Willie Miller
Former Aberdeen defender on BBC Sportsound

It's the timing of it.

A game shouldn't be getting called off this late. It just shouldn't.

Craig Halkett makes his first start for Hearts in almost a year since his ACL injury.

Barrie McKay also starts a game for the first time since August, with Yutaro Oda the other player to come into the side after last week's win at Celtic Park.

Stephen Kingsley and Alan Forrest drop to the bench and Jorge Grant is injured.

St Mirren make just one change from the draw with Motherwell as Alex Greive replaces Stav Nahmani up front.

Dundee have made a brief statement following the news their game with Aberdeen is off.

"Due to persistent heavy rain, this afternoon's match against Aberdeen has been called off.

"The referee deemed the goal-mouth area of the pitch is unplayable.

"We apologise for the inconvenience caused to supporters."

Image source, SNS

Image source, SNS

Celtic winger Daizen Maeda makes his first start since early November after his return as a substitute in last weekend's shock home loss to Hearts.

Paolo Bernardo is in midfield as David Turnbull and Mikey Johnston drop to the bench.

Livingston make a change between the sticks as Jack Hamilton takes the gloves from Shamal George.

Defenders Tom Parkes and Luiyi de Lucas return, along with forward Bruce Anderson, in place of skipper Michael Devlin, Michael Nottingham and Kurtis Guthrie.

Back to the team news elsewhere, then.

We'll hopefully get reaction from Dens.

So that's why there's no Dundee team news...

Aberdeen have confirmed the match is postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

The game was due to kick off at 15:00. That's 50 minutes away.

Still no Dundee team news, which is a bit strange given we are just over 50 minutes away from kick-off.

This picture is from earlier on. Doesn't look... great.

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Kilmarnock XI: Dennis, Mayo, Findlay, Deas, Ndaba, Armstrong, Polworth, Watson, Lyons, Watkins, Vassell.

Substitutes: O'Hara, Wright, McKenzie, Sanders, Davies, Dallas, Warnock, Brown, Mackay-Steven.

St Johnstone XI: Mitov, Franczak, McGowan, Gordon, Robinson, Gallacher, Phillips, Smith, Carey, Kucheriavyi, Kane.

Substitutes: Richards, Brown, Considine, May, Clark, Olufunwa, Sprangler, Turner-Cooke, Costelloe.

Hearts XI: Clark, Halkett, Kent, Rowles, Atkinson, Cochrane, Baningime, Denholm, McKay, Oda, Shankland.

Substitutes: Gordon, Kingsley, Haring, Nieuwenhof, Forrest, Sibbick, Tait, Tagawa, Vargas.

St Mirren XI: Hemming, Small, Fraser, Gogic, Taylor, Tanser, Baccus, O'Hara, Kiltie, Greive, Ayunga.

Substitutes: Urminsky, Bolton, Dunne, Flynn, Boyd-Munce, Olusanya, Jamieson, Nahmani, Mandron.

Celtic XI: Hart, Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, McGregor, O'Riley, Bernardo, Palma, Kyogo, Maeda.

Substitutes: Bain, Yang, Turnbull, Oh, Kwon, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh, M Johnston.

Livingston XI: Hamilton, Parkes, Obileye, De Lucas, Brandon, Holt, Pittman, Penrice, Shinnie, Anderson, Nouble.

Substitutes: George, Montano, Kelly, Welch-Hayes, Bradley, Nottingham, Guthrie, Ledingham, Lawal.

We'll have four Premiership fixtures rather than five today after the postponement of Hibs' trip to Dingwall.

That was because of a waterlogged pitch at the Global Energy Stadium.

Still plenty to enjoy though. Let's get to the team news...

Image source, SNS

Image source, SNS

The festive season and football. Find us a better duo, we'll wait.

There's a big chunk of domestic action across the SPFL for us to feast on today.

So get the feet up, stick on Sportsound, and we'll take care of the rest.