Could Aberdeen be relegated for first time ever?

Could Aberdeen be relegated for first time ever?Image source, SNSImage caption, Aberdeen have won one of their past 15 Scottish Premiership gamesByThomas DuncanBBC Sport ScotlandPublished1 minute ago"We're in a relegation fight. If that wasn't clear before it certainly is after tonight. I've reiterated to the players that there's no hiding place now."Two games into his Aberdeen tenure, manager Stephen Robinson laid it all on the line. The Northern Irishman may merely have voiced what many were thinking, but by talking about relegation after a 4-1 defeat by Rangers he knew he was laying down a marker to his squad.Do they have what it takes to fight their way to safety? Robinson says he is "confident" they do. We are about to find out.On Saturday, Robinson takes Aberdeen to Paisley to play the club, St Mirren, he left just three weeks ago having delivered a League Cup trophy in December to go with three consecutive top-six finishes.St Mirren and Kilmarnock are just three points behind Aberdeen in the race to avoid the relegation play-off spot in the Scottish Premiership, with Livingston 12 points adrift at the bottom and seemingly doomed with seven games to go.It feels like a game Aberdeen simply cannot lose, and Robinson admitted it is "huge".In the club's 123-year history they have never played outside of Scotland's top flight. Unless Robinson and his players reverse their horrible form, that could be about to change.Why Aberdeen are in big troubleWhen Jimmy Thelin was sacked at the start of January, Aberdeen were only two points from the top six and 12 from the relegation play-off spot.It had been a poor campaign to that point but those in charge could not have envisaged it was going to get worse when Thelin went back to Sweden.A run of one win in 11 games since has enabled Kilmarnock to claw back 10 points on them and turn up the pressure.The two-month delay in appointing a permanent manager proved extrem...