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Can Aberdeen Finish 2nd?

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It seems some people read my last plea for Aberdeen supporters to be more ambitious. Either that or it’s that time of silly season again. But who cares? Can Aberdeen actually finish at least 2nd best this season?

There are many factors needed to finish above 3rd. One is the belief that we can. If we aim for 3rd, we won’t finish any higher. And that may have been one of the reasons why we never quite made it in the 2006/2007 season, when we ended up finishing 7 points behind Rangers in 2nd place after leading just in front for many parts of the season.

Secondly, we need a good, big squad. And I feel we have that. People say it was too thin last season, but did anyone really expect us to go as far as we did in the cup competitions? Semi-final of the league cup, semi-final of the Scottish cup, and last 32 of the UEFA Cup. Around an extra 15 games than usual. But this year we don’t have the distraction of European football. And I think we have got rid of the rubbish and brought in some quality players. Charlie Mulgrew has seemingly already solved our left back problem which we have been suffering from for years. Gary McDonald has replaced Barry Nicholson while Mark Kerr has replaced Touzani who Calderwood would never play. And it appears we’ve signed Tommy Wright, who Dean Windass claims can be just as good as he was. And if he’s half as good as Windass was and is we’ll be laughing so that must be a good thing. Up front was a place we struggled last season, with 4 strikers scoring less than 30 goals between them, and one scoring half of them.

Third, and last, we need consistency. In one week last season we drew 2-2 with Bayern Munich and lost 3-1 to Hibernian. Not only consistency in results though, but line-ups too. We played over 20 different defensive line-ups last season, need I say more. Swapping goalkeepers weekly also didn’t do any good. And up front, although there was a first choice front two (through favouritism), there really was never a settled pairing, or one that worked at least.

I’m guessing Celtic will have the title wrapped up by Halloween so our rivals for 2nd would have to be Rangers. And from what I’ve seen in their (only and last) two European games this season, they are pish. Walter Smith’s 4-5-1 is not going to work this season. And they have splashed millions on rubbish. £3,250,000 for Kyle Lafferty who looks out of place against FBK Kaunas? And with an apparent loss of around £12,000,000 from getting knocked out in the qualifying round, they could be strapped for cash this season.

Bring on the new season.

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  • GregE1873 says:

    I think you are forgetting something here, with Rangers out of Europe it means no midweek games which means no tiredness while Celtic will have midweek games so they will be tired. Now the only thing we have to concentrate on is the league championship and if we have the same consistancy as last season we’ll win the league no bother like we would have done last year if we were knocked out of europe early, so ye as you put it “Bring on the new season.” You also say we are pish, you should take a look at your own team mate! Also you say Lafferty was out of place against Kaunas he was only on the field for about 2 mins! Strapped for cash? I think you will find we made 35 million last season from getting to the UEFA CUP FINAL!

  • R.K says:

    To answer the original question. Yes Aberdeen can finish 2nd i don’t think there is any question about that. The question the huns should be asking themselves, is can they finish in the top 6 😀 Word around the international scene is that Rangers have a new shirt sponsor, Easyjet, In and out of Europe in 3 hours 😀 Best of luck to Aberdeen for the new season. Looks like our game with yourselves, Dundee United and Hearts will now be the only meaningful challenge.

  • 1888scott says:

    the huns think we will be tired after our midweek games… we have 6 midweek games this year, and when we get to the last 16 we wont play until febuary…. so thats your thing *****ed, we have a huge team and a fit one! good luck to aberdeen! BUT they will have alot of competition for the 2nd spot…. dundee utd, hibs, motherwell….. errr… yeah thats all!

  • GregE1873 says:

    2nd HAHAHAHAHAHA well they got off to go start today didn’t they in their quest for a 2nd place finish LMAO

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