stoney

Countings my game - not spelling

I did say that about 10 posts ago but the weegies are obviously after stoney again

Could be argued that levein has a better cup record. Then again that would be moving the goalposts again - wouldnt it

Well do a search - i have always admitted that calderwoods first two and a half years were great for the club - and we were playing really really good football - why he stopped doing this is beyond me. If we went back to that i would be 100% behind calderwood. We were playing well the season before, i said that didnt I? that even though we were 6th we were playing really well. We continued to play really well for the rest of 2006 until we seen the birth of the 6-4-0 away to rangers and the birth of the 4-5-1 at home games. Maybe we wernt good enough for 2nd pipe dream maybe, but hearts managed it - and we were a better team then hearts. Last season it was deemed ok when it looked like that was the highest we would finish Not saying levein is a "great" manager - but he is doing a great job, and he does have calderwoods tactics sussed. Very true, a lot of hard work still has to go into it, but it is undoubtadly a massive advantage to be able to pay top class (on their day) players like smith, miller and (to a much lesser extent) severin the money that has kept them at aberdeen. All the afore mentioned teams have made a lot of money selling players, they can afford to do this, they have very good youth set ups (discluding united) and make a large amount of revenue from this. We cannot afford to keep spending double what other teams are just to be slightly ahead of them. Surely a better sollution would be to get another manager in and see what he can do with the extra money? Queen of the south and united were not bad luck - just bad tactics, long has the argument been down to luck of the draw, yet we have only ever played the old firm once in the last few years? how easy do the the draws have to be in order for us to win a cup? as above - not saying the league placings arnt impressive but after we finished 3rd and we made so called improvements to the team surely we should have run away with it last year? or at least reached a cup final? nobody was be-littling the european run, i said at the time if we had played the same way agains loko and pana as we did against copenhagen and bayern (i.e. actually attacked) we could have had a better placing in the group and avoided bayern - we showed we can compete with the best when we go at them. Didnt we? or did i just dream that? I would rather finish 8th this season and win the scottish cup then finish 4th and get into europe that way - just my opinion like - would always take a cup win ahead of league placing. Im always optimistic and im always positive - i believe this team is a lot better then what some fans give us credit for, i believe that the man at the helm doesnt get the best out of the team.

Ok maybe a slight exageration - but considering the differance in budgets i think lavein has done a better job, granted he has won the same as jimmy (i.e. feck all) but at least they have had the chance - we have had not yet - and its getting frustrating knowing how good a team we have here and how well we can play.

Not even levein who despite having calderwoods budget is doing a far better job. Look at uniteds record in the cups since he became the manager. He also did a very good job at hearts (not saying he didnt have a good budget at hearts) but i would have more trust in players a manager like lavein would take to the club then calderwood.

Lack of investment? tell me another manager who has jimmys budget to work with......outside hearts and the OF - he spent the most money in the summer too outwith those clubs? spending more then twice as much as what united, and the other teams are around us. Always said calderwoods first couple of seasons were nothing short of exceptional - even our 6th place under him was an achievement considering we were still playing really good football, infact up untill november 2006 the job he was doing was amazing...................then the calderwood from dunfermline appeared and started all the jiggery pockery, a better manager would have had us closer to second that season, not scraping for europe which should have been wrapped up in january. In my opinion had another manager came in last season and built on jimmys (early) good work we would be a lot better off. Until we bring in a better manager AFC will continue to plod along accepting anything higher then 7th and cup semi finals as an achievement. The only argument anyone can provide against this is.........would you like to go back to relegation contenders again gafaw gafaw well whos to say thats going to happen? There are managers in this league (infact 8 of them) working with budgets much much lower then ours and achieving the same things, some achieving more - look at the list of cup finalist and cup winners over the past 8 years. Why arnt aberdeen on that last and why havnt we won a trophy in 14 years? You wont have to look to far for the answer to that question. The way the old firm were playing against us last season if we had reached a cup final (which we should have at least one of them anyway) we would have had some chance probably even won it, after going to celtic and beating them at parkhead, rangers with one eye on the eufa cup..........big chance missed - probably the best we are going to have. But thats niether here nor there of course - east fife on saturday, the journey begins again

I would agree that things are improving this season, but to say the good outway the bad is ludacris - we were bottom of the league, out of one cup already and should be much higher infact clear in third place had we kept things simple. It annoys me that we are toiling to get ahead of united and hearts when we have the team to damage in this league.

WE deserve better

Chris Crichton agrees at least HEARTS, without Christophe Berra, lost. Dundee United, without Willo Flood, lost. Hibs couldn't win without Steven Fletcher and Mother-well couldn't win without Chris Porter. All could be features of the SPL's final months after the vultures flew in through the transfer window. Aberdeen, without any recognisable formation and their best player, failed to take advantage. And if that too becomes a stamp of the race for Europe, Jimmy Calderwood's only hope of needing his passport any time soon is that the board at Utrecht are looking the other way. In the glow of beating Celtic, Jimmy's Pittodrie trademark of needless monkeying when things are working came back again, and Saturday was vintage. Having lost only two of the previous 12 with four in defence, back came the compulsion to match Falkirk's 3-5-2. It was hardly playing to Aberdeen's own strengths. Even Bayern didn't beat them when they stuck with 4-4-2. Javan Vidal in particular looked thoroughly bemused throughout his tortuously long shift, proving that quality is no barrier to youngsters breaking into Aberdeen's side so long as they haven't been produced in-house. Jimmy claimed never to have seen Vidal before signing him, and if he thinks he's a right winger then he clearly hasn't watched him since he arrived either. Aluko fell victim to the Touzani syndrome – benched for looking average out of position after excelling where he belongs – and his introduction was both an hour too late and for the wrong man – Stuart Duff, the only Don on the day capable of putting his foot on the ball and picking a pass. Football, essentially, is simple. As is anyone who over-complicates it.

I'll be sure to let you know after the 4-4-2 doest work.........mind you i thought i would be saying that after the bayern munich game last season stick to what you know and we WILL get third place by ease...........hopefully jimmys ego doesnt get in the way of that.

so you are telling me after taking points of the best two teams in scotland he was right to make the changes (needless changes) to a team FULL of confidence. Correct me if im wrong but why go 4-5-1 against a team 2nd bottom of the league when we just played celtic off the park by attacking them.

i should have know this as trying to get a mortgage and apparantly the fact that i have never had a penny of debt in my life is a bad thing........who knew

excuse my ignorance mr ajja

source? i fail to see how any team with a debt can possible have a good credit rating?

i have no doubt if we signed cowie he would easily be calderwoods best signing. if seve left and cowie came in i would see that as a marked improvement in our squad

same question could be said what happened to hart, nicolson anderson and clark after leaving pittodrie never hear of them anymore so by that logic they must not have been very good either?

things are looking good at the moment. Nice to see four of our young lads involved, got over excited before with bagshaw he captained one of the young teams. Hope they get a chance to show what they are made off up here

Losers attitude rife again, rangers were pish - why be happy with 4 points when we should have got 6

said after 15 mins today never seen rangers scoring and they never looked dangerous then some ald goat came at me and asked where our goal was coming from...................all i could do was give a parisian shrug and say fuck knows

Shut it speccy

can we not just leave the weegies to bite a bit longer but im the thick one clearly ;D keep taking the chill pills gents

We will never know will we as calderwood binned them all without giving half them a chance

How many of those players played in the 2-1 win at parkhead, ending one of the longest home undefeated records in teh history of football something several world class teams couldnt do. They were good enough that night though wernt they