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That's probably how it would come out of a simulated model designed on fairness and equality (throughout the league) alone, but it'd then need special intervention to make one or the other happy. Fuck the rest of course. Glass and Goodwin have cost us an extra home game, I hope it was taken out of their severance packages. The away game at tynecastle could be pivotal to finishing third. Not a place we generally do well at.

This thread looking a little pointless these days. Never in doubt. Looking beyond the split, I'm going to suggest that three wins (56 points) will be enough to take third spot. Maybe an additional draw might be required, but I don't think so given the form of the other teams. In other maths, if st mirren can get a draw against the scum next week, we could get the opportunity to lose them the league the following one. Whilst I don't generally give a fuck who wins it, it'd make things interesting.

Good solid performance, never in doubt. Great at the back and Clarkson kept things ticking in the middle, always looking for the quick pass forward. Duk and Miovski were really good together today, frustrating that Miovski didn't finish one of his chances, but his movement was great all day and worked really hard. Duk was just great. Duncan did okay, but things didn't come off for him in the good areas unfortunately. Hayes was excellent today, just didn't stop running. Bavidge looked good when he came on, and I expect we'll see a bit more of him.

The rules say he's suspended, so I'm going with that.

Local rag suggesting that Shinnie not suspended for this one, but the next. It's a toss up between which is preferable, an away game without Shinnie is probably harder, but it gives us the best chance of keeping our run going.

I thought Miovski was one of our best players against St Johnstone. His movement was really good and he won nearly every header. Duk was the one off form (unsurprising given his travels during the week). It was noticeable that Hayes was the only one gambling on flick ons from Miovski. I don't think that was tactical, more that Duk wasn't get close to him when the ball was going long. I suspect that the reason Duk is with us is because of this. He offers little in terms of a partnership and so it ends up them both playing two separate games almost. I feel a bit sorry for Miovski really, as he tends to do most things as you'd expect, making really intelligent runs, then Duk turns up with some frustratingly stupid bit of play that ends in him losing the ball, before winning it back, nutmegging someone and then belting it in the top corner. It's like he's cheating. Watkins should definitely be getting more game time, but I think it would be harsh on Miovski this week. In terms of starting with the same team, it's exactly what we need at the moment in my opinion. Our squad isn't great, with Duncan and Watkins (probably Coulson, depending on which one turned up) the only two that would improve us during a game. We're limited in the shapes we can play with two strikers on the pitch. I think it's no coincidence that we've been much more solid since keeping Duk away from defending and going to a back three. It'll be interesting with Shinnie out though. We've been playing with Clarkson deep and Shinnie and Ramadani chasing everything down. I don't think Barron suits that at all, but I think he'll stick with it. I'd be tempted to play Ramadani and Barron holding with Clarkson in front. Even though Clarkson has been really good of late, I think he can play better further forward than Barron can playing left of a three, and I think that the latter is more of a detriment to the team as a whole. That, in my mind, is where we'll see if Robson is different to McInnes, rather than personnel selection.

Surprised he lasted as long as he did. Was always a bit of a lightweight.

Good result, made hard work of it in the end. Stupid challenge from Shinnie, although barely touched the guy, just didn't need to do it. One point off third is pretty ace though.

I'd get Duk off. Let his man run away from him several times already.

Would have Watkins on, we've gone flat a little. Perhaps Duncan too.

He's been traveling midweek, expect he'll be knackered. Hopefully get another goal and then get Watkins on.

Gus MacDonald! Get him signed. Might be an OG.

Injured apparently. Roos definitely number one though. Miovski making a fair meal of that like. Not sure it was even a foul. Considine apparently been struggling since returning from injury for them. Feel a bit sorry for him there.

As expected. Decent line up, just need to do the business in spite of the double jinx of manager of the month and contract extension.

Long grass probably saved a few injuries with their players launching themselves all over the shop. I wasn't aware that the grass had to be cut to a specific length to prevent them constantly kicking five yard passes out of play.

Good use of "initially". We really need him to be getting the job long term or we're screwed. If he came top in the interview process ahead of the other three candidates, then in my mind he should be offered the contract we'd have been looking to offer one of the others had they been the clear best candidate for the role. What we're effectively saying is that the other guys would have only been good enough to see us through until the summer. It's a gamble. I hope he does well.

Aye, that was an unbelievable performance. Robertson, McGregor, McTominay, Tierney just absolutely outstanding.

https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/directo/la-1/ Maybe try that with a VPN.

I ended up just signing up to viaplay for the two games, will cancel tomorrow, cause I couldn't find a decent one. You might get a link to a Spanish one maybe.

Bloody English

I guess we'll need a new driver with Sharp gone.

Honestly, I find the entire concept of nations fairly abstract, so for me it's really just a rule that's been drawn at an arbitrary point of granny, about as meaningful as a border drawn between the countries. I think we live in a fairly homogeneous globe these days, and what it means to be from anywhere is largely a construct. I enjoy watching Scotland and international fitba, and I always hope England lose, but that feeling is almost entirely specific to sport. It's not real in any meaningful sense. If we were bringing in rules about nationality, then I'd prefer to see one that said you had to have played in Scotland for at least 2 years. For some reason, Dykes feels Scottish to me, because he played up here for a while.

I'd hope he would leave if he doesn't get it. There'd be little benefit to him, personally, staying if he has ambition to be a manager. Unless for family reasons or whatever. If he's not manager, I couldn't care less if we keep him or not. The lad Jess is on gardening leave of approximately £1M per year. We need to be looking lower than that. It's probably about double what we should be paying if we're going to be a sustainable team working within its wages to turnover ratio. I don't believe the incremental gain you get from paying a manager significantly more are worth the offset hit you'd need to take on the playing budget (£500K would be two good players). I think it's fairly clear that playing personnel is the biggest driver of success on the pitch. Looking for a manager is no different to a player and we'll be looking in the same sort of places as we do for players, trying to identify managers who have done well at smaller clubs and are looking for a stepping stone. I'm assuming that's why we're struggling to find one. Robson until the end of the season is a nonsense, unless we're hoping he fails. Any manager looking at a team with twelve players leaving is going to be either desperate or stupid. If Robson does reasonably well getting us fourth or fifth and maybe European football then that in itself is probably already a barrier difficult to overcome next season with the turnover required.

Or any of the ones in the senior squad? That'd be fair enough, but we couldn't really complain that Zander Clarke was in goals and Lawrence Shankland up front and Jack permanently in instead of McTominay. I think we'd be looking at a Scotland team significantly lower ranked than the one we've got now. Definitely no Euros qualification last time round and we'd likely be two tiers below in the Nations' League too.

Is that the place where they're eradicating the rats? Maybe get them to head to Govan if successful.