PFA Scotland have just announce the nominees for this season’s Player and Young Player of the Year Awards. Players at every club across the country have had their say and this year’s nominees for the Player and Player of the Year are as follows:

Premiership Player of the Year:

Kris Boyd Kilmarnock

Scott Brown Celtic

James Forrest Celtic

John McGinn Hibernian

Young Player of the Year:

Scott McKenna Aberdeen

Alfredo Morelos Rangers

Lewis Morgan St Mirren

Kieran Tierney Celtic

Scott McKenna started the season playing for the Aberdeen U20s and made four appearances in the Irn-Bru Cup and SPFL Development League. On the 5th of September 2017 Scot Gemmill named him in his Scotland U21 side for their game against the Netherlands in the UEFA European Under-21 Championships and later in the qualifying campaign the central defender went on to captain the young Scots against the Ukraine on 14th November at McDiarmid Park.

The Kirriemuir born youngster then came into the Aberdeen first team against Motherwell on the 24th September and since then he has been a first team regular, making 31 appearances to date and scoring two goals.

The AFC Youth Academy graduate’s dramatic rise continued when he was selected by Alex McLeish for the full Scotland national squad in March 2018. He made his full international debut in a 1–0 defeat against Costa Rica on the 23 March and was named man of the match in the game away to Hungary a few days later.

On the 14th of April, in the absence of Graeme Shinnie, Scott led the team out against Motherwell in the William Hill Scottish Cup Semi-Final.

Interview with Scott to follow on RedTV this afternoon.