An international break always seems like the end of a chapter in the Premiership, and for St Johnstone that is especially true this time round.
You suspect that there will probably be two significant changes to the starting line-up when they resume.
Providing there is no set-back in his recuperation from facial surgery, Steven Anderson will return at centre-half.
And, on-loan Celtic right-back Darnell Fisher could join him to complete a new-look backline.
Who knows, there might even be one last signing made before tomorrow evening to give the midfield a bit more spark.
From the moment the Saints defence was decimated by early-season injury and football old age caught up with Frazer Wright, there was a temporary and transitional feel about that area of the team.
Now, manager Tommy Wright will want to spend the next fortnight’s training bedding in a unit that will hopefully have a bit of permanence about it, albeit without their goalkeeper who is on international duty.
Twelve goals conceded in six games, and very few of them unpreventable, will have irked the Saints coaching staff.
As Wright said recently, he loathes seeing the ball hit the back of his keeper’s net.
By the time the next six matches are completed, I would predict with some confidence that the goals against column hasn’t reached 24.