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37 minutes ago, DrewDon said:

Who on here has actually called McInnes a "c**t", though? The mainstream opinion on here amongst our fans appears to be that he did a good job by us but that it was the right time to move on for both parties. That's a fair bit more nuanced than you suggest. 

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29 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

I realise that there's no point in going over this, but it was obvious that McInnes's time was up the second Cormack came in and effectively signed Gallagher and bizarrely, Hernandez. 

Whereas...as previously stated....circumstances dictated that McInnes could no longer go on, it's utterly ridiculous some the abuse he got from some Dons fans. Those ones that somehow believed that the grass HAD to be greener, and wanted McInnes out regardless of who came in. 

Sadly, these people got what they wanted. 

I still insist that McInnes left us with a solid base. Consistent league places and regular Hampden appearances. A team that was in general, very hard to beat. 

Cormack had one job to do, and that was get the right man in to build on a base that any club in Scotland outside of the OF would kill for. But no, for reasons that will probably never, ever be fully explained, he went for a man that had never coached a first team game before. 

It all makes you feckin scream, the more you think about it. 

 

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1 hour ago, red23 said:

So just a thought here, instead of calling McInnes a c**t etc at every opportunity for having the gall to have us finishing around 2nd/3rd constantly how about maybe think about the idea of the team being disrupted by Cormacks influence. McInnes probably stood up to Cormack which he didn't like, it was clear the two never got on. Maybe worth considering that McInnes did indeed see what was going on and had the clubs best interests at heart. Or you could just keep calling the most successful manager we've had in past 30 years a c**t.....yeah that'll do

McInnes goes into this in a recent interview in The Times where he's full of praise for Aberdeen as a club - at least up to Cormack's takeover.  He's obviously not willing to come right out and start slagging Cormack - getting a reputation for slagging off your chairman won't improve your chances of getting another job - but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out the message.  And the interviewer fills in a couple of the gaps just in case you miss what's being said. (The headline is "Derek McInnes: Working With Good People Is Key" which is a pretty good clue about his state of mind.)

  McInnes says: There was things about the last year, a lot of things going on that didn’t sit well, and I knew the time was right for the change

The article goes on to say: 

Perhaps we should have seen it coming at Aberdeen, even in the ego-infested shallows of Scottish football, when Cormack’s arrival was heralded not by Aberdeen’s new training complex being named after Sir Alex Ferguson, who dutifully travelled north for the opening ceremony, but instead called “Cormack Park”. McInnes does not plunge into those waters, but from this observer’s standpoint that set the alarm bells ringing,  (I don't think it's a stretch to suspect McInnes did indeed "plunge into these waters" but strictly off-the-record.)

Also:

he’d have liked ......perhaps also to have stepped aside closer to when Stewart Milne made way for Dave Cormack.

What comes across ironically is that McInnes actually agreed with the Deek out brigade that "it was time", not because he couldn't do the job but because a narcissistic chairman had made it impossible to do properly.

 

 

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6 hours ago, 72redz said:

Aye, but the question being asked wis, fah wid come in and accept Broon as their no. 2? Right fae the start, this ‘project’ wis sold as a collective, a new type o management team. Sacking Glass but keeping Broon in place as a no. 2? How dis that work? I dinna get me started on that charlatan Russel. It’s a shit show

What’s Russell done wrong?

Striker and set pieces coach. Most of our goals come from set pieces as the midfield is pish.

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3 minutes ago, Game of throw-ins said:

McInnes goes into this in a recent interview in The Times where he's full of praise for Aberdeen as a club - at least up to Cormack's takeover.  He's obviously not willing to come right out and start slagging Cormack - getting a reputation for slagging off your chairman won't improve your chances of getting another job - but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out the message.  And the interviewer fills in a couple of the gaps just in case you miss what's being said. (The headline is "Derek McInnes: Working With Good People Is Key" which is a pretty good clue about his state of mind.)

