Aberdeen FC

Manager Jim Goodwin carried out his pre-match media duties on Thursday afternoon ahead of our Scottish Cup tie with Darvel on Monday.

We have to be professional and we will give Darvel the same respect as what we give every other opposition we face. We just need that little bit of time to make sure that we get things to where they need to be. And as I said the board of directors have been extremely supportive in pretty much every request that I’ve made. And we want to go far again in the Scottish Cup, just like we did in the League Cup. We have to put it behind us now and focus fully on what’s a very important game on Monday in the Cup against Darvel. We’ve conceded far too many goals, too many soft goals and that’s something that we need to eradicate in the future if we are going to achieve our objectives in the season which is to be involved in those European places come the end of the season. A lot of things have changed behind the scenes that isn’t documented or isn’t publicised, but ultimately, the supporters just want to see the team winning on a match day and that’s what we need to get back to doing. I’ve got self belief in myself, I believe that I’ve got what it takes to get us back on track. “I think we recruited very well in the summer. Our fans don’t want to hear me speaking, the words are cheap, we have to have to put it into action on the field of play and we have to get better defensively. Last night I felt as if we’ve took a couple of steps back again because of the nature of the goals that were scored. I think it pretty much caught us all by surprise because we went into the game in quite a good place considering the performance that we put in on Sunday against Rangers, albeit we were disappointed with the result but we played very well on the day.