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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

You’re comparing apples and pears HaarDon. Celtic have spent about £23M in the last six months. I’d have fancied my own chances of being a success with that budget. If a foreign manager comes in you may have language issues, he won’t know the league, the players, the culture basically. Remember we are also shopping in Lidl, not Harrods. We’re not gonna be after Ancelotti, Simeone or Pochettino. Would you be happy with someone you have never heard of who just finished fourth in the league in Finland or Belarus? Foreign managers at provincial clubs in Scotland have usually ended in a complete disaster.

You can’t be signing Scottish internationals then taking in someone from league one to coach them. Assuming Brown is staying on, it needs to be someone he has respect for as you would assume he carries a fair bit of weight amongst the dressing room.

This time we have to go low risk and just make sure we get a steady pair of hands. With a half decent manager this group of players should be at least fourth in the league. We’ve done the young manager thing. I want to see someone who’s been round the block a few times and knows what he is doing. Going foreign would be plain stupid. For me he also has to have managed in the Scottish top flight before otherwise you are giving yourself a handicap straight from the off. It also has to be someone with no ties/affinity to the old firm because as we have seen from McInnes, McGhee, Calderwood etc the fans just do not accept these guys. Also if I hear Cormack come out and say he consulted “Sir Alex” during the prawcess I will scream.

Keep seeing folk using the word experiment. Why was appointing Glass an experiment? Anyway I can forgive a crap appointment, every chairman makes one now and again. When you realise it was a mistake though, just hold your hand up and make a change.

Big difference for me from last season is how the fans interpret things. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at Pittodrie to see exactly who does what and each persons responsibilities because let’s be honest, we all think we know but we don’t really have a clue what goes on day to day. Last season when things started to go pear shaped it was blamed on the managers tactics, the managers recruitment, the managers training methods. Glass has had a pretty easy ride from the fans. The bad signings are being blamed on not having a recruitment guy in on time, the striking coach specialist is blamed for us not scoring enough goals and even the guy Henry whatshisname was being blamed for the tactics the other night. The director of football also took a bit of flak on here the other night.

Think I am right in saying our entire starting line up has played for their country either at full, under 21 or under 18/19 level.

Come on Glasser, give us a reason to believe in you. We are long overdue a home win against this lot. 2-1 Besuijen,Forrest, Ferguson (Hart to have a nightmare)

Ross did a decent job at Sunderland then took Hibs to third and to two cup finals, I'd take that over fighting to make the top half of the league. Why you would want Glass in charge for next season is beyond me. I'm sure you said at the start of the season there was no way we would finish sixth?