04 Feb 2016 14:31:06
Hi everyone,
Not posted in ages but I just wanted to throw my tuppence into the RD "debate". I am still behind him and his appointment, as ED says we have all experienced wins and defeats. My thought is that Ronnie is still an exciting coach with the best interests of the club and team at heart. There have been countless seasons where we have dropped points at Pittodrie or Rugby park etc. The fact that we are regressing is IMO not down to Ronnie it is down to how wiselyor more like unwisely we have spent on poor quality pplayers. Can Ronnie really turn an Ambrose into a Maldini or Scott Allan into a Messi? It is unrealistic to think he can. However if he can have the youth teams to first team playing a philosophy there is note of a chance of turning an 9-14 year old into one of the above. Patience unfortunately does not seem to be a virtue many of our "Faithful through and through" fans seem to have any longer.

1.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 14:48:59
Is it unrealistic to get them to defend a corner. Put a tackle in. Get back into a shape when the opposition keeper is about to kick the ball out? You are talking nonesense. It's not the defeats. It's no fight, no shape, no idea what to do. Why are we buying players for £1 or £2 mill and we play no better than Hibs! Support him all you want but at end of the day unless he goes it's going to get worse.

2.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 15:00:44
I agree with both of you haha.

3.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 16:12:01
Both of you have made honest comment and observation.
The gut feeling I have is we have went backwards since last season and although a lot of that may have to do with the absence of Denayer and VVD defensively [who gave Gordon a lot of protection].
However, I feel we have failed miserably in basic defending all season - no matter who he tried and we make the same mistakes time and time again = so the coaching is non existent and there is an alarming drop in form, from too many players who were outstanding last season and this super-fitness ideology is clearly not working.
Overall, I have doubts about what direction we are going?

4.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 16:20:29
Johnymac why and how do u support Celtic?

5.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 17:03:51
This is the first time we have lost twice at pittodrie since 1991. 4 defeats in 24 hardly countless.

6.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 17:53:49
Grout64 isn't that a reasonable decent record to be proud of . Not beaten twice at Pittodrie since 1991. Record had to go sooner or later .

7.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 21:07:56
I wasn't being statistical with my post, but fair play for wasting your time checking up those facts (why only go back to 1991 though) . Do the stats before 1991 make for poorer reading and therefore invalidate your point?

8.) 04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016 22:50:28
Bankier boy don't mention it glad to be of help, I think 25 years is a sufficient statical sample. from that I think we can draw the inference that RD struggles to get the results necessary. remember he has also failed to beat hearts and Kilmarnock in the league this season and lost at home to Motherwell, this is unacceptable. I struggle to understand how he is seen as an exciting manager. I have been to most games this season the performances particularly at home have been dull and uninspiring. Our style is play is increasingly boring, I have lost count of the amount of times 10 or 12 consecutive passes end up back at Craig Gordon.

9.) 05 Feb 2016
05 Feb 2016 01:24:28
I agree with the point about the ball being constantly recycled back to Gordon that is annoying, but surely that is not the tactic. However would you rather it went to him or a Boyata or Ambrose went bombing forward, lost theball and therefore gave away a ggoal scoring opportunity/penalty? As a general rule I think our home form is poor due to lack of atmosphere and negative attitude of so many fans these days. I remember not so long ago judt about Strachan's time even the Stadium was still generally full and electric. I think what the green brigade bring is good but when these guys were scattered around the stadium the individuals started the singing and chanting the stadium over. With regards to Ronnie being exciting IMO what I mean is his philosophy, whether our players current/future can get it right remains to be seen. As far as I know it is the same system Jurgen Klopp is trying to implement @ Liverpool. Ad you can see the results there are also up and down with far superior players than we have