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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?

The damning thing about this season is that the old firm and Hearts aside, the rest of the teams in this league have been honking yet we are still struggling to make the top 6. Failure to beat the crap teams in the league has a horrible resemblance to how we were back in the days of Ebbe and Alec Miller. I hope the signings of Polvara and Besuijen are not just Nigel Pepper and Andy Dow in disguise. We have 14 games left of the season. Get in Jack Ross now and let him get an early start on his preparations for next season. Blaming Cormack IMO is totally wrong. He has backed Glass to the hilt. Not only has he had free reign to bring in 14 new players, he has also managed to hold on to Ferguson and Ramsay when he could have taken the cash for them.

Very difficult for a team with any kind of aspiration of success to develop young players, as a manager you just do not get time. As we are seeing right now at the Dons, if you drop to 7th or 8th in the table the fans want you sacked so why would you jeopardise your job as a manager just to fill the team with a few youngsters? It's fine if you are Motherwell or St Mirren and nobody really cares whether you finish 10th in the league, there is no pressure. That's why it is very rare to see a young player coming through the youth set up at Celtic, Rangers, Man Utd, City etc. It only happened for Chelsea a couple of years ago due to their transfer ban which forced them into using their youngsters.

Ok, I’m not convinced Rico. Tell that to the guy who Gallagher battered with a baseball bat who had a bleeding brain and 20 odd staples to fix his head wounds. It’s like arguing whether paedos or murderers are worse, there’s no real point. Why it is ok for Gallagher to represent Scotland and the Dons but Goodwillie gets it in the neck over signing for Raith is beyond me. Both are total animals, just monsters.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course and what Goodwillie did was awful. For me, the issue this brings is how bad does the crime have to be before you are no longer allowed to do your job again? Is what Goodwillie did deemed to be worse than what Declan Gallagher did, which he spent three years inside for? Yet, Gallagher plays in our first team and has been capped for Scotland in recent months. Just playing devils advocate here but supposing he was a car mechanic, should he never be allowed to be a mechanic again? Gazza allegedly beat up his wife yet is widely acclaimed. Just for curiosity, I was searching for a Goodwillie thread on this site last night to gauge the feel for when he was our player and seems a number of our fans were quite happy to have him at the beginning so none of us should get too high and mighty over this one.

Undoubtedly fans bum up their own players a bit and make out they are better than what they are BigAl. Having said that, Ramsay and Ferguson are good prospects and we will get a decent wedge for each of them in time. It does come across like clubs hate buying and selling in January unless they really have to, either to avoid relegation or if they are pushing for the title. An awful lot of January deals are loans, with teams unwilling to commit to either buying or selling. I think we will see Fergie move on in the summer, hopefully Ramsay sticks around for a while. If he can get a few caps we might get a bit more for him. I do think we should have been more pro-active in replacing Hedges properly, not convinced this Dutch dude will be the answer.