Cormack Thread

[Ke1t]

12 minutes ago, huncunts said:

The worrying aspect is he said he's met with Glass and Gunn and they still can't understand it.

The stats geeks are now looking further into the dyata than shots at goal and possession and finding we're one of the worst performing teams in the league in attack and defence, the defensive shape is totally fucked and midfield aren't doing very well defending or creating. 

But Cormack and Glass believe they're doing things right, it's individual errors and things are just going to start falling our way. 

Like a shit boxer who swings a hundred punches and gets knocked out with an uppercut. 

Stats are going to show he was the one swinging all the punches, so it was surely bad luck he lost.

Five fights in a row. 

 

 

 

[Kincardine_Mearns_Red]

36 minutes ago, milne_afc said:

There should be no confusion. Hetherston was complete and utter fucking dung for the Dons.

Not one of Willie Miller's better signings that is for sure. Infact the beginning of the 30 year rot at AFC started about then or just before that under Smith.

[Matt Armstrong's Dog]

14 minutes ago, Woody21 said:

If yer full backs are bombing forward all the opposition require to do is play the ball into the free space and attack from there.

Therefore it is more a tactics issue than individual errors.

If replicated on Saturday Boyle will be a right pain in the arse ......

Well and truly.

If the lad Bates plays, we are fucked. He is an awful defender. Culpable for at least 6 of our goals conceded in the last 3 matches. 

[Redmist1903]

28 minutes ago, Ke1t said:

Like a shit boxer who swings a hundred punches and gets knocked out with an uppercut. 

Stats are going to show he was the one swinging all the punches, so it was surely bad luck he lost.

Five fights in a row. 

 

 

 

Thats nae bad that min, I like that ene. Ten fights in a row though...... ?

[fatjim]

You never hear much from the silent majority these days.

[afc1903mad]

7 minutes ago, Redmist1903 said:

Thats nae bad that min, I like that ene. Ten fights in a row though...... ?

Kelt was right. We haven’t lost 10 in a row (yet)

[aberdeen1970]

We haven't won since we beat the Icelandic mob on the 12th August.  

[ericblack4boss]

Hetherston was up there with Ricky Gillies, David Winnie and Craig Robertson, in shiteness, 

Was he not signed when the Jim McInally deal fell through?

 

 

[sooth_stander]

28 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

We haven't won since we beat the Icelandic mob on the 12th August.  

And that night, sitting in the SS, watching ball after ball getting pinged over McKenzie’s head in the 2nd half, who’d have thought that would still be happening 10 weeks later?

We got away with one that night.

5-3 up on aggregate with 25 mins to go and he’s still pushing the full backs high?

[sooth_stander]

3 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said:

Hetherston was up there with Ricky Gillies, David Winnie and Craig Robertson, in shiteness, 

Was he not signed when the Jim McInally deal fell through?

 

 

Nah, wasn’t he part of the swap deal involving McInally, but failed the medical?

[aberdeen1970]

Is Cormack doing an interview on red tv/you tube tonight? 

[OnceFaeMintlaw]

3 hours ago, thurso said:

Jim bett now there’s a man we need he was way better than any midfielder in Scotland is now never mind our team. 

Always thought Bobby Conner was underrated. 

peter hetherston not so much 

Hadn’t realised until yesterday that Bett played against us at Tynecastle in the do-or-die game in 94-85 season. Couldn’t have been an easy game for him to play in given his affections for our club  

found that out when Glexit talk touched on the fears of relegation.

[aberdeen1970]

4 minutes ago, OnceFaeMintlaw said:

Hadn’t realised until yesterday that Bett played against us at Tynecastle in the do-or-die game in 94-85 season.

Did Marty McFly play in that game as well? 

[RED_JOHN]

51 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Is Cormack doing an interview on red tv/you tube tonight? 

I wouldn’t think so. He might wait until Saturday evening to try his luck.

[fine-n-dandy]

3 hours ago, Matt Armstrong's Dog said:

Well and truly.

If the lad Bates plays, we are fucked. He is an awful defender. Culpable for at least 6 of our goals conceded in the last 3 matches. 

Who was culpable for the other one ?

[Matt Armstrong's Dog]

23 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

Who was culpable for the other one ?

His twin?.

[OnceFaeMintlaw]

3 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Did Marty McFly play in that game as well? 

Ah yes. Took me a while to see what I’d done there. 

