Aberdeen boss Stephen Glass speaks out on his future after Scottish Cup defeat to Motherwell
UNDER-FIRE Aberdeen boss Stephen Glass vowed he won’t give up as the Dons crashed out of the Scottish Cup at Motherwell.
Glass and his squad had to run a gauntlet of 2000-strong furious travelling fans in the South Stand at Fir Park at time up.
They berated the players after seeing Motherwell beat Aberdeen for the third time this season.
Although Christian Ramirez headed them in front, they went down to goals from Kevin van Veen and Connor Shields.
Aberdeen Chairman Dave Cormack was at Fir Park to see his side’s season effectively end. They are ninth in the table and now only have the challenge for a top six spot remaining.
But Glass said: “I believe in myself, I’ve done it since the day I was born.
“I’ve never given up on a football pitch and I’m not about to start now.
“Any time we’ve given the fans some reason to be behind us, they’re behind us.
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“We’re out the cup and we’re massively disappointed - everybody who’s concerned about Aberdeen’s disappointed even though when you’re walking up the stairs over there it doesn’t feel like it.
“But that’s the group that’s there and we didn’t give them enough to celebrate.
“If I didn’t think it was working, I would walk away, but I think you can see the fight in the team at times.
“I think they’ve got enough. Any time this club has done well there’s been a level of stability, but if instability is the answer we know what will happen.
“I haven’t spoken to the chairman, I was in with the players. Time will tell. We’ve a game on Tuesday night and there’ll be a lot of flak flying about - most of it in my direction.
“But I’ll protect the players and we’ll try and win on Tuesday.
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“I’m fully aware of the pressures at the club. I came into the club as a full-timer at 16, there was pressure to get in a team that was fighting relegation, and we managed to help them stave that off.
“We won a cup and since I left there’s been one trophy come back.
“Nobody needs to tell me how big the club is, nobody needs to tell me how to get out of sticky situations.
“But this club’s seen what happens when you chop and change managers every couple of years like they did when I was playing – you end up where you shouldn’t be.
“I think I’ve got the backing of the board and I certainly believe I’ve got the backing of the players.
“The thing that has to change is results, pure and simple but you can talk as much as you like.
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“I believe in the players, I think they believe in themselves but we’ve not won enough games and you know what happens when you don’t win enough games.”
Aberdeen got off to a dream start but lost poor goals before the interval – and failed to test home keeper Liam Kelly until stoppage-time.
Glass added: “We’re disappointed, we spoke beforehand about getting a good start and looking after particular periods of the game – at the start, after a goal, before and after half-time and at the end.
“We didn’t look after it before half-time, we lose two cheap goals but that’s been the consistent theme I’ve had to speak about. That’s why we’re out the Cup.
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“Conditions made it a really scrappy game but I felt we were handling it pretty well. But you can’t give them the opportunities we did to get back in the game then to get in the lead before half-time. “The mentality as a group has to be tougher not to let teams back into games.”
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