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As a result of numerous trips to San Francisco over the years I have developed an affinity for the various Bay Area sports teams including the San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS. They have had a good start to the season and haven’t conceded in their first three matches winning all three. Tonight is first time had a chance to watch them live. They concede after 19 minutes and are currently losing 1-0. I have decided it’s me that’s the problem. Not clueless managers or shite players just me supporting a team.

Twelve years ago today Derek McInnes won his first and last trophy as a manager.

"It'll be bad news for NATO if Europe don’t drag me out this enormous pile of shit I’ve got myself into" Not an actual quote but well done to Starmer for standing strong. Farage and Badenoch would have had us knee deep in this fucking quagmire by now.

Why would Dave Cormack be to blame for @Jute dragging every team he supports down to a level worse than they could ever possibly be?

This is all on me it has to be. There is no other logical explanation. Was down with my Sunderland supporting mate at their game on Saturday and they lost only their second home game of the season to Brighton. Further evidence that it is me. Oh and San Jose lost 0-1 last night.

It’s nice of you to have this realisation, before we get relegated.

Milne's excuse is inexperience. With more and more game time, aggression is the one thing that is possible to build on. Considine was really weak when he first came into the Dons side, and he worked hard at being aggressive in the challenge. Milne has the physique, he just needs to use it. This is his first season of top flight fitba, and Robinson is the right type of manager to work with on that side of things. It looked to me like Graham had prevented him jumping by challenging early. I suspect a more experienced defender would have gone down to make sure they got the foul. He'll learn. I'd say it's been a decent enough season for Milne overall. There's been a lot worse at the club, and I hope we try to continue his development. I think he could turn into a really good player.

Thought this was a piss take when first got sent this.

Aye, it's the McInnes approach, basically. Which is actually the approach of most Scottish managers. I've been saying for years that we need to enforce quotas if we're to get any value from the youth system. There really is no benefit to a manager from letting a youth player make errors in the first team. Not compared to winning games with a few athletes.

That is further evidence of it being me.

This is no surprise to me after you were not at Hampden in May

You could say the same about Russel Anderson, a mediocre right back who came good as a central defender. At the same time, I really wonder what Milne would be like at holding mid, ahead of tobers and knoester. At the same time, I wonder if Tobers is any good!

Having watched it back you're correct, Graham jumped without looking at the ball (and as God said on Redtv it was a clear foul). However that doesn't excuse Milne for chickening out of the challenge hoping the ref will do his job.

Unusual for a Goodwin side to lose two late in the game.

No.

The sporting director model should include the ability for a manager to recommend players that he's either had experience of, or scouted, previously. It has to be a blend. The player should go through the recruitment team who do their research based on data and videos and additional scouting, and then he gets presented to the sporting director for final sign off. I guess they could apply weighting based on recommendation etc. For me, the sporting director needs to be the one that's on top of the overall balance of the squad and playing devil's advocate by asking how particular players fit into overall strategy and so on. He's there to make sure a robust process is in place and followed, ultimately refusing a signing who might be good, but would end in us having three similar players for example. There's no reason that a manager shouldn't be - in effect - signing players, there is every reason to prevent a manager from signing most or all of the players. It's about balance. Within that balance there must also be a commitment to not blocking the pathway for youth development.

We paid Aberdeen prices for bottom 6 players. Recruitment team really let us down. I think the effort was there but some of them are just not Aberdeen quality

You or I have absolutely no idea what he does when an actual manager is in place. The new manager should be making that call, and until that point should act with decency and integrity like any other employer would. By all means remove him from caretaker, of course.

It's not just dishonourable, I suspect it's not even legal! He surely must have had something written up to say that he'd be entitled to get his previous role back after agreeing to the poisoned chalice of caretaker with this squad?

I genuinely find this bizarre. As I said in the other thread, you can't ask a guy to do you a favour for a few weeks and then fire him for failing at it. He should at the very least be offered his old job back, and is probably due a public apology from the club for having monumentally fucked up the appointment of a new manager and hung him out to dry by having him in a post he's not suitable for and has no experience in for months on end.