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Today Our Closest Rivals Showed Us Why There Is Nothing To Fear For The Future.

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Aberdeen. Dear oh dear.

What an inept, gutless shower. What a total failure on every level. I felt bad for their fans today, having to endure that. Their passing was abysmal. So many unforced errors. But far worse was their manager, who I have slated on here more times than I can count.

That man has never won a major match of consequence. He is a fraud.

His performance today was absolutely absurd.

With 20 minutes to go you could see, clearly, how the game was going to end. His tactic of playing one man up front against a packed defence was diabolical and cowardly. When Aberdeen played the same side at home earlier in the season I marvelled at how negative their tactics were.

It came as no surprise to see them lose the return game.

When they next travel to Glasgow, on league business, I expect them to be similarly turned over.

Of course, they have a trip to this city to come before then. They are here on Scottish Cup semi-final business in two weeks’ time against Neil Lennon‘s Hibs. If you’re a betting man, stick a few quid on the Edinburgh club for that one. Nothing is surer.

Derek McInnes owes an apology to the Aberdeen support today. That was woeful. He takes full, complete, responsibility for that. His players were bad, but the manager’s job is to fix problems as they appear and he did the sum total of nil.

He would have been as well moving to Govan. He is that side’s best asset in their effort to become the second biggest side in the country. Aberdeen is a club that is not going to move towards their stated goal of supplanting us at the top as long as McInnes is in charge. In his entire career as a manager he has won precisely two games against teams wearing blue jerseys and hailing for the Glasgow west end. That record says it all.

And if you’re club isn’t moving forwards it might as well be moving backwards, because it’s waiting to be caught.

Add the reluctance at board level to see that Scotland has financial fair play rules, and you see a club that presents a good image, talks a good game but has no real ambition other than to occasionally reach cup semi-finals and qualify for Europe.

Aberdeen have all the ingredients to be a significant challenge to us going forward. They have a fan base that is passionate and devoted to them. They have assembled easily the second best squad in the country. Their board appears to be ambitious up to a point. They are well run and have plans to expand the stadium. Everything is right, but it all seems geared towards “settling for”. Whilst McInnes is in the dugout that’s all they’ll ever do.

Yesterday, Brendan had a little fun with our fans holding up his hands as if to say “ten in a row.” But as I’ve said, that’s the least of our club’s ambitions. We are always looking ahead, to distant horizons, to greater challenges. That’s why we brought this guy in in the first place, because we didn’t simply want to dominate in Scotland.

Aberdeen are the only club in the land with the set-up and the professionalism off the pitch to come close to making a run at our title, and today you saw exactly why they will not achieve it for the foreseeable future. There is a deficiency in leadership when it comes to what happens on the pitch, and as long as settling for second remains their goal that will not be corrected.

I saw nothing to be afraid of today.

Their club is not going to halt our march towards ten, and if not them then no-one will until a renaissance from Edinburgh.

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