St Mirren v Aberdeen a relegation six-pointer dressed up as a homecoming
[BBC] The international break. The perfect time to sit back, take stock of where things are and spend a weekend extracting opinions about friendly matches out of yourself like field surgery. It's nearly time for a return of the good stuff, though.
The St Mirren stuff. Aberdeen are the visitors on Saturday, managed by a certain Stephen Robinson, making his first return to the SMiSA since his departure last month. The diary has been marked ever since.
Craig McLeish is staying at St Mirren. Interim manager until the end of the season, alongside former Saint Stuart Taylor as his assistant. So far, McLeish has had two games in charge: one loss that felt like more than that and one win that felt like a statement.
He is 36, was running the academy three weeks ago and has now been handed a relegation fight and a Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic. Saturday - as a starting point for what's to come - will be huge. There'll be a lot of hand wringing around Robinson's return.
Respect levels and who owes who what amount of what. It'll probably get quite silly. The personnel swapping between these clubs, both past and present, has already injected a fair deal into this game.