BigRed

Good post. You're getting a double applaud for that once an hour has gone past and providing I'm not unconcious in a Lagavulin type frenzy.

Even in the deepest darkest dreichest days of Pele and Ebbe, it's hard to think of a point where our club reached as low a point as this. McGhee has either been the unluckiest manager we've ever had, or he's been a man who has never, ever been up to the job from the minute he joined....because with a couple of exceptions this season has been the most chaotic, shapeless, hopeless, gutless and clueless I've ever seen from an Aberdeen side. It's almost impossible to image that...no matter the players here next season....McGhee is somehow going to find the inspiration and ability to bring us back even close to the level we were at a year or so ago (which wasn't even all that great anyway). The season hasn't even finished yet and already McGhee looks like a man floundering in the transfer market....slowly watching each of his '100 targets' slip away as he gives another wail of woe to the papers. He's now had to suffer the humiliation of substituting the captain HE appointed as he was being booed and ridiculed every time he touched the ball. Yeap, we have well documented financial problems...but anybody who doesn't think that McGhee should have gotten better out of the players at his disposal is living in cloud cuckoo land. Regardless of circumstances, he's failed...and spectacularly at that. I despair that in 3 months time he's going to lead us into more of the same humiliation and take us very quickly into a relegation battle that we won't escape from. He is a f*cking clown, and we need rid off him before he's allowed to bring in more dead wood that will drag us down with him. Get him to f*ck.

Starting to have a bit of a groundhog day look about things, with publicised targets rejecting Aberdeen outright or being linked with clubs liked Hearts, Hibs or the Arabs. That's Foran gone, and the other 2 ICT lads either unaffordable or prefering to stay at ICT than sign for us. Other targets such as O'Brien, Mehmet and Dorman are all now linked with Hearts, so we've absolutely no chance there if Hearts seriously want them. I fear there's a long, hard summer ahead followed by some desperate and underwhelming signings at the end of July...

I would be willing to accept some sort of mitigation for McGhee....this mythical 'transitional season'.....if there was some sign of improvement, that there was some sign that McGhee was working on a plan, that the players were responding, that there was hope for the future. But there simply isn't. McGhee's tenure has been an almost unmitigated disaster from day one. It's not good enough to say....'ah, but he's had no funds to work with'.....it may be true, but there are many, many managers in the same position as McGhee, and they have to get on with it....it's their job to motivate and the get the best out of the players there, no matter their level. Has McGhee come close to achieving that ? No, he hasn't. And finally, the old....'it's not his team' excuse. Probably the most bizarre thing I've read. How many new managers when they come into a club instantly clear out the whole squad and bring in 22 brand, spanking new players ? None. Their job is to work with the players they have and get more out of them than the previous manager. McGhee has proved that he's completely unable to do that......there are bizarre statements out there on more fascistically run Dons forums that somehow this season is acceptable as it's 'transitional'. As if in the summer McGhee is going to magic up a whole squad of better players and turn them into contenders. These foold don't seem to realise that next season we're going to have 80% of the same squad there, with the other 20% made up of rejects, kids and trialists.....all led by the same manager who have proven himself incapable of doing the job from day one. Look at it this way....if you were Miller and Milne, and you were discussing funds available for players (if any) in the summer......would you have second thoughts about trusting these funds to McGhee ? I damn well would.

I'd be amazed if they got more than 60% renewals if McGhee stays. Of course, season tickets should be cheaper in the 1st division. Every cloud and all that....

I think it's now obvious that this is no longer a 'team'....it's merely a collection of individuals in red shirts who are floundering and all paddling in different directions. The collective soul of the club was lost the second the Raith Rovers guy scored against us at Pittodrie and we now no longer have any idea at all how to perform even the basics of the game. The management have obviously lost the dressing room (long been lost I believe) and McGhee is no longer capable of instilling the belief and tactical know-how that we need. If he had any decency at all, he would resign immediately. Unfortunately he doesn't, and he won't. Even then, it would probably be too late. I fear that all we can do now is pray that the 3 clubs below us can't pick up enough points over the next 5 games, because we've lost the capability to determine games for ourselves. I thought the spectre of relegation, and the utterly devastating effect it would have on the club, was gone....but no, a series of remarkably foolish and short-sighted decisions by the board has brought it back knocking on the door. All we can do now is sit back up hope that Falkirk, Killie or St Mirren don't get enough points.

That's only because Hughes is the thickest khunt I think I've ever heard on TV. The shite-o-meter reaches overdrive when McGhee talks though.

Just one game closer to the end of this abysmal shambles of a season. Every cloud an' aw that....

The most sensible suggestion I've read in ages. I can't even consider one of these utter f*ckwits getting a trophy for the dovers they've put in this season. OK, maybe Fyvie or Paton, who at least have youth as an excuse and have taken on far more responsibility than should have been expected. I couldn't stand one of the other c0cks standing there with a cheesy grin and a trophy. I'd like to ram it right up the fückers ärsehole, sideways.

Since the main requirement of anybody to play for Aberdeen these days is to be cheap, I'd imagine Grassi is a shoe-in for a new contract.

That's true, but very few managers contradict themselves as much as Mcghee. The funniest thing is that he doesn't seem to realise he's doing it.....one day he'll say something 'relegation is impossible', and then the next day he'll look the reporter in the eye and say 'we can be relegated you know'. Personally, I think he's making enough balls up with his lack of man-management skills, daft team selections and tactical ärse-ups.....I'd prefer that he said absolutely f*ck all to be honest.

He should be apologising for the second goal, where he neglected to mark the only Killie player within a 40 yard radius of our goal. Easy slip up to make I suppose, considering the guy was 6 feet 3 and wearing a blue and white striped shirt....how are you supposed to spot him ?

I liked him. Having opposition fans on here made feel it was like the 1980's again, and we weren't utter horses dovers. Sigh.....

Could it be because he's one of them ?

Only a Jambo would think that we had crowds anywhere near 12-14 K. Cheers Vlad, maybe you'd be better away annoying the dumbasses on AFC Chat...