RicoS321

Fuck sake. Add a couple of years to his contract while he's feeling down about it.

Again, I'm an adult. I don't indulge in the "should(n't) I like someone's post on social media" for fear of what others may/may not think. It's a road to nowhere that shit. If folk do indulge in that, then they shouldn't be on social media. It's not good for the health. I don't remember the familial interactions of random English players in the mercenary hotbed of the greatest league in the world. But I do know it's fuck all to do with being winners and losers, and unless you're going to provide a detailed analysis of those who have liked or not liked former colleague's tweets - and those that would have liked former colleague's tweets had they not been instructed not to by their club - and number of wins, then I'll assume you're talking shite. Strange that neither Neville's (I have no inclination to find out which one yer on about) designation as "winner" ever carried onto their England or managerial careers.

Fucking hell. Adult wishes friend all the best in the modern way (social media like) and they're all Huns? Grow the fuck up. If the club are policing social media to that degree, then it says more about dons fans than it does Wright, Jack or any other Hun. Top staziing lads. That's Hun-level staunchness. I noticed in one of his Scotland appearances, Considine passed to Jack. I expect to see the new manager, Neil Simpson, removing him from the club with immediate effect.

3 points

Thankfully we've got St Johnstone's fourth choice striker on the pitch now, so we should turn it around.

That was fucking turgid. Lewis with a fairly basic error and that plays into their hands. Kennedy comes on for Hedges and immediately heads to the wrong wing. Within a minute, he allows a guy to cross for no reason, and Hayes leaves his man to stroll in and take the easy finish. We've been all over the shop like, and it's nothing to do with the only new player playing. Leigh is pish at left back, so Ash going off is probably a bonus (he was doing okay). McLennan was absolutely awful, really bad, he didn't know what he was doing. Hornby looking like he's done for the u21s recently. I don't even think this is a managerial thing, it's just looked like an ability thing om ,pst areas of the pitch. Ferguson the only player working and the only player standing up to them. They've been excellent, just harrassing the fuck out of us.

Think so. Wanted to make his debut tanking his former team.

It's a good throw of the dice like, but that's exactly what it is. After tonight's game, Twitter will either be going nuts because we've signed a couple of donkeys rather than give Anderson another six goes at it, or they'll be booking their flights to the champion's league draw. I think Hendry will be a useful Main replacement that might get us something late in games, I think Hornby will take several games to get up for it and Kamberi will do fuck all before scoring a spectacular thirty yarder against the Hun to send us to the Scottish cup final (which we lose to st Johnstone).

We need to ruin at least one young player's future by making him sit on our bench for six months instead of giving him an opportunity to play every week on loan.

Is anyone going to check on Hernandez? Hope he's okay. I feel like he's done remarkably well out of all this. He's basically been so shite, that he doesn't even make it on to the really shite players list to get abused. I mean Main actually attended games with his shiteness, he should really have considered just fucking off to South America and he wouldn't have got any abuse for being shite.

I'm guessing Kamberi might be seen as a creative option in place of Wright. Exciting window for sure. Hornby not as good as Cosgrove, Kamberi not as good as Wright, Hendry a dirty horse.... But we got rid of Curtis fucking Main. I'm going to get shitfaced.

Main out on loan. It was on the rumour mill somewhere, but I've lost it now. Be ace if true. Not quite sure we need 4 strikers competing for 1 position, although I'm guessing that he'll play Kamberi around about the Wright shaped hole (with fewer requirements in back-tracking) if signed.

Three in, three out (including Cosgrove) according to the rumour mill. That's more changes than McInnes has made subs this season.

Did they not change the rules to three for Covid?

Good move for Anderson, I hope he does well for himself. Kamberi is another that would be fine on loan when there's no fans to boo the hun cunt.

I don't disagree with a lot of that, I'm just struggling to see what it's got to do with a style. I think you've thrown a bunch of other stuff in the mix that has nothing to do with style. Over an eight year period, I don't think you can have a consistent style. With our turnover of players, and the varying degree of quality of our signings, it would be impossible. McInnes has generally been good, eventually, each year of finding a setup that gets results and going on a good run of point building to maintain a strong league position. Unless we get a striker in the next few days, I don't think he'll manage that this year. The setup with Watkins was enough to win us games. He needs to pick a setup this week and stick with it or we'll be heavily relying on luck.

Whilst in this instance, it might be, I would agree. I saw them play twice, and both times they had a static poacher playing alongside Anderson. It was completely the wrong setup for him. His all round play in those games was fine. His next step needs to be the championship somewhere, maybe Raith. If he gets a few goals then he might turn out to be fine. Would I rather see him than Main on the pitch? Absolutely, but not for three minutes every fortnight.

The teams you're talking about take their style (or what they like to tell people is their style) from the club, not the manager. It transcends the manager. If the dons want to do that, that's fine. Ferguson's team "had a chip on the shoulder attitude"? That's not a style. Most of the styles you mention aren't styles either, they're really just tactics. Most teams in the league would disagree we're a bit soft too, we're fairly dominant in games and quite physical. Hoban, Taylor, Considine, Ferguson, McRorie, Leigh, Cosgrove are not shy in the physical side of the game. Yes, we're brilliant at closing out victories, that's just a demonstrable fact. I don't think we've lost a game this year where we've been ahead but I'd have to check. We rarely lose leads. Game management, as you say, being the style, which is the question you asked. Grim at times, but we've taken a lot of points on the back of it. You say it's negative, I say its pragmatic. When he buys shite players, he shitefests the games to make up for it, grinding out points that previous managers - and other SPFL managers (Lennon at Hibs a prime example) - would not have. To have won so many games with a loser's mentality is fairly spectacular. Point of order: there was no financial fuckedness with utd or hibs, they just had managers that got them relegated by being shite. That was their "success".

That wasn't my argument. I agreed that Anderson wasn't good enough. You said that he showed today that he was garbage whereas I think today showed a player being poorly managed by being given a five minute cameo and being hung out to dry when he missed. The point being that if McInnes doesn't believe in Anderson, he just shouldn't play him. If he thinks he might still offer something then give him 25 minutes.

Exactly. So less to do with ability and more to do with the five minute cameo.

No it doesn't say a lot. What style did fergie have? The winning one. If McInnes had a single style in 8 years, we'd have been worked out by every other team. Our points totals always suggest otherwise. Strange you mention disciplined, I'd say we're extremely disciplined to a man. We're brilliant at closing out victories and we rarely hear of any off field misdemeanour (a sober Soul visit the pinnacle for these boring cunts). Professionalism is a definite plus factor. We're night and day as a club since pre-McInnes, when we were just a shoddy mess. McInnes' flaws are generally tactical and in player recruitment. They've been done to death.

I don't think today showed that at all, it showed that regularly giving people only five minutes in the park is unlikely to yeild a good return. Anderson has proved before now that he likely won't make it, but the answer is either not to play him at all, or give him an actual opportunity. Anderson has proven on many occasions that his finishing is excellent, its his all round play that is pish, but giving people a longer warm up than you do minutes on the park will always lead to a player lacking in confidence that will snatch at opportunities. That was an opportunity well within Anderson's abilities today.

Yep, I've liked Goodwin since I heard him interviewed there, he was very determined and very articulate and very knowledgeable. Although it's fairly unlikely that a St Mirren manager coming to the dons would be any good.

I think Goodwin would be a great appointment. I'm not sure we're anymore ready to appoint a new manager than we were last week.

He had a good post top six that season and the change in system with him up front was likely the reason we finished second ahead of the hun, so it was probably a good decision at the time.