Graeme Shinnie believes Aberdeen’s nice guys need to find a nasty streak. Dons boss Neil Warnock said his side had been bullied and looked pathetic at times as they crumbled to a dismal defeat to Kilmarnock.
Skipper Shinnie couldn’t disagree and said: “At times that’s fair. I think the second goal justifies it. It’s too easy for them from a throw-in, within a couple of movements they’re in on goal. “It’s been the story of our season so far, really.
The goals we keep losing aren’t good enough. We are too nice and conceding the goals that we are shows that. We need more doggedness, that desire to keep the ball out, make blocks, to put our bodies on the line.
They’re an honest bunch of boys, a great bunch of boys, but that doesn’t win you games. We need to start being more horrible on the pitch. "That’s what they [Killie] are good at, they’re strong defensively, they’ll get in and head it, they’ll get it forward and the two big boys up front will fight and battle.
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