The 5 factors Hearts and Aberdeen will do battle for in box office bout for third place - Ryan Stevenson

Barry Robson reckons all the pressure is on Hearts on Saturday. But I’ll tell you what; if the Jambos can use that tension to focus their game and send Robson and Aberdeen back up the road empty handed then it’ll be the Dons whose legs might just get that bit heavier going into the final two matches.

This is a red letter day in the battle for third place. And that letter is P - for pressure, pounds, prizes, pride and psychology. It’s what the race to be best of the rest - and the extra millions that comes with that - should be all about. It’s great for the Scottish game and I can understand Robson’s gamesmanship but it might actually suit Hearts on Saturday knowing they have to win.

I’m a big fan of Barry. I played against him two decades ago when he was at Caley Thistle and thought he was a right good player then. But it was when I was lucky enough to get a Scotland call-up in 2011 and got to see how he works first hand that I was really impressed.

He wouldn’t accept anything less than the best - no matter if it was a possession drill in training or the game itself. He put demands on his team mates about standards because his were impeccable. That was before we played Cyprus in a Nicosia friendly and a few days before the game I was in a one v one against him in a box where you could use the players on the outside as your team mates.

It was only a minute at a time but trying to get the ball off Barry made it feel like an hour. He absolutely tore me a new one. I didn’t even touch the ball. I’m not at all surprised to see how well his Aberdeen side are doing. He had a winner’s streak that made him a bit of a nippy sweetie on the park and that won’t change in the dug out.

But Steven Naismith is cut from the same cloth and