Kenny Shiels & Glory Hunters

[RabidGiraffe]

Is this available online? Would love a listen!

 

It's embedded in the BBC article My link

[Redstar]

You hear it all the time. Invariably bullshit and as transparent a justification for glory hunting as you are ever likely to hear...

 

TOTALLY different.

 

No it's not...AFC are a club that with the wind behind them are max 15K a week....always have been....the fact that some folk who stay in Aberdeen support the old firm has always been the case.....I think you boys have got so disillusioned you are now starting getting behind dicks like Kenny Shields simply because he is having a pop at the OF....it's fu*king poor....If AFC had a credible team we would get 15K at home games....until that happens 7 and 8K's are all that will turn up regardless of Aberdeen based OF fans

[Bobby Connor]

As I said earlier would there be any weegies supporting AFC if the glorious 80's were removed from our history?

I certainly can't recall any weegies in our support pre 80's maybe some older posters can tell me otherwise.

 

Or can any weegie Dons fans on here tell me why they support AFC and not a local team ffs there are plenty to choose from between the weeg and Aberdeen, why Aberdeen?

 

Well, they might have been glory hunters at the time, but after the past 20 years I reckon they are maybe due a bit of appreciation now.

[Bobby Connor]

It's embedded in the BBC article My link

 

Cheers! Chuffed for him, he sounded close to tears of pride.

[MD88]

I'm not quite sure how it is different??....You usually find that Hun and Tim supporters in Aberdeen have a pretty strong tie with these clubs either thru father's or grandfather's....I'm pretty sure your average young lad growing up in the North East will support AFC unless he has a good reason to support either of the OF........or of course the other reason........They have been dragged along to Todders and had to sit thru the absolute shit that is on display week in week out.

 

Could not disagree more with this statement. I'm 23 and I know heaps of folk who grew up the same time as me and supported Rangers or Celtic simply for the glory. They had no other reason to support either club other than the fact that they could associate themselves with a team who won more often than not. The very worst kind of football fan if you ask me. The sort of folk who love to have a go at dons fans, when they have never been to Ibrox or Parkheed in their life.

[Bobby Connor]

Could not disagree more with this statement. I'm 23 and I know heaps of folk who grew up the same time as me and supported Rangers or Celtic simply for the glory. They had no other reason to support either club other than the fact that they could associate themselves with a team who won more often than not. The very worst kind of football fan if you ask me. The sort of folk who love to have a go at dons fans, when they have never been to Ibrox or Parkheed in their life.

 

I'll bet every fucking one of them claimed to have some distant family relative from either Glasgow or Ireland. Repellant fucks.

[zander]

Great stuff from Sheilds heard a few of his interview talks a fair bit of sense.

[Bobby Connor]

Remember the bigot brothers were still bigoted back then, so as much as there might have been a degree of glory hunting towards it I'm sure it's easier to sleep at night knowing you aren't associated with either of the bigot brothers, and I get as much from the Weeg based Dons fans I know down here.

 

Proper glory hunters would've given up long before now IMO.

 

Exactly. Many who I went to school with now deny ever being an Aberdeen fan and claim to 'support' one of the OF teams now.

 

Bumped into an old mate who I hadn't seen since school in the Mallard ahead of a County game about 2 years back.

 

Me: Still following the Dons?

 

Him: I'm a Celtic fan.

 

Don't know where it came from (because it was without thought or any pre-meditation) but I just slapped him across the face without even thinking about it. The boy is a scaff so I was lucky not to get my head kicked in, but it was pure instinct.

 

After that we drank some beer.

 

Point is, there is no such thing as a glory hunting Aberdeen fan anymore.

[Redstar]

Could not disagree more with this statement. I'm 23 and I know heaps of folk who grew up the same time as me and supported Rangers or Celtic simply for the glory. They had no other reason to support either club other than the fact that they could associate themselves with a team who won more often than not. The very worst kind of football fan if you ask me. The sort of folk who love to have a go at dons fans, when they have never been to Ibrox or Parkheed in their life.

 

You will always get punters who go for the big glamour teams...If I'm honest and I was brought up in Motherwell or Kilmarnock chances are I would be following one of the OF......But I was brought up in Aberdeen and have always supported AFC....but what Stewart Milne has done to the club is beyond the pale.

