ERNIE Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 3 hours ago, DeltaRay1903 said: Any Dons fan still carrying a torch for McInnes should be banned. It's peak cringe. Arguably our best manager since Ferguson.Sacking him only made sense if we found someone better or we let him leave and got compensation rather than having to pay out compensation. Hopefully Thelin is the right guy and is the first manager since Ferguson we don't land up sacking!How much has that cost us? 1 2 Link to comment
Popular Post NEM Posted April 14 Popular Post Share Posted April 14 1 minute ago, ERNIE said: Arguably our best manager since Ferguson.Sacking him only made sense if we found someone better or we let him leave and got compensation rather than having to pay out compensation. Hopefully Thelin is the right guy and is the first manager since Ferguson we don't land up sacking!How much has that cost us? It’s not arguable at all. Smith and Scott won a cup double and lost the league on the last day of the season. 18 Link to comment
Jocky Balboa Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 3 minutes ago, NEM said: It’s not arguable at all. Smith and Scott won a cup double and lost the league on the last day of the season. Smith and Scott were a formidable team and if only Hateley hadn't got away with his Hunnery... Many also overlook Miller's first 2 seasons in charge; we pushed a cheating Hun team (who were unbeaten in Europe that year and 90mins away from the CL final) all the way in all 3 competitions, then got another runner-up finish and were a whisker away from knocking Torino (one of the top 3 teams in Italy FFS) out of Europe. If the European format was like today's, we'd have been Champions League regulars and looking at a very different post-millennium history. Conversely, McInnes did a great job for 5 years, but had no Sevco, then a weakened form, with neither Edinburgh team at the races and both enduring relegations. Once the playing field caught up, we stagnated and eventually went backwards. 6 Link to comment
ERNIE Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 11 minutes ago, NEM said: It’s not arguable at all. Smith and Scott won a cup double and lost the league on the last day of the season. Yes maybe ..but we still sacked Smith as well... 2 Link to comment
Big Hat Logan Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 4 hours ago, DeltaRay1903 said: Any Dons fan still carrying a torch for McInnes should be banned. It's peak cringe. Almost as bad as people shoehorning SAF and the 80’s into every thread. Link to comment
RDS Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 1 hour ago, ERNIE said: Arguably our best manager since Ferguson.Sacking him only made sense if we found someone better or we let him leave and got compensation rather than having to pay out compensation. Hopefully Thelin is the right guy and is the first manager since Ferguson we don't land up sacking!How much has that cost us? Alex Smith/Jocky Scott> Derek McInnes 1 2 Link to comment
NEM Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 2 hours ago, Jocky Balboa said: Smith and Scott were a formidable team and if only Hateley hadn't got away with his Hunnery... Many also overlook Miller's first 2 seasons in charge; we pushed a cheating Hun team (who were unbeaten in Europe that year and 90mins away from the CL final) all the way in all 3 competitions, then got another runner-up finish and were a whisker away from knocking Torino (one of the top 3 teams in Italy FFS) out of Europe. If the European format was like today's, we'd have been Champions League regulars and looking at a very different post-millennium history. Conversely, McInnes did a great job for 5 years, but had no Sevco, then a weakened form, with neither Edinburgh team at the races and both enduring relegations. Once the playing field caught up, we stagnated and eventually went backwards. I definitely don’t, Millers 92-93 side are the best dons team I’ve watched. They’d coast the treble nowadays 5 Link to comment
Zeus Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Shearer, Jess, Booth, Mixu up front Holy fuck 😍 First season I started going properly. 1 2 Link to comment
Millertime Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 4 hours ago, NorfolkDandy said: Will today's result in Dingwall put the brakes on any announcement this week, or next given it's SCSF ? Personally, I cannot see either party wanting to commit until the uncertainty is removed Norfolking way, pal Link to comment
NEM Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 8 minutes ago, Zeus said: Shearer, Jess, Booth, Mixu up front Holy fuck 😍 First season I started going properly. 84 goals between the 4 of them. Unreal Link to comment
jamiesd Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 10 minutes ago, NEM said: 84 goals between the 4 of them. Unreal It was a great time to be home and away . A superb side. Link to comment
Hairdrier Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Arguably our last great team - some firepower in that lineup. McInnes never had anything on that. Miller has a lot of sentimentality for a reason. 1 Link to comment
redone Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 50 minutes ago, NEM said: I definitely don’t, Millers 92-93 side are the best dons team I’ve watched. They’d coast the treble nowadays Hasn’t been a feeling of excitement and belief that we were on to something special like there was coming away from the 6-2 drubbing of Hearts. Just a few days after scudding Partick 7-0. 37 minutes ago, Zeus said: Shearer, Jess, Booth, Mixu up front Holy fuck 😍 First season I started going properly. And take your pick from Bett, Grant, Mason and Richardson in midfield. 3 Link to comment
Hoppy Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 43 minutes ago, Zeus said: Shearer, Jess, Booth, Mixu up front Holy fuck 😍 First season I started going properly. Sensational. Imagine having players like that these days. Link to comment
Zeus Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 1 minute ago, Hoppy said: Sensational. Imagine having players like that these days. World class 1 Link to comment
NEM Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 2 minutes ago, Hoppy said: Sensational. Imagine having players like that these days. We’ve got one - just a shame he’s surrounded by absolute dross Link to comment
Hoppy Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 1 minute ago, NEM said: We’ve got one - just a shame he’s surrounded by absolute dross Imagine having three others. Unreal. Link to comment
ericblack4boss Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 59 minutes ago, NEM said: 84 goals between the 4 of them. Unreal With Mason and Bett in support too Link to comment
NEM Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 47 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said: With Mason and Bett in support too Some side 😍 Link to comment
Millertime Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 1 hour ago, NEM said: We’ve got one - just a shame he’s surrounded by absolute dross Paaaaaaaaaahaha 1 Link to comment
