Dave Cormack on Aberdeen under performance, Stephen Glass 'fine margins' and 'critical recruitment'

“We’ve seen the same movie over and over and over again”.

Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack’s assessment of the Dons’ season is about as accurate as you can get without reaching for profanities to describe a campaign which has the club sitting 10th in the Premiership table.

The movie is one which the fans have endured and suffered. Most just want to turn it off but they can’t, not until the club finish their season at home to St Mirren on Sunday.

“I don’t think anyone has beaten us well this season,” Cormack told The Scotsman. "Apart from the 2-0 loss to Hearts, we have gone toe-to-toe with teams.

"Our inability to take advantage in the less third of the field of the possession we’ve got and some poor defending has cost us big time.”

No team in the Premiership has underperformed more.

Earlier in the season Cormack referenced “data” to defend Stephen Glass, who would later be sacked. The data tells you only Celtic and Rangers have had more possession, Aberdeen are fourth for shots on target but bottom half for conversion. They have conceded far more goals than the stats suggest they should have.

Yet, anyone who has watched Aberdeen regularly this season will tell you, they just haven’t been very good. A lack of a constant attacking threat, sterile possession and desperate defending has made them one of the easiest teams to play against.

Few performances in the Premiership, from any side, was as anaemic and as soporific as the 1-0 loss to St Mirren in January. Part of a run which cost Glass his job and be replaced by Jim Goodwin.

It is clear, listening to Cormack, how painful it is that it didn’t work out with Glass.

When asked why it didn't, he spoke of “fine margins” and of players having a “responsibility”. Perhaps more