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[irnbru1903]

Soundbites and platitudes. I expect nothing less from our chairman. What he meant to say is that he hasn't got a clue what the fk is going on. All part of the 3 year plan.

[OrlandoDon]

3 minutes ago, irnbru1903 said:

Soundbites and platitudes. I expect nothing less from our chairman. What he meant to say is that he hasn't got a clue what the fk is going on. All part of the 3 year plan.

Sorry man, disagree, good update. Good managers are hard to find and we need to get this right, which in itself requires luck and timing. Saying something but nothing in a way, but least it’s an update. All he can say, and better than silence, you. Can’t say more when things aren’t set.

dont disagree too, starting with us midseason is bit of a shit show. Starting in the summer, build a squad, a preseason is the ideal for a coach. If it’s horneland for example, can work with us on recruitment prior to formally being hired, but has a voice in squad building. Realistically, we are not in a good spot right now and hard for a manager to start right now and go forwards immediately. Shit situation, but is what it is.

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[irnbru1903]

It is all a result of poor recruitment and premature punting without any succession planning. There is no responsibility taken in that fob off. As you say it is a shit situation and it shows no sign of improving.

[OrlandoDon]

23 minutes ago, irnbru1903 said:

It is all a result of poor recruitment and premature punting without any succession planning. There is no responsibility taken in that fob off. As you say it is a shit situation and it shows no sign of improving.

Yes, poor recruitment for a while. Hopefully the penguin helps in that area.

Jimmy had offered to resign twice apparently, maybe there’s more to the timing of him leaving. At the same time, our priority was not on a manager succession plan, but adding the penguin and restructuring that side of things first. 

[MDred]

18 hours ago, THFN1983 said:

Looks like it.

Was just thinking that.

 

[Bukta Bertie]

1 hour ago, irnbru1903 said:

Soundbites and platitudes. I expect nothing less from our chairman. What he meant to say is that he hasn't got a clue what the fk is going on. All part of the 3 year plan.

It's Horneland but for obvious reasons he can't come out and say that.

Learn to read between the lines.

[TheDonbytheDee]

42 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

It's Horneland but for obvious reasons he can't come out and say that.

Learn to read between the lines.

If Horneland, surely the unforeseen circumstances would have been in play, when the announcement was supposedly imminent 10 days ago.

 

 

[Kowalski]

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

If Horneland, surely the unforeseen circumstances would have been in play, when the announcement was supposedly imminent 10 days ago.

 

 

Exactly. 
 

It’s either Horneland and the unforeseen circumstances are new, or we actually have nobody lined up at the moment. 

[The.Moog]

It’s Horneland they want and the “unforeseen” circumstances have arisen since the Lutz “imminent” statement 10 odd days ago.

Kind of what “unforeseen” means like.

Its a update statement, its not particularly enlightening, beyond clarifying (for me anyway) the points in my first paragraph above.

Just gotta hope our recruitment - on and off the pitch - gets 100% better starting right now…

[Panda]

6 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:

So it's going to be Horneland in June as expected. Happy enough with that. 

 

5 hours ago, Bukta Bertie said:

It's Horneland but for obvious reasons he can't come out and say that.

Learn to read between the lines.

If Horneland had agreed to come, then they absolutely could come out and say it.

He's the number one choice but nothing has been agreed or signed. That's the reality.

[Bukta Bertie]

1 minute ago, Panda said:

 

If Horneland had agreed to come, then they absolutely could come out and say it.

He's the number one choice but nothing has been agreed or signed. That's the reality.

No they wouldn't because Horneland has his hands contractually tied for now. He'd lose a lot of pay off money from St Etienne if he announces he's signed for a new club already.

He'll arrive in June. Be patient. 

[Blow.Up.Sheep]

15 hours ago, Panda said:

 

At least I think that's what he says. I should probably read it again.

Will save you the bother of reading it again min, dinna waste yir time.
Colgate says a lot of blah blah blah but at the end of the day he said sweet fk all (another tw@t who should be a fkn politician) 

The update is there is no update 

[RicoS321]

3 hours ago, Blow.Up.Sheep said:

Will save you the bother of reading it again min, dinna waste yir time.
Colgate says a lot of blah blah blah but at the end of the day he said sweet fk all (another tw@t who should be a fkn politician) 

The update is there is no update 

We all knew that there was no update though. Many on here were crying out for there to be an update on the no update. He couldn't win, really.

[THFN1983]

To be fair it was the club that painted themselves into this situation.

A blind man could see that Jimmy was on borrowed time for months, not days or weeks but literally months and as much as Lutz didn't start until Nov there had to have been discussions in his interview for the role with regards to a potential management change and if he would be able to identify and hire in a reasonable time frame.

That we are now closing in on 50 days after Jimmy's sacking and 10 days after an "imminent" announcement with regards to an appointment is in no way down to the support, a support who pay a lot of money each year to watch sub-standard football.

We are sleep-walking our way to the play off positions and in Leven we have an interim manager with a horrendous league record this time, 6 games played with only 1 win and 5 losses screams out that he shouldn't be handling affairs any longer, but again we're painted into a corner whereby we have to keep him on until plan b, plan c or whoever finally fills the head coach role.

Cormack's non-update was totally expected, especially after another defeat and coincidentally not long before the season ticket renewals become active. He is in full panic mode as he has, depending on which side of the fence you sit, overseen horrendous managerial appointments in the past few years and knows definitively that this really is last chance saloon for him and not being viewed as worse than Milne.

[Bukta Bertie]

I suspect a lot of you are not from Aberdeen so I'll let you know that the word in the big smoke is that Horneland is waiting to get more test results before deciding if he's going to stay in football for the time being at least.

One can only assume The Big C is involved. 

[Slim]

If true, it puts a lot of the howling at the moon going on into perspective. Club would then appear to be doing exactly the right thing. If true.

[Bukta Bertie]

1 minute ago, Slim said:

If true, it puts a lot of the howling at the moon going on into perspective. Club would then appear to be doing exactly the right thing. If true.

Indeed. You're quite right to add "if true" as most rumours in this city turn out to be baseless but it certainly makes sense. 

[wee toon red]

Another interim assistant appointed. Ian Burchnall.

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

Edited February 26 by wee toon red

[Bukta Bertie]

Experience in Norway. Interesting. 

[manc_don]

Seems like a very random appointment? Who at the club has worked with him previously? 

[Elgindon]

A bit random.Says Peter Leven has added to his coaching staff,wonder how much say he actually had in the matter. Ach well,hope he has something about him...

[swaddon]

Lutz would have sorted it out.

I get the feeling that he just gives jobs to his old unemployed pals.

[Bukta Bertie]

2 minutes ago, swaddon said:

Lutz would have sorted it out.

I get the feeling that he just gives jobs to his old unemployed pals.

Horneland appointment. He's on the way

[OrlandoDon]

1 hour ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Horneland appointment. He's on the way

That’s the only logic to me. There’s a ton of experienced coaches available, including Scot’s who know the league, people like don cowie, John Hughes, Steven Maclean, no clue if they’d take an interm role but they have experience and know Scottish football, and may want the exposure. It has to be the beginning of new coaching staff arriving. Obviously ties to Norway and chance to get to know the league, the players etc. and connect with horneland.

[wokinginashearerwonderland]

On 26/02/2026 at 10:29, Slim said:

If true, it puts a lot of the howling at the moon going on into perspective. Club would then appear to be doing exactly the right thing. If true.

I am not sure why it is the "right thing" to be waiting for this dude.  As things stand, form suggests the club is sleep walking towards a relegation play off.  We don't owe this guy any kind of loyalty or sentiment.  Just get someone else FFS.