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Sorted that one for you SeaBass

Seen a couple of Southampton games recently and Stuart Armstrong has hit a real purple patch, looking like a proper player. Hope he gets a chance for the national team.

Loving the positive vibe Panda min and sincerely hope we can be challenging for Europe. I’ll whisper this but part of me is wondering whether we should actually be preying for a St Mirren win tonight. If Dundee win we are two points closer to a relegation play off. Strange old season this one.

Disappointed to hear about this. We have lost a lot of experience in the last few months with Logan, McGinn and now Brown leaving. Other than Hayes, Lewis and Considine, we are struggling for proper senior players. In theory, Barron should have been playing alongside Brown to learn his trade instead of just replacing him. We also have very few players in the squad and the backroom team who have actually won anything and just having Brown there to try to instil that winning mentality/habit would have been useful.

Two striking things about that line up. One, it’s back to the old triangular pegs, hexagonal holes with Hayes and Ojo at full back when we have MacKenzie and Ramsay on the bench. Peculiar. Two, seems like only a few months back we had about a million central midfield players, now we are having to play a young inexperienced loon in there at Ibrox. Horrible feeling about this one. First time in a while I have looked at our team sheet and realised why we are so far down the league. Hoping for a backs to the wall 0-0.

Not arguing there BigAl but the penalty we got last night was embarrassing. Ferguson should be cringing watching that back. Blatant dive. Don’t want to be seeing our players doing that stuff no matter how badly we need a goal.

Looking like a really intriguing relegation battle down there. I suspect Norwich have too much to do but from Woy’s Watford right up to Newcastle in 14th it could be any two from those. Amazing how teams that have been rotten all season suddenly start winning just as the fat lady is limbering up. Leeds goal difference is shocking.

Every club has a bad spell from time to time. It's life as a fitba fan. We have just come off a spell where we qualified for Europe seven years in a row. Do you think Rangers fans enjoyed the third division or Man City fans liked having to be in a play off with Gillingham? If you want to see your team win 8-0 every week and cannot accept defeats just buy a Bayern Munich shirt and stop watching the Dons.

Not saying that fourth should not be the target Panda but the word expectation for me is a bit strong. We have been rubbish all season with radio Scotland on Saturday saying had we lost to Motherwell it would have been the worst points total to date since back in the Steve Paterson era. Heard someone say the other day that we should as a minimum, be finishing third in the league and winning the odd cup. I mean we can all dream but if you put on the sensible hat for a second that is really the maximum a Dons manager can achieve, not the minimum expectation. It would take something pretty spectacular for us to ever finish higher than third and that is not being defeatist, it is being realistic of where things are at in our league with the gulf in finance between us and the top two. I don't buy that we are in transition at all. Most of these players have been there since August and have played over 30 games together this season. Whether they are good enough players is a whole different argument.

Nah, I know Jute. I was just taking the piss. His interview seems a bit knee jerk considering if they were to win their games in hand he would be a point off the Champions League placings. Thought he had a bit more fight in him than that.

Aye, definitely time to go. Imagine being 8th in the league, three points off 5th

Shoring up the defence has to be the priority and get back to being difficult to beat. Got to watch the expectation level too though. Glass took over a team who were in 4th and people said we were in transition, he needed to rebuild, give him a few windows to get in his own players and so on. Goodwin is coming in with a team in 8th, can’t buy anyone and is being expected to finish 3rd straight away? We’ve not appointed Fabio Capello, just the boy from St Mirren

Here goes then, all the best Jim. About time we had a good win

I knew Data Dave would keep it hush hush while the details were being sorted out

I said it was pedantic dismissing Lennon's trophy wins were simply because he had a big budget at Celtic. You might as well argue that Fergie won 13 league titles at Man Utd because he had a big budget.

We'd be third in the league if you base it on goal attempts Slim https://spfl.co.uk/stats-centre

A good playing style is idealistic crap unless you have the luxury of De Bruyne, Messi and Salah in your team. If we have learnt anything in the last 12 months it is that winning football is what fans want. None of us have liked our team losing despite having hundreds of goal attempts and loads of possession. If we went to Ibrox and Parkhead and won four times in the season you wouldn't care what style of football we were playing.

