A "disgrace."
"Horrendous."
"Unacceptable."
"We are in serious trouble."
Just some of the damning statements that came directly from the beleaguered Aberdeen dressing room in the wake of their mortifying Scottish Cup hounding in Dunfermline that underlined the need for a revolution at Pittodrie.
The supporters, 3,800 of them who made the trip to follow their team, made statements of their own which can't be published here, but they were well within their rights to make them.
Aberdeen have never before been backed by the numbers they have been in recent years with such regularity. Even the all-conquering side of the 1980s struggled to get regular home attendances near the 17,500 average the current Dons' side do.
And despite insipid performances of alarming regularity, they turn out in their numbers to back a team that isn't just failing, it is threatening to implode completely.
As was noted here a few weeks ago, 11th place is a real, clear and present danger. This Aberdeen team is heading in one direction and if Kilmarnock, eight points behind them and St Mirren, five points adrift, pick up one or two wins, the heat will be on and there has to be doubts as to whether they'd be able to handle that sort of duress.
With their Scottish Cup defence over, hopes of the top six extinguished and assuming Livingston have left themselves too much to do when it comes to escaping automatic relegation, how do the ninth-placed Dons' pre-split fixtures look compared to the two sides directly below them, including Saints.
While Aberdeen host top half-bound Falkirk next, a side that has beaten them twice already this season, St Mirren will take on Rangers at home and Kilmarnock welcome league leaders Hearts to Ayrshire.
The Dons go to Rangers the following Saturday with Killie hosting an increasingly doomed looking Livi when Stephen Robinson's men go to Falkirk.
Aberdeen will then go to Saints after the international break in what looks like a key fixture with Neil McCann's team going to Hibs at the same time.
Then on match-day 33 before the league splits in two, the Dons welcome Hibs to Pittodrie, Saints go to Celtic and Killie host Dundee.
What follows could be a bloodbath and the Aberdeen fans are right to be concerned about whether the current, expensively-assembled squad is capable of fighting to retain their unbroken top flight history.
A play-off final, which will include a visit to the likes of East End Park, where they were absolutely obliterated by Dunfermline, looks extremely trepidatious right now as the Dons continue to fumble their way through the second half of the season without a manager or a single away goal.
