BobbyBiscuit

The BBC Sport Homepage ticker has: Mark McGhee will remain Aberdeen boss for the forseeable future, BBC Scotland understands. Is this really telling us anything we don't know in that he's in charge for Saturday or does it mean he's got til at least Christmas, potentially.

Joe

But even with a high degree of research and insight, it's still a gamble. Take Mourinho, Sir Alex and Wenger out of the equation and who is ever a nailed on certainty to succeed anywhere? In saying that, I do get the point you're making, it is uninspiring but it is nowhere near as uninspiring as our team is now.

That was precisely my thought too.

Someone on Mad claiming John Collins will be our next manager.

But what if - and going on recent years this is a distinct possibility - we get the injured players back only for them or others to be injured again? Looking at the teams he has been sending out, how much different would they really be? Pawlett and Considine in, has anyone seen enough of Vuja to be 100% sure he's going to be a player? Fyvie wasn't an automatic starter at the start of this season. McGhee is still fielding sides who should be winning most of these matches, they certainly shouldn't be shipping 9 or collecting only 4 points from the last 10 games or whatever it is. The Calderwood appointment was absolutely a good choice, so I don't think it's fair to say they are utterly disasterous when it comes to appointing managers. The other choices they've made... well, with the exception of Alex Miller, I can understand why the others were appointed. It's not worked out for them of course but at the time each appointment would have had some support at least within the fans. The list of potential managers is worrying, so in turn, yes, you'd have to say that the board's chance of getting it right is also worrying.

Have to agree with GS here, the prospect of relegation is extremely real and that would harm the club much more in every sense possible and for that reason he has to go. And I need to go back to a point I've made a few times, at no time in his tenure has McGhee had us consistently playing well and picking up points, so there is nothing there for me to suggest the current predicament is only a temporary one.

Stuart Baxter is like some mythical Scandinavian monster. we've all heard about him, but has anyone ever actually seen him or know what it is he does? Rather strangely, the only reports you hear of him are when a football manager loses his job. I think we should leave it that way...

Aye, I'm actually quite relieved he won't be getting it. Bit surprised he didnt hang around though to see if there was any chance of him getting it, unless he had knowledge that he definitely wasn't going to be offered it should McGhee get the dunt.

if only his tactics worked to such a degree on the pitch. I really can't believe that people are changing their mind due to an interview. We can all get passionate about the Dons, it doesn't mean we can successfully manage them. And the performance on Tuesday? ok, it wasn't a disasterous performance but if that's what we've got to look forward to then we'll continue to be in trouble.

In/Oot: In Prematch: GWR watching Man Utd game Match: Dons End, don't have ticket yet Post match: Byres Road Prediction: Pain.

How much would you say this is down to the fact the debt is repayable early 2011?

there are many problems at the club at the minute and Mackie isn't one of them. having had experience of a bad knee ligament injury I know how hellish it can be and it can be a long way back, so best of luck to him.

SSN have just said that we're releasing a statement this evening. What the WTF? Have they just missed the earlier statement or did they just presume that it was some sort of sick joke?

Seconded. I felt sorry for him last night listening to his interview, he clearly cares about the club and has passion for it, but it's just not happening. It's sad, but it's reality.

From STV website.

I think it may be a case of "get him to take the team v the scab faced bastards so a new guy isn't walking into our hardest game to start off with". Maybe. Then again, maybe not.

bertie - So you want a manager in place who has to be TOLD to buy full backs, when it's fucking screamingly obvious to anyone who has seen us play that we need full backs, and would have been screamingly obvious to anyone who looked at our squad list on 1 September that we need full backs. That's the guy you want to continue managing our team? A manager whose spell has included an 8-1 aggregate defeat in Europe, losing 3 goals or more in approx 25% of the games he's been in charge for and has overseen our biggest defeat in 107 years. If we continue as is, we are very much realistic relegation candidates, our name won't save us from the drop.

Brian O'Neil was £800k. You've not mentioned the Bulgarians, that's another million.

I'd eat my hat if that was the case. Don't believe that for a second.

I need to change my bookmaker of choice, then.

what bookies you using Mizer? Hills only get it at around 190/1

aye, it wasn't the full amount of the cost of the RDS anyway.