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8 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

I dont think it’s a bad comment at all. Would you rather he say we’ll try to be better, but maybe we won’t? He’s as pissed off as we all are and is committed to being competitive, what’s wrong with saying that?

 

It's 100% going to be a stick to beat him with. Twice in the interview he mentioned how "competitive" the league was this season, so to then go on and "guarantee" that we will be competitive will absolutely be taken that we'll be in a title race next season. That's a stupid thing to say, even if he believes it, when we don't currently have a head coach or a squad in place as he simply can't make that promise.

I don't have a problem with Cormack in general - it's like people have forgotten that Stuart Milne ever existed when they call Cormack "a clown" and "lacking ambition" - but in our current situation the message should be that we're working as hard as ever to do better and any "guarantee" should only relate to effort levels and investment rather than outcomes.

Also, “I guarantee we will be competitive next year” was a very risky thing to say.

I think one of Cormack’s best attributes is normally his ability to speak well and get his points across but that interview really wasn’t at all like his usual self.

A twist? A bit of spin ahead of it being announced the Horneland isn't coming? A load of shite just to fill a vacuum?

1 hour ago, blinlemon said:

Duncan Shearer weighs in concerning the gafferage issue:

https://archive.ph/wPKen

It's pretty clear from that piece that Big Dunc isn't really in tune with how clubs operate these days. The notion that a "manager" decides on player contracts went out the window as soon as - if not actually long before - Pfannensteil came in and, much as I hate it, the modern trend seems to be that managers won't take jobs mid season unless absolutely forced to. And we're not really a club that's in a position to force anyone decent to do anything.

15 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

Good grief, managerless derangement syndrome is certainly kicking in on this site! Not as bad as chat but going downhill fast!

Back on task, anything more on horneland or a new manager? Any more on this new first team coach??

multiple factors in our shocking season, but a new guy coming in will now start in June, preseason will be the league cup, which is not a bad thing. We royally screwed up preseason last year, the early competitive games are a good thing, plus time to train without the added European games…..although I haven’t written off the Scottish cup.

given it will be the league cup, prob move my comments to the summer 2026 transfer window as building a squad for next year is a huge project…..again! The new manager needs to working now with the recruitment team, I suppose horneland can certainly do that without being officially hired?

 

I posted ages ago about everyone getting it in the neck this season, from cormack and burrows all the way down, but Fergie catching strays now is wild, wild stuff

Not sure if our new “ticketing and fan experience platform in association with Jump” deserves a thread if its own so sticking it in here:

https://www.afc.co.uk/2026/02/26/aberdeen-fc-sign-exclusive-deal-launching-with-innovative-fan-experience-platform-jump/

Generally sounds like a load of waffle although this excerpt from Jump’s website isn’t great.

Another interim assistant appointed. Ian Burchnall.

https://www.afc.co.uk/2026/02/26/burchnall-added-to-coaching-staff/

So why weren’t they off against Motherwell in the league the week before when we were rotten? Absolute havers!

2 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Very excited about tonight. The beauty of it is the pressure has gone. Yes I know some drama queens still think we can end up in the play off spot but we won't. That's not even an outside possibility. 

Win, lose or draw it will change very little so let's just see how we can play with the shackles off. 

Why on earth are the “shackles off” tonight but weren’t on Saturday? Mental.

24 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Well that was pish. I hadn't seen or heard the lineup beyond the first 11, so I couldn't believe it when Milne came to the sidelines after Morrison sold the shirts. A fucking ridiculous call to play him, he's not ready for first team football. Dorrington probably had less minutes than this lad. Should have been a double sub after the sending off, as that midfield three clearly wasn't going to have the legs to cope. Aremu way off the pace, Geiger might turn out to be decent, but he's fairly suspect positionally and doesn't seem to have the legs. He might have looked good on the telly, because he has a bit of bite to him, but he arrived late to almost every duel (is that what they call it these days?). Palaversa isn't the answer to anything, of course. Shinnie is head and shoulders our best midfielder despite his legs having been absent for some time now, which is a real concern. Olusanya can't play fitba really, and neither can Keskinen. Cameron decent but again does a lot while doing nothing. Nisbet very good, again, working hard and a beautiful free kick. They're goal was an absolute peach, worthy of winning any match. We're in the shite. 