RedRevolution Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 5 hours ago, Jocky Balboa said: Smith and Scott were a formidable team and if only Hateley hadn't got away with his Hunnery... Many also overlook Miller's first 2 seasons in charge; we pushed a cheating Hun team (who were unbeaten in Europe that year and 90mins away from the CL final) all the way in all 3 competitions, then got another runner-up finish and were a whisker away from knocking Torino (one of the top 3 teams in Italy FFS) out of Europe. If the European format was like today's, we'd have been Champions League regulars and looking at a very different post-millennium history. Conversely, McInnes did a great job for 5 years, but had no Sevco, then a weakened form, with neither Edinburgh team at the races and both enduring relegations. Once the playing field caught up, we stagnated and eventually went backwards. Good post 1 1 Link to comment
Dons79 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Miller team is the best I’ve seen in the flesh, sticking the fingers up at all the Huns and Tims at school when shearer inevitably headed the ball in at 100 mile an hour. Very very pleasing, thank fuck I wasn’t at school down here now, I wouldn’t have survived. edit, if you walked in and got a punch to the jaw straight away, you knew you’d done something right. 1 Link to comment
RedRevolution Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 5 hours ago, ERNIE said: Yes maybe ..but we still sacked Smith as well... The fallout from sacking Smith marked the first milestone in our decline from being a club able to win honours to one that was rarely near it. I wanted him sacked at the time because I felt he was so negative. We just wouldn't put the ball in the box and I felt (like many others) that he didnt get the best out of the talent we had available. I can still hear his voice "There's no easy game in this league." Our failure to beat the Hun at Ibrox last game of the season to win the league also left a lot of bitterness. (I watched that game recently and was amazed at the tackling that went on - if you watch it again you feel the Hun could have had several yellow or red cards in the first twenty minutes.) Of course that Hun title win also coincided with them upping the ante and attracting the best players in British football by paying more than any team in England. And yet we were still only a fraction away from winning something. Anyway - the demise of the club following the Smith debacle has always made me wary of sacking managers because you're basically setting yourself back a couple of years every time you do it. The new guy always wants to rebuild and it usually means losing half your squad. Jim McLean, in one of the few angry interviews associated with Ivan Gollak's time at Tannadice made a great point about this. He said sacking a manager is largely counter productive because you have to built a whole new team. So you should only do it if you've got a McGhee or Goodwin situation and it's a last resort under this theory. If we had stuck with Glass and backed him in the next window I suspect we would be in a much better position now. Link to comment
RabidGiraffe Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 23 minutes ago, RedRevolution said: Of course that Hun title win also coincided with them upping the ante and attracting the best players in British football by paying more than any team in England. And yet we were still only a fraction away from winning something. This is the point where a bunch of drunken scousers in Belgium have a huge impact on Scottish football. The Heysel disaster in 85 had resulted in English teams being kicked out of Europe indefinitely (which turned out to be for five years). It was during that time the likes of Terry Butcher and other English players joined the huns. I don't think they would have if they'd been able to play in Europe for their English teams, not so much to do with what the filth were paying. If Heysel hadn't happened, Souness would have found it much harder to persuade these cunts North of the border. Link to comment
huncunts Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 27 minutes ago, RedRevolution said: If we had stuck with Glass and backed him in the next window I suspect we would be in a much better position now. Make it stop. He had us concede every game. We were low scorers. He had nothing about him that gave the aura of a football manager, just like Maloney and Cathro. A fanny. He signed a team of total shite, cluelessly overestimating some of their levels, which required nearly an entire new team that summer regardless. 2 Link to comment
Jocky Balboa Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 5 hours ago, NEM said: I definitely don’t, Millers 92-93 side are the best dons team I’ve watched. They’d coast the treble nowadays They would indeed. Link to comment
BrisDon Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 8 hours ago, Jocky Balboa said: Smith and Scott were a formidable team and if only Hateley hadn't got away with his Hunnery... Many also overlook Miller's first 2 seasons in charge; we pushed a cheating Hun team (who were unbeaten in Europe that year and 90mins away from the CL final) all the way in all 3 competitions, then got another runner-up finish and were a whisker away from knocking Torino (one of the top 3 teams in Italy FFS) out of Europe. If the European format was like today's, we'd have been Champions League regulars and looking at a very different post-millennium history. Conversely, McInnes did a great job for 5 years, but had no Sevco, then a weakened form, with neither Edinburgh team at the races and both enduring relegations. Once the playing field caught up, we stagnated and eventually went backwards. 93-94 was the last time the league was really there for the taking. Huns were absolute mince in the first half of the season. Transition season for them. Unfortunately we never really built up a decent head of steam despite topping the table on a few occasions. Think we drew over half our games their season and only lost 6 of 44? Hun cunts always seemed to pull out a result when they needed one. Link to comment
donswin1983 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 5 hours ago, Zeus said: Shearer, Jess, Booth, Mixu up front Holy fuck 😍 First season I started going properly. One of my favourite ever games was the 6-2 demolition of hearts. Sure we also put 7 past some other mob, away from home the week before too. hope that was Gods reign. Link to comment
BrisDon Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 2 minutes ago, donswin1983 said: One of my favourite ever games was the 6-2 demolition of hearts. Sure we also put 7 past some other mob, away from home the week before too. hope that was Gods reign. https://youtu.be/m9ctO_avohM?si=7eZePooI9iUoHKdp Link to comment
ericblack4boss Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 You see this is where I differ from most on that 90-91 season. For me it was that pissing wet day in October 1990 down in Perth that cost us the league that year Link to comment
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