Zeus Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Just you mind how long Derek Derek Derek got and the fucking shambles he left us in ? Link to comment
King Street Loon Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Brutally honest post match interview from Glass. Can't fault him for that. Hope he's true to his word and makes the changes next week, and hopefully they result in a win Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 14 minutes ago, King Street Loon said: Brutally honest post match interview from Glass. Can't fault him for that. Hope he's true to his word and makes the changes next week, and hopefully they result in a win He does talk a good game… but he’s the one picking four centre mids every week. He’s the one picking the same central defence who ship goals every week. No wins in 6 is it? Link to comment
DD1903 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Don_Corleone said: And it’s too predictable as it’s our only means of attack - all the opposition need to do is work on stopping or defending crosses as theres no threat through the middle. And when they're up the park, a ball over the top, into the corner, stretches out the centre halves... Link to comment
RED_JOHN Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 He should ditch that Henry guy who we brought across from America. Done nothing since he joined. Link to comment
ABERDEENROWIE1903 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 45 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said: He does talk a good game… but he’s the one picking four centre mids every week. He’s the one picking the same central defence who ship goals every week. No wins in 6 is it? Agree seems positive in the interviews but it's not transferring onto the pitch Doe he have the players back not sure some of them simply not trying hard enough Link to comment
KentishDon Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 He’s up against it already. Backed handsomely by his friend the chairman and has made a pigs ear of it so far. Sadly I believe the chairman will stick with him Link to comment
Stoneybloke Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 1 hour ago, KentishDon said: He’s up against it already. Backed handsomely by his friend the chairman and has made a pigs ear of it so far. Sadly I believe the chairman will stick with him If the chairman is the hard nosed business man we are led to believe, then he should be ruthless enough to take the necessary action before it is too late. Link to comment
Stoneybloke Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 3 hours ago, starryfish said: The transfer bid for Boyle shows that someone inside Pittodrie recognises the lack of pace in the team, pity it still hasn’t been properly addressed. If we acquire such a player of pace, will that reduce the amount of cross field and back passing that takes place? Link to comment
starryfish Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 9 minutes ago, Stoneybloke said: If we acquire such a player of pace, will that reduce the amount of cross field and back passing that takes place? Quite possibly will allow us to play the ball in behind opposition defences allowing us to play more often in their half Link to comment
Woolenrouge Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Played 12, clean sheets 1. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 10 hours ago, redcryptoknight said: Not seen Bates play yet. If I were Aberdeen manager I would know what parameters had been set in terms of how many players I was allowed to sign and what my budget was. Since I am not Aberdeen manager I don't know any of those things. It could be that I'm not happy, but that Cormack had told me I didn't have the budget to bring in more players. It could be that I'm not happy but we didn't manage to secure the players I wanted and that they didn't want to come. It could be that bringing in some of the people I wanted was contingent on moving some players out. It could be that I thought we had exactly the right personnel in place. I really don't know. Do you? Ah ok, so Glass was under orders to sign 100 midfielders & treat central defence as an inconvenience & just sign shite no cunt else wanted. Gutted we missed out on his main target for CH in Clark fkn Robertson ? I asked for a neutral point of view but your post REEKS of fkn making excuses for Glass all based on speculative shite in what seems like desperation to find said excuses but done so quite arrogantly in some sort of arm folded huffy way ? Link to comment
Don_Corleone Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 6 hours ago, Woolenrouge said: Played 12, clean sheets 1. Several reasons for this… 1) Lewis is incapable of organising a defence and is letting in goals (and sometimes directly gifting goals) that he didn’t a few seasons back 2) our full backs are our only means of attack so they’re often way up the park and we get caught out with a big diagonal punt or ball into the channel 3) our midfielders, despite all being fairly defensively minded and constantly sitting right in front of the defence when we have the ball, seem to be providing very inadequate help to the defence when we don’t have the ball. 4) McCrorie is too erratic to play central defence - he dives in and is over enthusiastic and has very little positional sense. We’re caught out time and time again when long balls are played up in his direction 5) Gallagher is not as good as he thinks he is, or as Glass thinks he is. He was supposed to organise and shore things up at the back but from what I’ve seen he’s lacklustre and slow 6) we’re trying to play out from the back with a goalkeeper who’s useless at kicking 7) our passing is too slow and any balls forward are inaccurate, so although we have lots of possession it goes nowhere and allows the opponents to regroup theres 7 reasons for starters… Should add… it’s particularly worrying we’ve only 1 clean sheet considering we’ve not even played against the “better” teams yet Link to comment