Jesus, we're getting a bit pedantic now boys. We're not having anybody that's had any kind of success out with their budget eh? Here's one for you then........Tommy Wright. He only won the cup with St Johnstone and was in the top half of the league for the most part. In my book that would be punching above your weight by St Johnstone's standards but the guy's not good enough for us. He has had more success than Goodwin and Ross combined but most of you would turn your nose up at the prospect.

You’re being a bit harsh on Ross there. Finished third with Hibs, their highest for a number of years and also took them to two cup finals. This season was undoubtedly poor like. He also made the playoff final with Sunderland and they were in decent shape when he left. Goodwin has had a couple of seasons at St Mirren and managed a 9th and 7th so hardly pulling up trees but he seems to be highly rated so time will tell I guess.

I take your point about being ambitious Orlando but I hope we don't go down the route of someone who has never managed before, these guys should be making their mistakes further down the food chain before arriving at Pittodrie. We're better than that. If we'd even consider someone like Duncan Ferguson or Darren Fletcher then why not just give the job to Barry Robson, Russell Anderson or Scott Brown? We've done the inexperienced manager and it's made us far worse. He's a big name (literally), yes, but he was the biggest joke figure at Man Utd. He spent a horrendous amount of money and still produced a shite team. Yes, he's managed in the Champions League and he was mince in that too. Even if we could afford him, what on earth is the attraction? If he could not make a decent team with a host of international players and a budget which was practically unlimited, why on earth should we be considering him?

Ebbe was funny but remember how crap we actually were with him in charge? We finished bottom of the league at one stage. The issue I have with a manager from overseas is it is so difficult to judge their past successes because we have little knowledge about the leagues they operate in. People are being suggested based on reading about someone on Wikipedia and at the same time people who have actually won things or reached finals in Scotland or are being totally dismissed. If Callum Davidson was Swedish he would probably be top of the fans wanted list. Nothing against foreign managers but at provincial clubs in Scotland has it ever worked having one in charge over a sustained period? It has usually been a total shambles.

"Lambo" comes across on tele as a droll boring bugger but for what he has done in the game would surely command instant respect from the players, much more so than Glass. He also knows how to conduct himself properly which is important, unlike some names mentioned such as Lennon and Big Dunc. I love Dunc's attitude and it would be great to imagine him pinning Gallagher up against the dressing room wall for failure to play the offside trap properly but not sure he is really the type I want as the face of our club.

Does that even really happen though Rico? Not saying it wouldn't at a club like Keith, Deveronvale or Cove but at a higher profile club like ours is there really normally a proper recruitment/interview/selection prawcess? Unless we throw in a real curve ball appointment, the people at Pittodrie must know who they want and could just go out and approach someone. I'm sure that must happen at most clubs. Did the Huns wait until a flood of CVs came through the door before approaching Van Bronkhorst, I doubt it. I'd be surprised if we have ever appointed a manager after he sent us a CV. I take your points above but think you are massively over complicating the whole thing. We have, some may disagree, a decent squad of players, most of whom have played international football of some description. There is not a massive recruitment job needed, we are unlikely to be relegated this season, the club is on a decent financial footing, we have a new training ground. Get someone in who knows what they are doing and just crack on. We've mucked about too long and gone out of the last three domestic cup competitions with a whimper. All this director of football, recruitment manager stuff is just smoke and mirrors. We're not Man Utd or Bayern Munich, we just need someone to coach the players and pick a team on a Saturday.

Said this last time we were looking for a manager and the same applies this time around, why on earth are we needing an interim appointment? This sacking has hardly come out of the blue, Cormack must have been pondering it for weeks. Surely he should have been doing the spade work before now and had someone ready to just walk in the door. You don't need to have fired the guy before you starting talking to others on the quiet, I don't think anyone is naive enough to think it doesn't happen in other clubs so why are we so different? Villa fired Dean Smith and his seat was hardly cold before Stevie G was in there.

Hoping not to read the words Scott Brown and player manager mentioned anywhere in the next few days