Stefan Gartenmann pays Aberdeen fans lip service and it's the least Red Army deserve after letting fury be heard

Stefan Gartenmann knows Aberdeen need to start putting their words into action if the team are to avoid the threat of relegation to the Championship.

Another abject performance on the road at Dundee on Wednesday night saw the Dons fall to a fourth consecutive league loss as their winless run in the Premiership was extended to a staggering 11 games. The Red Army backed their team in big numbers, but a woeful display left disgruntled fans chanting "you're not fit to wear the shirt" while also taking aim at the running of the club by singing "sack the board".

The pitiful run of results has now made relegation for the first time in Aberdeen's history a genuine possibility, with the managerless Pittodrie club now just three points above Ross County in the relegation play-off zone. Despite finishing bottom of the table in the 1999/2000 season, the Dons were spared the daunting prospect of a relegation play-off after Falkirk's ground failed to meet SPFL regulations.

But their 121-year-long stay in Scotland's top-light is now under serious threat, with faint hopes of a top-six finish all but gone. In the wake of Neil Warnock's sharp exit, interim boss Peter Leven will once again take charge of the team in Saturday's trip down to Lanarkshire to face Motherwell, but chairman Dave Cormack and the rest of Aberdeen's hierarchy will now desperately trying to accelerate the process of appointing a new manager in a bid to put an end to the side's spiralling slump towards the drop.

FC Midtjylland loanee Stefan Gartenmann insists that the fans have every right to be angry with their team's displays in the Premiership, which has been in stark contrast to the Reds success in cup competitions. Prior to his sacking at the end of January,