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Fox sacked on Sunday. Goodwin appointed on Wednesday. Really not that difficult a "prawcess".

Seemingly cost 38 million euros to build, 18 years ago In today's money that is a lot of Ramsay's, Cosgrove's and McKenna's.

Looking at their last accounts, United desperately need to stay in the SPL.

I see it’s £20 on BT pay per view so there must be an appetite for it I suppose, SeaBass. I’m guessing most avid boxing fans won’t be interested but it may capture the imagination of the man on the street. Trying to think of a similar situation in footballing terms. If next weekend the Dons played against a celebrity select side and marketed it heavily, I’d hazard a guess they would get a decent crowd, probably more than yesterday’s Livi game actually. It’s fine as a one-off but on this occasion I’ll keep my £20 firmly in my wallet.

51 goals conceded in 26 games. Our defence is mince no matter what formation comes out of the tombola. May as well just stick three up top and take our chance trying to score more goals than Livi. 4-3 to the Dons. Duk with a last minute winner after being 3-0 down.

We’ve rolled the dice twice and gone from regularly being in Europe to being 7th and pumped out of the cup in January by part timers. Cormack’s strategy so far has failed spectacularly, he could barely have made a bigger mess of it if he had tried to. If mediocrity means being in the mix for the European places again and the odd trip to Hampden then I’d take that.

I think you are massively overcomplicating it, Rico. If Cormack wants to employ someone in his software business, he doesn't go scouring Japan and Australia for potential candidates. Nor does Stewart Milne if he wanted to recruit someone for a top job in his building company. He would look at the applications, talk to people he knows that he can trust and use his knowledge of what he has seen in the industry. I don't know whether there is an outstanding candidate or even whether there needs to be actually, our club is probably at a level where we could not attract such a person. There are though several people who have taken the reigns at clubs in Scotland and done a decent job who, with the budget available to them, would be well capable of taking our team higher up the table. We are not after all, looking for somebody who will win us the Champions League, just a safe pair of hands to get us into Europe and challenge for the odd cup. I think a lot of our support are looking for what you might call a sexy appointment but in actual fact we really just need someone boring and reliable who is not going to be in danger of being knocked out of the cup by Darvel. I am not suggesting appointing on OAP but I would interested to know whether Craig Brown applied for the job after Mark McGhee left. I suspect we just knew who we wanted and went out and got him. It's surely not that difficult and not something that needs to take weeks and months.

All we can hope for is that Cormack uses his brain in this next appointment. My worry is that he will do something silly thinking he can somehow win the league if he finds a hidden gem. I hope he takes all applications from outside of these shores and puts them straight in the bin. Doing a google a search to find a manager from the Japanese league with a good win percentage is no way to be selecting someone to manage in Aberdeen. It is a total needle in a haystack job. Getting someone in who knows the league, players, culture and language has to be the way to go. We are seventh in the league and the last couple of months having been nothing short of embarrassing. The results against Darvel, Hearts and Hibs were even worse than back in the days of Alex Miller, Ebbe and Steve Paterson. Personally, I would take Souness as manager with a backroom team of Durrant and Kris Boyd if it meant we would actually starting winning games again.

Disagree totally. If we could get a manager with Strachan’s pedigree we should not be hesitating. Total no brainer for me.

Don’t know where you’re coming from there, wee toon Red. I agree with every word above, they need to just crack on and appoint someone experienced ASAP. Really not sure what they are waiting for.

Not a rugby watcher so can I ask a serious question to someone who I assume is? I had to do a google search in the interests of curiosity after reading your post because the above named did not sound very Scottish. How is it viewed by rugby fans to have non-Scots playing for the national team? We obviously have the grandparent rule in fitba where players like Che Adams can play but I take it this rugby guy has absolutely no Scottish blood in his body at all?

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Yes, if you don't do it in the right way that may happen but get them training with the first team and introduce them gradually. I'm not saying stick in 7 youngsters and play them for the next 15 games but the likes of Considine, Anderson and Diamond all played a good few games well before they were 20. I'd far rather watch a team with containing two or three of our youngsters than a team with five or six of another club's players in it being equally as shite.

I don't have a clue what the youth team set up is Panda but is that not supposed to be the theory as to how the system works within the club with a pathway from the bottom up towards the first team? If you were a 17 year old centre half for example in the youth team and saw in the summer that Considine and Gallagher were both released you would be rubbing your hands thinking you would get your big chance. Now Stewart has gone as well but we have brought in what looks like two stop gaps in Pollock and MacDonald. That to me is a bit of a slap in the face to the youngsters hoping to make a breakthrough. If the young guys are nowhere near good enough to get in the first team then that is a failure of the system because surely all of the 16-18 year olds should be knocking the door down to get into that first team by the time they are that age.

We should not need to be playing Hayes and Kennedy out of position at left and right back/wing back whatever the hell we call it nowadays. Back in the day , you would always be giving a young lad the chance to impress if you did not have your recognised first choice player available. Why are we not pitching in one of our youngsters at full back given that Richardson is obviously not fancied and Coulsen is away in the summer. Not necessarily away to Celtic like but between now and the end of the season. The season has basically finished for us anyway, give a few young lads some game time. Surely more to gain doing that than sticking square pegs in round holes or having a team with about 5 or 6 loanees in the starting line up.

I wonder if this appointment pushes Stephen Robinson up the list on the next manager front?

