Welcome back Stephen Glass

[fine-n-dandy]

This managerial appointment could be on a par with Hearts laptop manager 

They quite quickly admitted their mistake though. When will we?

[Ernie McCracken]

I can accept people making mistakes. 

What I can't accept is them doing fuck all to rectify it once the mistake has been identified. 

Cormack has now had 8 days and done nothing!! 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

43 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Exactly.

Been saying the same - there’s no obvious style of play, or formation.

We’re also shite in both boxes.

He doesn’t have what it takes to fix either problem. His recruitment is also questionable. 

We need to cut our losses asap, admit the mistake & get someone in who CAN coach, organise & inspire a team. 

The sticking point is that Stephen Glass is Cormack’s man. He won’t want to lose face. 

Can’t help feeling Scott Brown would have a big role in that.  Would depend what side he fell on.

[fine-n-dandy]

Fantastic work done on the defensive work by Glass it must be said.

He dropped the biggest problem & admitted his main defensive target was not as good as he thought.

Sad that he was then forced to bring him on for injured Bates just to prove it was the correct call.

He managed to make Stevie May look like the May of a decade ago where he would run a mock up front on his own for St’s

 

[AyrshireSheep]

6 minutes ago, fine-n-dandy said:

This managerial appointment could be on a par with Hearts laptop manager 

They quite quickly admitted their mistake though. When will we?

They admitted their mistake and replaced him with a dinosaur that got them relegated ?. The problem is the entire football operation is Cormacks doing. Gunn as DoF? The guy has no experience at all in that role. If we get rid of Glass we need to re-think the whole thing. Can you see an experienced manager/coach reporting into a 2 bit puppet like Gunn? 

[redcryptoknight]

8 minutes ago, Ernie McCracken said:

I can accept people making mistakes. 

What I can't accept is them doing fuck all to rectify it once the mistake has been identified. 

Cormack has now had 8 days and done nothing!! 

You're clearly a pure fucking mentalist.

[Ernie McCracken]

3 minutes ago, redcryptoknight said:

You're clearly a pure fucking mentalist.

Classic response from a happy clapper. Nothing to defend their man with so attempt belittling to make criticism go away. 

Glass is done. Cormacks ego is only going to make this worse. 

[fine-n-dandy]

2 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

They admitted their mistake and replaced him with a dinosaur that got them relegated ?. The problem is the entire football operation is Cormacks doing. Gunn as DoF? The guy has no experience at all in that role. If we get rid of Glass we need to re-think the whole thing. Can you see an experienced manager/coach reporting into a 2 bit puppet like Gunn? 

Admitting mistake doesn’t always lead to the perfect solution/fix immediately 

We admitted McInnes was done (too late imo) but the attempt at fixing has been a failure at first effort it seems.

[redcryptoknight]

4 minutes ago, Ernie McCracken said:

Glass is done. Cormacks ego is only going to make this worse. 

He's not done. You're in complete denial of reality.

4 minutes ago, Ernie McCracken said:

Cormack has now had 8 days and done nothing!! 

Please, keep up this count of, "Days Cormack has done nothing!!" 

I'd like this to become an ongoing daily update if possible. 

[Ernie McCracken]

13 minutes ago, redcryptoknight said:

He's not done. You're in complete denial of reality.

Please, keep up this count of, "Days Cormack has done nothing!!" 

I'd like this to become an ongoing daily update if possible. 

Jesus Christ.  Its blatantly obvious that Glass is out of his depth, that is the reality. You don't want to admit, but it is. He will not turn this around. 

I'm in complete denial of reality because I said Glass is done ???

[WesthillWanderersFC]

42 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Can’t help feeling Scott Brown would have a big role in that.  Would depend what side he fell on.

Not sure what you’re suggesting here?.. 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Anyone else starting to wonder how good Qarabag actually were now that we understand how bad the dons are ?

 

a lot of us talking like they were Barcelona 2012. 

[ericblack4boss]

15 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Anyone else starting to wonder how good Qarabag actually were now that we understand how bad the dons are ?

 

a lot of us talking like they were Barcelona 2012. 

Qarabags European record tells you they aren't mugs

[RAZOR]

4 hours ago, ericblack4boss said:

I wonder if the players might do what hibs players did to John Collins, ie go the the chairman with concerns, though I think Colgate would take Glass side

Too late, we're already out the LC. Collins won it and still got hounded out.

[fine-n-dandy]

Going to be lucky to get to January window still in touching distance of euro places & even then I’m not sure Glass can be trusted to rectify the mess of a squad he has assembled. Not as if it’s just minor tweaks that will be needed & January is a shit window to source a lot of decent players.

That summer window will haunt Glass/Cormack for the full season

[fine-n-dandy]

Still cracks me up that Glass thinks us luddites of Scottish football don’t realise just how good a player JET is & that Gurr would surprise & excite us all with his abilities. As for the ‘real quality’ of Ramirez ? 

No wonder he also thought Jenks would be a great signing.

Brown was his only real successful signing so far but he was a reasonably safe bet & well established player.

Taking a close look at the vast majority of his signings really exposes his inexperience & poor assessment of what a team like Aberdeen needs. 
 

Bates potentially looks like he could be a reasonable enough find but his signing was basically a contingency because of Considine.

