Scottish Premiership: Who made it into Michael Stewart’s top picks this season?

The title has been settled, however a lot extra continues to be up for debate.

It’s that point of the 12 months when gamers and journalists head to the poll field to choose their top gamers of the season. Celtic have swept their method to the Premiership title, however what number of in inexperienced and white have shone individually, and is there anybody else who has caught the attention?

BBC Scotland pundit Michael Stewart talks us via his candidates for star of the season…

With these belongings you go along with what’s freshest in your thoughts, and proper now that individual is Kevin van Veen.

He is in a fantastic run of kind with Motherwell and now sits on 21 league targets. When you take a look at strikers, he is in a staff who went via huge chunks of the season struggling, so to have scored 21 targets within the league is good.

What extra are you able to ask for? Van Veen for me is a transparent contender, however it’s not simply his targets however his all-round recreation. When he is on kind, he is a handful.

Technically he is very good, bodily he is robust. You would not say he’d bully folks and chuck them about, however he is tough for defenders to cope with. You may also nod to his link-up play as effectively.

He’s 31 now, however there can be a couple of folks sniffing about to attempt to tease him out. Goalscorers are price their weight in gold, and the targets simply carry on coming.

Duk is one other one who’s contemporary within the thoughts, given team-mate Bojan Miovski was out in entrance at one level.

He’s come to the fore and the pair have struck up a partnership that has been actually profitable for Aberdeen, notably below Barry Robson.

Duk’s so fast, and tempo is a big attribute in this league. If Aberdeen go on and end third, you would be exhausting pushed to look past him as a contender.

You speak about Van Veen when it comes to his bodily presence, objective risk and his different attributes. The Aberdeen ahead carry a uncooked tempo and vitality. It causes main issues for opponents.

There’s lots of groups who haven’t got quite a lot of tempo and it’s an enormous drawback, whereas you chuck in somebody like Duk, and it simply causes chaos.

There’s been a couple of St Mirren gamers who’ve had an incredible season for Stephen Robinson’s aspect. If you have been one other membership within the top flight, you would be trying considering you’d not thoughts a couple of of them.

None extra so than Mark O’Hara. He’s scored targets this season, and large targets as effectively. I do know he is grabbed a couple of penalties, however in huge video games he is put in enormous performances which have caught the attention.

He’s kicked on and grown into the position of being the chief of the staff. He bounced about earlier in his profession, but when you recognize the supervisor has your again and believes in you, that brings an enormous quantity of confidence.

O’Hara can be driving excessive proper now, and he is been an enormous asset.

Hearts’ season might have tailed off a bit, however one participant who you’ll be able to’t overlook at Tynecastle is Lawrence Shankland.

He’s scored so many targets, and his basic efficiency stage throughout the entire season hasn’t actually dipped. He’s not been one million miles off it, even when a few of his team-mates have dropped their ranges a bit within the second half of the season.

Just take a look at a few of his targets. He scored an excellent effort at Rugby Park final month, and managed to get a hat-trick towards Ross County a couple of weeks in the past.

He’s acquired to be somebody who’s up there for consideration.

Celtic’s chief deserves to be in right here, he is Mr Consistent. And it’s not simply seven out of 10 each week, it’s eight or 9.

You can see he instructions whole respect amongst his team-mates. You’re going up a stage once you tackle the captain’s arm band, however even him 5 years in the past he had it in him.

Back then, he was perhaps not the primary identify on the staff sheet, however you continue to knew he was a top-class participant who might play in numerous positions. When Broony dropped out for a couple of video games, I noticed him fall again into that deep-lying position and he was magnificent. That’s clearly his primary place now, and he is been a stand out.

He’s an all-round midfielder. He has nice consciousness, good on either side, can take gamers out the sport with out even touching the ball, only a very, excellent participant. He’s the metronome in the course of the park for Celtic, and everybody is aware of how necessary he has been to them this season.

Hatate is the standout in that Celtic staff, he is an entire midfielder.

He’s not a defensive powerhouse, however the work he does off the ball in these areas is unimaginable. He’s an archetypical Ange Postecoglou participant, only a full buzz bomb.

There’s issues he sees that no person else does, he has an depth to his play that’s the huge distinction between Celtic and the remainder. There’s some unimaginable targets in there, too.

Celtic miss him when he isn’t there.

Another participant who has gone up a stage this season, however it wasn’t all the time that simple for the Japanese striker.

In the group stage of the Champions League, it simply wasn’t fairly there for him. He wasn’t enjoying badly, there was one thing simply not clicking. He was nonetheless getting targets right here and there by the flip of the 12 months, however after the World Cup he is actually kicked on. Maybe the motivation of not being in Qatar spurred him on.

When you take a look at the Japanese boys Celtic have, I discover it unimaginable that Kyogo and Hatate are usually not concerned at worldwide stage. Irrespective of who any participant is enjoying for, you’ll be able to see the extent of depth and high quality they’ve. You put them each into a global staff as excessive as that, they’d don’t have any drawback in any respect.

Celtic have had some nice strikers in latest occasions. Edouard, Dembele… Kyogo has it inside him to go up one other stage once more. As a soccer fan, you’re feeling deflated when somebody of high quality leaves, however new heroes come alongside. Kyogo hit the bottom working, and for the reason that flip of the 12 months he isn’t stopped.

I do not actually see anybody within the Rangers aspect individually that you just assume has excelled sufficient to be within the working for participant of the season. However, there’s some who’ve proven indicators of positivity for the longer term.

Todd Cantwell has caught the attention, however for me, Nicolas Raskin has actually stood out. He’s not been there for that lengthy, however the little bits I’ve seen of him I can see why they’ve introduced him in.

Ryan Jack is over 30, Glen Kamara has drifted a wee bit, and also you want that freshness. He’s caught the attention and appears like an excellent little bit of enterprise.

Michael Stewart was chatting with BBC Scotland’s Scott Mullen