Barry Robson puts Aberdeen winning mentality first as new boss reveals booking assistant's flights BEFORE he'd signed

People talk about tactics, style of play and philosophies but Barry Robson knows at Aberdeen it is all about winning.

The new Dons boss knows football has got caught up with flipcharts and boardroom presentations but he knows the be all and end all are results on the park. Robson has seen that first hand as the seven game winning run that he is currently on has gone a long way to him winning his new two year Pittodrie contract. The 44-year-old has never been one to look too far ahead or make bold predictions.

He has preferred to take a more grounded approach and take it one game at a time. It is a way that has more than worked and has Aberdeen clear in third place and looking at an immediate return to European football. “I’ve always said Aberdeen is associated with winning,” Robson insisted. "We want to win games and that is the most important thing, first and foremost.

“All the rest of it comes afterwards because it’s not easy to win, we know that. We’re not going to win every game, I understand that and I get that. But we have to go and try to win every game.

“That’s what the players have done well and when you do win you see the confidence and when you don’t you see it going the other way. The most important thing is trying to achieve those three points.

“If we can do that more often than now we should be where we want to be.”

Robson has also put in a work ethic to his team and although he refuses to make any bold predictions he has promised to put an Aberdeen side on the pitch that the Red Army can be proud of and to try and get them off their seats.

The former Scotland cap added: “You can’t always have a team that is magnificent to look at as other Scottish teams and good coaches will stop you playing as the