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Stephen Glass: What should we do?


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  1. 1. Stephen Glass: What do we do?

    • Sack him immediately
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    • If we lose to Dundee
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    • Review at end of October
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    • Give him the full season
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10 minutes ago, DelMonte said:

Nah, just not perma-raging. 

More MT than you but us getting zero points out of the next three games has to be as likely as us getting anything more than that and that is sad and so unnecessary. I’m not raging just irritated by blind faith. Neither SG nor DC have done anything football wise to merit any faith in them. DC has come over as a snake oil salesman and SG is sadly just not up to the job. 

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Glass coming out swinging punches. Usually, you’d just no comment stuff like Mondays Sportsound and Peter Hetherston’s  piece

 

Stephen Glass insists the notion he landed the Aberdeen job due to an old pals act with chairman Dave Cormack is insulting to the club.

The Dons chairman appeared on national radio on Monday to back his manager following a run of 10 games without a win and five straight defeats, which has left the club ninth in the Scottish Premiership.

Cormack insists Glass retains the backing of the board at Pittodrie despite the run of poor results and rejected the idea the appointment was made because of anything other than the former midfielder’s qualification for the job.

Glass knows he cannot shake off that perception, given the duo were both based in Atlanta prior to his return to Scotland, but he is intent on repaying the support shown in him at Pittodrie.

He said: “Firstly, if the results don’t go right, they’ll believe they’re right.

“But I think it’s an insult to a lot of people. The chairman is not a single guy who picks the manager at this football club. I don’t think that’s ever going to be the case.

“There’s a group of people on the board who picked the previous manager and stuck by him and did very well for the club. Now they’ve chosen to put me in.

“It’s insulting to a lot of people and to be honest, there’s a clear agenda. I understand it, I accept it and I’ll try to prove the people right who believe in me.”

Dons boss grateful for boardroom backing

The Dons boss stopped short of going into detail on what that agenda is, but it is clear he believes it is his turn to be in the firing line, with the radio interview with Cormack in particular highlighting what he believes is a drive to push him out of the club.

20279136_41065512-612x372.jpg Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack.

He said: “His personality is to stand up for the club and the whole club feels the benefit of having a chairman like that. He showed that the other night.

“I listened to the show. I don’t listen to anything else, but I knew he was going to be on it.

“It sounded very much like they were pushing the chairman towards saying he should be sacking me.

“But he held strong to his belief that we are the right group of people to lead the club and the players are capable of getting ourselves out of the hole that we’re in at the moment.

“It was a bit surreal really. Listening to a radio show where basically the guys are trying to provoke the chairman by saying we think you should sack your manager.

“A little bit surreal. But you’re Aberdeen manager, you are not getting the results. I know it goes with the territory and I accept it.

“The support is appreciated. I hope to repay it. Only we can change the results and only we can change people’s ability to question us like that.”

When asked if he believes the agenda is from the media, Glass said: “No, the media is a big group of people.

“I know there are a lot of right-minded people in the media and there are a lot of people who are shock jocks if you like, and their job is to provoke and make noise.

“If it is not me it will be another manager. It is pretty evident there are people out there and that’s their job.”

Critics are ill-informed

Glass’ former Dons team-mate Peter Hetherston is among those to criticise Glass’ appointment, claiming the Dons boss is not ruthless enough for the job and is too nice.

The Aberdeen manager, not one for paying much heed to articles, has taken note of Hetherston’s remarks.

He said: “Someone sent me that article last night. It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest and it doesn’t surprise because of who wrote it.

“But it goes with the territory. You lose games and you open yourself up to criticism.

“There is a personal insult in there from someone I’ve not spoken to for 25 years.

“He must be a hell of a good judge of character if he can judge me from distance, not having spoken to me for 25 years. That’s all I’ll say on that.”

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27 minutes ago, Roberto said:

He said what most Aberdeen fans are thinking or have said.

The comment about his character years ago I thought was below the belt, but the rest I've seen written on here daily.

The bit about Glass was nonsense. He doesn't know him or anything about him. Yet we had folk saying it was "100% correct" ?

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1 hour ago, Parklife said:

The bit about Glass was nonsense. He doesn't know him or anything about him. Yet we had folk saying it was "100% correct" ?

