PRECIOUS MEDALS..
Hayes: 2nd place is nowhere
JONNY HAYES already has one losers’ medal from this season in the bag – he’s not interested in adding to the collection.
The Aberdeen winger doesn’t even know where his League Cup gong ended up after not seeing it since launching it into a holdall. The Dons failed to turn up in November’s 3-0 League Cup Final defeat to Celtic but have a shot at redemption in the Scottish Cup showpiece on May 27. The 29-year-old, whose deflected winner sank Hibs 3-2 in Saturday’s semi-final, said: “I’m not a big fan of runners-up medals. “I’ve never held on to them – they don’t really interest me. “There’s a big difference between first and second in terms of merit and for me if you are not first you are last. “We’ll take that into the Cup final and try to go one better than the League Cup. What do I do with runners-up medals? “I was thinking about the League Cup runners-up medal earlier – it went in a bag and I’ve not seen it since the final so God knows where it is. I’m not really one for keeping them. “There’s a big difference between having a winners’ medal and a runners-up medal. “History doesn’t look back and remember runners-up. “We have to first of all try to make sure of second place in the league and then when the final comes around we’ve got to give a better account of ourselves than we did in the League Cup. “The feeling of winning a trophy is something you can’t put a price on. “It will be a very tough task to go on to lift it but if we do it will be a very special moment.”