Aberdeen 4 - 0 Motherwell

Reflecting on a Premier Reserve League campaign which opened unpromisingly, but ended with the young Dons occupying a creditable third place behind Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers, a Sunday away back in October emerges as a watershed in the team's fortunes.
Let reserve squad player-coach Neil Cooper explain: "Following the 3-2 defeat we suffered at Airdrie on Saturday, October 12, Willie Miller who was at that time in charge of the reserves, had us all at Pittodrie on the Sunday and we talked over what was going wrong.
"After winning our opening Premier Reserve fixture - a 4-3 victory over Airdrie at Pittodrie - we had gone nine games without a win, losing five of them, all by a single-goal margin. First-team circumstances had dictated that most weeks the reserve team was composed largely of first-season youngsters and the danger of so many defeats was that these inexperienced lads would get into a losing mentality.
"The aim was, by the cultivation of good habits, to turn the results round the other way, and that Sunday meeting was certainly a turning point, for it was followed by 11 victories in the next 13 Premier Reserve League games.
"It says a lot for the character of the youngsters that they responded so well, while the more experienced players also made their contribution to the recovery by setting an example."
In the 23 Premier Reserve fixtures since the Airdrie defeat, the young Dons, in fact, piled up 18 wins and two draws, and their goal difference figure received a boost in their last two games, both against Motherwell, when they scored four goals on each occasion.
The final Premier Reserve League figures were:
P33 W19 D6 L8 F60 A38 Pts44

Source: Match Programme, Saturday 2nd May 1992