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[calum]

It's all about the level of hype attached to players from certain teams, in particular Hibs, by the media. It's in this way that Andy Walker & co. actually manage to hurt Aberdeen financially

[Jim Stax]

Originally Posted by Sam L4

Did we seriosuly get 200,000 for Chris Clark?

Yup... Willie Miller laughing all the way to the bank I have a feeling Chris will do okay south and in a change of scenery.

[Scorge]

The excellent Twohundredpercent blog nails it on Keegan:

Twohundredpercent

[Murrr]

Very one-sided arguement tbh, focusing on all of the negatives and none of the positives... no mention of the fact that he took us from the brink of the old Third Division to second in the Premiership . Yeah, I'm not living in the past...

I do have a couple of reservations (given his tactical mongness and temperament) but I can't but be really excited at the moment. He'll get more time than Sam as he is Mike's appointment and very popular with the fans, and he'll at least play the players in their right bloody positions. I'm a big fan of Sam Allardyce and if he was given time I do think he'd have been a success, but he played players in stupid positions (Zog at fullback when we've got a £6.5m LB sitting on the bench, Oba on the wing, Smith in midfield, Milner on the left) and tried to get us playing a formation that we clearly lacked the players for. He was far too slow to react to what he was doing wrong, which I'm very surprised by because I do think he's a terrific manager.

Keegan will galvanise us in the short term, no doubt about that... hopefully he'll have the presence of mind to bring in a creative midfielder, a right winger and a couple of defenders, then we should be able to make a decent push for a top 10 finish. The style of player doesn't bother me too much, I'd rather play boring winning football than sexy losing football (the whole "Newcastle would rather lose 5-4 than win 1-0" thing is bullshit btw) BUT I am looking forward to hopefully seeing a bit of invention from our players once again.

'Mon the KK

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by calum

I don't like Newcastle. Or Hibs. Or any other pretentious/deluded teams.

Don't forget Ross County, sacking their manager while top of the league because he wasn't playing their "traditional style of attractive football" lol.

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Murrr

then we should be able to make a decent push for a top 10 finish.

Having sacked Allardyce while 11th!

Good luck to KK though, I have a soft spot for Newcastle, Keegan always comes across as a genuinely nice bloke and it's always good to have "characters" in the game instead of boring McClaren/Roeder types.

[calum]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

Don't forget Ross County, sacking their manager while top of the league because he wasn't playing their "traditional style of attractive football" lol.

haha oh yes. I didn't mind that though because Dick Campbell is a tool.

[Stichman]

Originally Posted by calum

haha oh yes. I didn't mind that though because Dick Campbell is a tool.

There are tools. There are power-assisted tools. Then there's Dick Campbell...

[idol_wild]

There was an interview with a deluded Newcastle fan on BBC's FA Cup programme last night: he intimated that he'd rather watch his side lose 7-6 than draw or win with an ugly performance.

What an idiot.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

There was an interview with a deluded Newcastle fan on BBC's FA Cup programme last night: he intimated that he'd rather watch his side lose 7-6 than draw or win with an ugly performance.

What an idiot.

Yeah, imagine going to a game and hoping to see loads of goals, the guy must be mental.