It will be a case of Dundee Reunited for Brian Graham when Celtic visit McDiarmid Park this afternoon.
But the St Johnstone striker is hoping to be the only Tannadice old boy smiling at the end of today’s 90 minutes.
Graham didn’t need to watch Gary Mackay-Steven and Stuart Armstrong make goal-scoring Hoops’ debuts against Partick Thistle in midweek to know that they would be a threat to Saints’ hopes of three points in Perth.
He was already a member of their fan club, having watched them blossom for the Tangerines.
One day off form for the £2m duo wouldn’t do them any harm though, according to the former Raith Rovers man.
“I couldn’t be more happy for the two of them,” he said.
“Gary scored after 38 seconds and Stuart scored as well. Long may it continue – just not against us.
“Gary’s got bags of tricks but I think Stuart can go even higher. He’s got loads of ability that boy, and it’s up to him now to fulfil his potential.
“I think he could reach the English Premier League eventually. Gary has that potential too. But it’s just at this moment Stuart is ahead.
“I love his attitude to the game. He knows his stuff but if you see him up close in training the burst of pace he’s got is just incredible.
“I remember we played Motherwell and he gave Shaun Hutchinson 10 yards of a start, and blew him out of the water and scored. I just knew then that boy had another level in him.”
And Graham insists that the portrayal of Stuart Armstrong the choir boy isn’t completely accurate.
“He’s definitely got his head screwed on the right way,” he observed. “I remember before one big match we were staying over in Glasgow at a hotel and he’s sitting at the table with his books spread out in front of him on the Friday night before the game studying for his law course.
“Fair play to the boy. He got a bit of stick sometimes about it. But he didn’t care. He’s on his own wee wavelength sometimes and we just let him be.
“A lot of people see him as this nice, well-spoken clever boy but he’s got that wee streak to him.
“He’s got that ruthless, nasty streak that you need to get to the top. He’s just to Celtic and won man of the match in his first game and that shows you he can handle the move. He’s too level-headed for anything to faze him.”
As much as Graham is a big admirer of Armstrong and Mackay-Steven, he also appreciates there are plenty more Celtic dangermen to be wary of.
He pointed out: “They’re on a good wee run and they were brilliant against Partick Thistle. They couldn’t really get near them but that’s what Celtic have got quality in abundance.
“They struggled sometimes at the start of the season and some people were questioning Ronny Deila but fair play to him, he’s got them playing some really exciting and attractive football.
“It’s hard to come into a football club and change everything, but it’s especially hard at a club like Celtic where there’s 60,000 fans watching your every move. It’s a high pressure job but, again, fair play to him because he’s stuck with his philosophy and he’s got the fans on his side now.”
Celtic may be chasing a treble but Saints are just thinking short-term responding in the right way to a painful Scottish Cup exit.
Graham said: “We want to bounce back from last week. It was a big blow to us to go out of the cup.
“Fair play to Queen of the South, they played well and we didn’t play well at all.
“It’s especially disappointing because a lot of Premiership teams are out of the cup and there was a real opportunity for us to go on another run. But it’s not to be and we have to focus on Celtic.
“It’s going to be difficult because they’ve not lost a goal in a long time. But everyone wrote us off against Aberdeen but we got the three points.
“Our aim is to go out there, try and score and hold on to it. Celtic have threats all over the pitch. Even their defenders like Virgil van Dijk pose a big goal threat for them up front.
“But it’s a game against the champions and we are all looking forward to it.”
David Wotherspoon is suspended but Lee Croft, Chris Millar and Steven MacLean all return.