers nothing creatively (like the vast majority of the team). Zero shots on target in 90 minutes is an embarrassing stat - and possibly zero off target too - and it's not the first time this season. It's not working but blaming Logan, one of the most competent players (in his position) at AFC (albeit being allowed to plateau at best and regress over the last 8-12 months) is totally unfair. What should he have done?