By CALUM CROWE

Published: 17:17, 22 March 2026 | Updated: 17:17, 22 March 2026

As the Aberdeen team bus pulled away from Ibrox last night, the three-hour drive back up the road gave the players plenty of time and scope for reflection.

About an hour or so earlier, inside the away changing room, they had just been given their first dressing down under their new manager Stephen Robinson.

Kevin Nisbet, who captained the team on the night, described it as a 'bollocking'. Never one to mince his words, Robinson can be brutally honest and blunt when the mood takes him.

The Aberdeen players got their first experience of that in only his second game in charge. It wasn't difficult to envisage teacups flying around after the 4-1 defeat by Rangers.

'I was very honest with the players in the dressing room after the game,' said Robinson. 'I told them the truth, delivered a few home truths.

'Maybe if that had been done six or seven months ago, people would have stepped up. It's frustrating. The reality is we're in a dogfight.

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