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I’m not so sure that interview was Cormack consciously making himself a human shield for his employee. It was more like a thin-skinned Trumpian reaction to having his own personal reputation being questioned. ”Whatever people say, I've got the emails to show what a good appointment it was at that stage. ” I can totally imagine that being a line from a Trump rally speech about some crony he appointed to run a Government department.

I haven't listened to the interview. Ross and Neilson had another managers shite to move on. Something Glass hasn't had to do. If I remember correctly Davidson's problem in the first round of fixtures last season was scoring. His work was going into, being difficult to beat/score against. Something glass has been unable to do. As you have alluded to Court's utd conceded 2 against us and Hearts and have only conceded one goal against the tims since. See above. I've read stuff on twitter about xG. Of course we'll have good xG as we concede first then spend the rest of the games trying to get back into them. Possession, an entirely useless stat if that possession is passive and we are losing, why would a team in a winning position try to win back a ball not in the final third. I've even seen someone suggest that some teams use statistics in an effective manner and we should back AFC to do so i.e. Brentford. I think it's quite clear we have not used stats to identify players to improve the first team squad, we didn't recruit a head of recruitment till after the bulk of the players had signed. The way this works is (as Rico keeps banging the drum for) we have a dedicated recruitment division that supercedes any "head coach" role. In fact that recruitment division should have ultimate responsibility for the hiring of the coaching team in order that it fits the style of play. Nothing has really changed since last season just the personnel and the fact that we are defensively weaker. We don't know what our strongest 11 is, the movement in the final third is shocking, passing accuracy and vision is piss poor, severely lacking pace, and we have 0 attacking threat unless Hedges is on the pitch (opposition know this and can nullify). Glass had virtually a blank canvas knew what he had going into the transfer window had backing and this is what he has produced. No amount of statistics excuses the current state of affairs.

Just joined the site...and first post, so be gentle please... I thought Cormack gave a good account of himself on Radio Scotland last night. The points he made about Neilson and Courts getting it in the neck early doors but being allowed time to turn it around were spot on. But, bottom line for me, the Glass experiment has failed. Time to punt him before it gets irretrievable. If this goes on much longer we'll be visiting Gabriel's and Firhill for our away games next seaso AFC is not the club forvan untested rookie manager to cut his teeth. His appointment shows breathtaking lack of ambition on the part of the club .... second only IMO to appointing Porterfield after SAF left us in 86.

50 Premiership appearances (17 Dons, 33 Arabs) - 8 goals Despite all the talk of how he was going to get a big move somewhere the only people who came calling were the Arabs followed by the team currently bottom of the Belgian first division with 2 points from 11 games (7 goals for, 23 against) Well I'm convinced.......

McIntyre is a full-on sh1t stirrer, no doubt. But the questions he asked and the points he raised were all entirely valid. I felt for Cormack to keep trotting out the same old gash about 'data' and 'statistics' was desperate stuff. It was cringe worthy. The only stats and data that matter are the ones showing on the league table... the same ones he was desperately trying not to answer head on. I wish McIntyre or one of the other pundits had asked him outright: How many games without a win is it going to take before Glass gets punted? 12? 14? 16? 20? It's actually embarrassing now. AFC are a laughing stock. Cormack is the only person who doesn't realise this.

He's brought 20 million of investment into the club, not exactly running us into the ground form....

Ach, the whole point of fitba is for the gossip and scandal. It's just a game. It would be shite for us to be run perfectly and winning every week. We're overdue a period of being on the end of the joke. It's part of a healthy ecosystem.

One word for that interview; "Embarrassment." I'm convinced even more now he is running us into the ground. If he had the best interest of club at heart one wouldn't have sounded so deranged. I actually shed a tear while listening to his nonsense.

I actually agree with him on the complete control on signings thing. That was an absolute disaster under McInnes and it had to change. It was the one thing that was interesting about the interview, that the interviewers failed to follow up on. Everything in a football club is collaborative of course, but the manager shouldn't be given cart blanche to sign Greg fucking Tansey. The club needed to have that inside knowledge and specialist experience to look at Tansey, or Main, or Storey, or Morris, or Quinn, and so on with a head of recruitment with the authority to put a strong case to the board and override the manager. That should have been in place before making the error in signing Jet. Longstaff was another error that shouldn't have been allowed to happen.

Welcome on board loon. Never be afraid to share your opinion on here PCL There will be different views from yours but we're a friendly bunch and don't resort to petty squabbles and name calling of other members here. I actually thought his point re Ross,Neilson & Davidson were perfectly valid, not so much Courts as he has come in and started winning games pretty sharpish. Still would have liked him to actually tell McIntyre to do one.

Lol dinnae kid a kidder. I was only jesting but you've set me thinking now

Was out last night so only just catching up and listening to Dave now on Radio Scotland podcast. Sounds like he is trying to create a real siege mentality and would have been as well telling McIntyre to go fuck himself. John Collins touting himself for the job at some point in the future

I'm waiting for the price to come down after relegation