This season was another good campaign for Aberdeen after they finished second for a fourth year in a row.
But one thing boss Derek McInnes will be striving to have for next term is more consistency of selection.
It is an important summer for the Dons on the recruitment front with a number of players leaving at the end of this season.
McInnes has touched before on his recruitment for this season and he admitted it wasn’t quite what he had hoped for.
While the Pittodrie gaffer will want his recruitment to be better for next season, the Reds still managed to finish second in what was a strong Scottish Premiership.
Looking back over this season the team chopped and changed a lot.
But it was still competitive and still ended the season as runners-up to champions Celtic.
Two seasons ago, things were more consistent in terms of selection compared with this term.
That may have been because for large parts of the season McInnes was looking for his best 11 and he had to experiment in some areas.
Central defence was one area where there was a lot of change and the task for next season is finding someone to partner Scott McKenna.
Michael Devlin could be the man for that role depending on how he recovers from his cruciate ligament injury.
In midfield, Kenny McLean is off to Norwich and Ryan Christie has gone back to Celtic.
They are two big players who contributed a lot to the team so replacing them is important because central midfield is a key area of the pitch.
There is quality in the wide areas with Gary Mackay-Steven and Niall McGinn.
But a question mark remains about who will be up front for Aberdeen next season.
Adam Rooney, Stevie May and Sam Cosgrove were all given opportunities to lead the line this campaign.
There is a decent squad at Pittodrie and I think during the summer McInnes will be looking for quality rather than quantity when it comes to signings.
The club is in a good place financially to support the manager so it will all come down to the quality of the recruitment.
Consistency of selection is something the Reds manager will be looking at.
As a manager you want to have a stable starting 11, or even a stable base of 12 or 13 players you know you can rely on.
But all managers want to know their best starting 11.
I’m not sure that was the case at times this season.
That’s something I’m sure that McInnes will want to have for next season.
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