RicoS321

I don't think he posts on here.

That's not really redeeming himself, he lost us the game! I'm only joking, he had a decent game otherwise and it looked like he lost his concentration for a second when he let Fuchs keep the ball in play. The sort of error you expect from a young player on their debut. Unlucky. I'm guessing the Hoban sub was as much an opportunity to give Ramsay a run out as anything else. A signal to the senior players.

That's not true. I remember Tim English being very pro Logan and calling out the Tims response. Everyone believed Logan. It was much less of a news story of course.

Fucking disgraceful, get McInnes back. A solid 0-0 opportunity missed there. All a bit "I've been watching the premiership" for my liking. Triple sub bollocks and the ultra cool "playing it out from the back" on a fucking tattie field. It's the managerial equivalent of the latest social media viral trend. Taylor and Considine decent. Hoban wasted as a fullback and McRorie fucking turgid. McKenzie was doing okay until the goal where he was completely at fault. Not seeing the ball out was poor, but then just letting his man wonder away from him was criminal. Edit: Ferguson terrible too, optimised by the play at the end when Hendry was walking out with the ball looking for a pass. Instead of making the simple run into space giving Hendry an easy pass and taking responsibility, he hangs back leaving Hendry - who is gash - with an impossible pass. Blatant dive for his booking too, the only thing the ref did right.

Fit's that in steens? Good to see him getting a chance. Back four by the looks of it.

I think he's a good player, but I doubt a managerless dons are actually looking at him. Did he not just trigger a year's extension on his contract too? If we're paying money for him, I'd rather we looked elsewhere to someone with a resale value.

Regardless of whether it's used as a reason for accepting the best of the rest or not, the best manager in the history of fitba has said it, and I don't believe he's just saying it to stick up for McInnes, he genuinely believes it. It should be taken extremely seriously. Thirty six years don't lie. I think you're right about the cup winning thing. Similarly if we were finishing mid table like under McGhee and Brown then our focus would be elsewhere. Is it enough to say that we want to win a couple of cups every decade, or do we need to be saying that we want to play in a league where it is possible for us to win it? If Ferguson doesn't believe he could win it, then it's as good as unwinnable.

The greatest manager ever saying that the gap between us and the scum is unbridgeable in the times today. It's the sort of thing that the BBC should be picking up on and discussing how things can be changed to bridge that gap. They'll be discussing the best method to get scum colts into the championship instead. If Fergie believes the gap is unbridgeable then hopefully he's reiterated this to Cormack who will keep this in mind when interviewing for a replacement, and he's devising a plan to act to reduce that gap.

Christ, that's like something the Tims would produce.

Recipe for infection.

Anything less than a 3 goal win is unacceptable and I'll be questioning Cormack's decision to sack McInnes. Robson to register himself for the game, come on and score directly from a corner to win it.

Does it not get trotted out before every scum fixture as a way to keep others in their place? Usually it gets dangled with the reward that other big teams like Aberdeen and killie can join in too, as if that makes it better.

None of us know, that's the point. As a fan, though, would you be happy to have some millionaire pumping money into the club to fund its day to day running? There's a massive difference between capital spending on infrastructure than spending, say, 70-80% of income on wages. Would you be happy for us to be run way out-with our means in order to "win in Glasgow". The sort of thing the Huns have done since inception.

The question would have to be why they haven't done that in the last four years? We've also got to ask ourselves as fans if we want our club's running costs to massively exceed our income (I wouldn't). With millions of investment, McInnes would undoubtedly have won more games in Glasgow (that strange benchmark again), but we would have seen very little return on that beyond winning a few additional games (maybe a cup, who knows). With the advent of the shitey Europa extension, we may see income levels increase to the point that we can sustainably inject a million per season into the football side of things, but otherwise I get the impression that - correctly - Cormack won't be launching millions of unsustainable funds into our club.

It wasn't clear, should they just go to Glasgow to win, or actually win in Glasgow? There's a big difference. Would we've happy enough with positive performances without the results? Believing you can win doesn't make it so, and I always feel that trite phrases such as "you've got to win in Glasgow" don't really add anything. Unless Cormack is going to back the manager significantly then he's not going to get his wish. We're good enough to beat both the scum in their own backyard on our day, but being on our day requires a lot of luck too. For example, I think our good team from earlier in the season would have had a chance against both the scum with the added belief (or let's say too much caution) that was never really there under McInnes. However, with two or three injuries to our better players we will always struggle, regardless of "belief". That is, unless, we can get a squad together where the replacements are very strong. That requires Cormack to put his money where his mouth is, and is what happened when Ferguson was manager.

