Celtic's Scottish Premiership rivals Aberdeen are now expected to sack manager Stephen Robinson after a trouncing over the weekend.
The Bhoys beat Aberdeen 3-0 on matchday five and are not due to meet them again until December 20, when they are likely to come up against a new manager.
Robinson guided the Dons to safety last season and was asked to lead a squad rebuild over the summer, but things have not gone well this season.
Aberdeen are now one from bottom and only two points above Kilmarnock in bottom spot, albeit they have played a game less.
They were thrashed 4-0 by Hibs at home over the weekend, and that followed a 1-0 Premier Sports Cup semi-final defeat to Rangers and narrow defeats to both Falkirk and Dundee United, both of which have been in decent form of late.
The Scottish Sun have now reported that Aberdeen are expected to call time on Robinson's spell in charge this week. The Dons will be fearing another relegation battle, and already into the second quarter of the season, they will be concerned about the season getting away from them.
The fans seem to be on board, too, with some Dons fans having chanted 'sacked in the morning' at Robinson during their latest defeat.
What Robinson has said
Robinson said after the defeat to Hibs: “Really, really disappointing. No hiding away from it. An unacceptable performance, an unacceptable result. We haven't taken our chances, where Hibs had five or six chances, took four of them.
“That's always the difference in football. We haven't scored the chances we've created and so we got the result we deserved. If you don't take chances, you don't win football matches. They did. We've got no excuses. We had opportunities to change the result and we didn't do it.
“We have to be better than that. That's not acceptable. The result's not acceptable. I'm not trying to hide away from that. We have to get players that want to fight and try and get us out of this situation.
“Without winning football matches, the belief is fragile. As soon as we went 2-0 down, it didn't look like we had a way back. I'm not hiding away from that.”
Unfortunately for Robinson, clubs tend to lean into making managerial decisions going into the international break because it gives them time to find a replacement, and for that replacement to potentially get some work in ahead of returning to action.
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