We're so goal shy, despite Nisbet being a decent player at our level, that the only sane conclusion for us being so impotent for going on 18 months is a poor midfield and wingers. I want Keskinen to be good but he's really been a constant for the last season and a half so all evidence suggests that he isn't, and neither are any of the alternatives. Dire.

We'd have been better keeping Jimmy, that's how bad Leven's caretaker spell is going.

We've got 12 league games to play. Over the last 10 games (maybe more) we've been the second worst team in the league. How on earth anyone can stick their head in the sand and say that isn't going to leave us in big, big trouble is beyond me. What or who is coming in to change anything?

Horneland could be the second coming of Fergie but I'm really worried that we don't have time to wait for the resurrection.

Hearts away

Falkirk home

Huns away

St Mirren away

Hibs home

I'm not seeing many points in that run.

Moot point I'm afraid old chap. The fears continue.

We're the worst team in the league bar Livi. I don't think anything should be taken for granted in terms of avoiding 11th.

Are approaching Warnock territory where the caretaker is going to have to be taken care of?

Nisbet? Or Olusanya? Either way, yaaaas.

28 minutes ago, Jute said:

Milne and McIntyre were alright the other night, whereas Morrison has looked dodgy so far. Bold call.

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

He's also a fucking Hun 

That aside, he's working hard and looks decent on the ball with little in the way of end product yet. 

I still think that number ten role would be better filled by Armstrong. 

Maybe, all else being equal, Armstrong might work better at 10 than Cameron but I’d like to see Armstrong on the right given our lack of other credible options.

51 minutes ago, Panda said:

From P&J, Horneland was asked: “There are a lot of rumours about you and Aberdeen.

“Are you going to become their new manager?”

Horneland replied: “To you? Today? Really (appearing reluctant to discuss the subject).”

On whether he is going to become Aberdeen’s new manager, he then added: “No.

“First I’ll have a little, short break. Then we’ll see what happens in the summer.”

Think there's a few ways to interpret that. Like I said before, is this guy really worth the effort? He did well at Brann, but plenty of other choices out there. 

The P&J guy has since clarified - or been forced to clarify - on X that "no" is an out of context quote and "no, not yet" is more accurate.

It’s laboured and “careful” because the team is completely lacking in confidence. Whatever happened towards the end of Jimmy’s time, or really since the end of our good spell in the autumn, has sapped all the belief out of the entire squad.

Hopefully the new signings and the return of the doc can make a difference, alongside results like tonight.

As slim says, you’d go mad if that was against you. However, the keeper was well off his line so olusanya wouldn’t have had to run all the way in, all he needed to do was get to the ball to have a scoring chance.

Motherwell doing a bit of squad rotation tonight? Bold…

9 hours ago, Panda said:

This is the biggest game of our season, and yet we're going into it with a feeling that losing to Motherwell has just become normalised.

Lose this, and with top six looking unlikely unless we can find some stunning form, our next meaningful game will be in July in the League Cup group stage away to Spartans or something.

Win, and the whole outlook of the season changes. Now you have a huge cup tie awaiting, potentially 3,000 plus Aberdeen fans heading down to Dunfermline, electric atmosphere on a night when the whole country will want us knocked out, with Hampden at stake and a real chance to win the thing again. It's something to look forward to, which if we lose tomorrow we won't have. No European football for at least 18 months, no trips to Hampden this season, we don't even have life under our new manager until summer.

We haven't had a statement win in the league (beat a top six team coupled with a good performance) since Hibs in April 2025. Hearts has been our biggest win of this season, but it didn't really have you feeling the corner had been turned.

Praying the cup brings something out of us. 

I sure hope the cup game(s) are our only big games of the season but our form gives me the fear that the league isn't quite as finished for us as we'd like it to be. Worst away form in the league, 10th overall for the last six games courtesy of what looks like a bit of a fluke win against Livi and second bottom for the last 10 games is very worrying stuff.