Virtually every morning, it seems, image-makers in the gainful employ of opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard conjure up some kind of unimaginative photo-opportunity, where their leaders appear brandishing a blow-torch, a spade, a butcher's knife, an on-button or some kind of piece of light industrial machinery.
All of the talk pre-match was of McGhee's future, following Aberdeen's 9-0 drubbing at Celtic Park but Butcher was also determined to bounce back from a weekend defeat, having lost at home to Motherwell.
"One of the major challenges is that we do fresh and not frozen, " says Mark Lobel, co-owner of Lobel's of New York, a famed Manhattan dry-aged meat butcher.