Aberdeen FC star AGREES with 'not fit to wear the shirt' rage from the stands

Candid Stefan Gartenmann has insisted the angry Red Army are right - the Aberdeen players aren’t currently fit to wear their shirt.

The angry Dons support turned on their team again with chants of “Sack the board” and “You’re not fit to wear the shirt” at their players again after Wednesday’s 1-0 defeat to Dundee. Struggling Aberdeen, who finished third last season, haven’t won a league match in the last 11 and that awful drop in form has left them an alarming three points off second-bottom position and the relegation play-off place.

Gartenmann, when asked about the “You’re not fit to wear the shirt” shouts, answered: “I can just say right now, we are not. Right now, they (the fans) are completely right. We really appreciate that they keep showing their support and they keep coming in these numbers for our away games. Right now, they are right and we need to turn that around.”

The dire Dons haven’t won a league game since the start of January before Barry Robson was sacked. Neil Warnock came in as an interim but failed to win a league game and now the unenviable task has been left at the feet of first-team coach Peter Leven to steady the ship in the short-term.

Leven apologised to the fans after their Dundee disaster. It was a season that had looked to offer so much with European group stage football and good cup runs but Gartenmann knows in the Premiership they are now very much looking down and scrapping for survival.

That starts on Saturday with a trip to Motherwell. “We have to accept the seriousness of everything now,” the Dane admitted. “Facts are facts and the table doesn’t lie. We talked about postponed games in the past but it is all even now and we are not many points clear of the relegation zone.

“We have to