Under-fire Stephen Glass insists he won’t walk away from the fight at Aberdeen.
The Dons gaffer is coming under increasing scrutiny from the disgruntled support after their team crashed out of the Scottish Cup.
Glass’ side lost a lead at Motherwell and were booed off the park by the irate travelling fans.
Languishing ninth in the Premiership and knocked out of the Premier Sports Cup by Championship Raith, the manager’s first term in charge is in tatters.
But Glass remains determined to battle through the dark period and is adamant that his club needs stability.
He said: “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.
“Any time this club has done well, there’s been a level of stability.
“If instability is the answer, we know what will happen.
“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, managed to help them stave that off.
“We won a cup and, since I left, there’s been one trophy came back.
“Nobody needs to tell me how big the club is, nobody needs to tell me how to get out of sticky situations.
“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, I’ve certainly got the backing of the players, but you’re asking the question for a reason.
“The thing that has to change is results, pure and simple. You can talk as much as you like, but if I could come out and say we need to get results and walk away from the interview, I would.
“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.
“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.”
Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack was at Fir Park and Glass added post match: “I haven’t spoken to him, I was in with the players, time will tell.
“We’ve a game on Tuesday night (against St Johnstone) and I need to protect the players.
“There’ll be a lot of flak flying about, most of it in my direction, I’ll protect the players and we’ll try and win.”
Christian Ramirez put the Dons in front, but the concession of bad goals saw the tie lost and the boss added: “We’re disappointed. We lost two cheap goals, but that’s been the consistent theme I’ve had to speak about and that’s why we’re out of the Cup.
“Christian had a good opportunity to make it 2-0, 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, even though we were pushing hard late on.”