It's quite obvious that it's a ruse to fool the opposition. When you've got big Andy in your squad, there's really no competition for the striker role.

Good update from Cormack on the AFC YouTube channel. Returning some sanity to proceedings. Get the utd game out of the way and we've then got a few weeks to turn things around. No timeline from him, but it doesn't sound like they'll either rush it or hang around. A lot will depend on the preferred candidate.

He was being groomed for management, not necessarily at Aberdeen. In other words, he was being progressed. He shouldn't have been working under McInnes and Docherty, that's the point, AFC should have been developing him and Cormack should have been making that distinction on day one when he mentioned succession planning as important. Or we rip it up and start again after every manager, with zero continuity.

There is a chance that not having McInnes would arrest the fairly steep decline, maybe even take a bit of pressure off the players. Some prospective candidates might not come out of the woodwork until a job is actually available too (real prospects like uber-dandy Pressley). I think you've got a point if it's Glass, as there's no reason that couldn't be "oven ready", but in reality it's only been a week and we're in the middle of a pandemic that will affect interviews etc - the sort of thing that couldn't take place when the manager was still in place. I think the six matches McInnes had prior to his first full season were very beneficial and I hope we could get a handful of matches under the belt of the new manager by summer. The Scottish cup is fine for a couple of rounds, if we can't beat the minnows even without a manager then we've got no chance.

It is a failure. Robson was being groomed for management, and we've failed to get him to the next rung. Ordinarily, I'd agree that a manager would pick their assistant, but this is a promotion within the company structure effectively. It's the equivalent of Martin Canning's promotion at Hamilton. He should be joining us as head coach under someone with experience and we should have the foundation already in place ready for him as this clearly isn't some overnight decision by Cormack. Glass, or someone like him, is pretty much the last piece of the jigsaw. It's an entirely different prospect from a current manager and should be treated as such. If we're just throwing Glass in without the surrounding support then it's a fucking horrendous decision. Brown is an irrelevance in that regard.

I think it is a bad thing. McInnes' failure shouldn't be a failure of everyone in a well run club. If we're not seeing the progression required then we move them on. If Robson wasn't at the required standard, he should have been moved on before now. Glass is being promoted way above his current standing, I'd suggest that we as a club are in a better position to pick his assistant, or should be if we had any sense of a plan. He's picking his mate, which may or may not be a good thing (I've no problem with Brown as such, just the whim on which he's being appointed). If Glass is coming anywhere near pittodrie, it should be as part of a well organised club that transcends his management. Each position has its role and metrics to guage that role. If that requires a dof above, then great. This nonsense that we rip everything out and start again (I know that's not what you're suggesting) each managerial change isn't the way to run a club. If Robson was part of a transition process - which was mentioned when he was kept on - then he's either failed, or we're failing him. I appreciate that it was pre-Cormack but these are exactly the preparations that should have been made prior to firing McInnes. If McInnes has been working with someone not good enough over the years, then the club should have been able to guage that and deal with it. We don't want a club built round a manager, and there's a massive opportunity with Glass to rectify that.

Glass is five years older than Goodwin, and two years older than McInnes was when he joined the club.

Eh? Are Celtic reaping the benefits of Scott brown's coaching? What are you expecting? When do you ever hear of the good work of a youth team coach? The point is that Robson was brought in/kept on with the idea that he would progress with us. If he's being overtaken by a player with little or no coaching experience then we should look to remove him from the payroll. It reeks of the lack of planning at the club. If Robson isn't good enough to take on the assistant role at this stage then he's not going to be. The whole point in having Glass is that it's a planned, "internal" appointment. Brown as assistant is just making it up as you go along. I don't believe we'll get a good season out of Brown as a player. It was visible in the last game we played against them. Brown couldn't manage the ninety. That's in a team that can carry him in a three/five. He's simply of no use in our games against sides we expect to beat, where we need a sharp midfielder capable of covering ground.

Do we really want to be relying on a regressing 36 year old in the centre of our midfield? I'd expect him to be on our bench and we wouldn't be denying Campbell minutes just to keep brown ticking over for the handful of games where he might be useful as part of a midfield five. Our midfield isn't where we're lacking in games against the bottom 8-9 teams. From a playing perspective, I'm not convinced Brown would offer us anything now.

You'd have to wonder what Robson would think about Brown coming in too? He'd be better off moving on if there's no obvious route to management for him, assuming that's what he's after (which I always had). I'm not sure what Brown offers that he wouldn't.