South Stand Seagull Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 20 minutes ago, Don_Corleone said: Several reasons for this… 1) Lewis is incapable of organising a defence and is letting in goals (and sometimes directly gifting goals) that he didn’t a few seasons back 2) our full backs are our only means of attack so they’re often way up the park and we get caught out with a big diagonal punt or ball into the channel 3) our midfielders, despite all being fairly defensively minded and constantly sitting right in front of the defence when we have the ball, seem to be providing very inadequate help to the defence when we don’t have the ball. 4) McCrorie is too erratic to play central defence - he dives in and is over enthusiastic and has very little positional sense. We’re caught out time and time again when long balls are played up in his direction 5) Gallagher is not as good as he thinks he is, or as Glass thinks he is. He was supposed to organise and shore things up at the back but from what I’ve seen he’s lacklustre and slow 6) we’re trying to play out from the back with a goalkeeper who’s useless at kicking 7) our passing is too slow and any balls forward are inaccurate, so although we have lots of possession it goes nowhere and allows the opponents to regroup theres 7 reasons for starters… Should add… it’s particularly worrying we’ve only 1 clean sheet considering we’ve not even played against the “better” teams yet Our CHs have just played SO bad. You can fairly critiqe Glass; however, the players are equally to blame. Defending a cross or a long ball is not the Managers fault. Now if he continues to play McCorie over Bates, then that’s the managers fault. But even then… our other CH has been abysmal. Link to comment
Torry Tosser Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Russell for all his achievements with the Englanders, canna seem to get oor lot to hit a barn door.? Link to comment
Ernie McCracken Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 16 minutes ago, South Stand Seagull said: Our CHs have just played SO bad. You can fairly critiqe Glass; however, the players are equally to blame. Defending a cross or a long ball is not the Managers fault. Now if he continues to play McCorie over Bates, then that’s the managers fault. But even then… our other CH has been abysmal. Yes you can blame glass and/or the management involved in signings. Devlin was resigned when we all knew we wouldnt be able to play. Gallagher was signed, so if he's not up to it, that is a failure to assess. Before Considines injury all the fans we pointing out that we needed more central defenders. It was fucking obvious. As we all knew that injuries are part and parcel of football. People have been saying for ages that McCrorie isn't good enough, and before yesterday we had no option (due to the managements decision to enter the season with fuck all centre backs), but even yesterday he had Bates and stuck with McCrorie. A catalogue of amateur decisions that even us fans can see a mile off. And that's just central defence!!! Glass is not up to it. Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 It would just be fine if Glass played guys where they are supposed to be. mccrorie needs to be dropped cause he’s not a centre back and there’s a stupid amount of similar players for midfield. ojo has proved that actually he can play football…. But he’s not a fucking winger. Get him dropped and play hayes or mcginn Link to comment
DD1903 Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 15 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said: It would just be fine if Glass played guys where they are supposed to be. mccrorie needs to be dropped cause he’s not a centre back and there’s a stupid amount of similar players for midfield. ojo has proved that actually he can play football…. But he’s not a fucking winger. Get him dropped and play hayes or mcginn Has he though? Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 12 minutes ago, DD1903 said: Has he though? Well he looks just as competent as the others….. which is massively unimpressive. squad is far too big. So many players of the same ability. You would think of a guy like Dylan mcgeouch can’t get on the bench then we must have some right good midfielders. But they are no better Link to comment
DD1903 Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 24 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said: Well he looks just as competent as the others….. which is massively unimpressive. squad is far too big. So many players of the same ability. You would think of a guy like Dylan mcgeouch can’t get on the bench then we must have some right good midfielders. But they are no better So no then Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said: It would just be fine if Glass played guys where they are supposed to be. mccrorie needs to be dropped cause he’s not a centre back and there’s a stupid amount of similar players for midfield. ojo has proved that actually he can play football…. But he’s not a fucking winger. Get him dropped and play hayes or mcginn McGinn is not a winger. He should’ve been released, along with a few others, in the summer. Link to comment
