What changed
Aberdeen have sacked head coach Stephen Robinson after winning just three of their first 12 Premiership matches. The Dons are second bottom after four straight defeats, including Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Hibernian.
Stuart Duff takes interim charge, while Brian Kerr and Stephen Craigan also leave. Robinson’s eight-month spell ends with 11 wins, five draws and 12 defeats from 28 matches.
Why it matters
This is more than a change in the dugout. Aberdeen rebuilt heavily in the summer, with 15 players arriving and 15 departing. The next manager inherits a squad still searching for its shape, confidence and a reliable way to keep the ball out of the net.
Aberdeen have scored jointly the fewest goals in the league and kept only two top-flight clean sheets. Robinson’s frequent switches between four and five defenders never settled the team. That makes the appointment ahead a difficult one: the club must decide whether the problem was mainly coaching, recruitment or both.
The timing leaves little room for a gentle reset. Aberdeen travel to Kilmarnock on 21 November, visit Rangers three days later and host Dundee on 28 November. With no permanent successor identified, those matches will begin under an interim manager while the club tries to stop a season sliding further away.
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