The bit about Glass wasn’t right but just about everything else was. 

He’s not said anything that the majority on here haven’t already said.

The quicker this is all over the better, as he’s not got the capabilities to turn this around.

His past record, and the fact we are getting worse, with no sign of improvement, shows that. 

Cormack’s defence is admirable, but rabble rousing on the radio & calling McIntyre a hun bastard (whilst good) isn’t going to change my opinion that we have a head coach who’s out of his depth & slowly drowning. 

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12 minutes ago, Roberto said:

As I said above, as a club we seem to just talk alot of shit in the press.

It's always the same before a big game or a cup final. 'We are going to do this and that', and we fail.

Don't talk to the press, and when you do, have a Scott Brown mentality of just being wide as fuck. The media want to see us fail so give them no fucking words. Just win fucking games, then the fans will respect you.

Yep. Same old pish being wheeled out in the red tv interviews with Ferguson and hedges. Let's see how it goes Saturday. Im not confident

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37 minutes ago, Roberto said:

As I said above, as a club we seem to just talk alot of shit in the press.

It's always the same before a big game or a cup final. 'We are going to do this and that', and we fail.

Don't talk to the press, and when you do, have a Scott Brown mentality of just being wide as fuck. The media want to see us fail so give them no fucking words. Just win fucking games, then the fans will respect you.

It has been like that for decades. A pathetic loser mentality and no real ambition. Just also-rans nowadays. Blabbing away to the press-they would be better off keeping quiet.

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2 hours ago, DD1903 said:

All this is moot. From reading glass' latest comments, it appears he intends to stay on, and Dave isn't for sacking him, clearly. we're stuck with him...

Also, he looks bloody terrible - drawn in, tired, massive dark rings under his eyes. feeling the pressure.

A couple more home defeats v the Edinburgh sides sandwiching a horsing by the hun cunts, a squad of irate fans making a very public protest outside the mainer at full time and surely to fuck Glass will do the honourable thing. And if he doesn't then Cormack would surely take the decision out of his hands.

I can envisage us beating Hibs this weekend....probably not in any great style mind you.........and that would probably buy Glass a few more weeks. But it's definitely only kicking the can down the road. 

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11 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

A couple more home defeats v the Edinburgh sides sandwiching a horsing by the hun cunts, a squad of irate fans making a very public protest outside the mainer at full time and surely to fuck Glass will do the honourable thing. And if he doesn't then Cormack would surely take the decision out of his hands.

I can envisage us beating Hibs this weekend....probably not in any great style mind you.........and that would probably buy Glass a few more weeks. But it's definitely only kicking the can down the road. 

I hope we do.
 

But I don't see it, sadly. it'll be the same as per the last few weeks...Ball over the top, into the space left by the fullbacks, for martin boyle to run on to. Square ball for nisbett. Goal. 

And repeat with sevco and hearts (but with different players, obviously).

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Wouldn't be surprised if the Hibs game ends in a draw. Won't get the uproar that a defeat would cause, but won't really get any cause for optimism. Just prolonging the pain. Would avoid a 6 game losing streak but continues the non winning streak to 11 or something. 

Glass said in his interview that other people think it's a crisis, so clearly he doesnt think losing 5 games on the bounce, not winning in 10 and keeping just 1 clean sheet in 22 is not a crisis. He thinks it's just all down to individual mistakes.

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3 hours ago, DD1903 said:

Also, he looks bloody terrible - drawn in, tired, massive dark rings under his eyes. feeling the pressure.

No doubt about that, looking grey as fuck too, in the hair dept and facially.

DC won’t be happy if and when Glass chucks the towel in, given his financial and emotional investment. But I’m sure they can come up with some contrived explanation or other; eg, kids health being affected, which is the explanation DC gave us in 2001 for his own hasty return to USA.

 

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5 minutes ago, Don_Corleone said:

Wouldn't be surprised if the Hibs game ends in a draw. Won't get the uproar that a defeat would cause, but won't really get any cause for optimism. Just prolonging the pain. Would avoid a 6 game losing streak but continues the non winning streak to 11 or something. 

Glass said in his interview that other people think it's a crisis, so clearly he doesnt think losing 5 games on the bounce, not winning in 10 and keeping just 1 clean sheet in 22 is not a crisis. He thinks it's just all down to individual mistakes.

