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After the magic of a good battling performance and three points from our final visit to Love Street, and the 'Sone Delight' of transfer deadline day, it is a bit of an anticlimax to have an international break.
Still, it gives us time to reflect upon the team's recovery from the worst possible start to a position three points off the top of the SPL. This is thanks to a 100% away record that is a huge turnaround from last season, where we had worse form on the road than Richard Hammond.
And Willie Miller and Jimmy Calderwood proved again that they are the sorcerers of deadline day. While the Aberdeen-Mad messageboard was distracted with thoughts of potential car-crash signings Gow or Riordan, the crafty gaffers conspired to pull Aluko from the hat - someone we thought would be priced out of a move north.
This trumps even previous transfer window trickery such as the conjuring of Stevie Crawford and Lee Miller, and if Sone the wing wizard continues in the vein of his year-long loan spell last season, he could be the first truly box-office player Pittodrie has seen since Moroccan magician Hicham Zerouali.