AFC supporters are loyal and If we can get a team to be proud of...the stay away fans...mainly due to Milne...will return...but lets be honest boys...that's not going to happen as long as Milne is at AFC....The prospect of ruining your Sat...and that's what it does after an afternoon at Todders...is nae a good one

[fatshaft]

No it's not...AFC are a club that with the wind behind them are max 15K a week....always have been....the fact that some folk who stay in Aberdeen support the old firm has always been the case.....I think you boys have got so disillusioned you are now starting getting behind dicks like Kenny Shields simply because he is having a pop at the OF....it's fu*king poor....If AFC had a credible team we would get 15K at home games....until that happens 7 and 8K's are all that will turn up regardless of Aberdeen based OF fans

And all of the above, but especially your last line, has nothing to do with the topic at hand, ie. Shiels valid criticism of glory hunting fans up and down the country.

[Redstar]

And all of the above, but especially your last line, has nothing to do with the topic at hand, ie. Shiels valid criticism of glory hunting fans up and down the country.

 

Shiels!!!...Is he the new Meshiah??.......He's the fu*king Kilmarnock manager FFS....I think it's poor you lot have jumped on his comments as something revolutionary??

 

He's trotting out what everyone knows....I'm sure JC has said similar before when AFC boss...It's really nothing new.

 

Probably just goes to show how fu*king low we are that this is all we have to talk about

[laphroaig]

I grew up in Edinburgh, no connection to Aberdeen, my dad was a don with no connection to the city, he took me to my first game in early 70s, been a don ever since, both my boys r dons. Does that make us glory hunters?

 

I think when you are taken to a game it sticks how can you change.

 

I think my old man supported Aberdeen because he hated all the shit that went with the old firm, he had pretty much lost interest before he died a few years back, wonder why eh.

[Henry]

 

 

He's trotting out what everyone knows....I'm sure JC has said similar before when AFC boss...It's really nothing new.

 

 

 

Bullfuckingshit, I can't recall any manager specifically criticising glory hunting OF supporters all over Scotland, least of all Jimmy FFS!!

 

Think you're in the wrong and in the minority here, Redhand min.

[Bobby Connor]

Bullfuckingshit, I can't recall any manager specifically criticising glory hunting OF supporters all over Scotland, least of all Jimmy FFS!!

 

Think you're in the wrong and in the minority here, Redhand min.

 

Nah, that never happens.

[zander]

Bullfuckingshit, I can't recall any manager specifically criticising glory hunting OF supporters all over Scotland, least of all Jimmy FFS!!

 

Think you're in the wrong and in the minority here, Redhand min.

 

They usually used to praise Watty and how big the filth are.

[OddJob]

What I'd applaud Shiels for is the timing of it - could have said it if they lost or at a random point during the week and would've sounded bitter, but he quite clearly said it as a massive GIRFUY after they'd beaten the Huns at home for the first time in 17 years or something.

 

Well played that man

This ^^^^

 

And for the record a large portion of my old man's side of the family are Celtic fans but i clearly knew the score early doors. As i've said many times before i could have chosen the easy route (well ok the Dons were successful when i was a kid, but got shite whilst growing up) and supported the Septics but although it's been a long difficult time supporting the Dons, they're MY club and i wouldn't change them for anything

[Miglo don]

He also reffered to Kirk Broadfoot as "the big ugly lad" the last time the teams met. Brilliant !

[ollie1903]

I'm not quite sure how it is different??....You usually find that Hun and Tim supporters in Aberdeen have a pretty strong tie with these clubs either thru father's or grandfather's

One of my pals openly admits to supporting Celtic for the sole reason being, his brother supports Rangers and just wants to argue with him.

Both of them born and bred Granite City with no ties whatsoever to either club, be it parent, grandparents, cousins, dogs or budgies.

And his contact icon in my phonebook is a photograph of him in his red and white AFC supporting get up, Tammy inclusive, from circa 83.

[fatshaft]

Shiels!!!...Is he the new Meshiah??.......He's the fu*king Kilmarnock manager FFS....I think it's poor you lot have jumped on his comments as something revolutionary??

