Mcinnes on radio scotland

[barassie_afc]

Another tremendous interview, frank and dispels some myths , very telling comments re fitness coach

[super_al]

What was he saying?

[vanderark14]

What was he saying?

 

Michael Stewart tried to make it out that we were streets ahead of the rest except celtic when it came to facilities and money. McInnes put him in his place in a very calm manner. He made sure that they knew that this was nonsense!!

 

He still sounds so focused even after Sunday which is just brilliant.

[Guest]

 

Michael Stewart tried to make it out that we were streets ahead of the rest except celtic when it came to facilities and money. McInnes put him in his place in a very calm manner. He made sure that they knew that this was nonsense!!

 

He still sounds so focused even after Sunday which is just brilliant.

Observation not criticism.

 

A winner doesn't switch focus on or off. He can't. Passion is one of the reasons that they succeed.

 

Those who are driven go to bed thinking about it, they wake up thinking about it and they dream about it.

 

The biggest difference between the best and the rest is Desire.

[vanderark14]

Observation not criticism.

 

A winner doesn't switch focus on or off. He can't. Passion is one of the reasons that they succeed.

 

Those who are driven go to bed thinking about it, they wake up thinking about it and they dream about it.

 

The biggest difference between the best and the rest is Desire.

 

spot on RS

 

this will be new territory to most dons fans. we have a genuine winner who after the first taste for it wants even more.

[Guest]

It's not just Dons fans. Less than a fraction of one per cent of the population have ever had anything in their lives that drives them so hard that it becomes so all-consuming. Time will tell if McInnes has this too. It's a mindset and it's free to anyone. Too many delude themselves in the talent v. work ethic debate, thus an overwhelming majority of losers in life.

[Monkey]

Can be accessed here

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/scotfoot

 

Derek on from the start.

[barassie_afc]

Sounded dismayed we had no fitness coach when he arrived and that the fitness guys wages are actually funded by a sponsor. Maybe some of the bilge re Milne in other thread needs to be revised , club is and has been run very poorly

[a don in oz]

True enough. It's one of the first things I do in Football Manager if at all possible; hiring a fitness coach with a Fitness Training rating of 15... at they very least.

[Dynamo]

It just goes to show how bad Craig Brown and his archaic methods really were.

 

Some players used to jog back to Pittodrie from BoD barracks for extra training

[Mikeyboy1903]

Another tremendous interview, frank and dispels some myths , very telling comments re fitness coach

 

Graham Kirk, Being shouting for seasons that we get someone like him in and finally see the dividends.

[Guest]

 

Graham Kirk, Being shouting for seasons that we get someone like him in and finally see the dividends.

 

This is evidence of McInnes's professionalism. The world changes. Everything evolves. Old football men or even young football men with a fixed mindset don't like change and don't understand the need for change. McInnes is quite obviously of a huge growth mindset and understood the need to introduce something new to AFC but not new for football or indeed high performance sport in general. Even cycling invests more in the percentages that make a difference. Cunts like Calderwood, McGhee and Broon don't even understand the subject. It's a fucking crime that our club didn't even see the need for a sports scientist/specialist fitness programme, and couldn't even re-allocate budgets to accommodate him, instead having to rely on a sponsor to fund ONE MAN.

 

It was the appointment by DUFC of a kinesiologist that led me to predict that they would overtake us, despite them being well behind us at the time. Two things then happened. Deek got in Kirk, and DUFC's bubble burst when their own budget couldn't extend to retaining the kinesiologist for six weeks over the December/January period, whereupon they put two and two together and got him back pronto. Now, they are in their rightful place, looking up the league towards us, chasing our coat-tails as the advantage that they did have over us was snuffed out by McInnes's vision, knowledge and professionalism.

 

Coincidentally, a mate of mine delivered back to me this morning on his way to work the book Bounce that I lent him. That's a great read for any of you interested in anything to do with sport, and indeed life actually. It tells us how important the important things are! Some cunts don't even understand the playing field, let alone the boundaries of possibility.

 

Interesting that Derek emphasised a couple of times that whilst AFC is obviously a bigger club than most, the "football department" at AFC was not benefiting from this perceived size advantage. I have long advocated that our business model was upside down and that we employed far too many non-productives, the complete antithesis to the lie that Milne span 18 years ago at the Capitol that the product was always the priority. Football has not been the priority, clearly, and having got lucky with an ambitious, forward-thinking young manager, this emphasises even more that this club should never have got this far into debt and only did so by sheer neglect and absurd financial management.

