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The Journos · 11 November 2026
"I'm told possibly he could be persuaded if the conditions were right." The Journos discuss Aberdeen sacking Stephen Robinson: what went wrong, where the strategy is, and who Dave Cormack should appoint Steve Clarke next. Then the fans' survey, VAR, and the panel's iconic moments.
Who should be Aberdeen's next manager?
Peter reads out the names in the frame: Steve Clarke, Neil Lennon, John McGlynn, Steven Pressley, Michael Wimmer and Gary Caldwell. Michael Grant says Dave Cormack has a big decision to make. Is Steve Clarke too big for the job? The panel hear he could be persuaded, and one of them would have John McGlynn "in a heartbeat", but doesn't think Aberdeen will go for him.
What went wrong for Stephen Robinson?
"This job was too big for him." Recruitment, 38 different centre-back pairings across 128 games and five managers, and a team that was meant to be hard to beat and wasn't.
Where is Aberdeen's strategy?
Hugh MacDonald questions the Dons' long-term strategy: Stephen Glass, Barry Robson, Jimmy Thelin and Stephen Robinson, and "there's nothing that links those four". Should the fans ask for the kind of plan Tony Bloom has given Hearts?
Will anyone listen to the fans?
Peter goes through the new fans' survey: online abuse, club ownership, referees and VAR, match-day experience, grassroots football, league reconstruction and facilities for disabled fans. Gordon Parks questions whether the SPFL wants to listen. Then VAR, "my opposition to VAR is primal", and the panel's iconic moments.
Who should Aberdeen appoint? Tell us below.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome: Michael Grant, Hugh MacDonald and Gordon Parks join Peter Martin
0:51 An apology to Michael
2:34 "Aberdeen fans are entitled to have expectations"
4:27 38 centre-back pairings across 128 games and five managers
5:04 Cormack and Stephen Glass: "one catastrophic decision after another"
6:39 Aberdeen FC in a one-team city
9:17 Can Aberdeen still lure a manager from Dundee or Falkirk?
10:15 Glass, Robson, Thelin, Robinson: "there's nothing that links those four"
12:31 Wages, recruitment and a sporting director who "appears to be bombproof"
13:08 "The club was too big for him"?
14:19 Askou at Motherwell: a style, and sticking to it
17:47 The Last Dance, Shankly and Ancelotti: a team with a DNA
20:35 Tannadice: "that's not a Stephen Robinson side"
21:15 Jimmy Thelin: how teams worked him out
24:45 Who picks the Aberdeen manager?
26:32 The names: Clarke, Lennon, McGlynn, Pressley, Wimmer, Caldwell
32:32 John McGlynn: "I can't see Aberdeen going for him"
33:59 Neil Lennon and Steve Clarke Aberdeen rumours
36:15 McGlynn and the hardest thing to recruit: a striker who scores
36:50 17 players out, and Falkirk are third
37:46 "I would have McGlynn in a heartbeat"
39:05 McGlynn at Hearts: gone by February
41:12 Hearts: "last year was the best chance"
43:59 A Tino Asprilla moment?
44:35 Tommy Burns and the striker Celtic didn't buy
47:31 The fans' survey: have your say
49:02 "Referees and VAR will be the one that dominates"
49:56 38 Scots out of 132
51:01 Ticket prices, VAR and "basically a dictatorship"
59:02 Iconic moments: Pelé to Carlos Alberto
1:00:21 Fergie after the Scottish Cup, Higuita, Bullard and Cantona
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