New manager

[pieandbovrilman]

I hate that Si Ferry ****e but for some reason I watched that one and I don't remember him talking about supporting any club which means he's a Hun.

I’ve not watched many of his interviews apart from that one and the Russell Anderson one .

[RED_JOHN]

I am as underwhelmed as anyone if all the rumours turn out to be true but I think we need to give it a chance before writing him off. A few thoughts/questions from me on this

1. I would argue that more importantly than what manager we bring in is how much money Cormack is willing to put into the team. He will no doubt have seen the reaction on social media and with his ego he won't want this to fail - best chance to avoid that is to invest heavily in the team. Given all of the loan signings and players out of contract there will clearly be plenty of signings this Summer. Big question is how far is Cormack willing to push out the boat to support Glass and is Glass a big enough name to attract the better players

2. Will Glass set out the team to play the attractive football that Cormack has promised?

3. Will Glass be willing to have a go against celtic and sevco rather than park 10 players in defence and wait for Ajer/Tavernier to stroll through us and set up the inevitable goal/defeat?

4. Will Glass be willing to give youth a chance. I think I am right in saying that in 8 whole years McInnes brought through only one player from the youth ranks that became a regular first team player (McKenna and I might argue even that was lucky - Motherwell away thrashing etc). Others like Wright/McLennan/Campbell are bit part at best. An appalling record

5. Will Glass be able to actually improve players from the point they are signed as that has been a very rare event in the last 8 seasons

Many other similar questions but that's probably enough for now but in summary he isn't part of the Scottish football mafia so let's not write him off without seeing what he brings to the job first

I know we should give whoever gets the job a chance but if Stephen Glass gets the job I genuinely feel it will be brutal. I would much prefer the Croatian guy if he has players who he definitely knows would definitely make a big difference to us but obviously we could afford. I could be wrong but I don’t think Glass will have that ability and may heavily rely on Russ Richardson or someone of that ilk.

[ByeByeScum2012]

I know we should give whoever gets the job a chance but if Stephen Glass gets the job I genuinely feel it will be brutal. I would much prefer the Croatian guy if he has players who he definitely knows would definitely make a big difference to us but obviously we could afford. I could be wrong but I don’t think Glass will have that ability and may heavily rely on Russ Richardson or someone of that ilk.

I tend to agree on Glass. Can’t help thinking if he wasn’t an ex-player for us we’d be going mental at the appointment. I’ll give him a chance but really struggling to think he’s the answer.

[Don_Corleone]

I tend to agree on Glass. Can’t help thinking if he wasn’t an ex-player for us we’d be going mental at the appointment. I’ll give him a chance but really struggling to think he’s the answer.

He's an ex player, but he's not exactly a club legend coming home is he? He was a good player, but I don't have any idea of what he's like as a guy - is he a motivational, inspirational leader? You wouldn't really get that impression from how he was as a player. Is he a winner? Other than winning that bike in the league cup final, has he ever won anything else in his life? Does he have lots of connections? He's been over in the States for years and I doubt very much whether that's a market we're really going to get much joy out of.

Maybe he'd turn out to be great, but it's just not particularly inspiring or exciting, which i think is what we're needing.

[ByeByeScum2012]

He's an ex player, but he's not exactly a club legend coming home is he? He was a good player, but I don't have any idea of what he's like as a guy - is he a motivational, inspirational leader? You wouldn't really get that impression from how he was as a player. Is he a winner? Other than winning that bike in the league cup final, has he ever won anything else in his life? Does he have lots of connections? He's been over in the States for years and I doubt very much whether that's a market we're really going to get much joy out of.

Maybe he'd turn out to be great, but it's just not particularly inspiring or exciting, which i think is what we're needing.

So you agree with me then!

[RED_JOHN]

So you agree with me then!

I think we all agree with each other.

[mondo_notion]

Lets face it we all have different preferred candidates for the manager position. No one really knows if someone will be good or not.

Glass hasn't even been announced yet but if he is then he might be a good fit he might be sh~te we just don't know. Pretty much the standard of this forum though to be digging in to him already.

[Aldo1983]

He's an ex player, but he's not exactly a club legend coming home is he? He was a good player, but I don't have any idea of what he's like as a guy - is he a motivational, inspirational leader? You wouldn't really get that impression from how he was as a player. Is he a winner? Other than winning that bike in the league cup final, has he ever won anything else in his life? Does he have lots of connections? He's been over in the States for years and I doubt very much whether that's a market we're really going to get much joy out of.

Maybe he'd turn out to be great, but it's just not particularly inspiring or exciting, which i think is what we're needing.

Alex Ferguson didn't even win the league cup as a player.

[pieandbovrilman]

Alex Ferguson didn't even win the league cup as a player.

I think he did have a stint at the coop though

[donsdaft]

Glass was a prospect as a player but I never really heard of him again after he left us.
I can't even remember him leaving us.
I've definitely got nothing against him, however I don't remember him as a forceful or aggressive character.

If It's Glass (and it looks like it was always going to be) then fine, he has my backing and I hope he does well.

If they go down the Director of Football and Coach route then fine as well but be prepared for hell from the media.

It's worked like that for decades in places like Italy but for some reason the Scottish press see it as some sort of dirty foreign habit.
The fact that it would be Aberdeen that's doing it would mean that they are circling, looking for any flaw that they can ridicule.

Hearts have tried to break away from the norm a couple of times and been slated for it, so they will definitely get stuck right into the Dons.

Stuff them , let's do it.

COME ON YE REDS.