ABERDEEN chairman Dave Cormack tonight clashed with BBC reporter Kenny Macintyre as he defended Dons boss Stephen Glass.

The Dons chief insisted Glass has the ability to turn things around at Pittodrie as he claimed opinions have shifted on the manager after a promising start to life in the Granite city.

Cormack, speaking on BBC Scotland Sportsound, also categorically stated that he did not meet with the players on Friday before the defeat to Dundee.

And in the fiery exchange Cormack went on to say that nobody outside of Aberdeen care about the club in a barb at Macintyre's line of questioning.

Cormack began: "From my perspective it's important, and being the chairman of Aberdeen, outside of Celtic and Rangers, is the toughest position and same with the manager as well.

"The last five games have been highly disappointing but when I look at the facts and the data, these are not just 10 new players, it's a new system as well. We won five of the first six games, including two against a top Swedish team. You guys were all heralding Stephen as a great appointment until recently."

Macintyre replied: "I'm not sure that's the case to be honest", before Cormack hit back: "Kenny. You're going to listen to me for a minute."

"Take a look back through the media after those first six, seven, eight games. The style of football and what we were doing, but if you just want to keep pelting questions at me this will be a short conversation.

"This is a reminder for all of us. Big picture, Aberdeen haven't won the Scottish Cup for 31 years. We've won one League Cup in 26 years, the last one eight seasons ago, when Rangers were in the fourth tier and Hearts and Hibs got relegated. The good news is this — we've a very competitive league this year. It's a great league.

"We made it clear our strategy and vision was to play attacking, entertaining football and that we'd give youth a chance. A fact is this; we spend over a million on our youth academy each year. Six months ago the players, the parents and coaches in our youth academy did not believe our young players would get a chance. Look what we've done with Jack MacKenzie and Calvin Ramsay.

"Whatever people say, I've got the emails to show what a good appointment it was at that stage. We're being knocked for the Qarabag games — it's been 14 seasons since Aberdeen got to a Europa play-off round.

"The fans have been brilliant. I was down at Dundee on Saturday, the fans have been brilliant and nobody has any issue, particularly Stephen and the coaching staff, with how they felt at the end of the game because we're all frustrated. I'm looking at those five games in the data and I'm shaking my head and going: 'how the hell have we not got most of those points?'

"The board and more importantly the whole player pool believe in the coaching team. Where we are at as a board is this, we have no intention of making any change so early. We believe the coaches and the players will rectify the situation."

Macintyre then asked: "So you think Stephen Glass has the experience in management to turn things around?", before impassioned Cormack went on: "I did a one hour interview on Stephen's appointment back in March of this year and it's on the AFC YouTube channel. I've been through this multiple times. You could ask the same question that was asked earlier in the year of Tam Courts. Look at Callum Davidson, he won two of his first ten league games.

"We believe he's going to turn this it around through all the data and all the evidence we have.

"At the end of the day, if you follow your thought process, Hearts should have fired Robbie Neilson after Brora Rangers. They've been patient and that's why my job is. I'm experienced enough running businesses.

"I absolutely wake up thinking about Aberdeen Football Club, I spend all day working all day on Aberdeen Football Club and I go to bed thinking about Aberdeen Football Club. I kick every damn ball. It's way too early to be having these conversations.

"Have you heard Stephen get on the radio and complain at all about not having Watkins, Considine, or Hedges? But, her'es the thing we're not going to come out with this 'poor me, poor me' attitude. We've got to fix this and stick together as a club, because nobody else, particularly people like you, Kenny, care about Aberdeen Football Club."

Macintyre responded: "Well, I'm sorry, I don't think that's a very fair thing to say. I'm not going to kid on it's all fine and give you soft questions."

And Cormack replied: "Who else in Scottish football is out there trying to be transparent and open? But as usual, you've dominated the programme."