  McInnes says: There was things about the last year, a lot of things going on that didn’t sit well, and I knew the time was right for the change

The article goes on to say: 

Perhaps we should have seen it coming at Aberdeen, even in the ego-infested shallows of Scottish football, when Cormack’s arrival was heralded not by Aberdeen’s new training complex being named after Sir Alex Ferguson, who dutifully travelled north for the opening ceremony, but instead called “Cormack Park”. McInnes does not plunge into those waters, but from this observer’s standpoint that set the alarm bells ringing,  (I don't think it's a stretch to suspect McInnes did indeed "plunge into these waters" but strictly off-the-record.)

Also:

he’d have liked ......perhaps also to have stepped aside closer to when Stewart Milne made way for Dave Cormack.

What comes across ironically is that McInnes actually agreed with the Deek out brigade that "it was time", not because he couldn't do the job but because a narcissistic chairman had made it impossible to do properly.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Game of throw-ins said:

McInnes goes into this in a recent interview in The Times where he's full of praise for Aberdeen as a club - at least up to Cormack's takeover.  He's obviously not willing to come right out and start slagging Cormack - getting a reputation for slagging off your chairman won't improve your chances of getting another job - but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out the message.  And the interviewer fills in a couple of the gaps just in case you miss what's being said. (The headline is "Derek McInnes: Working With Good People Is Key".)

  McInnes says: There was things about the last year, a lot of things going on that didn’t sit well, and I knew the time was right for the change

The article goes on to say: 

Perhaps we should have seen it coming at Aberdeen, even in the ego-infested shallows of Scottish football, when Cormack’s arrival was heralded not by Aberdeen’s new training complex being named after Sir Alex Ferguson, who dutifully travelled north for the opening ceremony, but instead called “Cormack Park”. McInnes does not plunge into those waters, but from this observer’s standpoint that set the alarm bells ringing,  (I don't think it's a stretch to suspect McInnes did indeed "plunge into these waters" but strictly off-the-record.)

Also:

he’d have liked ......perhaps also to have stepped aside closer to when Stewart Milne made way for Dave Cormack.

What comes across ironically is that McInnes actually agreed with the Deek out brigade that "it was time", not because he couldn't do the job but because a narcissistic chairman had made it impossible to do properly.

 

 

Last January's transfer window was close to constructive dismissal by Cormack. 

Mind you I'm not sure i'd have backed a manager who'd recently signed Curtis Main either. 

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48 minutes ago, DrewDon said:

I mean, you just made this up, didn't you? 

I'd love to see you posting that being an interim manager of Shamrock Rovers and Atlanta for 38 games (9 wins) over 9 years was somehow experience enough to come and coach Aberdeen and 'take us to the next level' (tm).

 

 

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1 minute ago, Bob Mahelp said:

I'd love to see you posting that being an interim manager of Shamrock Rovers and Atlanta for 38 games (9 wins) over 9 years was somehow experience enough to come and coach Aberdeen and 'take us to the next level' (tm).

That is simply not what your initial post said, though. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of Cormack and Glass at the moment without making things up. 

And, for what it's worth, Glass wouldn't have been in my top 20 choices to replace McInnes. 

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15 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Last January's transfer window was close to constructive dismissal by Cormack. 

Mind you I'm not sure i'd have backed a manager who'd recently signed Curtis Main either. 

To be fair, I'm pretty sure Cormack said our wage budget was about £2m higher than any non-OF club last season. Whilst his relationship with McInnes undoubtedly would not have been as strong as Milne's was, that isn't the sign of a chairman who isn't giving the manager a fighting chance to succeed.

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4 minutes ago, DrewDon said:

That is simply not what your initial post said, though. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of Cormack and Glass at the moment without making things up. 

And, for what it's worth, Glass wouldn't have been in my top 20 choices to replace McInnes. 

Honestly, how did I make things up ?

Glass has never been appointed a first team manager in his life before.  He stood in as short term, interim manager at 2 clubs, and even then his record was worse than average. 

I stand by my criticism that this is an untried, virgin manager. 

 

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