Gordon Strachan - Club Legend?

[Stoney]

Lots of topics over the years hear regard the glory years, best teams, best players.

 

Gordon Strachans name hardly ever comes up?

Why is this?

[Stoney]

The fucks wrong with this site.........

[BrianFaePerth]

Stoney, posting incompetent?

[Stoney]

Fuck you

[The Oxford Don]

Yeah it's a bit strange. In pure ability terms, Strachan is beyond doubt one of the best players the club has ever had.

 

I suspect that the nature of his departure, together with the fact that he didn't actually play for us for all that long, probably play a part in him not quite attaining full-on legend status. These things are always subjective though; I'm sure there are plenty in the older age bracket who regard Strachan as a Dons legend without even having to be asked the question.

[Tommy]

He was pish in his first season but after that he was awesome.

A Legend ? Of course he is.

[Stoney]

55 goals in 180 odd games, some return for a midfielder.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Never thought it was in doubt? Dandies legend

[jassb]

Yes, of course he is.

[Old Wing Stand]

Was a great player for us but I still think he is a horrible little cunt

[King Street Loon]

Yeah it's a bit strange. In pure ability terms, Strachan is beyond doubt one of the best players the club has ever had.

 

I suspect that the nature of his departure, together with the fact that he didn't actually play for us for all that long, probably play a part in him not quite attaining full-on legend status. These things are always subjective though; I'm sure there are plenty in the older age bracket who regard Strachan as a Dons legend without even having to be asked the question.

6 - 1/2 years is quite a long time to play for us.

Course he's a legend, would have thought it was never in doubt.

[King Street Loon]

Yeah it's a bit strange. In pure ability terms, Strachan is beyond doubt one of the best players the club has ever had.

 

I suspect that the nature of his departure, together with the fact that he didn't actually play for us for all that long, probably play a part in him not quite attaining full-on legend status. These things are always subjective though; I'm sure there are plenty in the older age bracket who regard Strachan as a Dons legend without even having to be asked the question.

6 - 1/2 years is quite a long time to play for us.

Course he's a legend, would have thought it was never in doubt.

[RTYD]

Lots of topics over the years hear regard the glory years, best teams, best players.

 

Gordon Strachans name hardly ever comes up?

 

Why is this?

Managed the Tims. Mate of McGhee. Bad mouthed fans when he managed the Tims.

[Guest]

He was an integral part of our history and consistently played in our best ever team.

 

However, he was frustrating to watch and by all accounts, a bit of a prick of a human, which evidence since corroborates.

 

My recollection of him was brilliant one week, largely absent the next. He was frustratingly careless at times and half-hearted other weeks.

 

We never knew whether the genius Strachan would turn up or the passenger.

 

Given his overall contribution and his timing of being at AFC, he gets into a legendary AFC team but he himself doesn't belong in our top half dozen or so. How many legends can we have? If Jim Bett had been half a decade earlier, Strachan would never have played. Simmie, Cooper and Gruntie did the donkey work so Strachan's creative flair was allowed to play. Still a bit of a penis though. Small man syndrome in spades.

[StandFree1982]

The comments are very interesting to those like me who were too young to remember the good old days, or weren't born in most cases. I always wondered what it was like watching the teams of the 80s. We all know on their day we had an exceptional team, but hearing that players were inconsistent etc and hearing the human side of the team is interesting.

[Guest]

The comments are very interesting to those like me who were too young to remember the good old days, or weren't born in most cases.

 

Thank you. I thought they would be. I was also hoping that another old cunt (like me) would chip in to lend weight.

 

He polarised opinion at the time. He actually got a hard time from the fans, many of whom never really warmed to him.

 

There was no doubt that he could be magical. He just never showed his supreme ability often enough and was too often fully deserving of the many "fuck sake min"'s that were directed at him from me. I got the impression he was a temperamental wee prick. In the mood, he could be something else, as he went on to prove at Leeds when it really mattered but when you're capable of being that good, there's no real excuse for going in a huff or not trying hard enough. He rarely gave his max. Simmie, Tattie and Grant never gave anything but their max. That was the difference. A ginger wee bitch is how I'll always remember him.

[Jocky Balboa]

Good informative post, Rocket.

 

Given your assessment, is it fair to say that Strachan was a great individual talent, but not so much a "team player" (i.e. the type who would graft to the ends of the earth, a la Brian Grant)?

[tightbreeks]

great player, did the business. and down south at leeds.

 

go on Gordon, tweak yer freezing wee man just before you take the corner, there we go!

[Dandyesque]

Definitely a legend and possibly the clubs 2nd best ever player.

 

Also, outside Varga and Weir, probably the most gifted footballer.

 

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I think Rocket, although he could be right in ever other respect, is wrong on Bett v Strachan. I think Strachan would win that by a reasonable distance and I loved Jim Bett.

[fine-n-dandy]

That's like asking if water is wet

[Redstar]

Up there with Miller and McLeish...he may very well go on to be a Scotland legend.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Absolutely he is a Dons legend.

 

Like many of our top players though, he has since associated himself with the gruesome twosome and so tends to be more associated with them in the popular memory.

 

As per Billy Stark, Mark McGhee, even McLeish etc.

[Bluto10]

pprob the bedt ever to grace the turf

[dervish]

pprob the bedt ever to grace the turf

 

So compelling, they should write this on a season ticket.

[Guest]

Well, well. Either people have short memories, weren't there 30 years ago or speak shite for the sake of it.

 

Club "legend", eh? One of how many? Twa dozen?

 

Let's go American here and borrow the concept of MVP.

 

I think it's a valid correlation - most valuable player and legend. In fact, it is valid so no debate possible.

 

Looking at that team alone, let alone the legends before of which Harper is my no. 1 in my own lifetime, no way Strachan gets MVP. Miller, McLeish and Leighton were the foundation of everything, much like Schmiechel, Bruce and Pallister were the rock on which SAF built his next great team. That weegie tink kent ft he wiz deein.

 

When we needed to compete in midfield and take control of a game, it was Simmie who was boss. Tattie Cooper played an awesome role, his wrapping up of Breitner in the Olympia Stadion being his greatest game ever. Strachan was a creative genius who frustrated us more weeks than he delighted us. When he delighted, he was great but he didn't do it consistently. This is surely not for debate either, for anyone who was there.

 

Legends is a big term and it depends how many awards you want to give. Eric Black was a legend. The obvious legends were legends. I prefer my legends not to be little ginger penises with a bad attitude and a totally unpredictable performance level one week to the next. Jazzer Bett was the far superior footballer in my opinion. I only saw the two of them play hundreds of times though, so maybe Strachan was better.

[a1-don]

Of course he is a legend.

 

Missed a lot of important pens though.

[ChutneyLove]

Strachan was a great player - remember him being subbed quite a few times when not in the mood though.

 

And just to throw one in the mixer .....

 

Drew Jarvie = club legend.

[Ke1t]

Dynamo of a player. Always running, always making himself available. Could turn any SPL player inside out.

 

Skill and energy, fantastic combination.

 

Of course he's a legend, though. Every Aberdeen player who set foot on the pitch in Gothenburg is a legend.

 

He did tend to shift his dick around at set pieces, though.

[ChutneyLove]

Funny how small people seem to touch their nobs a lot.

And gingers.

 

Strachan had nae chunce.

[Dandyesque]

 

Of course he's a legend, though. Every Aberdeen player who set foot on the pitch in Gothenburg is a legend.

 

 

+1

 

We never quite scaled the same heights in Europe after he and McGhee left either - another legend