alscotoz Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Haven't really read these pages but Glass will be, at least, given the season. And I think he should. The worrying thing is the more things change, the more they appear to stay the same... Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 39 minutes ago, alscotoz said: Haven't really read these pages but Glass will be, at least, given the season. And I think he should. The worrying thing is the more things change, the more they appear to stay the same... Probably right. Obviously dependent on how things go though. If for example we don’t have a good Scottish Cup & have an early exit & are struggling to be in the top 6 after the January window, will he see out the season? Not so sure. It’s kind of going the way I expected it to Link to comment
Ten Caat Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 42 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said: Probably right. Obviously dependent on how things go though. If for example we don’t have a good Scottish Cup & have an early exit & are struggling to be in the top 6 after the January window, will he see out the season? Not so sure. It’s kind of going the way I expected it to If we draw a similar type team to Raith.......or even a bottom end SPL club and we get papped out then surely questions would need to be asked. Of course the way things are going right now, there's no clear evidence to say that we won't be a bottom end SPL club ourselves by the time the SC draw comes around. Which would need more questions asking. I suspect Glass himself might have a bit more integrity than McInnes and if he sees things aren't working, he might use his close relationship with Cormack to engineer a nice pay off under a "mutual consent" agreement. Of course I hope he turns things round and it doesn't come to this but things right now don't point to this happening. Link to comment
Joe pike Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 4 hours ago, Don_Corleone said: Several reasons for this… 1) Lewis is incapable of organising a defence and is letting in goals (and sometimes directly gifting goals) that he didn’t a few seasons back 2) our full backs are our only means of attack so they’re often way up the park and we get caught out with a big diagonal punt or ball into the channel 3) our midfielders, despite all being fairly defensively minded and constantly sitting right in front of the defence when we have the ball, seem to be providing very inadequate help to the defence when we don’t have the ball. 4) McCrorie is too erratic to play central defence - he dives in and is over enthusiastic and has very little positional sense. We’re caught out time and time again when long balls are played up in his direction 5) Gallagher is not as good as he thinks he is, or as Glass thinks he is. He was supposed to organise and shore things up at the back but from what I’ve seen he’s lacklustre and slow 6) we’re trying to play out from the back with a goalkeeper who’s useless at kicking 7) our passing is too slow and any balls forward are inaccurate, so although we have lots of possession it goes nowhere and allows the opponents to regroup theres 7 reasons for starters… Should add… it’s particularly worrying we’ve only 1 clean sheet considering we’ve not even played against the “better” teams yet At least we are seeing goals. 1 Link to comment
Joe pike Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 2 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said: McGinn is not a winger. He should’ve been released, along with a few others, in the summer. Agreed he looks finished. What's happening with Matty Kennedy? Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 14 minutes ago, Joe pike said: Agreed he looks finished. What's happening with Matty Kennedy? Not making the 18 & taking up a valuable wage. We’d save ourselves a fortune by not having him, McGinn, Devlin & McGeouch on the wage bill, and not one of them would be missed. They’ll be draining about £500k a year out the club. Link to comment
Millertime Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 4 hours ago, South Stand Seagull said: Our CHs have just played SO bad. You can fairly critiqe Glass; however, the players are equally to blame. Defending a cross or a long ball is not the Managers fault. Now if he continues to play McCorie over Bates, then that’s the managers fault. But even then… our other CH has been abysmal. It's his fault if he a) bought those defenders and 2) persists with them Link to comment
Millertime Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 2 hours ago, alscotoz said: Haven't really read these pages but Glass will be, at least, given the season. And I think he should. The worrying thing is the more things change, the more they appear to stay the same... Nothing is the same Mcinnes was hung out to dry in his last 6 months What he delivered, 2nd/3rd mostly or 4th is lightyears ahead of what glass looks capable of Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Needs some time to show if he can get a balanced side out of the squad. We've got ten new players so some time is justified. But managers only get 'at least three transfer windows' if they show signs that things are going to work out in a positive way so he needs to get it sorted fairly quickly, at least some of the basics which we seem incapable of carrying out presently. No one gets time if the results fall off a cliff. Not saying they will but he needs to be careful Link to comment
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