 

This is a big chance to turn a big corner. We've got the right man in charge of the football department. Let's get the rest of the club sorted out.

[The Oxford Don]

I have Bounce on my kindle, Rocket, really looking forward to reading it. I've always enjoyed Matthew Syed's columns in the Times.

[Guest]

I've read them all. Bounce miles better than The Talent Code in my opinion, simply cos Syed is a better writer than Coyle.

[dj_bollocks]

But it was good he alluded to the fact that we are so very much behind on where we need to be as a football club in the 21st Century. Even to attract players to the club. No training ground, basic facilities, crumbling stadium. I have absolutely no doubt Derek has gone "Ok what can I change now, and what needs changing later". Keeping the players happy, motivated and as a team, a collective, is the number one benefit since he's arrived. If you don't have all the palatial luxuries that other clubs (other clubs in England anyway) have that team spirit will take you far.

 

But as has been discussed already this week, the danger is that after 2017 McInnes will be off to somewhere else. So we need to reap the benefits of that now. We need a plan for a new stadium, training facilities, squeezing every penny anyway we can to invest in the club and the city not just expecting Angela to pick up the phone. When you look at some of the mardy egotistical pricks we have had as managers in the past, Run by DMc is an absolute bloody revelation...

[minijc]

Rocket, I have Bounce, only read a short bit but will batter on through, heard that "Thinking Fast and Slow" is a very good read, also a good show on Iplayer linked with thinking fast and slow.

[Mikeyboy1903]

 

This is evidence of McInnes's professionalism. The world changes. Everything evolves. Old football men or even young football men with a fixed mindset don't like change and don't understand the need for change. McInnes is quite obviously of a huge growth mindset and understood the need to introduce something new to AFC but not new for football or indeed high performance sport in general. Even cycling invests more in the percentages that make a difference. Cunts like Calderwood, McGhee and Broon don't even understand the subject. It's a fucking crime that our club didn't even see the need for a sports scientist/specialist fitness programme, and couldn't even re-allocate budgets to accommodate him, instead having to rely on a sponsor to fund ONE MAN.

 

It was the appointment by DUFC of a kinesiologist that led me to predict that they would overtake us, despite them being well behind us at the time. Two things then happened. Deek got in Kirk, and DUFC's bubble burst when their own budget couldn't extend to retaining the kinesiologist for six weeks over the December/January period, whereupon they put two and two together and got him back pronto. Now, they are in their rightful place, looking up the league towards us, chasing our coat-tails as the advantage that they did have over us was snuffed out by McInnes's vision, knowledge and professionalism.

 

Coincidentally, a mate of mine delivered back to me this morning on his way to work the book Bounce that I lent him. That's a great read for any of you interested in anything to do with sport, and indeed life actually. It tells us how important the important things are! Some cunts don't even understand the playing field, let alone the boundaries of possibility.

 

Interesting that Derek emphasised a couple of times that whilst AFC is obviously a bigger club than most, the "football department" at AFC was not benefiting from this perceived size advantage. I have long advocated that our business model was upside down and that we employed far too many non-productives, the complete antithesis to the lie that Milne span 18 years ago at the Capitol that the product was always the priority. Football has not been the priority, clearly, and having got lucky with an ambitious, forward-thinking young manager, this emphasises even more that this club should never have got this far into debt and only did so by sheer neglect and absurd financial management.

 

This is a big chance to turn a big corner. We've got the right man in charge of the football department. Let's get the rest of the club sorted out.

 

 

 

Exactly, To many "lifers" at the club, We were never moving in the right direction, Some are having to come back next season I'm led to believe to keep our academy status but that will change the season after next.

[Guest]

Shall buy Bounce then. Chimp Paradox was a great read.

 

Will send you the money if you didn't think Bounce was a good read. I know you will, given your enthusiasm for the other.

[robbojunior]

 

Will send you the money if you didn't think Bounce was a good read. I know you will, given your enthusiasm for the other.

 

Believe we've discussed both in the books thread, but I agree Bounce is a brilliant book, as is Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.