Well done to all the folk volunteering. One of the basic strands of a successful club for me is that it takes pride in itself off the park, for me a bad sign at any club is to see peeling paintwork and weeds all over the place.

I remember seeing pictures of the back of the shed at Dens Park taken by a Jambo mate of mine a few years ago and it was absolutely shocking, weeds all over the stairs, rust and peeling paint on the hand rails and uncleared rubbish, including discarded advertising hoardings, piled up. If that was the standard acceptable off the park, what was the standard expected on the playing side?

I doubt there's a club in the land where fans would ignore a call to help out as they are doing at Easter Road and on that basis there's no need to have your stadium looking like a midden .... Unless you are Aberdeen of course, I'm sure I read somewhere that the word 'Pittodrie' is Gaelic or old Norse for 'midden'