[Ernie McCracken]

2 hours ago, OnceFaeMintlaw said:

Ah yes. Took me a while to see what I’d done there. 

Uh Sam! Ziggy says there's a 98.7% probability that you're here to convince Dave Cormack to sack Stephen Glass and whoever was responsible for the summer transfers, before they get Aberdeen relegated!

[super_al]

I am 100% convinced in the long term project. The key is that its long term.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

4 hours ago, super_al said:

I am 100% convinced in the long term project. The key is that its long term.

Really?

Glass is out his depth. He needs taken out of it for his own good.

Gunn is out his depth & shouldn’t be in his role either. The incredible & worrying thing is, as “Director of Football” he’ll have a huge part in deciding the new “head coach”. 

The structure may be right & common in a lot of clubs… the personnel are out their depth 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

4 hours ago, super_al said:

I am 100% convinced in the long term project. The key is that its long term.

Really?

Glass is out his depth. He needs taken out of it for his own good.

Gunn is out his depth & shouldn’t be in his role either. The incredible & worrying thing is, as “Director of Football” he’ll have a huge part in deciding the new “head coach”. 

The structure may be right & common in a lot of clubs… the personnel are out their depth 

[Sonoftherock]

15 hours ago, fatjim said:

You never hear much from the silent majority these days.

Dave Cormack has apparently been getting plenty of emails and messages from them.

[Poodler]

Wonder if he looks in here 

[fine-n-dandy]

3 minutes ago, Poodler said:

Wonder if he looks in here 

Of course he does.

His ego couldn’t cope not to. Good or bad.

[cruickc2]

1 hour ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Really?

Glass is out his depth. He needs taken out of it for his own good.

Gunn is out his depth & shouldn’t be in his role either. The incredible & worrying thing is, as “Director of Football” he’ll have a huge part in deciding the new “head coach”. 

The structure may be right & common in a lot of clubs… the personnel are out their depth 

I may be being stupid and have maybe missed something, but how is Gunn out of his depth? 

Apart from not being an ex footballer and coming through the ranks so to speak at Pittodrie

[Parklife]

5 minutes ago, cruickc2 said:

I may be being stupid and have maybe missed something, but how is Gunn out of his depth? 

Apart from not being an ex footballer and coming through the ranks so to speak at Pittodrie

It's hard to say that as yet, I agree. It does concern me though that we've appointed someone who appears to be completely unqualified. 

Hopefully he steps up and does a great job, however the fact he was appointed after the manager suggests that he's not been given the power the DoF rule should command anyway. 

[minijc]

13 minutes ago, Parklife said:

It's hard to say that as yet, I agree. It does concern me though that we've appointed someone who appears to be completely unqualified. 

Hopefully he steps up and does a great job, however the fact he was appointed after the manager suggests that he's not been given the power the DoF rule should command anyway. 

Or maybe the plan all along was to get him in that position, the footballing philosophy (lol) was already decided, Gunn I think has said that in the last few years he was getting more responsibility and dealing with more of the football side of things. 

[ericblack4boss]

It depends what the director of football role is,

For me I'd have the job spec,  liaising with the manager over, what targets are for season,  how the teams at all levels are structured,. Helping to co ordinate and identify scouts, 

Discussion over player budgets, the recruitment of players, and the director of football,  being the one to negotiate player terms, 

Opposition reports etc, should be organised by the dof, 

Suspensions appeals  and discipline signed off by him,

A figure with experience as a coach, manager , who has conducted transfers before, someone with a name in the game who can have a respected reputation,

A figure head for the club , who will deal with media duties, if manager unavailable.

He also needs to be the conduit between the board and manager, and a sounding board for the manager or head coach,

He also needs to have a say in the appointment of the head coach

All the above , bar the last sentence ,don't cry out that peely waaly fucker Gunn to me

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 hour ago, cruickc2 said:

I may be being stupid and have maybe missed something, but how is Gunn out of his depth? 

Apart from not being an ex footballer and coming through the ranks so to speak at Pittodrie

He’s gone from basically booking flight tickets one minute, to being largely responsible for tasks such as recruiting a manager. 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 hour ago, cruickc2 said:

I may be being stupid and have maybe missed something, but how is Gunn out of his depth? 

Apart from not being an ex footballer and coming through the ranks so to speak at Pittodrie

The question is, with his lack of a football background, would you want him to be largely responsible for hiring SG’s replacement, assuming (& hoping) he’s gone soon?

Because that’ll be in his remit.