Ask Steven Anderson to choose between a top-six finish and helping St Johnstone reach a first ever Scottish Cup final, and the league probably just shades it.
Not that the centre-half is settling for just one of those options, of course.
Anderson’s first goal of the season sealed Saints’ place in the semi-finals of the cup on Saturday and has everyone looking forward to an Ibrox date with Aberdeen next month.
But success has bred success at McDiarmid Park in the last few seasons and the 28-year-old knows full well anything less than another top-half Premiership finish would probably be seen as a disappointment.
“It would be a great achievement obviously to take St Johnstone into their first ever Scottish Cup final, but if you look at the start of the season you want to win silverware but the aim is to stay in this league and progress every season,” he said.
“Finishing third last year, it’s obviously going to be hard to better that, but I think top six would be a good achievement for the club.
“Aberdeen and Dundee United are bigger clubs and are expected to be up there, and you’ve got Hibs as well… So you’ve got a lot of supposedly bigger clubs in the league and to be fair we’ve been over-achieving for years.
“But people don’t see that, they see us as a smaller club and they look at the bigger clubs who have basically been under-achieving.
“It would be perfect to do both, to get to a cup final and finish in the top six, but we’ve got to look to the league first and take it from there.
“It’s obviously going to be a big game against Aberdeen, but top six is the most important thing.
“It looks like it’s going to be between us and Hibs just now, and obviously Motherwell did us a wee treat by getting a point and allowing us to keep that gap we’ve got.
“But we need to go and beat Dundee United to open that gap up a wee bit again.
“They had a great result at the weekend, especially over Inverness because they are doing well at the moment as well.
“Maybe that might go our way though because they might be a bit over confident, although I can’t see it to be honest because Jackie McNamara will keep them down to earth.”
Anderson goes into tonight’s game against former club United on a high after his goal at the weekend, and the defender concedes his tally should be far higher.
“Obviously the gaffer gets on at me for not scoring many goals,” he said. “My problem is I get on the end of things but I’m either not directing them, knocking them down, or the keeper is saving.
“I had one against Hibs and it was headered off the line. So it’s just one of these things, although I should be scoring more goals to be honest.
“The amount of times I go up and get on to things … maybe it is my problem that I’m not heading it right or I’m knocking it down for other people.
“It was an important goal on Saturday and eased the pressure a bit because it knocks the stuffing out of Raith, but Nigel Hasselbaink’s goal was probably the most important goal out of the lot of them as it killed the game.”
Ando’s near post goal from Lee Croft’s corner delivery at Stark’s Park looked like it was straight off the Saints’ training ground, although he admits it was not quite as straight-forward as that.
“To be honest, me and Cuptie (Dave Mackay) try to mix it up so I thought I’ll just go front post and I got lucky really,” he confessed.
“I was just trying to help it on and it was lucky it went in because there was nobody on the front post.
“Crofty says it was one straight from the training ground! But no, it was a mis-hit corner, but it was nice to get a goal.
“It’s long overdue, definitely, but my job is to keep clean sheets.
“Unfortunately we didn’t because it was an unbelievable strike from the boy Joe Cardle, but we’re happy we got through that was the most important thing.
“If we can secure top six then we can look to the semi-final and hopefully get one over Aberdeen because they have been our bogey team this year.
“Even when we played them up there and were beaten 1-0, we were very unlucky with the chances we had and the goal we lost was a bit soft to be honest.
“I’ll take all those defeats for just one victory over them!”