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Scottish Premiership - Rangers v Aberdeen

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11 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Oops, showing my age it was of course another Paul (Sheerin)

In my defence, I did say it wasn't completely fucked 😂

Aye, only around quarter of a century out with the caretaker manager. Not too bad.

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11 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Aye, only around quarter of a century out with the caretaker manager. Not too bad.

Twenty six years ago this month to be exact.

Didn't remember that he was actually "interim" manager through until the end of that season.

Do remember that he had a shite record as Aberdeen manager although not as bad as Sheerin who had a 100% loss percentage as Aberdeen manager.

Sheerin of course being assistant @ Killie will be the connection to Ramsay. 

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23 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Twenty six years ago this month to be exact.

Didn't remember that he was actually "interim" manager through until the end of that season.

Do remember that he had a shite record as Aberdeen manager although not as bad as Sheerin who had a 100% loss percentage as Aberdeen manager.

Sheerin of course being assistant @ Killie will be the connection to Ramsay. 

Aye, Hegarty had a shite record, but I remember thinking some of the fitba we played under him was okay and I was surprised that he didn't do much in management beyond that.

McInnes talked about Ramsay on a few occasions as Dons manager, he was clearly very aware of him but had [justified] loyalty to Logan. I think he would have featured in the Dumbarton game at least if McInnes had stayed on, but he was fairly conservative with the young lads for the Dons more generally, which was frustrating at times. Did we only have two young players (Wright and McKenna) come through under McInnes (obviously Ferguson was young, but was bought in)? I'm struggling to think of another. I guess Campbell got plenty of minutes, but I always felt that we clogged our squad with average journeymen that required placating before the youngsters. I'd say that even Wright was given a fairly raw deal under McInnes. 

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From memory, wasn’t McKenna a forced inclusion? I.e, someone was injured and was forced to play him? His record with youth was horrendous, easily my biggest criticism of him.

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39 minutes ago, manc_don said:

From memory, wasn’t McKenna a forced inclusion? I.e, someone was injured and was forced to play him? His record with youth was horrendous, easily my biggest criticism of him.

I think that the McKenna thing was overplayed to criticise him to be honest. McKenna got in because we were shite at the back and he continued with him after he performed. McKenna himself was very complimentary on McInnes' input and the confidence he showed in him. 

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I think the only homegrown youth Deek ever showed time for was Connor McLennan and Bruce Anderson. Even then the latter was only really a late sub. Even Wright never really flourished until the Glass/Goodwin era, as IIRC McInnes farmed him out to Dundee 

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2 hours ago, Reekie_Red said:

I think the only homegrown youth Deek ever showed time for was Connor McLennan and Bruce Anderson. Even then the latter was only really a late sub. Even Wright never really flourished until the Glass/Goodwin era, as IIRC McInnes farmed him out to Dundee 

Didn't Wright leave while McInnes was here? Swap for McRorie.

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