Stoney Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 He was a good footballer. Worth over 100K? Not a chance! Link to comment
tup Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Worth over 100K? Not a chance! In that market he probably was though, not in today's prices, but that's not relevant, you need to index it to the type of transfer fee being bandied about (by everyone) at that time. I always thought he was a good player whenever I seen him anyway. Link to comment
Stoney Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 In that market he probably was though, not in today's prices, but that's not relevant, you need to index it to the type of transfer fee being bandied about (by everyone) at that time. I always thought he was a good player whenever I seen him anyway. very true, silly money was being thrown about at the time, a lot of overspending was done by most of the teams in the league. But ultimately my point was dunfermline fans were on here venting when we took in calderwood that he was a cheque book manager and had seriously hurt the clubs finances by the choice of player he took in, a few years down the line its caught up with them. Lets not forget the amount of our money hes pissed away Link to comment
Tommy Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 why WAS he binned? I guess it's something we'll never find out. Link to comment
gla5gowdon Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 The quality of the signings doesn't matter. Even if they were all quality signings, they'd still be in the mire. They don't have the backing to make that kind of cash back. Link to comment
K-9 Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Dunfermline fans were spot on about calderwood, they said at the time what was going to happenAlthough not Calderwoods fault. He just pushed the money away he was given from above. Link to comment
Tommy Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Although not Calderwoods fault. He just pushed the money away he was given from above. I'm nae hanging back. I think he pished it away. Link to comment
nazrat Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I'm nae hanging back. I think he pished it away.ach well happy daze, here we are set for 9th place again...and all somefolk can do is whine about our most successful manager i the last 10 years...throw the broken record away! pleeze! 1 2 Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Love it when people compare spending 10+ years ago to today's market to make their argument look better Link to comment
Stoney Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Ebbe Skovdahl was our best manager in the last 10 years, Won more games in europe, more cup finals and longest home win run! 1 Link to comment
Dynamo Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 ach well happy daze, here we are set for 9th place again...and all somefolk can do is whine about our most successful manager i the last 10 years...throw the broken record away! pleeze! Depends what you class as success I suppose. Link to comment
Tommy Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Depends what you class as success I suppose. Some fans are more ambitious than others.What comments about a Dunfermline manager have todo with AFC managerial position is beyond me. Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Ebbe Skovdahl was our best manager in the last 10 years, Won more games in europe, more cup finals and longest home win run! Probably the last manager the fans were united in support of! Fuck knows why? I loved him at the time! I think message boards have made us all right miserable bastards about our team Link to comment
Stoney Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 The atmosphere between then and now around the club is astounding when you think about it. Folk have been worn down I suggest. Think a lot of it was down to the playing staff, players like dow, zero, tosh etc etc seemed to give a fuck, they wernt terribly good but the fans got behind them because they were leaving everything on the pitch. The club make it very hard for fans to support them! Link to comment
gla5gowdon Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Think a lot of it was down to the playing staff, players like dow, zero, tosh etc etc seemed to give a fuck, they wernt terribly good but the fans got behind them because they were leaving everything on the pitch. The club make it very hard for fans to support them! This is very true. We seemed to at least be guaranteed effort back then. I can't be bothered with it all any more. The whole thing really is shite. Link to comment
Redstar Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Ebbe Skovdahl was our best manager in the last 10 years, Won more games in europe, more cup finals and longest home win run!Ebbe was a character for sure but Pele was the best manager we have had in recent times...even thru the haze of heavy alcoholism he managed to keep us just about afloat with fu*k all cash to spend...if he is sober now and it's a big if...I'd welcome him back with open arms...a shrewd cu*t with an eye for a player and something to prove...could be a winner 3 Link to comment
ollie1903 Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Ebbe was a character for sure but Pele was the best manager we have had in recent times...even thru the haze of heavy alcoholism he managed to keep us just about afloat with fu*k all cash to spend...if he is sober now and it's a big if...I'd welcome him back with open arms...a shrewd cu*t with an eye for a player and something to prove...could be a winnerPut it away min Link to comment
Redstar Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Put it away min ...lets see who Milne comes up with next without being so hard on someone who was thrown in at the deep end with only the bottle to help him thru desperate times...I stand by my original post Link to comment
ollie1903 Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 ...lets see who Milne comes up with next without being so hard on someone who was thrown in at the deep end with only the bottle to help him thru desperate times...I stand by my original postHoly fuck, you're mare mentally deranged than I thought! Link to comment
