Neil Warnock delivers unconvincing Aberdeen answer that speaks volumes about his future

Dave Cormack was on social media on Saturday night telling Aberdeen fans he doesn’t do walking away.

There’s a growing sense his interim manager might, though. There’s no doubt the Dons chief is hurting right now. Mistakes have been made – which might be an understatement – but no one can say Cormack’s heart is not in the right place. He’s backed managers with dosh and has been badly let down. Now it’s Neil Warnock sitting on the Pittodrie ejector seat and looking more uncomfortable by the minute. This is not what the wily English boss signed up for.

He arrived with a big smile looking to tick Scottish football off his extensive bucket list before handing over the reins to a new man in the summer. Warnock’s grin has been replaced by a grimace and if the Dons don’t snap out of this tailspin they are in real danger of being replaced in the Premiership.

This rag-tag assortment is just four points above Ross County in the drop zone play-off place and you wouldn’t stick a borrowed penny on them getting the better of a Dundee United or Raith Rovers if it came down to an end-of-season shoot-out for survival.

Cormack hoped Warnock would give the club an instant bounce. But, if anything, Aberdeen have got worse. And it would be no surprise if Warnock decided it would be better for him – and Dons – if he headed back to his Cornwall home. The 75-year-old looked a beaten man at full-time on Saturday .

It’s a bad sign when you get outplayed by St Mirren and then claim it was one of the better displays he’d seen. Dons were rotten again. Connor Barron’s sublime opener after 62 seconds should have been a turning point. Instead it only made it a longer afternoon. Saints’ lack of a cutting edge for much of the day suggested they might