The death of Giorgi Nemsadze is a tragedy that's hurting everyone in the Dundee FC family.

This was a midfielder who played before my time, but when you speak to the lucky spectators who got to watch the dazzling Georgian they speak about him as the absolute pinnacle of a Dundee player.

Words alone can't capture exactly what he meant to Dundee. As he lays to rest his name will stand forever immortalised in the soul of the club.

If you were to search for the last time Dundee qualified for Europe or reached a cup final, you would find his footprint all over it. He was an icon and will be dearly missed.

On to matters on the pitch, good teams are defined by how they react to setbacks and last week's win over Kilmarnock showed what Dundee are about.

Not just in bouncing back from defeat to St Mirren, but holding our nerve when Kilmarnock had us under the cosh and were brought to level terms thanks to a shambolic penalty decision from Duncan Nicholson.

With a disallowed goal soon following, a Dundee team of the past maybe would have felt hard done by and let the heads drop.

But the effort remained unquestioned until we struck gold and killed off the game.

There's a synergy and unity in this team that I've not seen from any Dundee side in a long time. The optimism is palpable.