This time last year the cracks were obvious in the Celtic dressing room.
The Dubai debacle had unfolded in spectacular fashion. Games in hand were mounting up as Rangers stretched their lead even further as the weeks wore on.
Flash forward and Ange Postecoglou has carefully cultivated a positive atmosphere among the current Hoops squad amid a 20 match domestic unbeaten run.
A whopping 12 summer signings have been supplemented by five more in this window and it might have only taken one bad apple to spoil the bunch.
Yet while the wantaways of last season may have been disaffected by the demise of the 10 In A Row push, both goal celebrations against Hearts prove this new side is resilient and devoted to Postecoglou.
Watched closely by Celtic TV's popular 'unique angle' feature, Reo Hatate and Giorgos Giakoumakis both made beelines for the manager after scoring in the 2-1 win over Hearts.
And it points to a strong dressing room that you feel won't just chuck in the towel if they can't deliver title glory this season.
Neil Lennon fumed "somebody is doing us in" in October 2020 as his team was constantly leaked.
Two months earlier he'd slammed players whose hearts weren't in it any more as they wanted to leave the club, only for the extended transfer window to close with zero big name outgoings.
We now know, of course, who those players were. Jeremie Frimpong headed for Germany in January; Odsonne Edouard, Ryan Christie and Kris Ajer would all earn moves to England.
Lennon would tell the BBC in July: "Some of them had reached the top of the mountain and were looking at other mountains to go and try their careers somewhere else.
"Which was understandable. But it creates a little bit of disaffection and tension within the group at times as well, and there was some of that at times – there’s no question of that.
"There was a few and it doesn’t need me to say it. It was pretty self-evident in their performances."
The gap at the top of the Premiership remains at four points - but that's 19 fewer than the chasm on this day last year.
