I thought last night’s game summed up our season in a lot of ways:

Positives

We’re scoring a lot of goals
We have some proper strikers
There’s talent in the midfield
We’re getting lucky
Crowds are up
It’s entertaining
We keep getting penalties
We have a really strong bench by SPFL standards (anyone remember Connor McLennan?)
We’re up to 3rd again

Negatives

Our defence is a long, long way from solid and we’re light at CB
We’re pretty reliant on key loan players (Scales, Clarkson and Coulson)
We’re getting lucky (how long can it last?)
We’re a bit soft
Not clear that we’re tactically astute

On balance I’d far rather be here than where we were this time last year (although I enjoyed Glass’s approach to the gruesome twosome) or under the latter years of McInnes. We have a cup semi to look forward to (though I can’t see us winning it as things stand).

But I’m looking for some decent signings in January ideally and definitely some real evidence that Goodwin knows how to organise his defence. If we do that, I’ll start to feel we might really be getting somewhere.

My sense is that even if we don’t do either of those things we’re a top 6 team again (as we flipping should be) and if we ride our luck 3rd is possible. But in the balance and depends on Hibs, Hearts, etc. continuing to f@*k it up as much as anything we do.

We’ve come a long way in 12 months but we’ve a long way still to go.