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I maybe wouldn’t go as far as to say that’s the only reason we signed him but getting a player that some of your competitors wants is always a bit of a bonus. It just hasn’t worked out for KVV with Watkins and Vassell doing so well and it’s been impossible to drop them to be honest.

All booked up on the QPSA caravan of love for Saturday. It has been a while since I have been on the supporters bus and it will be my first away day to Arbroath. I am looking forward to it.

Except it’s an entirely hyperbolic post which doesn’t really reflect reality. The club rid itself of the debt that had been hanging over us for years, attracted plenty new investment and built a training ground in that period. We reached a point where performances on the pitch plateaued as we lost players and the lack of recruitment infrastructure and short term thinking on the pitch came to bite. We’ve tried to address that in the last few years (yes, at times hilariously badly) but broadly that infrastructure is moving in the right direction. I think we’ve tried to do too much too quickly and made a complete arse of a lot of it in the process. I mean, I’m sure there was a club in recent times that changed the structure of their football department, introduced a new model, signed about 40 players every window, hired all sorts of managers including their director of football and got relegated in the process. I’m told that club is now miles ahead of everybody at everything. This isn’t a prediction that everything works out great for us, but the work done to sort out the balance sheet and infrastructure of the club whilst performing well has allowed a platform for progression. Whether we take it or not is up for debate for now, your characterisation of us though is based in reality but laced with hyperbole and your hopes for how this plays out.

Ok. In the last 12 seasons Aberdeen have finished higher than Hearts 10 times. In the last 10 seasons Aberdeen have finished 2nd four times, with Hearts on zero. In the last 121 years Aberdeen have never been relegated, Hearts have been countless times. In the last 121 years Aberdeen have beaten Rangers countless times at Hampden, Hearts have never done that. If you want to concentrate on the last three years, that's your perogative.

Broadfoot's a dirty player (although quite a few of his 14 bookings have been for dissent). Baird recently seems to be following his example. Power's a player who can put a heavy challenge in. On the other hand, Robbie Muirhead has 10 bookings this season and I don't think anyone has ever accused him about him being that type of player (usually the complaint being the opposite). We've only had one sending off all season, which was harsh (one 24th of all sendings off, if you wondered). We have a physical side to us, absolutely, but it's more "what you see is what you get" physicality rather than "someone is going to get injured" dirty.

Fun fact - the Dutch royal house of Orange (or Orange-Nassau to give it its full title) has nothing to do with the colour Orange. They originate from Orange, the city in the south of France, which is named after Arasuio, a local Celtic water god.

Yep. FSS Player of the Year, Junior Bairns POTY, Players POTY, Fans POTY & goal of the season. (Montrose I think). On the womens side, Iona Bridges won POTY, Ella Stewart breakthrough POTY (now a first teamer while still a schoolgirl and a cracking wee 'baller) and Outstanding Achievement went to Rachel Pirie. The women will have their own private awards night for players and staff after the season is over, hence why the categories are a little different from the men. On the recognition side of things, Jean Sneddon got a Lifetime Achievement, Joe Wallace (retiring groundsman) an Outstanding Contribution and Robert Cox (longstanding volunteer and current boardroom attendant) Special Recognition. The Foundation did similar awards for some of their people. Club staff are likely all off today but I'd assume there will be announcements, stories and pics uploaded tomorrow.

Really can't see Dougie managing Morton in the Saudi Pro League to be fair.

Fixed that for you

Anyone not from Scotland's largest and greatest city is a teuchter.

Up against the brutal Morton, we need to be careful of picking up injuries. Result doesn't matter for the league but does for momentum. Get through the game, lick the inevitable wounds and move on.

And the one hundred and four yellow cards you've received in the league this year were, what, mistaken identity?

It really isn't, you're a shower of hammer throwing knuckle draggers, the card count speaks for itself.