As he watched Celtic power to another victory on route to the title Ronny Deila wasn’t willing to nominate his player-of-the-year.
Stefan Johansen did his prospects no harm with the second goal in a commanding performance while Craig Gordon did his claim no harm with two great saves to record another clean sheet.
Those two are likely to be the front runners for the honours with Jason Denayer a contender for the Young Player of the Year award handed out by the SPFA.
“The best players have been at Celtic and you have to pick,” Deila answered when questioned on his own choice of player-of-the-year. “It is very hard for me to do and I don’t think it is right for me to do it either, because it is different positions. Stefan is one who is having a very good season.
“I think a lot of people here have done well here. I have talked about Virgil van Dijk, Jason Denayer, and Nir Bitton has done well and Scott Brown has been very good.
“So you have to pick. I just see that a lot of our players performing well but Stefan is an important player, a good player. He is working hard and I think he did a good job and deserved to be the captain,
“I think he has had a good season all along but he is stepping up all the time.”
After an early onslaught Celtic had to wait until the 44th minute to make the breakthrough when Kris Commons scored from the penalty spot after James Craigen had chopped Stuart Armstrong in the penalty box.
Twenty minutes into the second half Johansen made the points secure when he shot beyond Scott Fox from a tight angle following a pass from John Guidetti.