Stephen Robinson stressed that only results will dictate how he is perceived as Aberdeen manager after back-to-back wins improved the vibe around Pittodrie ahead of Saturday’s visit to Hibernian.
The Dons boss was under intense scrutiny as recently as a week ago after a run of four William Hill Premiership matches without a goal.
But the pressure has eased on Robinson after last Saturday’s penalty shootout victory at Kilmarnock in the Premier Sports Cup quarter-final was followed by an emphatic 4-0 league win at Motherwell on Tuesday.
The Northern Irishman, who saw his Hibs counterpart David Gray sacked on Wednesday, is taking nothing for granted, however.
“Results change everything, results change the narrative,” said Robinson. “Sometimes you don’t play as well as the results suggest, but if you win, it hides all faults.
“If you lose, every fault is opened up for scrutiny, and that’s the job, unfortunately. You’ve just seen at Hibs a manager lose his job who finished third and finished fifth, qualified for Europe two years in a row. That’s the industry we’re in.
“People talk about (playing) young players and style of play but winning football matches silences everything, and that’s ultimately what you have to do to stay in a job.”
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Robinson, who took over six months ago, stressed Aberdeen still have plenty of scope for improvement despite their recent upturn. “We’re certainly not the finished article,” he said. “We will never claim that.
“Even if we were top of the league, I wouldn’t claim that. There are always things to be better at. I always knew this was going to be transitional this season. We knew at the start of it, with the amount of change, that it was going to take time with ups and downs.
“We know that we’ve got a good squad in the making. Do we need to add to that squad? Of course we do. When we get down the line, to Christmas time, we know we’re going to have to add more to that. But what we have now is a group of boys that will run and try and play at the right times.
“But confidence is absolutely key. Winning football matches breeds confidence; you could see that when we scored two and three (at Motherwell), everybody relaxed a little bit.”
