It really is typical St. Mirren. Having gone pretty much as low as you could on Sunday, we're now as high as we've been for years (save the Paisley drugs jokes please) and probably will be for some time. An utter trouncing of Celtic, which was well deserved, ended the winless streak and moves us closer to safety.
The players were outstanding. We hard hardly anyone fit, meaning we went with only six subs again, but those that did play were sensational. Craig Dargo didn't give the Celtic backline a moment's rest, Billy Mehmet was a handful, the defence did what they had to do and, for the most part, the midfielders battled, won the ball and scored some goals.
Debates over the future of the club can wait for another day. We had to bounce back after Sunday, get some credibility and respectability back. Well, I think we might just have done that - and we could well have finished Tony Mowbray's sorry Celtic career into the bargain. Good night, no?
Sadly, I was not there. Work commitments make the majority of midweek games a no-no, but knowing my luck we'd have been humped if I went. I'd decided last week I wasn't going to watch it, but decided this afternoon to join a colleague in the pub to watch it on ESPN. It turned out to be a rather good decision.
With the injuries, there were three changes and a return to 4-4-2. In came Dargo, Dorman and Steven Robb, out went David Barron, Michael Higdon and Graham Carey. Dargo immediately set about causing the backline problems with his running and quickly got Josh Thomson into the book - thankfully he wasn't sent off!
There was no sign of things to come in the early stages, Georgios Samaras and Robbie Keane having a couple of chances that Paul Gallacher saved brilliantly. There was a blatant penalty turned down when Dargo was nudged inside the box, but 10 minutes before the brake it was irrelevant,Billy Mehmet flicking on for Dorman to send a drive past Lukasz Zaluska and end a goal drought stretching back to October.
The lead stayed intact until the break and you always knew there'd be a bit of a cavalry charge from the visitors. Hugh Murray blocked an effort from Keane before the second arrived at the other end with a superb counter attack, Dargo and Mehmet exchanging passes before playing off to Thomson. The midfielder took a touch and sent a shot under Zaluska, sending two people in a Dumfries pub wild.
Celtic threw on more strikers but it didn't change much and made it more likely we could score on the break. Mehmet had a header saved by Zaluska before, with six minutes left, Dorman put things beyond doubt when he beat Mehmet to the ball and cracked home a shot from the edge of the box.
To put the icing on this rather tasty cake, Higdon came off the bench, set up Thomson and he thumped in the fourth. We could even have had a fifth if Dargo had squared rather than shot, but that would have been greedy.
As I said, unbelievable. If you're anything like me, you'll be walking into work tomorrow morning with one hell of a smile on your face.