Aberdeen fan view: No manager, no identity and no plan as poor league form continues

There was some irony in the umbrage Aberdeen took at Dennis Geiger being shouldered past by Derek McInnes after the game.

Perhaps if the Dons had objected so robustly to being brushed aside at any point in the season to date, they wouldn’t find themselves in their pathetic position.

For while McInnes continues to barge his way through Scottish football’s firmament like Richard Ashcroft, the increasingly champion-sounding symphony he is writing evokes bittersweet memories of Aberdeen’s own spell as a putative disruptor.

It defies belief that they could have dissolved from so assured and purposeful a team to this acquiescent gathering of individuals in such a short space of time.

The symbolism of Alex Ferguson arriving at an Aberdeen fixture to watch McInnes cement his side’s status as late-season title favourites will not have been lost on Dave Cormack.

It was the sort of photo opportunity he was so often alert to himself, in bygone times when he was keener to be seen in public than he has recently.

No way was he taking the reputational risk of getting snapped in the back seat of that bandwagon.

Given his time again, Cormack may well still make the call to end McInnes’ stagnating tenure.

He may not reflect so confidently upon the series of decisions made by Pittodrie’s executives since.

Their aggregate effect has been that Aberdeen in 2026 is a club with no manager, no identity, no away goals and no obvious plan.

In a suddenly competitive league they have allowed themselves to be making up the numbers: usually nil.

The threatening of the established order makes it imperative that Aberdeen’s next hire is correct; the length of the process – or rather the painfully obvious write-off of the interim – intensifies the scrutiny of it. The stakes are high for everyone.

[Source: Press and Journal]