Cormack Q&A

[Ten Caat]

2 hours ago, Tord31 said:

100% this. We must start selling. We must stop allowing players to run down their contract.

We need to put money ahead of short term success because long term it helps grow the budgets etc which should give us a leg up

We might well aim to do that, but ultimately we cannot force a player to leave. We can accept bids from other clubs all we like but it is a player's right to run down a contract of he so desires. 

In the 60s and 70s, before freedom of contract, a manager would tell a player that if he didnt sign for a club (having accepted their bid) that he would stick him in the reserves until his contract expired. But unlike now, that player wasn't free to fuck off once it had. The club retained his registration and could hold it indefinitely without paying him a wage until such point that another club paid an acceptable transfer fee or the club decided to free him. 

[aberdeen1970]

10 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

We might well aim to do that, but ultimately we cannot force a player to leave. We can accept bids from other clubs all we like but it is a player's right to run down a contract of he so desires. 

In the 60s and 70s, before freedom of contract, a manager would tell a player that if he didnt sign for a club (having accepted their bid) that he would stick him in the reserves until his contract expired. But unlike now, that player wasn't free to fuck off once it had. The club retained his registration and could hold it indefinitely without paying him a wage until such point that another club paid an acceptable transfer fee or the club decided to free him. 

We've had very little trouble getting players to leave. 

One way or another. 

The player turnover under McInnes has been astronomical 

[YoungLoon]

4 hours ago, Granite95 said:

The club should look to adopt that as a long term strategy. Bring in good players for relatively cheap and  sell on when the time is right (see Cosgrove/McKenna as example; and Ferguson and McCrorie potentailly in the future). 

More emphasis needs to be put on youth development to encourage more players to want to come to AFC 

We need to have decent scouting to make that a reality.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

20 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

We've had very little trouble getting players to leave. 

One way or another. 

The player turnover under McInnes has been astronomical 

Wait until the summer.

Could be a turnaround of about 20 players at least, quite possibly more. 

[aberdeen1970]

3 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Wait until the summer.

Could be a turnaround of about 20 players at least, quite possibly more. 

Aye. 

There are very few players I can name that we've tried to sell and haven't left. 

Cosgrove in October.  Maybe Gleeson. That's about it. 

Some we have tried to keep but have left on freedom of contract. But we should have sold the year before if they weren't going to stay. Jack,  Shinnie. 

The rest we either pay off to get rid or they can't wait to get away. 

 

[alscotoz]

If we become a 'selling' club will that ambition be above aiming for third and reaching a cup semi final every few years?

[Tord31]

3 hours ago, alscotoz said:

If we become a 'selling' club will that ambition be above aiming for third and reaching a cup semi final every few years?

Yes. because the ambitions will relate to european football

[Granite95]

5 hours ago, alscotoz said:

If we become a 'selling' club will that ambition be above aiming for third and reaching a cup semi final every few years?

It can help, more money generated = bigger budgets which in theory should equal better players.

Brentford are a great example in ENgland of this, getting good players for cheap and selling on for a good fee (Watkins, Benrahmma and even Tarkoski to an extent)

I think both Ferugson and McCrorie will generate us decent fees in the future and it's a market we should look to explore more as it's a potential avenue for us given the difficulties English clubs will face with Brexit and signing non British/Irish players

 

[The Gee Man]

After that rubbish yesterday, will need another vote of confidence again on Tuesday from DC! 

[shooftahmooftah]

25 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

After that rubbish yesterday, will need another vote of confidence again on Tuesday from DC! 

Give the managers job to the women’s team coach until the end of the season.     They wouldn’t have an excuse then for preforming like a bunch of lassies.  

[Tommy]

Q&A postponed. Never saw that coming.

[dazzy_deff]

What a cop out 

[ericblack4boss]

Fucking coward bet that's the sleekit cunts doing 

[Stoneybloke]

On 2/13/2021 at 4:13 AM, alscotoz said:

If we become a 'selling' club will that ambition be above aiming for third and reaching a cup semi final every few years?

I thought we aleady were

[Sheepo]

Seen the questions and bottled it. Cormack now shown his true colours, very deluded if he thinks we can get 3rd

[Guest milne_afc]

Looking every bit the shyster I predicted he’d be.

#BanterYears2

[DD1903]

So he's read all the questions, realised they were all far too difficult to answer and shat it...

[Ke1t]

If we want to be a selling club then we need a scouting system.

Whatever the fuck we have right now isn't even a shadow of what would be required. 

 

[ericblack4boss]

Cormack just like hun dmc, happy to be questioned when it suits his narrative, if the scrutiny is negative he wants fuck all to do with it, 

Fucking coward,  hun dmc attitude is contagious 

[Dons21]

Hope you frequent this forum Cormack. Your an absolute shitbag. Wiggy was bad, however wouldn’t have been daft enough to promise a Q&A then shit oot of it!! 

[Geoff_Tipps]

Never in doubt, the man is absolute poison and the sooner folk realise that the better. 

[jamiesd]

Unfortunately all walks of life seem to be moving this way. Narrative or shut down. Hopefully he got the message with all the questions given for vetting.  Bet a lot were manager related.

[Tzvetanovs hair]

Cormack not fancying the list of questions.  Funnily enough he was happy enough to post videos of himself at the start of the pandemic and throughout asking for all to stay together.  The community trust did a lot then to ensure that was done and the club was represented.

 

Right now, the avoiding of addressing fan concerns in person and taking this on is a bit laughable.  He loved a video before, when the shit has hit the fan on the pitch (as it was threatening to do for over 2 years now), he is shying away.

 

The pandemic has been a disaster for all but he really needs to be stepping up to it about now, he is already looking at a real bash at season ticket monies etc for next season.

[Arabian Knight]

cunts a fuckin shytebag like..aw teeth n nae troosers

[ericblack4boss]

He has badly mis read the fans here, 

Yet another mistake, the cunt he made of himself  over demanding fans back weeks before the 2nd lockdown,  the failure to face the hun dmc situation head on and now this

Last 2 months have been a poor fucking show

 

[Guest]

He's absolutely right to call the Q and A off. To have a torrent of negative questions the night before an important match, would be ridiculous. 

 

What is also ridiculous is to offer this to the fans, who are understandably angry, and take it away because you don't like the look of the questions. Considering he's adamant on being "transparent" this is a really, really bad look for him. 

 

A ridiculously arrogant thing to think he could take on, and a ridiculously cowardly thing to turn to fans and fuck them off, after they'd submitted questions.

 

 

[Yorston Vasey]

Shitebag.

"Gies yer money"

[King Street Loon]

What a plonker he is.

Has read the questions and has admitted to himself that answering questions about the manager and Hernandez would be like pouring petrol on an already burning fire.

I find a lot of the personal attacks aimed at him and McInnes a bit unnecessary and distasteful, but in this instance he's got nobody to blame for this but himself. On what planet did he think it sensible to arrange a Q&A duringbthe current slump. 

He's done himself up like a kipper here.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

Supporting & backing an obviously out of ideas & past his shelf-life McInnes... and also states the aim is for 15,000 season ticket holders....is he buying 12,000 of them?

What a shambolic farce, made himself a laughing stock & a very easy target for criticism. 

[Sheepo]

This will haunt him now, he has more faces than Big Ben, if he believes it is only a minority of fans that are unhappy with the current management then he really is deluded.

His hopes of getting 15000 season tickets is absolutely ridiculous, but he will struggle to get 5000 this summer the way he is going. His attitude to the fans here is a huge misjudgement and he must of thought we would pump St Mirren and all would be good