The new manager of Aberdeen FC Women but the familiar face of Scott Booth sat down with RedTV to catch up on his new role leading the Women’s side ahead of his first fixture at the wheel on Sunday, when his new side face Hibernian at the Balmoral Stadium.

RedTV subscribers can watch the interview in full here.

“It’s been a bit of a whirlwind the last couple of days, being in the building, meeting the players, having the 1st training session, but it has been good so far. Everyone’s been amazing with me since coming back in. I am just looking forward to the games.”

“It’s going to be a tough week coming up. It’s all happened quite quickly in the last 48 hours or so, but it has been great. I’m really enjoying it.”

“I weighed up a lot of things. It was hard for me to leave Glasgow City, because they invited me back into the club and they are amazing people there with amazing players. But obviously, there’s the draw of coming back to Aberdeen, my hometown club and, the project that’s here for me and the women’s program. That’s something that really attracted me.”

“I’ve got family in Aberdeen that I’ve been away from for a long time. It gives me a chance to reunite with them and also connect again with the Aberdeen fans. I always had a fantastic relationship with the Aberdeen fans, and I really want them to buy into the women’s side. I hope that I can help a little bit with that. That’s a big thing for us to try and get that support for the women’s programme and get lots of Aberdeen supporters behind them.”

“I think it is always there and because I’m from Aberdeen and I had some amazing memories of being a player at Aberdeen. Training on a Tuesday night across from Pittodrie on the gravel with Fergie coming out to watch training. There is lots of memories from since I was 11. There is a massive connection there. The club is never that far away, but now I’m back. I’m in the building, and I’m looking forward to it.”

“It’s going to be tough, you know, it will take time to get to where we want to be. To go from where we are now to that, it’s going to be a bit of a journey. It is going to be a bit of a journey because it’s going to be tough for the players to be able to navigate that. There’s lots of things that I’ve been through already with Glasgow City, helping to bring them through from an amateur sort of hybrid to semi-professional, to then being a fully professional club. That’s the journey that we’re that we’re now on, I’m looking forward to it. It’s going to take a lot of hard work from the players, the staff, and I think that’s why I’m going to keep battering on a bit about getting the fans in because we need the backing of the fans. Right now, the fans are at an all-time high with the men’s side and how well they’re doing.”

“It would be nice if that snowball effect helps us as well. We have a long-term project. I think in the immediacy, we’ll just try as best we can at the moment to help professionalize it in as many small ways as we can, and I can help with that. But we also know that we have certain steps that we have to take in order to become fully professional, and that will take a little bit of time.”

“Cormack Park is completely different. It’s so different from what we had when I was here previously. Training at Seaton Park, with dogs running on the pitch and stealing the ball from us, that was that was kind of fairly normal. On Wednesday I didn’t get a chance to go to the game because I had so much to do. I was the last person in this building last night. I have to say I had a wee sneak into the dressing room of the first team, men’s side. And I and I was like, wow. You know, it’s amazing. It’s great that they’ve got, such good facilities here. And it just shows you that football is changing rapidly.”

“Training has been great. They were amazing. They were really enthusiastic. They did well. It’s not been easy for the squad because they’ve had so many changes. They’ve had brilliant help from the staff at the club to help fill in. The players have then also had to work hard to try and keep some continuity there, and they’ve managed to pick up a couple of results. They deserve a lot of credit for that.”

“Having some familiar faces is massive. It really does honestly help, having Emily, Hannah, and Niamh Noble. Krafty I brought over from Germany, a few seasons back, and I had Hannah at Glasgow City a number of years back. They are both really good people. Hannah is someone that’s very experienced as well, and knows the dressing room, which has helped massively to try and get me up to speed as quickly as possible.”

“Hannah’s experience is really important. I think it’s good to have that proper blend between experience and youth. Hopefully as we go, we may be able to bring in and add to the squad a little bit more experience. But I am always happy to work with young players. It’s part of my DNA as a coach. I’m used to trying to help develop and bring through young players, and we’ve got some really good young players.”

“It really is a fresh start, because I am coming in with my eyes wide open. What I mean by that is I want to see all the players individually in training and in games. Places in the team are always up for grabs. That comes down to the players, playing well, being in a good space, listening to instructions, and putting it into practice in games and in training sessions. And I’ve got no stick ons in terms of players that are going to start every week. I need to learn about the players, very, very quickly. I obviously know quite a lot of them, but it’s so different when you’re out on the training pitch with them. You get to see little aspects of their game that you don’t see when you’re looking at them from afar.

“We are straight into it against Hibs. I am looking forward to it. They’re a good side. It’s a really tough start. I know Grant Scott really well. I’ve worked with him before. I know the way that he works, but he also knows the way I work. It is going to be an interesting start. Having three games in a week is a tough start, and that’s something that we’re going to have to navigate a little bit. But as I say. I am looking forward to it.”

“Please come. I really hope that I can, give a little bit impetus to ask fans to come and support the women’s programme and support the women’s team to help us stay in this league, first and foremost, to give us that backing to stay in the league. I’m sure the Aberdeen fans out there will want to do that. And then we want to get the point where we can start to challenge in this league and challenge the top clubs, that’s where Aberdeen should be. If the fans come out and support us, then I have no doubt that we can get there.”