The attempts to sign Clark Robertson I would assume was to prevent McCrorie being made into a CH 

 

God awful first window 

[muttonhumper]

14 hours ago, mutant said:

Glass looking very nervy in interviews now, getting sick of hearing him say “we know what we’re trying to do and the fans know what we’re trying to do.”

same shit every week 

On the brink of a Groundhog Day that innit.

 

8 hours ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

We need to cut our losses asap, admit the mistake & get someone in who CAN coach, organise & inspire a team. 

The sticking point is that Stephen Glass is Cormack’s man. He won’t want to lose face. 

That sticking point will only maintain for so long.

Someone else said yesterday I think, that once how badly we are playing starts to increasingly eat  into how Cormack is perceived by the fans I think that sticking point is gone.

Yeah, acknowledged he may get a bit more time because of it, but don't see it being long term if things really do start to go off the edge of a cliff.

[DD1903]

Just watched Glass' post match interview - he reminds me of what McGhee was like when he was here. But, also reminded me of that Pedro boy at sevco, when he was feeling the pressure. 

[SDY]

Serious problem is Cormack and Wicks know fuck all about football, Gunn is just a puppet and Cormack has a family friendship with Glass. Somehow increased the budget again with a bloated squad and the individual players still look crap, as well as not especially motivated. Glass is going to leave us in a worse and more difficult position than he joined us in. Cormack thought he could get attacking football and all the rest of it by hiring er his mate from Atlanta B and all of his mates. It's going to get embarrassing. 

[Studebaker-90]

8 hours ago, fine-n-dandy said:

Going to be lucky to get to January window still in touching distance of euro places & even then I’m not sure Glass can be trusted to rectify the mess of a squad he has assembled. Not as if it’s just minor tweaks that will be needed & January is a shit window to source a lot of decent players.

That summer window will haunt Glass/Cormack for the full season

Euro places? Will be lucky not to be in a relegation scrap. 

[Tord31]

The day I knew Cormack, Gunn and Glass did not know what they were doing;

The day we signed Matty Longstaff. A, presumably, very expensive player in an area of the pitch that was our absolute lowest priority.

Absolute bonkers signing.

The four players that came in; Samuels, Watkins, Longstaff and Bates - we could have been a lot more smart with our final pennies.

A penalty box striker, a winger and Bates.

I do hope Watkins, Samuels and Longstaff prove their worth though.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Studebaker-90 said:

Euro places? Will be lucky not to be in a relegation scrap. 

We are 9/2 with Bet365 to finish bottom six.

Not the worst bet I have ever seen.

 

[sooth_stander]

7 hours ago, muttonhumper said:

On the brink of a Groundhog Day that innit.

 

That sticking point will only maintain for so long.

Someone else said yesterday I think, that once how badly we are playing starts to increasingly eat  into how Cormack is perceived by the fans I think that sticking point is gone.

Yeah, acknowledged he may get a bit more time because of it, but don't see it being long term if things really do start to go off the edge of a cliff.

I agree Cormack won’t allow this shitfest to get TOO much shitier but as was pointed out yesterday, if Glass does get the bullet, who the fuck is going to come in as new head coach and work under Steven Gunn; another inexperienced Cormack puppet who clearly is also out of his depth?

Fuck, a year ago, Gunn was doing the logistics of foreign travel and player registrations, now he’s running the entire football operation.

Frying pans, and fires. McInnes was a busted flush. Milne was an embarrassment. Now, we’ve exacerbated the situation and are locked into an arrangement with US investors who want their men in key positions 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 hour ago, Tord31 said:

The day I knew Cormack, Gunn and Glass did not know what they were doing;

The day we signed Matty Longstaff. A, presumably, very expensive player in an area of the pitch that was our absolute lowest priority.

Absolute bonkers signing.

The four players that came in; Samuels, Watkins, Longstaff and Bates - we could have been a lot more smart with our final pennies.

A penalty box striker, a winger and Bates.

I do hope Watkins, Samuels and Longstaff prove their worth though.

I’ll bet you now we won’t be looking to take up our option of signing Samuels permanently. 

To be fair to the land, our manager is playing him in a position he’s not comfortable in.

He’s a centre forward.

But the manager seems to ask players to play out of position, either through stubbornness, through poor management or through having an unbalanced squad. 

[thurso]

Look on the bright side we’ve lost less games than Celtic 

[sooth_stander]

All this comparisons with Ian Cathro…..

Yeah, shite manager but proven ability as a coach both before and since the Tynecastle shambles.

Glass, on the other hand…….

[thurso]

4 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

All this comparisons with Ian Cathro…..

Yeah, shite manager but proven ability as a coach both before and since the Tynecastle shambles.

Glass, on the other hand…….

What proven ability as a coach did he have 

[Parklife]

Just now, thurso said:

What proven ability as a coach did he have 

Cathro? He'd been an assistant to Nuno at Rio Ave & Valencia. 

[thurso]

6 minutes ago, Parklife said:

Cathro? He'd been an assistant to Nuno at Rio Ave & Valencia. 

Ah I see.
I don’t want to get into an argument but does that mean he has proven ability like mentioned, many people are coaches at clubs but when they go it alone you see how shit they really are. 

[Parklife]

2 minutes ago, thurso said:

Ah I see.
I don’t want to get into an argument but does that mean he has proven ability like mentioned, many people are coaches at clubs but when they go it alone you see how shit they really are. 

Well being employed by managers at big clubs (he's subsequently been with Benitez at Newcastle and nuno at wolves) would suggest he knows what he's doing. 

It's possible to be a good coach without being a good manager.