Yep. He and Cormack are convinced we've just been unlucky and it's all going to click soon. 

Based on possession stats and the quality of 'unit work' by the sounds of it. 

Plus some theory that the opposition are taking too many of the gilt edged chances we are giving them! 

Big couple of weeks ahead for both of them. 

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Remember bumping into "Silky"  when he was staggering about with full Tuxedo on.  Probably just lost a heap at the International casino.  He was a decent bloke and said he was pretty much playing through injuries.  But agree he was piss for us.  Decent player for Raith though and on paper a good signing.

Really poor journalism getting a quote from him as he will be severely out of touch with all things AFC.

 

Come on Stephen, get the points on the board tomorrow lad.

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7 minutes ago, Don_Corleone said:

Wouldn't be surprised if the Hibs game ends in a draw. Won't get the uproar that a defeat would cause, but won't really get any cause for optimism. Just prolonging the pain. Would avoid a 6 game losing streak but continues the non winning streak to 11 or something. 

Glass said in his interview that other people think it's a crisis, so clearly he doesnt think losing 5 games on the bounce, not winning in 10 and keeping just 1 clean sheet in 22 is not a crisis. He thinks it's just all down to individual mistakes.

Aye, a 0-0 draw would get two monkeys off his back, but alas, two or three more still up there.

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1 minute ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Yep. He and Cormack are convinced we've just been unlucky and it's all going to click soon. 

Based on possession stats and the quality of 'unit work' by the sounds of it. 

Big couple of weeks ahead for both of them. 

I think they're looking too much at the stats rather than watching the actual game. Of course the stats suggest we should be winning - if you have more possession and more shots you would expect to win most times. But the reality is it's kinda aimless possession, and the "shots" are rarely drawing good saves from opposition keepers (most of them are sclaffs or mishits that go miles wide of the goals). Basically if you watch the games you'd see that we rarely look like scoring, and we always look like conceding. Obviously if we start finding a way to use the possession better, and also improve the accuracy of our shooting / finishing, and work out a way to tighten up at the back then things might turn, but he's had plenty time to get these things sorted already and week after week he fails to do so. 

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On the Hetherston comment, I did think Glass would be a bit of a soft touch when he came in, but from listening to him in interviews, his reactions in games to change things around when things weren't going our way (seems to have lessened as the seasons gone on mind you) and the way he will fight his corner at the dugout suggests he's not as quiet as I initially thought he was. 

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Just now, jamiesd said:

Remember bumping into "Silky"  when he was staggering about with full Tuxedo on.  Probably just lost a heap at the International casino.  He was a decent bloke and said he was pretty much playing through injuries.  But agree he was piss for us.  Decent player for Raith though and on paper a good signing.

Really poor journalism getting a quote from him as he will be severely out of touch with all things AFC.

 

Come on Stephen, get the points on the board tomorrow lad.

How many ex Dons team mates of Glass do you think the Record trawled round before picking up Hetherston?

Clearly, the boy is down on his luck and needed the £100 he got bunged for that piece of shit article.

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3 hours ago, DD1903 said:

All this is moot. From reading glass' latest comments, it appears he intends to stay on, and Dave isn't for sacking him, clearly. we're stuck with him...

Also, he looks bloody terrible - drawn in, tired, massive dark rings under his eyes. feeling the pressure.

Well going by what Cormack and Glass have been saying recently, about the coaching staff working long hours, in at 7am and leaving late, them having to do all the recruitment as the guy in that job was "off sick" for months and the new recruiter wasn't in till late, and the pressure of the results, i';m not surprised he's feeling it and visible on his face. 

It took years off McInnes as well. 

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5 hours ago, Parklife said:

The bit about Glass was nonsense. He doesn't know him or anything about him. Yet we had folk saying it was "100% correct" ?

Think I've got the message now min. I was wrong about Daily Retard comments attributed to Hetherston and you were right.

However the general theme, whether it be on this site or in the media at large, is that Cormack's pal is, unfortunately, too inexperienced and way out of his depth.

My concern is that Cormack will let this shit show go on for too long, endangering our place in the top division and our ability to hire a decent manager willing to work under him going forwards.

 

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