Barry Robson wants to ‘bring a bit of thunder back’ to Aberdeen

Barry Robson will aim to restore the “thunder” to the Aberdeen team following the departure of Stephen Glass.

Robson has taken caretaker charge after Glass was sacked in the wake of Saturday’s Scottish Cup exit at Motherwell.

Many Aberdeen players faced the fury of their fans at Fir Park as they walked up to the stand housing the away support, and Christian Ramirez expressed his frustration at Sunday’s news when he simply tweeted an expletive.

Robson knows the players will be feeling guilty as well as suffering confidence-wise after taking one point from their last four cinch Premiership games.

The Dons host bottom club St Johnstone on Tuesday knowing that defeat could see them looking over their shoulders in the bottom reaches of the table.

Robson said: “It’s never easy when a manager loses his job. It’s difficult for him and everybody connected to the club.

“I felt for him but the one thing you sign up for when you become a football manager is, inevitably this will happen at some stage, which is unfortunate.

“I have seen it happen a million times, as a player and as a coach. I just have to try and pick the players up.

“And the thing is, the players know they are responsible for it as well. It’s a case of let’s try and move the club forward and get a decent result on Tuesday.

“Every player should always feel that. I have played in teams when the manager lost his job and I felt it when I went back that night. You do feel like you have let your manager down.

“The one thing you have to do as a player, you have to bounce back.

“You need to make sure you are doing the right thing for the football club as well as yourself, and that’s what we have to do with them now, make sure they start performing the way we expect them to