New Glentoran manager Scott Young has vowed to "walk away from football" if he cannot turn things around at The Oval in eight weeks.
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The former Glens player and coach has been given the manager job until the end of the season but he wants to extend his stay.
"First and foremost I want to put the passion and pride back into playing for the badge at Glentoran," he told UTV.
"The statistics say it all, we have had eight defeats this season and that is nowhere near good enough for this club.
"If at the end of the eight weeks I have not been able to turn things around I will walk away from football.
"I live in east Belfast, my wife is from there; I support Glentoran; I don't want to be manager at any other club.
"But if it doesn't work, it won't be for the lack of trying."
Young, whose playing career ended early because of a third leg break, has also told the players he is no longer their friend.
"It was difficult for me but I told the players on Monday night that I no longer have friends at this football club," he told UTV.
"I am in charge now and it has to be that way. I don't care what reputation a player has, how many games he has played or how many he hasn't, if he is not performing on the pitch then he will not be in the team."
For his managerial debut, Young faces Glentoran's biggest rivals Linfield in the quarter-finals of the Irish Cup on Saturday.
Blues boss David Jeffrey, who has seen off five Glens' managers during his 13 years in charge at Windsor Park, thinks the transition from coach to manager will not be an easy one for Young.
"The hardest thing is the transition from coach to manager," Jeffrey told UTV.
"When you are coach you can enjoy the banter and in many ways you are the confidant of the players.
"But when you become the manager it's your decision if someone is in the team or not and that's tougher.
"However I have no doubt if Scott is as good a manager as he was a player then he will be very successful," Jeffrey told UTV.
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