Barry Robson responds to Aberdeen FC boo boys as he declares 'lack of cohesion' at the centre of slump

Frustrated Barry Robson admitted the angry Red Army were perfectly within their rights to turn on his Aberdeen players.

The Dons lost 2-0 against Hearts and are now five Premiership games without a win - sitting second bottom only on goal difference. The unhappy 600 Aberdeen supporters weren’t shy in making their feelings known as they booed and hurled abuse at their players as they went to applaud them in the Roseburn Stand after the game.

Robson, when asked about the fan reaction, answered: “100 per cent. We want to win football matches. I think they know that. We are a work in progress. That was a whole new back five today. We tried to change it at half-time, but you could see a lack of cohesion with us. We tried to work on it a little bit during the international break but we had a lot of them away.

"I've been at this club a long time. I've seen the fans and rightly so, they want to see us win the game and obviously we never. The first one was a deflection and the second one, I'll need to see it back, but we are built on our defensive structure. We were very good at that last year but we've had to build a whole new defence. We are still a work in progress.

"I think Richard Jensen and Stefan Gartenmann met each other for the first time this week. They're good players and we will be alright, I'm very confident of that. We just need to perform better there for our fans.”

Robson, who has to lift his side for their Europa Conference League opener against Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday, had made wholesale changes but has insisted it is not time to hit the panic button, but he knows his team must turn their form around.

He claimed: "I think so. When you look at where we were as a club last year ... we've had a difficult