P&J: McGhee’s timely reminder

[Azteca1903]

So, as that was the team that finished fourth and they are all reaching their prime footballing years (for the most part the next three years will be their prime), was Mark McGhee correct in saying that

 

That team should be (and would have been) competitive in challenging for third spot THIS year,  NEXT year and the year after that, to state otherwise is crap.

 

 

I think McGhee is perhaps suggesting that it will take him 3 years to replace these players with a team that he is more confident in, rather than waiting for and reaping the benefits of the alledged prime of the current squad.

[stubo72]

Sounds to me like McGhee getting his excuses in early.

 

The mark of a poor craftsman is to blame his tools, innit?

 

(Although they do play like a bunch of fucking tools at times right enough...)

 

And just because it drove me mad reading this thread; Stoney - it's YOUNGSTERS not YOUNGSTARS...

 

(And I think you meant INCLEMENT weather)

 

Use your spell check or a dictionary or even google every now and then Stoney, ffs...

 

[Ajja]

Rather than seeing this as excuses or lack of ambition why can't it be under promise and over deliver ?

 

I think he is just trying to lower expectations to take some pressure off his squad which is currently under the spotlight due to the media circling around our financial difficulties. There is a time to talk up your performance and opportunity and there is a time to keep a lid on expectation. Any decent manager of people knows this. Now is certainly not the time for McGhee to be blowing trumpets.

 

McGhee is being crucified because he is coming out and being up front and honest about the circumstances he finds himself in, I find it quite refreshing.

[El Padre™]

Rather than seeing this as excuses or lack of ambition why can't it be under promise and over deliver ?

 

I think he is just trying to lower expectations to take some pressure off his squad which is currently under the spotlight due to the media circling around our financial difficulties. There is a time to talk up your performance and opportunity and there is a time to keep a lid on expectation. Any decent manager of people knows this. Now is certainly not the time for McGhee to be blowing trumpets.

 

McGhee is being crucified because he is coming out and being up front and honest about the circumstances he finds himself in, I find it quite refreshing.

 

I'd rather he just didn't do these interviews, its pointless. Is he filling some sort of quota whereby he has to give one statement every two or three days?

[Ajja]

I'd rather he just didn't do these interviews, its pointless. Is he filling some sort of quota whereby he has to give one statement every two or three days?

 

Like I said, we/he is under the spotlight. The media love a good car crash story and we are doing our best to provide one. He could certainly drink a large cup of shut the fuck up at times but the hysteria just builds behind silence on here as much as it does around chat.

 

If we assume he will suffer the same reactionary, unrealistic, irrational response from the fanbase whatever he does then I'd rather hear honesty. Thats all I'm saying.......ya prick.

[baggy89]

Rather than seeing this as excuses or lack of ambition why can't it be under promise and over deliver ?

 

The point I was trying to make was that this "shouldn't"  have been taken well by the reactionaries that wanted Calderwood out. The under promise over deliver was one of the reasons folk disliked Calderwood, or at least was one of the excuses given for wanting that fat orange hun prick out  . However once it was brought up by (sorry, came to me too late, Kowalski) on the Hat it is evidently just another stick to beat Calderwood with.

 

As for McGhee's chatter to the press, I wouldn't want him to stop otherwise what else are we going to talk about till the next transfer window, and as I've said before all these soundbites coming from Pittodrie seem very similar to the ones trotted out by Calderwood in the past.