Dons defender Gavin Molloy admitted that once again, giving away poor goals cost them a game they could have won at Dens Park.

“The goals are just really frustrating from our point of view. I think they're lapses in concentrations and just silly goals. The squad are actually quite angry in the dressing room. I know people say it's the last game of the season, but it's about pride. That’s what you're playing for today and we didn't show it.

“The first half was quite stop-start, but that can happen sometimes. You need to just get on with it, you have to just play your own game no matter whatever happens. We bounced back quite well from conceding, but we threw it away in the end.

“Work is being done in training to stop these goals, defend better, defending the box, defending set pieces. I think we've actually improved on that recently but today we just weren't at it in that sense.

“Sometimes you see we're quite disconnected, there's too many gaps sometimes and I think that needs to be rectified. That's obviously what we're trying to do and I'm guessing it’s what pre-season will be all about, being more together, harder to beat and winning more games.

“You look at the best teams, they have good spines, they have good characters. Maybe that's what we need. We're not where we want to be. I think sometimes we just haven't really been together as a team and we haven’t worked hard enough for each other. That's where these gaps are created.

“We had a lot of turnover of players last summer, and we've had different managers this season, but us as players, we have to take responsibility on the pitch. We talk about systems but at the end of the day we're the ones playing and it wasn't good enough today and it hasn’t been for most of the season. Everyone was quite angry in there afterwards. Whether you're in the bottom split or the top split, you have to win games. You've got to want it. I think that's what we didn't have today.”

Aberdeen were backed by another big travelling crowd in Dundee and Molloy admitted that the players need to do more to harness the advantage the fans can give a team like Aberdeen.

“We know our fan base is massive. We have to play for that. Look at Hearts, they play to their crowd, that's a big thing that they work on. People know when they go to Tynecastle it's going to be a tough game. We need to do the same, build on our amazing fan base and we need to use that to our advantage. Hopefully we can next season.”