 

He's trotting out what everyone knows....I'm sure JC has said similar before when AFC boss...It's really nothing new.

 

Probably just goes to show how fu*king low we are that this is all we have to talk about

it's already been said above, but yes, his comments ARE revolutionary. Not something we dont all know, but absolutely somthing we've never heard any manager or club official come out with in public before, though Vlad has come close.

 

As for being sure JC has said similar, are ye fucking wise min? JC's regular comments couldn't have be furthr away from what Shiels said today.

 

And finally, having this to talk about is far prefereable than reading for the 500th time your boringly repetitive comments about Pa Broon.

[tainboy]

Exactly. Many who I went to school with now deny ever being an Aberdeen fan and claim to 'support' one of the OF teams now.

 

Bumped into an old mate who I hadn't seen since school in the Mallard ahead of a County game about 2 years back.

 

Me: Still following the Dons?

 

Him: I'm a Celtic fan.

 

Don't know where it came from (because it was without thought or any pre-meditation) but I just slapped him across the face without even thinking about it. The boy is a scaff so I was lucky not to get my head kicked in, but it was pure instinct.

 

After that we drank some beer.

 

Point is, there is no such thing as a glory hunting Aberdeen fan anymore.

 

Swanny?

[NorthernLights24]

so what are folk in glasgow who support aberdeen?

 

Masochists.

[Kilkito]

Well, they might have been glory hunters at the time, but after the past 20 years I reckon they are maybe due a bit of appreciation now.

 

This ^

 

 

 

Proper glory hunters would've given up long before now IMO.

 

and this ^

[Bobby Connor]

Swanny?

 

No fucking chance. I value my life.

 

Swanny was definitely a Don though and falls into the denial category.

[peahead]

spot on kilkito ! if only to have had the glory !

[muttonhumper]

Could not disagree more with this statement. I'm 23 and I know heaps of folk who grew up the same time as me and supported Rangers or Celtic simply for the glory. They had no other reason to support either club other than the fact that they could associate themselves with a team who won more often than not. The very worst kind of football fan if you ask me. The sort of folk who love to have a go at dons fans, when they have never been to Ibrox or Parkheed in their life.

Exactly. These cunts are everywhere.

 

Exactly. Many who I went to school with now deny ever being an Aberdeen fan and claim to 'support' one of the OF teams now.

 

Bumped into an old mate who I hadn't seen since school in the Mallard ahead of a County game about 2 years back.

 

Me: Still following the Dons?

 

Him: I'm a Celtic fan.

 

Don't know where it came from (because it was without thought or any pre-meditation) but I just slapped him across the face without even thinking about it. The boy is a scaff so I was lucky not to get my head kicked in, but it was pure instinct.

 

After that we drank some beer.

 

Point is, there is no such thing as a glory hunting Aberdeen fan anymore.

1.

2. Fit's a scaff? A scaffie (bin man), a scaffolder, or something else?

 

it's already been said above, but yes, his comments ARE revolutionary. Not something we dont all know, but absolutely somthing we've never heard any manager or club official come out with in public before, though Vlad has come close.

As for being sure JC has said similar, are ye fucking wise min? JC's regular comments couldn't have be furthr away from what Shiels said today.

Absolutely.

 

spot on kilkito ! if only to have had the glory !

Ha ha.

If any of our souther/Weegie based dandies do taste any success with the club at any point in the future, it'll certainly have been well fucking earned!

That's for sure...

[a don in oz]

Weegies who with no connection to Aberdeen supported it in the 80s WERE gloryhunting bastards.

[a don in oz]

That said, I agree entirely with the blokes quote... with my caveat in my post above.

[Chrisyboy81]

So what about a wee boy who takes a notion to a team and sticks with them for life, glory hunter?

[tup]

So what about a wee boy who takes a notion to a team and sticks with them for life, glory hunter?

 

Aye.

 

Parents should be there to nip this in the bud.

 

Unless it's a team that's never on the telly or gets saturation media coverage.

 

In that case, fair enough.

[The Oxford Don]

Weegies who with no connection to Aberdeen supported it in the 80s WERE gloryhunting bastards.