Ke1t Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I don't think Paterson was a terrible manager as such. I mean, he was absolutely disastrous in his spell at Aberdeen, a shambles of a man away from the ground and a disaster at it... when he didn't miss it through drink. His mandate was to slash the budget. That was priority number one. He wasn't told to go win a cup or the league, he was told to save money. He was given a wage ceiling for players 25% of what Ebbe had been given. And when your number one objective as manager is simply 'save money'... and Aberdeen were sitting 11th when Paterson came in, so he was operating on a budget 75% LESS than that which had put us into a relegation fight.... when your number one objective is to save money the football goes out the window. So losing high earners and bringing in the only players he could afford with the budget afforded him for new players... that being 1st Division players... coupled with his complete lack of any kind of professionalism, is what did for him. If he had been sober I think he'd have managed better than he did. If he had been given the budgets of his predecessors, rather than a budget that forced him to buy substandard journeymen, then he'd have done substantially better. "My first impressions of the team were not favourable. They lacked many of the qualities I had instilled into my previous sides over the years. The fighting spirit was poor, there was an absence of leadership, little flair in either midfield or the flanks, and two strikers who would have struggled to score in a brothel. Communication, especially at the back, was nonexistent, and it was unsurprising that they sat at eleventh in the league." ...was the side Paterson inherited. I recommend you all buy Confessions of a Highland Hero EDIT: I just bought it again on Nook, because my loon decided to shower while reading my physical copy. 1 Link to comment
Redstar Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Holy fuck, you're mare mentally deranged than I thought!Why do you always resort to name calling or inference that folk are some how mentally challenged?...it's a strange trait... Link to comment
ollie1903 Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Why do you always resort to name calling or inference that folk are some how mentally challenged?...it's a strange trait... Do I? Never noticed. Perhaps it's only the idiots I call idiots but I'll try to be more mindful in future not to single anyone out. Link to comment
Redstar Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Do I? Never noticed. Perhaps it's only the idiots I call idiots but I'll try to be more mindful in future not to single anyone out.Would be appreciated...before folks start thinking it's a lack of education... Link to comment
ollie1903 Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 "Gentleman Wage Thief", this old duffer, sack the old c*nt I think Broons hatred (possibly racial?) for Fatty Broon... Put a sock in it ya daft old bas*ard greeting faced weegie twat Fatty will not let us down...the treatment the club and some fans have given Fatty is a disgrace...If I was Broon and AFC I'd be counting my blessing that the treatment Fatty has had to endure has not ended up in a racial discrimination lawsuit...Correct...Pele ...even pished was twice the man that weegie prick wasWhy do you always resort to name calling or inference that folk are some how mentally challenged?...it's a strange trait... Do I? Never noticed. Perhaps it's only the idiots I call idiots but I'll try to be more mindful in future not to single anyone out.Would be appreciated...before folks start thinking it's a lack of education... Best get yerself back to school first then chief Link to comment
Ke1t Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Mon now, lads... keep the heed. You dinna see Kelt losing the rag, so let's all try to be like Kelt. Cool, calm and collected. Link to comment
baldrick_sheep Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 feel sorry for the current players and fans, this was caused 10 years ago by moneygrabbers like the young brothers, stevie crawford etc.... and Yorkston/Masterton. Having said that, i dont remember 1 fan complaning at the time, and certainly seemed over the moon when they signed the young brothers off of us. I was at Calderwoods last game as dunfermline manager and he got a standing ovation from the fans and it was only when players later had to take paycuts that they started slagging him, they definately didnt want him to leave. My brother didnt talk to me for a couple of weeks when we took him on as manager. They should have gone into administration years ago when they players had to take the paycuts, instead of clinging on as they have been doing for years. They'll get through it for certain, there's still alot of support in the town for the club but they're in for a rough ride and Yorkston/Masterton both have to GTF! Link to comment
sheepiekev Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 feel sorry for the current players and fans, this was caused 10 years ago by moneygrabbers like the young brothers, stevie crawford etc.... and Yorkston/Masterton. Having said that, i dont remember 1 fan complaning at the time, and certainly seemed over the moon when they signed the young brothers off of us. I was at Calderwoods last game as dunfermline manager and he got a standing ovation from the fans and it was only when players later had to take paycuts that they started slagging him, they definately didnt want him to leave. My brother didnt talk to me for a couple of weeks when we took him on as manager. They should have gone into administration years ago when they players had to take the paycuts, instead of clinging on as they have been doing for years. They'll get through it for certain, there's still alot of support in the town for the club but they're in for a rough ride and Yorkston/Masterton both have to GTF! "They'll get through it for certain" What makes you so sure? At the Partick game, they had about 2600, and about 700-800 would've been Thistle fans. Link to comment
Aberdeen_Fan Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Shame to see, quite like the stadium down there. Enjoy a trip to east end park Link to comment
At The Border Guy Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Dunfermline haven't paid Hamilton the Scottish Cup gate money they're due:http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=2566&newsCategoryID=1&newsID=11475 Could be a race to the finish between them and Hearts. Link to comment
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