Happy to be proven wrong but I would be staggered if Wilder would come up here. Of late he has managed in the EPL and with Middlesbrough in the Championship and in financial terms I cannot imagine he'd be in our stratosphere. Middlesbrough have regularly bought players for £2M-£3M, they must have been paying Wilder something like £20,000-£30,000 a week? They get crowds of 25,000 down there. Most of the time we are signing players from leagues one and two on frees. He could easily get another gig in the English Championship so with the best will in the world, what would be his motivation for being interested? For me it goes back to being realistic with our targets. A lot of our fans (and I also think our chairman thinks the same) have wild ideas about us being some sleeping giant club but we're not. Our average attendances are fifth in the country by some distance. I just cannot see why someone like Wilder, Hughton, Bruce or Solskjaer would be remotely interested but time will tell I suppose.

Growing up there was something iconic about Billy Thomson in that green goalie top. He was the only keeper I can remember that used to wear trousers. A nostalgic throw back to when it seemed like players spent most of their career with one club. I know he was with St Mirren but for me, as a bairn, I just picture him as being the Dundee United goalie in the era where we had Jim Leighton, Rangers had Chris Woods, Hearts had Henry Smith and Pat Bonner at Celtic.

Billy Thomson, ex-utd goalie. Aged 64.

An intriguing comment. What difference could it possibly make to have a manager with "no links to the old firm". What even does that mean and what is the qualifying criteria? Is that someone who has managed the old firm, played for them or just has a blue or green scarf in the cupboard at home? Ferguson, Aitken and McInnes had all been old firm players and managed to win us silverware. Jimmy Calderwood and Alex McLeish were self confessed Rangers fans but both did not bad for us. Barry Robson has been with both sides of the OF, but I see you are proposing him as assistant manager . Johnny Hayes played for Celtic, Ross McCrorie for Rangers, should we sell them? Graeme Shinnie's brother was with Rangers at one point, does that qualify? Presumably he should be nowhere near the captaincy of Aberdeen for that reason. The old firm are not even our present day rivals. We have aspirations to be the third best team in Scotland, our rivals for that position are Hibs and Hearts.

Is Yorkie bringing Jordan up with him? Sure she would pick up the teuchter dialect pretty quickly. The last couple of managerial appointments have been a fair couple of boobs On a serious note, how does this actually make it into the papers, it just makes the deluded amongst our support even worse. I am surprised I have not heard anyone suggest Fergie as director of football with his loon as manager.

The club is a joke at the moment. Realistically we could be fielding a team for the rest of the season where our goalie is on loan, 3 of the back 4 are on loan, a loanee in central midfield and a temporary manager. Ironically it is the sort of thing you normally hear about a wee team after they have caused a massive cup upset. They’ll be pulling folk out of the main stand shortly and asking them if they can be on the subs bench. We’ve gone from having a supposedly excellent scouting system where we are covering the whole football world extensively with great data analysis to, it seems, a system where we are signing literally, anyone. What is going on?

In reality Panda, 99% of football managers leave their jobs acrimoniously as they usually end up getting the sack eventually. I have seen this "he's a dinosaur" thing trotted out so many times before, it's a joke. People over analyse things. Football is the same game it was 50 years ago, the things surrounding it have changed and the finances unquestionably, the rest not so much. Going by reports today, it's unlikely Lennon is in the frame but his CV is on another level to anyone else being talked about. Last time I checked our club had won two trophies in over 30 years, Lennon has won 12 as a manager and 13 as a player in the same time. I don't understand why anyone would want Danny Cowley or Chris Wilder over that. It's like comparing Joe Miller and Roberto Baggio. Don't get me wrong, I like Barry Robson and some day he might be a good manager but our club is too big for on the job training. We're not Inverurie Locos or Brora Rangers where the ex-player might be given a crack at the top job to see how he gets on. If the Stephen Glass saga told us anything it was that this job is far too big to be anyone's first managerial role. It's true that there is always a bit of luck involved Rico but you have to take as much of that out of the equation as possible and give yourself the best chance of getting the right bloke first time. We have wasted two seasons by making two poor appointments. Just minimise the risk and go with someone tried and tested. This is not an industry where you normally advertise a job and you go through dozens of CVs. Cormack, Milne, Gunn, whoever is involved in appointing the new man have a decent enough knowledge of the managers out there, or other chairman certainly do. How long did it take for Rangers to appoint Beale after Gerrard left or Everton to appoint Dyche after Lampard had been punted. It's really not a process that needs to take weeks and months. Nobody is working their notice at their old job until they take up a new post like in other walks of life.

That's just a bizarre viewpoint that I cannot get my head around and from what I am hearing/reading you are not the only one suggesting it Panda. Why would you put a total novice in most important job at the club and just see what happens? It would not happen in any other walk of life. People on here scoff at the idea of appointing people who have actually won trophies like a Tommy Wright, John Hughes, Callum Davidson yet they would be happy to chuck in someone who has never been a manager before and if he does ok for half a dozen games just give him the job. I mean, really?

There is an incredible lack of foresight by the board on this, stretching right back to when McInnes was fired in March 2021. Anyone with half a brain could see that the McInnes era was coming to a close and suspected that Cormack wanted his own man in. In the lead up to that surely you would have thought the board would have earmarked who they wanted instead of having to go through the shit show that was the Glass interview process. It took a month and a half to get Glass in the door for his first game therefore we effectively wrote off the Scottish cup that season and the end of the league campaign. The same has happened again. It must have been pretty clear a month ago that Goodwin was going to be fired at some stage so why are we now content to wait months to appoint a replacement? Again, they could have identified who they wanted weeks ago and assuming it is someone unemployed, just get the guy in place. We are writing off the season half way through just due to a lack of planning. Fans who have paid hundreds for a season ticket are going to watch a team and manager who are not really bothered for the rest of the season. It's poor. Of the names on the bookies list, I'd break the bank to convince Lennon to come. He's the only one proven himself to win stuff in this league and has the broad shoulders to deal with the crap that comes with the job. He would command a bit of respect from all at the club for what he has done in the game which in my view Glass and Goodwin did not. He also tries to play an entertaining style and also, it would never be dull.