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  1. I don't believe what I'm reading from some folk today. If I was cynical I'd say the club have got the minions on socials today to spread the sunshine and rainbows.
  2. I quoted a supporter to ask what their own personal threshold was, see if we can truly gauge what they call a majority view, and hopefully they will answer with an answer and not a question. If you want to answer with an answer rather than a question I'll engage with you. Until then I'll refer you to my other points previously made on the matter, they're not difficult to find.
  3. Genuine question: Do you think his all has been enough? If no, then for you, how many more mistakes is he allowed and how will you measure when "his all" will be good enough? If yes, and I'd like to think it won't be a yes, but if yes, then in my view, you and the "majority" don't have a sporting mentality and you have the club you deserve.
  4. Shankland isn't as good back to goal as Dykes or Adams. If Scotland are playing on the front foot every game Shankland has a chance. In the finals I don't think he starts in this system. I think he should've started last night, the game was made for him; had a couple of half-chances in the time he was on. But alot of how Scotland are currently set up is based on data on how they're playing in their clubs, analysts running the rule over them. For example the boy Hardie at Plymouth is in the mix but his in-game stats aren't up to scratch.
  5. I think if Cormack was offered John, Paul, George & Ringo, he’d 100% end up with Pete Best.
  6. And yet that doesn’t correlate to having the brains and balls to make a successful football club. If he has the brains he’d appoint the right people. If he has the balls he’d have the courage of his own conviction. He was a failure as Chief Executive and he’s now a failure as Chairman. Football is not for him. He should have the brains and balls to step away and enjoy his retirement.
  7. It's kind of funny Peter Hetherston being in the news this week because I found an article from October 2021 when the silky one was calling out Dave Cormack for his "vanity project" in appointing Stephen Glass, and how he felt that Cormack's "ego was in danger of getting Aberdeen relegated". There is a clear perception in football circles, going back this far, that Cormack is not to be trusted. The football operation, not only at first team level, but all through the academy, is shambolic and is starting to come undone. Some (many) of the guys working in the academy have done terrific work in the past 5 or so years and it's all starting to unravel because the infrastructure is creaking. Still no academy director months after Gavin Levey left. Gavin Levey wasn't everyone's cup of tea but by & large he did a good job. Cormack has rolled into town with good intentions but not executed his plan. As such he has driven a coach & horses through the culture of the club without making good on his promises. I don't much care if Cormack appoints the second coming of Cruyff as manager, he's royally fucked this club and he needs to go.
  8. It's fair comment but I also think the opposite is true. There is alot of hysteria and hyperbole which is overstating things too. When any club is looking for a manager it is normally because they are on a poor run. So we keep hearing about how good some of our players are. We shouldn't underestimate the mindset of any up and coming manager looking for the opportunity to work with better players with a bigger budget. If the ambition is there they will have the confidence within themselves to take it on. If they don't want it, they're not for us. This is of course a positive spin, but people that are not associated with our club will be unlikely to be as close and emotional to the problem as what many of us are.
  9. I think that folk are just desperate for a bit of hope; and for many, Alex Neil, competent though he may be, just doesn't really represent the change that many feel we need, in the midst of what we've seen during Cormack's loose-tongued tenure. I am not personally convinced that it is going to be Alex Neil.
  10. I hear this from people that go to corporate all the time. I've met him myself and he's a pretty straight and decent guy. But it detracts from the reality which is that he isn't doing a good job and that folk in corporate are easily bought. The most impressive person I've ever met at Aberdeen FC was Keith Wyness. He had a terrific mentality. He stopped us going to the wall in the early 2000s. DC's replacement (I think) as CEO no less. Send out the bat signal...
  11. Also, trust me when I say, I have a personal experience of what is going on in the club right now. I'm keeping my powder dry on it for a while but I can say that the "bury your head in the sand", dithering, arrogant, "we know best" culture is completely and utterly endemic behind the scenes in the club. What I can and will say, the stories posted in her about the earlier Chris Wilder situation is to me completely believable.
  12. You see, here's the thing. In the "old" structure, where the manager looks after the whole football operation, you can blame the manager and the players. In the "new" structure, and make no mistake, it is/was Cormack's decision to do it this way, you are relying on appointing the right people into the right roles, because they effectively set up a framework for the type of player they want at the club, they have to meet certain criteria etc etc. In the most basic terms I can possibly set it out; it's like Football Manager, based on Wyscout. The actual football manager has to pick from these players. When we were bringing in alot of foreign players, I'm thinking "hmm, if this doesn't work out, who's rolling their sleeves up if this goes to pot". That's not a xenophobic thing, that's an understanding the culture of the club thing. So who are we looking to? Shinnie, possibly Devlin, and maybe Angus, to be the ones that lead us out of this. Why is that? Because they are the ones that understand the club best. Who else are we going to look to? If you're selling this club to overseas players as a stepping stone to bigger things, they also have to understand the culture of the club, the city, the region, the fans. If they don't understand that, we can't expect them to roll their sleeves up when the chips are down. The football structure, the player trading model, the player recruitment, the manager recruitment. All of this is down to the half-arsed execution of the Chairman. He is the first, second and last person to blame for all of this. I genuinely hope for his sake his personal operation last year went well because he's going to need his strength for what's coming.
  13. I think so yes. It seems an old-fashioned title already; something that boards did 15-20 years ago when they realised they knew little about football so appointed a go-between. Moved on massively since then. I reckon in a similar way that a club needs to have a coach with a Pro Licence to compete in Europe, they may soon also need to have a competent, qualified Technical/Sporting Director.
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