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We have 16 home games pre split and 17 away.

We should be due 3 home games post split.

If the league positions stay as now the other bottom 6 teams will be Motherwell, Ross County, St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Dundee.

Of those teams we have played Well and County twice at home already and St Mirren, Kilmarnock and Dundee only once at home.

We could have 3 home games against the teams in 9th 10th and 11th positions. 

 

 

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Think, as it stands, this will be our remaining fixtures...

Home: Celtic, Dundee, Kilmarnock, St Mirren

Away: Hibernian, Dundee United, Motherwell, Ross County

... and ideally we get 10 points or more.

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I suppose we have to take Simo's attitude to this. No matter what happens, nothing changes.

Our defence gives me confidence we can now keep teams out, the opposite of the start of the season, which is the reason why we're in this position.

We had Sanders, Cameron and Rae, all with at least one big mistake each game in them.

We seemed to have stopped that. Hopefully, it'll be in time.

We could do with the strikers to tap into a bit of form.

As Cleveland said above, as much as he might annoy you, Murray, or a player like him, would make such a difference to our team right now.

We should maybe use Clark more as a late sub, and stick him in front of the opposition keeper. He's the closest we have to a natural goalscorer.

Get to the split within touching distance and we have a chance.

Then we really have to be at our best each game.

Today's result though, leaves you feeling a bit like we need snookers.

Oh well, when the going gets tough...

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IMO we need 12pts now, at a minimum. Dundee will win again and that puts them on 34, chuck in a draw or two and you're at 36. 11 ahead of our current tally.

Club have chucked away the Celtic game so there's just 3 home games left, and we need 4 wins. So they need to pick up at least 1 away win still. 

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21 minutes ago, RandomGuy said:

IMO we need 12pts now, at a minimum. Dundee will win again and that puts them on 34, chuck in a draw or two and you're at 36. 11 ahead of our current tally.

Club have chucked away the Celtic game so there's just 3 home games left, and we need 4 wins. So they need to pick up at least 1 away win still. 

Yeah, it's getting tighter. It's still doable but we're on the ropes.

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I agree that we need to concentrate on what we can control, and make sure we do our job. In case Dundee, or at an outside chance Killie, slip up.

We can't influence what they do, so we need to be focussed on amassing as much points as possible. It's pretty much as simple as that.

Even though we didn't win at the weekend, we kept our non losing streak going, so the all important momentum should still be in place.

Simo recognises this, which is why he's always going on about " nothing changes".

Even though we're focussing on ourselves, there's no doubt that Dundee will have a big say in our final position.

We don't have McGhee to save us this time.

If they get a boost from the derby win, they could go on a run themselves. Hopefully, it was a one off.

Their next game is against Rangers at Dens, so fingers crossed Rangers can continue their good form and knock them back a bit.

I also agree that Eremenko would have made a big difference, linking the midfield to attack.

I'm sure he would have been similar to Carey in that while he's not as fit and fast as he once was, the important bit of skill he'd have to open up a defence with a pass, or reading the game to our advantage, would have been like the missing piece of the jigsaw.

It still irks me that decision.

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3 minutes ago, HOODLUM65 said:

If I'm not mistaken, 21 points at stake after today.

2 games before the split and 5 after.

How many points do we need for a playoff?

Target has been 36+ for the whole season, to me. 

So 10+ points from the next 7 games to stand the slimmest chance.

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Well that’ll be that then eh!

It’s been a great 16 years in the top flight. I just hope we bounce back straight away and we don’t languish for a couple of seasons and become an also-ran like Dunfermline, Raith, Partick, etc.

F*** you Callum Davidson. F*** you Ian Flaherty. We had our chance and blew it!

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14 minutes ago, R.B.B:- Adz said:

Well that’ll be that then eh!

It’s been a great 17 years in the top flight. I just hope we bounce back straight away and we don’t languish for a couple of seasons and become an also-ran like Dunfermline, Raith etc.

F*** you Callum Davidson. F*** you Ian Flaherty. We had our chance and blew it!

Steve Brown is also complicit.

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49 minutes ago, R.B.B:- Adz said:

Well that’ll be that then eh!

It’s been a great 16 years in the top flight. I just hope we bounce back straight away and we don’t languish for a couple of seasons and become an also-ran like Dunfermline, Raith, Partick, etc.

F*** you Callum Davidson. F*** you Ian Flaherty. We had our chance and blew it!

I was in Bridge of Allan the other day and saw Davidson sitting at a table outside a cafe with his back to the road. I wanted to kick the chair out from under him.

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St Mirren making the top 6 ****s things up. We have played Hearts twice at home so should play them away.

Knowing our luck we will be the ones to play an additional away game. Don't know the situation with County and Motherwell.

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We ve played County, Motherwell and Hearts twice at home.

I imagine we ll be home to Dundee and Kilmarnock.

They have to give us an equal split of home and away do they not, otherwise there’s a financial disadvantage.

I presume one of the three teams we’ve played already at home have an unequal balance as well so will be them.

Saw someone suggest it’s Ross County who ll come to us 3 times.

Fairly sure we had to go to Kilmarnock 3 times in past.

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