We had an opportunity there after Livi, with Brechin away, Peterhead home and Kelty home (not exactly a difficult set of games really) to put down a marker in the group before St Johnstone away next month and at same time build some confidence for the league games coming

Instead we became the first Prem team since 2012 to lose at home to a team outside the top two divisions and edged past Kelty and came out of the week feeling pretty meh just as we felt before

Aberdeen at home, should have been feeling excited and looking forward to it, gonna be a long afternoon I think, McInnes will make sure they know this game means more than others for them, kind of dreading it as it stands

On the upside by the following week we should hopefully have Shankland, McNulty and Fuchs etc all available