Aberdeen fan view: An array of chasers from the bench are perfect tonic for Dons

It’s cold outside. There’s no kind of atmosphere. I’m all alone, more or less.

Words which used to herald the appearance of Danny John-Jules laconically prowling his way through vast space. It must run in the family.

For it is as apt a description as there could be of nephew Tyreese grabbing the opportunity he was offered to float away from the red dwarves of Aberdeen’s defence and break the ice at wintry Pittodrie.

It continued a trend of the Dons starting slowly against everyone that isn’t Dundee.

Never mind the spectators being allowed to drink before kick-off: it often looks like the players have had a couple of their own, such is the extent to which they stagger their way into the match.

But Jimmy Thelin is in the fortunate position of having an array of chasers available to him from the tantalus of his bench.

Aberdeen’s best attacking options seem very frequently to be whichever ones didn’t start the game, and it is a rule which even applies to the previously invisible Kenan Bilalovic, the latest to contract a seasonal case of Shayden Morris syndrome.

That remains something of a double-edged sword for Thelin – whilst he would far rather have the ability to up the stakes than not, it is an issue that the only starting centre-forward to score a domestic goal this season was Kusini Yengi from the length of a pint glass at Cappielow.

Having mastered the art of winning from unpromising positions, Thelin’s next trick must be to stop getting into them.

Despite recent precedent the Red Army will have feared they would be drowning their sorrows after this one. Instead they were toasting regaining touch with the top five, and consigning the dregs of the early season to the drip tray of history. Cheers.