Jim Goodwin

[stewarty27]

I'm hearing there may be an announcement the morn. He will have to negotiate his pay off first - Goodwin is not the sort of fella to leave without making sure he's OK... feck the good of the club, Fans, City, He comes first. As I say its a rumour but I've heard it from 2 different sources, Fingers crossed,

[TheDeeDon]

I'm hearing there may be an announcement the morn. He will have to negotiate his pay off first - Goodwin is not the sort of fella to leave without making sure he's OK... feck the good of the club, Fans, City, He comes first. As I say its a rumour but I've heard it from 2 different sources, Fingers crossed,

He's an employee of the club with no emotional attachment to the club or the city.
Despite us all wanting him gone, I can understand why he wants a pay off. Not exactly going to walk into a job like ours anytime soon, if ever again.
Our chairman and directors should have been aware this was coming for a while now and should have had a severance package in place.

[Mason89]

He was also driving delivery vans a couple of years ago. He’ll rinse the club for as much as he can. That’s on Cormack

[neilthedon]

In the real world he'd have been sacked for Gross Misconduct !!!

[rico94]

Folk can criticise as much as they want, Goodwin came in and right off the bat he alienated a large portion of the squad with his assessment of them. The players that were told they were no good downed tools and the end to that season was a horror show. Things could've been handled a lot better but Goodwins style of management didn't allow for that.

Onto this season and once again there are reports of players having run-ins with Jim, this is to the detriment of the squad and possibly the results also.

Under Goodwin we have played 7 games against lower league opposition and Glass played 2 and also 6 games against European teams, one would imagine we should be conceding less goals if that is the case. Lets take out the 6 European and 2 lower league games for Glass and the 7 lower league games for Goodwin and see where we stand? That would just leave their league and cup against premier teams record which is a fairer way to judge?

Glass's team (including McInnes players) conceded 46 if we count cup games against premier teams and Goodwins team (including Glass's) conceding 52 if my figures are correct.

That would have Glass's team conceding 6 goals less than Goodwins over a comparable number of games, less skelpings, no worst result in our history, better on the eye all for less money spent on squad.

I have to make it clear that I'm not a Glass fanboy, just merely pointing out their respective records as our manager and Goodwin falls short by a long way compared to Glass

You are basing your stats on a lot of ifs and buts there,at the end of the day Goodwin has a slightly better record than Glass,apart from Qarabag who rinsed us the other teams we played in Europe were no better than lower league opposition.

Glass started off last season with a few wins,then went on a winless run for 2 months and was lucky he kept his job.Managed to get a few more wins then another winless run got him the sack.

I would imagine we conceded more goals under Glass because we very rarely kept a clean sheet.

Goodwins home form this season has been decent but the away form has been horrendous,it’s pretty obvious he’s never going to sort that out.

The bottom line is neither manager is/was good enough and it’s criminal that Cormack still hasn’t sacked Goodwin after last night.

[KincorthDon]

In the real world he'd have been sacked for Gross Misconduct !!!

Was thinking exactly the same
As an employee why aren’t there performance targets set where if not met then following appropriate disciplinary measures sacking at no cost be the norm?
Losing to a Junior club is definitely into Gross Misconduct

[Jupiter]

WTF is Cormack playing at? Cantwin should have been fired last night, yet somehow he is still there.

[Red Zone]

Our incompetence in all things football related stretches to sacking managers it seems. You just couldn't make it up.

[Shetland Don]

Conduct is more to do with acting in an inappropriate manner, outwith the job description (eg, grabbing the tea lady by the f**** or calling Cormack a c***, rather than an employee’s ABILITY to do the job. Losing to Darvel isn’t therefore a conduct issue and to dismiss for that reason would be automatically deemed unfair. The Club can, however, agree a severance package and have Goodwin sign a Compromise Agreement but AFC will have to pay off the remainder of his contract, unless JG agrees to a lesser financial settlement, which would be unlikely. These would ordinarily contain a Confidentiality Clause, so I guess we’ll never know how these are ultimately settled!

[stewarty27]

There was a guy from ABZ podcast interviewed on TV, He made a point of saying getting rid of Goodwin would not stop the malaise at the club. The structure under Cormark is not fit for purpose. Seem's its not only JG who is totally out of his depth. More worrying than first though if any truth in that. Perhaps its actually Cormark we need to get rid of ! Tall order where to start on that one ???